Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-07-20

a Psris correspondent makes the following
highly interesting statements
In London, no lady dare walk out unattended
after S O'Clock in the evening, and after IL
O'Clock she will have her eyes anG ears insulted
10 matter how well attended, while at Paris
she nav remain in the streets to any hour Of
The night, and neither have her eyes offended
nor her ears insulted.
How is this happy result accomplished? II
1851 the Official register Of the police Of Paris
showed 400 public girls on It's books; the
number nOw nav be stated at 5000 These
girls, and the houses in which they live, are
Submitted to a series Of stringent laws, which
renders them ~inoxious and inofensive 10 the
community-the police adopting the principle
that. since il lie impossible 10 suppress the evil,
Il should be rendered as inofsnsiVe TO the pub
lie eye and to tie public sslubrity as possible.
An these houses are obliged to be closed at IL
o'clock precisely. The girls are obliged 10 re-
main in the house, andthe windows are always
covered with blinds night and day. A few
girls are permitted here and there to walk up
sad down in front Of their door, from 7 to II
O'Clock precisely, but it is against the law to
secost the passers-by. The houses are visited
oDce a week BY a medical and an Ordinary IN
gpector-reai inspectors, appointed BY Govern
uept. and rot humbugging ward politicians.
Another class Of gtris, and much the Larger
clsss. are those who frequent the public balls,
concerts. and thestres-gITls who live alone IN
rublic locging-houses, and who, for the most
mart. are not enrolled in the police books, nor
submifted to the ordinary sanitary regulations
But this class are no more permitted tasn the
rset. either in the street or AZ their eaForite
evening resorts, to accost people for be pur-
,,zes az commerce. The streets and The pub
n halls are full Of policemen in citizens dress,
-boes business il is 10 detect such girls az VIC
late the law in regard TO addressing people, and
ia mt their names on the police booKs, thus
reauirfng them to take out a license, and to
uubmit to all the police regulations IN the new
$40 to which they have entered. As a girl
cards herself as forever lost when her name
e oDre placed on the police book, and as she
-.-sr knows when an officers eve may be upon
- ~ takes good care not 10 violate, IL pos.
s5ble. this law prohibiting solicitations in pub
lie. This class are always elegantly dressed
Il il notorious even that they are the first 70
initiate and propagate these very fashions
which make the tour OF the world as the very
Tatsat Paris modes. Many Of them are re-
servea and elegant il their manners, and re-
orirs a pupetiliousness Of etiquette VIII b would
5ot be cut OF place in the most sTistOcratic sa-
Blu. one Of the great aids TO the Paris
rolice. In the maintenance Of public d~scency
il this class. is the fact that they do not use (
strong driak ; a drunken public woman lie never
seen. As liquor lie the greatest debsser Of
mankind. this enc fact, strikes out a marked
line Of distinction between the class here and
ID England and in the United States. The
great majority do not lose their self-respeet,
and tbev take good care Of their health, hoping
later on to reform and get married. This is
here the rule, whereas In England and the
United States they throw themselves away as
East IS possible