Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-20
THE PARIS SUNDAY.
A DAY OF REST OR RECREATION FOR
NEARLY ALL THE PEOPLE.
The Well to Do Stay at Home, but the
Masses Arc Gay and Festive-Especial
ARRANGEMENTS For Their Entertainment
and Pleasure.


Arrangements For Their Entertainments
and Pleasure.
If the day be fine--a bright sun In win |
ter and cool breezes in summer-Paris
presents the most beautiful exterior OF any
capital in the world. There are smooth
paved roadvays, full of cheap cabs, and
neatly laid sidewalks, free from those
treacherous unevennesses, the bane OF the
pedestrian in American cities, and, to
cap all, these Paris streets are perhaps
even little cleaner than the Manhattan
thoroughfares since Colonel Warning took
I'D his good work. Then there are well
trimmed lawns in the many public gar
dens, numerous flower beds blooming in
every season, graceful fountains ever play
ing, innumerable statues and groups of
sculpture by past masters in the plastic
art, comfortable benches scattered along
miles of avenues and scores OF more COM
Portable chairs under the trees Of the
broader streets and squares, countless res
taurants and cafes, with their immaculate
tables invitingly installed on the broad
sidewalks, and, lastly, the famous boule-
vards-tho boulevards, from the Madeleine
to the Montmartre-the like Of which, for
fa,,,d ,,a;tbor i, r,onflon nor in any Amer
;oa,, c;t,, oyerfIowing esneciallv on SIM.
d., ,,,;th Good rotnred crowds of men.
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;nc. All ,ie,ht Tbe came thing is trpa NJ
+he 9ro Military rp,,seums at tho Uotel
das 1nra,idos of the rTrocadoro etbnolog-
600, ard arobitootnra1 collections of Tie
Cri,not exhih;+ion of oriental RELIGIONS Of
80 ,,,.don,, ,,a;,+irc, .nd scrlrtnro OF 40
Inxa,,ho,rr Of Tho Coravalat ,nuce1,n, co
r;ch IN souyorirs Of tho history of P,ris
and trra alec of a half dozen or moro other
,,,r,sa,,,,1s oo,lac+;ons and erbibitions ~
oreatar or loss imnortance IT is on Mon.
d., tha+ ,hoso ruhIic RESORTS ara cIosod
for tho yyoo-lv cleaning and swaenino po,
~, c,,nday. ,yben al the nonnlation 10 fros
and con ,isit them
~, A.,
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anu 'iio o'ioon,-ailu 'lio poo iiouse iio
noe oiiiy upon ul.o CO., "il!uei
anu n,'iiiiiioi, ouo noN1i Ao'''n VI otosihS
1iieir oooiS vi 'io .7"oo,'un' ~ law VI
tnaC uay lhe Z fanoaIs anu .iio ooeoh' anu,
as RUE al INC Taris piayhouses oner
Two performances aloerilooii anu evening,
When the programmes aro llaoe as popular
as posslple anu lhe PRICES ol auihlsslon re-
uuced. In Woru' tiie managers seem TO
vie with one announcer IN an eIoro TO enter
tain the PUBIC, strlklhg instance OF the
democratic spirit "hlch perVaoes the Parls
Sunday.
Furthermore, the best musical concerts
occur on this same day, and it is on Sun
day, too that the military bands perform
in the parks. When the great annual pic
ture exhibitions are in progress, the price
of admission is reduced, as in the case of
the theaters on Sunday, and at the old
salon no charge whatsoever is made in the
morning, when one may see lines of peo-
pie. four or five deep and block long, fl
ing in through the gates in order to feast
their eyes on the best work of the leading
artists of the world.
Now, how do the people of Paris use
these privileges Of French Sunday? In
answering this question we may separate
the population into two grand divisions
The leisure class, that have amused thom-
selves during tho week, generally remain
at home on Sunday, for if they go out
they complain of finding the streets too
crowded, the cabs taken and the theaters
full. Speaking generally it is the masses