Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-07-08
PARIS AND THE PARIsIANS.
How They Appear TO Lawyer Belva
Lockwood.

Correspondence New YORK World.
The French people are . gay and light
hearted people-eadly controlled BY . mas
Ter hand, but they must be amused. The
chamber votes . liberal amount Of money
TO the president to entertain. Il II their
desire that this money be spent IN balls
and fstss and state dinners. II was the COM
plant against ex-Presidsnt Grevy that he kept
this money for his own private use. The French
people like the splendor of court and its sur
roundings-the gay court life, the decorations,
the dazzling greatness Of those whom for
tune or favor elevates above the massea They
are not versed in political economy, tn the
great advantages to the common people Of tho
blessings Of republic, and do not realize that
the expense Of all the gilded trappings Of .
court are wrung from the hard hands Of the
psasantry and the laboring classes.
NO FREE SCHOOLS.
Paris has no free-school system, and yet the
children OF the laboring classes are compelled
for certain number Of months each year TO
attend school. Most Of the schools are paro-
chial and founded by and attached to some
church. Some British and American philsn-
snropists maintain a Protestant school OF about
one hundred pupils in Paris.
Ihe Elise Lemonnier schools, or schools for
teachIng young professional women, founded
IN 1856 BY Mime. Lemonnier, by and with the
advfce and assistance Of her husband, Charles
Lemonnier, now number four schools and ac-
commodate about six hundred pupils. These
schools are Protestant and instituted with the
Design OF giving maternal protection and in
struction to young women without fortune, or
tradesmen's daughters, and, by giving them q
professional education, At them for usefulness,
sef-sqpport, and an honorable. career. They
are admitted ct twelve years. after examine
ton, and are at liberty to make choice Of any Of
.he Following professions, viz: Commerce, in
ousuial design, engraving on wood, painting,
including fans, ensmeis, def ware, porcelains,
miniatures upon ivory, painting upon glass,
dressmaking, embroidery, laundering, the max
ing Of inventories, &C., and are taught, besides,
English and French. Many Of these pupils
take high rank on graduation as professors in
their alma mater or in other schools in the city.
Ihe school buildings are owned by the society
that controls them and known as ''Societe pour
fEnselgnement Professional des Danes"
wINE-DRINKrNa
is universai, from the gentleman and lady who
ride in their carriage to the servant man
who drives them; from the fine lady to the
serving maid and infant, and even priest and
pupil. At the hotels and restaurants they
will tell You that the water is not good and
yet 1t 10 the best in the world. have seen no
french person drink water since my sojourn
here, except to mix with his wine. 1t is the sta
pie OF the commerce of the country, and is
- ~A~~ 80 AAAAAA 10 oh uuA III the 0dHy KSKf0H6 OF
our own country. When the lamps are lighted
at night the Champs Elysees, almost from the
Arc de Triomphe to the Egyptian obelisk, on
either side OF the broad. shaded boulevards, is
one solid mass Of wine-drinkers, seated out of
doors by little tables and chairs for two where
men and women drink wine and eat q sandwich
while they rest by the way and gossip or dis
cuss the news OF the day. But this Is only
sample. Other streets are as full, but not 30
beautiful: All Paris seems to be out Of doors at
night and enjoying itself.
PROHIBITION NOT NEEDED.
II by chance some unfortunate takes little
more wine than he neeQs, he does not rant and
fume and immediately proceed to "paint the
town red, but he quietly sleeps of his potion
nnooserved, by the little table, and then gets
up and goes away. Once only have seen
woman sleeping by the cafe. A Paris cafe at
night is all out Of doors, but the utmost deco
rum and order are preserved. The Carriages
drive up with their occupants and quietly wait
while they sit at the little tables and sip their
wine, until long line Of them stretches up and
down the pavement, but they do not jostle each
other, there is no confusion, no noise other
than the hum Of merry voices in quiet converse
non. have not seen an officer of the law make
an arrest by night or day, not even in or around
the exposition grounds, where daily hundreds
OF thousands OF people gather. To make pro-
hibitionists OF Frenchmen they would need to
be born again and born in another country,
The clerk at the hotel or restaurant does not
ask you If you will take wine, but simply what
brand you will have.