The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-24

of the Dreyfus affair are heard again. 4
little while ago it was "Vive les Soeurs!"
"Vive la R9publique!" because Of the ex-
pulsion of the nuns. Now the cynical
Partisan says, to cover up that outrage,
those in power have opened up again the old
dfdire!
Let us keep our eyes on the street and
not involve ourselves in politics. why
in crossing the clean wood-paved streets?
] will explain: The reason is the clean
ness OF the wood-paved streets. They are
SO clean that ladies can wear paper-soled
slippers and the most delicate lingerie
And so, to lift those dainty skirts becomes
a second nature.
And now explain to me why all thes,
pretty girls without bicycles go about In
cycling knickerbockers?"
The answer is, more second nature. They
are girls in love with freedom of move
ment, Once having got accustomed to the
liberty of knickers, they hate to forego
No Partisan will blame them. No police
man will arrest them for wearing male
costume, for WHO knows? They may have
a bicycle just around the corner.
waiter. bock!'
When the well-to-do Paris business man.
stealing way from his correspondence at
II A. NJ, takes his accust stoned sidewalk
seat he does not call out in a loud voice for
his absinthe. In these days OF tremendous
struggle for and against alcohol, the green
drink is drunk unost"ntatiously.
The hospital administration pacards
Paris with warnings against essence poison
are sued for damages because the last
act of that savant was to blaspheme a
cert ain OSvgenated absinthe!
But Duclaux. the head OF the Pasteur
Institute, declares alcohol to be a food
And Metchnikoff declares that alcoholism
of r.
terial sclerosis-that liz. premature and
ARCHAEOLOGICAL old age!
What will the American business man
think Of such practices? Here they meet
and talk their contracts over while they
SIP the opal escent, pare2or'c-scented liquid.
They breathe the morning air and watch
the pretty women. while their confidential
clerks run the establishment, till after
lunch time!
II il an occupation to watch the fair
women. Impatient Of the house, Isabelle
flutters to the stree, the moment she is
dressed, She cheapens flowers, inspects
show windows, drops her eyes blamelessly,
at theatrical box Offices. fills dates. tires
out shop-clerks, spoils her appetite. for
lunch in a cake shop. and passes like a
vision fresh, rosy, ardent, active, moist,
wound up for all day and full Of mischief
Now tell me about those sun spots?'
"Waiter. three books"
1t seems that one particular French as
tronomer. the Able TIL. Moreau. of the
Observatory Of st, Celestin, al Bourgees,
has studied sun spots so frutfully that he
can now make predictions through them.
Three months ago a sun spot appeared, so
tremendous that hundred earths like ours
could fall into it and leave no trace.
Look out for fire-damp explosions in all
deep mines'" wrote the Able Moreau.
IL k.,t.<
plosons in Swiss, Belgian and German
mines, hundreds being killed
Something over week ago anoth her
unusually great sun spot appeared The
abb6-astronomer gave his warning; and the
mine superintendents of all Europe needed
out. But in the Wilkes-Ba region OF
Pennsylvania. where the warning had not
penetrated, there was one of the most fatal
explosions ever known
"Cheese!"
The perfume Of it is typical Of Paris in
the morning. II is the hour for going for
provisions, when careful housewives ac-
company the servant to attack the rebate
system at its root, Except in farmers
markets it il the understood thing that the
girl shall have her sou in the franc. or s
per cent. commission on all purchases =.
Madame cannot save this, because II
really comes out of the seller. What she
wants to stop is the swelling of the bill
And with that, madame?"
Il il tho Paris clerks invariable phrase,
meaning What else will you have? In the
little milk -and-eggs shops so white and
checsy smelling, where green grape leaves
arc wrapped around butter, cheese, and
fruits; in grocery stores, which al ways
carry a full line of wines and liqueurs; in the
butcher shops, where meat is cut In tiny.
unfamiliar looking pieces and where legs
of lamb wear frills of ce-edged white
paper; In the cake shops, whore the ladies
tipple little glasses Of sweet Spanish wine.