Evening star., 1896-12-19

terror to the street is wonderful. Inside,
all peaceful. decent. reverent and worthy.
| Outside, on the great main street of
| Paris one strikes q real maelstrom of up
roar.ous loudness. filled with colorei lights
loud cries. uninterrupted jostling, banter
! and Irritation. The wide Boulevard is lined
| with little booths that stand along the
| sidewalk. Each has its blazing lights to
| bes- show off its stock of Christmas spe-
| plenty, the very place to hunt up worth
| less Christmas gifts for those we do not
! love. Seduced by all this gayety ard
| brightness that strings down the Boule-
ward two miles and more and makes It
| like a great night feast as bright IS day.
some members Of the pension party always
break away to seek adventure on their
own account. The others hasten home to
| take the dance UP where they left it, feel
| Ing nightly important 10 be able to re-
| prove the stay-at-nomes for sloth and
worldliness. There Will always be sup
Fer about am, supper that forms part
OF great universal after-mlnight feed
throughout all France. 1t is the Reveil-
| Ion,
Down on the Boulevard the strayine
ones encounter restaurant and cafe doors
vide swinging and hospitabla smells Of
| spiced Wine and sweet savory black sau-
sase-Whcse aroma mas been known to
| penetrate e mile. Into the eating houses
they must turn. II is the universal move
Everybody is eating, everybody is drinking
everybody pounding, singing and haIlooing
CHRISTMAS eve in Paris fs 81 loud and joy
| Gus feast.
Christmns Morning.
When Christmas morning dawns there g
tendency to lie abed which is COURAGEOUS
ly combated by the great mass Of our good
Americans. The American society church
Is that OF the Avenue d'Alma-the Ameri-
can Church of the Holy Trinity-presiaed
over by the Rev. DR.. Morgan 1t is Angli-
can or American Episcopalian, as you
| choose. They have an early celebration at
am. The high service, fully choral, with
sermon. takes place at II. And there is a
christmas evensong at pm. The greatest
names OF the colony turn out for the later
morning service. The music is particu-
larly fine. Here you will see the smartest
gowns In Paris. bar none. for our ladies' be
IL said IN their favor, know more about this
subject far than do their Paris sisters. In
| this atmosphere of luxury and supreme
weii-being the unhappy one whose home is
far away again forgetS his pains a while
Some. to keep always moving thus, make
| 1t practice to attend a Christmas matinee
and for this purpose the Opera Comique has
| long been known as the rendezvous. Lone
ly Americans here encounter each other be
Etween the acts on Christmas afternoon A
convulsive grasp of the hand a husky
Merry Christmas" and they part 1t is
| tco trying.
The Dinner.
In the pensions they are engaged with
their great dinner. Their French cooks, by
| long training, manage to compass such
dishes as roast turkey with alleged cram
berry sauce. which they will never sweeten
properly; canned sweet corn, into which
| they never will! put cream and butter;
pumpkin pie. which they make wonderfully
veil; and the plum pudding, which comes
IN tin from England. These Christmas
dinners, which are always in the middle of
the day, arrange the afternoon for ali who
cat them. l. is a solemn afternoon dull
somnelcnt ard headachy, and has it's wind
up In an ignominious sprawl with stertcr-
GUS brea thing and Inconsistencies so
christmes passes. Christmas in &, foreign