The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1919-04-03
JOHN BOOTH VISITS PARIS
And Tells About It In Way His
Old Lewis County Friends
Will Enjoy.

nv Senator and Mrs. q. w. Boot
from their son, John, with tn
91st Division in France, who's
other letters have proven SO yer
interesting to and have receive
such favorable comment fror
The Herald S many readers:
The only chance I'll ever have t
write you from Paris, France.
Dear Folks:
| am here on a three-day pass
Am waiting for my train back Il
lie Ferte so will give you a de
tailed story Of my journey.
Naturally, the first impress
sions are the most vivid, and
shall probably do more justice t.
the things / saw first. 1t was
noon when the train arrived, and
after registering at the office OF
the Provo guard, I went to a
canteen maintained by the Red
Cross, whore good meal is to be
had for IS centimes twelve
cents). There are a number of
these here and in fact all over
France. Red Gross canteen work
ers do the work. which must be
tiresome, but they do it gladly.
Manv of them could buy the
whole Red Cross. They make it
seem like home Today the daugh
ter Of a u. S. Senator from New
York poured my coffee.
It was bewildering at first. So
many people and cars and things
swirling around like leaves in a
whirlwind. I walked along in
perfect abandon. gawking like
the Is karat R. F. d. On high
hill / espied large, white build
ing. which my map showed to be
the Church Of the Sacred Heart. |
Partly to see it, and partly to get
an idea of the panorama and |
pick out some landmarks. I went |
there. I climbed blocks and
blocks of steep streets and finally,
took cog railway to the summit.
You have seen pictures of old
castles on high bluffs, silhouett-
ed clear against the sky-such
was it. There was a bank Of
black clouds back Of it, but on
the church itself the sun was
shining. 1t is Of white stone. You
can imagine the beauty of it.
Having arrived at last on top IL
took look at the city. The ar
was hazy and one could not seeI,
far, but | got a general idea of
the lay of it, and picked two or
three buildings as land marks, !
the Eiffel Tower. Then :
| went inside. Z
The light filtered through very !
dense stained windows of an old !;
gold color, making it impossible :
to see the details of the interior, !
but somehow appealing to one in I
a sense Of eternal, absolute calm. r
Eliminating from every part of /
the building was a sort of a Y
drOning hum, as musical as the +
last vibrations from the clearest- ,
toned bell, and Of only two notes. !
The eye becoming accustomed to o
the light, you could see from
whence it came: There was a SER +,
vice going on, and the people v
were reading. You could see, q
indistinctly, people coming and a
going. That is the first church T
have ever been in that some 6
how seemed to be filled with the o
real spirit of its teaching-that Of 4
is very being taught lesson to O
those who could read it. I visit Q
I'd the vaulted caves beneath, in s.
which are the remains Of some O
but I didn't "get :
much of a kick out of it.
| left the hill then and proceed II
ID by street car toward the Eiffel q
Tower. On the way / passed one
If the two Triumphial Arches,
rected to the victories of Napol-
con the first. Tt is in a large,
ound square, and is surround
ID with dirty, rusty German can
on, set in a semicircle and look
ng like a bunch of gutter pipes
yelng an enormous polished st.
3ernard. What would Napoleon
ay if he saw them?
Next, the Trecaders, a replica,
think, Of an old Spanish fort
nd built for the worlds fair 1t
museum Of some sort but is
osed on account of the. war.
here is an enormous garden and
1uarium back Of it, or rather,
it, for it is crescent shaped.
tut the fish of the aquarium are
ke the vets Of the A. e. F. If
ley went there now they would
nd it gone dry. Walking thru
is garden, was facing the Elf
| Tower. only a short distance
way and across the Seine river.
IS over 300 yards high and
vers a base Of four acres. /
ade no attempt to bring it home
a souvenir. Leaving it, | went
quest of the Father Of Ferris