Evening star., 1900-03-31
TO PREPARE FOR PARIS.
What to Read and What to DO When
You Get There.


From the ST. Nicholas
Are you going to the Paris exposition"
Assuming that you are and that you are
girl here are some useful hints.
All over the land, she says, young girls
are beginning to plan a trip to the Paris
exposition. BY means of tourists clubs,
with their low rates and monthly pay
ments, many girls OF small means, girls
who earn their own living. will be able to
go. To these, and especially to such of
them as have travelled a little, few sug-
gestions may prove helpful.
Do your looking up and reading now
while you are at home and have the time.
But if not used to solid reading, do not
plunge boldly into a French history that
| goes back beyond the days of Charemagne
and then feel sad and discouraged when you
discover that you cannot remember the
names and dates
Read the story books of travel. But read
them intelligently. When you see in one
something about poor Marie Louise whose
| history one of life's riddles If you do
not know why her history was one of Hfe's
riddles, look it up. Find out all that you
can about her strange career.
When you read something about Marie
Antoinette's Swiss cottage" and the trouble
| that 1t caused. do you not feel interested
| to know what the trouble was. and why
a Swiss cottage caused it? Then about
| Marie Antoinette herself. Are you famil-
lar enough with her story to make your
| visit to the Tuilleries double pleasure be-
| cause you can In fancy, people it, as you
| walk, with the gay throng who once made
| history there?
! Unless you know the story of the people
| who made the history of these places you
are seeing only wood and stone: you are
missing the best-the vital. breathing part,
| the life. Every girl who has clearly settled
/ in her mind any facts of French history,
who knows anything about the life-Stores
! Frances
places where the history was made the
] lives lived will find that her knowledge
has added wonderfully to her enjoyment of
| And row for another suggestion. Guilt
| vate the habit of observation. II you are
| weak in this. begin today to develop your
powers. Many persons came back from the
| worlds fair at Chicago with their minds
| all a confused tumble. Ask them what they
| saw and they would invariably reply, "Oh
| l saw much that really can't remem-
Der any one thing" The objects that they
| saw made on their brains no more lasting
| impression than the retina of their eyes.
| They knew that they had lovely time, -
| and often We're "dreadfuly tired and that
I their hotel bad" and, apparently,
! that nearly all that they did know. Not
| being used to observing, they had seen so
| much that they were not able to assm-
| Hate anything. Many penple go through
| picture galleries in the same blind way.
They see so many pictures that no single
| one impresses them sufficiently to take its
place on "nemory's wall" Make up your
mind that you will notice well. Make up
| your mind that you will remember the best
of what you see
| The girl who goes to the Paris exposition
leaving no one behind for whose benefit she
| is sightseeing is poor indeed Surely each
of you has some one to whom you wish to
| write, to whom you wish to describe your
trip so well that 1t will be her trip, too. II
you have such a friend. and II you think OF
her when you anything that specially
| interests you. and if you say, Now, l will
| tell her about this-she will enjoy it," you
| the memory