The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-11-03

LOLA MoNrEZ OPINION OF socIE-
TY IN PARTS AND NEW YORK

TY IN PARIS AND NEW YORK
Manners and Motrimony at Home and
.a@ arr abroad. $50
Lola Montez, in her series of nondescrip
lectures in Boston. delivered on Saturday
evening gives the following observations OF
! the men and women of Paris:
I'm Paris every one is an artist, dowr
even to the cook, who prepares everything
according to the latest scientific manners
| Ladies, also, in choosing the colors of their
dresses, do SO artistically; in fact. every
thing in Paris is art. There are artists in
everything artist tailors, artists in cutting
nails. and once she saw on sign Artists
| in Blacking Boots
George Sand was now the most remarka-
BILE woman in Paris ; she is now about sixty
years of age, and a large muscular female,
with large eyes. Amy one who reads her
writings will get good idea of the woman.
You meet her in every place in Paris,
dressed up in mems clothes. This she
does, not out of curiosity, but SO that she
may go everywhere unnoticed and unknown
and in this way collect facts for works.
Through her friends, when young, she was
married to a fool. She will talk upon
serious matters-such as philosophy and
theology, but it is utterly impossible to get
her to converse upon small matters. She
has led wild, strange life, without SUMS
ray to tighten her path. The story of her
immoral conduct, Us propagated by the
American press, is an utter fabrication, for
thcre is no woman IN Europe who leads
more virtuous life. Margaret Fuller, dis
tinguished American authoress, has had the
intellect to understand her and the courage
to defend her. But what need George
Sand care for society, o-called. par ercet-
ience, for when that passed away into vapor
and is no more, her life and talents will
live in the memory of thousands.
Lola Montez said that when in Paris
she occasionally met Rachel. but she never
was a promii.en member of any party
She never made any witticisms or brilliant
repartees. She had no great talent for
conversation her only talent being for de-
livery, and in this she is unsurpassed. La
MARITIME she had met on business, but never
in company. He lives In dreams, ana
seems to be developed in beautiful world
of his own. His wife is an English woman
and has little sympathy for French society,
and that may, in some measure, account
for his lonely life. ....
'sShe next referred to one who had but
recently passed away from earth-Eugene
Sue. His courage in avowing his opinions
in the face of the wholesale opposition and
threats, made him one of the heroes of the
age. He was an honest, sincere, truth
loving man, and it will be long before Paris
can fill the place death has rendered vacant.
She next alluded to the fact that vice had
the habit of going naked in Paris, while in
London, New York and elsewhere it dress
ed itself up in the garb of respectability
and even piety-so that, externally, it
ceased to be apparent. But what is said
of the immortality of Paris is more apparent
than real. 1t may be wondered why she
spoke so much about the immortality of
women and it is because no great amount
of it is expected from the men. She stated
that there was no place in the world where
young girls were SO watched as in Paris.
They are looked after closely by their
and should it get abroad that this
surveillance has been even for a moment
abandoned, the young girl is in danger of
losing a match. Even when the marriage
contract is signed, very little additional
liberty is allowed. She is never allowed to
see her lover alone-the mother is present;
and, in additional to this. they are obliged
to sit on opposite sides Of the room. She
lola Montez) wondered how the girls on
this side of the Atlantic would relish being
thus courted at arms length, and in the
presence of their papas and mammas.
But when once married all restraint was
thrown off, and she is then as unrestrained
Us she was before confined. But it must
be remembered that in Paris marriage does
not take place from the same reasons that
it does here. There was no marriage for
love. but merely nnion of property and
purses, and frequently the young lady does |
not see her intended husband till the mar
riage contracts signed. Generally speak
ing, young lady has TO buy her husband !
there Madame Lola A1ontez then related !
several anecdotes to show how far pecunia- |
nv matters went in the marriage. She said |
a peasants son was about to marry young |,
girl. When the marriage contract was
about being signed. the young man said.
Remember that the cherry-tree at the !
over end of the garden is mine.' No.
said the father, 1t remains mine Them
replied the bridegroom, i won't marry
your daughter ~