Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-23
TO PREPARE FOR A PARIS TOUR
Several Hints For Those Who Expect to Visit the Great EXPOSITION
This Summer. f+.

This IS the time when the eyes Of the
world are turned toward Paris. For
many people the present summer means
the opportunity for their first view or
life On the continent and tney are look
ing forward to their experience with the
most delightful ~anticipations. There ia
q certain glamour about Paris. that is
possessed by no other city in the world.
Even the confirmed globe-trotter and the
habitual tourist are never entirely obvi-
Gus to the sentimental influence that the
city exerts, while to the novice in tour
ing the first visit to the French capiaL.
the first sight of French life and the
French people are fraught with intoxi-
eating anticipations.
While it is true that many Of these
a~nticipations will probably be realized
by those who visit Paris in the proper
way and with the proper spirit, there
are certain hints that may be given that
may aid the novice in the labor of avoid
ing pitfalls. or assist him to take full adj
vantage of the countless opportunities
for sightseeing that this visit will pre-
sent to him. OF course the first sight
to be seen is the exposition; but so far
as That IS concerned every man may be
his W guide.
seek out the features that particularly
Interest him. If it is art, there are the
galleries. II 1t is machinery, automo-
piles, flying machines, or flowers he will
have ample opportunity to satisfy his
appetite for information and instruc-
ton. To attempt to lay down rules for the
visitor to the fair grounds, therefore,
would be worse than senseless. It is
after he has seen these sights of the ex-
position that wise suggestions will come
in handy.
For instance, the best preparations for
such a journey is a moderate course of
reading. This does not imply that one
needs to take a prolonged course in
technical French history, but just enough
of the outlines to give a genuine con-
the city since that time when it was a
fortified camp and a tiny Seine island.
Then one should give more than a glance
at the history of France during the reign
of the later Bourbons and the Napol-
cons.
To read history is a very simple matter
and is, at the same time one of the most
enjoyable pursuits in the world. If it
is faithfully done moreover the louvre,
the Tuileries, the Petit-Trianon, and all
the other places whose names are re.
cited so glibly by the guide looks, will
mean something that they never can
mean if the sightseer-depends upon the
guide books for his information.
If he approaches them with the story
of their life in mind, the whole thing
becomes very real to him. He hears
the echo of the timbrels in the Palace de
la Bastile and the g%uillotine casts a very
real shadow in the Palace de la Rapub-
lique. By closing his eyes he may i'm
agine that the old days have returned,
the days when great passions were let
loose in these streets. Great kings and
queens look down from the windows I'D
then sink away beneath the stern TN
relenting gaze of great patriots, great
leaders who carried the people to the
riots of death.
To the ordinary obserper there may be
nothing but plain stone walls in sight,
but If one knows the stories of the great
tragedies that have Redeemed these stones
with blood, the plain stone wallis as
sumo an infinit charm, an intoxicating
interest prevades everything.
Such sights are not for the gaze Of
the ordinary traveller to whom every
great city means nothing more than
a bus, a lot Of building and a Baediker,
but the American who is to visit Paris
for the first time this summer will make
the mistake of his life if he follows in