Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-20
PARIS.
How It Looks at Night = The
Ladies-Styles-The Seldiers.

The Rochester Union has cores.
pondent who thus gives his first impres.
sion of Paris:
Out into Paris. l see line of cabs.
Motioned to the driver of one-told him
my practiced words, which ] was aston.
ished to find he understood. A halt
hour brought me to my hotel. And /
was not sorry that | had not entered the
city BY day, for Paris is like ones lady
friends, most bewitching by gaslight.
Yes, Paris is really splendid on pleas.
ant night. So brilliant-all her people
in the Streets-the walks filled not only,
but everywhere; men and their sweet
/ hearts sitting beside the little restaurant
table, with bottle of wine, decanter
Of water, or q cup of coffee, chatting
visiting, actually out spending the even
ing in that way. What going out to
tea " is with us, or "going calling" or
going visiting" such is going to the
cafe with the dwellers of this city. Well,
you cannot blame them, for the atmos :
pherc is dry and charming And where
is there nicer place to talk and ges-
ticulate, with hand nicely gloved and
head just saddled with those lace whifs ?
Well, the ladies here are certainly
| charming, if one likes airs And you
find as many with these ladies as there
are spears of grain in that part of New
England, where it is tabled they turn up
the land on edge and cultivate both sides.
Paris is an outdoor city-a great pleasure
garden-a constant holiday-a vast res
tsurant Its beginning and ending are
for pleasure. Priests and people are all
going one road Every Sunday exAibi-
ton has its quota Of priests, | am told.
| But sit you down here at this cafe on
one of the Boulevards, and see what
shall pass US. Soldiers-there are as
many of them as were about Washington
in the days of our large army And the
brains of the tailors must have been
racked not little TO furnish the variety
of dress you see with them. Small caps,
bear skin caps, college fatboard caps
caps with plumes-caps with cockades-
Algerian soldiers, almost black, dressed
in the Zouave costume. You will see all
these in two hours sitting upon Boule-
ward des Itsliens. But let US notice the
ladies-mAny with caps-they are every
where. They do not seem to have much
to do, and yet they wear caps-nice,
white, ruffled caps. Then there are your
fashionably dressed ladies.
An American would think Paris had
copied us, so nearly are we alike The
red trimmed skirt, the white and black
skirt, the short skirt over longer of the
same material, the short dresses, the
tasselee boots, the small hats, The
dress, however, is much more tasty and
much better fitting. There is work for
an artist in the fitting of garment.
And learn that the gentlemen tailors
are the best dressmakers, and are quite
the fashion. The attire Of the gentlemen
is quite as fitting as that of the ladies'
The cut of good coat is also a fine art
Every man out walking here wears a
silk hat. The custom is not carried to
the ridiculous extent it is in England,
however, for they are not thrust upon
the heads Of lads not more than ten years
Of age, as frequently saw them in the
Queens dominions. But here goes a
priest-how plenty they are here-he !
wears a slouched hat, a long black froek |
coat, of peculiar cut, the skirt Of which |
comes almost 20 the ground. He has |
no attention paid to him more than
others; he must take his chance with |
others. Il is the soldier who is favored |
here He can ride inside the omnibus |
if there are hundred ladies waiting, !
aud he only. De can ride for halfprice.
BE can keep his hat on IN the churches
In short, he is privileged person.
Notice if you please these walters At
the restaurant, and you viii see they all /
wear dress coats and white neck ties.
Also mark the coaehmen IS they drive
by; they wear stovepipe hat, which
shines like patent leather. The iewness
Of the criprles will astonish you as com
pared with .England; and you are not
being constantly appealed to by beggarsi
ave not seen one since ] came here.
With all this drinking Of wine aud brandy
il is astonishing how little drunkenness
there IL. l have seen but two persons
reeliHg in the days l have sojourned
here. As you have passed along the
street looking into the shoH-wind0ws
land here that is perfectly legitimate. for
The windows are laid out" for that very
purposel you viii notice that almost all
the clerks and bookkeepers are women.
They are employed much more widely
than with "a And al the hotel your
vii be q man. "A lady I
friend travelling in Europe, q present in
Paris, has hardly yeJ u0Uous aecgs.0med
10 this male bed makisE and room
cleaning" Bat have already occupied I