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Show I Wall of French Tillage, i I went down to Enernay. which is bat 1 two ttnd n half hours from Paris, on a jr-ny O co'r day. that would have been c.lLi.1 col . in California. There It was all :r coui j r. risked. It was dry, and : tl.. ;v it siijijetion of sunlight. Eper-1 Eper-1 iv-v 1 a city 01 17.00(1 inhabitants, showing show-ing a queer mixture of the old and new. T.,e wme maker having dealt freely with foreigners for more than 10U years, are ! cosmopolitan. They live in residences 1 built in a mixture ot styles, most of them j eiegant, some of them palaces. Many 1 combine business house and dwelling, and occasionally there is a gronp of buildings, in one of which the proprietor lives, and I in the others makes, stores and sells his wines. The chateau style, in red and I white brick, is common, poorly harmoniz-! harmoniz-! ing with the rest of the town, which is queer, colorless and irregular. There is united with this wealth an idea of comfort com-fort not everywhere prevalent in France, i Houses and offices are well warmed, which I is a luxury to Americans abroad in win- ter, and there Is in the furniture and or-j or-j naments, of offices especially, many things that make him think of home. All towns in France would be handsomer hand-somer if they presented to the sight of the stranger a less extent of blank and for-j for-j midable wall. Every building or group ! of buildings, except where they form a ' continuous line along the streets, is shut in with brick or stone, like a fortress. It j is the ever present idea that you live in a I country where yon know not what may i happen next, and if you have anything 1 worth defending or protecting you must keep it in a def mutable condition must, in fact, make your house a castle. The idea has been inculcated by so many lessons les-sons that it has become hereditary. Eper-nay Eper-nay bus times without number been baptized bap-tized with blood aud fire and its vineyards drenched with ruddy gore as copiously as with one of the dreaded rains that ruin the vintage. Paris Cor. San Francisco Chrouicle. |