Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-21
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Special Correspondence OF The Star.
PARIS, September g. 1907.
- HOJLD these lines meet the eyes OF
men fatigued by struggles and de-
ceptions, business treasons or the
~ changing heart of woman. l would
say: Don't suicide-first try the
| cafes OF the Paris boulevard!'
The cafes of the boulevard will give you
| conscious Nirvana-a phantasm OF society
| without obligations-a communion, dreamy,
! vet sustaining. In the pulsating life of thou
| sands and a cnematograph-like reflection
! of the great worlds doings.
| know famous American who was all
but ruined by drink. He cut loose from
| family and money. and doubtless he imag-
| tned to go off in cheap debauch in Paris.
| Well. the cafes of the Paris boulevard
have saved that drunkard. He came ready
70 spree-and found no spreeing atmosphere
! The so-called American bars-run by Ger
mans-tried. but failed to keep the morbid
| thirst alive. He found another, subtier
| stimulation.
| And | know another American in Paris
| He lives the life of an anchorite, pure as a
| lily lonely severe, ambitionless, without
! family, with little money. free of the thea
| ters. yet never going to them, ignorant or
sports. blind TO femininity. water and
coffee drinker. You would Judge him mel
ancholy. vet l know him to be secretly
happy lotus eater. The boulevard Is lotus
land and its cafes are the feeding places!
Outside the Grand Care Is a newspaper
stand and once l tried to count the daily
papers handled by the saucy. hashing-eyed
Hebrew maiden who Is always getting into
trouble.
LAST month her money-making stand was
closed on her three days because she was
almost caught accepting bets for clan
destine bookmaker. Last week they closed
her again for encroaching on the sidewalk
and saucing an inspector. Today she Is
in tears. but II Is pIuH-to hoiu our SYM
pathy.
are not acquainted. There Is retired gen
eral who buys his daiiies of Rome, London
and Paris from her when he quits his domi-
noes and ahsnthe. high employe OF the
German embassy depends on her for color
page Witzblatts and daily Tageblatts. A
Japanese military attache frequenting the
military corner has his daily package from
her-American, English, Russian and East
Indian lie is a great prince, although so
quiet and modest. His embassy Will speak
for the newspa per-stand girl at need and
so will the general and several colonies, |
commandments and captains. the German
embassy man. three theatrical managers,
poet three playWrights, nine newspaper
men, one banker. nine business men, my
melancholy American. and the bookmaker
himself, * she gets caught again
Adjunct to Lotus Land.
You see that saucy and Woodworking girl
is part of lotus land. With the American
magazines the London reviews and week
lies, the weekly color sheets OF Paris,
Munich. Vienna. Madrid. Berlin. Barcelona
and the daily and weekly newspapers of
every capital of Europe. not to speak OF
Africa and the orient. she keeps us palpitat-
ing with the world. And what she has not
got YOU can find with the old lady in front
OF the Cafe de la Paix. or farther down, In
front of Poussets. Nowhere else there
so many papers,
II Is the same with the walters those