Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-24

fists; so that grown-up Parisians when they get
In rows. kick with their feet more effectively
than they strike with their hands. On the
other hand, Paris children are graceful, polite
and demure. They dance beautifully. They
appear best indoors in all their little fnery,
which they value-not only the girls, but the
boys; and the height of their pleasure il .
fancy dress party. so that they can wear more
nnery yet Until boys are sent away to board
ing school-which IL at an early age-thsy arc
petted like girls. and called little loves,
Cupids and angels. This 10 the season when
they are made the most Of; and New Year day,
and not Christmas, is the day they receive their
gifts. Thus. the year of the siege of Paris il
always known as the year without New Year
day. for the men and women now grown up
were children then. and the toy shops of the
boulevard were closed.
THE PRESIDENTS VISITORS on NEW YEAR
On New Year morning crowds gather on the
Rue Faubourg st. Honore to see the presidents
visitors go and come from the palace. The in
terror of the presidents house il more pleasing
than its outside look. which il not imposing
The Hue Fsubourg st. Honore Is . narrow old
fashioned street, backed up against the avenue
of the Champs Elysees and suffering very much
In comparison with 1t At one corner near the
palace there is very ordinary cafe with
billiards and plat du Jour- and opposite to it
there are small shops. one Of them a butchers.
The mansion itself is surrounded by an ugly
row OF squat Office buildings, whose appearance
has recently been further damaged by repairs
intended to obliterate the carved symbols Of the
empire. Nevertheless il is fine sight to watch
the Presidents visitors on New Year dav and
If the casual visitor In Paris has any friend to
point them out and name their names he might
spend an hour or So much less proftably.
Many respectable people stand around like this,
and the wearers of bright uniforms would be
dlsplrited at finding no public to stare at them.
The President generally gets TO the end Of
New Year day with racking headache. His
annual ceremonial task begins early in the
morning, when he is expected to receive the
compliments of the palace architects, builders,
head gardener, uphosterer, secretaries, mill
tary and civil upper servants, such as chef
baker, cook. usher and the rest. This part of
the function is patriarchal. The assembled do
mestics ines enfants' and their devotion
is taken for granted.
III. Carnot dresses when he gets up on New
Year morning in full dress we say in "even-
ing clothes" have heard that in Cuba they
even bury the dead III evening clothes"
Doubtless each country has right to its habits
and customs, but it is to be questioned whether
the American o'clock rule, Of which we hear
something now and then in Paris, ought always
to be vigorously applied to a foreign climate.
Parisians certainly do pay ceremonial
calls on New Year day in full
to the Paris Herald, inquiring what was the
best advised thing for Americans to do.
fippant answer printed under the title of
go as You Please, whose tendency, if it had
any, was to ridcule civil full dress for gentle
men before O'Clock precisely. 1t was not said
whether man in thes midst of his calls should
turn the coachman round at $50 change and
then start out again; nor what he should do in
case he we're invited out to dinner a. o'clock
on New Year day. In consequence of the s
O'Clock idea cropping mp in various quarters
young men presented themselves by gaslight,
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overcOats on their backs and their pantaloons
turned up.