The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-06-05
The Man .WiIEtner In Parts.

Paris correspondent thus describes one
OF the curiosities of the French capital:
Worth, the woman's tailor, has returned
to town and commenced his season. Do
not wonder if mention him next after di-
vorces-he has caused more divorces than
any other man in Paris; for if your wife's
ball-dress is not made and put on by him,
she is disgraced, and if he does make them
you are ruined Is it his fault that his rates
OF charging are so high9 Make the days
forty-eight hours long, and relieve him of
the vulgar wants of sleeping and eating, he
will abate fifty per cent. of prices. Seduce
his customers into paying cash, and he will
make further deduction. The Empress
has owed him 100000. The Princess Clio
tide, $4,000. The Princess dc Metternich,
$4,000 A debt of 81 900 makes no more
figure on his books than the one years sub
scription of delinquent patron of your
paper does in the Gazette Office. | should
not like to say what rent he pays-you
would be sure to make an ironical gesture
not very complimentary to my love oftruth
The state saloons of the Tuileries are not
more splendid. Gliding is lavished on
them, the door curtains are Beauvais tapes
try, the window curtains and furniture are
OF the finest Lyons brocade, and the furrni-
ture is Boule, each console between the
windows being worth 5000. He has in one
othis many rooms buffet constantly spread,
where the best sandwiches, the choicest
Sherry and Madeira, and the most delicate
cake, are served in profusion to his custo-
mers. He is constantly surrounded bv
twelve beautiful young girls, selected for
the perfection of their shape as well as face.
a in ha hai g ~,
in silk dresses which cost four dollars a
yard, costly Etruscan earrings, bracelets,
and rings. They are part of the furniture
OF the place; they are here what the osier
manikins are in inferior shops-the dresses
are hung on them that Worth's patrons
may see the effectproduced No dress ever
quits his establishment priced less than 5000
in gold, mind ye! Whenever ball is
given at the Tuileries, or at any of the en-
bassles you may count two hundred earri-
ages at his door from as early as from six
o'clock in the evening. Each lady receives
a number and is called in turn They come
with their hair dressed, their petticoats and
corset on, wrapped in second-rate dress,
until he is ready to dress them. You may
wonder that the ladies should consent to
expose their persons and figures to the eyes
of man.
He is not man in their eyes-he is moth
but tailor, tradesman-and what high
born persons ever stopped to inquire to
what sex such plebeian belongs? One
had as soon think of inquring into the sex
of the dog with whom his wife went into
the woods for walk, or of the cat who
sleeps in my lady's chamber. Worth, few
years since, was mere shopman in Gan
gerline's shop in the Rue de Richelieu. He
saw there the extent of feminine folly, and
determined to profit by experience. He
has now beautiful country seat which cost
him $4,000, and on which he has spent
$4,000. He keeps a carriage and pair
equal to anything in the Imperial stables.
He has tirst-rate cook, has cellar which
is daily improving, and is making money
as fast as possible. You may see from this
example that Columbus did not break all
the eggs in the world; and we, each of us,
may select from the basket by our side an
egg, and by making it stand on end win a
fortune. He who vulcanized india-rubber
was nothing but skillful egg-braker. He
who put steel hoops in the place of crino-
line was nothing but skillful egg breaker.
The whole secret of wealth lies in making
ones egg stand ON the end before our neigh
Dor succeeds in the feat"