New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-20

FARIsIAN PAauloNs NJ NEW YonK.


To say that New York is Paris in miniature is TO
say that 1t is very gay, that its women are We'll
dressed, that there is plenty of outdoor amuse
ment and very little happiness.
This is what is beginning to be sara OF ne"
IorE, and in measure il is true. there are
great many travelled people in New I ORR now VINO
wish TO be extremely Partisan. Thefe are three
| times the number of wealthy people there were
I'VE years ago, whole aaallohst 81
/ been slow and six times the number of thorough
bred horses and stylish vehicles of every descrp
| ton, from the knowing dog-eart to the fancy
| W agonette
/ On fine afternoons Fifth avenue, from Fourteenth
street to the Central Park gates, is crowded vi
these elegant cquipages, while She Central Park
| itself, alive with brilliant turnouts and richly
dressed women, rivals Rotten Row, or even the
Bots de Boulogne.
The fashionable restaurants Delmonco's and
Maispn Dorees-are no longer visited principally by
men, or even by men accompanied by ladies'
aass themselves 60 aiene, singy or in couples
oraef their petlte dainty dinner, and finish up with
ICE cream and strawberries, cup of coffee, or
bottle OF wine, and pay their own bill-nof small
one with all the nOnchalenCe in the world. Be
tween one and four o'clock, fully as many ladies
VIII be found in either of the places above mem
toned as gentlemen, and their quiet, assured - at
home y air shows that they are used to it,
Moreover it is getting to be very fashionable for
lady to invite party her friends to dinner, or
as it is styled to Lunch at her fayorite restaara
tears. The number rarely exceeds six, including
the hostess, and gentlemen are rightly excluded.
The eostliness of these feminine banquets may be
imagined, but the edibes are not by any means
confined to essences, iceeream and sylabubs-the
food which poets consider best adapted to lovely
women on the contrary, plumb partridges and
spring chickens are discussed it is said with great
RELISH and an intense appreciation shown by the
excellence of the cookery.
But IN spite of all this apparent pleasure for
egn airs graft very ill on American habits and
manners The women take to it easier than the
men.
Married women, three-fourths Of them. seem to
consider it the height Of happiness to board y
IN great wilderness of hotel or boarding.
house spend two hours every morning dressing
and frizzng their hair, and the rest Of the day
pr0menadmg, shopping and taking "lunchn al
Delmonco's, or ices at Parkinson's BY the yay
Parkinson is Philadelphia man be has just paid
fortyive Thousand dollars for three years. lease
OF q new building on Broadway, near Amity
street.
The married men have to sueoumb to the pre-
vailiag fashion, but they generally do it under
protest. Somehow, they thought Of wife as OF
their mother, in connection with house, and
care, and Affection and house wifey duty and
they feel sense of disappointment in being
throWn back again upon boarding house life and
the clubs.
Then the American il essentially monev.mak-
ina race, and life does not go as easy with them as
itdoes With the Parisians. They are full Of cares
and anxieties, and they want the gentle influence
OF home, wife and children, to connteract the ex-
citing and demorazing tendencies of the outside
world. Deprived Of them they become careless
Indifferent to family and social obligations, fife.
quently hard drinkers, or Involved in a hundred
wild political or financial specuadons.
The dress Of the women Keeps pace with the
luxury, which is to be seen everywhere. It is
amazing where all the money comes from to sup
port SO much extravaganza. Coming down tie |
steps OF large establishment the other day, was
lady dressed in rich mauve silk, with shining
ribbed surface like satin. A large and magnificent
lace mantle enyeloped her entire person; little
cap, or what they call a bonnet Of blue grape, |
was perched on the top of herhead, and festooned
about it were strings Of pearl beads, which de-
scended IN three large rows upon her bosom.