Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-09

not tinged with sadness at parting, for he |
much likes to ''s]ing his toes,' as he calls |
it. Ebenezer at "Bullier's" is q great sight. |
Head up, eyes right, solemn of countenance,
his legs describing all sorts of strange arcs,
they being but hung loosely to his body, he
will dance against all corners.
81 went to Buffers the other night"
(wrote Bottomgate, when he first came to
Paris to the tutor priest who watched over
his earlier years } Il went out of curiosity
you know one ought to see this sort of thing
while one is in Paris. Dining in the Quarter
Latin at 10 o'clock. I made my way along
the boulevards-along, along, until I saw
Jardins' in large gas letters, and following
the stream setting toward the entrance, l
found myself elbowed by a crowd ofstrange-
looking young men and maidens. Soldiers
watched the narrow gateway, and while l
was waiting my turn to pay could see anoth-
er crowd outside under the gaslight casting
envying glances toward the etaldid7lts and
etudiantes who did not lack the necessary
franc to pay for the evenings amusement.
gave up my stick, squeezed through narrow
turnstile, and walking few steps, came to
| the top of wide descending staircase. A
| blaze of light and the tops of many hats
| walking, music, noise and dust. A wide
| spread, low-roofed and iron spandrelled
| region, lighted by a thousand lamps. To the
| left the band played on platform to the
| right q sea of tables and chairs, under trees
| hung with Chinese lanterns. In the midst 20
or 30 sets of quadrilles were going on to the
| music of 'tOllvette." The men, gay young
fellows mostly, and 1.-the limbed, walk, am,
BILE, or frisk across ard back with their part
ners, without any sort of arrangement. They
choose their own steps, their own time, and
| seem to dance out of pure exuberance OF
spirits. Now and then bold dancer takes
. | his partner by her waist and swings hen
| round and round, instead of the trip across
! or they take few steps in galop time in {
| circle The dance over, the couples adjourn
| to the tables, the favorite places being il
little grass banked partitions which run in s
large semi-circle around the garden; there
| they drink their ''bocks'' and thin red wine
| cheerfully, and reappear for the next dance
| When the tune pleases these light hearted
| young people they all sing an accompani
| ment, and it is wondrous inspiriting to heal
500 or 600 voices singing for joy with the
| hand clapplng for encore. saw strange
groups of students-tall mulatto colorec
West Indians, with the respectable siik-toI
, hat, hob nobbing with wild looking 'Gascons,
or sun Drowned Midi youth. Then a hand
l | some Apollo like German, tenderly arm IL
! arm with humpbacked sad, eyed canaarade
This is the true genius OF the place. Bu
; ! professional dancers come here to show off
| A crowd near the band watches the efforts O
| four of these last. l laughed to see two
Cinnamon there muchly pressed to dance BY
| some roguish young women, but this falling
bold maid took them by the pigtails, and
| one in each hand, walked them about thu
| garden like lambs. Another tried to make
TALL, shy, awkward looking young English
man dance. His confusion was delicious
but am quite sure he did not understand
half the volume of words she poured out t.
| him in French. There was the usual quot
of British tourists in loud check suits ant
caps, and paterfamilias, who scanned, some
| what conscience stricken, but with grea
curiosity, the antics of the dancer. In spit
of the visitors and foreigners, the place
kept sacred to the student worshipers O
| rernschore -