Show LA BELLE IMAM A social sketch tho union gen era eral leyy tho the SAI salvation ration army I by illy our correspondent E EDITOR diton HERALD it is not the privilege of everybody to study intimately ti ARTIST LIFE IN FRANCE it happens however to be our lot to assist mist at the reunion of the people who form a race anti entirely irely distinct from the rest of creation and who are only to bo be found in paris it was at atone one of these meetings lately that we had awakened all our old recollections of evenings passed in years gone by in the quarter with the students of those days dap now sober serious professional men we yo used the word artist above in its liberal sense sells e forwith the exception of our host an artist of merit and one other the guests were composed of two lawyers one sculptor one musician and the sculptors wife the apartments of our host were I in in themselves a study study a pell mell of luxury and bisor disorder er only to be found in a french artists house A room about thirty feet square and more than that tha bight serving as salon studio reception and dining roo room in is is furnished as a chinese pavilion adorned with lanterns lamps and elustres after the fashion of t the c celestial Gelest lal empire to describe the heterogeneous mass of articles strewn about on the tables the floor and on the walls between the half fin ishad pictures would be almost impossible dumb bells fencing foils skulls chinese and hindmo masks ancient jugs and plates old prints ints books and sketches on one ale table surrounding a capital portrait of the immortal sarah these and innumerable other knick knacks are arranged or rather not arranged in an artistic disorder that must be seen to be appreciated the room is screened off at one end by a curtain which hides a staircase leading to a balcony that would woul d be the beau ideal of a resting glace place for a fair juliette Juliet fe to listen to the t a amorous strains of a romeo below in this balcony is the tho bedroom which is in the same artistically untidy state as the studio the guests too were in keeping with the apartment and seemed as if the very atmosphere of the place exercised a spell upon them for a grave lawyer on entering the sanctum seemed to leave his lils gravity on the threshold with his hat and coat and become once again a mad student the wit that passed would have made the fortune of a palais RO royal tal COM comedy c for the host who is one ono of the real bla blague beun ws of paris was ably se seconded condelin in his efforts by the guests jokes were passing the whole evening ikin and the manner in which the acu sculptor ator who had bad been asked to elect a queen for a charade hesitated a few minutes and then as if recovering from the embarras de in in the shape of candidates for the vacant throne knelt before the only lady present with a 80 ez noire notre reine worthy of got or zo coquelin was a treat in itself A FINANCIAL DISASTER buchas such as befell the bourdes bourses of paris and lyons six weeks ago leaves marks which agrenot are not easily eradicated numbers of quiet count country ry houses have been plunged into gloom a whole claass has suffered suffer erad sd a terr blow and this cla class is is one without much inherent vigor to draw upon the dissipation of capital from the collapse of the union U nion generale is great and can be easily seen undertakings have been commenced which are not continued and all the money expended on starting th them em is is gone irrevocably in french financial operations the worst feature is that establishments ar arc founded or enlarged on a scale entirely beyond the power of their promoters and thus thue business is wrenched from its natural direction into other grooves which suddenly como come to an abrupt end and then comes the crash but perhaps the most wonderful thing in connection with the unfortunate crisis here is the evidence it has shown odthe of the marvelous marve loua elasticity of french resources it even seems probable that from the ashes of the unfortunate company a new phoenix will arise which may redeem the calama ties of its predecessor F SALVATION ARMY has invaded france and has entered the capital this is serious news in deed W when en some two years ago the salvation army was organized in england great results were prophesied concertina conc concerning ernina it it would reform drunkards thieves rogues and all such from a perusal of the police intelligence in the english papers it would not seem that many of these results have been realized on the contrary the salvation army has contributed its quota to the charges at the police courts but admitting which is begging the question that ilat the salvation army has done good in england it is questionable t ble that it can do any good g in in france indeed it seems probable that it will injure the cause it seeks to promote louis PARIS france march |