Sunday in Paris.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3263, 23 July 1889, Page 2

Sunday in Paris.

A Paris correspondent writes to an English paper thus:—"The AngloSaxon exhibitors in Paris liavo taken a step which cannot fail to give annoyance to thousands of French visitors lo the Exhibition, Sunday in Paris is the day of all dajs when everyone flocks to the Oamp do Mars. Busy professional men, shopkeepers,, a artisans and labourers, all choose tho \ only day in the week when they have a holiday to go to the great Exhibi- • tion. But the English and American exhibitors have passed a resolution that they will stay away from the Exhibition themselves, and on a recent Sunday, in many cases they covered over their exhibits with cloth, Such conduct as this is gross'm uncivil, These exhibitors, when tlieyT applied for permission to exhibit, know that the Exhibition would be open on Sunday, nnd therefore, if they thought Sunday opening so utterly damnalilo they should havo abstained- altogether from coining to Paris, Having come they should abido by the maxim, 'Do in Home as Eome does.' Moreover tho method they havo adopted is deliberately offensive, That the English and American attendants at tho exhibits should ask for leavo of absence for themselves for one day a week is intelligible and commendable, but there is no reason why glass cases containing soap or bottles of perfume _ or ladies' dresses, or gentlemen's £ boots should bo covered up, The things will not run away of their pwn accord, and there aro plenty of French policemen about id see that no onq steals then;.