Show I PARISIAN P PASTIMES STI IES S Why the Parisian is More Given to Pastimes Than to Sports In the course of his hl series aeries of on Paris Paria of Today Mr Richard writes in th iBay Century of Parisian The Phe Parisian is iJ he h declares more given to pastimes than to sports s orts The is in his view that p are tare rude mode for man m n whereas man is notoriously marie mesle for sports He carries a sport ort as far as it may go for Sheer amusement and stops there All the rest that tends temis to the Ideal per perfection perfection of the athlete toe counts but labor and sorrow This is in harmony with his entire outlook on life He is mainly sociable In We hiE hi amusements rather than mainly com They have made many Y laudable at attempts attempts attempts tempts to acclimatise football ll and have taken a beating be ting at regular reg inter interval valy val 9 from one ene of the English visiting teams If they d do not succeed in fuR as no well as they mig might t it is In part to tobe tobe tobe be imputed to them as merit As per persons persons r sons eons of taste they have a great horror of m iii sport SIp ort We do donot not want to turn these thes French Fre h lads lade into English ones cries M 11 bt in his important I work on educational reform published the other day Jay Rough sports do not suit our race more refined in ill its elegante than that tbt of the AD on In the last Jast resort they usually fail to see why they should suffer for their enjoyments enjoyment rather than with fear When the and anti the sur geom follow the teams tean into the foot football football ball field This is the French note always ys the touch of elegance and this is s why a a certain association atlon with fashion is isa of at a the essence of French F It does s not like Uke English sport import usually begin among ng time people retaining of the primitive wildness of its origin or if it dose do it is always trying to mount to select circles Football will take a long time to teaCh th the French messes masses Their instincts know not the stern joy of the scrimmage For all I their a they regard reg rd life as a progression an ar orderly develop development ment X not as a 3 battle and a march For F Gr this sport as for lor most meet ot or the others that involve danger we must wait on the upper classes They have imported I football and polo atM and not and I done their tho best beet t to tame tante them in into j to diversions fit fog foy a men tuan who values II a whole skin t I Q |