LIFE IN PARIS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1921, 2 December 1913, Page 2

LIFE IN PARIS.

The nsro for afternoon amusements in Paris is •■rawing every year, and tho 1 various kinds of matinees that one sinus nowadays arc- bewildering, writes a Paris correspondent. Tho Champs Elvsees Theatre, Femina, tho Marigny —to ouoto only three places—have something 011 every afternoon, cither for the jeimc fille, less enlants, or ior i'rrown-iiD3, and this season wo arc to have more music iii tho attcniuon than heretofore —a thing a great many foreigners, especially women who are staving in Iritis filono, will wclcomo. Of conferences tTtoro arc no end, csycci* ally of those gay, lta!f-serious conferences wliieli are demonstrated by a singer, an actor, or a musician. Sometimes tlioy iire very good, sometimes they are very bad, ami often they are just mediocre, bat always people ilock to them, laen there are tho two skating rinks., tho Palais de Glace and the ruo St, Didier, and tho many places where one goes to dance, or learn to dance, the celebrated Taiier). It is very amusing to hoar people talk of their different Tangos, i'iaeh one seems to think he or she lias found the one that .is most correct, most graceful, and most to be desired 111 every way, and tho people who do not dar.ee it at all are as scorithil as they are demodes. Tho moro serious sido of liFe, which includes real study and the attendance of proper lcctures, is iust as tlirilliinr to thoso wiio like that sido of life better than tho other, and on the left bank of the Seine, as welt as on the right, there is much activity. All the Sorbonno lectures aro beginning, all the studios are opening, the- Conservatoire is busy again, and ah t.lO maiiv otlier elasscs wh.ieh go to make up tho students' quarter are in tliat state of early enthusiasm which always marks the beginning to the term. Such a chorus of mental activity makes Pans 0110 of the most inspiring places in tho world, and in spite of oneself the current carries one away each year, and leaves one at the end worn cut- but iiappv in tho thought that at least ono j has learned something further of the many sides of life, and can, therefore, understand and sympalhiso still a little inoro. vitli struggling humanity in its many phases.