The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-11-20
OUR rHILADELPnIA LETTER.


honest aud upright stand 1t takes
in all issues ; and / wish to compli-
ment you also regarding your CORE
snondent from Paris, whose letters !
read with great and increasing inter
est. and. without wishing to fatter
either YOU or the writer, | viii say,
that | have rarely read any letter
that. while being American, had that
peculiar grace and lightness that has
ALWAYS been considered understandable
bv English writers. | do not admire
all that / read in French llteIa-
ture. bat there is always an airy
something untrsnslatable and almost
too fac and feeting 10 catch hold oil
60 discuss, that Is charming, ana
piyes n the idea that it was writ
ten with the very point Of a diamond
pen on satin paper, and that q oresth
would dispense the words Ike thistle
down, aud it is just that same style
done ito English that has called
forth this paragraph. | have thor
oughly enjoyed those letters from
Paris, and when you see yoaF CORE
spondent will you tell hin So! ] say
him, for / am sure that those letters
breathe Of cigar smoke, absinthe, aaG
the Latin quarter, to say nothing OF
the Bots de Bologae.
Bots de Bolcgle are magic words
that call 10 mind 6 long, delightful
July day il Paris not many years
ago. when n modest facTe stopped at
the door of q hotel on Rue de La
feyette, neatly opposite the Grand
Opera, aud took q pair OF pleasure
seekers, and tbea-as Of course ! was
one. can tell ell about it-t0ok US by
long, long roundabout way to that
famous place. The Champs Elysees
was full Of carriages going and com
ing. full of horsemen and iootmen IN
livery, modest hEcres ike ours, and a
perfect labyrinth Of every possible
kind of c0ngeyances, aad ell had
been to the Bots de Bologne or we're
going there.
We passed the Column fendomer
which was then nearly restored.
through the Arc de Triomph, a3o
mast nnmberless fountains and pretty
Gower beds, and still prettier groups
of children playing with their nurse:
under the trees, aud little Punch AMI
judy shows and other performance
q little more ambitious, where swee'
music Roated out on the air from The
cool shade of the trees, ana so on
one pleasing picture giving way t
smother, until we were on the smoett
wide roads that wind and turn IL
an endless labyrinth among the trees
of the woods Of Bologne." The
tortuous windings, the artistic bu
artificial naturalness OF the SECLUDED
hooks among rocks, little lonely
places where clumps of trees ant
dense underbrush invited lovers
VOWS. ponds and lakes where durinl
che war the cattle drank, the liitl
bab5Iing brooks, end above all
GROWING glory OF the whole, To
cascade fell end scattered its spra.
on the rocky lodges and waving
grasses around. To be sure, We kBev
that a reservoir supplied the cGtarsc.
that the whole had been built by I'd
hand Of man, and we could aot bel
imagining that those were lmitauo
rocks, but we enjoyed it ell the same
for we saw that the other people DC
In fact. | don't believe that ID
French people are capsule Of enjoy
ing Nature natural. They woul
shrink from the contemplation OF u
semite, and turn in disgust from y
gar for they both lack The polls
aud refinement a French artist woul
have bestowed, and they are too c.
lossal, and they are ~necessaril
coarse.
But to return to the gay little pi
mic parties, and gentlemen with OF
er mems wives, and women with oti
e ladies' husbands, and young me.
and very handsomely painted an
otherwise orRsmented girls Of Il
demt monde who eat their dime
with magnificent gGstc and tx
break all the dishes aaerwal
aud dance upon the table, and,
short, every possible combination
eompsnionship except men and the
wives, and all enjoying themselv
with that rociferous gaiety mater
10 the French. 1t was q pleasure
e them they were all children
the time.
We had a cosy little dinner at t
pavilion, and l think it is safe to 81
that we were the only marie
couple there but we enjoyed it
all that, end at dusk returned, haI
in hand, to the iacre like q pair
sweethearts-sueh is the influence
surroundings-aDd went to the Ope
Comioue after. But it Q . hapE
asy without one speck on the WAC
of IL. and | think i would Ike to {
there once again to see il my impr'
sions were correct, and 10 make su
tbst the swans ! saw sailing On t
lake were real ones, and not gees
But, while Paris is pleasant tc v
1t, I should regret exceedingly to
obliged to live there. Far better / Ii
this pretty, clean and healthy Pa
tan city of Philadelphia, with b
clean. white marble door-steps a.
closed window blinds. which hide
much warmth aud kindllaess with
Everything here il, to nay th;nkin
lust ae it ought to be, with a We
few exceptions, and they are {
fling ones. ! can never q get do
expressing my appreciation CT t
horse-car system thai prevails. 4
most every street in this great CT
has a line O. horse-cars running
one street and down the other, e.
crossing, and, in short, it matters .
where you want to &c, if you nnd'
stand the lines, you can go direct
the door, and if you don't, the CO
ductors will tell you. and take q de
OF trouble to set you right.
Just now the city is full Of gale
and pleasure, ak the theatcrs are op
and full, and while It is the prop
thing 10 say that ths legiama
Drama is fostered in PhiiaGclphi
the mirstrels ere fer better liked 81
patronized. Csrncross' performane
are of greas excellence end draw We
and Swca.msn's Opera House
crammed nightly with delighted 90
fences.
L uont 70 Ills latter nlacc recent