Show F the 1 lic drinks of papi Pari parisians Amert american can beverages now the most popular absinthe Is declared to be a deceitful poison strange barrooms Bar rooms 1 E americans who I 1 ve v 1 I in paris feel real timid ity in dealing with our touring fellow country men we fear that the visitor will be 4 sap pointed Is it for art and archaeology that you tave t ave left nour wife and crossed the dep de p no must americans maintain a prudent dis tance from the louvre do you desire to see the monuments mon moni ments the sewers eiffel tower and roman yes some day later op oil the big shops no we have not come to buy will ou go gelling at no the visitor jor has come to rest therefore Th Thi we tabe take him to a paris barroom I 1 want to do exactly what paris lans fans do he has said this fifteen times al ready now there are some 15 different species of parisians but we are on the boulevard and it Is already clear that the visitor finds even bou levard cafes slow places nothing in them but quiet games ot cards and dominos a lot of people reading pa pers writing letters and absorbed in muttered conversations and as there are parisians too who find their cafes slow we do as they do and bask in a bar this Is the real thing he says it impresses the visitor because it is so different the paris bar is our trump card it its s a bar set up in a parlor says the tourist he Is right though it be a gaudy parlor with a soft and brilliant carpet flowers and greenery in nooks and on smart little tables here and there tinkling musically a lot of eggshell egg shell chinaware in use tor for 5 0 clock tea who take 5 0 clock tea in parisian har rooms why the ladles ladies ces dames as they say those ladles ladies the atmosphere is that of a per fumed femininity although the con may be horses there are but iwo wo well known bars in paris tree free from them and these two are notor ous grounds for high class bunco op orators the fair creatures sit perched on high bar chairs they are the lucky ones because the high bar chairs are 1 0 1 46 A bar et up in a parlor valued novelties amusing and adapt ed to set off a fine cos ume and a fig ure from these superior heights the fait fair ones look down on a mixed world of titled clubman and jockeys sporty business men and actors racetrack lambs and bookmakers englishmen and americans in paris and sons of family paris Is full of sons of family let us say young men of family family sap heads spending family money all their fathers ask of hem is not to venture into business life where they would lose more in one year than they will soend spend in five the paris bar Is snug and gay wit with color and electric lights one tread treads on thick carpets to the rustling of sill silk petticoats and the chirp of admiring adm irini femininity here Is one of the secrets of the th bar a success all paris la Is alarmed alari because of the strange drug and drug like addictions of the day parisian drinks that have insinuate Insl Insi nuat ed themselves into favor are declared they perch on high bar car chairs to be deceitful poisons to drink an absinthe is to strangle a parrot hence a stampede to the drinks of anglo saxons whisky gin and rum and their more palatable comb nations in the mixed drinks of america the natural inference of all this Is to avoid liqueurs dutch spirits and french bitters made up from bad ol 01 cohol and essences the man who has buot 1 mixed his fourth amer citron may evea even have flat himself tl at he was taking a soft drink at the beginning I 1 remember such sueh a case cae A young english honorable the scion of a line of great earls having neither touched nor tasted any aleo alco 10 1 0 holc holic drink for five full months sat on the terrace of a paris cafe there i a french friend ordered tor for himself this patent bitters t Is it alcoholics 9 asked the honor able bertle bals non why no sure was t the answer of the idiot so bertie took an amer citron ettron the waiter brought the I 1 lick stuff in a sinister black bottle poured goblet half full because bertie dertle in chiai inexperience hal not waved for him to stop then dashed in some lemon citron syrup and departed bertlee filled the goblet up with water aal and ir to drink an absinthe Is to Stran Strangle alel 1 a parrot began to sip the stuff did not taste alcoholic bertie bertle scarcely felt the pleasing glow that stole so gently on him bertie bertle took another amer citron little by little the lights of the early gloaming gleaming seemed to brighten up andi and down the boulevard from his terrace table bertie bertle obi ob i served with increasing interest that the scene was charming beyond al alt experience the wretched cab horsed horses seemed to prance prance and step along ilk spirited young colts the sad deal leaves now chased one another glee fully along the curb the III dressed men who had been passing in a weary looking throng had nad smartened ne up and all the girls who passed were stylish charming and coquettish coquettis hl I 1 in his heart bertie felt the flower alj hope to blo I 1 understood al all things al r ing andl all things a i a 00 some 0 aill an Z va walked up t ard whose darkness see seeli al spangled angled ip with delightful co colar 0 nd hen then he walked some more and verv likely drank some more because the thea next day he was in fn a bad state and before the week was up had to be sent for by his disappointed people new york sun |