New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-02
an AMERICAN WOMlN IN PARIS.

Correspondence Of The N Y. Tribune.
PARs Monday Oct 81, 1883
Sunday in Paris very much like any other day. only
little more So The city wakes with prayer that the day
may be fine The beau monde hopes go to ride in
e Champs Elys6es dine with his friend and 60 the the
ater The bourgeois closes his shop in the afternoon If he
thinks lie can afford it. smartens his dress his wife puts
her incest cap and they 60 in search Of ftte the en-
vrons Of Paris or ride donkey in the Bots de Boulogne
The ouvrers who according TO the vernacuar of Paris are
not part of the world down houses in the Rue Rgo
cut stone for the Palace Of Industry, and lay rails for the
new omnibus lines.
The duIlnCss in the meat market Fridays and Satur
DAYS and the clamor of smongers proclaim the days Of
the Crucfixon and En,ombment but puritan would fail
10 find Lis accustomed tokens of the morning OF the Resur
rection He might some Marys and Magdalenes but
more Roman soldiers. He must make strong covenant
with his eyes if he would guard his mind from distraction in
his morning walk to church On his first sore he is tempt
ed by fruit dealers Wanting the choapness and excellence
of their fruits Then he looks in wooden shoes
short dresses with bright checked handkerchief their
heads cary ing home for breakfast leaves Of bread long
thselye-some of the crust ends perhaps crushed in by
conclusion with the load of stone which blockades Tor
moment the faubourg Chifonniers with great ba,keis
sropped 10 their backs and hooked stick in hand stoop low
down 10 Gull every cork bone bit OF rag and paper rom
the heaps OF rubbish lettuce leaves and onion tops which,
Mt TN early hour lie before almost every door Pretty
Young aundre sses bear the weeks clean linen in baskets
on their heads their employers Old women are oardng
wool for mattresses on the sunny side OF the street the
Church Of ST Roch Taors sit legged their broad
work benches CObbers put up in cupboards by the way
side like living statues built into the walls eye the aw hole
in their pate hes troop Of school boys in neat deep blue
uniforms with soldier Ike caps and shiny belts are march
inc 10 mass with their surveianls-a uncOnsciousy keep
ing tine to hand organ whose solicitor is man without
ers instead Of monkey Ladies in new black and blue
autumn hats and velvet manes carrying giitterng prayer
books claspod with glded ocifxes wave Their hounces
bybmacaly as they walk with elegant deyoutness along
The Bouevnrds 10 the Madeleine.
uscheoed dandes sip their coffee and cigars front OF
the os or lounge before the shop windows to study the
last new crnynt knot embroidered waistcsat pattern
Men In blouses are reading the Government ordinance IN
relation 10 the price OF bread One with ladder pa Oh
aso and brush posts advertisements for theaiers ana morse
rnces Great attraction at the lppodrome u sunday 'o'h
Oclobef-two balloons 70 ascend and woman 70 WAX on
her head and hands on tight rope thirty feet above me
s,.etatofs" Guerds with bfhzen helmets pumed WIN
hone lais gaop with dispatches from one post TO another
Or tlhnd 1T tho corners Of tho principal streets F"'on'"
In bieh oo,Lss hais onh uef swords nnd Dolls ~ 'hof
,eiani ronenades 1Ngions Of oangng foot solder" >"
fol 4 lftid coats with hte waists that none bn' s''o
,.d .,,y s,aoie IN feIens lankfalnoss to precious
weed With he savior d france has brought wahn TIC
,.a,b ,f 1e, pafsas ieitefss open OF tho i'"'n
s ..6 e,.si eintiaons ofsied 10 gold aud silver plan"
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