Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-12-24
Art I'm IKE French C.,,,.,-

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Writing from Paris a coTrespo-d snt IF the
/ BostoD Advertiser says. The French pAople
! are unsafe keepers OF the treasures which
| their own genius has evoked. They kindle
! at spark. and in any revolution marbles
and pictures. whose names are synonyms FIR
beauty. would be but pebbles and rags in a e
| way of their fury. and the Louvre itself bat
| after having seen its glory with our own
| eyes, the wall of horror which went up from
| tourists At its reported destruction IN ISL.
| back TO the world what a few hours of con
| fiagration would have taken from IL. Great
men might have painted worthy picture,
| but they would have been lacking in that
sweet, memorial presence az the past which
| the canvas Of dead masters so touchiugiy
presents TO us. Who can ever fail to be i'm
| tuIe the living presentment OF the inspira-
| lions OF painter talking to us and teaching
| us, long after all that pertained to his morta
frame has gone back TO DUST IL is rare
| school for art education, this Louvre, q place
| OF endless resource and pleasure. II lis freely
open to artists, who congregate here and
| copy well. most OF them indi fYerently, and
their wares are dispersed to evsry quarter of
the globe. 1t gives exquisite delight to meet
tues which have been feeSl y repes,ei scr So
the water in print and photographs. That
certain something, which you missed from
give, is here; the warmth, the glow. a vital
clue TO the Imagination, a fire that looks from
the eyes and speaks from the lips; hands
fnll of motive power-the whole canvas In
stinct with that life which, through the
masters hand, went out from the thing
represented or conceived, through the In
struments or use. and. having fastened it
self upon the canvas of marble, lies there,
not SO much stimulation as a real thing,
poised In some supreme moment or attitude
or emotion. Thus the "Venus de Mia" the
Ascension" OF MurillO, the "St. Cecilia" of
Raphael, become to one opponents OF the
highest types of art. and as such seem as
| little child. The Palais du Luxembourg
built by Marie de Medcis. beautiful for rs
gardens, hold the pictures of best living art
lists, who by a touching winnowing add lust
process OF fame are iable at death To have
their pictures transferred to the Louvre ami
their names thus given TO permanent place
The Louvre, the Palais du Luxemb ourg
and every other place of public exhibition
In the city are full of articles of vertu
and costly brio brac. The Hotel de Cluny
is rarely rich In antiquities of this sort
It's chapel communicates with the garden of
the Roman palace Thermes, which was built
by Constantius Chorus towards the end of
the NTH century, and IL is the Oldest ruin in
Paris. The part left was called the Frigidar-
1um, or place for cold baths; a vast hall, with
its water tanks and appurtenances clearly
oehned. IL Is ruin full of The flavor of the
past, telling through its disjointed fragments
OF the habits of people 90 long since dead
that their name even sounds like q fable
The peace of the past seems TO hang over the
whole place, and one emerges from the hotel
de Cluny, with It's relics and its ruins, into
the hustle OF Partisan streets, as one would
ANARCHY come out from Roman tomb
where he had been sitting with mummies.
How 10 Waltz with Decency.
The gentleman approaches the la ~ by Of
| lerlng mis- lett hand-One du fat will at the
same time make a slight inclination or half
| bow. The lady places her right hand in that
OF the gentleman, who then extends his right
arm In q direct line to the side, the forearm
| bent so as TO form an acute angle. In this
| angle the lady will place herself with the
center line of the persons opposite the line
| OF The gentleman's right side, both persons
| on parallel lines, not forming an angle. In
| this position each will he looking over the
| others right shoulder. and by the lady turn
| ing her head slightly TO the left, the ef-
| feet of, the group will be greatly improved
! and prevent ALI possibility OF taking each
| others breath which is rarely pleasant, and
In me case OF young man directly from the
| use OF meerschaum, is positively hofrid, ~
as many ladies have marked. The lady
places her left hand, hooked, upon the gem
| ileman's right shoulder the fingers appearing
| In 'front.'. The right hand of the gentleman
| should rest very gently upon the lady's back
| as near the waist as possible, so as not to re-
move the upward pressure of the elbow di-
rectIy under the lady's shoulder as this is
| the lady's support, and must be held with
| sure but gentle frmness. The hand on the
back Should rest very lightly, and on every
| possible occasion Slightly raised so that the
| air may ass/between, as in some cases the
close contact Induces perspiration, and may
| leave Its marks upon the lady's dress Both
| BSisoho euoulu Dc slightly DenL forward
| from the hips upward, SO that the shoulders
! may be only three or four inches apart, but
the distance increasing downward; this
| leaves both parties free in their limbs. so
| that any contact of person or knees may
| be avoided, and should be so avoided as q
most serious mistake. The gentleman's left
| hand holding the lady's right, should be ex-
| tended downward in line with the body
the hands three or four inches distant from
the person, the arms forming a gentle curve
| from the shoulders downward. No weight
| is placed on this arm; all the guiding and
| changes must be governed by the elbow I'M
der the lady's arm. 1t will be found that
| this grouping will be perfectly modest In
| appearance, no more contact of persons oc-
curing than In lady taking gentleman's
| arm for walking. In conclusion, let IL be re
| membered that purity of thought and action
| may be as conspicuous In Waiting as In any
| other situation OF life; that the gross waltz
| grossly, the vicious viciously, the refined
and innocent innOcently and in refined man
| ner, and that it is not reasonable to confound
the abuse with the use.-ANm Dod,c0rh IN
Home Journal.
SUDDEN DEATH FROM CHLoRoFoRM.-
| The wife of the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, a