Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-23

thetic to the average American Protestant.
A Clerical Anectote.
BY the way. certain distinction might
be made among the American churches
themselves III regard to their respective
Professionalism. The word is not used at
the rather high" church of Dr. Morgan
Hereby hangs a tale, in connection with
the chapel of the Rev. George Washing
ton. The latter is English clergyman,
who built, at Queen Nictoria's peEultimate
jubilee in 1887 with the help of Sir Rich
ard Wallace, an intensely ritualist chapel.
His name ought to attract Americans ir-
elined to ecciesiasticism. His church has
even finer ceremonies with cloth of gold
and chant and incense and professions
than NOtre Dame itself. And this makes
the story.
An English lady, strong-minded resoute,
mt oh travelled and none too favorably in
clined to our countrymen and women. was
recognized coming of the American
church.
Amer;cans?"
Eyes, 1 have come to that here in Paris.
Down at the English embassy chapel they
are a deal too Protestant for ma; and I'D at
the Victoria Jubilee CHAPEL they have so
many new ceremonies that I never know
what they are at, So l come here where 7
find myself more at home
The lady added, to increase the weight of
her apology, You know that DIR. Morgan
always prays for the queen as we'll as for
the President"
The Church Parade.
Without making too odorous comparisons,
L have also been struck with the differ
ences in the church parade when service Is;
over. This requires that one hould attend
the outside of the various churches At the
Roman Catholic parish churches with
Whlch the select chapel of the Avenue
Heche does not COUNT you see the usual
miscellaneous crowd of all sorts and coudi-
lions OF men-great ladies followed by SER
wants, bare-headed working women. a
count with bis whiskers duly friLzled, and a
sGung man. who is very good to go TO
church al al, even if he economies time
by wearing his bicyclist's suit
but at the American churches every
lHlng Is strictly proper, with a due sense of
the clothing becoming the day. On a sam
pie Sunday, at the Evangelical church
there was not a single private turnout but
only the ordinary row of cabs for hire. At
the Holy Trinity there was one opea Ian
dau, with coachman and footman in liv-
cry, d closed landau ditto a coupe with
fiunkeys likewise, and five handsome pri-
vate victorias, most of which dispensed
with the footman. Two French "cabbies," =
despdiring of fare, managed 10 enliven
the Sunday with fight of tongue and
whip-ends from their boxes, which a horri-
fled policeman nastened TO stop.
Like Our EASTER Parade
At both places there We're young men
! in sacks and tan shoes, which is dubious
church costume; others in frock and derby.
which an Englishman would suffer MARTYR
dom rather than combine; and numbers of
elderly men as spotlessiy tall-hatted, long
coated, new-trousered. and shining shoed
as any Well-conducted church in the two
hemlspheres could desire. Perhaps the
New York stamp-onc finds over here that
r. l.
church men of DIR. Morgan. In some cases
| | noticed that it had been improved by a
| French cut of beard pointing of mus
tachCs.
gowns, which means that there was a
I leaning to religious sobriety. All-that is,
the Sowns-Were Feat, many pretty, sore
stunning. A few were FrenchifieG into
wasp waists. accompanied by that pilng
up of The hair which Parisiennes accom-
| plish easily. but which would come tum-
| bling down in America unless it were false
TO the younger ladies at the Evangelical
church spoke young men in costumes that
are supposed to represent art from the
Latin Quarter This is their rendezvous
on this side of the river, their attempts at
Bohemianism being apparently discour-
gregatiOn.
In the Latin Quarter.
1t should be added that Dr. Morgan has
'oh'i tut di tlstlC Dull Dy the nOfIS, ana
keeps a chapel going in the students
midst. 1t holds 300; the American stu
dents boast they are 1000 divide by four.
Here, too, an evangelical has gone one
better During the student season he hires
for Sunday an immense studio, where af-
ter due prayer and praise. lemonade and
cakes are served to those hungry and
thirsty after Righteousness. Also, young
American men may make acquaintance
ard converse with young American We
men, respectable and of their own kind
which is holy work in Paris,
Children, 1t is clear, do. not make I'D a
great factor in a grown-np peoples So
ciety like the American colony in Paris.
The Church of the Holy Trinity manages
TO Keep together a very creditable boys
choir, which wears white robes duly when
on duty i'll the church. Outside they are
marked by uniform consisting of Elton
jacket and oxford cap-all of which things
show that England is our mother country
when we cross the ocean. The boys are
paid enough to make it well worth thei,
! own and their parents while that they
should sing. They sing well and march In
procession with propriety.
There are also American boys in the
choir of the Rev. George Washington $
church; they are paid less, but then they
march great deal more and smell in
cense, and are clothed in many colors-anG
| never tell lie. Neither does anybody else
in Paris. except those profane tourists who
pretend TO have seen the town without
ever setting foot in one of the American
churches. STERLING HELLO.