FOREST AND STREAM 
137 
March, 1921 
T HE mercurial and amusement-lov- 
ing character of Parisians is best 
exhibited on the boulevards in the 
evening, and more especially after the 
closing of the theaters. Then, every 
table in front of the restaurants is oc- 
cupied by the gay populace and visitors, 
talking and chatting, smoking and 
drinking and eating, as they watch 
the throng promenading along the wide 
sidewalks. 
Paris is the handsomest city in the 
world owing to its magnificent streets, 
its fine buildings of uniform height, and 
the absence of skyscrapers, street cars, 
railroads and trolley poles in the cen- 
tral and business districts. Some day, 
and not far distant, our own tracks and 
street cars will go to the scrap heap 
and be replaced with comfortable motor 
busses. The hatred of everything Ger- 
man was very manifest in Paris, and 
was exhibited at every opportunity. The 
Wagner opera of Lohengrin was an- 
nounced to begin a season at the opera 
house during our stay, but an hour or 
two before the initial performance was 
to begin thousands of students and 
other young men, armed with clubs and 
staves, after parading on the boule- 
vards surrounded the opera house and 
compelled the withdrawal of the hated 
German opera. And inasmuch as our 
tickets were useless for that occasion 
we spent the rest of the evening in the 
cafes chantants along the Champs 
Elysees. 
In our European experience, opera, 
whether serious, bouffe or comic, was 
nowhere more appreciated and better 
supported than in Paris, and nowhere 
had we seen it as well rendered or pre- 
sented. The poorest operatic per- 
formances we had seen were, strange as 
it may seem, in Italy, with the sole ex- 
ception of the initial performances of 
Verdi’s Othello, at Milan. This may be 
owing to the fact that Italian singers 
of any note leave Italy as soon as pos- 
sible for other more appreciative cen- 
ters, where their merits are recognized 
and compensation is more liberal. 
The music loving people of Spain, 
owing to their sunny natures, are more 
inclined to opera of a light or comic 
character. In our own country we are 
rather omnivorous in our musical 
tastes, and enjoy everything, if meri- 
torious, from Rossini, Donizetti and 
Verdi to the Girl of the Golden West, 
and so on to Wang or the Pink Lady, 
and nowhere else are artistes better ap- 
preciated and rewarded. 
THE HAUNTSJOF THE 
WILD TURKEY 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 104 ) 
of course, the pioneer conservationist, 
and it is greatly due to his Conserva- 
tion Policies, and the inspiration he 
gave to the young manhood of the coun- 
try, that we have changed from a sys- 
tem of wanton destruction to one of pa- 
triotic conservation. 
The steadily increasing occupation of 
the country and the constant destruc- 
tion of the forests are rapidly depleting 
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