New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-04-22
PAINFULLY SEDATE.
A Professors Evening Party In Ia,
Paris Latin Quarter.

! ~ Professors Evening Party In IA q
Paris Latin Quarter.
1T was difficult to imagine that
was in the heart of Paris, among psop!S
/ bred and born in the capital" says q
writer telling OF the section of the Lat
In quarter in which the professors 0f
the University OF Paris have their
homes. These men, these luminariea
Of science, how different they looked
among their womankind. Since then
l have visited many professors homes
and have found them all curiously
alike No matter whether the apart
ment be on second, third or fourth
floor, whether it be an expensive Or
cheap one, the inmates are all aiikG;-
talk alike, dress alike If you have
seen one home, you have seen them all.
Follow me to a fourth floor In the Rue
Gay-LusSac. We are ushered into the
drawing room. The furniture is ma
hogahy, always mahogany, and OF a
Oau period. There are no flowers. but
dusty fern in Il majolica pot: on
u
bra, with framed photographs In the
spaces between: over the cottage pi-
ano the portrait of NJ lie Professor In
the green embroidered uniform Of
member of the Academy of Science
with his dress sword. over which
generally stumbies. But do not H.
that the professors families are blind
to beauty. They will admire and ap-
preciate a work of art as well as you
or |, but In their homes they consider
beauty a negligible quantity They
also give very little attention to their
bodies-to the inner or outer man. /
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 elsss.
where. They eschew slang, their 81
mar is better, but their cody
Worse-yery much worse-thay
homes Of the less intellectual n
Of society. The women form a dN
type. They seem to belong to
generation, and their dress is in 90
ing with the style of. thefr"h Liv-
ing among themselves, they appear to
have no notion o. 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 fashion paper never crosses
their path. l am certain these ladies
are much more interested in the latest
microbe than In the latest hat They
have little notion Of comfort
'An evening party at one Of their
houses is never to be forgotten en-
tertainment for the outsider. They
still dance the schottish, but the
greater part Of the evening Is devoted
to what are called society games, "a
gaping trap to the butterfly frd(m
across the Seine. have forgotten tile
name of the fiendish game, but re-
call that we were all seated In q ring
about thirty Of us--old and young. and
we had to answer questions and ind
out some antediluvian fact. To them
1t was child's play, but IL It had not
been for the six-year-old child OF the
house who prompted me should have
cut q poor figure. Imagine coming
from the electric lights of the boule.
wards to the oil lamps Of the profess,
ors' salon and being suddenly called
upon to know that Dalmatia was con.
quered by Metellus in rs b. c.! DE-
llghtful evening""