. Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good. , he made the fol-lowing memorandum, headed, Some curiosities of Paris: Sharp-cracking whips; cabmens white glazed hats ; hatlesswomen; funeral processions ; also les noces ; fried potatoes ;public cigar-lighting gas jets; fish-women with a basket oneach arm, and perhaps three fish in each; hand-carts drawnby harnessed men ; womens hand-carts loaded with fruit,vegetables, beans, and flowers, the women enormous, strong,wooden-
. Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good. , he made the fol-lowing memorandum, headed, Some curiosities of Paris: Sharp-cracking whips; cabmens white glazed hats ; hatlesswomen; funeral processions ; also les noces ; fried potatoes ;public cigar-lighting gas jets; fish-women with a basket oneach arm, and perhaps three fish in each; hand-carts drawnby harnessed men ; womens hand-carts loaded with fruit,vegetables, beans, and flowers, the women enormous, strong,wooden-shod; monstrous three-horse omnibuses; long andnarrow high two-wheeled carts ; huge horses; processions ofschool-children ; pack-men who are also bootblacks; funeraldecorations at house doors ; countless small newspapers ; vastarray of trashy books prettily got up; square yards of pho-tographs of Salon pictures of the nude hung up in shopwindows ; acres of sharply worded manifestoes, political andsuch, posted up on walls ; also whole speeches in the Cham-ber or the Senate, and innumerable public notices headed Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite ; pretty theatre
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