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Winter -- such winter as Paris is familiar with -- has set in, to make itself at home. The gardeners have stripped the squares and public gardens of their last flowers; the trees and the grass and the bare sod are powdered with snow. When one says 'as white' or 'as pure' as snow, one must never think of Paris snow, for it is brown, black, gray, -- everything except white; and, as if ashamed of its characterless existence, it creeps as soon as possible into the earth.
Full six weeks have passed since the Meinecks took up their abode in 'The Three Negroes. ' In order to increase their means, the Baroness has generously determined to write newspaper articles, although she has a supreme contempt for all journalistic effort, and she has also completed two shorter essays, for which the Berlin 'Tribune' paid her twenty-five marks.