The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-10-14

that all the people and every industry
outside of Paris must pay her tribute.
Every military maneuver is from the
outer posts toward Paris, and prac
tically all her military strength is cen
tered there. Every division of both
state and corporate railroads run di.
rectly from some distant part to
Paris. There is not a Cross.country
division of road in France worthy of
being called railroad. Farmers and
merchants of distant towns are ire.
quently required to ship products and
goods as far as 400 miles by way of
Paris In order to get them forty miles
from the starting point. And, worse
than all this, the entire social fabric
of the French people has been tainted
with the poisoned social system of
Paris.
The people of Paris have been an
interesting study for many centuries.
SO interesting, in fact, that 1t is well
to know something of the character
of him for whom she was named.
Paris, so legendary history teaches
us, was the son of Priam, king of an.
cient Troy. II had been foretold be-
fore his birth that he would cause the
ruin of his country His father there
fore ordered that he should be put to
death as soon as he was born, but the
slave whose duty it was to carry out
this order carried the infant to Mount
Ida, where some shepherds adopted
and cared for him. When he reached
manhood he married the nymph Or
none. Later in life, at a nuptial feast,
he was made umpire to decide who
was the most beautiful among the
goddesses present. The prize was a
golden apple. This apple had been
thrown upon the table by Discordia,
because she was not invited to the
marriage of Thetis with Peleus, king
of Athens. She cast her poisonous
breath upon the assembly and van
ished. On the golden apple was in
scribed ITO the faireSt" Instantly
Juno, Minerva and Venus Quarreled for
the prize, and the pleasure of the feast
was at an end. Juno tried to bribe
Paris by offering him power Minerva
offered him wisdom, and Venus prom
ised him the most beautiful woman in
the world. AS Paris was only a man,
of course Venus received the prize,
but he was told that the most beauti-
full woman III the world was Helen,
who unfortunately was already the
wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta.
| Such a slight thing as marriage bond
was nothing to Paris, and he abducted
| her, which abduction ocCasioned the
/ famous war between the Greeks and
| Trojans, ending in the destruction of
Troy and two-thrds of a million of her
people, including Paris.
1t was to honor him who occasioned
all this betrayal intrigue, bribery, dis
honor and cruelty that the city of
Paris was given it's name. One has
not to study the life of her people for
any considerable time to feel con-
vinced, in his own mind at least, that
beautiful Paris is living well up to the
limit of the ambitions and aspirations
! of the ancient Paris for whom she was
named.
~ City Beautiful.
One has right to call her beautiful,
for no city is more so. Her streets
and avenues more nearly resemble
the web of a spider than the engineer
ing ability of man. Her gardens are
as a perfumed breath from heaven.
Her architecture is the best from an
cient Athens and Rome. Her hundreds
of monuments erected in memory of
her heroic past, are all evidences of a
past intelligence second to none in the
worlds history. But for all this, her
lions of them-are more corrupt and
crooked than any of which we know.
| Not wicked in the way of committing
brutal crimes, but more in the sense
we are apt to call naughty. To the
average man of Paris home is but a
place for cattle; all the sacred memo
ries attached to the one word "moth-
er" are to him but tradition Of the
distant past; sister, Is but the result of
an accident; wife an article of con-
venience or commerce. To the un-
trained eye he may appear courteous
and gallant, but his seeming interest
is the most fraudulent sham ever
worked upon a public for the real
thing. If he stoops to pick up and
restore lost article to a lady, it is
only for an excuse for other liberties.
If he steps aside to let a lady pass
upon the streets, it is only for the
purpose of obtaining a better view
from the rear. Absinthe, cigarettes
and Righteousness control his every
act, his every thought, and his licen'
tiousness has not only destroyed the
life and virility of his city, but are fast
poisoning the best life of the nation
as WELL
l spent yesterday in the art halls OF
the city, more particularly to see the
two art productions of the city for this
year, concerning which the Paris peo
pie have gone wild. The one is en-
titled The Filtration" The other
bears no name, but for descriptive
purposes | will name IL "The Temp