The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01

This Senson Paris Is as Hot and Tn.
comfortable New York.

Edgar Fawcett, i'll Golfers Weekly.
rs this hot enough for you? said fel-
low countryman to me yesterday morning
on the Champs Elysees. l was so annoyed
by the familiar New York form of address
that I narrowly escaped tn the inclvlllty OF OF
to burst out laughing instead; and tod the
gentleman that we New Workers ought 10
regard it all as climatic outrage ana
sWindle Here we both were, having paid
the new abominable steamer rates, and for
what? To find the end OF June IN Europe
swelteringly hot as the middle of July IN
America. And when Paris is swelterlngly
hot she is so infested with nasty doors!
Nearly every private building tnas you pas, pass
has its particular culinary puff With
her mode of tenement-house living for 1t
is really nothing else, however rehned or
the opposite) she may be described as
vast CITY of kitchens. And then the myriad
restaurants and hotels add their share to
the great odoriferous ensemble. Besides,
when Paris broils outwardly no less than
inwardy, her populace makes her narrower
sidewalks almost impossible. 1t is all very
well on the grand bouleyards; great , thr run
can gather there, with always enough space
beyond them for the passer to pursue ms
course. But in side streets this a Ia pelle
etoile system simply pushes pedestrians out
among the merciless cabs.
And when it comes to q question OF
weather / wonder, sometimes, II our
fle exaggerated. 1 feel confident that me
adorable Partisan spring Is. Some or Inc
loveliest days of my life have known IN
New York in August, or even July: some
of the hottest and most odious l nave
known in London during those same
months. The reputed weather IN certain
places is like the fame of certain men az
particular periods of history; you marVel
how such celebrity has been acquired:
Take. for example, our renowned ,nra ie e
autumns; 1 remember. some that were e4'
ecrable for weeks. Climate, Ior ttdt Ltod-
ter is always reveling in the uheNPeGeeut'
In Naples and Rome, the winter pelo IS Iasu,
7 found myself more than once rapturous
over the heavenly weather. bul NJ, no" go
then person who knew gIeaII ,s GeI1 erson
usually who had come and gone since - -
when Plus TX drove in splendor oo"n lne
Corso) would shake his mead ana assure
ne that I was in luck, and that the skies
above either VesuviuS or 81 refer were
not always either so bland or so pIue' re
Gently / heard of a young french attlsI
who resolved TO hibernate in the most TO-
mantle of manners. He chose capri tndl
sseIrnmer isle of Eden" To ms acute uls-
90 torn succeeded storm there through
ont the entire season; and TINS on ldeai
CaDrit My aforementioned Gaul, VINO salo
that il is the unexpected whlch always nap
pens, should have added; Ano esPeci tdiy
in a meteorologic sense. some one lolu
me- not long since that there was ohly oiIo
place in all Europe where you Woulu oe
sure of perfect winter weather, name!y.
Palermo. But l am tempted 10 douDt ms
declaration, for Sicily is GOOD deaf iurther
north than Egypt, and there 1t VIII pour,
not seldom for a whole January, FeDrudry
or March The Suez canal mas wrought TINS
astonishing change, ii is alleged, ana ram
less Egypt no longer deserves the name.
The whole truth now and then strlhes Ilo
as this: Go TO any place anticipating we
kind of weather for which IL mas soiiu,
ancient reputation, and you will meet IN
most cases with utter disappointnIeht.
The weather exults in the unusual II -
the most insecure and untrustworthy OF an
agencies Its promises 10 pay are writ 700
often on sheets of rain, and It's emPioyes
are those whimsical and tnconstant fello"s,
the four winds. only yesterday we were
regretting the frequency of cyclones on our
Western plains. There have been TWO OF
three in western Europe OF tate, anu
siaughterous affairs they were at tndt.
scarcely a week ago / was myself on me
outskirts of one of them. l had gone 10 q
religious ceremonial at the church OF -u.e
Sacred Heart on the summit OF MONT
martre. 1t was terribly exposed SITUATION,
though the view OF Paris from its preeitn,cess
Is finer because more natural, tlai tpal
from the Eiffel Tower. Suddenly nan Cldt-
tered thunder roGred. and mighty gusts OK
wind tore past the church portals A ,l',,.
ward when l learned that elseWhelSS,
though quite near by, three hundred peoplo
we're injured severely and a score or SO
killed outright, / could not help lhlakthS
that il was very much like our own ran
sas and Omaha. after all, ana that Wanoer
whithersoever one may on the surface OF
this terrestrial globe, climate Is pretty apt
TO "have 1t cut" with US, sooner or later,
ia enc way or another.