The morning call., 1893-10-22
SHE GIVES NO OFFENSE.
And Really Paris Has Surprised
Her Critics.
BUT HOW RUSSIANS CAN DRINK.
That Seems to Have Been the Ap-
paIling Fact in All the Wild
Demonstration.


cables the Times from London: II these
| Russian war vessels, after they sail out of
! T0ulon harbor. ever arrive anywhere else
it clearly will be due to the interp0sitlon
Of 'that sweet little cherub who sits up
aloft." There are numerous respects in
| which what is going on in Paris beats out
OF sight all contemporary records. butwhat
specially staggerS the human Elind are the
reports and estimates of the amount of
| drink consumed during the week by the
| Russian visitors. The temperate Parlsians
view the alcoholic achievements Of their
guests as something frankly supernatural.
| Whole relays of official Frenchmen have
been used up and put to bed. but the
tall, ruddy, smiling Muscovites still
walk steadily and consume everything set
before them, and they pursue their her
culean programme with unflagging zest,
kissing all the women, embracing the
nearest men, shouting "Vive la France"
and sweetly finding room in their over
laden arms for yet more presents.
1t seems from the incidents of this visit
that Alaric made mistake. He should
have visited Rome as national guest.
He would have got quite as much spoil
and had an infinitely DleasaDter time,
meanwhile leaving the Romans with a
headache next morning which they would
gladly have traded for the sack of a Gothic
town. Merclfully, there has been found
an occasion for brief respite, and the
French have got to-day and tomorrow to
try to sleep it Off.
MacMahon's death falling in this most
striking week of modern French history
dc q cy,la
ideally perfect in effect The fact that the
French themselves did not appreciate its
possibilities shows how overwrought and
hysterically tired they already were.
They had actually decided to give
their ex-President no public funeral at
all for fear that the Russians might un-
pleasantly remember that, among other
fine things, he was The hero of the Mala-
koff tower. II is said that the Gar him.
self recalled tfem to their senses. In any
case the original decision was hastily re-
| voked and Tomorrow MacMahon will be
| borne to the Invalides and laid under the
gilded dome close to the great Corsican
with pageant such as Paris:probably has
not seen before since young De Joinville
brought to the left bank of the
Seine that precious freight from st. He
lena. The whole body of the Russian off,
GERS will be chief mOurners in the cOrtege,
and thus through an unforeseen event
weld even the Crimean memories into a
newly forged chain of the sentimental
alliance. This, without doubt. enormously
enhances the spectacular value of the en-
tire episode, but l fancy the Parisians
| prize even more the chance it affords them
of getting to bed early tonight.
| Chr5Diclers on the spot who have had
time to study something besides the
crowded ceremonial and routine give
strange glimpses of the tremendous social
upheaval involved. Robert Sherard draws
picture of 1000 partially dressed women
| dancing en- masse through the flaring
streets of Toulon. past tableaux vivants in
windows wholly Pompeiian in freedom
and vast surrounding throngs taking nosy
and vehement part in what he describes
as sa:urnaia perhaps SURPRISING in wild
,erotIcism and unbridled license anything
| seen on the shores of the Mediterra-
mean since Nero's Neapolitan revels.
With Gaul meeting Slav in in
ternational carouse, this element is
not likely to lurk in the background. and
The general rejoicing at Paris all this week
has been furnishing sights which the
newspapers only dimly hint at, but which
will provide topics for European dining
rooms after the ladies have Withdrawn
during these next thirty years. There has
been nothing like it since Napoleon led the
Grande Armes through Poland in 1872
In every phase this enormous popular
| demon stration so defies parallel that the
men sent to depict it for the press begin
every day BY saying that it is past all de-
scripton. The most they can do is to pick
out stray noteworthy bits here and there
| from the colossal whirling mass of deliri-
Gus excitement. tumult and patriotic
frenzy. II is recorded by one that the
| first thing the Russian officers and
sailors did after landing at Toulon, when a
moment Of leisure came, was to make their
way to bookshop where Swiss trader
had shrewdly laid in lot of political and
| sociological pamphlets on Russian affairs
tabooed in Russia and buy out the W hole
stock. Another notes the habit of the
| Russian sailors of temper arily exchanging
| cars with boon companions they particu.
| larly like, with chronological results which
will keep the memories of the Russian visit
alive for long time in some sections of
| the French navy.
| These visiting tars. who are largely
Firms, cannot pronounce "Fr," and so
shout "Vive la Fence" which furnishes
an unconsciously ironical reflection on
what Goblet's advanced radical Petite Re-
publique keeps daily pointing out. ma mely,
| that the Czar is really committing himself
| to nothing, and that until something
is actually put OH paper France
is making gratuitous fool of herself.
But this alone and not irreproachable
voice crying feebly against the world
shaking thunder joyful cheers is not
worth taking into account, nor have any
of the other elements suspected of desire
| for discord been able 10 make the mselyes
heard. One man, who tried to raise cry
of sBas Aliemane" was chased and
soundly beaten by the crowd.
| To be candid. Paris has wholly dis
armed her predisposed critics all over
Europe. Everywhere these were prepared
to find in her welcome to the Russian
| officers gage of militant challenge thrown
down to the triple alliance. Nothing OF the