Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-05-29
Decoy Women at Paris Balls-Pecuiinr
Mode OF managerial Procedure.
a Paris correspondent observes in late


Mode OF Managerial Procedure.
a Paris correspondent observes in a late
letter bow INam93nroa1a - 1org .d
The lorettes are paid to frequent The balls.
| The managers of Valentino Mabille and the
Casino, pay them 10 frequent the balls and
da'sec; they arc anxious 10 have many of
them at their balls and to make them dance
as they attract men who not only pay the
admittance price, but spend a great deal of
money at the miserable cafe and the numer-
GUS games billiards, .nplstol-gallery, &C., }
found In the ball-foonli AT all the balls, two
thirds of the persons seen, come Ia gratui-
| tously, one-third of these two-thlrds are paid
to come, and the whole burden Of the enter
tainment and the whole Of the profits Of the
establishment are supplied by the remaining
third, which is composed OF strangers. Sum
days this proportion is not observed. '
The majority of the company pay for their
| admission; they are BARRIERS, tailors, shop
men with their grisettes, some times with
their wives, sons, and daughters, for there is,
in French PERSONS opinion, no inleaning
| further to virtues side than lechery. il a
| well-dressed fellow dances great deal he is
sure TO be approached before the evening is
| over by one Of the inspectors Of the estab-
| lishment, who will offer him O dozen free
\ tickets.
Many dry goods shopman Cthey arc the
| most favored in these distributions, IL being
necessity of their trade 10 be we'll dressed)
| spends the hour and a half which lies between
the closing of his shop and the closing OF the
balls at the latter, where he is met by his
petticoated friend, her day of labor being
| likewise ended. They dance these ninety
minutes away, and then, if their purses be
well filled, they adjourn to some neighboring
cafe and drink the evening chocolate bever.
age, or hot wine or German beer; this last
however, is never taken till the purse gets
very low. g, h7Er.c' -
Women are admitted gratuitously to all
these balls; they are the best decoys Some
women receive q per noctem; others not only
receive this remuneration, but are paid to
keep away from all other balls; are paid hack
hire to enable them to come TO and return
from the ball; are paid their dress supper, re-
| freshments and pocket money. If they are
successful, they pocket all this and make the
stranger they pick up pay for everything;
and allure him into all sorts of expenses The
pouquet-seller is their best accomplice
In every ball you see bouquet-seller, who
pays one or two or three, four or FIVE hun
dred francs month for the privilege of SELL
ing flowers in the ballroom. The girl
forces you to buy a bouquet, which costs
i've francs. As soon as you quit the girl
carries back the bouquet to the bouquet
seller who pays the girl four francs. Some
OF these beauties OF the balls pocket as much
as twenty and thirty francs a night from
these bouquets, and the same bouquet is
sometimes sold and resold ten or fifteen
times in the course of the same evening.
When they are invited to supper, they give
signs to the waiter indicating the degree OF
bleeding the victim will bear without scream
ing; the bill is inflated, and the girl has her
share Of the profits obtained by swindling
the stranger In this way some Of these wo-
men receive enormous sums Of money every
night during six months of the year, never
theless, they are alwaysiiin debt, always out
Of money, always in the hands of the usurers.
something like an Independence of fortune
than one could hope TO supply the pond in
Boston Common with water by means of a
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