St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-10
SUNDAY IN PARIS.

Germany and buried in the ABBEY OF MAX
enstern in LausitZ.
SUNDAY IN PARIS.
Il Day Given Over to the Pursuit of Plea
sure and Profit.
1t is just quarter to a. N. and upon my
word here is a young damsel of some IL sum-
mers, with her hair faultlessly adjusted, with
collar and cuffs Immediately snowy and
irreproachably starched, and whose neatness
about the feet and ankles should be pride
to herself and stern example to all who are
slatterniy, who, in front, of an establishment
for the sale Of de,arees coloniales, is apparently
taking spell of penal toll on the crank.
Hard labor, and by one of the softer sex, SO
close upon sunrise, and upon Sunday morn
ing too! There was shame in the very
thought Of such an outrage. But the young
lady, as she turns and turns the handle, has
a beaming smile on her slightly pug-nosed
but 9th .rwise comely countenance. She is
only winding up the iron shutters OF the es-
Enlistment for the sale of denrees cotoatiates.
Presently the stock in trade OF the magasin
is revealed in all its varied richness. A trea-
sure-house Of what may be termed the quack
groceries of the epoch. Miraculous cocoas,
phenomenal tapiocas, world-1amous sagoes,
preserving inseed, and wilderness OF
macaroni The private and exclusive coffee
of the Veuve de Malabar, and the dried
prunes which have been crowned in success
psive internal ional exhibitions with nineteen
medals and innumerable honorable men
tons. The Tonkin tea, the black flags
chocolat de sante, the Kroumir biscuits, the
haricots NancS of the Isthmus of Suez. And
the clock is just striking six this Sunday
morning. The patron and the patromae will
be down presently. Adolphe, the shopboy-
who ought to have wound up the shutters, by
the by-has gone round to neighborlng
coifeur to have his hair curled; for Adolphe,
you may rest assured is bound to be visitor
at suburban ball this afternoon. AS to
mademoiselle, the trim damsel, released from
her toll at the ostensible crank, she sits quiet
ly down in front of the shop in the Rue de la
Fayette to read the last number of ''Le Vol
eur'' or ''La Vie Populaire.n AS the custom
ers drop in she will sell to them such articles
as they need; then she will go to mass. She
will return to to the midday meal, and if it
be her Sunday de sorte she will go for walk
with her young man, and dine at barrier
quinguette, and go to the play or to a ball in
the evening. If it be not her sSunday out, "
she will continue during the whole afternoon,
and until or O'Clock in the evening, to
serve behind the counter, or to occupy the
stool outside the shop, reading cheap period
icals or gossipping with similar Gil cumstanced
shop-boys and shop-girls, her neighbors.
If she be of country extraction and devote,
she may trot away before sunset to vespers,
while wthered old bonnie minds the shop for
her. And what, / wonder, would the Metro
politan shop hours league say to this kind OF
thing? / fancy that the Rarisians them
selves, were they Intercepted on the subject,
would answer with shrug: 'sC'est CONNIE
ca They do as their fathers and their
grandfathers and their remote ancestors did
before them. AS with the grocer
so with the charcutier-as with him so
with the butcher, the baker, and the candle
stick maker
The fruiterer will not put up her shutters
again till late at night; the rottisseur's splits
are heavy with fowls and joints; the coal and
coke dealer ceases not to supply his wares
the druggist is, of course, continually, on
hand. But whatever can the bookseller, the
goldsmith and jeweler, and the old curiosity
dealer want with their shutters down before
6 o'clock on a Sunday mornings l pass
scores of such shops ere reach the hotel in
the Rue st. Honore where / alight Once,
however, arrived in that quarter, and OF that
of the great boulevards, you will find, that al
though the shopkeepers who supply the nee
essaries Of life continue their trade as usual.
Sunday closing of the most rigorous kind is
the rule with the establishments which pur-
vey the costlier articles Of luxury. But be
not led astray by this apparent growth of
reverence for the s,nctity of the Sabbath
The great shopkeepers of the foreigners
quarter of the Rue de la Paix, the Rue de
Quatre Septembre, the avenue de POpera
the Rue Royale. and, to great extent, the
Rues de RichIieu and Vivienne, forswear
trading on Sunday for the simple and sufc-
ing reason that they have no trade to trans
act. On the first of the week their clients,
who are chiefly Aliens utterly and entirely
desert them; SO the shutters are Theoretically
sealed, and the shopkeepers and their assist
ants betake hemselves-whither! Why, to
the pursuit Of pleasure, to be sure. M. lie
Patron, before II has struck, will be smok-
ing his cigar and slipping something alcohol
ic in front of cafe, or playing dominos or
piauet in the interior thereof. Nine. la Pa
tronne, between mass and breakfast time,
will be visiting her female acquaintance or
bedizening herself in view OF the enter
tainments of the afternoon.
The young calicots, or assist
ants, are scattered about the estanrinets and
byusseries of the quarter, and the clicking of
billiard balls and the putting of cigarettes or
of bdarwood pipes are incessant. To-day
everybody who has any money-and you
must be good many days in Paris, on each
recurring VISIT, before you begin to light up
on the people who~have no money-means
to go to the races at Chantilly. Is not to-day
the French Derby run?-Cor. London Tele-
graph.