Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-25

ent old-time chateaux, reformed according
to these republican needs. After eight hours
at the fashionable watering place station
of Contrexeyille. Great Lorraine farm
wagons, filled with hay for seats, walt for
them. And from that hour on the anaemic
child of Paris lives in a paradise Of novelty.
charm and well-being.
One of the great things is feeding up.
The early breakfast is invariably of milk
soup with vermiclli and bread. 1t Is q sa-
cred function. not to be hurried or short.
ened. In a word it Is struggling against
tuberculosis and the other enemies Of CIVIL
lied peoples.
The "Meat Breakfast"
So is the meat breakfast" at IL am. It
is served in solemn courses like a banquet.
Soft-boiled eggs, beef stew. mashed pota-
toes, cheese-four acts. without any over
tapping. Great attention Is paid to variety.
There are for this meat breakfast NUT
ton and veal stews; roast veal and beef
steak: chicken In various ways: omelettes
and fried eggs; potatoes boiled, mashed.
fried and white sauce; white and fageolet
beans: spinach, macaroni and noodles;
salads galore and lots of cheese.
At 4 pm. they give them bread and
milk.
Then dinner at pm. Is another solemn
function in four acts. For example: Sorrel
soup. leg of mutton. flageolet BEANS honey.
On Thursdays and Saturdays, when the
coffee. And when the grand director. Mon
sieur Duval-Phiet, makes his appearance
once week. they give each child-each
tot-a tiny glass of champagne!
The Paris municipality calls 1t puericul-
ture-"the cultivation of children"-as II
you should say the cultivation of bees,
horses or tomatoes"
They sleep in dormitories-forty children
in forty little beds that run down long
hallway in double row.
Are you content?' was asked a tot
"Ah, yes. monsieur" it answered, think,
I have whole bed to myself
They teach them how to wash, the
French way, not the morning bath. They
call it washing q grande eau, with big
water" The boys, standing In their pants.
splash their heads. faces. ears. necks.
the girl tots, standing in their little ju-
pons. do the same.
Little Girl Who Reformed Her Home.
Once week they give them true bath
warm water In a tub. And here the pathetic
Paris cramping often shows itself In timid
protests.
Pm not SICK" the child will whimper.
Baths in its world. are ordered by a doc
tor!
They are taught to brush their clothes
and black their shoes as q matter Of
course-an everyday routine. The thing is
done in dormitory bands, to set up emula-
tion and impress on one and all sense Of
usualness. And then, when they have made
their beds. they will be free to run.
In the eleventh ward the story of little
girl of eleven has become classic. Under
other circumstances she might easily be
ranked as little prig; but she is she
must be looked on as an apostle of neat
ness.
On her return home from vacation she
started reforming her own home. She fore
ed on her surprised parents the entire rou-
tine she had learned at the chateau. She
taught them bed airing and making. She
taught them sweeping and busting. She
startled her tired mother by picking up
until the little home apartment was neat
and smart.
She made her father brush his teeth.
shave on alternate days, wear clean COL
lars after work. blow his nose with hand
kerchief. wash grande eau and black his
shoes-"until. monsieur, there Is no living
with herr groaned the easy-going Paris
artisan. But he was proud Of his little
apostle. all the same.
STERLING HELLO.