Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1881-08-05
European &rttm.
From our regular Correspondent.
Paris, France, July 10. 1881


Paris, France, July 10. 1881
It is the custom to say that Paris is
deserted in the summer months; that
Tort P,rjs is at the seaside. that after
the Grand Prix no Partisan who respects
himself will be seen on the Baulcvar,ls
The fact is that t0W Paris is very
small minority, whose sayings and do
ings arc much maguiicd By the vain re-
pititious Of press which is the slave Of
routine. 7oH Paris is a common place.
an abstract entirely that means very lit
tie. IN point Of fact the vast majority
Of Partisan whose means allow to make
an annual excursion to the seaside. to
Switzerland, or to tho Pyrencas. do not
loavo Paris until the school holidays be-
gin. that is to say in August; they wait
until they can take their children with
them At the present moment the Bots
de Boulogno is SIN animated, ana the
Cirque aud the lIippolrome have never
seen more brilliant audiences. Never
thelcss, it is fact that year after year
the taste far sWeotare is becoming more
troagly developed in the French nation.
and more particularly in the Parisaus.
What people seek in this annual migra-
ton Stewards i is hard to tell | speak
Of the fashionable people more partcu-
larly Ot course 1t will be said that the
oLjec, is health Certainly the object i,
not comfort, otherwise why should pco-
pie leave their homes where they are
surrounded with pictures, stulfs, furni-
ture, Cibetots, IN short by an elegance
that IS the result OF careful arrangement,
IN order to live in gingerbread chacts
on the seashore, than which nothing can
be less comfortable and less elegant un-
less it be seaside hotels. As a rule
I people 90 to the seaside because others
go. But how many Parisians really find
I pleasure at the seaside? How many
love the sea inc nrst eitect OF tue
sea on nervous people Is to lrrtatc them
/ ana prevent them sleeping Many who
pass six weeks at the seaside never
hath onco Indeed It u,ioht h. v.rv
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shores OF Normandy and brittany some
thing besides the sea. 1t might further
/ be shown that the sea Is quite a mod
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Anglo Saxons to Saratoga, Brighton.
and Dircard, for much the same reason
The very numerous and daily-incroas-
ing American colony and travellers il
Paris feel more and more the want here
of thoroughly American hotel. con-
ducted bv an Amcrica,, ina merican etvI,
When the Hotel da Louvre was bni},iin
! veteran Now York hotel kecpcr annIi' j
for a lease Of it. but boua5 tLc
Emperor NaDole II favored tho nro.
icct, the Duke de Morny and other bio
guns of the Cycaa .N,5tiicy (Which bujIf
the hotel at COS. Of 1000. 00Of o.
posed it on national grounds. Since
then different American hotel men may
nave Vehtlldtcd the SUBJECT anew, but as