Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-03
HOW OLD GOLD COLLARS
Decrepit Gardener Declares
Faith in Portent or Evil
Omen Meant by
Piscatorians.

companiesD All the rest of the reservoir
capacity-refilled after each playing-goes
to the terrible Fountains
Thus, at last, thanks to a modern bust
ness arrangement under republican regime.
what autocratc kings could not do is done
for the common people of Paris and the
world
Thus, at last the Fountains of Versailles
spout magnificently all at the same time on
their appointed days. Consult the rail-
road advertisements 1t is, more or less,
on alternate Sundays from May to october.
On such days the three railway companies
transport so many hundreds of thousands
that trains have TO follow each other every
five minutes! 1t is perfect misery to go
and see and get away!
The folly" of Louis XIV has, therefore,
in the end turned out a fine thing for
France and for the town. Half It's 10000
inhabitants live in some way or other on
the flow of water-and sightseers. The
other half pay heavy rents and practically
no taxes to live in the hearhiest, best-Kept,
peacefulest. beautifulest and most socially
correct little city, perhaps. in the world. in
these days of hurry and excursions.
Life at Versailles.
Adorned with dignity and leisure. 1t Is a
dignity that cannot die, a style in harmony
with the bewigged and rapiercd courtiers
of a pompous old monarch, who had but to
idle away luxurious and refined lives.
HE who never knew the life of Yer
sailles before the revolution" TalIeyrand
used to say as he played tric-trac with my
great-grandfather in the coffee house op-
posite Independence Hall, Philadelphfa-"he
who never knew the life of Versailles be-
fore the revolution cannot know what nv-
ing isv'
To dream of 1t you must walk through
the forest park Of dark and drizzling after
moons in autumn-when there are no sight
eeers.
The tip Is from old Jehan Collot ninety
six on his next birthday. born in one of
the stone cottages beside the state carriage
house.
when the leaves fall sodden, when the ham
let of the beautiful queen fades in the
great silence"
The old man stopped abruptly, as If
frightened, Ole is a shaky old man, but he
certainly impressed me. 1 relate this very
seriously)
she paid for those great fountains with
her lfe!'' he croaked, ominously. Then he
whispered:
would monsieur behold her, the beauti-
full queen?"
We We're alone at dusk. We stood across
the carp pond, opposite the house of the
queen, with It's communicating bridge We
randall. Beside US was the dairy where poor
Marie Antoinette played mikmaid, sleeves
up, singing, as she patted the sweet butter.
Monsieur, the queen walks again, with
the two children whispered the ancient
gardener. Let monsieur come the night of
the 25th full moon Monsieur shall sit
with Jehan Collot, where he knows. the
right spot, sit at midnight-the fun moonT
"Jchan, have you seen her?' / asked.
Fear not" he answered, no harm viii
come to him who sits with a Collot father
and son, son and father, back two hundred
years"
"Jehan, have you seen her."
1.-The queen walked in 1929. l was a boy
of seventeen. She walked in 1877. She
walked In 1850. In 1862. In 1869. And
now she walks again! Trouble and change.
New things for France"
STERLING HELLO.