The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-03-02

BraWiug roinls ~ Gay and ESiTa'a'
giant PARIS,
Il'ans Letter 10 the Chicago llmes'
The BAL do Ia Iiolno Blanche, In
tho boulevard do Cllohy, Is ono OF
tho drawing points OF tho capital
notably during the carnival, when
additional license II permitted
Evangelical folks would pronounce
tho white tho black queen, Tor her
subjects 40 not white in tho sense
Of purity, Tho hublluof Of this
bal are mon Of every grade from
masqucrauX (angIice, pImps) and
bIaeklcgs TO artists and students OF
society; the habilues arc ladies' Of
latltudlnNrian ethics aud habits In
plain speech, loretlcS Of the very
ordinary grade They dance in
every manner except tho decent
and DO certain things that are
enough 10 Oaloulsh tho natives,
Some Of them must bo intoxicated,
Otherwise they would not DO able
to indulge unblushingly In their
immodest eSlrOyOguncoa,
have seen the gcndOrmcs put u
stop to indecorums ut the Mabillc
aud Prado that did not begin TO
equal those Of thc licino blanche,
Happy, | should remember the seo'
son At other tmes, police rcga'
nations are ,lrictcr, This Is no, for,
in all my ruamings through the
capital | have never noticed so
much uncurbcd license IN In tho last
three weeks, A have met some
strWighLaccd Americans ut the
Reino Blanche who, | should sup.
pose, would not DO willing TO be
caught there, mean exactly that,
| should be sure they would go if
they believed they would not be
seen. But they make no effort at
disguise or c0nccHmcnt Yet at
home they have biblo classes, lead
prayer meetings, pass around. the
contribution box, and invoke aid
for tho conversion Of tho heather.
These are bad signs, know. A
man who invokes aid for the con.
version Of the heather is apt to
need conversion himself, and carry
ing around the contribution rcgu.
larry looks suspicious But paying
frequent homage TO the leine
Blanche is not much better, except
that ia moro genuine, that it in.
wolves no hypocricy, ~ long MS
homage is paid openly, Our pious
friends are open enough here, but
they would not dare to confess, in
the United States, that they had
looked at the outermost hem OF the
white queens external robes,
"And why do you go there p
inquiries n critical reader.
have to, | am n journalist.
Journalists are compelled to visit
wicked places to warn the ineXperi-
cnced against them, inst as clergy
men are obliged to read naughty
books to see what is in them to
learn what is entirely proper by
acquaintance with the entirely i'm.
proper.
The Courtillo balls flourish now,
They have been suppressed several
times by the authorities, but they
are revived every winter. They
are the vilest entertainment Of II
public kind in the city. The charge
for admission is twenty-five francs,
which shows how indecent they arc.
We're they not very indecent so
large price could not have been
obtained.
Tho women often dance in garb
almost Godivian, and place thom-
selves in attitudes that might be
copies of the lacivious scenes of the
Roman court in the reign of Com
modus, The other night there was
an orgio Of drunkenness and licen-
tiousness which the police put an
embargo on.
Courtille has a double meaning
which is understood by every |
Frenchman. The inner significance
reveals the character of the balls.
They are not to be described they
are only to be condemned. And |
now we have seen enough of the
peoples balls.