Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-13

Is worn-out novelty in every European
city. appears. new-christened for the first
time now in Paris, highly fin-de-siecle
pleasure straight from out the gay French
genius. Partisan paint has glorifed the old
toboggan trestle-work; and the Partisan
glamor has beautified the joy of being
dumped into pond. The Russian noun
ta.ns in boat is what they call the latest
cry in Paris.
Long stretches of lights along the river
10 the south; long stretches of lights along
the avenue of the Champs Elysees to the
north: garden where the foliage of the
trees is thick enough to keep the rain from
coming through; garden lit up in the
night time with Thousand lanterns of
PINK and white placed in the branches; a
nttle concert stage and dancing on a public
floor; innumerable demoiselles in grand
toilet to look upon and flirt with; iced
drinks and conversation underneath the
trees-that is the Jardin de Paris
Inc dance floor is a round pavilion in the
center or the garden. Its inner circle is an
elevated band stand, where an orchestra of
sixty pieces has Mabille for leader son of
nun who made the ancient Jardin de Ma
bilie-long disappeared. Upon the dance
hoor there is still seen nightly that So
called FIN de steele dance that had the
climax of its vogue in 1889 and still at
tracts the tourist eager to identify the can
can which his father or his uncle saw in
the late sixties. This dance, which is a
sprightly quadrille, with some features of
the chahut which succeeded to the can
c<Aii, hoS It's Heills, WHICH cannot be known
by those who only saw the vulgar gym
nastics OF Nini-patte-en-lair and her low
troupe. and on theater stage. All the
willfulness and all the coquetry and half
the grace and humor of the Jardin de Paris
dance is bound up in the whiriing petticoat.
apart from stupid kicking, the distressing
split and Similar exploits such as the
carry arms" and 1.-The guitar"
The little concert stage, around which In
the open air the people sit throughout the
early evening, listening to those French
songs which Yvette Guilbert will soon fetch
to America, has rung its curtain down. Its
pretty ballet-pantomme with which its
seance closed has been applauded heartily.
The merry crowd divides, half centering
round the dance floor and half hurrying to
the Russian mountains in boat. Whoop!
the boat darts down the long toboggan
slide. Wang! and it strikes the water O.
o-o-h-h-hi thousand females gasp, and
strong men shudder. Everybody prays, A
second afterward the lake is tranquil once
again. Et yous debarquez Cythere sans
avoir recu une goutte deau. LIE Vatican
nest pas a vapeur. mails IL est insub-
mersible!' The Paris papers have sug-
gested that the novelty is not vet perfect.
There ought to be fish in the lake for those
who cultivate the gentle art There ought
to be a sanitary service and a quaran tine
and grave officer to ask: How many
sick travellers had you on the voyage ?''
Some say there ought to be shipwrecks,
and others think there ought to be bath
houses and Partisan bathing SUITS From
bridgeport on to Paris Is long cry, but
the inventor of that city may be proud of
what he has accomplished.
STERLING HELLO.