The Paris Boulevards

In no other streets in the wide world can one see such variod types as on tho grand boulevards of Paris. Why, a trip throngb theiu, on top of an omnibus, froru the Bastille to the Madeloine - and it takes pnrnaps an haar - will givo you a kaleidoscopic view of lifo to be found nowhere else. At the Bastille, the Boulevard dos filies du Calvaire and du Temple, you meet the laboriug classes, on Suudays in their "bestest best" and on weekdaya in white blouses and cotton jaokets. Beyond the Place do la Renublique the picture ohanges. Here are the little merchauta and shopkeepers and some largo ones too. Farther on, up near Rue Vivienne, nevv blood enters this great artery of Paris - it is tinged with a golden sheen, tor we are intheheartof the exchanges, amoug brokers and coulissiers - aye, among just such types as Zola drevv frorn for bis book eutitled "Money. " Now the shops are beooming more gay and beanMful, the cafes more elegant, and the siren voices of Paris mak its joys oven more alluring and more tempting. To appreciate ityou must do more :hau view it from an outsider's standpoint. You must take part in it, live in it, and for the time being forget that you ever wero anything but a confirmed and hardened boulevardier. There, fo'low ïny advice, and I will guarantee that you will see Paris ns Paris is and not as tourists see or describe it. ■ Si t down with me at the terrasse of vonder cafe and watch the stroam of humanity as it flows by. What a cosmopolitau throng! Rich and poor, merciiants and clerks, unmistakable Britishers, blasé journalists, fetchiug looking actressos. chin little Parisiennes of the petite bourgeoisie, newsboys and beggars - aye, and Americans, too - all "touching elbows, " as tho Freuch say Is it uot dizzy to look upon, in its whirling activity, its abandoned merrymaking? See that young exquisite with pointed patent leather boots? Poorfellow! He has mislaid his brain and might find it there He is one of the society men of