Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1876 — Paris in Summer. [ARTICLE]

Paris in Summer.

The correspondent of the New York. Tribune finds Paris the most tolerable of great cities m hot weather. He gives as a reason for Parisian comfort the fact that Frenchmen live out-doors as much as possible during a heated term, while Americans shut themselves up in-doors, or sit on a stoop.or a curb-stone, as in New York. He pictures all Paris dining oa the boulevards in a lively description, which makes us wish the fashion might be introduced into American cities. He admits that there are drawbacks to summer enjoyment in the brilliant Capital. The asphalt has a way of liquefying to about the consistency and the temperature of molten lava; the brilliant limestone of which the city is built reflects the sun with uncomfortable fierceness, and the inordinate amount of gas in all the thoroughfares heats and thickens the atmosphere,, and makes you feel on a July night as if you were in a vast concert hall. But there are a hundred persuasions to invite you out of doors. T7»e boulevards are a long chain of cases, each with a little promontory of chairs and tables projecting into the sea of asphalt. You may dine & the Champs jfilysees at a table spread under the trees, beside an ivied wall, and pay more for vour dinner, though it will not be so good as at a restaurant on the boulevard. Yon may indulge in * cheap idyl by taking a short sail m & penny steamer down the Seine to Auteuil, and dining in a guingette on the .bank of the stream, where the table is spread under a trellis that scratches your head, and fried fish is the chief article on the bill of fare. Or yon may dine at the Bois de Boulogne, at a restaurant near the Cascade and the Longchamps race-course. Here are stately trees, picturesquely grouped, irreproachable tables, ana carriages rolling np with high-stepping horses and depositing all sorts of ladies. The drive back through the woods is charming, and the air always cool, no matter how hot the city is when you reach it.