The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-07-22
AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION


Paris. July 7.--oh, wha, n harvest TIA an.
'lre faris community is preparing to respl
Costumes cost twice as much as ever: hats.
bonnets laces and Jewels are lifted up out
OF sight with cIphers tackled ON their tax.
and It costs so much to live ever so simpy
and economically that tho neople who are
endeaVorine to exist and keep out OF bank
ruptcy have gone into commercial iueglery
az science. and an art.
me situation for poor workers. students
ana foreigners is absolutely pathetic. And
the local nobility have. with arch craft.
seized uoon the occasion TO bring forward
the lordliest charitable entertainments. which
cost the Americans and other visitors fabu-
lops prices. and they are enthusiastically
piiked for the rare 10Y o. spending their
money at bazaars given in tho portals Of in
accessible nristocratic mansions. Of viewing
at close range amused royalty and begging
philarthropies altogether public. but made
private with Interesting craft of forethousht.
Paris society is almost invrlnerablo for re-
publcans. and likely II does not amount TO
much when it is invaded but this year all the
big hospitals, charities and benchces are re.
ceiving sumptuous contributions through thu
nerS0naPpS
who are willing TO nut up with the presence
OF foreigners in their closely4guarded palaces
In Paris for the sake of raking in coarse
silver dollars in return for their humility.
And 1t happens TO be money we'll II NOT
wisely. given over for charities in Paris arc
rreat and absorbing. but the blatant candor
Of the crested demands is rather amazing.
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Germany. having swept into France with
entering corteges and cavslcades. Dragging
prosperity and wel-directed energy. has left
its glorious contributions to the exposition
ana stalked out OF town with its nose In
ar So few of the imperous nations rem
resentatives abide within the walls as TO
make parsonage Of Importance from Ger
many remarkable and desirable in the cele-
orated throngs. Everywhere in the fair Ger
MANY Is abundant, stalwart and aggressive
with the most splendid buildings the grand
est exhibits. the biggest. sravest and finest
attempts and most spectacular pomp and
self-assertion in it all. In sculpture. in art.
in architecture. she is recognizable by flu
rious but well-reined ambition. by subtle
scheming and power. In spite of schopen-
hauer and mysticism. in spite OF Wagner.
Nitschke and the degenerates she really
still clings to the Greek. though her obstrep-
erous heaviness and stubborn racial content
brings the acanthus down to a cabbage So
briefly. and weights Olympiau heights with
seriousness and boasts. Though Americans
deride Prussian factories. about all the in
Venlion OF America and France-such as the
latter is--fnds itself owned by She Germans.
and most of the good things thought out bv
Yankees are marked Manufactured in Ber-
lin" or Made in Germany" Evidences Of
the richness and ponderous independence OF
the nation are overwhelming whichever wav
the studlous eye wanders, and Germany
seems to have taken especial Aambovant de-
light in displaying her superiority. unap-
proachabe independence. lavish wealth OF
resources and vitality. thereby rubbing It
into France ever glorious with Teutonic
oostinacy, which 10 imperlshable.
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Music so far has been ignored chiefly be-
cause the year brings many reasons for
olgrimages of musicians to other lands The
oberammergau over in Germany has taken
thousands from all over the world. and as
there will not be another representation of
the Passion PLAY for ten years more than
usual impetus carries enthusiasts thither.
claims its quota and tho famous
singers of every land are in London seeking
rest. great pianists are threatening TO appear
and virtuosl look askance at their chances
for laurel, but nothing happens in music.
though big congresses are on their slow
and unhappy ways. Even the band habit is
not incurable in Paris largely because the
people who race after them have to pay
instead of having bands furnished BY adver-
tisers and managers.
Sousa has been captured by California.
which maGni1 "ent state has simply taken all
the forwarding wind out of the sails of less
productive divisions of the Union. There was
no room for California when she arrived in
Paris--no ten-acre lot to pasture her ante
ope and bronchos no twentymile avenue to
accommodate her trees no place big enough
IN the American section to show her minerals
and sylyaculture to advantage so she climbed
over the walls OF the exposition and started
a fair of her own. which is perfectly daz
cling and regal.
She has wines and mammoth fruits and
delicious flowers and on the Fourth of July
she. not caring to be cluttered up with it,
roads Of traffic secured permission to
close up Place de lopera. the most TANNED
thoroughfare OF Paris in order to success
fully carry our her stupenlous scheme of
entertainment for the day Here Sousa
was stationed in bower OF gorgeous star
spangled magnifcence. and extravagant hos
pitality offered Americans and their
friends. 1t is quite the most Columbian
splurge vet planned and there were gallons
and gallons OF vino on ice kept.
,old for the occasion. and yards and yards
of oratorv on the FIRE. kent hot for the.
occasion. and ANYBODY who cid not have a
good time at the expense of the Golden Gate
city is pretty poor people" The permit
TO close I'D Place de ropera shocked Paris
almost as much as Mrs. Mackaye did when
she wanted the chains around PArc de Tri-
omphe taken down that General Grant might
pass under it. Imperlousy denied. the pa
.riotio woman threw the entire French ma
lion into catalepsy by asking:
How much do you want for your old
arch?"
This sere and yellow story is revived in !
Difference to the closing no of a necessary
street. changing routes for omnibus lines |
and pedestrians and disturbing the uproar
"a noYrtad mill ~ traffic for whole daY /