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Show QUEER PARISIAN RESORT "Robinson," Where Refreshments Are Taken in Trees. A shrewd but unscientific person onco complained that Darwin had omitted from his "Descent of Man" one of the principal facts which would support his theory of an "arboreal ancestor." and that was the inherent propensity of mankind to climb trees. Whether this proclivity shows descent from some simian ancestor who "nightly "night-ly climbed his family tree, and on the top reposed." one may leave to Darwinians Dar-winians and anti-Darwinians to decide, but the fact that "Robinson," the extraordinary ex-traordinary Paris suburb of dwelling and restaurant! In trees, has exist, ,1 f,,r over helf a century, and still flourishes, may be taken as proof that the mania for tree climbing endures. "Robinson" was discovered In the year 181S by a man named tluesquln. It was then a wild and unfrequented spot, seven miles south of Purls, and a mile or two from the pretty little villages of Sccnux and Fonten.iy-aux-Roses. A lane ran along the side of a hill a Hi tie b. low the summit, and w hs bordered by a huge elm and chestnut trees an odd corner of the great forest which once encircled Paris for many miles. lie bought some land there entirely for his own benefit, and not for that of his rare guests; nailed beams to the largest limbs of the stateliest tree on his tiny estate, some thirty feet above the ground, and on these erected a summer sum-mer house r. a. he.) by a wooden stairs, where he could sit of an evening to smoke his pip.- ami enjoy the lovely view of tin Belns valley. Relng hardly more than a couple of hours' walk from the great University Of the Sorbonne, It chanced that a student stu-dent who was taking a walk one Sunday Sun-day afternoon found out the spot, was pleased with It. and came again, bringing bring-ing some of his comrades. They In turn told vthers. and In a few weeks ;ues-quln's ;ues-quln's aerial restaurant became a favorite fa-vorite resort of the collegians. New-York New-York Tribune. |