Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-10-11
The ceIsbraisd t" Black Cat" Club
Of Paris.
Visiting Partisan Garden where AcQuain-
lance Ripens into MatdmOny.
N. Damala, Sarah Bsrnhardfs
Costly Luxury"
Fontainebleau, Where Napoleon was Dl-
yorcsd from Josephine, Signed His
Abdication and Parted With
the "0Id Guard"
fCOpyrishted 1851

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Speeial C0rspmd@Os Of ne SsNday RegiItr.
Rue DE- CIloHY, PARIS, September H.
Our home during our stay in Paris this time
he's not besn st hotel, but very homelke
and delightful pension in the Rue de Cichy,
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
am erdeayoring to ring in" the puff OBJ
hqus or the put direct for the Rue de Cichy
pension, for this is not at all necessary. We
pay our bills at the usual rates and consid-
cred it favor when an American friend
h wrote US Of the agreeable quarters he had
found, for bomeGks pension, according to
American ideas, is rare thing in Paris,
and this embodies the best features Of
French and American life from a modest
ten francs per day point of view.
Have you been to the Chat NOir' Black
Cat)1 is q question often asked in the Rue
de Cichy, some Of the inhabitants of which
belong to the fourth estate and know all
that is "goiDg en-" What is the BLACK
Cat"2 is question that was asked rather
doubtfully-Jou never know what you are
going to pull up against in Paris. But We
were assured that the BLACK Cat" was all
right, and the American gentleman afore-
said, who has been long resident Of Paris
and is married to French lady, volunteer
ed with his wife to act as escort to this Gu
rious resort the name OF which reminds one
always of Barnum's "cherry-colored" cat
black cherries, as he explained to his audi
ence when the black cat was let out of the
bag upon the stage.
The Black Cat in Paris is quite different
from Barnum's. 1t is club house in the
Rue Laval frequented By journalists aud
artists-dramsuc and other-eJpecially the
your ger members of these liberal psofes
siopa 1t is an ordinary house, With an ex-
traordinary window and swing lamp in
front Gf the door. Instead of the high mar
row windows usual in French houses this
has o1e high wide window filed IN with
stsir ed glass in lurid colors, and the lamp
has slso q red, revolutionary aspect, dulled
by somewhat sickly display Of gas. The
.te ps TO she doorway and the door Say itself
are narrow. but they are guarded by tre-
mendous Individuals giant warder in
| fourteenth century costume, with helmet
find halberd. He is not half 50 formidable
as he looks, in fact he is good-nstured, and
admits US most politely. The ground floor
is occupied as sort of restaurant, at the
tables Of which both men and women were
seated; some very nice, lsdy-hke looking
women, too. The regular meeting" room,
reading room, &C., of the club are up stairs,
and We were invited to go mp and make our
selves at home. The stairs were narrow,
but the welcome was vide, and we made our
way 10 the second floor, the President, who
is also the proprietor Of the building aud
the founder Of the club, explaining some OF
the emblematic devices and exhibiting the
Chat Noir under all sorts Of aspects, as con-
tributed by members, to the decoration OF
the walls. The reading room has copy Of
Holbeiu's Madonna, and the meeting room
is adorned with portraits of the founder ADD
his wife, the lady full length and in strik'
ing historic costume The issues paper
=I:ch ia called Chat NOir, and which has
for fgurehead black cat, with its back
| decidedly up