Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-06

and want of truth, you will take sides
with them every time against the En-
glish, and feel the most intense sym
pathy with them in their struggles for
governmental freedom.
THE POOR REPUBLIC
has a hard struggle all the time. The
aristocraoy ridicules and despises it, the
Catholics feel oppressed and abused, and
there are large class here in Paris who
complain that the times are harder now
than under Napoleon, because while he
ruined France by his e5 travagance, he
also gave employment to many people in
opening up and improving Paris. La
Belle France is in sore need of great
mana real photographic OF gaining
and holding the hearts of the people in
the cause of freedom. After suffering
for freedom as no nation has ever suf-
fered before, it has seemed lately as if
she were almost ready to lay down her
phrygian cap at the feet Of pretty Duo,
d Orleans, and lose again the ground
she has gained by bloody footsteps.
"Strange. passionate, hooking, frivo=S
lous land!' sings Whitman in his star Of
France; Miserabl-Yet for thy errors,
vanities, sins, I will not now rebuke
thee. -
Thy unexampled woes and pangs have quelled
And left thee sacred
SIN that amid thy many faults thou ever aimest
highly,
In that thou would'st not really sell myself
however great the price,
In that thou surely wakedst weeping from thy
In that alone AMONG thy sisters, thou giantess,
did'st rend the ones that shamed thee!''
Yet, although 1 am not fond OF pleas
ure-steeped Paris, L feel the charm of
its glitter and sparkle, and know that
any other city will seem dingy and
CROWDED AND STUPID
after It. Nothing is so elegant in city
as space; it is what repose is to person,
and Paris is full of this highbred repose.
Amplitude of space is the one SUI
preme superiority of Paris over
all other cities. The avenues are
wide enough to admit four rows
of trees and 1t is amazing how Frenchy
even the trees are! They are not the
large solid growths of England and
America, but small, slender, graceful,
and delicate as French girl. This great
width of street which lets in the sun and
air, also opens up YlStaS, anu allows Iull
appreciation to every fine building.
London is so contracted it is almost i'm
possible to realize the beauty of its edi-
fees; the great works of Sir Christopher
Wren are jammed in among the inferior
buildings; but Paris gets full credit for
all her beauties. It has not grown nor
been built by necessity; it has the air Of
having been
PLANNED BEFORE IT WAS EXECUTED,
and one feels the more inclined to be
critical because it aprears like work of
art, and not like a thing which Is of
necessity so and not otherwise. Paris is
not dim with manufacturing smoke, nor
is every church in it filed up with adver-
tisements. Paris is elegant, Paris is
recherche, and seems to exist like any
other work of art, simply for the pleas
ure it may give. They say ParisianS
work harder and for more hours than
almost any other people, but 1t is diff
cult to realize that, for, though they ap-
pear very active, intellectually and
physically, yet the object of life seems to
be not business, but pleasure.
Oh, glittering, glittering Paris, you
are fascinating, you are artificial, you
are unstable, you are Frenchy through
and through!
JESSIE G.. CHA3IBERLIN.