The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-15
PARIS DOES HONOR
 TO SOLDIER DEAD
Germans and French Alike Are Remembered on All
 Souls Day.

eCcrrespondence New York Post.l Such a crowd as this I never saw. even at the Grand Prix races said an old Par1sian Perhaps he had been oftener at the races than in Paris cerneteries on All Souls Day. In years of peace they are thronged by hundreds of thousands bearing flowers to strew on the graves. re- ] heat of his struggle against religion coming with the rest to commemor-k ate his dead This year the crowd was greater, that is all.
 As usual. it was Parisian in the true sense; that is, 1t wasa crowd of the Parisians who are not wrtlen up or eaIIustrated n the foreign press those whose earnest, steady, gall, industrious lives make the great city prosperous and fair. Foreigners are fIoyn but these remain Among the xnen are small shopkeepers, skilled arE7sans. laborers and clerks, nearly all of certain age Frenchmen in thefr prime are dghting at the front, furnishing more dead hies for flow CTS It is differ ent in London where there Is no compulsory military ser vice ana only volunteers are gone to- the army. An American lady, on her axrTaI theres after all these war weeks sin Paris writes me her first iapr essfon was a shock at seeing so. many young men in the streets
 These Parisians. walking amid graves, hold in their hands the round black hat which is the commopest sign of our crumb1inE civilzRti on The women wear black hats and capes This Is never display ground of fashions. In uanway some re- Iaa5nlng Paris1ans were discussing colors which " wo71ld be most worn th e coming winter. Am officer. who sat opposite and could not help hearing. spoke graya1ys -slH danes black will be most worn
 Along all the streets of this popu Ions quarter which lead to the most reDresen1ative Paris cemeteTyPere Ihchaise shite and purple cnrysa n- thexnurns are selling at cents a bancl1 Tram cars follow each other like trains The long vans that. on other days in happier times, picked un xaee- goers with noisy barKers on their steps advance decorously and daaernba1k their crowds before the lefty cemetery portal in the high s0xnner wall The tide Of Humanity sweeps into the city Of the dead in ssea1lng rivers slow flowing through the alleys netHeen the tonnbs-
 V the way there are grea< names a tho world goes usual FaOszini in nuzzc and Alfred Musset in poetry, and naarzha1s Of NapoIeonss wars and the Rofhschi1d family. Today few 1lngars but alI seem pushing I0rwaFd. to a new ennznence of grsenery and f3SSeess and 1Iz.s-s 31es,-t to fresh to1nfs 1zAare there are more flags here. in cluster and in wreathss all the day long inc chrYsanf hena11naS are heaped ana tho same inscription is on the rlbbuns Of all To the soldiers V he hape died for their country.
 eberay the crowd pauasa while bo ed heads murmur tradttio onal words of prayer with te stgning ol the crosa. and then gives way to ths endless line feIl0w Some seeA for their dead or that other war veal 18T0s and a few of the very old re member when children to have seer sea stiM falling where Napcleon's
 From the higher avenues of ths i1unaeuse bury1ng ground they car see. between dismal factories ana gray tenexnents Of working populaL ton. the railway station wi1ers wounded are arriving from tho field Of endless battle. From the trains t. the mattlng hospital ambuIances the. are tran1ferred still stained with znus ana blood. and with only a frs rough bandagfng- At thAse too, tn Hearers of chrysanthemums look am
 In what has Paris been changed b: wafZ Those who could look beneatl the surface always sasw Tn 1t tll hone1y village wkezsetn men as ant earn their living and cling to theI rhe v1liage-churI feels the trutl
 more than you
 Who's loath to leave this fife,
 Which to him little yielqs
 Ills hard-task d. sunburnt wife,
 His often Iabor'd nelds.
 The boors which whom he tallxsd tn
 country spots he knew.
 From such Parisians who hay
 
 namely. lives. That is all An, their temper has not changed fror the beginning. A foreigner frequent ing the students quarter writes tha he saw on that vacation sunday even ing of August 2. when it was frs certain that the great kin had bee organ1zed against them. He con trasEed 1t with what he saw in 1S70- or imagined he saw. for then. to. Paris, the true underlying Paris, wa the victim of legend
 Where do you see in Paris nois proeessions with boastful cries-C ko Berlin land the like Sunda evening, on the left bank 1tne Lati enaTtsr found only two cafe where the band was playing th GarhezIlatse and Chant du Depar with the crowd taking up the choru And there was nothing defiant thetr rnanner-1t was manly and rel oln6e, but grave You could feel thu tEA-@ v ez<S AOey e4s9 IL v Oc44SSbS0 l0 k A years ago, a matter of chance adventure with Frances good star rely on. No, it was a formidab extremity in which all have to d pend on their energy and discipliz and nzethod.,s
 Another ohservant foreigner writ on the 25th Of October from rerno Brittany. He continues my lett. written in early August when I sa haN~xnaEers and harvesters of Save laying aside their tools at the suede call to war and reporting WdtIaol aeitatfon, matter -of-fact and dete fIa4s to bes'1
 Let us first regain Belgium ar