The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-05
Among Some Of the Picturesque Watering
Places at Which the Paristans Take
- Their Summer Outing. FL

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81 Z Their summer Outing. @
A New and Eminently French Norel With
Which Danes snd DAmosels Have Been
Willing Away Their Time.
TRouv1LLE, Special Correspondence, Aug.
%, 1sS3.Ia am OH afvoysgs q investigation
along the coast, studying morals and summer
manners at French watering places. Thus far
into the heart Of Normandy have l marched
without any great amount OF impeachment, ard
l like it very much EtrelAt is . place for
painters and respectable people who are hap
piest when they are gossiping scandal about
their neighbors. Along about the year 1S4O
three Partisan artists set out to explore the
channel coast . on foot between Hayre
and Dnnkerqne. Tho country was but little
known excepting to the native, residents, and
the journey thus undertaken by our bold ex-
curslonists was a real voyage Of discovery,
which, III Theses days, was something really adj
venturous. Before leaving, they agreed with
Their artist friends a. Paris that, whoaeyer they
discovered a neighborhHod which seemed es-
prcially rich in artistic motifs, they were to
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village Saint Auresse, where Sarah Bern
hardtlias hpr country residence, was the fir t
place discovered, aud it was marked, as it de-
served to BIZ; but when they reached Etretat
they wer 20 impr.s sed With the magnificent
view, that they enthusiastically marked three
big white crosses on the first, bank wall they
came across The burst of admiration came
near costing them dear y. A woman of the
place, who bad seen the strangers marking the
house Of her neisLbor, ran over TO warn him
that some deviltFy was going on; the, owner OF
the house made such q fuss about it that the
whole village was convinced that our three
painters were thres wicked sore, rers; and but
for the maj sly OF the law, repre-
sented in a" solitary gendarme, the
Parisans would have baen stoned to death. As
1t was, they were marched Off to Monsieur le
Mare, who was at last INDUCED to give them
their liberty. Nov Etretat fully deserved it's
three white crosses. t'placsd in the center Of
some of tho most wonderful scenery that can
b. imagined, the old Norman village lies
stretched out in 3 long line between two gigan-
tic cliffs. which jut Dnt into the sea as though
to protect the it,lv tliatchel rooted houses all
oveigrown with moss. 4 Although it hos been
nearly half u century since il came under sub
jecion to Paris, ard has been, so TO speak,
converted into one Of the suburbs OF the capt.
tai, Etretat is still, when seen from the sea, one
OF the, most plctur squa hooks on this coast.
The scene has remained as nature made il, IN
spite Of mans attempt to improve on her
h~andiWork; but instead of the simple and
moving drama OF the sea it is now the comedy
OF the beach, made detesta bic very often by the
habit which 80 many American ladies haye of
tlttle-tattiing. The performance lasts for about
two months, and even the natives of the spot
take o part in it.
THE OF CIVILIZATION. .--. %
While the white cliffs OF Avail and Anont still
stand out against the constantly changing
horizon, and while the Aiguille still points.
majestically straigh, upwards, the old fishing
boats are freshly panied and disguised every
year; the calngee,r or fisherman's cottages,
are transformed into cafes and salons de
conversations: Instead of village women mend
ing nets, we sec fashionable ladies embroider-
ing. reading and sketching. Formerly it was
the village folk who went down to the beach to
watch for the return of their men with the in-
coming tide, but now 1t is the Pariseunes who
sit along tue bsach and ind beauty in half
baked, hairy breaslei, knock kneed gentlemen.
Tho old flsIer men have become professional
Dathers; the lads Of the village study painting;
mothers scnoms to marry, OF their daughters,
dih u hdliShS uISallf VI eut6IlQU Vl5 IAFl6
cons -~rvato;re. ALI day long there passes q
procession of 'donkeys. carving parties OF
young people from Tho Bots de la
Pnssee to the Chapelle de Bou-Secours. There
is room for all who wish to trave rse
the little tunnel which leads through the cliff
of Amont to the Chaudron, aud there is plenty
OF cod veal, sausages, stale bread and bad
wines for all who ike to go picnicking. Etretat
IL, however, the village d'artist that is most
asslduously frequeuted by amateur painters. I
uty al fla ~, WI H. sc SO, = N ~. l. ..|Xt u
place this season, but the person whom I ques-
tloLed could not answer me. sBut there were
over 400 here last year, by actual count" said
he; and l don't doabtit. Yet it was only this other
day thar l heard - greatlady say that art was
dying out. The old inn of Mother BANQUET. or
That Of ia belle Era eslihe,,' may not be any
longer in EXISTENCE, but the ghosts of Lspoltte-
win, Of DlaZ, Philippe Rousseau, Laudelle.
Courbet, Bida, Alphonse Karr and a host of
others, artists and litterateurs, are over and
around the place. aud Etretat will long remain
one Of the most charming spots that pen OF
pencil has ever attempted to describe.
. 81. AT TRoUvILLE.
! enjoyed myself most heartily at Havre for
a few days, and then a boat built to accomno-
date 25O passengers brought aboutsa ttbousand
lronvlile. This watering place, standing at
the foot Of a verdant hill covered by elegant
Villas in every style of picturesque archi-
lecture and surrounded by gardens as luxuri-.
Civ III hoMclS duu az outrageous as CnOSe IN
America, with a long stretch Of golden sand
before it, is tho one par excellence of the,
beau monde and the demi monde of Paris. 1t
is the gayest, the most delightful place l have
ever visited: for one can be at Trouville wiss or
wicked, moral or immoral, slow or fast, as he
orshe may select, and there is room For all opin-
ions and pleasures; and the hotels are good
The casino at Trouyille is not an ornamental
building, psiti is nsefnl aud Is well paasnized.
There is al excellent CONCERT, every afternoon
and evening", a ball twice aweeii, operate and
dramatic performances very often, and gam
bling day aud night When the tidesis up thou
sands upon thousands of persons go in bathing
and sw mining. The beach Is divided into
three parts-one for Tho males alone. one for
the aides and one for both sexes. There are
some good swimmers bore. and one of the best
10 . young American girl from Detroit, wno
tells me she learned in Lake Erie. Que of the
great pleasures OF the place, after those of the
casino and bathing, is the fishing. Al low tide
it Is great fun for the elllgantes to go out in
short-yes, very short, but at the same time
most charming.tollets TO gather mussels on the
biAeft roklAn r.by.ti,shoM Ar1Uthsf spSrt 4SS
'la chasse de Iequille," which is asort of small
lamprey aboundlng on thesssshares afsseseaSh
high tue. When the sea goes onf sfhis ifttts
silver eel burrows into the sand to Rwajtsthe
next high tide, and then it is jhAAxs SSia "a go
out with our little fork and basket to secure
our 6nny prey. They are, ~wheaS cooked, q
great delicacy. Another amusenlArt ID to seat
QUO . seii unuSr q mammoth umbrella aud read
the latest Freach novels BY actual
count l saw ~somsewenty odd persons with the
novel, Aptour de Marriage in their hands
yestegaaG4E s4terusaeae ssHiss lApok is the latest
sensation. aid before leaving Paris 1 got me q
copy of the twsnty-ffth addition. Its author
writes on the nom de plume or Gyp, but il is now
known that she is. the Countess de Martel. She
had already published 'La Vertu do Ia
Baronne, CO ani Femme Veut and the Petit
Bob; and this, her latest work, is being
dramatizsd for production at the Gymnase
theater, with the beautiful Jane Hadding in the
leading role. This il a naughty hookvnot 20
naughty as same FTenchi Mpks xhiohI have
read III my idle moments, but rather too lively
for a Sunday school LIBRARY. The cover is IL
lustrated with the REORGANIZATION csR Lad u