Identifier: bohemianparisoft01morr (find matches)
Title: Bohemian Paris of to-day
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Morrow, William Chambers, 1853-1923 Cucuel, Édouard
Subjects: Bohemianism
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e to send archglances toward our window, and their blushes andsmiles when Bishop sends them sketches of themthat he has made from memory are more thanremunerative. A young Scotch student from Glasgow, namedCameron, has a studio adjoining ours. He is a fine,jovial fellow, and we usually assist him to disposeof his excellent brew of tea at five oclock. EveryThursday evening there was given a musical chezlui, in which Bishop and I assisted with mandolin andguitar, while Cameron played the flute. For theseoccasions Cameron donned his breeks and kilt, anddanced the sword-dance round two table-knivescrossed. The American sonos strike him as beinofstrange and incomprehensible. He cannot under-stand the negro dialect, and wonders if America isfilled with negroes and cotton plantations ; but heis always delighted with Bishops Down on theFarm. Life begins at five oclock in our court. The oldgentleman beats his rugs, the milk-bottles rattle, thebread-carts rumble, Madame Giote opens her milk- 26
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OUR COURT-YARD OUR STUDIO stand, and the concierges drag the ash-cans out intothe court, where a drove of rag-pickers fall uponthem. These gleaners are a queer lot. Individualsand families pursue the quest, each with a distinctpurpose. One will seek nothing but bones, glass,and crockery ; another sifts the ashes for coal ; an-other takes only paper and rags ; another old shoesand hats ; and so on, from can to can, none inter-fering with any of the others. The dogs are the firstat the bins. They are regularly organized in workingsquads, travelling in fours and fives. They are quiteadept at digging through the refuse for food, andthey rarely quarrel ; and they never leave one binfor another until they have searched it thoroughly. The swish of water and a coarse brush broom an-nounces the big, strong woman who sweeps the gut-ters of the Rue St.-Andre-des-Arts. With broadsweeps of the broom she spreads the water over halfthe street and back into the grutter, making the wornyellow stones s

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