Wichita eagle., 1888-04-22
SUMNER IN PARIS.
NO SEASIDE RESORTS TO AFFORD
RELIEF TO THE PARlSiANS.

Tho Seine With Its Little Excursion
Boats-Personal Cleanliness of the
French-No Bath Tubs-Summer Amuse-
ments-A Bull With Rubber Horns.
Hot weather In Paris is about the same
quality as hot weather in New York. That Is
to say, it is hotter than the outside edge OF the
sun and almost as hot as Fort Yuma on the
Colorado river. It comes as quickly TOO, ana
it shuts up the theatres and sends people our
into the country just as it does In the Amerl-
can metropolis.
But over here the people have no such
places to fall back upon as they have In New
York. They can find good enough rural
spots near at hand, but no surf, no beach, no
ten cent glasses of froth and no clans filled
with sand So you see there are Joys OF ours
in America that nobody can take away from
rs, or even initiate. The Seine, which noble
stream is the only water near at hand Is
pretty and shallow and narrow, and it IS en-
ployed for the floating OF nasty little e1cur-
zion boats, few handsome private Launches
and some row boats
FOR WASHING DOGS.
1t is also used for the purpose Of washing
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French do not wash themselves they at least
perform that ceremony for their poodles. Go
up the river any day you ike, and you viii
see dozens OF poodles, black, white, mixed
and in various patterns, all undergoing the
bathing process. The French people them
selves are not much In the line Of personal
cleanliness. Not one in 500 OF their houses
has regular bath room in it And not one
4 vh1% n
do with such an institution If he had =
| 1t is painful accusation, but true one,
Just the same, that the French people are Just
! about the dirtiest race going, If We bar the
Italians, the Poles and the Hurgarians. Their
system of bathing embraces the use, once IL q
long time, of sitz tub, quart or two OF
water, cake of cast steel mot castile) soap,
! and large towel 1t is quite ridiculous, but
that is the best the nation affords Plumb
ing, as we know it in America, is almost I'M
used in Paris. Cesspools, such as we employ
/ In remote rural districts, are common in this
great city, and in the night time they are
/ cleared out, with results that are enough TO
! make a man shudder Yet this is the best
/ they know anything about in the gayest and
/ brightest city in the world.
NOVEL BULL FIGHT.
| Summer amusements are very dull, but
| during the regular season there are more
| novelties In Paris, more really nov things,
than can be found in any other center In the
universe For instance, at the circus, which
has Just closed its doors, there has been very
great success recorded by a large troop OF
| Spaniards, who gave show illustrating life
! in Seville, and introduced dancing, singing,
mandolin playing, and about everything
else that was characteristic of Spain The
! whole thing wound up with bull fght which
! think was the funniest thing ever saw.
Swarms Of people went to see it and roared
themselves hoarse night after night.
First. there was real bull, two or three
years old, and just beginning to grow vicious
His horns had been cut of. and long rubber
ones substituted so cleverly that only those
ION the inside" could possibly comprehend
the deception The toreadors were supplied
with the Kind of frame and canvas horses we
have all seen IN stage burlesques. They
waved red cloths at the bull and punched
him I'D with their wooden lances. Now and
then be would make charge on the torea
| doris and knock them right and left with 6
degree OF violence that must have shaker
them up considerably, in spite OF the rubber
horns. It was one of the most CONFUSING
sights ever presented in an entertainment
and it drew crowds. Now the circus has de
parted, and the building is used as big
( Turkish bath with huge plunge where the
ring used to be-Cor New York Mail anC
Express