Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-12-29

occupied all those hours which, as the prov
erb says, are worth gold. 4 In fact, she was
then occupied not with her dress, but with
money business; she gave audience to brok-
ers, whose reports she listened TO, and to
whom she gave her orders. AT present she
has handsome revenue, and Is the owner
| of the house in town and Of cottage in the
country. Every day she drives out In her
owncarriage, drawn by apairof fine horses,
and it only depends on her to choose hus-
band who will gladly give her his name and
share her wealth. 10 aM N' d ..f..
The Lorettes form a nest Of hornets in
steel hoops and silken dresses; from o'clock
in the morning till o'clock In the after
noon nothing Is seen or heard that berrays
| the existence of this nest, wherein all isi
quiet. But from o'clock IN the evening
till o'clock In the morning, the whole
swarm huns and buZzes, suddenly appears
and fills the Boulevards from the Fanbourgi
POissoniere to the Rue Chaussee d'Antin,
tile garden of the Tuileries, tile enyiFons OF
the Place de la Concorde. the Circus OF the
Empress. the Jardin de Mabille. the Casino
de la Rue Cadet, the Maison'd'0r and the
Moulin Rouge. These are the hornets which
| go on foot or take the omnibus, and only
hire hack by the hour or for the ride In
| their best days, .'.t. s.n gov.
Above them are the grand Lorettes, those
| who have hotel and q carriage, who wear
diamonds and laces which arouse the envy
of duchess or the wife of baron of the
BOurse. These form the aristOeracy Of vice,
the aristocracy of chance, which frequently
makes them fashionable without their sue
cess being accounted for either by their
mind or their beauty; for they are neither
more intelligent nor handsomer than their
rivals, who are doomed to live from hand
TO mouth, to lounge to-day In splendidly
furnished apartments, and tomorrow in a
garret-room to dine one day in the Cafe
,Anglais and the next day in a cook shop.
| The grand LOrettes, whose drawers are
filled with bank notes of all the countries
1 of the world, whom everybody knows by
name when they are driving past in splen-
did carriages, or when radiant in jewelry
they show themselves in the front boxes of
the theater, are of as low extraction as
those who modestly go on foot. The Queen
of Sheba among the Lorettes of the Paris
to-day, is woman to whom we give the
| name which Mr.. de Cesena gave her. The
portrait which he draws of her is very
pretty. Olympia is of middle stature, and
her body as supple as Llama. Her eyes are
of a greenish hue, and her hair of golden
yellow; her lips are like coral, and her
! teeth like ivory; her hands and feet OF the
smallest dimensions. She has full should
ers and perfectly formed arms. She pos
sesses all the wantOnness of youth with
aristocratic, and, at the same time, poetical
sentiments; a cultivated mind and pictur-
esque languqge-in one word, she is a bril-
liant exception among the other LOrettes.
She is an English woman, but not of low
birth. Her father placed her, whena child,
in convent at Boulogne, where she learn
ed to speak French with rare purity, and
to write it correctly. AS i'll luck willed it,
she had scarcely left the nunnery when she
met, in London, debauchee, who abused
her ineXperience. She is one of those fiery
natures which push all things to extremes.
Once having left the right path, she threw
herself, with all her ardor, into the widest
whirlpool of pleasure. She came to Paris
Is years old, blooming in all the freshness
of youth and beauty. She well knew her
epoch, and made herself remarkable by her
eccentricities. She, knew that in Paris
success can only be obtained by ere
ating great sensation; in this, in
short time, she perfectly succeeded. At
her arrival she had taken odestlodging,
on the fourth floor, in one of the plebeian
quarters of Paris. Her only aim then was
to procure for herself riding horse. Be-
fore long she found a noble Arabian horse,
which had belonged to Lamartine. That
celebrated poet never dreamed that his fa-
vOrite horse would one day serve Lorette
as the pedestal of her fortune. All Paris
i admired Olympia when, with inimitable
grace and rare audacity, she managed her
cOurser in the Bois de Bonogne. Her white
riding dress and her small Hungarian hat,
with its white plumage, admirably fitted
both the woman and the horse, so that
nothing handsomer could be imagined. --,
Yesterday Olympia was still unknown;
to-day all Paris knew the name; from that
moment she obtained the first name among
the stars of thatpeculiar society, the world
of Lorettes. Now she changed lodging and
moved from the fourth to the first floor.
Dressed like a princess and driving herself
1.-THE splendid horses which drew her elegant
Victoria, she became the leader of fashion,
was admired by all the visitors of the BOis
de Boulogne and of the race course. Gold
was pouring in, in streams. With the mil
lions she spent in few years in order to
satisfy her extravagant passions for costly
Ijewelry, elegant furniture and fine horses,
an entire village might have been built and
hundred families have procured COM
Portable existence. liuI..L s.. " fg0
Intoxicated with hertriumphs, queen of
all the Lorettes, Olympia now strives to
rival women of the first society. She gives
Edinners and balls, and exhibits, on these
occasions, the finest taste aud the most,ex-
quisite elegance. A stranger who assists at
her festivals, without knowing where he is,
may perhaps be somewhat astonished at the
easy attitude of the women he finds there.
4 But he meets there the same gentlemen he
has met in the aristoeratic saloons, and at
last fancies himself in the hotel of one of the
grand ladies of the French Court. During
the last carnival she sent out Invitations to
a ball which were precisely like those
which the Prefect of the Seine sent for the
celebrated balls of the Hotel de Vile. % ya
All celebrated and wealthy foreigners
| who were then staying in Paris, found
themselves there In company with all the
French celebrities in politics and literature,
1 in the finances aud the public administra-
i tions. Theremight be seen French Sena-
| tors and English peers, deputies of tile
| French Legislature and members of the
English Parliament, statesmen, grand seig-
neurs, and rich bankers of all countries;
princes, dukes, marquises, barons, and even
4 men who by their genius, had acquired
European reputation. The female c0mpa-
bny OF the festival was composed OF some
4 friends of the mistress of the house, who
| led the same life, and of large number of
young and pretty actresses All of them
| wore dresses otrare eostliness and elegance,
| all were covered with Jewels and laces,
| which do honor to the liberality Of Eufope:
| for all Eur0peis is contributing to this un-
heard of luxury, of which even Imperial
Rome had no idea. h7-Tyflo' lE9l' 7l2sapi
+ The orchestra on this occasion was com
| posed OF true artists: The duadrilIes were,
oo,,.o, ,,o..1 II ~