Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-31
"a stroll "along the boulevard" while the

a stroll '.along the boulevard" while the
ladies rested.
A Typical Case.
This is the boulevard" said.
Yes. Mmsmm.' '--hesitated Father"
isn't there place they call the Mou-
lin, 80.
"-Rouges.. answered. Certainly. I'll.
take you to IT, On our way home IN cab
at midnight he observed:
There Is no need to tell the girls-or
mother-where We have been"
So We did not The next evening In the
! long: delicious summer twilight OF the
north that lasts till 10 D. M, took the two
girls to eat ice cream at the celebrated
Cages. by the Arc de Triomphe. We had
the whole evening, since the older couple
were engaged in dining out. Up spoke
Lucy:
Isn't there a place they call the Mou
'-RougeT I answered. completing the
sentence for her. Certainly"
Take us to It,"
to take them. I would perhaps have hest
tated to take boys OF seventeen or eighteen.
On our way back in a cab the girls said:
Ihere Is no need to tell father and
not.
A third evening walked out alone with
Sterling she said. .is there no, a n,ace
The Moulin Rouger' 1 answered. Ger
fanny. was just going to suggest it,"
ana IN the cab, on the way home said.
to get in ahead of her, There is no use to
tell the others where we have been" And
she answered, Certainly"
FOR mother, father, girls and tourists gen.
eraiiy. the real show Of the Moulin was the
gay and Well-dressed multitude that prom
enaue endlessly, in endless r,rbber-neckine
ana not the eccentric quadrille Parisians.
TOO, would watch one set. then turn away
a ay,1
Ing throng. Yet the quadriIIe was the SIM
posed attraction Of the Moulin Rouge:
ana now that the establishment has closed
us doors, IT Is agreed that 1t failed because
spectacle.
A Long Life.
1t lasted almost fifteen years-the "ec
centric or the naturalist" ouadrflIe. as
they called 1t. In 1850 and during that great
exposition summer the Red Mill, was
built for it. and ali the world rejoiced at
the revival of the long dead "can-can'' and
the earlier "chahut." 1t was new then and
the wonder is that It should have lasted
such length of time Night after night
as the quadrille music struck up dense
eso op would form five or six deep around
eacn set on the great open dance floor
OF course 1T was more than dancing A
whole tradition of chatting, mimic QUARREL
ing. quaint capers and pretended intimate
T.
uraiist dance steps, the dislocating Garry
arms and the dangerous "split' I saw
dangerous. because the unhappy little
Demi-siphon killed herself at it by ac-
claent one night, and very miserably. while
many another girl came out of It alive
but injured. Therefore Of these later years
there was more dancing and horse play and
less perilous gymnastics
Thus in mid-career a girl would stop.
pull her girl partners sleeve point to a
corner OF the crowd and whisper very au-
dlbly, That is George. there. See him?"
A dozen Anglo-Saxon tourists Of the name
OF George would furiously blush and break
away
Another girl would stop the dance. While
every one was wondering she would walk
! up to one Of her companions with an air
OF great determination. Every one looked
forward to f1rst-class scrap. Have you
four francs to spare?" she would ASK I'M
expectediy.
The Moulin Rouge has closed its doors.
and the eccentric quadrille'' is no more
It Is strange that the thing should happen
at the very moment when the "cakewalk,"
coming from across the far Atlantic, from
the very land that furnished during four
teen years such typical hordes of specta-
tors to the Moulin Rouge, should burst on
Paris, carrying all before It.
The cakewalk!
The Cak-Vak!
They cannot pronounce 1t, but they dance
1t. And this, too, is strange, because Pa
risians know nothing Of the negro, his de-
vainglorious strutting; therefore they would
seem to miss the hurrlor of it.
Triumph Of the Cake Walk
Nevertheless, the cakewalk has captured
Paris. At the Nouveau-Cirque troupe Of
darkies. called 1.-THE Elks." do it before
packed houses Of the real elite Of Paris;
and their daytime hours are taken up in
giving lessons in the Cak-Vak to young
marquises and duchesses. At the Folies-
Bergere and in the other music halls the
cakewalk triumphs in the persons Of the
Ioveliest stage beauties. They, too, have
taken lessons. And at Maxims. the Cafe
American and Julien's, when at 2 am. the
supper tables are pushed to the sides Of the