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Paris (Town and county-seat of Lamar)

a town and county-seat of Lamar co., Tex.; on the Texas and Pacific, Texas Midland, and other railroads; 64 miles E. of Sherman. It contains a court house, hospitals, private schools, National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. It has manufactories of furniture, plows, cotton-seed oil, brick, and large wholesale and shipping interests, wagons, blind and sash industry, etc. Pop. (1910) 11,269; (1920) 15,040. 118 PARIS, DECLARATION OF -secretly entered the nuptial hall and flung down a golden apple, on which was inscribed "The Prize of the Fairest."

All the females claimed the apple as their own; and the angry feeling was only partially appeased by appointing an umpire, and allowing Minerva, Juno, and Venus to stand as candidates before the judge. So general had the reputation of the shepherd Paris become that he was unanimously selected for that responsible office. His decision fell to Venus. This judgment of Paris so enraged Minerva and Juno that they vowed eternal enmity against both Paris and his family. Priam, having been subsequently informed of the preservation of his son, and finding him so noble in appearance and heroic in his bearing, at once acknowledged him as his son.

Some time after his restoration his father dispatched him to Greece on some political mission, when, remembering the promise made to him by Venus, that he should possess the most beautiful woman in the world for his wife, and having heard the report of the surpassing attractions of the Spartan Helen, he steered his fleet for Lacedæmon, and visiting the court of Menelaus, King of Sparta, where he found the lovely Helen, who had become the wife of the Spartan king, far exceeded all the accounts he had received of her fascination and beauty. While the monarch was away Paris persuaded Helen to elope with him to Troy, where they were welcomed by Priam and installed in Ilium.

This violation of good faith, and the breach of hospitality committed by the Trojan, so enraged the Spartan king, that he called upon the other states of Greece to make a common cause of the war of extermination against Troy.