The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-02-05

ing Is excellent but the way they serve
meals does not suit everybody. They
persist in serving the 90 in courses.
If you give all your order at once.
they win divide il up according to
their own notions and bring one or
TWO things at a time. And the way
some Of them split up an order IS real
provoking. one gOu-d-headed wait
or murdered n Of my orders in a
most abominable the last
thing he brought to serve as desert
was a pile # scrambled egg The
proYocation almost upset my piety.
Good rations and good liquors call
for merriment. In the fullest sense
Of the word. these folks GO in for "A
good time" Many OF them are in
fdels and atheists. and worship Rea-
son and Mammon. a very large ma
jority of them are EpicureanS n
given over to the pleasures Of this
world. Not all are such. There
are some as good people here as can
be found anywhere. And not all Of
the sins of Paris are committed by
the French. old m~,ney-bags is here
from other nations Gncluding Ameri-
ca and Paris gets credit for his sins.
But the fact remains that these peo-
pie are essentially different from the
Anglo-Amcrican. They think diff
ferently and have different ideals. If
we may interpret them by their lit
erature, their art and their theater,
We see that their taste is sensual. The
character of their literature is known
Of all men. If we visit their
museum and collections Of art we are
every where confronted with the per
fectly nude. In the ouvre and
other museums. and in he public
gardens and parks the same thing
abounds.
The skill of the artist is exquisite.
The painter has put on the canvas
pictures which express the noblest
emotions of the heart, and the Sculp-
tor has chiseled the fires Of love into
the cold, dull marble; but they spoil
the products Of their genius by de-
nying them the drapery demanded by
Il Christian civilization. In the city
there are over sixty houses for pub
lie amusement, and they are crowd
ed every night. AT all that | haV
visited the performances appealed ~
the sensual. The acting is all right
re costumes are fine and certainly
costly-but too scant. l have actually
been afraid that some Of the actresses
would contract bad colds these De-
cember evenings. for the raiment was
Sc3nteSt' where it was most needed. At
q grand opera the other night in the
National Academy of Music, the iarg-
est play house in the world, the dish
set before an audience composed of
the best Partisan society, was Z
Wife'S betrayal of her marriage vows.
And when she a drugged her huS-
band and ran away with u libertine,
that audience Of the plug-hat gentry
and jewel-bedecked women applauded
until the curtain was raised twice for
the guilty pair to make their ac-
acknowledgements. There is no law
here, so l am told by q practicing
attorney, against fornication, none
against seduction, and no law on the
subject Of bastardy.
A visitor can spend the first day
in Paris very profitably in studying
a map Of the city and in locating the
places of interest, tram and omnibus
lines. The streets are crooked, vi
every way, and the method of nam
ing them is idiotic. The same street
crooks many times and every time
it crooks it changes it's name. The
slightest curve creates a new street.
But, after getting ones bearings. the
city can be seen quickly and cheaply.
There are numerous electric and
steam trains. large omnibuses, two
story automobiles and other vehicles
that run from and to certain we'll
now places. There are two sys-
TENS of these, n running east and
west and the other north and south.
These run far into the night and
the city shows to advantage under
the glare of gas and electric lights.
The many electric signs are beauti-
ful-some of varied %colors, some
moving on a plane. others r%evolv-
ing, while some are constantly APP
p~earing and disappearing. At
night is the time to see the people,
evening-the old man. the old lady
and the young folks. And my!
what a throng. If you get in the
procession it carries you along. If
you don't wish to- go with the pro-
cession you can get out in the
street. If you do that You will GER
tainly be run yer by "a conveyance
f some kind. h other alterna-
tive is to take a chair in front of a
cafe. Ii you do that you must buy
a drink, for those chairs are for
customers. So what must one do?
seated in the chairs and taking
their evening dram. The dram
lovers are gazing at the procession
and thus runs the world away.
If a good time is what you want.
here's the place. The only thing
is big enough YOU a get lin the
SWIM But, to go the gaits. you
must needs regard y1ur lucre as
trash. Prices are high, but who
cares for prices? It's all in a life
time. don't YOU know. Walk fast,
talk fast and shovel out the francs
Sill vous Plat. !
III / " ~ Rll1tS doh'd,
you are expected to tip the walters
and servants literally. Many of
the walters and ervants not only
receive no pay from the propriet5rs
their services, but actually pay
for the privilege of serving. There
are some who pay the propriet5rs
as much as W. dollars per day and
furnish pen. ink and paper for the
customers. After doing that they
still make money. from tips and by
stealing. If a foreigner buys some
thing and hands the waiter a piece
of money which is more THAI the
price, he is pretty sure to give back
change tina is coming to the buy
er.I nave caught them red handle
mere than once, but made all dis
gorge except one. That one was a
female clerk, who lied so eioquently
| let her have it. They AXE it
for granted that a foreigner doesn't
kn w the value of their pieces of
but if he does they Will at
to lie out of their rascality.
The chief attractions of Paris. aside
from its magnificent public buildings
and monuments. are its palaces and
museums containing priceless treas
of art. All of them are open to
public and no charge for admis-
sion. Students flock here from
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