The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-06

ill'NbNllNs says lueit Is really
no need of hel-all that is necessary
j. the fear II hell Europe had been
wondering for some time whether the
modern philosophy would hold good aud
the fear Of war would answer the pur-
pose or whether the reality might not
lee better and also more economical.
| was on "A walking tour up IN the
pine forests Of the French Jura Things
looked busy upon even that neutral
Swiss frontier. | thought Of the theory
mat the human race Is evolved from sea
water hence the universal desire for sea
bathing and the struggle OF the nations
Tor a sea front Was not this likely to
he the rush season TO the seashor- for
nations as for individuals? turned
lack to the nearest railway station
anne into Paris the middle Of July. went
10 hotel opposite one of the biggest
Parts railway stations. took room tina,
commanded the busy square IN front or
1t and waited. II wac good box seat
for a national drama. The curtain soon
vent Up.
Real Paris was CAV and buovant a.
always; having seen its society off for
the summer, Il was settling down 10 an
easy of season bourgeois existence
complacently watching the hard work
lng 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 ooule-
Yards and In the pretty public gardens
was that things looked a little bad but
would be "arranged''--so many war
Scares had been arranged" That was
Tho business OF the Government. SO
he women sewed away at their fancy
work, while the men sized up the situa-
ton a. only "blureuse" Thus has the
GOOD word blum been Frenchficd.
Tuesday, July 81. the news was large
ana black on the first page Of the morn
ing papers that Austria Hungary had
opened the great European war and was
,tarting for her sea bathing on he Med
.'orrancan. borrowing Servia's bathing
Suft on the wav. And the smile OF Paris
went out Tx" a flame before the wind
u ls something to watch the breaking
ont or he real nature OF great city
Ihose ive historic days that preceded
tire international war saw the unfolding
"i the tru" French character The
Gtlltc soul fascinating and enigmatic.
mat 10 the outsider u a sealed document
A. France $ a nation Of small pro-
rrietprS, OF little farms. so Paris is a
'liy or small interests. The Paris that
."s back ~ thc grand huulevards the
Grand hotels ana the shopping play
Ground Of he tourists Is a city Of what
30" French call the little commerce"
represented bN she 'i,;Ic shop Partisan
middle class ambition works toward bu,
900, end 20 OWN shop no matter how
small the smaller the bet .er. being less
I'uhl" sell it ont adyantageously to
some country friend. become RENTER"
and rc,irc from work before 30
war panic Is just like financial
panic. h"cau~" II is the same thing But
hnancia. panic Of French people &,
nn, Ike the same thing anywhere else
Will" money panics begin from The top
ana work down, this began from the
bottom ana worked up.
II began when Paris began Us first
run, that on the newsstands The
French read newspapers with the same
economy which they eXercls. IN all
things. \ newspaper Of two sheets can
he made 90 stretch over the day. passed
on afterward to a neighbor, more often
they get on without buying one. as the
cafes provide papers "a well as drinks
Women do without the printed news
prefcrrng 10 get 1t hv word OF mouth
and do their own editing. So IL was he
most significant and stransest sight Of
all through the curious transformation
~ this five days curtain raiser TO the
great war drama 20 see every man.
woman and child on the Paris streets
with newspaper in their hands; hail
Of coppers rained all day on the news
stands, the cherished sous were squsn-
dered on every extra" Bit II was not
the Austrian Servian war news that
they Were reading to-day. nor that the
Vienna Boerse was closed. but that
French rentes tina, meant for them that
little income, work free. some day were
balancing prrcariousy.
Then the people who were sitting
gossplng IN front OF their doors hur-
ried Inside In every little shop there
could De seen the same thing. q family
group gathered, grandparents parents
and children with ,helr heads together,
whispering under their breath or hud-
died in corner speech,ess. At no stage
were those five days noisy Shopkeep-
crs had 20 De reused up to wait On one
they did II in blind. dazed way, I'M
compreheudugly. For them business
and the customer had ceased 70 exist:
they were priped in tina fear of he'll
represented by the wavcrIug rentrs
That evening some aut-war rioters
on the grand boulevards were charged
nv the police. but Paris Of the "llt L.
commerce frruucnls this grand quar-
ter" a. they call II. about as much as
thcv do New York. over all the real
Paris hung silence that seemed VIE
hrattnu with ~u-p.uSr The drlusiuu