The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-05-15

all the visitors to all the cafes want
The after theatre supper is the excep-
| ton In Paris.
| Hot chocolate is the rule. The Paris
Ian drinks 1t as hot and as fast as
| possible. The women do not remove
their wraps nor the men their overcoats
The whole proceeding is summary.
| They are in hurry to get home. For
the vast majority even of pleasure seek
| ers the Paris night Is all over at a.
m. .'.t
As for the foolish people who insist
on sitting up they all drift out to
Montmartre with it's traditl ms. real and
Imaginary, of revels in which artists
and their models took part, supplying
| their own entertainment in singing.
playing and declaiming poetry. What
ever may have happened in the old
| times there Is nothing now that 1t not
commonplace
All the principal cabarets of Mont
artre have become mere variety thea
tres and close up sharp at midnight
like the other houses. But there are
few houses which cater to the night
providers. In some of them late supper
is served to people in evening clothes
while gypsy orchestra plays and more
or less genuine negresses, Egyptian
dancers and Spanish won: IN perform
more or less authentic national dances
In all these places the doors are lock-
ed and the blinds are drawn. From
the streets they seem dead. One has to
know his Paris more or less to get into
them.
There are shady mig .thawk guides
VINO make speciality of steering the
stranger who wants to see the shady
side of Paris life. This aspect Of it
stretches out to perhaps a. m. and
then the cabmen, who make this trade
speciality, reap a harvest taking the
belated to all parts of Paris.
There is a way by which Summing
parties can stretch out the night
couple of hours more. 1t Is chiefly re-
sorted to by strangers who want to see
Paris all the way round the clock.
When the Montmartre ccbarets go to
sleep such parties make their way to
the markets, where the next days food
and drink for the city is coming in from
all parts of France and starting off
again for every quarter of Paris.
This is bustling, busy scene worth
seeing. 1t is as moral and thrifty as
the Montmartre ones are loose and
wanton. But 1t Is not without it's dan
gers.
The murky marketmen and the
shrewish women rather resent being
stared at by men in clawhammer coats
and women in frills and furbelows.
Many a stovepipe hat is wrecked by
contact with the crate that some jost
ling porter carries on his shoulder.
Sometimes an unpleasant egg lands
on an Immaculate shirt front. and cab
bHge stalks and unstable portions of
fish are sometimes hurled by the mar
ket women at the finery of the visiting
ladies. However, night visits to the
market are so common that some of the
little coffee and eating houses of the
neighborhood have become famous for
their homely but tasty dishes.
One makes a speciality of shellfish.
another of calves feet IN jelly, another
of tripe and onions a la mode de Caen.
They also affect eccentric names and
furnish musical entertainments. and
the German observer thought 1t was
worth the loss of his night rest to see
four detectives in frock coats and tall
hats walk into one of these places and
arrest the singer in the middle Of a
song and march him off in handouts
on a charge of being an Apache and
mixed up in various robbng and knit
ing affairs.
Besides the coffee houses, the flower
sellers reap a rich harvest from the
all-nighters who stray to the markets
They are all pretty or near pretty girls
and they have wheedlng ways as well
as beautiful displays of fresh blooms
of all sorts.