New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-05
EXIRAFAGANT LIVING At PARIS.

Translated for TIE Tribune from the Independence Beige
PARIS, Oct 10, 1886.
After three months absence find here my
turn Paris which is yet incomplete and muuted,
out Of breath with its excursions, shaking it, travelling
dress collecting it's scattered members, scrapng its
walls mailing down its carpets, and preparing its Win
| ter quarters.
Some serious thing, ike trouble presentment,
shaken superstition, has miiled the brow of this mod
| EN- Athens. BY continually saying put off seri-
Gus matters till Tomorrow it seems if the day Of
| serious matters had come at last.
Crises, financial, monetary, industrial, God knows
what ale weighing upon the general situation Gold
is coming down; silver being Inundated, humiliates
in its tuin its old lord and MASTER and even Big coarse
sous are much sought for and caresscd that they
begin to believe that they count for something in the
msss of social wealth. There are people who see
symbols in these things. As to paper the time seems
to be coming when more will be made of 1t than
Gros Rene made of the Marnettes love letters.
One must not laush-a smile is all that is allowable
at the embarassments which this multitude of econom
col phenomena piled up for SO many years, have In
tIoduced Ito society. The worst thing is think, that
governments do little or nothing aboutit; and that
these diseases Of the social body are so much like
those over which ply scians do nothing but pro-
nOULcc Inc NOfuS, luI OF StlSc uul NVd va SNVuVNb
| Let Nature work.
Ii in the crush of these sharp crises which are threat
er ing society it were permissible to humble writer Of
chronicles TO point out very powerful cause Of per-
turbstop, and one which s too much overlooked, l
would name what call the Crisis of Ertraragdaee.
We live in society which is stretching by senseleSs
Efforts after ambitious aspirations Nobody can APP
near hat he Isl everybody wants 70 appear what he
| is not 1t is general change OF classification IN
which everybody is standing on the tips OF his toes
and scarg the next round of the social LADDER sure 10
find himself very much not at no ne there ms am
| bton and its motives and means are IN the human
heart hut in these latter days causes apparent! ln-
significant have developed this tendency almost to IN
sanity Feminine toilets carry social revolution SUI
leply concealed in silk gause, gimp, point dAenSon
founces and the rest. The equilibrium OF all domes'
dc baance-sheet is disturbed for long years. The
,heater-rror of manners-has already betra! ed the
| vice of the age.
For the last few days they have been playing nj the
Gsmnasea .atirical low conedy-LS 1o'eftes I'P1'
ecvsea second edition of the Camp des B0urg uses
fashionable lady in it, by means of t"en'! yards oil
six trimmed with lace, succeeds in eAhausang the
pockets of her husband, and getting in-ulted oy
Lovcace of the Bebe Club who takes her to be one o.
| AliC lulNNHuts ol INC street. M tHC Wv :.
have been playing for month with olerable success,
q well written drama which shows the Pdurrss de
| Pens. There is in this of the misery which
| tuius haId-organ, or scrapes fiddle on the
bridges The son Of miser, which il presents is ,aiery
~ a Mack dress The subject is vast philosophic,
and it leads to immense developments. This sort OF
misery luks everywhere, under the seducing drapcry
Of a fac,4ous luxury. Go into parlcr. ask names
and conditions; You will be confoundcd
WHO is this woman, whose brow is hs.,ed with
pcalsshe hGs jus; deluged the divan with An ocean
Of laoes o.
Her uame is Mme. Beuot or soneth;ns Ike tbat,