The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1876-09-13
European COrrespOndenee.--NO. Is.


DEAR GAZETTE Leaving Switzerland, our next
move to Paris, the city Of cities bright. gay,
beautiful Paris, where every looks if bent on
pleasure, aud all faces seem as sunny as their sur
roundings.
one observes Immediately on entering the city that
the ladies quietly dressed in gray or black for
street suits. There Is none Of that display of dress
on the fashionable boulevards that one sees in New
York on Broadway and Fifth Avenue. The costly
and richly coorei silks and vevets are kept at home
for dinners the opera and devoted to street
sweeping. The material the streets was al
paeea and light cashmere and sometimes plain black
silk. The weather beginning to be cool enough
for fall wraps and noticed that overcoats we're max
ing their appearance.
They do not heat their houses very well in France
and England I began to SILVER in October for a
warm land, OF at any rate, land Of furnace heat.
What VIC call house well heated, they call house
badly heated. do believe that the English have
the right Of i, with their round, rosy cheeks, and
bust health, whea they call houses hot and stuy.
More loose, warm, rOugh-and-ready clothing, more
tramping about Of DOORS less regard to style and
complexion would cure up some Of our IA shionable
invAlids, perhaps.
One Of ny first j0urneyingI in the city vas to the
Louvre. I went there half dozen times and only
wish it could have been twenty. Bat the Louvre is
not all Of Paris and one must see other sights. The
Gaere d'AppoIon is one Of the FIRST rooms you en-
ter in the Louvre On the way the picture galleries.
It is named from the painting the ceiling depicting
the triumph Of Apollo over the Python. remember
It particularly Of the panel pictures the
walls which are portraits Of great French artists
beautifully executed. 1 was asked to say how they
were done. " Why, painted IN oil, said 1. "NoF'
q Not in water eolors?" "NoT y Colored crayons
then" though I did not believe that. mo" Ny
stock of guessss being exhausted, was told that
they we're Gobelins tapestry. was enchanted. AZ
ter all ones reading about tapestry after the roman
tic aneies Of taste, beauty and stc refinement one
attaches to such work, it is rather disappointing if it
happens that his first sight Of tapestry is Of some old
faded and patched piece such exhibited rel
les Of Prneely families, royal handiwork Of times
gone by. 1 saw tapestry at South Kensington, and
thought, If this be tapestry hanging give me clean
rough whitewash instead. But here in Paris found
the fresh uufaded work and it was certainly marvel
lous. Those portraits would deceive almost any one
at rssight, the tins perfect, and SO skilfuy
Blended if one can that expression with regard to
Eorstsd work. They manufacture certain tints in
silk and Horsteds at the Gobelins establishment that
are to be found nowhere else in the world They think
that there properties in the little stream which
the buildings situated that particularly avOra
be in dyes. When I wanted SO simple thing the
dyeing Of sone gloves, they told me" Go to some
shop in the region Of the Berre those waters are the
best for dyes"
The GObelein work is never sold. The mandatory
Is supported BY the government, and the work is de-
voted to adjoining The palaces Of regning mOnarchs,