The National tribune., 1890-04-24

/ which has never incubated in the gray matter
! of his brain.
The Place de Ia Madeleine Is planted with
! trees, forming quite grove on either side.
/ Tuesdays and Thursdays it is surrounded by
! flower booths, luxurant with blooming plants
and cut flowers in bewildering prolusion. Car
nations, peoples. roses of every hue, field
\ flowers, new and rare varieties from garden piats
/ and the pleasant wales OF Ia belle France, arc
/ massed and grouped in supcrlative glory of
color and perfume. When one buys, il is by the
armful, with always the wish to carry more
! away.
The Madeleine found unfinished by the First
! Napoleon, was ordered completed as n Temple
! of Glory. Louis XVIII converted 10 into
church, and so il has passed on, dcfyiug the
assaults of Revolution aud Commune until il
stands secure, the most massive flee of the
Greek style i'm Paris. 1t stands on n base %
feet high. surrounded by massive Cornthian
pillars, Of which there are Is on each side, eight
on the north end and double row of eight or
10 Oh the south end or ground entrance. The
inches Ia the coionuade contain 81 statues of
the Saints. The building is all of stone wholly
destitute OF windows, the splendid interior
lighted artificially. IL WAS pretty and pecu-
iiarly French sentiment To place around this
ancient and awsOme temple the immortal love-
illness of living flowers.
But let no Que imagine that the pretty flower
girls, of whom they have read aud heard are
IN charge Of the flowers. IL is in London alone
that young girls stand barchcaded. with
tucked-np frOcks, in the dirty cutters. aud
beg the passers-by 10 give them their poor
pennies for bits of sweet lavender or the dewy
English roses. In Paris it is the plain woman,
the old woman. the middle-aged woman, who
stands ut the stall and soiicits you TO buy.
When you buy. it is for the sake OF The flowers,
not for pity Of the girls, as in London.
IL is The same along tho streets where women
sell fruit from the berry aud flower carts aud
old, old, shTivelcd-up women sell newspapers
and periodicals iu the little glass kiosks. that
line the boulevards at convenient distances,
alternating with the pedestrian refugees"
which are among the peculiar institutions Of
Paris.
In every shop and store Of Paris women are
employed, and In the celebrated cooperative
store Bgn Marche. jointly founded by woman,
they are shareholders. Ia the little confcction-
cry and bakeshops they deal out the most
delicious cherry pastries and strawberry tarts
At the meat nlaFis, where pressed chicken and
spiced veal is done up in pink bladdens and
joints are cTnamented with fancy paper and
spices, they serve you with a smiling delibera-
tion that atones FOR the time you have 10 wait
They sell balloons and PIN wheels aud chidren's
toys. they 20 baTeheaded up and down the
glorious avenues OF Champs Ulysses. the Elysian
Fields whose boundaries are set against the
heart Of Paris. aud ia whose outrageous shades
the nurses. ia fancy caps. with ribbons stream
ing 10 their heels, conduct their precious
charges
The dweliing-houses Of Paris are a collection
Of flats or apartments, built. AS has been noted.
around a court. There is one common entrance,
and in little Office 10 the left the concierge,
or person IN charge, keeps the keys aud candles
Of the people who live on the several floors.
When you go out you leave your key; when
you return, which is seldom until night, you
get your key and candle. On each floor there
II women in charge, each subject TO the chief
Your first breakfast, roll aud 4 cup Of coffee
you are expected 10 take in your room. This
is served through the chief by someone from
below. When once you leave the house you
take a noon breakfast, and at or o'clock,
dine where yon happen to be. Restaurants
are a. thick ia Paris "a saloons aud drug stores
in an American frontier town.