Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-16

with 4 baby at the breast, defled us
when we threatened her to the police.
Calling two loafers to her aid, the trio
followed Us across the bridge to the
tune OF Sale Anglais." DIRTY Eng
lish'' Dead broke!" and Disgusting
foreigner.'')
The Rue de Paris is supposed to be
the Midway Plaisance of this Exhibi-
ton. 1t is shady, peasant street,
running close to the river under the
trees OF the Coar la Refine. 1t is a
street given over wholly to 'attrac-
tons" much OF the Montmartre type,
partisan" in the highest degree, from
which great things were hoped at the
beginning. Certainly the little build
ings-lfttle theatres and cafes-are ex-
tremely picturesque and pretty. The
"Maison du Rire,' the cafe-chantant
enterprise OF high-class though fin
de steele comic weekly, is decorated
aStonishingly with frescoed caricatures
of Paris types The Loie Fuller
Theatre, which took the architectural
prize, Is a dream of colored light by
night. The well-known htterateur, Ar
mande Silvestre. and the gifted black
and-white artist, Albert Guillaume.
have lent their names TO the handsome
little theatres. the one of marionettes.
the other of poses plastiques. A dozen
and more other Montmarte enterprises
appeal to the public from bright CO.
quettish little monuments OF good taste
and Partisan chic. Helas, they appeal
in vain! The public passes, stops TO
listen to the (free) boniment of the
parade-and passes on. With the ex-
ception of the Loie Fuller establish
ment, fortunate in the possession OF
a popular Japanese troupe OF actors.
and the Palace of the Dance. which
gives the prettiest show that has been
seen in Paris for long time, the Rue
re Paris is an utter failure.
1t is here in the Wanted Rue de Paris
that the visitor. after having been irri-
tated by the mendicity of the street, Is
shocked by the mendicity of the parade.
or course, the visitor does not understand
the hunlor of II. Along the front of each
little theater there runs a long. narrow
porch, in imitation of the theaters OF
country fairs From time immemcrial this
porch has been the display place for the
whole force of the troupe, to parade up
and down between representations, show
their beauty and graces and give samples
of their talents. 1t is the classic parade
fixed on canvas by many a famous French
painter. Now the country fair artistes
are humble folk. whom the Partisan pat
renizes with good-natured laughter in the
summer suburbs For the delicate talent
and beauty of Montmartre (hot house tall
ent hot house wit and hot house charns)
to disport itself like these is a great con
cession TO humor. an anti-climax that
ought to be delightful. Unhappily tho
public does not see it, The frantic appeals
OF the Montmartre goddesses to Come
Upi Gene Up! The Finest Show on
Earth Only Two Francsr are not heed
ed by multitude that seems-it must se
admitted-to have an exaggerated notion
of the value of two francs.
Fraud of the shows.
1t is the same story with all the 'attrac-
TOMS" In 1889 the Oriental dances and
the FIN de seicle" dances were new. The
Cairo street contained them. with the 9TH
or paying shows, in one definite place. 1t
was a long, brilliant promenade. gay with
light and noisy with the concentrated