Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-20

two minutes an old woman Will come
round and demand two sous of you as
rent for your seat. Paris is most char
acteristically Paris on Sunday; only
the very large stores are closed, and II
the day be bright, the streets
will be swarming with pleasure
seekers. The Partisan must be amused
Sunday afternoon and if he cannot afford
to go to a matinee, he goes to the races
or to the morgue. One wants 10 walk
up the Champs Elysees on bright warm
afternoon the fountains will be sparkling,
, strains of music coming from some ele-
CANT cafe back among the trees, and
there are children playing, and nurses
! walking around with tiny babies in their
arms. l have not seen a
BABY CARRIAGE IN PARIS,
| but ALWAYS these nurses with infants in
their arms. The wet nurses are always
dressed in a long mantle reaching to the
ground, and white cap around which
ribbon is arranged so as to stand up very
| full and then stream down behind to the
! hem of their cloaks.
| The little Parisienne is attired in the
| daintiest of silks aud laces, and even at
| the age of three is afflicted with veil OF
white lace tied closely over her face and
|
her clothes; she does not romp, but rolls
her hoop and whips her top III deIlcate,
| lady-like manner.
| Then after the Champs Elysees, it is
| interesting to stroll along the quays,
past the Louvre up towards Notre Dame,
| looking over at the Seine on one side,
| winding under its beautiful bridges, and
| watching the crowd on the other side.
The uuays are lined with stalls for Sec
ond-hand books, guarded and sold by
MEN IN SECONDHAND CLOTHES.
You will find English, German and
italian books in the piles. Ieven noticed
an edition of Cooper's novels. There
are always some seedy book worms haul
ing over the stock; one can some times
pick up rare and valuable old books for D
trif1e.
There is something Delightfully."- go-as-
you please in Paris; it seems totnake
very little difference what you do oTFswhat
YOU wear. Especially when walking in
the older part of the city, you feel Peg
fectIy free to buy these great chestnutk
which the man roasts upon the strss4
and MUNICH them as you go along 0szs1
invest in an orange OF the woman ats4he
| corner and eat it on the stone paraRSt of
the quay.
Mardi Gras was one of these wonder
fully mild, soft days. For one day in
the year the foot passenger had his
rights; the gory-eyed eabman, the proud
and pompous omnibus were actually
driven from the boulevards by Paris on
foot; men and women swamped the
spacious roadways and the wheeled
things crawIed around the side streets as
best they could. Everybody was on the
lookout for something; everybody stared
at everything with an expectant air, but
all we saw were street boys wearing
immense false noses and some children
prettily dressed in fancy costumes,
What people this is for dramatic
effect! The pastry shop windows are
marvels of decorative art; the simple
bakeries have the long loaves effectively
arranged: the butcher sticks an artificial
flower in the neck of his dressed and de-
: capitated lambs, and arranges his legSa1
J mutton like bouquets in big frills ofaiace
paper. Even funeral in Paris gees OF
with
CERTAIN THEATRICAL EcLAT
watched one the other day i1s com.
pany with all the loafers and sRowe
women and newsboys of the neighbor.
r hood. who were attracted by the dls-
play. The hearse was a chariot of Yhlf
, silk, heavily embroidered with silver
was open, as they always are here, Anl
five great clusters of black ostrich pllhfe
? nodded above the white drarerie
D | of the canopy; even the Wheel
{ were white, outlined in black and silver
The six white horses, guided by long whit
\ reins, were covered with black cloth
9 fringed and embroidered with SILVER, tn
? first two pairs being led by four men
! | dressed, like the driver, IN 4 blac
e knickerboekers, long coats and cocker
4 hats, all deliberately trimmed witt