Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-19

upon the casual visitor must be that 1t is & city of to-day, quite too new to be venera- ble. and built on quite too uniform 6 plan to challenge unqualified admiration. It is beautiful, but one grows tired of seeing SO much beauty cast in the came pattern. The American visitor will hardly sympa- thize with that Londoner whose chief complaint about Paris was that it's high buildings were unfsvorable for such dis play of chimney tops ss he had been used to at home. But he will surely wish that the houses about him were not all so high, and after little experience in getting to fifth and sixth floors, with elevators ss few and far between as angels visits, his feel ing on this subject will become quite too full for utterance.
 For long vistas, with trees of uniform height, and stately buildings whose white fronts gleam in the sunlight, and for such effects as one can see in the Place de la Concorde, with the Tuillsries behind, the mighty Arc de Triomphe looming up in front, the Madeline to your right, and the gilded dome meath which the great Bona parte rests on the other side of the Seine the Eifen tower also being near enough to be seen to good advantsge-for such
 
 rival. The Circusss st which the thor oughfares of London converge are mere bagatelle pockets in contrast with the grand places abounding in Paris- The only American city which gives substsn- tial promiss of ever competing with the capital of France in broad avenues and magnificent distances is the city of Wash ington. After night Paris, in the scene of light and change 1t presents, is like fairy land. To look at the long rows of street lamps, 30 much nearer together than in other cities, which in many places, owing to the length and straightness of the streets and boulevards, stretch their lines of beau ty so far away from you that the two opposite eides seem at the farther end to come together, and to finally lose them selves in the midst of the clustering lights of some vast circular place-to see a sight like this, ss you can dozen times over in Paris, is simply enchanting. If thls city is beautiful by daylight, she is dazzling and almost bewildering by night; and to feel this one need not have the least share in the mad whirl of life which goes on; you need only take cab or view the scene from the top of an omnibus.
 Which reminds us, by the way, that Paris and London differ materially in their vehicular service. The London "hsnsom" Is conspicuous here by its rarity. The cabs you find in Paris are four wheelsrs, and this difference makes decided change in the aspect of the streets. One would think that to put the driver immediately behind the horse, instead of perching him on A box bshind and above his fare would conduce to better driving, and hence to the greater security of those having to dodge these vehicles in crossing the streets. But 1t doesn't by any means. The PAri- sian csbby drives with @ loose rein and with a very lax regard for the rights of the general public. His heavy shoes, almost like clogs, his shiny hat. painted so as to have @ remote resemblance to a genuine silk, and the decided peuohant he shows for fourishing and cracking his whip, make him altogether @ louder and more disagreesble type than the same species in London But he charges you very mode rately. For thirty cents, with the inevi;s ble fee added, he will take you any dis tance within the city, providing the jour ney Is not broken. This is the uniform charge. In London you have slight sd- vantage if your ride is within the mile. But one seldom wants & cab for so short distance as that. and in Paris you can ride four, five, or even six miles, for lees thsn the ordinary rate of g tTo-mile ride in the metropolis of Great Britain.
 By the hour the cab fare is forty cents This is extremely moderate, and, so also, under this system of hiring, will be the rate of your progress through the Partisan streets. The cab horses here are altogeth- er inferior to those of London. However slow the English themselves may be, they like their horses to make good time, and the London cabmsu Is no exception to this rule. Here it Is the people vino are fast; the horses, certainly the cab horses, are very slow. They are slow enough un- der any circumstances, but 1t Is & proverb with all visitors that If, in making a bar gain with cabby, you say "By the hour," his horse is sure to understand, whether you speak in French or English. We have heard of one man who distinguished him self and obtained several medals by stop ping runaway cab horses. He seemed to know just what to do, and when his se- cret transpired 1t turned out that he checked the mad career of these fiery steeds simply by shouting. as be pulled at the bridle, "By the hour" After that the gallop degenersted into a walk from sheer force of habit.
 From the ponderous. clumsy looking policeman of London to the petit guardi- an of the peace in Paris, the change is quite welcome to the eye; although we | cannot help thinking that the former looks the mere business-like of the two. | Instead of club the Frencbman has @
 
 his high legged boots, with the cap or cocksde he wesrs, and with the cape, hay | ing a hood attached to it, which hangs | loosely from his shoulders, gives him more the appearance of a military man out for a saunter than of one whose presence should be a terror to misdemeAnsnts. But he is very nice to look at, and that seems to be the principal thing in Paris. Every thing here appeals to the eye. Even the | he ssr 1f | are very pretty indeed. The English pug is eschewed, as 6 companion for French ladies-partly, no doubt, because he Is | English and partly because he is so outra- geously rspulsiye. The fashion in canines runs to French pOodles, a fuzzy, innocent sort of dog; and it is all the style to have part of the fuzz shaved off-the hinder part-a fancy which, besides adding to the novelty of the dogs appearance, keeps in good circumstances, 1t Is said, quite & number of people who are known profes- | sionally ss bog barbsrs-
 | The fashions iu masculine attire are not SO conventional here as in London. In silk hats one sses all sorts of shapes, and the strangest shapes seem to be most in vogue. The aim of the ParisiAn swell slems to be, not to conform perfectly to any set code, but rather to defy the codes and get himself up as pioturessuely as possible. Paris does not smoke so much as London, either from its chimney tops or from beneath its top hats. Parisian ls- dies have better compilations than the English, and better forms; but ia sitting in judgment upon such matters as these one has to remember that Paris is more a city of art than London Ia. We have also observed that Parisian women carry them selves with more grace when walking than the English, and as this Is a matter which can have no connection with toilet myster. ies, we need not hesitate in saying which of the two styles We prefer.
 Babies are less numerous here than in London, but those you sse are remarka
 bly, pretty. So are the nurses who csrry them, st least in their style of dress. They wear at this season long circular closks, and from their dainty silk caps long stresmers of some fashionable shade oi ribbon extend the whole length of their
 attire. Usually the mother is near, and , we have noticed many instances in which the shade of ribbon worn by the nurse has some match in the bonnet of this Partisan dame. If not in the bonnet, then you may look for a match at the waist in tht form of a sash, or perhaps in the shade oi the proud mammals bodice. Talk of fash ion you baya tn he in parfa fo krovr f-,lIx