Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-12-29
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u Professor.s Evening Party Insthe
Pur-fx Latin Quarter.

PARIS Latan QunrIer-s& lg
IT was difficult to imagine that j
wassin the heart Of Paris, among people
bred and born in the capital, I" says a
writer telling Of the section Of the Lat.
& In quarter iii which the professors of
the University of Paris have their
homes. These men, these luinilaries
OF science, how different they looked
among their Womankind. Since then
+ have visited many professors homes
and have found them all curiotIsly
alike, No matter whether the apart
ment be on second, third or fourth
floor, whether it be IN expensive or
cheap one, the Inmates are all alike,
talk alike, dress alike. 1t you have
seen one home, you have seen them all.
Follow me to fourth floor in tile Rue
Gay Lussac We are rlshered into the
drawing room. The furniture is lsa-
hogany, always mahogany and of a
bad period There are no flowers, but
q dusty fern in a majolica pot, on
the manteipiece q clock and Candida
bra, with framed photographs in the
spaces between; over the cottage pi-
ano the portrait Of Nj. lie Professeur in
the green embroidered uniform of a
member Of the Academy of Science,
with his dress sword, over which he
generally stunibles. But do not think
that the professors Families are blind
to beauty They will admire and APP
preeiate a work Of art as well as you
or /, but IN their homes they consider
beauty negligible quantity. They
also give very little attention to their
sbodies--to the inner or outer man, 1
have often wondered whether the same
tailor supplies them all with their old
fashioned coats.
Nor does the inner man fare much
better. The cooks In their establish
ments seem to be altogether different
creatures from those we meet else
where, They eschew slang, their gram
mar Is better, but their cooking Is
worse very much worse-=than In the
homes Of the less intellectual members
Of society The women form distinct
| type. They seem to belong to5a past
generation. and their dress is in keep
ing with the style Of their hair. Liv-
Ing among themselves, they appear to
have no notion Of, what is occurring in
the worldly part OF Paris. Their dress
makers are of the quarter and their
milliners make their hats with the odds
| and ends brought to them. Such a
thing as q fashion paper never crosses
| their path. I am certain these Indies
4 are much more interested in the latest
| micrObe than in the latest hat. They
have little notion of comfort,
An evening party ut one Of their
4 houses ID d never to be forgotten en-
1 tertainment for the outsider They
still dance the schnttish, but the
\ greater part of the evening is, devoted
! to what are called society games a
4 gaping trap to the butterfly from
across the Seine, have forgotten the
\ !, name OF tile fiendish game, but re-
+ call that we were all seated in d ring
L ii bout thirty OF us old and young, and
we had to answer questions and find
out some anfedi luvians fact. 70 them
It was child's play, but if 1T had not
been for the Sky ear-old child of sthe
house who prompted me 4 should have
Scut q poor figure. Imagine coming
from the electric lights OF the boule
d Yards to the oil lamps Of the profess.
1 ors' salon and being suddenly called
upon to know that Dallnatia was con
quered BY Metellus In lis b 81! De
lightful evening I, 81