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Show fWgians Are Studying How to Blush Says Rebotax 1 'MX, one ot the most popular "n novelists of tho day, has como ca to lecture and to obtain ma- about American life. Among im Masn Danse," "Lo o. and "La Petite Papacoda." has passed through fifty edi-President edi-President of the Association of w of Paris, and is said to road w-any man in tho gay capital, uon with a representative of this Keooux expresses some entor-nni entor-nni news of Paris. r. Paul Reboux, guished French Novelist, fwlBlans, you know, aro always xr new sensations. It has be- fa.Ty difficult to find them ,for we uS so many of them for such a Raft1 thln5 Is to be blushlngly foin nJ fur8e. Is an odd sensation ir IS boulevardierB" and "vleux i- o actually studying how to fer?lL? Wel1- really, I have m S r buL 1 believe 11 is some-Dori!ey some-Dori!ey !pend their days ontlre-nthev ontlre-nthev W reafllS good, serious telb males' fashions and thoy are ncoeef,H.Be? a sreat purity movo-quetu:e movo-quetu:e I, ii In art d literature. rrfecuv fi, 11,081 of novels trl JZ tho young person, IWereSnJ P i but 1 am afraJti In thng for oIder Persons. A Basin nt.ew 1Itery movement Sliest Sho has Published such FlS Jy Aut Giron.".' the now modest movemont, andvho has reaped a rich reward. He has been elected a member mem-ber of the French Academy, and his books adorn every drawlngroom. Other writers havo followed him and have succeeded in being even moro perfectly chaste and modest than he is, and sometimes m 'being less interesting. M. Marcel Prevost Is a striking illustration, of the prevailing tendency in French literature. litera-ture. You know he used to be everything that an American tourist expects a Parisian to be. How can one say more than that? In those naughty days he wrote his brilliant bril-liant and witty "Lovo Letters of a Chambermaid." Chamber-maid." Then tho "mouvernent pudique" at-tacked at-tacked him ho had a change of heart, you say and ho produced his exquisite "Diary of a Baby." M. Prevost'a last great success is "Les Auges Gardieus," "The Guardian Angels." It deals with the foreign governesses who, in so many cases, have the care of our French children. chil-dren. It breathes a most exquisite spirit of care for tho moral training and education of our littlo ones. I can safely recommend American Amer-ican young ladies who aro studying French to read this book. We still have writers who maintain the best traditions of tho old Parisian manner. Madame Colette Willy is one of them. I think she is the most entertaining, 'the most truly Parisian writer of tho day. Her newest book is called, "L'Envers du Muslchall" "Behind tho Scenea ot the Music Hall."l suppose you would call it I do not recommend It as a first exercise in French for tho American student. I think it would be better to study moro elementary elemen-tary work before stnrting upon this ono. The energies of Paris are now occupied In three directions. First, as I have said, thero Is the great purily movement in art and literature. liter-ature. In tho second place, there Is tho renewed re-newed passion for the good cooking. In the third place there is the passion for tho sport. It Is very wondorful how tho Interest in good cooking has revived in France. We used to have' delightful old restaurants in Parin, quiet, modest places, where the good cooking was , the only object of life. Our authors, our actors act-ors our men of fashion, dined there and employed em-ployed tho exquisite refinement of their taste and intellect in compelling those restaurants to produce the most perfectly cooked dishes. It was an education in tho art of living to hear the lato Prince do Sagan explaining to a maitre d'hotel that a dish was not fit to be served to him. Then came the day of the gilded palace of noise. The fashion began of eating to the ac-companiraent ac-companiraent of bands of music, of oriental dances and acrobatic performances. I fear that it was partly in deference to the taste of our enthusiastic youthful-minded visitors from America that these establishments came into existence. Music in restaurants was Invented lo drown - the legitimate complaints of thoso who had reason to be dissatisfied with the cooking. I well remember how one of our most distinguished men about town, while pointing out that his "sole meuulero" was Imperfectly cooked on one side, was Interrupted by tho murder music from Richard Strauss's "Elektra," performed by an orchestra. The taste of Paris has revolted against such atrocities. Many of the dear old restaurants and cafes like the historic Cafe Anglais have gone out of existence, but wo have still many left, and they nre flourishing better than ever. Tho fprevailing taste is entirely in favor of the small, quiet restaurant, in a side street, whero good cooking is the only aim, and music and all extraneous performances aro excluded. Every Parisian in good society now belongs to a society for the promotion of good cook-. cook-. ing. We have the Liguo des Cent," the "Ligue des Deux Plats," tho "Ligue do la Nourriture," all organized for this purposo. Its members travel all over France seeking culinary recipes of merit. Great attention is also paid to testing tho merits of fine wines. Every man of fashion In ParlB now goes In for the sport. He golfs, be boxes, ho j-achts, he shoots and ho hunts. Consequently he hiis not the time for thtjse dissipations which once made up his llfo. we irencnmcn nave grown very tired of being referred to as shocking examples by foreigners. for-eigners. We nre particularly irritated by the attitude of the English and Americans. We know that wo are no worse than the Anglo-Saxons. Anglo-Saxons. Nowhere Is the family lifo so virtuous and happy as In France. We havo no divorces in our middle class. Intelligent Englishmen have observed that no man shows such devotion to -his mother as the Frenchman. It has been said that the Frenchman pretends pre-tends to be wickeder thnn he Is, and the Englishman Eng-lishman to bo better than he Is. We are beginning be-ginning to think that we have carried tha thing too far. Parisians used to amuse themselves in a very whole-hearted manner, Their amusements were not perhaps in harmony with a Protestant pastor's ideas of life. It was, however, but a nntural expression of our ardent temperament that yearns to drain tho cup of life to the bottom. To live thus passionately and recklessly Is one thing and to have one's wickedness turned into a spectacle for tho entertainment of foreigners for-eigners is another. English and Americans come to Paris to do things that they would be ashamed to do at home. Now we are trying to mako them foel that they are doing things that Parisians would blush to do. I am pleased to say that tho most shameless shame-less entertainments in Paris are now almost exclusively patronized by foreigners. What is still moro gratifying, the performers aro to a Isrge extent foreigners. At least it is only ''the dregs of our population that furnish this - sort of entertainment The Parisian exhibitions that present tho greatest attraction to our exotic visitors just now are thoso music hall ballets, "revues," and spectacles In which tho performers appear largely in bare skin. It is at first difficult for the French mind to conceive that thero is anything intrinsically wicked in showing one's v skin, however much of it, but when we see tho feelings such things excite in respectable British fathers of families away from their wives and pastors away from their flocks our Copyright, 1014, by the Star Company. Groat Britain Right Beservod. conscience becomes uneasy. Then our hard- f ened Parisians feel that they should learn j how to blush. ' Tho plays that true Parisians now patronize ' H deal with grave social problems and high natural aspirations. Our books show tho same tendency. Such things may become "ennuy-cux," "ennuy-cux," but wo feel It our duty to go In for them. ,' personally I do not believe In a literature ! that makes purity Its solo aim. Neither do 1 ? believe In making tho opposite thing an nim. E I believe in making a picture of life as it is without showing it as a nursery story or all f made up of horrors. In writing my novels I have taken care to bo thoroughly well inform Til ed about the phases of lifo upon which I wrote. When I wrote a book about the fishermen of Naples I lived among them for a year in order ',, to prepare my copy. j Now I am going to write a book about the ' lovo of a handsomo American negro for a . beautiful American white woman. In order to . write it properly I am now going to study the , 1 negroes of North America. The scene will be j laid in New Orleans. The hero will be a mulatto, partly of French descent Tho hero- 'H ino will bo a beautiful young woman of that j jH old aristocratic French society which still JH lingers in Louisiana. I His love is pure and noble, but social preju- j jH dices and conditions make his suit hopeless. j 'M Misunderstood and ill-treated in the most cruel IH manner, he falls Into dcBpair. Ho becomes ' a victim of drink and other vices. Finally ho falls Into the cocaino habit. I know your American attituda toward 'H negroes. It means littlo to us in France. A negro is a human being, and tho fato of such jH a man as I have conceived is one of the great- j IH est tragedios that our modern civilization j 'H could show. 'JM In order to master my scenos and charac- i 'H ters, I am going to New Orleans to study the !'! life of the negroes, and also of tho French i. jH Creoles. Then I am going to Haytl and to Cuba, where I believe many interesting views I il of the civilized American negro can be ob ! talned. ! 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