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in the Museum Courtyard* Toulouse.
A WANDERER coming from
Provence, westward, to the
historic capital of Languedoc,
and looking for the first
time lipon the ancient towers of
Toulouse, may well wonder whether
they are indeed old, so modern is
the appearance of the red brick, after
the gray-gold stones of the Roman
Provence. Old, nevertheless, they are,
though differing in style, as in color,
from any thing to be seen in other
parts of Paris.
The Toulousain gothic has a char
acter all its own; for the true spirit
of northern architecture—that of the
soaring line—never became indige
nous here, says a writer in the Christian
Science Monitor. These*, southerners
accepted it only as a fashion of the
day, to which concessions must be
made, that granted, they proceeded at
once to modify the style, to suit the
iocal traditions of a people that at
heart lcved a horizontal line better
than an aspiring one. So they de
clined to build interior vertical pil
lars—which, moreover, needed large
stones and were very expensive—and
instead they threw great vaults over
wide spaces, broke up their towers
into bays, generally mingled, in a .
very curious fashion, the spirit of the
gothic and the Romanesque. These
are points that strike one about the
great cathedral of St. Sernin in Tou
louse, the largest and finest building
of the soul hern style that is to be seen
in France today.
Cathedral of St. Sernin.
As usual in churches hereabouts,
the building is dark, being lighted by
windows behind the triforium, and not
from a clerestory above. The Roman
esque manner did not relieve its main
walls by distributing part of the
weight along flying buttresses to the
aisles; therefore it dared not build
them very high, nor weaken them by
piercing large windows. Toulousain
congregations, however, never cared
for much light within their churches.
There was already more than enough
Very interesting was my walk round
the church, with the sacristan heside
me, a handsome, kindly man, gentle
and courteous, yet with a certain dig
nity in his manner, as of one who,
though in a humble station, knew well
how to command. I liked the quiet
firmness with which he rebuked the
old women who would chatter too
loudly in the transport.
As we did the round of the church
we talked together. He told me how
deeply he cared for knowledge and
learning, how much he regretted that
•such things meant so little to so many
people of his country. “They are liz
ards who love to lie in the sun; and
it is the sun we must blame"—he
smiled at his jest—“if my fellow
townsmen are neither savants nor
workers, and are too idle to follow up
the idea that their minds seize upon
so quickly. That -is why when we
have energy we do so well. I say
often that some of our best presidents
have come—Mr. Fallieres among them
—from the left bank of the Garonne.”
And with a bow the sacristan left me,
to continue “my studies.” He was the
most eloquent of the many who have
deplored to me the meridional dis
inclination to hard work. There is a
proverb extant: “The men of the Midi
use what the men of the north pro
duce.” The men of the north, I sup
pose, produced that proverb.
Houses are Fascinating.
After the churches—perhaps even
before the churches—her renaissance
hotels are the greatest charm of
Toulouse. And by “hotels” 1 mean
houses, not hostels. Certainly they
are most fascinating, both as speci
mens of architecture of their time,
and as affording an idea of the mag
nificence in which the merchant
princes of that day lived. Almost ail
styles of renaissance are to be seen,
from that of the Hotel Bernuy—transi
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tiouai troin Gothic to the lightest ana
most graceful designs of the new man
ner—to the Hotel d’Asseat, when the
architects had already lost some of
the first pure enthusiasm with which
they viewed Italian art in the days
of Francis I, and onward into the less
refined, though rich and luxuriant
style of the Maison de Pierre, built in
the days of Louis XIII.
The Hotel de Vieux Raisin, I think,
gave me the greatest pleasure, so per
fectly felicitous it is, as seen from the
courtyard. The little loggia, daintily
decorated, the windows all variously
adorned, and showing upon every sill,
pilaster, and headstone, a new device
of scroll, garland, or festoon. Here
two maidens, bearing proudly and
gladly their light lintel border: here
full-cheeked, soft-winged cherubs who
have fluttered down, to rest awhile in
these pleasant places. Beside them
are baskets of fruit, hanging bunches
of grapes and wreaths of flowers—
frail and exquisite little fancies,
carved like love-lyrics that nymphs of
the fountain write with milk-white
fingers upon the walls of their water
grottoes. Elsewhere leaf-words are
written in leaves so naturelike as al
most to tremble in the breeze, afid to
keep the courtyard fresh and cool be
neath the torrid southern sun. Every
where you will find in Toulouse, set
down in stone among her palaces, such
aery gossamer trifles as Joachim du
Bellay and Eemy de Belleau were fash
ioning, during those same years, in
song.
Sitting here I can look out upon the
Place Lafayette, where—because it is
raining heavily—the cabmen sit,
hunched upon the boxes of their blue
cabs with bright red wheels. With
heads sunk down into their shoulders,
like the anthropophagi of Othello’s
story, these Jehus of Toulouse sleep
the idle hours away. One of them has
spread a great faded blue umbrella
so far over himself and over his box
that only his feet are visible. Those
feet recall Tweedledum—or Tweedle
dee, was it—sheltering from the
storm. But there will be no need for
long shelter here. Before an hour has
passed the sun will be warm again
upon the shining pave.
MONEY MADE IN ODD IDEAS
Practically No Limit to Inventions That
Have Been Granted Patents in
United States.
In enumerating some of the strange
patents sanctioned by the patent of
fice an attorney mentions a tornado
proof house, the invention of a New
England man. It is built on a pivot
so that every breeze turns it with its
head to the wind.
Among other inventions is a “pedal
ealorificator,” with, which one can blow
upon one’s toes to warm them. It is
a tube, worn under the clothes, with a
branch leading to each foot and a
mouthpiece at the top. Then there
are a polisher for false teeth—merely
the end of a corncob stuck on a stick;
a sanitary pocket for carrying chew
ing gum, a wooden bit for preventing
snoring, a noiseless alarm clock that
yanks the sleeper’s arm instead of
ringing, another that starts a mechan
ism that throws him out of bed, and a
machine for counting eggs as they are
laid.
Up-to-Date Riches.
“Jones has secured his pile, ail
rig nt.”
“Plenty of the long green, has he?”
“Long green, nothing! I was refer
ring to his coal pile.”—Boston Tran
script.
A Leap-Year Revenge.
"That rich girl the fellows are all
after has a meah disposition.”
“What’s she doing?”
‘•'She says she Is going to propose
to all the men in her set.”
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