The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 10, 1900, Page 2

2 THE SUNDAY CALL ' ' HERF fs a grim fascination in visit- E ing this Paris Exposition. Every- thing 1s so uncertain and so insecure that one grows to think himself a hero for walking about!in the most ordinary agara on a tight thrown togetiter duce an effect and The falling of the at all to pro- her the cofns. ndays ago to & tdge tw as _ the generally willing to aid them Pari are ans very who can afford to rowering the priced They Not at all have been losing during all of these weeks; now they must catch up. The fever, Instead. of ! abating, becomes more delirious, and ‘woe be unto youwho Abing possible to hush up the matter, and will arrive at its height. Someof the raises that have been made on account of the ex- position are really very ridiculous. For instance, camphor and quinine at the drugstores are more than twice as expen- sive as formerly. Candles have gone up fashion, while to make the circuit In the consiger even cotton dress goods, electric tramway one of the linings, whalebones #nd things of that numerous bridges »s the most pro- description have taken exposition prices Hotlbted recklaas daring. One “The blanc s independent MRl thatithe 1nas 25 as if she owned the whole exposition, and they tell me, cab fares will be vide the honors. The > of having “‘eseaped” after an a noon at the fair 1deed, when the Is worth traveling many to experf- of the good ence. | It renders the ba act’ of being ring en- rlive a genuine delight 1 the possession of unsmashed legs a most thrill- ing pleasure. Th simply being ething of a etime but when nine lives wer rificed and many whe: persons wounded has proven beneficlal in &sks me or three t per starting a few invc ti still, T have fare I hasten to deliver it rills m been advised by some onc who knows. With his imperialism. is, most wheresf he speaks to avold the érowded Mishty sir” I "! oet utter as 1 days at the exposition. . This person as. ‘What he Do I poss sures me that the structures are far from €lse that would like? Perhar being solid and substantial. It is now Jacket or ol would t f some use sald in undertones that in reaiity fifty- 1o vou!” : six people were killed by the falling of The moment that he s nisked the bridge, but of course there Is no way around the corner it occurs that 1 of corroborating nor of denying this ru- sught it out with him. “Well, mor. The authoritles are doing every- the mext time I'll not be treated in that fashlon,” I decla 2 fpost veh the next time It is the same old story. I am a doomed victim of these Svengalis. last the proprietor yielded, though most vated raflroads, letting the world gape in on one’s private lite, while the “natural,” the unshockable Parisians, they who have no “mysterles’ of any sort. are apoplectic with indigndtion over an elevated side- walk. The Parlsfan still’ has the fdea that when he 18 at home he mustn't be looked at. The finest houses in Pafls are sur. rounded by real convent wails without a possible peep hole. In Paris the things that are legitimate must never be seen; most as mechanic 1t is only the illegitimate that is flaunted true, of la carelessly before the eyes of the world. have been t the art of gold with some sue position wil In the “Pe Exhibiti When monsieur is at home, dining re- spectably with the lady who is his wife, he bursts with fury because the passers- by lodk’in upon him, yet they may look ; please when as long and as often as t he dines upon the bo ard with the Study lady who ig not his w Hest. 3 Sousa’'s band is one « the attractivns lazu of the exposition. There is a life and go Desid ut it and a lack of/ “classicism,” as objec e it in Burope, that is really deli- exami f It Is like a cooling ice r a very Smithing. In this sam vy dinner. After all, ther re me tifu ld ta n the w who like ‘“Home, ame Home'" .ast Rose of S than ho like Wag~ ery yet op portant cour Th if they would on up.”* But n't “own up” and of course it is use of education that y ta b little about visitors. 1 never aff to k thing going. I often think of what Mark Twain said on & récent occasion, that Wagner's a g deal better than ft a comfort to know wsiec was mmded. N cans are th was the Ame ing in the expscted numbers, the can is undoubtedly here in - ARBING t thas he That T am not the only person in'the t::l.\'u{;.,nt glory. l'w; coming out Sosie comid " quite’ ag fits Na5id in whotn fhe Paris “cogiier”. in- Art Gallery I took a chair a s > . vl e oue spires this:indefinable awe 1 have lately he band iwithout L;:v'l‘?.r:g\k at it was idea that ¢ .S = The unwary stran- learned to my satisfaction. A young man *© # - l” Sudd ».\‘ t \'V.L. p “Dixie . Ia & that gers who were ex- Conducting the Paris branch of an En- and s Suwaties River . ? pected to arrive in Slish law, firm related to me his experi- °0UTSe _with the i t A = countless troops to ence at one of the downtown. hotels, ’ “"‘“4 the un: I\W"‘l\'«l ¥ g ; pour: out slathers of Whither he had gone to engage apartmen l‘ from that erowd was something 3 which tton money at. the feet for a very wealthy client. The “expost- 'emembered. It came spontanc r . i of the Parisians .tion price” oi.the rocms, the proprietor ''¢_throats of several hundr - f - Ve not yet ap-‘fold him, would be §250 a day,\this, how- C*NS Who had thus acci peared. . The hotelsf ‘ever, (o include.a carriage, with the ser- ‘oo Womer and ; - and pensfons 'AFE viiioma footman and aicoastiman, SHe o0 the chaifs, shouting : t w ) ; b halt. empty, 'lackifEi o 5e0 the’ condition to his client ana re- oo, While a man ir the crow ¥ p even th usual posed three big American cheers a spring crowds, Of @A WOrdsRX, telegram, “Terms satis-, gears and Stripes. In the midst o course, there is al- TOCtOFy, DUt Insist on . contract’ being g,ueq proquced & huge Amcrica 1 ways the probabil- When the solicitor presented (pich he waved energeticall v M s < t in 3 ity that the crowds at the hotel with 2 prepared.con- out a most magnificent patr : e will arrive later,but ‘ tract the proprictor refused to sign It oo.con ona all entirels fspromptu r sak dt present some- “I cannot sign.a contract including the o " % b . ¥ E thing like degpair I8 services of a coachman,” he explained. In 1G-0F S S Sporiam t o 4 : : in " the atmospherc. Parls it is {mpossible to know what the S€en at the Expos : . « Later it will be t00 coachmen are gaing to do. They may go Russian building s hot for people t0 Te- on o strike right In the midst of eve made to France. < main any length of can guarantee the services of re yquare, 'm e Lo ‘ o TN SREl R Ty rvant, but not of a coachman ms and p e g S s ‘l‘]“‘"sf & e ‘He expressed himseif as willing to ta cartographic piet: e . s - Cidem it 1 not “fo Off 8 conslderable sum and leave out the e *od hacking EEEpIve:. The seas : grand chic” to be ge, but the, solicitor had instru ‘“‘" s m:v;v:-‘: f('vun wf n 2 hére during those s to Insist on the carrlage being in- e ¢ m-. “h“-r‘ ):k»‘ ;‘ <' "‘rl .v i untains > months. he pechic d. Me remhained obstinate and at gl ot FEIEIER = labradorit lazull, agates and onyxes, mal pay - the exorbitant unwillingly, to contract for $20 a day for $ > m a ad prices that the ho- his wife and child and a couple of ser- "“"_".e“:"‘ be = dadig bk o bland ed > < tels are asking Will vants. This will give some idea of the Ly i o aim @& valugble m nun 8 st have® selidlent e N : clally produced by Russia. T not prices that the big hotels are asking. a interest in the ex- cipal_cities and towns of Fr. - ‘ position to suffer to The moving sidewalk Is creafing'a great designated by varfous' precious Eve side M n See 1t/ Students Geal of dissatisfaction in Paris: This in- Paris being marked with a la r hope roupier se and teachers, those 8enious.and comfortable structure is not mord the size of a hazel mut i e to whom the expo- confined to the exhibition grounds, but phire emeralds, - rubles, gition would be the Winds through several streets, very close opals, jacinths. topazes, greatest- inspiration, to the secbnd-story windows. Now, the pearls are employed for the & are forced out of Parisian is so far behind the times that names of the towns and rivers . Parly by the ab- he objects to performing his morning ab- done in gold characters, and the 1 ¢ surdly extravagant lutions and otherwise revealing the se- vaiue of the labor aside from its s prices. The emp:iy crets of his boudoir for the amusement tific interest {8 put at £160,000. This i wh houses that up 10 of passers-by. How inconsistent people tiful map is a real triumph of rosie date m;v”rv_“;_»_m‘llrgfi are! In'America, where prudery thrives smith's art and makes one ¢ N ::;:;n:w hl:;‘\‘e “:‘r’n ‘g? the exnv;u ]or putting clothes on the cient and forgotten, ehef d'oc such ‘and a hali—aboy " produced the slight Yenuses and the Apollos, we see nothing as the “breast plate of cunn nt or days g St tandency oW e ‘particularly’ shocking in the'idea of ele- scrfbed in the book of Exodus, pains in several tee the twelve rows of preelous stones jaw, the sums and ¢ o ing to the names of the childrer €ide becoming swoll re so It.is gertainly most regrettabl tive to pressure t is these days of so much jewelry w so little goldsmithing. In fact, the ers of Bepvenuto Cellini and of the Angl Saxon monks who framed their missals in.gold and.silver and gems is almost a lost art, the tiaras, brooches and rings of modern society being turned out al- xtremely painful crease in sev then gradually irely seems to be purely a phenc climatization, for all new through the complaint, a never to recur. These for it