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Show PARISIAN r.ni)K POST. Everything and Every Place of Any Note Located From the Great Bon Marche, THE WONDERFUL BONNET OF 1891. An Interesting Letter From the French Metropolis Imparting Much News and Information. Pahis, Fob. 0. Every woman who has been in Paris, takes the Bon Marche as tho polo star by which she finds every other building on the left bank of the Sienc; has walked her fifty miles over tho different departments, and has stood in the line to the refreshment counter not that she wished the glass of syrup and the dry cake, but upon tho eternal priuciple of getting something some-thing for nothing. Although on the inconvenient in-convenient side of the Seine, and lacking lack-ing the artistic appearance, the Bon Marche is quite as popular as the Louvre. It is such a comfort to spend the dny deciding what you w ould buy had you not already purchased your winter wardrobe and Sunday-Boulevard bonnet, and had not already more packages than your trunks will hold, if some one had drowned McKiuley and his bill, and had you not already spent all your money. The employes of this establishment having a share in the profits of the business, the most perleet service is rendered, the interests of the store are carefully protected, and the success of co-operativeeniploytnentcan no longer be a theory. A singular instance in-stance of dishonesty was recently brought to light, however. An employe em-ploye confessed to having appropriated certain packages, instead of delivering them. Upon searching his rooms it was discovered that he too had been robbed, his wife and an accomplice having sold the goods and started a separate bank account. It is a wise woman who next summer could duplicate the shape of this year's bonnet. The crowus are not "chancey" as Mrs. Tulliver laments in "Mill on the Floss," but the missing material seems garnered into the run. J sarcastically, sar-castically, inartistically, but quite accurately describes them as "scoop-shovels "scoop-shovels ruffled." Bernhardt has departed, and will draw the same enthusiastic audience in New York that she did in Paris. The dance of the Nubian girls, and Sara with her bare toes and live snake, did not need here the free advertising given by the duel indulged in by her sou Maurice. Jane Harding had a successful run of "The Deputy Levan." One of her costumesa cos-tumesa white brocaded dress with fur borders and fur straps over the shoulders has been extensively copied by society dress makers. We did not know, w hen in New York, how really pretty Jane is. Hur beauty is the style that grows upon one and this despite the clear, decided parting of the hair, and that her well shaped ears are rouged as red as French rouge injudiciously inju-diciously applied can make them. Pink ears are ouly pretty in novels. The Arc de Triumphs is one of the highest monuments in Paris. Not even the Eiffel tower dwarfs this specimen of Napoleon's genius. On passing the other day, we learned from a gathered crowd that a suicide bad made the fearful fear-ful leap from the top of the Aro to the granite pavement. A letter to his brother stated losses at the race course was the cause of his net, and requested that his mother might be kept in ignorance ignor-ance of his fato. A like attempt at self-destruction has since been made by a woman. Fortunately (?) her skirts caught upon the carvings, and screaming for help as thougbshe hadn't jumped "on purpose," she was rescued from her perilous position, a scared, dishivelled, hysterical, wiser woman. Ike Marvel would make us long for grate fires, even if wo had not always loved its cheerful glow, its dancing lights and shadows. But alas even here we are having a reminder of New England weather, and henceforth the poetic grate will seem more charming when the furnace and the base-bnruer are in full blast. In the regulation pension the grate totters on four legs, has brass doors and glass knobs, and is crowned by a mirror in which it is possible to catch a glimpse of your head if you stand upon the center table. The garcon starts the fire, gets the kindling and carbon to burning, then leaves you with the tongs, asthmatic bellows, coke and coal to meet your fate. The glowing coke invites three injudicious pokes it cracklos. spits, then like friendship in adversity, it disappears, and "dead sea apples" alone remain. The Vendoine monument-on-wheels stove, that is rolled from one apartment apart-ment to another and meets you at tho most unexpected moments, is a comfort com-fort in comparison. America may not enrourage native art, she may not build monuments with lightning rapidity, Bhe may even try to make Columbus believe he was a year off in his reckoning reckon-ing by celebrating in '03 instead of '02. (Columbus won't mind one year after this long), but she does know how to live comfortably. At tho public session of the forty immortals im-mortals the circular hall was crowded. M. Jules Simon gave a very interesting address on M. Caro. We were too patriotic to admit in a foreign land that we had never heard of this philosopher and once popular lecturer of Paris. Some of tho immortals, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing their brilliant orders, and their dress with revevs embroidered in green, looked very old and infirm, and a va-caucy va-caucy that would give Zola another chance of election does not seem improbable. im-probable. Pasteur and Alexander Dumas looked well and strong, and good for many years' work. Could one always have success and fame .with youth," Stanley, Koch and ' Kipling after his fashion, seem to have j gained it. But with post mortem journals, jour-nals, 2075 marks gain on 25 mark lvmph, and critics who find "Plain Talcs from the Hills" "slang-y and immature." im-mature." there are always crumpled rose leaves in their bods of down. R. |