The morning call., 1893-03-26
BTRD'S-ETE VIEW OF P4RIS.
uits ye shall know them.

dispu'able fact ought to put this fashionable
lad and nonsense about French cooks out
Of al question.
~ the!E fruits ye shall know them.
Yes. 1 know il is claimed that their inees-
SAINT wars have broken down the French,
but this is folly. Other nations fight also.
The FTenehmen OF Paris are small and
weak and worthless and cOwaTdly because
they don't know how TO cook ct eat. Then,
also, the insepaTabie cigarette may have a
bit 10 do with The muscle, or rather the
want Of solid fiber of the Parisian But
the peppers and spices Of the cook are at
tie bottom Of all that is bad IN Paris. and
tie male portion Of Paris IS almost entirely
bad, weak. QuaUelsome and cowardly.
Paris, or rather PARISH. ike many
another great city, first laid her foundations
en- an island, where Cesar found her and
fought her long aud cruelty, CouQuering her
only afier the women had fought even more
YaIantly than the valiant men. And they
sTe fond Of telling you that these are the
women who cut of their hair for bow
strings during the siege. And we eau we'll
heeys this of the PARISH, for If you turn
back the page of history for your first
heroine. neither princess OF peasant you
fbd her French woman. Look al Joan of
Are. Select tie nUblesu lady you have in
mind. and ten TO one II VIII be Marie An
tOiuette. PICK out the most unseifish girl
that ever chose to die that her country
might live, and you will tell me it IS Char
l0tte COTdaY. You find that the women
n0bleSt, purest, best. They are as good in
every way as the men are bad. and that is
saying they are good indeed.
Paris never had hero OF a statesman.
Outside Of art and science and letters you
search history in vain for great Partisan.
Yes, there was ona great Partisan, but he
was a Corsean; and his greatness was in
tie code Napoleon, not In bis iAcessaut
wars.
Paris is in every way the cleauest and
most artistic city in the world. She is in
the heart of an undulating plain OF basin,
Is built Of limestone, granite and other like
sOft-toued stones, taken largely from the
very ground on which she stands. Every
thiHg was with Paris from the time she
first iefs the size of NOtre Dame and began
&c spread cut on the river banks. But her
great rival across the channel had every
thing against her from The start She stood
in tie mud and in a marsh to her waist for
centuries. She built an embaukment from
Richmond Hill almost to the sea. The
island of England was Impoverished time
and again in laying the foundations OF
London. l once attended the ceremony Of
laying q certain portion of the mighty
Thames embaDkment-One of the greatest
works Of this age-sDd found that they had
gone forty-two feet below tide water into
the Thames mud. to get solid bottom.
London is black, New York is brown,
" ashingtcn City is red, but Paris IS Of a
soft silVeT-gray hue and wonderfully pleas
ant 10 see, either ID storm or sun. and rest
fut 20 the eyes.
over in London an Enslishman on Sun
day eats a chop, goes TO church, goes home.
eats a roast, thea follow tea ana bed, and if
he smiles even once the whole solemn Sum
daY through it is an accident. Here in Paris
only the women 90 to church on Sunday,
and that only IN the morning, as a rule.
Here the streets are at full iide. surgiug
with humanity until midnight, and with
what gayety of dress, music and wine, while
all the Sunday through solemn old London
IS Ike a graveyard, and you see almost
nobody on the streets at all, except those
on their way to or from church. The Lon
dOuer Is religious and Is not ashamed TO
confess that he believes there Is a being
above himself. The Partisan. as a rule,
laughs at the idea Of a God and leaves his
prayers to the women and their priests.
Paris owes much TO her poets and other
sCri bes; they have celebrated their city and
themselves certainly for centuries, so that
Paris is to-day a part OF all the civilized
world through her literature.
There is no man OF woman but turns the
face some TINE in life toward Paris, the
Mecca of the whole earth, and her scribes
simply refuse to believe there is any other
city. But much as she owes to her poets, she
owes much more to her honest, industrious,
devoted and deVout women.
Ask any observing and honest man you
please what to him is the chief charm of
Paris and he will tell you it is the quiet,
sweet, sImple-hearted and sincere women of
Paris. l don't care whether the woman be
and in every class there is that indescrib-
able charm Of sweet sincerity, piety and
truth which the heart Of man demands
before he can rest or feel at home. Having
found this n Paris he fingers long, goes,
and comes again. And So IL was that the
women of Paris built Paris; it is the
women of Paris who will perpetuate her
not her clustering, bullying little men.
AS / explained before. the climate OF
Paris is nothing TO boast Of. II IS little
tort han Of a re-
SO many petty annOYances that have got 10
be endured there that London is better
place in which to pitch tent than Paris, in
general way, for man Of the world.
But ah the Partisan woman! Now please
don't mlsundeTstaud. This Partisan woman
is not pretty. She is not nearly so beauti-
1ul In any way as the American woman;
but there Is that something about her which
rests you. Should l venture TO advise the
American girl on this subject | should saw
let the French language alone, let the
French dresses alone, but get hold of the
frenchwoman's delicate sense of touch,
purity, pietY, serene reserve and equipolse
OF character. aud you can then. with your
superior beauty and culture, spin the world
on your finger tip.
Whenever / see an American girl trying TO
talk French | avoid her. think you will
find most men so DISPOSED in this. / don't
know why IL is so. bat II is only a new man
and one OF little insight who counts French
an accomplishment in woman. He Is too
apt to think her French, what little there is
OF II, Is rather rancid and has been procured
at the cost OF better things And again, n II
good men have deep-seated dislike for the
male milliner and his dresses, and the
American girl who talks dress and tries to
talk poor French when she ought to be try
ing TO pick up little good English, is a
long way below par in the estimation of the
men Of England and the United States.
Ihe most striking thing In Paris after the