| Show EPISTLE allom kl ril CL paris france 1882 the aon ion at paris ai at paris dioro iliin elsewhere consists in a small number of privileged persons doing what the vulgar do amusing themselves when tho masic ij nrc boiking woi king waling when they aio bleeding bleeping Ble when they aro waking and going out for n rid when they anre in tho workshop crat abo counter this is why alio cream of fashion do cot go to tho on and rarely shows at the bois ahlo ax days out of seven vanity is bouc of iho most qualities of human nature and nothing can conquer this dash o to bo distinguished from tho base crowd it ia in vain that you hear people talk about equality tho way that most people and amongst choso alic fionch understand equality if eliat they nio equals of those that aro them for ft modest shopkeeper a retired business man or a well to do banker yotaro ol 01 course alio equal of irad or of ilo coito do baccarat but you of course could not condescend to anko oft your hat to the man alio blacks 3 our boots or alic groom w lio drives your horbes with all their democratic instincts alio french aro essentially senti ally a proud people and in modern france the chas taken the place of ilo old nobility tho defects of which it has inherited and alic good qualities of which it has neglected I 1 do not bay that civilized man is in the wrong add I 1 am DO l in absolute equality I 1 tiko parisian as it is brilliant and thoughtless jealous of its titles and blasens bla sons of its fortune but still charitable at bottom and full of humanity hero no aro then in alio bois it is let us suppose any time between four and bix it is a brilliantly fine day and the artificial and natural landscape is the thai could bo fouad vc havo taken up our elation in tho promenade on bouc side of tho lake the famous tour du lac as it is called because no one ever makes the amr there is an interminable double line of carriages and all paris is defiling before us 13 a rich equipage on alic jox is a coachman fat as a canon powdered and curled alic horses aro wo thoroughbred high alie door panels are adorned with a ducal coronet on alic footboard at tho jack are two valets in gorgeous livery in alic cai ariage is a young aej beautiful woman tho bearer of ono of the names of france and on tho scat in front of her hiis her little daughter playing with a white greyhound grey hound slender and delicate but all that glitters is not gold and behind tho carriage of the duchess choso whoso name nay n ay bo seen amongst the lady patronesses patro nesses of half the charitable institutions of paris follows iho emart agent do change or dish oriest bobiy who sends his wife to the opera covered with false diamonds and on the very day when he intends to take the night express for belgium does not fail to show himself in tho bois a few houra before his departure tacio he his clients with that motion of the liand so familiar to paris ians and which his replaced alic now old fashioned mining of the hat the poor victims do not the blon that they are about to 10 chive how can they not have confidence fi in a man who has just bought a new pair of liand some bays to be or seem to be arc tho two poles tho alpha and the omega of tho society that passes slowly before us ia those brilliant equipages equi pages and on those prancing hacks who is that woman reclining so languidly on he downy cushions of her victoria with what studied graco the waves of her dress fall around her what harmony and artistic simplicity of toilette 1 what seductions in that incomparable face what a fascination in that glanco that invites your own it w boedo ra it is maico or as elio is bow called fanny biancho d or do lizy in choit it is a fillo do in arbic a marblo heart let her pass nest to her carriage is the dg bait of a successful bookmaker then abail cr a journalist and hen the brilliant line is by a humble cab laden with a family of lon facca anglo saxons wearing imps biblo dresses and miraculous hats let thorn pass 1 they are happy and happily for themselves they anro proudly unconscious of their incon grioua costume wait still a few minutes and you will see tho popular actress of the day cs chango giesting giec ting with the cx royal duke who enjoys lier favors tho princes of fianco two or three political notabilities abilities not and a few artistic and literary such in a pale sketch of tho bos on a afternoon before the departure of nil for the or the country |
