Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-09-22


as much with somewhat limited
resources, as We do, and we are the
greatest people on earth as We ad-
NIT ourselves.
The show place in Paris is the par
allelogram along the Seine consisting
of the Champs-Elysees, the Place de
la Concorde, the TuillerieS gardens,
and the Louvre art gallery. This dis
trict is about three miles long and
averages a quarter of a mile wide. 1t
contains the Champs with beautiful
gardens and woods intersected by
wide avenues, then the Place de la
Concorde, one of the most beautiful
squares in the world, the Tuillemes'
commodious public play grounds, with
ponds and fountains; palaces with
pictures, statues and monuments his
Uorical and categorical; and the end
is in the Louvre which is said to be
the greatest COLLECTION of art in ex-
lStence. There is not a chord in the
human mind and heart which is not
touched beautifully and effectively by
some part of this magnificent public
place, which belongs to the people
and is used by them. The more one
thinks over this feature, the more he
must realize that although the French
do not conform to our methods they
are certainly able to reach many of
our best ideals and whether they 90
around or across lots to get here de-
ponds upon the viewpoint of the
critic.
The old Bourbon kings of France
understood their people. While they
made it hard for the common people
to get living they made it easy for
them to have good time. Whenever
the public kicked on taxes the king
Laid out a new park and gave a fete
with free drinks and fire works. The
Bourbon : would probably be reigning
yet if Louis the Sixteenth and his
wife, Mary Antoinette, had had any
sense. Antoinette was German and
did not understand the French ways,
Louis was a poor politician, and when
a storm came they lost their heads
f!guratively and then lost them actu-
ally. The republic lasted a few years
and then Napoleon, who was as great
a player to the grandstand as he was
a general, became emperor, and only
his foolish desire to conquer every
body lost him his job. The BourbOns |
came back as kings but these had no
sense. The French people want to be
fooled and these kings couldn't fool
So there was another repub
lie and then Napoleon the Third came
forward on the reputation of his I'M
,lle, the great Napoleon. He worked
he French people to finish, built
bOulevards and Fairgrounds
mtil he had everybody for him and
hen got captured by the Germans
oSt his reputation and throne and
france became a republic for the
hind time. This was in 1871 and the
epublic has lasted forty years, much
onger than expected, but in fact the
government has been wisely conduct
d and has understood the French
haracter we'll. There is another Ma
'oleon by the name of Victor, who Is
kelly to come back, and sometime
Then the government does an impru-
emit thing the people will remember
he good old times of Napoleon and
etwu to a monarchy. Victor mar
led the daughter of the old Emperor
I Belgium and has a big campaign
md.
Of course everybody knows these d
acts and 1 have recited them to illus +
ate the French national character. In
he French are not false but they are S
exile. They like a change, a novelty
excitement. A revolution, OF a
ew government appeals to their
'nse Of enjoyment Just as does a I,
sw picture, new hat or a new colt =,
ne. In spite Of this trait they have .,
ne great things In all the great A
les Of advancement and nropreas