Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-21
Daily Xeauehtf ya,lr,laI
"pARIS AT LAST"
How It Looked to the Party From
the Trocadero.
The Next Thing was to Crafty the Feminine
Thirst for Shopping.
Paris, Aug. 8, 1897.

"BreatheS there Il woman with soul so
dead
Who never to herself hath said"
paris, my dream, my longed for land!
Even if an order to realize the dream,
and reach that city OF light, she must
cross the ever-dreaded English chan
mel.
When the day of departure was de-.
cided on, we began to take account as
if were. of stock French phrases Up
to that time we had not been troubled
with a doubt, but that our formal
acouaintance with Onendorf, FasQurlle
and Otto-it had never been sufficiently
familiar to be q speaking" one-woult
suffice for all actual needs. However,
we thought it the better part of wis
dom, to try few preliminary questions
and answers in private, SO set aside 60
seconds or so for that purpose; never
did we SO acutely realize as in those
moments, how sentences committed in
youth would cling to ones memory.
"Ayez-vous les sontiers rouge de ma
tante?" we glibly ratified off interroga-
lively. ''Oui jai les soutiers rouge de
votre tante ct lie CHEN noir de votre
oncle," we cheerfully made answer; but
as we repeated such gibberish the
thought darted across our brain, of
what possible practical use is such a
vocabulary as this? The question At
issue is, can we call for vanilla ices.
chocolate almonds, and such sensible
necessities as any American woman in
Paris would desire?
After thinking with all our 'Cheiro'
concentration. We decided with disgust
that we could no, more ask for ice
cream in French than We could in
Choctaw, and that there was nothing
left for us to do but depend upon our
knowledge of pantomime. There are
some subjects to which the feeble
powers of woman cannot do Justice,
and one is the passage between New
Haven and Dieppe by night-boat; 1.-The
channel is all right" declared one man,
1.-THE trouble is with the boat" and in
deed the water was scarcely stirred by
ripple it was so still, but the steamer
instead of carrying her allotted 40
passengers was packed with 470! There
were 81 plush-covered narrow boards.
on which $50 first cabin females We're
to enjoy CD a refreshing nights rest
We never prided ourselves on on
mathematical deXterity, and we Were
surprised at the rapidity with which WI
subtracted 81 from $50 and found thai
exactly 80 remained. We were of tbs
elect few who secured berths, the un-
fortunate SO were stretched in corners
across chairs. sans air, sans sleep, san'
everything; there was nothing left fo'
them to be thankful for but calm
sea. At A. NJ. we huddled togethe
on deck for breath of oxygen, !
miserable looking group of objects. de
claring that one such experience Wouli
last a lifetime The country between
Dieppe and Paris may be charming
our sleepy eyes it looked monotonous
the patchwork cultivation of the FEY
gentle slopes, whose grains SHOVE
varying shades of brown and yellow
was it's most noticeable feature. 500
the Eiffel Tower was outlined agalns
the sky. then Paris! Paris at last!
We cried, and then hurried forth t
meet the modern Circe.
Our first desire was to get geners
view of the city from a height, an
though that blot upon the landscap
the Eiffel Tower, was in our path,
passed it to reach THE TrocaderO
Not only is this building beautiful
itself, with it's odd wings extended ia
on both sides, but from the top a mob
panorama lies before one: not blurre
and hattened as from the Eiffel Towe
but separate structures can be ident
fed. The towers of Notre Dame, II
gilded dome of Napoleon'S tomb, II
Pantheon. all doomed up before us, ar
with at least a faint conception of II
magnitude of the noted city we bega
az hn ohl1rchns While :,
Eustache is the most venerable, IL
Madeleine impressive, with its emit
absence of windows, being lighted on
from above, yet Sainte Chapelle, RICH
ly named the jewel chapel, fair
blinded our eyes with its blaze of brl
liant stained glass. The four sides a
one mass of gorgeous colors; the rob
of the marble saints and apostl
studded with emeralds, rubies and di:
monds. The red and gold of the Gel
ings, the inlad floor all formed a stril
ing contrast-as later, we sat outsit
the open door-with the marble car
lngs of the exterior. The Holy
HOLES to the French people is Not
Dame.' What story, what romano
mas been woven about its walls &.
towers. We looked at the ugly ga
soyies, WHICH Victor Hugo's hunchbas
IAought We're kin. Slowly we walk'
uown the navefolowed by the sacristi
VINO Showed us the sacred reli
Drought from Jerusalem centuries a,
NY Inc good King st. Louis: gold,
'esseis and precious stones of i
es'ii'able value, aside from their ass
"ia'ioh' -Four days in Paris, and n
even glimpse inside it's fascinatir
Nhops, is record of which few wOmt
o'h ooast; it may be we'll to expla
'hat inns self-denial was more con
;puisory than voluntary. When tours
"ie conducted" it is "go now to tn
- 'nat' or lose it. This like mo
things in this world has it's advantag
anu disadvantages about equally 4
.,ueu. 1t is for the individual to deci'
Inc comfort of having no care
tickets. or hotels, no distress of mir
ooncerhlng luggage, to leave the "lif
ana ind box and bundle already
one room offsets having everythiI
Planned to a moment, no lingering
pet places, and being eyed. as a mer
per Oh one of those denominations