The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-04
ANOTHER TRUCK LOAD Of the
FINEST EVER.
WHY Haven't We Got Something
Like This in New York? They Ask,
When They See the Tuileries Gar
dens and Other French Wonders

his arm, and the lion skin over his
shoulders That deer you see
by his side sucked and brought up
Telephe, as the gods often gave their
children to animals to bring up"
What a deer baby" some one in
the crowd remarked, and they all went
frolicking along.
From time to time the party ran
across a Venus, always another Venus,
the Louvre is full of the Goddess Of
Love, and every time the boys, one
one and all. gave a gasp.
This isn't the Venus of r"
At Last--the Milo.
mo. know what you mean; no, this
isn't the Venus Of Milo. not yet, but
we are coming to her, a little further
on. I am going to show her to you.
the original Venus of Milo" Thus the
guide went imperturbably on. pretend
ing that she did not know that she
was exciting the boys to the highest
pitch and teasing them with lot OF
other Venuses before coming to the
right one.
II there is anything the American
soldier resents 1t is to be told that
thing is IA copy. The resentment Is
universal with them. The guides have
learned this. and they use the creates;
.act so as not to wound their sensihil-
tiles ION this point. Once the fatal
word copy" is spoken It is difficult
to eradicate the idea, and the soldiers
will cut in again and again with:
rs this the originate"
At last here they are before her,
the most living statue in the wOrlo.
! 1t is a delicate moment. What can
be said so as not to disappoint them
| in their expectations? The Cu'd,
seemed to take the right way. She
called their attention to the eyes, those
eyes that look through mems souls
and burn into them. The dough soy5
gaze, and they are not disappointed
! Then beside telling the ancient history
% the famous statue the guide adds
some interesting details as to the his
tory OF the Venus during the present
war. she the most precious possession
OF the Louvre.
You can see.' she begins. that M
statue is in two parts. 1t is com
posed Of two different kinds OF marble
the upper part is OF softer. fieshie,
marble, white the lower half, the drap-
cries. is of a harder granite. That line
you see there where il Is put together
did not show formerly, and II ought
not to show. But the truth is. when
Paris was being bombardCd. the Ncnu1
was taken down. taken apart. boxed
and sent to Toulouse: she has only
just gotten back and hurried to get ~
there .on her pedestal, so as to see IT,"
American soldiers before they started
for home. Cement will be put in wher'
the break in the lines is and then Il
will not show"
Following Jean Vatican.
One OF the most popular of the Par''
sightseeing trips organized by the Y
is what il known as the Victor Hugo
Tour" and these are done in autolno.
bies. The route followed covers a.
the wanderings. hair breadth escapes
of the hero of Les Miserables," JeaA
Vatican.
Che powers that be were not at al n
favor of this business. did not think Il
would take. but it had one ardent sup
porter. Frank Lewis, who had made a
minute study Of the whole subjcC, IN
Guiding plans of the sewers where lean
Vatican hid and old maps of Plr'~ -
that day. At first only two Of '.'se
trips We're undertaken in weeh. HIt
the demand for places was so great
that now a party starts out every day.
When Mr.. Lewis came in anu re-
ported that one boy had broken down
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