The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-07-19

shall | begin? Paris the most beau
tiful city in the world Paris, with
her 100000 people, her wealth. her
pride. her gayeties and her eXtrava-
gances; her antiquities and her TRACE
dies Much has been written by able
writers. and yet how little do we
realize or understand of people un-
til we are brought in contact with
them and have the opportunity to see
and study their habits in their daily
| life. The French strike me as being
| the most nervous and eXcitable people
] have ever seen. They seem to lay
SO much stress upon little things.
| Their manners and especially their
dress and their eating and their drink
| ing. IT is said. and they themselves
| say. that Paris sets the fashions for
| the world. When YOU walk into one
Of their shops YOU arc in reality not
supposed to have an idea of your own.
| OF course they listen with all due re-
spect. and it is Yes, yes. yes madam;
but please to leave it all with us. You
| see. madam this is our special bust
ness: we VIII please YOU and YOU VIII
| be perfectly satisfied, and we do as
sure YOU that it shall not cost YOU
| one more cent than is absolutely
necessary And they will show you
, how absolutely necessary this and
that and the other thing is to make
everything harmonic. And YOU may
be sure that YOU will come out with
| an empty purse. Both men and wo-
men must dress in Paris to have any
standing of respectabilitY Aud they
! are expected to patronize the resorts
and keep up with the customs. The
hotel whore YOU stop bespeais your
position. Then every eye is upon
your dress. Gentlemen and ladies are
| expected to appear in evening" dress
for dinner. and now when the dinner
is under way. about sac. is the time
| for the picture display All eyes will
be keeping a lookout toward the
door for those lovely Partisan
sowncd" ladies to make their appear
ance. and when they walk up the
asles Of those gorgeous dining halls
all eyes are gazing upon them, for
they are indeed moving pictures. and
many of them are dressed not only
elegantly. but so thinly that their
beautiful forms are seen almost as
perfectly as YOU sec those beautiful
undresSed statues in the great picture
galleries. The service for luncheon
and dinner is table d'hote, which con-
sistS of from six to nine courses. In
other words. YOU are literllN stuffed.
You are expected to take wine which
is always extra. They Will. of course,
serve ice water but it is against their
religion. coffee NJ tea is rcver served
at tables except for breakfast After
dinner everybody files out into the
great reception hall or the reading
and writing rooms, which are beauti
fully furnished and provided with
touches and chairs to suit every taste.
As soon az YOU are seated dainty
little table will be set before you, on
which viii he a we'll filled match safe
and Il silver tray for the reception of
cigar and cigarette ashes and stlrmps.
And YOU will he asked in the most po-
lite terms. What will you have"
In some of these great reception
rooms we find an oriental "nigger," as
black and shining as newly polished
stove. II" comes up bowling and
smiling. showing his white teeth. If
YOU nod assent he will bring his little
tn BILE. tray and. dainty silver service.
He lights spirit lamp that sends out
a flame at least four inches wide;
over this he holds his little long
handled coffee pot and in less time
than it takes to tell it he is ready to
ill four or six tiny little gobicts
which hold about two tablcspoonfuls
with a black. syrupy mixture called
oriental coffee. For this wonderful
clixir--one-half will remain in the
i,,,a
franc coco for each person, and the
tip. Then he lifts your hand and inn
prints a kiss upon the back of it. and
with profound bow he leaves YOU to
sip and sip while he looks for an
other customer.
Everything seems to hinge upon tho
gayeties of this great city, Dress
stylish dress-takes the lead. If YOU
have anything nice YOU are expected
to wear it, that it may be seen. 1t is
not i'll manners to sit or stand or turn
around and look long at a we'll dress
ed woman. 1t is expected, and she
dresses for that purpose. SO ii is said.
After 10 p m. the gayeties begin, and
in many places continue till daylight
Everybody is expected to ride. Taxi
cabs, double and single. standing and
going and coming everywhere. The
refreshment places are damned and
era mined and rows of people are sit
ting out in front from three to five
rows deep. every body eating and
drinking, and YOU can cut the to-
hacco smoke with a knife. and this
goes on and on. TO illustrate; The
other morning | was at an early
breakfast. The only other persons
We're three young Americans and
young French woman who sat near
me at the next table. She could speak
! English very well. She was evidently
mploNed by these young fellows as
chaperone, and they were getting
ready for an early start. They were
| ordering a typical L. :. breakfast,
one ordered strawberries: then he
must have cream. He evidently had
not caught on" for they use wine
over berries. it is much cheaper The
| head waiter was called and after
time jug of whipped cream was
| brought out and he was served with
one spoonful. He demanded more,
and he got it, His plate was heaped
M with berries and cream, which he
proceeded to deVour with a table
spoon. This convulsed the French
woman with laughter I'm which they