The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-10-29
JENNIE JUNE IN B
The Celebrated "BIack Cat" Club of
Paris Visiting a Partisan Gar
den Where Acquaintance Ri
pens Into MatrimOny.

ry"-Fontainebleau. Where Napoleon was
Divorced from Josephine, Signed His
Abdication and Parted With the
"Old Guard"
Special Correspondence.
RUE DE CLICHY. PARIS, September D.-Our
home during our stay in Paris this time has
GOT been at a hotel, but a very homelike and
delightful pension In the Rue de CIichy, quite
near the home of Victor Hugo In his earlier
years and also the one to which he returned
later In life. Do not suppose that l I'm en-
deavoI ing 10 s'ring inn the puff oblique or the
puff direct for the Rue de Clichy pension, for
this Is not at all necessary. We pay our bills
at the usual rates and con-ider 1t a favor when
an American friend wrote US of the agreeable
quarters he had found, for a homelike pension,
according to American ideas, is a rare thing In
Paris, and this emboidies the best features of
French and American life from q modest ten
francs per day point Of view.
Have you been to the ''Chat Noir" BLACK
Gait ? is a quest on often asked in the Rue de
Clichy, some of the inhabitants of which be-
long to the fourth estate and know all that is
~going on" What is the "Black Cat?" is a
question that was asked rather doubtfully-
you never know what you are going to pull up
against in Paris. But we were assured that
the stBlack Cat'' was all right, and the gentle
man aforesaid, who has been long a resident
Of Paris and is married TO a French lady,
volunteered with his wife to act as escort to
this curious resort, the name of which reminds
one always of Barnum's "cherry-colored" cat
black cherries, as he explained to his
audience when the black cat was let out of the
bag upon the stage.
The Black Cat in Paris is quite different
rom Barnum's. 1t is a club house in the Rue
Laval frequented by journalists and artists
dramatic and other-specially the younger
members of these liberal professions. 1t Is an
ordinary house, with an extraordinary window
ind a swing lamp in front OF the door. In
stead of the high narrow windows usual In
French houses this has one high wide window
allied in with stained glass in lurid colors, and
he lamp has also a red, revolutionary aspect,
lulled by a somewhat sickly display Of gas.
The steps to the doorway and the doorway
tsef are narrow, but they are guarded By a
tremendous individuals giant warder in
fourteenth century costume, with helmet and
aalberd. He is not half so formidable as he
ooks, in fact he is good-natured, and admit
ed us most'politely. The ground floor is oc-
.upled as a sort of restaurant, at the tables of
Thich both men and women were seated; some
Eery nice, lady-like looking women, too. The
egular ''meeting'' room, reading room, &C.,
# the club are up stairs, ami We were invited
20 go up and make ourselves at home. The
tairs were narrow, but the welcome was wide,
md we made our way to the second floor, the
President, who is also the proprietor of the
suildiDg and the founder of the club, explain
ng some of the emblematic devices and eXhib-
ting the Chat Noir under all sorts of aspects,
Is cont ibuted by members, to the decoration
If the walls. The reading room has a copy of
Holbein's Madonna, and the meeting room is
.dorned with portraits of the founder and his
~ife, the lady in full length and in a striking
historic costume. The club issues a paper
which is Gale hat Noir, and which has for
tfieurehead a black cat, with its back de-
:idediY up.