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Show Paris IjuIIos as Photographers.. The marriageable young ladies In aristocratic aristo-cratic French families are often at a loss as to how they are to employ tho time between the final departure from the convents or tho boarding schools and the arrivul of tho bridegroom. Tho bnls-blancs, tho daily rides, walks and drives in the Bois; the occasional oc-casional visits to the theatre and the opera, the courses of water color drawing, or tho matutinal manipulation of the inevitable piano are not enough to fill up the leisure hours of French yoimg ladydoin. A new pursuit has accordingly been devised de-vised for the occupation of the spare moments of blooming maidens who are awaiting what Ben Jonson calls the "Goblin Matrimony." This is the practice of photography, and we . are assured that a photographic apparatus is now fitted up in the boudoir of nearly overy young heiress in the noble faubourg. Friends, acquaintances, servants anil favorite favor-ite dogs are all faithfully photographed, and Borne of the fair votaries of the art aro said to be remarkably pdroit in using their cameras, which aro all constructed after tho most modern plan. Very recently, too, a young lady who was married "out" of the Faubourg Balnt-Germaln received, among other contributions to her corbeille de noces, or wedding presents, a costly and superb camera, which would not have been disdained dis-dained by Nodar himself. Home Journal. |