| Show A PARIS HOUSE it had two stairways Stair waya which dooh like ono atTi inca one of the greatest curiosities of Paris js tha house with the double staircase it doe snot figure in the guidebook and is not among the place interest that are photographed but for all that it is of greater many of the things that coma within this class this bouso has entrances at 35 rue Rada ivUl and at 18 bue de valois it is in the quarter of the Palaia royal that palace now given up largely re iau rants and cheap je the residence of tho most licentious of french princes the regent dorleans The quarter is one of the most central in paris and all americans who have been iu paris know it but the house which is a few steps from the palais koyal the rue the louvre escapes because it faces on darls and narrow streets each staircase begins on opposite aidea of the central space of ehouse th and ia continued separate right up to the roof they are in a graceful spiral form tho house is nine stories high a very considerable sid erable height lorone so old As you look up the wall you can hardly realize that there ismore than one stairway the result of this arrangement isthan is that one stairway takes you botho first floar apart menton i abo tight the second floor on the left and BO on tha other stair way takes yon to the first floor oh the loft the second floor on the right and BO on yon must be very careful to choose the right stairway when 5 on are going to an apartment otherwise yoo may mount as far as the sixth floor and find yourself on aba wrong side of the house it is just as well then to go to the top and come down by the other stairway it ia difficult to describe des the puzzling effect of this contrivance on those who see it for tho first time no more ingenious contrivance for exciting profanity and causing confusion was avei designed ty architect the beauty in its simplicity which givel it jan advantage over secret doors and ciuch laborious devices it is a favorite trick with those who know the house to take moderately mod irately intoxicated friends to see it the man who knows tells his friend to go up stairs then he goes up himself by the opposite stairway when he has gone up about two etor iea ho leans over the balustrade and tells his friend to join him tho inebriate endeavors to do so running up and down stairs but levei able to catch the other new york journal |
