Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-27

| IL were, adopted her as one Of their
great artists. The Grand opera house.
de- you know ranks at the top OF he
opera houses Of the world. 1t IL an
honor for an artist to sing In IT upon
any terms, and for an American girl
10 have long contract at the start for
leading parts means fame and foe
tune.
The Paris Opera house Il wonderfully
beautiful. 1t cost 81 200 600 more than
our national library building at Wash.
lueton and II covers as much ground
as the national Capitol 1t IS TO %
certain extent government institution
and has soldiers in uniform and police
mon on guard mt the entrance, Fuli
Grrss T. expected in most OF the seats
~ d the patrons of II are among the
richest and most fashionable OF the
French capital.
YANKEE PROFESSIONAL MEN ia
PARIS.
But let me tell you something about
some of our professional men who are
making money in Paris They a..
numbered 10y scores and most of them
charge larger fees than are common 2t
tors who belong TO the Anglo-A America
Mejcal society and number OF others
OUTSIDE. Paris has q American dentists
who are members OF the American Den
al club In addition to others who are
u t. II has American lawyers. Ampr-
en- electrical engineers and hundredr
Ct American business men, includiCg
importers and exporters, principals and
agents. There are perhaps dozen
newspaper correspondents several
American architects and not few
American bartenders.
Within the last few weeks an Ameri-
can commercial directory has been
published, giving an alphabetical list
of American firms and all matter Of
interest TO Americans IN Paris II Is
q book OF about 800 pages, which shows
something Of the extent of the colony
In running over It's pages ! notice the
following companies with American
names There Is an American bicycle
company, an American cotton com"
pary, an American saddle company. an
American coal and shipping agency
anl an American trading union which
deals IN clocks. Then there is an
American autograph company, al
American estate agency, which may
furnish titles and estates to our cod
fsh millionaries, as well as an Ameri-
can tar paper company and an Ameri'
can dancing academy
AS to the American typewriters, they
are all represented, as are our bicycles
and phonogra phs The American line
has steamship office here, and ! have
already spoken Of our express conf
ranies and life insurance establish
ments.
There are several American book
stores in Paris, the chief OF which IS
Brentano's, There Is Boston bakeC
an American grocer and several larg
American jewelry stores. Among the
queerest of the latter are those which
sell paste diamonds and gold-tllcd
American watches. They advertise the
fact that their clocks all speak English
and call their jewels real American
diamonds. The so-caled diamonds ave
to-day the most brilliant things shown
on the boulpvards There is one com
pnYy which has four or FIVE shops filed
with brilliants and paste set In every
possible way. II has the same price
for every article in It's shop windows
whether the stone be as big as the head
OF a hin or the size OF walnut. The
rice IS S francs. or tl.60 The goods
are displaved under electric lights. ard
a crowd OF French men and womtn
gathers about the shops every evening
A. far as ] can see the stones LOOK az
Brilliant as the real diamonds cost +
ing thousands and tens OF thousands
&C francs which are shown IN the othe'