Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-24
Fortunate Those Who Can
Spend the Spring There.
PARADISE OF THE SHOPPER
Some of the More Important Hotels
and Restaurants.
DAZZLING WORK OF ARTISANS
Especially Shops" for Which One
Must Seek-Novelties on
Boulevards.

visit to Paris takes place in the delicious
months of April May and June, when,
responding to their magic touch, the
city blossoms forth in its greatest lowell
ness. with its broad avenues alive with
hosts of gayly dressed people; it's parks,
gardens and Bots full Of the color and
fragrance of the early summer, and its
shops-its too beguiling shops displaying
their most fascinating wares to the de-
light and desperation of the traveller.
Wonderful Paris, the home Of fashion,
the paradise of the shopper, the joy of
the gay and the frivolous, as well as Of
the more studiously inclined, where is
the woman who does not thrill at the
mere mention Of the name?
The first and most important thing, es-
pecially for women travelling alone, and
upon which depends the whole success OF
the visit is the choice OF hotel, and In
this choice, as In most things, one must
be guided by taste and pocketbOok
With full purse. a limited allowance OF
time and a longing for comfort and
gayety, two women cannot do better than
to install themselves at the Grand, where
they are but stones throw from the
shops. theaters and museums, and where
at night when tired out from their day
exertions, yet ready for some diversion,
they have but to seat themselves at their
own small table in the perfectly appoint
ed dining room to see all Paris, gay,
laughing Paris, the Paris one reads ana
dreams of, dine in state before them
A somewhat smaller, but equally at
tractive, and equally convenient in point
of view of situation. is the Hotel Chat
ham, on the Rue Dauncu, running just
between the Avenue de LOpera and the
Boulevard de la Madeleine quite within
distance
points of interest; thoroughly modern
and up-to-date in all it's appointments,
famous for its American bar and its chic
afternoon teas, points that appeal both
to men and women. The cocktail habit,
wisely or otherwisely, is on the increase,
and almost every hotel in foreign lands
will announce with pride that cocktails
may be had made after the true Ameri-
can formula, but few and far between,
as experience teaches, are the places
where the genuine article can be found.
But one of the joys Of dining here is
the knowledge that when coming In
much the worse for wear, after laborious
labors Of sightseeing all day long, one
knows that his spirits may be revived
and his appetite made ready for the
dainty French food by the judicious use
OF a cocktail, prepared with all the care,
knowledge and exact attention to proper
tior. as though prepared by the unfail-
ing and expert hand of a New York club
steward.
Tea Time in Paris.
Then for afternoon tea there are, of
course, numerous tearooms scattered all
about, from the Rue de la Paix and the
neghboring streets down to the Rue de
Rivoli, but it Is more amusing and in
finitely more convenient to be staying in
a hotel where the tea hour is one of
the features of the place. For one sits
at his own small table, watching the
continual stream of well dressed per-
sons passing in and out, with quite SUI
perior feeling of being at home; in fact.
q stay at the Hotel Continental, over
looking the Tuileries, Is sure to render
trip to Paris among the most pleasur-
able experiences. Right in the midst of
the gayest whirl of the whirling Partisan
life, the luxury of its appointments, the
splendor of its great salons, and Of its
imposing palm-decked entrance, and the
perfection Of its service, make it favorite
with the wealthy great Of many lands,
and it is here that the comfort-loving
American may have at his ease the peep
at foreign life. in a foreign land, which
most SO eagerly long for.
Some time after the races comes a spin
back to Paris, and at some chosen haunt
of the grande mondaine for though the
French woman's prediction is for choco-
late. not tea, she sips it with her friends
at the appointed hour and calls it here
O'Clock tea, and the most attractive
spots in which to take this COULTER are
certainly in the palm-decked rooms Of the
great hotels Of the Champs Elysee. Here
at the Alba, with its luxurious salons
done in the Louis XVI style, and gleam-
ing with white and gold and pale bro
cade. or at the Palace right next door,
in the depths of soft upholstered arm
chairs. one sits at his ease, munching the
inimitable French pastry in its most de-
lectable forms, while listening to gay
music and reveling in the beauty Of the
marvelously gowned Partisan coquette
Or perhaps, IL the day be warm and fair,
instead Of returning to Paris from the
races one will drive direct to the Pre-
and, ensconcing ones self in some seclud-
ed corner OF the garden, will sip tea and
watch with interest smart rigs and
prancing horses, great touring cars drive
fashionably dressed celebrities and re-
firing to swell the ever-going line of We
hicles which surrounds the entrance on
one side.
The Famous Shops.
The stray shopper in Paris Is at first
doomed to disappointment, for the ways
OF the land must be known before one can
relish to the full the delights which the
city offers, for although there are the
great department stores, the Louvre, the
Printenps, the Bon Marche. the Galleries
Lafayette, it is essentially a city Of spe-
cialty shops, and the true Partisan, al
though for many things she patronizes
these large establishments, Is oftener to
be found frequenting the smaller houses,
which lie tucked away in all of the out
of-the-way streets, sometimes popping
into notice NOSE unexpectedly, but often
er quite escaping the notice Of the hurry
Ing tourist who goes at once to the larger
stores, whose names have been familiar
10 her for so many years, and where as q
matter Of fact there is nothing one can
not buy. from shoe buttons to master
pieces of the latest school of French T.
1T Is rather curious thing that. though
the French cocher has often been re-
fectly accented American French anu
non-comprehension of 1t, he has none the
less used his wits to such an extent as to
know that in the majority of cases the
first thing the travelling woman wants to
happens, therefore. that an occasional
with Baedeker in hand, giving the ad
dress "Au Louvre" is straightway con.
Quoted TO the Grand Magasin, instead OF
height Of his superior knowledge and vast
for one moment believes that one would
visit the Anticipated pictures and statue.
OF the Musee in preference to the won
derful display Of silks, lingerie and glove.
or the store OF similar name. And. onct
alighted. as often as not the cocher Ia.
his way, and the most inveterate o
sightseers will relinquish for the momen
the higher joys Of art for the more mum
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