Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-05-19

there. except to make him known TO me-
chen 7 entered the box as lie Marquis d.
C When I left she asked If would
tell the certain young man whom l have
already mentioned that che was reaplnt
the whirlwind of her foolish sowing, JUS
a. he had said she would. She said sh'
would start for Norway next week to es
cape the friends from New YORK who woulc
surely discover her misfortune this sum
mer. A figure of feminine Incompetence
and pliable beauty, I could not help pity
ing the weak girl as she said good night L
me at the door of her box, with tears II
her violet eyes, and then returned to her be
dyed Marquis.
How clean the streets of Paris are! The
moment an American gets into London be
is struck with the soothing silence of the
pavement The great stages and drsys
Sin along with no noise but that coca.
stoned by the tap of the horses hoois. Iu
Paris to this silence is added perfect clean
less. The streets being paved with asphalt
or wooden blocks il is not difficult to keep
them free from dirt, but l imagine the
means to do SO are ten times the capacity
of ours in New York. Small boys 10 fan
mel uniforms, resembling somewhat our dis
t1ict Telegraph messengers, are stationed
at regular intervals all through the
busy portion of the city to sweep up all
litter, and there are standing pots of non
along the edges of the streets into which
all this is thrown. Then on all the wide
avenues houses of enormous length, made
of iointed copper, and moved about on
wheels, are being constantly used 70 lay
the dust The result Is that all Paris is ike
a huge ball room and lady revels Will
here in the luxury of clean skirts and
shoes. That accounts, think, for the very
elegant white skirts and dainty hosiery
that the French girls cannot help exhibit
ing as they go skipping over a crossing.
The cafe chantant, while 1t is a purely
Gallo institution, is not distinct enough
as a type to impress foreigner with any
great degree of surprise. The only differ
ence between il and our concert halls Is
that nearly all the songs here are upon the
order which would be forbidden by an
American prevention of vice society. The
Frenchman relishes song which is nsugh-
ty and witty. He likes his stories that
way, as you can easily discover by read
ing his NEST successful comic papers. But
that he loves vulgarity for itself alone,
very much doubt. had in fact proof
OF this at a cafe chsntant on recent
evening. 1t was in one of those al fresco
sffairs that are so numerous at the entrance
of the Champs Elysee. Just after taking
my seat very charming young woman
came on the stage 10 sing. She looked ss
gentle and sweet as a school girl, ano l
rOticed that as she sang she fmpasized her
Occurrences Of manner in hooking way.
| could not catch the whole drift of her
song, but | made Ont that she was sup
posed to be shy little Quakeress who
knew not the meaning of anything bad
but was telling in her innocence to her
mother all that Joung man had said to
her while they were walking home from
church together The audience began to
murmur at the third verse, and when the
fourth one-which was indeed something
startling-was half finished the air was
filled with misses and the singer was fJrcsd
to stop. She was visibly ashamed, and be-
gan TO talk to her audience saying she wae
sorry for her mistake and begged leave to
sing something else The audience
shouted 10 60 ahead. So far as l could
see her sscood song was equal 10 the
other in It's vulg4rity, but it was brilliant
with witticisms and local hits at we'll
known people. Talking with a Parisian
about this lie told me that Frenchmen
wauld accept almost any degree of suggest
iyeness in their songs OF their stories, but
there must invariably be a clevernese
about thea all or they would not 20 down
The argument explained on article that l
read in d morning paper on disgusting
exhibition of a dancer that / bad seen at
.he Eden Theater one night, and in another
column of the same paper an article
which rhapsOdized over a dance doubly as
daring, which YVES occurring at the FOlies
Bereeres The difference in these dancers
was that the Eden woman was stout,
hOmely pnd wohby, while the FOlies dancer
vas slender, 1.-THE and firm. The latter left
little OF rothiDg untold, but she was sylph-
like and angelic as she did it, aud the
French critic gave her the credit Of being
an artist. When vicicusness is made beau
tiful the Ffenchman 40 longer calls it
vicious.