New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-11-03
FRANCE.i

equally rev, Jnlnk, DtlbNt nbI hJolg' " w. q.
FRANCE;
PARIS IN AN AUTUMNAL POINT OF YIEw-DEAD
LEAVES AND SMALL BOYS-STREET CHANGES
AND WINDOW AsPECTS-FRENCH AND EN-
GLISH THEATERS-A Su0WsPIECE-TIiERESA
FRENCH HVMQR:
IRON OUR own CORRESPONDENTS
PARIS, Oct 29.-Although We are having All I'M
commonly dry time, in which, according to rule, all
signs ought TO fall hardly think the signs of ap-
preaching Winter can be mistaken. For, first and
foremost the swallows have gone, and believethey
always stay as long as a proper consideration for
their health permits. They can only endure dress
coat weather and had already begun 10 look uncom-
Portable; for is there any garment less warm to Inc
eye than swallOw-tailed coat when the leaves are
fairly fallingi And falling they certainly are,
though the streets are kept painfully clean that
the little boys know nothing of the pleasure which
our little boys at hOme-nOt the proper well-be-
haved, manly" ones, but the good ones-take in
"scuffp0' lis there such % word y in the heaps of
leaves that the Autumn winds whr into the cutters
and against the houses In the TuileTies gardens.
under the trees the leaves are suffered to lie, or IL
they inclined to blow about but they must Keep
off the walks if they don't wish 10 be swept up into
wheelbaTOws and burned. am afraid however,
that even these slight liberties will not be allowed
am sure will not only delight but astonish, your
neutrality-suspicious., the discovery namely, that the
dead leaves of fruit and indeed. of ALL trees con-
tain valuable elements of manure, and that they
ought to be carefully collected and comp0sed rather
than burned and wasted | hope n. e. NJ. won't
have the bodness say that he has heard of this be-
fore that it has been practiced in America since he
was knee-high, that he knows of people who are In
the habit Of paying little children to collect dead
leaves for them in bags and baskets and that, IN
fine. the French people don't know as much
as they think they do. But, joking apart is it not
little singular that with the French genius for
economy with their love of saving, their quick IN
tegont eyes, they should never have observed what
Nature the great saye-all does every year with her
Summer store of leaves Yet it is inst as tell yOn
the fact OF their containing the elements OF manure
is gravely announced a discovery, people are re-
commended TO save them and mix them with the
compost heap and those who may doubt the wisdom
of this advice are requested TO observe that forest
lands when cleared of their trees owe 10 the long
deposit and decay OF leaves, their well known
fertility. If this surprising discovery Is accepted by
the Academy | fear the merry. dances, the mad
whirs the gentle meditative rustllngs, of the dead
leaves in the Tuieries Gardens and IN all the gardens
and squares of Paris. will be soon brought to an end,
for tell Frcnchman there Is something he can save,
and he cannot sleep till he has saved It,.
Not all the trees IN Paris are bare. however, and
some of them are still trying to look green but
what will YOU say to story of some really obstinate,
or perhaps merely playful hair braned horse chest
them in the face, put ont fresh crop of leaves aud
" WIS than that as the fat-bOy IN Plekwick said TO
Mr. Wardle's mother have appeared, in mid October,
with all the blossom spikes of May There they
stood, however, a few days ago III laughing circle
round the ROnd d Antin, defyng tho almanac, and
putting doubts into the minds of the younger and
more inexperienced of the swallows, who, with the
sun shining brightly overhead and the flower
beds still gay, had begun to question the necessity
for getting away TO Egypt so soon. And indeed,
there have been many days III this month that might
well persuade us to believe Winter still y
long way of. 1t is true that the orange trees
in their great square boxes have been removed from
the Alice des OTangers, and safely housed IN their
Winter home; it is true that the chestnut-roasers
are come TO town, and have taken their accustomed
place az the wine shop doors il is true that the lem
onade-selers have gone, to man. or 10 woman, rs
the may be- and that the voice OF their tinke is
no more heard IN the land; and true that many an
other infallible token of Winter meet eye and ear
the sight of great heaps of wood at rich peoples
doors and the cheerful sound OF the wOOd-cutters
saw, a sound sweet, to the Hetuned ear, as the
tadpoes chrpin the Spring; the gay red trousers OF
the soldiers, too, have begun TO be ohscuTed night
and morning by the long brown burnOuS or military
hooded cloak which they put on protection from
the cold when they obliged 10 keep their useless
sentry watches at Innumerable government doors;
the open vOitures, deserted for the more com
Portable closed ones, stand gaping YEARLY by the
dozen along the station the beautiful lady IN the
window of the dreSs-makng shop at the corner
who has smiled so sweety ana so inspdly at me, all
Summer, in bewitching muSllns, has during the last
week, been smiling sweet aud lnslpldly IN dark
silks made high in the neck and with long sleeves
i'm short there are hundred signs that Summer is |
over and yet there are days and this is one Of Them
when the eye might be cheated into thinking il still
here. In the public gardens where the watering has
been steadily kept up, the grass IS OF bright green
on the lawns and borders, and the howcr-beds are
flowing with brilliant color. The French neither
love flowers as the English do do they know as
much about Them and one does not find, even the |
palace gardens, such variety in the flowers them
selves nor such taste in their arrangement, rs may
be seen in many private garden III England. STILL |
if YOU are not unwisely bent horticultural pcrfcc
ton and, in the absence of perfect form and great
of content
of color, these French public gardens viii pass |
muster though they are tame enough by the side OF
Kew, or even as ! have said, by the sade Of many !
unpretending English gentlemans partcrre, |
/ went, last night 10 see " La Chatte Blanche at
the Gate aspectacle which divides with La POudTe
de PeTllnpnpin" at the Chateet, the heart of the
speCaCle-Oylng portion OF the Paris pOpulaCe. To
the Chateet have not yet been, and should hardly
have gone to the Gait6 II II had not been that had
desire TO the Theresa. and learn for myself |
whether she Is as black she is painted. There Is
always crowd about the doors of the Gate or about
the doors of the Chateet not of play entirely
but of people who. if they cannOt get inside are |
grateful for the hints of the internal pleasure afforded
by the streaming calcium Of IL be CalCium) light
the top of the Gate and the lines Of gas that make
the Place du Chatelet as light day just here let
dot down that perhaps IN no external feature
does Paris show such contrast with New-lOTk, or
with any American city, in the brlllianCy with |
which the principal streets and bOuleyards are
lighted at night, and late into the night too think
the gas here must be very much superior 10 Onrs-it
couldn't well be inferlor-and beside, the shop |
keepers are prOdigal with it. For several
weeks the wOrkmen were repairing the Rue
du BAG near where live, and as neither night nor
day, Sundays nor weekdays seem TO be considered
in carrying on public works there, men worked at
the streets till late at night. and il is within bounds
70 say that by the aid 4 the gas certain shops
alone they worked as well at 10 o'clock at night
in the broad sunshine The squares on which many
Of the theaters placed in blaze of light till
midnight, from the theaters themselves, and from
the surrounding cafes and in some cases, at the
Gate, the ordinary brilliancY OF the scene
is vastly increased by extra illumination |
with the calcium or similar light. The |
Gate, like the Gymnase, and like not few Of the
other theaters here is shabby-lOOking place |
enough better fitted up or cared for than our old