The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-12
MIGHT LIFE OF PARIS.
Neither Exciting Nor Very Amusing --Mont,
martre CAbAFeta md the Marketa.

Neither Exciting Nor Very Amusing Mont
martre Cabarets n the Markets.
Paris goes to bed eacly, Gays a German
newspaper writer who has peer making
a study Of its night life. For the few who
sit up-a handful Of foolish and dissipated
persons and some Sightseeing Stranger
| there is little excitement and etin lesa real
amusement.
From 10 O'Clock or 90, when the general
crowd deserts the cafes for home and
bed, down to midnight the streetS are
dreary and almost deserted. Then there
is a brief renewal Of life as the theatres are
turned out.
At one cafe to which after theatre crowds
resort soft boiled eggs, rolls and chocolate
are a speciality. The chocolate is what q
great majority Of all the visitors to all the
cafes want. The after theatre supper 10 the
exception in Paris.
Hot chocolate is the rule. The Partisan
drinks it as hot and az fast az possible.
The women do not remove their wraps
nor the men their o~vercoats. The whole
proceeding is summary. They are in a
hurry to get home. For the vast majority
even Of pleasure seekers the Paris night
is all over at 2 A. NJ.
AS for the foolish people who insist on
sitting up they all drift out to Montmartre
with its traditions, real and imaginary, Of
revels in which artists and their models
took part, supplying their own entertain
ment in singing, playing and declaiminR
poetry. Whatever may ave happened In
the old times there 10 nothing now that Ia
not commonplace.
All the principal cabarets Of Montmartre
have become mere variety theatres and
close up sharp at midnight like the other
houses. But there are a few houses which
cater to the night providers. In some Of
them late supper is served to people in
evening clothes while a gypsy orchestra
plays and more or less genuine negresoes,
Egyptian and Spanish women perform more
or less authentic national dances.
In all these places the doors are locked
and the blinds are drawn. From the street
they seem dead. One has TO know his
Paris more or less to get into them.
There are shady nighthAwk guides who
make q speciality OF steering the stranger
who wants to see the shady side Of Paris
life, This aspect Of II stretches out to per-
haps 4 A. M. and then the cabmen, who
make this trade q speciality, rear q harvest
taking the belated to all parts Of Paris.
There 10 q way bywhich slumming parties
can stretch out the night q couple OF hours
more. 1t 10 chiefly resorted TO by strangers
who want to zee Paris all the way round
the clock. When the Montmartre cabarets
20 TO sleep. such parties make their way 10
the markets, where the next days food
and drink for the city is coming In from
all parts Of France n starting OF again
for every quarter Of Paris.
This is a busting. busy scene worth
seeing. 1t il as moral and thrifty a. the
Montmsrtre ones are loose and wanton,
But it is not without it's dangers.
The murky marketmen and the shrewish
women rather resent being stared a. BY
men in clawhammer coats and women in
frills and furbelows. Many a etovepipe hat
10 wrecked by contact with the crate on
some iostling porter's shoulder,
Sometimes an unpleasant egg lands on
an immaculate shirt front, and cabbage
stalks and unstable portions Of hsh are
sometimes hurled by the market women at
the f1nery Of the visiting ladies'. Howev er.
night visits to the market are 90 common
that some OF the little eating houses Of
the neighborhood have become famous for
their homely but tasty dishes.
One makes a speciality OF shell1sh. another
OF calves feet in jelly, another OF tripe and
onions 4 la mode de Caen.. They also affect
tsinments, n the German observer
thought 1t was worth the loss Of his nights
rest TO see four detectives in frock coats
and tall hats walk into one OF these Places
and arrest the singer In the miodre u a
song and march him of in handouts on a
charge OF being an Apache and mixed up
in various robbing and knitting affairs.
Besides the coffee houses, the flower SELL
es reap a rich harvest from the allnighters
who stray 70 the markets. They are all
pretty. or near pretty girls end they have
WheeditnE ways "a well az beautiful dis
plays Of fresh blooms Of all sorts.