No city can approach Paris in structural unity and regality, in things brilliant and beautiful, in buoyancy, variety, charm and creature comfort.

Drunkenness, of the kind familiar to London and New York, is invisible to Paris.

The brandy and absinthe habit has been greatly exaggerated.

In truth, everywhere in Europe the use of intoxicants is on the decline.

They are, for the first time in France, stimulated partly by the alarming adulteration of French wines, rigorously applying and enforcing the pure-food laws.
As a consequence, there is a palpable and decided improvement of the vintage of the Garonne and the Champagne country.