Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1910 — TOO DELIGHTFUL PARIS. [ARTICLE]

TOO DELIGHTFUL PARIS.

One of Senator Channcey Dcpeir’i After-Dinner Stories. Senator Depew, lamenting at a dinner ia. Washington the recent Paris flood, said, according to the Louisville Times: “How delightful Paris is! Almost too delightful for study. “A friend of mine sent his son to ParisHo study architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Then, the following June—in time for the Grand Prix, you know—my friend went tver to Paris to see how his boy was getting on. “The boy said he was getting on famously. Father and son, after a delightful luncheon under a tree at Armenonvllle, went sightseeing: They crossed the Seine, looked at the Whistler and the Mac Monnles at the Luxembourg, then turned riverward again, to see a little of the Louvre. “As they drove in their taxcab down a quiet, old fashioned street near the Seine, the father’s Interest was excited by a fine, imposing building, with a spacious courtyard full of fragments of statuary, fine old bits of sjtone carving, casts and so on. “‘What place is that, my boy?’ he .inquired. “Really, '■father, I can’t tell you,’ said the young man. ‘l’m so busy at the Beaux Arts, you know, I get very little time for sightseeing.’ “So the father leaned forward and touAed the chauffeur’s arm. ‘“What place is that, my man?’ he asked. “ ‘The Ecole des Beaux Arts, monsieur!’ was the reply."