The morning call., 1890-09-14

F@1g ARTS, Aug. %. 1S9O-Few Americans
~ who come 10 Paris visit the Cemetery
| AVN OF Montmartre, and yet it is almost
as ancient as LIE Pere Ia Chaise, and re-
markabe for its picturesque situation. At
| the foot of the Buttes Montmartre it over
! looks Paris, and from certain points views
of brilliant landscape are obtained.
| Montmartre is the least sad of all the
cemeteries; its trees are not so weeping in
| appearance, its flowers are brighter, and its
| tombs not so melancholy as those of other
Paris burial-places.
! Here is Rude's chef-d'euvre, the tomb OF
Gcdefroy Cavaignac; the tomCs Of Stendhal,
Delaroche, Halevy, Murger, Nine de Girar-
din, the Montmorencys and Segurs, and
here has just been completed a superb mon
ument to the memory of Carlotta Patti-a
monument erected by her husband. NJ. En-
nest de Munck.
A shaft of Euvelle stone, eleven feet in
height and four feet in width, has in the
center bronze medallion, the date of Nine.
Patti de Munck's death June 81, 1880
and poem written for her by Alphonse
Karr:
CARLoTTA PATTI.
All lie vous reconnafs, chere petite Orphee
Cest yous. cette hlleale a laquelle une fee
Fit, au temps de Perraut, un doa ST merveilleuN
seuls, les gems envieux ct tristes,
0ui. lie bon est reel car ie vols ct tentends
Emeraudes, rubes, tOpazes, amethystes
Nice. Sept, 1886 AL KARR.
N. de MunckI might well lhave added the
verse composed by Dumas the elder, in
honor Of the cantltrice:
Je ne pais rentendre
Etant hOmme ct chretien,
Mais 81 j'etais oiseau
J'en mourrais de chagrni
No tomb in MOntmartre is so covered with
flowers as that of Carlotta Patti de Mun0k,
for her friends remember and
Yiennent pleurer quand lie jour fuit
On the Seine at Neuilly, just outside
Paris. il little island called lie des Angals.
Some fifteen years ago, ten American and
EDgishmen, fond of sports, met at stated
times and called themselves THE Decimal
Boating Club" Not long after they discov-
cred an island, the property of the Orleans
family, bought it, and thither carried their
lareS and peuateS.
The club grew in number, but was finally
incorporated under the name, Decimal
Boating and Lawn Tennis Society" The
boat-house is the finest on the Seine, and in
the clubhouse are dreSSlng-rooms aad even
sleeping-6erths, for many memUers Of the
club spend SIX or eight months Of the year
at lie dies Anglais. Besides, there is a din
ing-room, reading-room and billiard-rOoni,
provided with French and English tables.
Among attractions lawn tennis has super
seeded everything else. There are Eve ten
mis- courts, all admirably drained, and in
each court there are tables, so that those
who go to watch the players may be served
with tea and lemonade.
The Viscount de Janzi, who is the cham Z
pion tennis-p player, has invented a frame
work for scoring the games. Two wires
are stretched on this framework, and or
one wire are six red balls, on the other ST..
white balls. AS each side scores a game
is at once marked and there is no possbili
of discussion.
Many of the boats in the boat-house a
the work of the best English makers, Scar
of Henley, Winter of Cambridge, etc.
Happy as was the original Decimal Boa
ing Club, the present society is even har-
pier. for ITS members are American, English
and French. All work in harmony, am
the round of life on this merry island s
varied by festivities, like a picnic to Men
don or Saint Cloud, tennis tournament,
aquatic fetes, theatrical performances and
dances, when the clubhouse is Transformed
into ballroom.
ercise, recreation and compadionship The
forget their differences, form lasting friend
ships and become better for mingling with
their fellowmeu.
Probably this club has done more to pro-
rlote social intercourse and cement FRIEND
shlpS-amOng Americans and Englshmen la
Paris Th9p any other organization OF Is
kind.
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In order to thoroughly appreciate Pari
we must leave it for one month, at ledsS-
and in August every body looks for ser
breeZes or mountains. The past week ma f
OF the fashionable world has been at Trot-
vile and Deauyille-one resort witch two
names.
The aristocratic and literary worlds were
brilliantly represented in the hotels ard
villas, but the residents of villas occupy
themselves very little with the casinos "
Deauville and Trouvlle.
The day of the Grand Prix de Deauvila
won by Baron de Schickler's lie Saucy, the
hotels were overlooking, anneXes crowded,
and the salons only immense d0ImitOyieS.
The toilettes seen in the grand stand Were
masterpieces of elegance, and one was re-
minded of Longchamps or Chantilly.
Among those present were the Countess
d'Hedonvilie, Mile. de ClernOnt-TOnnerrs
Marquise de Guadalmina. Nine. Ephruss
Countess de Montes9uiou- Fezensac. NJ
Hennessy, Count de NlcOlay, Marquis &c
Boulhellier, Barons Alphonse and GustaVc
Dues and Duke de Luynes.
Although it is considered very good form
to live in ones own villa and not to OcCup
oneself with the hotel people, nothing can
be more amusing than table d'hote Dime
at grand balm de mer. Some women max
their appearance in superb toilettes, hUpnE
thus to attract husbands with titles, or wha
in these days is preferable, husbands with
millions.
AS at these tables d'hote the service
slow 10 an aggravaiing degree, one has time
between the courses to study the various
types of humanity, and one always finds
the holy man, with downcast eyes, trying
to convert sinful actress. the excited old
gentleman, who does not approve of his
food, Miss Bashful. who bushes il one
glances at her. the grand enquette, who be-
lieyes every man is in love with her, the eld-
erly English couple, enchanted with them
selves, ana the good old-iashioned Ameti-
can, who, not knowing one word Of French,
entertains in a substantial manner, by offer
ing champaign TO all seated near him.
BARONESS ALTHEA SALVADOR.