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Show I Quaint French Town! to It sooms hardly credible that not t5 moro than thirty minutes from tho fl noise and bustlo of Paris thcro lies a D vlllago that 1h so quiet, so peaceful, a and ao old fashioned that ouo would W imnglno ono's self at Jpast a hundred m miles away from tho gay capital. Hero M at this villago, La Frotto by name, and a about fifteen mlnutea' walk from Corgi Cor-gi mollies, preparations for midday and $1 ovenlng repasts havo to bo mado vory 9 early in tho morning, for no such thing IS as a enfo la near, ami tho walk to Cor-inj Cor-inj molllos Is ono which ono considers II twlco beforo taking, for it is up stoop ' M and rough roads. So daily, butchor, m bakor nnd groon grocer pass this tS quaint place nnd the villagers gather V about tho tradosmen and mako thor w purchases. W Thoy also buy clothes In this man- X nor, and may ofton bo soon trying on m bonnets, dresses and boots In tho mid- W dlo of tho street. From a sconic point of view, all artists havo agreed that there Is no placo to equal La Frotte. To tho loft of tho vlllago Is tho park of Maisons Lamtto, and facing tho park Is Cartrouvlllo, while opposlto lies tho forost of St. Germain, in all its splondor. To tho right is Herblay, quite an Important placo, whoso church Is vlslblo for miles along tho Solno. La Frotto Itsolf has tho qualnt-ost qualnt-ost villagers possible. Many of thom spenk worso Fronch than those of tho Midi, and it is an ovont whon ono makes a Journoy to tho capital. Thoy aro thriftiest of tho thrifty. Only a short timo ago ono of tho peasants gavo his daughter 250,000 franca on .her woddlng day, and anothdr Is to re-colvo re-colvo tho samo amount on hor np-pronchlng np-pronchlng mnrringo. And yot this man, who must bo worth 4,000,000 qr 5,000,000 francs, lives In a pntchod-up houso and digs In tho fields from oarly morning till lato at night. |