The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-23
CHLLDREE'S FANCY DRESS BALI
IN PARIS

The Paris correspondent of the London
Herald gives the following account of
children's party lately given at the Louvre
"Nothing is more delicious and refreshing
than q children's ball, when the dancers re-
main what they are-children. But nowadays
children have vanished From six months TO
five years oldione deigns to be child; but as
soon as five years have struck, children are
only pedants and old men. Young gentlemen
not yet in their teens, but alarmingly foppish,
scorn their sisters, and scold their manmas
when they do not pronounce English perfectly
WELL pehtes mattresses, nye nye years old at the
bonnet with the experienced hand of coQuette;
criticize this and blame that, with the immo-
there are no more children, they are only mimi
ature old people. At Paris, instead of grave as
judge they say now, grave as schoolboy;'
in place of majestic as q queen they say
majestic as young miss at boarding
school The children in Paris are now so
serious that you would hesitate to offer them
''Let us photograph the fancy Juvenile party
above alluded to, and given on tuesday last in
the Caulaincourt wing of the Louvre Palace,
which wing is the residence OF the said General
Fleury, frat aid-de camp and great eQuerrY OF
his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon III. The
idea Of that ball, the splendor of which is with
out precedent in the annals of infancy, had been
inspired by true courtier feeling. The yonth-
ful Prince Imperial was to have been the hero
till now in the hope that the Prince would have
com pletely recovered from his severe ludspo-
sition, But man proposes and God disposes'
and ourjuvenile party was deprived of It's Inn
perlal attraction, owing to the slow GONZALES
cence OF the boy.
Fleury assisted their two children in doing
honor to the guests Madame la General, stand
ing at the right of the salons entrance, kissed
every conner on the right cheek; the General,
posted on the left, had reserved to himself the
''The invited came in proud, grave, stiff and
collected; evidently they had identified Them
selves with the quality that their coats or their
potgpoints had impaired to them for an evening
One stumbled on his rapier another entangled
his spurs in hanging. As TO the misses, they
and, as to their firting-wel, Frenchmen say
that Irritation is to fair ladies what valor is to
heroes, both are innate.
"But to the guests. Among the creme de la
creme were the Ladies Sophia and Pasqualine
Of Turcos, the other as a cocodette of the day.
Mad'lle Sophie, the sutler, made many COM
quests by her deStnUohuTe; her sister killed
many cocOdeS by her gracious way of making
her long train whirl about, by her weeping
willow attitudes. by her dexterity in manipu-
lating her microscopic tan.
'The stars of less magnitude were Mad'lle
d'Albuiera, metamorphosed into white puss;
Vandal into letter-carrier, Marie de Verdiere
into hussar, Janvier de la Mothe into Diana
the huntress, Dolfus into an Irish bride. De
Berkeim into gipsy, Boitelle into Margheritta,
Espinasse into shepherdess, Nunez into the
maternal diamond casket worth forty thousand
pounds, etc
Prince Murat as harlequin: Godfrey de la Tour
d'Auvergne as Castilian muleteer; Louis Con-
neau as a page: CASTOR de Frezales as torea-
dor; Pierre de Bourgoing as hussar or the nrst
republic, etc.
"After several hours of dancing, polkaing,
galloping, and cotilliontng, there was an inter
| lude, during which the real Fanfan Benoiton,
| the baby of the Fast Family, who knows how to
! pick his fathers patent-lock chest at the great
| jubilation of the clever tlnancier recited q
| poch0de quite above his understanding, albeit
| with so much entrdia and intellect that he was
| encored.
master V was so much enraptured with
Eanlan that he ran q g9lop, echevele with him.
and played some two hundred times in the
Benoiton Family. Master v, two years
younger, knew that so well that he said to his
friends, DO not tell that l have danced with
Fanfan Benoiton; mamma forbids me to mix
with actresses"
$50 much for the Juvenile fancy ball of the
General and Madame la General Fleury. One
of her guests pushed the politeness so far as to
call her Madame la Grande Ecuyere' 'Roni
soft Qlti mai q penSe;' for when the urchin was
asked why he did so, he replied with placidity:
why, we say, Madame la Marechale Madame
PAmbassadrice, and l thought that -
Enough said his mamma abruptly, and she
thought that child of mine promises to be one
of the enfdnS te77T6teS Savarni excelled to
SKETCH" "