Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-20

TO know what has passed in the interval.
Showing Her the Town.
The situation is found. The Little Mus
tarder will show her round the town.
the sights!'' mo use to be disturbedr' re-
plies the Little Mustarder. I'm bring them
all up here!'
He waves his check book Bed and other
paraphernalia disappear, the room grows
larger. and in come three aliegorical dam
sells In tights, piping on the air of La
Rosiere chez NOUS song Of Centenaries.
If you please, madame, 1 am the Centen-
airy of the Municipal Intelligence Office" II
am the Centenary of the Captive Balloon"
Il am the Centenary of the Reconstruction
of the Opera-Comique!" "a joke-as much
as to say il will not soon be rebuilt) 1t is
a great time for centennials now in France.
Some-as may be imagined-they pass over
silently. But there is one," says the Par
islcnne, which l must see-the Centenary
of the Polytechnic SCHOOL,"
He marches out, in Directory costume.
And what song, Pathetic to the point of
numbering. Only moment before it was
the Little Mustarder. joking the Captive
Balloon about her being well preserved.
And the little balloonsi Do they still
balloon?" "Oh. yes, sir; they balloon al
ways, they swell Ike little breakfast rolls
in the oven" And now--tear5, manly tears,
an audience hoarse with holy ardor. Car
not, the integre ct noble CitiZen-he gave
his country all his heart, and then his life!"
And no one will begrudge the words of
praise for the great school itself-the
school which had its hundredth year so
royalty celebrated in the summer past. For
out of It has always come devoted men
like Carnot as the song says. "modestly
struggling, working, with uncomfortable
hope"
The Civil Baptism.
The tailest and gawkiect youth in all
Paris Duchatel, and he stands feet Z
inches comes on costurned like seven
yei.r-old bad boy-bare legs, high-water
knee pants, Byron collar and the rest.
What an extraordinary child.''
Want a nice candy, mister?' want a
nice candy. madame?" He has a box of
special candies-dragees-wh are pre-
baptism The babies cannot eat them, but
the parents distribute them among the
guests. This kid distributes his own.
Have a nice drageeT' The Parisienne
just come from my baptism-my civil bap-
tism. For I've been baptized civiily! Oh,
1t was a farce"' And then comes up the
whole questionable municipal council Of
Saint-DeniS and the Cempuis Orphan Asy-
lum and a dozen kindred socialistic topics.
Civil baptism has been invented by the
extreme socialist-radicals to draw still
fan Their away from religion the common
people. who are still accustomed TO have
their children baptized. 1t consists in the
giving of the name with handing round
of wine and sweets and vague speeches on
liberty, equality. fraternity. The long
haired deputy poet, Clovis Hughes, has
presided at several Of these ceremonies.
on, 1t was great my civil baptism!
I'd like to be ctvilly baptized every dayr'
The stage is clear again. There is an act
to ventilate public grievance against the
omnibus companies. The stage becomes a
transfer bureau'-the waiting room,
or correspondence wait for their street
cars or omnibuses. The rule is your ex-
change ticket is good SO long as you don't
quit the bureau" So a lady makes an APP
mi To bar
me number Where for?" asks the
transfer agent. mo matter where-any-
where"' place Pigalle?'' "All right" rs
ii all the same to you?" eyes, it's all the
same to me pour moi c'est egaD." The
agent shrugs. For me it's even more all
the same? tbien plus egaD.
The lover comes. "Gustavei "Marie"
My angel.' MY little cabbage" Here
We can defy the world. 1 suppose / have
the right to wait for an omnibusr'
The compere and the commere are alone
drop curtain painted to represent brick
wall descends and cuts them off from the
rest of the stage. But we are walled upr'
Furious applause. A few weeks ago the
proprietor OF an apartment house in the
Rue des Martyrs walled up a doorway
which was the sole entrance-and exit-for
| three tenants CT an adjoining house. 1t
was his right. He walled them in and kept
them there three days. A crowd of thou
sands stood around the cOrrer always
The police came to the rescue The NUM-
cipal council interfered. For the chroniaue
Parisienne il was a greater actually
than the war of China and Japan. So
here. But we'll die here!' Despair
Silence.
George, I'm hungry"
Il have an idea-a great idea! Like the
shipwrecked mariner L will cast a letter
on the Waves!' He tears a check from his
book and throws il into the orchestra
Immediately the leader hands up a glass
| of branded cherries.
But who walled US up?"
n man IN the audience rises nf,riIpfIv
! Il did" James, sit down." exclaims his
wife in great alarm. Il am the proprietor
| of that house" he goes on, ''and / am also
member of the league against the license
Of commeres Jules Simon's league against
the lice1se of the streets). I'm a mem
Der of the league, and such dissraceful
exhibitions as your dressing of yourself
before the audience, as you did this even
ing. will not tolerate. Under
stand you propose to come out In a bathing
dress in the second act madameI Well
you shan't. I've walled you up,''
But, monsieur. you have walled me up
on the wrong side. You have walled me up
behind"
That's the fault Of the machinist"
I'm complain of YOU
ITO whom?
ITO the municipal council
"Bahr'
A man in the balcony. a man with a big
black beard: Sir, do you say bah to the
municipal council, Of which 1 am men,
ber?'
IncipIent row. Surprise. ooh. is that you.
james," And you, Alfred?" How are
the children My children are all right"
But, say. James can't We arrange this
little affair: / like that lady on the stage"
Well Say, James. remove the wall and
I'll get you the Academic Palms for you
and tobacco agency for your wifer'
The wall goes UP to disclose what is one
OF the prettiest features of the Review.
Madame de Kerville In the song of 1880
The modified styles of 1890. for men well
as women, the feared or hoped-for swing
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