Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1936, Page 15

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 29, 1936—PART ONE. 4 T d in Europe | raveling Aroun Some “Second Looks” at Paris—Bewildering Boxes at Bus Stops—Examples of French Slang. (No. 23 of a Series.) BY 1. WILLIAM HILL, Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARIS.—“Why,” & Frenchman asked us, “do you Americans hurry so?” “But the time is so short. In no time at all we must leave France and there is so much we haven't seen, 80 much we haven't done.” He shrugged a Frenchman's shrug. “Hurry is the cause of every trou- ble of the traveler—with the customs, with the cab driver, with the garcon who does not understand what you mean, perhaps, when you say you have | only ‘time for a snack’ before rushing | to the theater.” “But we haven't had any troubles %0 speak of.’ “You haven't hurried, then. And what is more, if you start now you won't get any real impressions from what you see in your remaining fime. It is the second look and not the first that counts.” * x x x Louvre Lighted at Night. Some “second looks": The statuary section of the Louvre, lighted as it is on Wednesday and Saturday nights so that statues like the Venus de Milo have a softer look than stone. The Musee Jacquemart-Andre, a palatial French home on the Boule- vard Haussmann, that today is open | to the public as an art gallery that is distinctive because it is still more like a home. | The building where the newspnper‘ L'Intransigeant is published. From | the roof one gets a remarkable pano- ramic view of Paris and the coils of the River Seine as it winds away into the distance. Notable also for its in- terior lighting system, whereby great mirrors deflect the daylight down a | great shaft to the various floors. | Artichokes in Gardens. The gardens of St. Germain, near Paris. with their intricate geometri- cal design that caused an American girl to exclaim: “They're gorgeous. | Why, who would have thought that | clusters of artichokes could be made to look like green roses nestling to the earth?” 3 The Luxembourg Gardens, with | children renting donkeys to ride and sailboats to sail and their parents | renting garden seat to watch them.| In these gardens, too, is one of the most unusual fountains in the world. Situated on a wooded knoll, it con- | sists of a statuary group at one end | of 2 pool about 60 feet long. It is the pool that gives the strange effect.| Its concrete edges, although giving the illusion of being level, slope down- | ward from the statues. The effect on the appearance of the water in the pool is bewildering, for it appears that the water is placidly resting on a slope. Travel in the “American” way . bus stops . . . Louis XIV dine. Bozes on posts at Paris Only a wigged commoner could watch King HARBOR AND SPAN SAFE FROM FOES Army Engineers See No Danger in San Francisco Defensive Position. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 28.— Enemy aerial bombers would have & slim chance of bottling up San Fran- cisco’s harbor, or even of destroying the new $32,000,000 Golden Gate Bridge, in the opinion of Army Engi- neers here. Col. W. Goff Caples of the Engineer- ing corps told an interviewer today the chance of bombing down the 4,200-foot suspension span would be very small. He said it would be almost im- possible for the heaviest known bomb to cut the suspension cables, more than 3 feet in diameter and that even if the bridge were wrecked it still would not be a bar to ships. The round bridge cables would be difficult to hit, he said, and even if struck probably would deflect a bomb, “In the almost inconceivable used exactly the same in French as in English—larmes de crocodile. Prob- ably one of the oddest expressions to rear platform crowded and no one | constructed because his wife liked the | 80 American, however, is this: “Etre inside. Second class consists of the canals in Venice. rear half of the inside of the bus and e the seats are wooden. First class seats, the front ones inside, have luxuriously soft leather upholstering. As in London, the conductor comes around to collect your fare aiter you have taken your seat and you pay only for as far as you are going. ® x % x ‘Watching the King Eat. Inside the Palace of Versailles you can stand on the same parquet floor where any Frenchman, if ne was wigged and properly dressed, was per- mitted to stand and peer through a barrier of Swiss guards to watch King Louis XIV and the royal family eat. Or you can visit the King's bed room, where Louis XIV held special audi- ences each morning before arising and each evening before going to sleep. It was here that Moliere accepted the job of making the King's bed, so he | could have the opportunity of persuad- ing the monarch to allow his comedies to be staged before the court. Despite Some French Slang. America has no monopoly on slang. | | There are expressions that are used |every day whose meaning no dic- | tionary gives. You have to ask a Frenchman to find out what they| mean. For example: | Monter a l'echelle. Literally, “to| climb a ladder,” it actually means “to take a joke seriously.” Donner des coups d’epee dans l'eau. | | Literally, “to give sword cuts in| | it is used to mean “doing | something futilely.” | Lever 'e pied. “To lift a foot,” that is, “to flee secretly.” | Se piquer le nez. “To prod the | nose,” that is, “to become intoxicated.” The expression “crocodile tears” is| | dans le beaux draps.” Literally, “to be within the lovely sheets,” to the Frenchman it means “to be in any | troublesome situation.” Next—“The Way Home,” the concluding article of this series.) 'i}'w’,? 7 FALLIS (.4 %/ FEEDING TIME 4 Right now is the best time to fertil- ize and _condition your shade trees. Estimates fur- nished without cost or obligation. 19 Years' Satisfactory Service. i The Forman & Biller I Tree Expert Co. WA _ Arlington, Va. Clar. 567 e all the formality with which the sov= | ereign went to bed, however, it is re- | ported now that he found the room so | chilly that, after holding his audiences | and bidding his courtiers good night, | he crept away from the state bed to a smaller but warmer bed chamber. | It is the formal gardens that in-| trigue Americans, however, gardens | with geometrical flower beds, no two‘ alike, all beautiful—or the green- | sward leading to the artificial canal nearly a mile long that Louis XIV had NATIONAL Watermatic A—15 chance,” he said, “that the bridge should be so damaged that both towers should crumple over just enough to let the bridge floor down to the water surface, a few hours work with oxy- acetylene or electric torches would suffice to cut all steel loose and let it fall to the bottom of the gate. 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