Show ODD sightseeing SIGHT american women who went to all that was to be seen the most aalon made in paris concerned our american ladies who were there at the earno time their behavior was of euch a nature that they are certain to keep back their moet exciting experiences when they return to ew york and talk the trip over ith tbell mothers and daughters for they made it a role to observe the parisian elephant in all ita eccentricity and in ita innermost retreats the gay town la a number ol 01 can they are riven in the brilliant little gardens off the champs Elye eee and are also in the latin quarter in some places they orm the inabin and nightly performance but in others as in the arram te aarif they occur two or three timea a week on fixed nis lila my opinion does not pretend to be hat of it ia that in all these places exert dancers and high kickers like alie we know eo well in new york are regularly hired to pore aa women of the pavement alio have merely dropped in to aee and share the fun there ia a certain mechanical and air about what tty do which crivits this impression but the parisians Pari are art nl and ahoy clollie these creatures with mysterious and interesting characteristics acte those at the better decorated and higher priced gardens are whispered to be the reigning queens of ilia uppermost circles of alie dami moje who liae skipped away from palatial chamber maintained by dukes aad marquises to gaie rein to their fettered natures and high ei pints those girls who dance in hie eta dents are represented as very virtuous and hardworking hard working shop girls chofe parents very well what they are doing is merely that they are earning needed money for the bare necessities of life A complex cons de ration oi the qualities of alie french macd which permits young g ala to take a wholly practical view ol 01 such a course and to remain modest at heart while aliey are passing beyond all bounds with their persons adds piquancy to the situation it is all the venett humbug but it goes the americans in paris are divided into two eels those who live at the hotels at least during a part of their atay and the greater number who board or hire apartments in both the hotels and the bouses these people form parties that unite in a determination to depend no night indoors but to see whatever is going on they include alie most estimable persons the rich and cultivated and the sober and reputable folks of means just sufficient for a european vacation in one party with whose members I 1 was acquainted was a deacon in a new york church his wife a philadelphia merchant his 17 year old daughter and a few others fancy my surprise at seeing them in the very fiant rank of spectators at ft cancan can can the band was in a citie civilion rising from the center of a circular board flooring surrounded by trees at tle dies of choso whoso foliage were brilliant lights in colored glass globes tha platform was crowded with the bexes being nearly equally divided the air was heavy and pulsating with eena music and slightly blight ly hinged with an admixture of land and cigar emoke some women at tables in the garden were smoking cigarettes by the way the women nearly all pretty their face liht not have met all the rules of a standard but they were Pari eian women and a parisian women an indefinable style and grace these women might not look so w ell if one saw them before going to england but to see the big looted big boned broad baitel women of great britain edich looking as if die had on lie gown of a biger rister and then to go to paris and cee the laughing faces full curving outline sand aira of the pai caos is to biake them one and all as paragons of loveliness but to eel back to alie cancan can can the dancing lial jost begun and was therefore reasonably deborus only now and then did one of the light heeled dancers pinch her skirts and raise them just a trifle showing a Blimp rich lice that might have ben the trimming of lier outer petticoat in a few however the music and the couples fell apal to bein the fanlo dinac dance only is vilous and who e is reached in paris exclusively what on earth did you your daughter hereford here for the philadelphian was asked she can go anywhere lean go why not he re her mo her went to all those with me years ago before she invalid the deacon wag glum he was uneasy this was the first atone he had tripped over in the path of a quiet life his wife w as a sight to see young and her baca faca was radiant and her eus shown in the party was a manufacturer in disposition a big boy but be looked like a little boy sud deny led into a room filled with chant mas toys these people continued their aielt teeing and judging from personal experience peri ence saw lea times more of the side of paris than n american men who had nothing but dood taste to hinder bliem A unfortunate kibbat d tho pleasure of iheke ladies and gentl froen into gall they all a night of it at the students ball a thy were innocent enough to belie VM they were looking at honest shop girls making extra money abera is much greater license at the students ball than anywhere else it is alie ol 01 a more and a lower stratum of society there the ing is the same but is little jie in the clouds 0 finery the women tors in the air abero alie women try to kick of the hats of the men alio stand around looking on thre again the men toss coins at the feet of the female dancers aad a single cry of one word repeated a th olland times higher higher fills alie laden air while the americal Ameri caa was looking on at this mad and inexcusable dance a male dancer leaped out of the circle into the crowd of onlookers on lookers and seizing the deacons deac ins wife tried to drag her daack there was he chance for a disgraceful row the deacon called for a with which to shoot the frenchman all was hubbub but the insult crl wife brought reason to her id she lej her husband oat baying 1 I am more to blame than that man he supposed me to be like the rest it ia my fault or being here tint ended the of chit party I 1 did not know how general a custom it was for americans to yield to thia orm of temptation until I 1 returned on the euion liner arizona but there I 1 learned that seven out of ten of the ladies had taken in all that pa is had to there was not one aboard llie vesel who would have kone lo 10 a reputable table per on the bowery except under of circumstances tand then she would haio told nobody of it the most extravagant and laughable adventured advent urea come to those americans who went to paris without knowing french enough to read a restaurant bill of re oie of these incidents inci dens throws a faint the morals of the french capital in a peculiar way but there is n i need of withholding an account of it for fear of creft linn an unjust impression of on the mind an old and thoroughly sedate american gentleman was there a repertoire reper toiro of about thirty two words of french of with their pronunciation on the principle that it Is betler to know a few words well than many ha raid to a voun eMend who was with alna hat it wag a curious fact that the k beke or alie sale 0 in pans are civen out to the children and widows of soldiers in lien of pensions ilia friend ho waa mistaken well I 1 it ask oun glady in charge of this kiosk eaid the old Beut lemen seeing a chance to air ma french so he advanced to the young woman in the pretty little iron elenc ture near the curb and spoke this was precisely what be said etea une aha looked confuted but aies ur the aged american repeated the young woman broke into smiles pension in french is a boarding liouta oh non monsieur ehe said je chaz ma abec mes beux deux mais je connata un ap parlement part ement tres et tout a fait pure et je boua voua y condu ire great heavens what ia gle eay nea the old gentleman Rent leman almost screamed and be took himell ot his inte interned young companion willi him on the ship the man told the atory to everyone and lie of alio llio subject of this joke was laughable to witness |