Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-03-25

Student Life in Paris is Very Gay
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1t IS on some Of the crowded nights
OF the Bal Butler that the noisy crowd
overfiows the cafe and spreads itself
In little pools and whirling eddes in
the street, says Paris letter. The
staid old Sorbonpe, which fronts the
d'Harcourt. has seen some strange
sights. Surely, If the ghost OF Its foun-
der haunts his marble statue standing
high above the entrance. It is his pur-
gatory to witness such Dissertation of
that classic spot.
Sitting on the outskirts Of the d'Har-
court terrace, one sees Il bunch of
three or four couples break away to
the middle Of the street join hands,
and begin the true and tried Boom
de- aye That Is the signal for a gem
eral uprising and out into the street
they run-twenty or thirty couples
clear up 10 the very steps of the Sor-
buune, and stretching "A line OF linked
hands across tho street, down they tear
again, twenty Tam-o'- Shantred, beard
ed students and twenty French Lottle
Colllnses, with heels IN the air at every
jump, Kicking with an abandon that
would put the twinkling-toed Lottie 10
shame, and aending out a chorus OF
laughter and "boom-de-ayes" that
would make Quaker join In spite of
himself
This is the Latin quarter of nm even
Ing, us 1t looks to the stranger who
views II for a night, and then goes
back 10 his hotel on the other side Of
the Seine.
The girls of the cafe are not mere
creatures of feathers and gay toilets.
Each OF them has her history and her
story. All must be gay who live I'm the
student whirl OF Paris, and one never
knows what lies beneath the smiles.
The cafes are full of them; the stu
dents are their lovers. Where do they
come from2 No one knows. II you
ask them they will tell you anything
but the truth Yet sometimes above
the universal French. out slips little
word or phrase OF WEAKNESS or impa-
tlence-English, German, italian. Span
ish or Roumanian-which tells at least
part Of the story.
Probably most of them had lovers
whom they followed to Paris when
these young men attained the univer-
sity requirements and We're left strand
ed when their lovers departed. Here
and there you see one with a certain
primness about her which reminds you
of shop girl In the staid millinery
quarter Of the Place Vendome The
work was firing, maybe, the hours long
and holidays few. The pay was so
small that It hardly suficed for food
and the trim costume her position OBJ
| llged her to wear. At length came n
student to play the cavalier Then for
the girl, new life begins. They 60
of together for a few picnics up the
river. taking their luncheon In cafe
| In the woods, and In the evening they
| dine together in an open-air Restaurant
or drink at the cafe chnntaut. After a
taste OF this the girl finds the life in
the stuffy worlSroom unbearable, and
the other life easy and pleasant.
| Bear in mind that in Paris, among
| the lower classes. even parents If Il
bring them n few francs weelSly-will
| wink ut this life of their daughters
with students, This being the case, IL
| Is not long before she throws care to
the winds. and goes 70 occupy and pre-
side over the students petit apart
| ment In the Latin quarter. And 1t "a
a jolly life while II lasts.
But thore comes time when the stu
dent tires OF her, or else his atudles are
ended, and he goes back to his home