The morning times., 1895-12-22
One Day Among
The Paris Shops
WHAT AN AMERICAN GIRL
LEARNED ON THE TOUR
French Women Hold Winter at
Bayreuth-Bright
ColOrs.

Paris, Dec. 14.-I am prouder to be
shopping upon the Rue de la Paix, Paris
than upon Fifth avenue, New York, though
than New YOrk's very fashionable one.
| The bargain counter is not unknown here,
nor does the woman with a basket upon her
arm shun this street of shops. Yet Ior
! all that II were to be drawn in picture
| as a shopper should prefer la Rue de la
Paix.
Upon this street-which is where Partisan
women shop there is a perfectly indescriba-
bic air of what the French call chic, and for
which we have no corresponding word eX-
cept taste" Things here are SO ada pta-
Bile to your wants-so ''just the thing
That shopper once haying shopped here
thinks ever after regretfully of it. For
Christmas buying it is superb.
BUYING IN PARIS.
All Partisan women are out shopping this
month. They shop more deliberately than
the English or the American. They talk
more, they drive closer bargains, they
chatter. chaff, discuss, compare a nj end by
walking into the next shop and purchasing
"a shop that gives away little one-franc
calendars with every fiye-franc purchase
and warrants them fine enough for a
Christmas remembrance. You buy of me,
madame, and give you half a dozen more
Christmas presents than you intended to
buy" the shopnan tells you confidentially.
And he does II, If not by actual gift, by
making you purchase more than you wanted.
When impartial pictures are taken-in.
the coming age when pictures viii be
liked for their fidelity TO life and origina
beauty-then pictures of la Rue de La
Paix will be taken at holiday time with
Of the shops. Such pretty creatures one
never saw. They are precisely ike
fashion plates, yet living and moving as
though some modiste wer" giving an ami
mated opening OF her winter stock.
One such a lovely shopper brushed past
me that l swung around TO look at her.
She, vain thing, knew 1t, for she stood
upon the corner an extra minute TO give
me n long. uninterrupted gaze. Her skirt |
was a very full. sweeping one of bright |
bengaline. This strange |
was cut into squares around the |
foot and slashed 10 show n underskirt of |
heliotrope. Copper and heliotrope, by |
the way, make a combination which Pa
risian wome particularly love. and which |
they resurrect year after year, sending |
IL out into the world as a new fashion.
Il is universally becoming. but so daring
hat few readily adopt it They must
AXE il on probation first.
The jacket waist OF this copper skirt
vas heliOtrope, with copper touches in it,
n the buttons, in the straps OF the jacket,
n the lining. and up above in the hat. A
white ermine collareite with dashes of
he ermine's spots, made the finishing
ouch for the neck. The wearer was
lark. and the white ermine under her
hin made her look like a blackbird nest
ing in cotton bush. But / thought her
cry chic as n woman.
DON'T LIKE WINTER
Taking a days trip over 10 London the
ther day, as so many who arc / n Paris do, |
nst as Londoners cross the Channel for a
ay in Paris, j was struck with the way
adopt winter. They ac-
ept IL as The trees accept their white coat
snow, and cling to IL until II can no