Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-10-11

ties. Novelties in dress, for instance. Also
novelties in caHsthenics. & clergyman
near me, who is here on vacation, stood
up. 1 told him to sit down or I would in
jure him with my umbrella. He reluctantly
sat down. L watched the dance with great
interest because am going to Introduce
it to the attention of the four hundred when
return to America. The gentlemen chased
up and back, and then crossed over. The
ladies did so. 700. Then the gentlemen
threw their feet at the center of the sky.
The ladies did the same. It was so odd and
so shocking that L could not, at once, sum-
mon the courage to go away. wondered
what my family would say if they knew
about 1t. We are a very proper fam
lily. We come from the old puritanicai
stock whose only relaxation was prayer.
And I could not help thinking that if my
ancestors could have been there they
would have shuddered two or three times
in rapid succession Then they would have
no doubt remained.
Every little while new figures. in lace. and
new designs. on the behOlder, were intro
duced. I need not describe the dance
fully, for those who have seen it will re-
member it, and those who have not will
sIyIy go to see it when they go to Paris.
From the can-can to the mOrgue is a
rapid change, but will just alIude TO the
latter incidentally and then close this let
ter. 1 went not so much out Of curiosity
this time, but because 1 had heard of an
Americans disappearance and feared that
he had gone to the Seine, the last and sad
dest Of all places, to seek relief from the
sings and arrows OF outrageous fortune.
.
There were four people there represent
ing four different phases OF life. The first
was an old lady. Her gray hair was de-
Gently put back from her peaceful brow and
her basket was in her lap. Quietly she
ignored the earnest, startled and Mortified
looks of the eager procession outside the
glass. Her rest had come at last. Posi-
bly, a worthless and heartless son came to
see who was there. Possibly she was some
bOdy's ill-treated mOther-in-laWs for the
mother-in-Iaw is not encouraged as she
OHOnt to be. in france.
Then came a middle aged man whose
hands were marked with toll His face was
as calm as the skies on a summer night.
There was nothing terrible about it. for he
looked like one who wraps the drapery Of
his couch about him and lies down to pleas
ant dreams.
Then came young man with a cap. His
clothes were as he wore them and his face
was not distorted. The CHASTITY fisherman
of the Seine, like the prowler on the Thames
so graphically described by Dickens IN
Our Mutual Friend" had found the boy
the night before, and had slightly torn the
bosom Of his shirt in lifting him to the sur
face, but he was past annoyance over a lit
tie thing like that, and his rest was Undis-
turbed even IN the face Of the multitude
and, like SteerfOrth, he lay with his arm
beneath his mead as ne mad done at school.
Then came a young girl 1 could not help
thinking of the Railway mystery as l saw
her there. No one knew her, but every one
pushed toward that part of the mOrgue to
see her face and wonder who she might be.
The crimp had gone from her fair hair and
the light had gone from her gray eyes, but
the man who helped to make this picture in
the old grim mOrgue probably snaps his
fingers at the fates and drinks his ahsinthe
with his friends. He is welcome to the JOY
he has. Her own peaceful slumber is better.
The Partisan mOrgue is not horrible. To
me it is a history of humanity. In it you
may read the last chapter OF Il life and con-
lecture what the other chapters were. do
not go there to see horrors, but to see the
last tableau and judge as we'll as may what
the others were before it and what led to all
this.
There is one feature of the Oh amps
EIysees which has not been heretofore re-
ferred to that know Of and so speak Of
it here. 1t is the array Of wet nurses under
the trees all the way up to the arc. refer
to it because q New York lady called my
attention to it to-day, and SO it is proper
They are all large robust women. and as
the gorgeous eQuipages pass by filled with
pOmp, pride, and circumstance these Wig
OrOus nurses earn their salary by looking
at the procession. 1t would be very strange
anywhere but in France. Here everything
which is necessary and sensible is correct.
False mOdesUy and foolish. maWkIsh fear of
certain things are not noticeable. This is
a good thing to remember and consider.
These nurses are generally middle aged
and very healthy, otherwise they would not
be employed. They take the little French
sciOns out under the trees Of the Champs
EIysees at evening time. and the little
BourbOns may be seen there till dark TAX
/ ing their meals as the crowds roll by.
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