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Show j Artlstio Tastes in Dieppe. I Dieppe is the Atlantic City of France. It i. a sunny, breezy, littio town, where they hang the street lumps out of tiie second sec-ond story windows, and is famous for the rarity of its carvings in ivory and terra : con a. The rotih, crooked streets are j lined wit !i shabby, insignificant shops, whose every window is o show case of , itself n ml representative of a modest for-' for-' tune, ond the designs therein are exceed-j exceed-j inly beautiful, giving evidence of the ! artistic tastes of the inhabitants. Objets , d'art of the highest order ore to be hud for a mere song, but then carving is the pronounced trade of tho majority of the population tho very gamin of tho street mechanically model lumps of clay, as they dandle their sabots in the gutters. Cor. Philadelphia Times. |