Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-05

bond. All meet at the Louvre, take lunch
at the cake shop opposite, then go to the
Louvre again and stay all day buying
gloves. In the evening go to the grand
opera, where the whole party goes to sleep
from sheer fatigue.
Fourth day. See about the wash Begin
packing the gloves. Start for Versailles.
Get back in time to take drive through the
Bots de Boulogne. At night the men of the
party go to the Moulin Rouge.
Fifth day. The men go out alone, and
the women go out alone. The latter buy
hats on the Rue Royale. The former go to
the bank for some more money. In the
evening. ride on the top of an omnibus
from the Madeleine to the Bastills and
back
Sixth day. Everybody goes shopping. In
the evening, pack trunks.
Seventh day. Finish shopping. engage
the omnibus to take US to the railway
station. and take nap in the afternoon.
The train for Havre is waiting, and so
goodbye to Paris.
Where Trilby Lived.
OF course there has been a great deal Of
sightseeing by the way. For instance. in
driving to and from the Bon Marche you
see the Latin Quarter. where Trilby used
to live. you know; and in driving to the
Louvre shop you pass the Theater-Francais.
On your way to Fuller's for ice cream
soda you pass the Jockey Club; and in driv-
ing to the hat shops of the Rue Royale
you see the Place de la Concorde. You
also see great many French people prom
enadng the streets, the men very badly
dressed and the women all frzzed and
painted. This Is peculiarly true at night.
What distresses the tourist particularly
Is the second-ciass look of everything in
Paris. All the French women wear bad
hats. none are pretty or graceful. and they
dress in shocking bad taste. All the men
have sensual brutal faces. The poor cab
horses have not enough to eat. and our
hearts bleed for them as we pile four in
cab. the driver making five. There are no
trolley cars In the Bots de Boulogne it is
dusty, and the costumes OF the women on
bicycles are simply laughable. We have
our cab by the hour out there in the Bots,
and our driver takes advantage of lis to
drive so slowly! Why can't he swat the
him trot on.
American lady tourists have two other
special things to make them feel bad. One
is the horrid dressing of their English sis
all French girls faces. Concerning the
former there has been going on dur,fg the
past three weeks a terrible war of let
,ers IN the valuable International paper
This war of letters has reached such pro-
portions as to merit editorials in serious
Paris journals. Though it did not begin
with shirt waists, there has been a great
deal said about these shirt waists in the
letters Now both English and American
girl tourists have been simply wallowing
in the luxury of shirt waists throughout
all Europe during the present summer.
The natives do not like it, but there have
been no police regulations made on the
subject. and the girls have been allowed to
pass unharmed even along the Paris boule-
ward. The Parisians have been content to
get amusement from the spectacle. But
the American tourist girls do not want
the English tourist girls to wear shirt
waists. This is why. English girls do not
have their shirt waists smoothly drawn
down and firmly belted in at the waist.
English girls are also said to be awkward
All kinds of remarks passed in these Paris
Herald communications.
The Criticism is Mutual.
An Engiishnan, who does not seem to
have got tho hang" of the controversy
began to defend his countrywomen by
pitching into the French girls. Then
F'reEchmen wrote. pitching into both En-
glish and American girls. Until terms like
"fat-chested" filthy and disgusting man.
ners," hawking and splitting" "driveling
twaddle." ''unmitigated guys" "unutter-
able cad." painted women" "pert little
faces" bad compilations" Della Fox
haif," "pinched waists" american ready
made Shoes" became the most prominent
features of the great International daily
They even got the Venus OF Milo mixed
up in the controversy. This also has inter-
fered with a great deal of Sightseeing
Meanwhile the Parisians themselves have
their Impressions of tourists, American and
English. What these impressions are like
may be Judged from the two sketches
from the hand of a Paris artist, which
have been able to procure at a very small
expense. Whether they are intended to
represent English or American tourists
must be left for the readers of either ma
tionality to decide. But the intention of
ridiculing someone is certainly in them.
And this is where the point of the mat
ter arises Tourists so through the coun-
tries ridiculng the natives, yet remain
bltssfully ignorant of the fact that the
natives ridiculing them.
STERLING HEILIG