New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-17
LIFE IN PARIS.
G. W. s.

NEWSPAPERS ARE MADE IN FRANCE-PERsONALs
OF PIGARO-sAvANTS AND HORsES-A SURPRISE
PARTY.
IFRoM REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TMpUSIl
PARIS, March 25.-Who said that we we.e becOn-
ing Prussianizedi We never had anything in CON-
mon with the spirit Of Berlin. Prussia took our
philosophers away from us in the eighteenth century,
and she has taken two provinces from us in these
times But she has never been able to impose her
habitsupon us. Has she fashions Weknow nothing
about it. Her family virtues are not ours. In one
word, the sun does not rise for us that side We
have initiated the English good deal, having begun
with the Greeks and Romans, the Spaniards and the
Italians. To-day it is America which is teach
ing our PAGES in many respects. We are attempt
ing her bodness and enterprise in industrial and
financial undertakings America has the genius of
those great operations which move the world. She
leaves the mark of her footstep everywhere. Ii
America has not yet had her philosophers like Plato
or Descartes, like Aristotle J. j. Rousseau she
possesses what is much better. the philosophy of
human life. For instance, the Americans have the
good sense to know that man is not eternal on the
earth. He passes, he plants his flag, and does not
bother about his eptaph. "Here lies man who
worked il the best of funeral orations. For the
American, life ia voyage the earth is hostelry
while for the Frenchman life is the everlasting habit
of always doing the same thing They therefore
establish themselves the earth rs if they were
never going to leave it. The houses they build can
never seem solid enough to shelter their fragile lives
M. Theirs, philosopher he is, and 70 years of age
is rebuilding his hotel burned by the Commune with
a watchful care which occupies several hours of
every day. He is anxious to get into it by next Win
ter but he admits that it will be several years before
he is completely at home in it
To be Eat home" is usually considered wisdom
but is there not also certain amount OF folly III IL
How often have heard people in France say, We
shall not be happy until our house is built" There
is Moslem proverb, ITO build your house is to
build your tomb" In fact, in every new honse a
sacrifice must be made to Death, the only mytho-
logical deity which survives. How many OF these
sacrifices have seen in temples built by Parsians to
their pride.
Meanwhile. America is building mp the world or
rather she says that her house is the universe There
is one thing we are trying TO borrow from America
and that is the art of making newspaper. In Paris
we are mere schOOl-boys and oilers as well. When
we have read the papers we know no more IMAM
before. We must go into society. on Change, or on
the boulevard to learn the news, while the reporters
Of the daily papers playing dominoes IN the cafes
Do YOU want to know how paper is made here
II is very simple the journals make themselves out
of one another. The scissors do far more than the
pen Paragraphs out of the evening papers
become articles in the morning papers, and
the reverse You discuss with your oppo-
nent q political question already discussed
n Thousand times, and thousand times
more muddled at the end than the beginning. Dark
ness instead of light is thrown upon It, Project OF
the Fourth of September who was as good Prefect
| n he had been journalist, recounted while dining
with me at the Chateau de Breuil-for it was the
Project of Laon-how, morning, seeing that All
his associates had gone off to civil funeral he de-
l,xh Ha octseo
away at other papers much and so well, that he
needed only line of invention here and there to
reduce to harmony these heterogeneous ideas gath
| cred from every side. The paper came out at four
o'clock and AT fve his editOr-n-chef, who had been
| IN make a speech at the civil funeral came 10 con-
| pratulate him. saying the paper had never been so
complete or so interesting Since that time The edi
! tor-in- chief has followed no other system
PERHAPS YOU imagine in reading our papers that all
those fine things leap alive from the BRAIN OF MIN
erya. They have usually existed at least hundred
times the life of the rose, and are taken up ana
turned inside on. for the OCCASION For instance, NJ
Emile de Girardlin has always highly inerrogative
article read, for any possible event. We call this
! reserved wit.
For several months the Figaro has been taxing on
! Franco American character It has started a page
nj advertisements which is very amusing to French
men and especially to Frenchwomen. You nave
doubtcss seen this innovation Of the Greeks OF
| Dar;s IsurNose the Postmaster-General will
he asking for a new tax upOn tins style OF CORE
snou,ence which dspenscs with the mails. For IN
stance one meets q lady with spray OF white mac
in her corsage. IL he is Don Juan he sautes her'
nroyes that he knows her, and begs to Inhae the
fraprance of her lilacs But if he is timid
man. lie declares his alteration IN the
ETaoro Now. az fifty women probably wore
| =; tbair hosonis the same moment. yOu may
fancy the embarrassment of the timid uan II the
| ,vhoIe fifty answer. Amateurs and impertinents
| olso intervene In answer to the question, why
this .ilence ~ somebody answers, "Why this recol-
| lection - There are enough idle people VINO are
| willing to pay louis for their joke For instance
,propos TO the departure of a man too much appre-
| ciate,l in his quarter, woman writes lhefe was
| seen Yesterday a long PROCESSION OF WIDOWS with
large black walls They the relicts OF Destehque
Of the Folies- Margny on theiI way to the Eastern
| Railway. when will he return r was the sobhing
| obo,,s The locomotives started back in dismay."
| We have two important conventions now III ses-
.;o, ,he savants' and the horses OF the latter he
| Marous de Mornsy is President. Among the Com
| mittee are th. Comte dc Julgn6, Vicompte Agnado,
Marnus de Castebajac Due de Lesparre, Conite hoe
| deyer Baron A. de ROthsehild and Prince dAreih-
berg They are scattering ribbons at both places bfit
Won will easily understand that all Iaris is much
mo,, Interested ia the horse show than in the Scen-
tar Convention In the first place the music s bet
ter t the Paa!s de llndustrie than at the oorDonne
and there is more amusement IN every way Today
| there was a reception With full orchestra during
tho ,vsel, We will see light carriage horses, Vic
tora horses for Park aud for hunting, heavy carriage
aud saddle horses Aud floods of ribbons of which
the horses seem sery proud Francis l. said s. My
borse tas more pride than II Saturday there is TO
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