, 1875-03-07

srB. and generally introducing horas-pls
| instead Of lively fun and nonsens
| Who would put On a handsome costuu
to hare it completely ruined Wit
quantity uf iime-dnst2 And this year th
practice has been introduced Of throwing dot
I BY haudfuls: in fact. one man has made himse
conspicuous By positively shorel,ng dour fro,
an upper balcony upon the people below, with
ssolsd, unchanged expression Of face all tt
time, as il he were m inhabitant Of one
Dante's circles, condemned forever to that en-
ployment- To 30 dangerous An excess hss thi
rough. sensaless play been carried, that tn
] SEndic issued proclamation on Saturday pro
hibiting the throwing OF confetti or anything Q
| that kind, during the last tvo days, with mani
| fest improvement to the amusements Of the at
teruoons, and . greatly increased influx Of re
| specsable people into the Corso.
The great feature Of this carniTals festivi-
| ties has been the splendid costume ball Ut the
Palazza Gaetani- In issuing their invitations
the Prince and Princess Teano made it distinctly
maak or fancy ball; that costume in the fullest
| acceptance Of the word MAS dc rigueAr; and thai
| no guests would be welcome in any official dress
worn in the presentday. No Deputy lieatenants'
| red coats, with cooked bats and feathers; 20
volunteer uniforms: not even that OF q Field
Marshal, covered with etars and ribbons, nor Of
Cardlnal-their eminences we're BY no
means averse from balls in days not long
past--eyen it be came in all bis gorgeous
wealth Of scarlet silk, would qualify the wearers
TO enter the Princess drawlng-room without
committing an objectionable breach Of good
manners. do not mean to soy that all this was
made public in rs many sentences. but you know
how things get about, and three leglhle words at
the corner Of the card did the rest. It became
soon known, also, in the same ittle-bird fashion,
that the period to be illustrated by those who
desired to DO strictly en- regie WAS that COM
mencing from the opening Of the sixteenth
century to tho days OF those who live to us in
Vandyke's portraits. A period rich enough in
tima when the Papacy played an unusually
important part, and modern Italy held her most
distinguished position in the history Of the
world; when Leo Z, Paul III, Plus T., and the
great Si1tus wore the tiara; when the Medicis
ruled ut Florence; when the thrones Of France,
England, aud Scotland were occupied BY Henri
IL and Charles X, Elizabeth and Mary Stuart
when the great religious changes and troubles
divided the populations Of Europe and the mas
eacra Of st. Bartholomew deluged the streeta of
Paris with blood. There is no city Ia Europe
which affords the same advantages from every
point OF view for doing justice to this period
Of history in the manner intended; the
greater number Of the illustrious families still
existing had ancestors who played more or less
parts in the scenes Of those days,
:ou1d be assumed bv the living representatives.
It was soon known that Prince Humbert, the
@farchese Caiabrini, and others, had instructed
Aoneta, here in Rome, to construct them costly |
that others had sent to Worth, in
Paris, and that Aacoli, the skilled costumier Of I
Members Of the Colonna and other princely FAM |
lies. This presaged the necessity Of going to |
ONE trouble and greater expense. All very !
'ell it was said for the few, but not likely to ba
ndertaken By the many. It mas foretold that
be Princess Teauo would not succeed in filling
er rooms, and that she would be- obliged to give
Fay, If not to the extent Of admitting the |
ideous black coat Of modern days. at least to |
ermitting the scarcely leBs hideous cours-dress
+ the nineteenth century. The prophets, how
alyes to thank for being driven to straits to |
omplete their costumes, and, in few cases, left
at in the cold altogether. Many OF the costumes
eFe absolute works OF art, executed with con-
ANIMATE skill, aided by correct study. One
alked, as it we're, in 3 living picture gallery,
which people Of the present day rep I
,sented peIsonages OF the past with an exact
tss leaving but little OF their own iDiividu-
ity recognizable. It was not by tho Princess
eano that the company was received, but by !
eautiful Giovannella Gaetani, the mother of
10 Farnese Pope Paul Ill, and BY her side,
caring shadowy resemblance of Onorato Gae-
nj, Prince Of Teano, stood Philip H., King of
,ain. Near BY was CHsar Boreia with Louis
T. and Henry III, of France, and, near the
tier, three Catholic gentlemen in black, NTH
hita CROSSES double barred On their caps.
lends and Instruments OF Charles X, though !
esq waa no Huguenot blood visible On their ]
.nds; one OF these Was D'Epinay St. Luc, ! =,
airing 9 curtain likeness to D'Epinay the ,
ulptor.
little before midnight the host and hostess
mt to the outer ante-room to receive the Prince | c
4 Princess of Piedmont-F1inco Hnmbert and | '
q Princess Margherita-and returned, Philip I
leading along the alley formed through the | {
IN the style Of he1- richly -jeweled costume, |
,s- have been of noble FIorentine birth, aud I /
, beautiful Gioyaneltn Gaetani leaning on | 4
, arm OF Charles Enamel l., tho | {
the past swept On into the empty ball =
I'M, the band playing III air unknown to me, t t
which, from its character, conceive to hare r
N an ancient anthem Of tho Savoy family, and (
n Charles Emanuel T., with the two illustrions q
lies, took up Il poaition ct the further end, q
lie the crowd Of celebrities o{ years gone by b
ssed two by two, saluted them. and went Oh /.
o the next room. After the last bad made a
II obeisanee, the room rapidly filed 7
dancing commenced; The FIRST quaarile II
nri II. and Tandyke costumes, aud was
.ned by the Princess Margherita and Prince I 3,
.no, with opposite them the Princess reano IL
Siguor Viscoute Feuosta, dressed as nobie Ia
nDaTQ Oh toe same por1oQ- as t16 QuaQrl1a fe
led slight sensation Was evident way was | p
Dc. and in srept scarcely deigning to 1ook to is
right OF the left, Marie de Medici (the | ct
chess di Sarno), attended by number of the | in
es and gentlemen OF her Court After this a
dancing became general. The Prince and 81
1cess left little after o'clock, but the In
ority OF the guests remained until the end of hc
cotillion, wheu this splendid b8ll-one might | al
ost say pageant-broke up at 6. th
A FRENCH HUSBAND AND WIFE do
atis correspondence st. Louis Globe: nry fo
,ngs are, and have been, for some months, in 20 20
Rue Chaussee dAntin. My landlady is tr.
SAINT, intelligent, quito eomely in the noigh- la1
aood, perhaps, Of 6ve~and-thirty. She always
\ smile, ia tastefutY dressed, sud has Bome-
6 OF the coquettish mir ipseparable from
sian women OF any education. Often, in ga
ing and going, I hare observed spruce, spt
eel man ~ "a or tbaro.h,rt WIN rh.s 49, bot
d, was one Of my acknowledges hare gu
r exchanged word with him, though, &C. Ia:
ing to French custom, Es don our hats to con
mother when ne pass. sta'
lad made up my mind that my unknown fen
d Was retired, well-to-do merchant, proba- Do1
bachelor, living comfortably on snug in lsos
!. vas confirmed in this opinion when 7 ina INA
lin lounging on the Boulerards slipping his H. -,
dinner coffee in front of the Maiaou Doree nae
'afe Richie, aud dining in the Boie with a non
N. pretty, young, and plainly fast. dist