The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-15

- &c necessary Is the fear of hell.
r..o,e mad been wondering for some
- ubether the modern philosophy
lid hold good and the fear OF war
I'D answer the purpose IT whether
w. reality might not be better and
u more economical, writes Blanche
McNanus in the New York Sun.
ft ,Yas on a warlike tour up liz the
.nc forests of the French Jura.
pphincs looked busy upon even that
aautral swiss frontier. l thought of
~ theory that the human ace is
ayolycd from sea water, hence the
universal desire for sea bathing and
,hc struggle of the nations for a sea
front. Was not this likely to be the
,ush season to the seashore for ma
,ions as for individuals? / urned
hack 20 the nearest railway station,
came INTO Paris the middle of July,
wcnt to a hotel opposite one of the
b,gyeet Paris railway stations, o a
room that commanded the busy
ec,,arc in front of it and waited. 1t
vas u good box seat for a national
drama. The curtain soon went up.
Real. Paris was gay and buCyant as
ALWAYS. having seen it's society off for
The summer, it was settling down to
an easy off season bourgeois existence,
gossiping in front of its doors while
complacently watching the hard
working summer tourists fit through
the city. The general opinion among
the class who brought out their chairs
and comfortably installed themselves
along the shade fiecked stretches of
the boulevards and in the pretty pub
lie gardens was that things looked a
little bad but would be "arranSed"-
so many war scares had been ar
ranged" That was the business of
the government. So the women sewed
away at their fancy work. while the
men sized up the situation as only
'hluffeuse.' Thus has the good word
bluff been Frenchified.
Tuesday. July IS, the news was large
and black on the first page Of the
morning papers that Austria-Eungary
had opened the great European war
and was starting for her sea bathing
on the Mediterranean, borrowing Ser
Was bathing suit on the way. And the
smile Of Paris went out like a flame
before the wind. 1t is something to
watch the breaking out of the real
nature of a great city. Those five
historic days that preceded the inter-
national war save the unfolding of the
true French character. The Gallo
soul, fascinating and enigmatic, that
10 the outsider is "A sealed document.
City Of Small Interests.
As franc is a nation of small pro-
Fhi'lbIo. vi lltllt ldIf1S, So IdIlS Il d
city Of small interests. The Paris that
lies back Of the grand boulevards, the
grand hotels and the shopping play
ground Of the tourists is a city of what
the French call the little commerce.
represented by the little shop. Pari
sian middle class ambition works to-
WARD but one end-to own a shop, no
matter how small, the smaller the bet
Ter, being less trouble; sell ii out ad-
NdutHUCnnGlN To CANA nn1rnfrNy friend
become a RENTER" and retire from
work before 20.
y war panic is just like d financial
pdhlc' because it is the same thing
but Il inancial panic of French people
j. not like the same thing anywhere
use While money panice begin from
.e Top and work down, this begar
IRON the bottom and worked up.
II began when Paris began it's frs
run That on the newsstands. TIL,
liohch read newspapers with tn
s%"e economy which they exercise il
~ thHaSS. A newspaper of TIVE
SneetS can be made to stretch over tn
Wy PASSED on afterward to a neigh
b W., more often they get on withOu
pesLas one. as the cafes provide pa
80 as we'll as drinks. Women q,
r"'oul me printed news. preferrin:
~ 80 II ny word of mouth and d,
v ~ own editing. So it was the mos
,bnoaht and ~strangest sight of al
trough the curious Transformation O
= "Ve days curtain 1aiser to tn
~ war drama to see every mar
wi,. ma and child on the Paris street
b au . newspaper in their hands;
new, 'oppers rained ali day on tn
smss.ands, the cherished sous wer
was tred on every extra. But
nan not the Austrian-Servian wa
nos WS that they were reading toda,
ed Hat the Vienna Boerse was clio
me,n nat that French rentes, tina
wort Tor them that little income
precariously. "e
Tho. feoplc Hurry Inside.
eoss;ni the people who were sittin
lied ;p nv IN front of their doors hru
conld nfsioe. In every little shop ther
Tlvo'o be seen the same thing q fam,
paren,, oup gathered, grandparent
toreths and children with their head
breath whispering under the.
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