The sun., 1897-09-26
THE BOHEMIAN INVASION.
HARD TIMES ARE COVE AND Bo-
HEMIl Is PBOsPRROUs.

HEMIA rs PBOSPRRoUs.
The lnnuanco or Szsntusrtre Feh Tn All Cir-
eies-oia Predadloee Melting Awey-sooiety
ReeominE Doni-SHontuasrtre AFTER banas
Fror hs Figaro
Ono of the most singular things in tho world
IL the facility with which an erroneous tudg-
mcnt is formed and a verdict rendered against
tho weight Of tho clcarest evidence. To-mor-
row at tho Comedie FRANCHISE wo are to have
n reproduction OF La Vic de Boheno, ale
though everybody says that Bohemianism no
longer exists that nothing can bo more ante
diuvian and dead. But looking at things as
they aro Just now, can we say that Bohemia is
really us unknown and forgotten as 1t is sup
posed to bel Has the thing actually gone out
Of existence and passed into ancient history
A great deal has been said about q certain
Montmartre and about tho queer lives that peo-
pie led there Well, Montmartre still has its
cafes its pocts its women. Its arts, its man.
ners, its customs, It's artists, and Its saloons,
all of which appear to resemble tho customs,
the art, the poets, and tho women OF old
Bohemia. Take a walk through Montmartro
snd you will SEQ the long hair Of the esthete,
the shoes OF the song writer, and tho bangs OF
| the qudrt-de-muse, that certainly do not
| evoke the gloomy studies Of notaries or the
| apartments of young ladies reared In all the
eS~AN>e'
| of the houses, go into the furnished apart
ments, tho boarding establishments, and the
creamerios Of Montmartre, and, depend upon
| 1t, you will be sure to see many couples vo"y
! gay indeed, living upon art and love. music and
| cigarettes. Continue your investigation, and
you will find upon the Butte many souls de-
voted to all sorts OF poetry, to every philosophy
| and to every change.
Was there ever u more perfect Bohemia than
1 GnI,. d.
handsome living there, and many others, too,
| did not lose their time in that same place
| The Chat-Noir is closed, but Sails was an
ancestor, a bohemian bound to go down to
| posterity, and his Bohemian posterity at
| present peoples the old locality where multi
| tudes OF poets, painters ana song writer's of both
sexes frequent the innumerablc haunts OF noe
turnal Bohemia. But it is not now as 1t was
| in tho days of Mnrger. 1t is not the bohemian
alone who goes there, but his family Also
There we can SEQ his proud old father, his de-
ter, who mods her poor little head until at last
she falls fast asleep amid tho clouds Of smoke
| from pipes and the racket OF beer giasscs
while at the piano solemn voices mark gloomy
and sometimes admirable rhythms, as in tho
dreadful refrain. Feet Foremost
| Tu ten iras les pieds devant,
| Rot guerrier Juge aristocrate,
| Batr Ia maison de soerate.
Pleine d aniis dorenavantl
tn ten iras les pieds devant.
| Du hesse aux utres authentiqueS
orphenno navrsnts cantques.
Sous la neise. en- la terre sriss.
| Vous AurpE meme abrt du vent,
Console.toi. MI" soumi'e:
| Tu ten iras les peds devant!
Turen iras les pieds dcvant
| Grave docteur aui me diSse4ues.
| pr6tre qui chantes mes obsequcs
Bourgeois. prince des hypothaquea
| Richie ou pauvre, ignorant. savantl
Nous aurons tous six rieds de terre;
vers la justice 6salLtaire.
| Tu ten iras les picds devant!
II that is not Bohemianism, and of the most
sublime kind, tho reason must be that Schaun.
ard and Collne themselves were only holders
hs b9Ga And IT nasa Is af'er 1p yo
the shoulder and tell YOU with wise look as as
hey leave the Qnatz Arts boh@min L n no
martre we lind Bohemia. and find it more i'm.
portant and more populous than formerly. But
and that we never find 1t elsewherel Whoever
says "Bohcmia' wants to express certain lib
life, enhanced by artistic sensations Has not
Bohemia spread more or less into all circles
ten % aS old
, and also a little of the old.time honestly Is II
not on account OF the aging OF many things
in the bourgeois class; exhibit tendency to-
ward Bohcmianismi. In social relations, mar
guage, in the way that people get rich and Re,
{ | ruined and in the ideas that they adopt and
| abandon does not Bohemia mako its appear
ancei Where are now the preJudices, the ira
| ditions, the rigors the virtues and the hypoc
l | risies OF other times, against which Bohemil
often rose in just rebellioni In many families
social circles and i'll salons people conduct
themselves in reality, II not just "a the Bohcm
| ians do, at least Ike dem Bohemians. They
: chat, they joke. get married. abandon each
other, love and estheticze as II they stood upor
a less sacred Butte: and the best proof OF the
| existence of that kind of demi-Montmartr,
constituted in all those circles and under circles
. | cises over them. They follow 1t, they watcl
{ | II, admire IL, initiate it, and become deliRhtet
n with 1t. They don't yet do everything that Il
h done among the Bohemians, but their poet
o sing already just as the bohemian poets sing.
Not only does Bohemia exist, but II has neve
. been more full OF life II was only littl'
4 group; IT. is now population 1t was onl!
rial for sociology. The reason why people be
lieve in its disappearance IL because money n
= the present time goes where II formerly coul'
}. not 20, and Bohemia has 1t now within IL
reach. But empty pockets do not make tn
/ bohemian any more than they make the artis
Q or the romance writer. Writing and painting
d have become profitable. Does that lower thei
:. standard or reduce their quaityi And will /
l. be said that there nre no more romanCes and n
0 moro picturce because they are paid fort II I
, tho same way with Bohomanism. II also ha
:, become n rcmunerHtive profes ession. 1t also !
u able to provide n living, Just like the novel
o also Is profitable, just like printing. Is It an
. as well say that the republic does not exist, bt
. cause II was proclaimed that the republican
y are making II fortune out OF IL, that the royR
Y ists thcmseve arc coming to 1t and that tn