The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-02-06
A CANTON aIRL I'm PARIs.
Tirat Impressions Of The Gay Capital Of
all the French.

Firat Impressions Of The Gay Capital OF
all tho French.
Miss Louise Conklln, who is attend.
ing school ~ the Ursuline Convent,
B0ul0gne, France, iB writing home
some very charming letters 10 the Doc
tor and Mrs. C0nklln, The last TO hand
Is dated January Itch, In which the
distressing fact Is mentioned that all
but four OF the young ladies' OF the
Convent are sadly sick with Ia grippe,
and Miss C0nklln Ia one Of the four.
She writes that those who fear Ia grippe
most, have u the worst, and that she
has not had ", and does not propose 10
On recent visit 10 Paris Miss Conk.
lin writes as follows;
Well here | am IN great big Paris,
without dear friend In sight. IL
seems awful, but / dare not think Of H.,
try 10 forget tho great Atlantic rolls
between my loved ones and their roam.
ing one, l am the youngest one In
our party, II being, composed Of the
Miss Lysle, Mrs, Whigham and your
little girl. Miss Webb, M. d., Of Bos.
ton Joined our party on ship board and
proved delightfully."- pleasant, They are
lovely, but oh my they are very partic-
ular on some points, but believe In hay.
Ing pleasant times / have been In
"La belle Paris' since Monday, but still
loyal 10 America, however. am quite
In love with the city, but the natiyesl
they are worse Than our Indians,
Just after our arrival Monday
.nn, ,ra ,ynyV "a Iha UIi,u A,.,haN
TO do some shopping, You have
no idea how very different II Is from
our own dear country. IL Is all 80 very
queer II we ask for information or
the least little favor n foe of ut least
ten centiines is expected, aud when you
pay the cabman, which by the way Is
very little, two francs an hour for four
persons, that Is forty cents In our mon.
ey, the COaGhman expects his "pom.
bois," We came back 10 our "penBion"
had dinner then went 10 the Exposi.
tl0n for the illuminatlons. We came
home tired, but rose Tuesday morning
refreshed and started by ten o'clock for
the Exposition, where we spent the day.
| remained In the art department un.
Ill 3 p, m. aud i could have enjoyed
days there, but my time was lirnited.
never expect TO see 30 grand display
again, for most Of them are private
collections loaned for French distinc-
tl0n,
The sculpture was not 80 good as |
anticipated, but then II never is so In
teresting 10 me aB paintings, The diff.
ferent nations had exhibitions of all
their arts, talents, etc, but America
was the poorest When we reached IL
and saw It's stars and stripes, our eyes
filled with tears, but we went bravely
through IL. Wednesday Miss Lysle,
Mr. Rennolds and myself took car.
riage and went TO the Madeleine. IL Is
u grand church, with great colossal col
umns on the four sides, but when we
arrived we could not enter, for q fune.
raj of note was TO be held In u few mo.
menls, so we went TO the Notre Dame,
Don't talk about cathedrals until you
have seen this one. The high altar is u
perfect wonder and the twenty one
chapelB, with their affairs and statues,
would be difficult to rival. / wish |
had more time now TO tell you oil the
beauteOuB wonders of these places.
cannot begin to describe 1t, for a pen is
weak, when used by u schoolgirl who
would rather talk Of the wonders she
sees. After luncheon we went TO the
Louvre" and | am really sorry, for |
had only glimpse j was completely
carried away, and hope some time To
spend u whole week Of Joys there. We
drove out the Champs dc Elysees, Bois
do Boulogne, the grandest drives where
we could see the beautiful buildings
that Napoleon erected after destroying
old Paris. We went to the tomb Of the
first, Consul N, Bonapart; II Is slrcoph-
aguB Of brown granite; a perfect
piece Of art The t0mbs of Joseph and
Jerome Napoleon were there also, but
will never rest there as the French do
not love him. The Consul requested
that his body should rest In sight Of the
Seine, mid the people he loved 80 well,
and his wish was granted. After din
ner Wednesday, we went to the Grand
Opera House TO hear Meyerbeers
"Huguenots." ORAL the houses have
ever seen this Is the finest; the stage Is
enormous, and the scenery 80 very
natural. This evening we are going TO
see Hamlet in opera form, | cannot
imagine II put TO music but then IL
must be, as the Frenchman on Macbeth
says: "Ah, Monsieur Shakespear is q
- 80. a. n n m.