Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-08-23
A GREAT VARIETY,
Of People Are To Be Seen AT
The Exposition.


Of English Character Thousands Of
Cooks Tourists Handled Every Day
in The GAY Capital.
PARIS, France, August 15.-No one
visiting Paris caa have failed to see
the great vans of Cooks excursionists
which daily traverse the boulevards.
Here is French journalists descrip-
tion of his enemy the English visitor.
climb into the immense wagon
which is to carry me across Paris, in
company with Cooks English tourists.
1t is ten o'clock in the morning, the
loungers watch us with that half cur
ious, half cynical manner that the
Partisan assumes when he looks at
STRANGERS. A boy passing on a bicy-
Gle calls out in the only English he
knows. English, oh yes But the
English do not pay attention. They
seem to ignore the presence of the
people who are looking at them.
Next to me, on seat OF the wagon,
imperturbably smoking short wood
en- pipe, dry and thin parsonage of
some forty years, with face as sharp
as razor dressed in golf pantaloons,
a straw hat with very narrow brim,
wooden stockings and shoes with quad
ripple soles, delights in his splendid
ISOLATION During the entire journey
this man does not speak word. In
watching him the saying OF philoso-
pher comes to my mind, "The En-
glishman himself is an Island
The spectacle OF these impenetra-
Bile citizens of free England, however,
causes us certain admiring surprise.
Their spirit of discipline and punctu-
ality is even more astonishing than
their impassibility. The departure
of Cooks wagons is set for ten o'clock;
at five minutes of ten, they are there
men, women, children no one is lack
ing And there are a Thousand of
them that Thos, Cook and Son carry
daily around Paris this year OF the
Exposition. They arrive without
haste and take their places without
pushing, in precise and correct man
ner. 1t is done without noise, with
out discussion, without complaint.
Imagine thousand French people of
both sexes to dispose of in this way
Hear the criticism, the disputes, the
things to see to the last moment, the
showing. See the women especially,
their faces flushing at being assigned
place they did not expect. II told
you so-it's always the same way
how badly managed it is--hoW can
one travel in this way-how hot tits. "
The British tourists do not quar-
rel. If they have an observation to
make, they address themselves quiet
ly to the manager, yielding at the
first good reason given, nodding the
head and saying, swell, we'll" They
do not even complain OF the heat.
They endure it stoically, as a compan-
ion whose rights they respect.
But our wagon moves; drawn by
five bay horses, driven by a French
position gaily along the boulevards.
/ examine my companions. They be-
long to the commercial small shop
class Of London, and all, men and
women are ugly, Of that English ugli-
ness that strikes us more than the
French ugliness because we are not so
used to it. From the big classic
Britisher, with. the head of bull and
projecting eyes with glances that
seem like the clenched fist of boxer,
to the thin, close shaved Englishman
with a face like fish, whose lower
jaw seems to feel such a repugnance
for the upper one that it steadily re-
treats from it, passing to the plump
Englishman-all shades of masculine
ugliness are represented. On the
other hand, only one type OF feminine
uglineSs, that thin type, frame
without hips, without bosom, with
out sex, with Gumberless sharp angles,
the vegetarian Englishwoman.
The bearing OF the men, the dresses
of the women, suit the ugliness Of the
types. The middle-class English,
travelling in parties, haye evidently
no desire to please. They dress in a
practical manner, without trace OF
coquetry. The flannel shirts OF the
men, the cotton waists of the women,
lack elegance, chic, style And on
the faces OF these appears no desire
to correct by art the disgraces Of ma
ture. $50
The Madeleine the Elysee - the
Arc de Triomphe. At each stage the
wagon stops everybody rises. The
guide, standing on the step OF the
carriage, rapidly repeats his lesson.
They listen with the same serious
ness that they give to sermon on
Sundays. Ny neighbor imperturba-
bly, smokes his pipe and remains
s'spleniidly Isolated" He recalls to
NE that globe trotter who had been
saround the world three times, and
back only the names and
menus " the hotels. A very old man,
with q venerable white beard, sits
EElown at once and resumes reading the
.9imes; an angular old lady studies
Her red backed guide book. Below, a
ouple--bride and groom on their
HHXedding journey, hold hands and gaze
Unto vacancy. They, too, are ''splen-
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