Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-04

| fs"d for a moment he saw. curiously peer
| ing over his shoulder, Il face horribly eaten
| with lupus. something very nasty. very.
| Sun. the woman. old and ugly. has 10
| thrive. Few look at her without an AIMS.
The artist did So also. fastening also. for
it not jolie.
| Ellie est joliment- laidr' said he and
| laid means "ugly."
| Hawkers of every kind, except the pro-
! fame sellers of boulevard transparent
/ cards'-true frauds these latter-pass and
itpaSS They thrust into your unwilling
| hand picture of the big bell called la
| Savoyarde.'' from the province which pre-
scented IL to Ibis national church. dcdi-
| Gated by the pennies CT the common people
| as n monument of eXpiation'' by France
| penitent. 1t is this big bell that booms
/ severely over the great city down below, to
| the discomfort of the socialists, the radi-
| Gals and the municipal council, in whose
| bosom rests more than bloody COM
| mun:st of other days, returned from exile
and in power Ggan.
They not jolis, some OF these red
| aldermen
| History of the Church.
This church was begun just after the
fatal war and worse commune of 1871 and
| in the reaction from those times of iawless
blood-letting, even the parliament made
! an appropriation of money to this edifice
which IS the condemnation of .rrelgion and
immoral France When the radicals
again came into power they vainly tried
u nave tte privileges Of the place With
drawn. but 1t was too late. Paul Eert, who
insisted when he was minister of public in
struction that the very name of God shoul1
De kept out of every book used in the
| building should be made into museum
of human physiology" CD. It would have
been III keeping with the great event which
had its start the Montmartre plateau
Here. after the German troops had eyacu-
ated Paris. the populace gathered the cam
non and arms which they found where they
We're not lost; and here, after day and
| night of indescrbable orgies they pro-
| { aimed the commune, while men, women
and children sailed down the hill to shoot
the French general and his comrades COM
| ing to parley with them. Before the COM
| I:une was over. all had their fill of blood
| that of priests and bishops with the rest
ana then the national army. under General
De Galliffet, in turn shot down the mis-
guided people by thousands.
AT once the religious people of all France
joined hands and purses in the erection of
| the basilica of The National Vow" conse-
! Grated TO The Sacred Heart of Christ
| From every city, town and country hamlet
| the offerings began. continued and do still
continue TO pour in One Of the remark
| awe features OF the contribution is that of
| supplying separate stones for the gigantic,
structure IN the names of separate indi-
| Viduais- W ak through the cool shade of
me MASSIVE arches and gaze at the walls
| han OF the stones, it would seem are
! marked with initials sentences names and
| dates. Here is the offering of mother
| 10 the intention of wandering son.
| Here the little girls of a small country.
| parish dubbed together to buv a his, stone
| an by themselves. Again a soldier out in
| AFRICA has recorded on his slab some graft
'ude Tor an escape from heather spears.
| How the Interior Looks.
we enter the church and find ourselves
i'''e ior the service which is going on. But
in place like this service of anv kind
cannot occupy but small part of the great
| space Under the broad arch OF the nave
| several thousand worshipers are seated or
kneelins in an Enclosure in front of a bril-
| uc of the Savior
| Psalms and penitential singing are going
| on, because a poor fool that very p,orn;n6
| had rushed onto the altar during the mas
and snatched chalice from the Officiating
| PRIEST hands, breaking it on the ground
mere are peasant women from distant
| provinces; at least the white lace of their
! caps Is arranged in fantas tic shapes which
nave nothing Partisan about them Men
win hard hands, telling of toll in far-off
| country helds, kneel gingerly. There are
| families of well-to-do people even voune
Eieh with fire clothes and educate faces.
put II Is not the education of Paris. An
| aged lady in black kneels by n e-reat s,o,
| pillar When she moves AWAY her nlan =;
| TAKEN by young matron. Next comes a
peasant woman again. and then five INNS
! losetner, sunburnt with their travel Who
WIZ nave seen in all Paris, on their return .
| Ciodi' VI me "rdth OF
| Teaching brothers, with souar. w,.;.,
c'aVats at their throat, swarm hera like
;" many wild black beetles Hare and
! mere priest is seen. Altogether. one
hhsht think himself away from Paris. its
IT en- Of the world ard its women with re-
| markable compilations and blonde hairt
Into the World Again.
! AS we came out of the church. whore
preacher was beginning sermon in Il cor
| ner, We passed the same PRAYING grouns
| Their devotion had no interruption from,
| the sermon.
Out In the free air by the gate there sits
blind man, with conspicuous label on
! bis stor'ach telling when and how he met
| with his misfortune. He is rugged up in
a religious fashion. and sits resignedly i'm
| the shade. bare-headed, with a cloak
! across his knees, taking it easy We walk
| ed down the narrow winding street leading
DOWN the hill: and as we walked we heard
| him calling after us, to say the artist had
| dropped some of his material for sielc ming
| Thanks. good blind manr-with a ten
/ cent piece thrown in his hat
| Thanks. foreigner!
| We walked down the narrow winding
| street leading down the hill through the
| ancient village of Montmartre. now like so
| many others. but part of Paris. The
! pilgrimage part of the neghborhood has
! absorbed everything. One house bears in
| bold letters the sign. House of Nazareth
| breakfasts and Dinners" Its neighbor
| ID C<-iis <Aheiohy OF f1uua-tafe au lait
and Chocolate for Pilgrimsr' And there is
| shop in which they even sell chocolate
Manufactured by the Trappist Fathers
| There Is Saint Anthony's Bread"-which
| ought TO be good for tourists in Paris
| and just beyond the "Jeweiry OF Saint
Eloi. Saint Joseph's name is everywhere
| over table dhotes. Along the way are
| numerous booths where great strings of
| blessed beads. yellow violet and black, are
! sold: the artist bought a string ITO deco
| rate his studio" along with other bits of
| local color-which is usually black
| Yes. black; the local color is a trifie SOM
| her. But below Is Paris-Paris as the tour
| list knows it-Paris for the tourist-.made
| expressly" STERLING HELLO
/ nj If feb, arA an