, 1877-09-30
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.
Sketches at French Watering-
Place.
The Plnmptitude Of Middle Aged
Women in France.


/ Ill AVhCt
A FRENCH WATERSG-PLACE
A lady correspondent OF tue New Yorl
Evening 4uaI writes from Trouvi1le, the notet
| French watering place, 2s follows:
| "One is SO sleepy In the delicious sunshin,
| after ones morning talk and 10 o'clock de
jeuner; and it Is so sweet to be sleepy within
sound of the cooling waves, with feet hall
buried in the warm, dry sand, with the human
voices around murmuring q drowsy monotone
and the back legs Of ones chair driven into the
sand, titfng one to just the angle so dear to the
American soul, but which the female American
| body never dare assume save on the Tsouyille
| sands.
~ look at my neiehbor, and see that she is
| about 35 years Of age, the age at which appear
to be the great majority OF the ladies OF France.
She wears handsome diamond over her we'd
ding-ring, and the French badge Of matrophood
"a tiny pair OF diamond solitaires-in her ears.
She had an opu1ent bust, and q waist cruelty
compressed by inexorable stays. just below
the waist, her pounds avoirdupois, curtai1ed
Of their fair proportions higher up, burst
into a riotous at1luence Of contour. She is
fayishly powdered, but not rouged, and her
tcct, although more shapey, are as large US
and hot, heavy feathers the other side OF me.
BY all these signs l recognize her as the typical
woman Of her race and kind. No one could
mistake her for one Of the English natrons who
tramp-yca, verify tramp-oyer the sands every
day. BY that inustachc she is not American OF
German; hers is Gallo, not Saxon, blood. By
those feet one can swear that she is not parish,
and that she is not Italian, because on her hair
is no meretrfcious 1ustre Of the hair oils and
pornades that daughters of that sunny cline
lava ron In %n
atom OF her body, and by her elegant toilette
probably Pariscnne.
Then begin to wonder whyit is that French
women. slender to fragility in youth, begin at
30 to develop into such massive and mighty
creatures, that the subfimest efforts OF their
lives are those put forth to check superintendent
flesh. At half tile table l'hotcs OF Europe our
countrywo1nen to-day are swallowing, with faces
more or less Wry, every variety of beer, from
heaviest brown stout to thinnest and most
abominable tswipes,' in Efforts to outTit na-
ture IN the matter Of q uefrauded figure. And
yet the Frenchwoman, ;FEo has no more haunt
Ing fear in life than that of added pounds, usu-
ally drinks only ordi'taire largely diluted with
Chablis with her dinner. 1t is said that her
must intimate friends scarcely dare com pliment
Madame La larechale upon her fine appearance,
but she indignantly construed the remark into
comment upon her buxorn proportions
Some Of the most charming actresses Of Paris
;,i ! 1,11n1 Sr~;ss.tta a,,,.,,, @,,a e,'a1, ~
tnnre ,ynni1 oivr ov.r to nnnGerosity~ h,s her
Specific gravity tested, it is said, once every
o,..ros prnttr Ri3nnh: p;crlnn 1iets e, ,nnr
s,r her,ro ana hvnrrsuinh,tos CEarm;no
Anna Judic has lately been warned By dramat-
IL critic to rcpress her physical alilucnce- The
jolly actress ut the Chatelete who plays Regaa-
Rr;ttnrr ps,s,nt rir ~ u wi,h ,hr i1i,nans;ons
# - fa,nirino V;teii,us
= nor,nnse srhne,Icr 10 colossal h,,t then |
stc Il I,ysr ~ and - hccr-b;bfar s1, u,hot ai..
cn,,l1 ~, axrant3 Tho -. In pa,,tf,. b.
r,sicus bos H.. f;crra ~ an sh;nna1 yan
/ , ha.,l,,t , h,ia2,'1 - a., ~ t,,e. -i,,,. ha,,i1a
I,,l, Mar;. ;s os r,,,,hhv as = y.ar-t,1s i,a,,r
yh;1c c,,n,ns Crna Mont,.land ~ tho ~,
81. Martin. pIays Ia Hs;us Bue1unnE in = Jnif
~ 81 r;,,,,.1 ,h;-,a1 o,"I a..t;."a 49,
,,,ri, an Internal machine nf y t,,rstt with
n.Ics t,er ani] larns Irr froTn ehnu1In- r. th;rt,
hat at sipht Of her s,,fferin.rs thc least ohssry
mt snrc-ltur feels symnatlctir rrrrcf that nil
he swentinrs ami y1rca,iin"s' The nnIjin~s
,rr tlm 1r,rtion III n mack who warranted IN
urc ohcsitv- had m cffrcr
50 hcr. mon the sands of Trouv;l,e French
.latsons, Young and old, sleep and dream. or
;re,, awake ana tifrt. the u1nst of them shin
l]in,r az tn limbs Init cynansiro ~ Fl, Ifs1v 4 |
nv r,,,1s nwnv m forthar towarf3s tIe Rrc,,c.
;nrirs s;rs a rrrnn nnnn which ot 1aost ono
,,;r ~ avs ara inteentir f;x.,1 Wh1o ~. snfts
~ ;,roo3o 1;fts fla ,11;t Io; fa,n h;s +o1ia,
~, ,sr,-,a1 hrn1. +hn aantrai 1 fe-,re sr,,
r,ra,i ~ r;,s, n-,a ;',s a. ~ 10Y
n,,a ,1a; ;t Va,oine,; ,,,,stath. ~. .u1a, -
W, so,,,aat f,a1 Nv ..,.,".,. .,a,,aa -
y anu ~ 1arse, oa'A, spanl5ti Eyes, sig
9lli,llieu =! eoo t1aucn LOOMING upon tnc
p 'lcAea, s!iluns gfeen VI aoslntne. Upon
ue 1lnel s1uG " .ne ~ t4e'saIu slts generously
esi;ppeo 1au' y. 81, eoisea,co x'tn1n an ihehol
III llle' Athe ~: majority o. heF country
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