Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-15

burst into circus ring and the per
fume of oranges, sawdust and horses.
x x
This spring Choco1at and Footit quit
the Nouveau-Cjrque to tour the prov
inces. and it is an open secret that the
artistic Albano brothers. ultra-modern
clowns, conSummate musicians, almost
intellectuals. are not so well understood
by the children. The four other circuses
have imitation Chocelats. and every one
expects to see the old pair back in
autumn.
Starving in the streets of Paris, the
dress-suit darby clown was picked up
twenty years ago. by the illustrious
Footit, on the strength of his obsequious,
comic manner. Footit took him for a
humble side partner; but there is no
jealousy in the man of heart and wit,
who, as a silly. painted clown, so struck
with love beautiful young widowed
Russian princess that she carried him off
to be master of thousand serfs. They
lived in married bliss four years; and
when the princess died, Footit ever
enigmatic. abandoned the fortune to the
family. and returned-gayly mournful-to
his old place as head clown of the Nou-
veau Cirque. $685.
Footit developed the genius of the
day. has to study his right hand from his
left; but tell him to walk SO. bow like
that and fall down there. while saying
.'Yaas. my lord"' He hands the bare
courtly grace. Each step he takes, each
word he drawls in the three hours dur
ing which the children will not let him
quit the ring moment, has been learned
going. Chocolat? "-"To grease my auy-
MOBILIZE here!"-Where are you
going. Chocolat?"-'To grease my ary-
o-playner.'-''stayh ere.'-CHe is always
going. Chocolat ?''-''To grease my hy-
dro- play-ner.''-And the child audience
yells. in unison. delighted: Stay here!'
In this way. you will see, the chill
dren's Paris is smaller copy of the
Paris of their elders.
AS parents go to the Longchamps and
Auteuil race tracks less to see the horses
than to enjoy the flowers, the shade. the
landscape gardening, to revel in the new
styles worn by beautiful women, and to
watch the goings and comings Of famous
personalities So no matter what, the
Paris child-and American children soon
pick it up here's perfectly content to
watch older children riding in the ele-
plants howdah or between the camers
humps at the Accumulation Garden, or in
the little donkey wagons of the Jardin
des Plantes.
So in the rickety little merry o-round
of the Champs Elysees They do not
want a big one. run by motor The
Partisan intuition. even of these chill
dren. feels that life and manners are
more charming than utensils and the
mere fever of action. Now and then they
will say: Let me ride" and Let me
MIA W. With anbriafV she takes
little taste of doing-as a man of the
world" at grand dinner. tastes de-
corously. with high appreciation, each
dish but not for an instant does mere
feeding rise above the charm which he
feels i'm the noble surroundings, table
decoration, lights. flowers. beauty and
dress of women, witty conversation. OBJ
and light laughter!
They love decoration. They have an in
;tinct for manner. When a Paris child.
oday. is taken to one of the bigger shops
o buy its clothes 1t wants to see the new
models worn by child-manikns.
Once there were only three child-mani-
lins in Paris-famous little Limo and two
others in a certain exclusive concern Of
he Place Vendome. Today there must be
If the parents did not ask, the
children would. l think: not SO much
What are the new suits?" but rather
How do they look, worn?'
Lets see how they wear Them
Everything of grace, of chic. of decora-
lion. of successful dressing lies in that
one phrase. The child cloak models strut
and pose-like grown-ups-in the show
rooms. They wear the things beautifully.
and they know it. Run. my DEAR" says
isn't the skirt rather long? 1t seems to
- A 4. H.