The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-09-05


IMPRESSIONS OF PARIs.-From private
letter from MI. C. A. Richardson, who is
now travelling in Europe, we take the fol-
lowing extracts:
L have already written you quite a lengthy
letter and not told you anything about the
Paris Exposition, not even mentioned it
we'll this did purposely as had determine
ed not to write it up by letters while l am
on this side the Atlantic. Writing upon the
most interesting subjects would be the YER
lest drudgery to one in my present general
health and debilitated physical condition.
Il only weigh 1876 pounds.) I am travelling
on light weight, possessing much less phys
ical than will power, yet am well enough
to enjoy and appreciate all see and hear.
You must not understand am on the suck
list by any means, | only refer to my nat
urally delicate state of late years. Well |
have concluded for this. one time to- make
slight concession as regards my determined
silence on the great Exposition now in prog
ress at that gay capital of the French, and
where 1 so pleasantly spent two weeks,
walking, riding, looking, listening, study
ing, thinking, thinking, thinking, ah yes
well may one think and continue to think
while the mind performs its proper func-
tons amid such surroundings; surely the
food for reflection in after days should be
ample.
After having attended the Vienna Expo
sltlon in 1878, and our own great centennial
IN 1876, am forced 10 concedef the palm
anu the laurel 10 form a great CIVIC crown OF
triumph for this Paris EXposltlon OF 1913,
and am duly impressed with the TACT that
no exposition was ever designed ona grander
scale, and none have more completely real
iZad the conoentjorS # the artists who
planned then.. When we reflect that it is
only two years and one month ago since
the Exhibition was decreed. and that now
very city OF palaces and gardens rises on the
Champs de Mars and on the heights OF the
TrOcaderO, which were then bleak wilder.
nesses, one must acknowledge, one IN ust
unhesitatingly admit that the creative re-
sources Of man are Infinite and that he is
full worthy to bear the divine image OF the
Master Architect, and the first Great Crea-
tor OF all things terrestrial. The towering
masses OF architecture, the profusion of art
work, painting, sculpture. decorations the
fountains and flowers, (beautifa! flowers,
bright jewels, sparkling on the brow of
Nature) produce an effect which is at
first fall of dazzle, and then humbling. One
thinks of what men might do to make this
earth of ours fair and pleasant, if they would
labor in peace for a hundred years without
cutting one another's threats. All the mar
for less than 1.-THE of what it costs to pros
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manencies in their land hundreds of those
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see mere the moueis. lhere are plans OF
nutS n,o onf Of na,isnce with human foliv TO
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