The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1927-08-25
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BY Mabel Laycock Hege

IIlnR else Is WItIt W UtSih anu Sf'PN-
cially where to leave off. If anything
were needed to increase that bewild-
erment, Eiffel Tower would do 1t.
There are three platforms 1.-TWO
francs each transfer). Paris and its
surroundings, with population If
over two million, presents from the
first platform panorama hard To
equal in extent or interest
A noticeable thing that impresses
New Workers particularly is the uni
form height of the buildings There Is
law prohibiting the erection OF
buildings higher than the magnificent
old palaces. With the exception of
church spires, obelisks and towers, Lo
buildings are over six stories.
You note the Seine twisting its way
like an angleworm (Of course, the com
mon expression is ribbon" but why
be commonly through the center OF
the city. and the little ant-like oh
jects crawling about the streets. You
try to locate the towers, gardens and
arches that you already know.
So irregular and ch0ppy do the
streets appear from the second plat
form, that Paris looks like u page from
"a Chinese newspaper with its uD and
down angular character writing.
At the third platform, that below
ceases to interest you; the skyline.
distant hills and u few stray thoughts
as to the ability of SO frail looking Il
structure to support so many people,
and wondering when the lift goes
down seem most important.
The base of the structure covers
hn fttl haiuht il
thousand feet, some eight hundred feet
higher than the Woolworth building.
There is a government wireless station
at the top where the ex-Kaiser had
hoped to unfurl his colors. You hear
very little of wireless and radio in
Europe.
Speaking of panOramas, we were
fortunate enough to see one just three
days before it was closed to the pub
lie, preparatory to its removal to the
United States. | don't know what it
will be called in "The States" but here
it was called "le Pantheon de la
Guerre."
1t will be exhibited in the principal
cities, beginning with Chicago, where
the panorama of the Battlefield of
Gettysburg was exhibited for so many
years.
1t is an allegorical and historical
panorama painted since the World
War by two master painters, Carrier
Belleuse and Gorguet, with their twen-
ty assistants. Monsieur GOrguet, on
high scaffold, was touching up the
American group, which included.
among many others, Roosevelt, Per
shing, Sims, Gompers, Edith Cavel and
Woodrow Wilson, who Is standing in
characteristic attitude before ped
estaled bust of George Washington.
Our guide declared that Monsieur
Gorguet was rearranging the person
mel, shifting heads. putting General
Hart, who had been in the foreground.
to the rear and bringing Ambassador
Herrick to the front. Perhaps so, but
we know that guides are far from in
fallible. On recent trip to Yer
sailles, we learned that NapOleOn's
only son was seventeen when he died
that Jerome Napoleon went to America
and married Miss Williams, and that
such and such thing happened "when
England gave the United States her
independence"
The Pantheon de la Guerre is an
unusual painting, wonderfully realistic,
and Il should be a strengthening bond
Of understanding between nations. One
of the outstanding figures in the
French group is General Gouraud
Later, while in the Saint Chapel.
chapel built by Louis X1 to house