Show PARIS NOISY FOR NOISE ANTI WOMAN PARIS PARISI Sept Paris is greatly interested interested in in- in the pres presence nce in this city of Mrs Irs Isaac Thee Rico of New York the now famous founder of the American Anti Anti- oi oIso o league who has been interviewed right ann and ana left b by the r reporters A leading Paris paper the tho Figaro in iii an eloquent t article writes as follows of Mrs Rice This lad lady deserves es to tobo bo coun counted among the benefactresses of humanity She has undertaken to brin about an inestimable reform which jf f she only f succeeds will improve an l transform modern existence The great inventors te t splendid physicians who consecrate their talents Im and l genius to soften tho the rough path of existence have never ne undertaken nn anything any any- thing more meritorious The Tho prophets who predict great times for our grand grandnephews grandnephews rand nephews afford us no substantial com corn fort Tho The apostle who points out to us now paths for our consciences arc not more useful to us Tho Time moralists who teach us the art artof artof artof of a avoiding tho the most serious faults do donot donot donot not contribute in a n. greater measure to assuring our tranqUIllity Mrs Irs Isaac Rico Rice is worthy of all und and all gratitude She has founded in America Ameri Amen ca en and she intends to spread all nIl over the thc world orId an nn noise anti lea league ue She noticed at New York that there thero is a great deal of unnecessary sar din ilin Being Being Be Be- ing American and therefore practical in inner ner ideas she does not ima imagine ino that in place of this tumult of the city she I can substitute tho the soft and deli delightful peace of countr country places or the silence of wild solitude lc but U she is anxious amid all the din and racket which assault sault the ears of our citizens to ro differentiate between be ho- tween the thc inevitable and the sary sarro I Let Lct us doubly honor Mrs rg Isaac Isanc Rice who says fays that our worst and most redoubtable enemy is noise Noise Koise has hils an offspring whoso whose ravages ray rn ages go very far far far namely ama nia Noise not only does harm s simply to our auditory organs it is not at atis- atis 9 lied fled with shattering our nerves It prevents pre pro vents us from ever reflecting Existence is ft n remarkable mixture of the tho most ari varied d incidents incident appealing to our ta taste te our judgment and our sen sea si bili trIn tr In ord r to hrin bring order into such a medIc medley of perpetual contradictions one should hould have moments of repose and retirement retirement re re- re and if one is is to have Po leisure to think one ono should arrange o one ones one's g mind as oen arranges a 11 drawer draver But what can we do in tho the midst of or tho noise anti and din of modern existence 1 We cannot bring anything into order and our minds mind Ii are areas areas areas' as as' as full of noise and wa want n t of repose repos as asare arc are the streets of our cities Mrs Isaac Rice Rico has hag found numerous followers among her compatriots Her ideas idea have pleased many people and people have come to her in approvingly I She is assured of the tho comforting fact that she is working for a just and beneficent be be- idea iden and this has redoubled her energies Ii In In brief rief there thero is reason to hope that America the laborious the friend of energy and of nil all the tha great reat manifestations mani of modern industry will shortly ent enter r iato tato un an n era of ot si silenced si lence I |