The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-05-22

What a French Lady Writes from New
York TO Paris.


Nine Lyde Paschkof in Paris Figaro.l
| only arrived yesterday and am horribly
tired. All day long | received visits from
reporters, who asked me point blank my age,
nv history my tastes, my character, my
political opinions, my adventures, an auto
graph, my dinner bill of fare, particulars OF
my toilet and of my bedroom furniture, my
plans, etc it was enough to drive one wild.
"a little while ago had call from one OF
my old friends, philosopher, authoress of
book that is having great run in London
(she writes English better than Russian;
only we can do that. This lady is a member
of every possible society, and there are some
queer ones in this country. To begin with,
she belongs to the Buddhist society. An
Indian rajah Will give So. 600, 600 if Budd-
hist temple is built in New York to prove
that Jesus Christ is only an imitator of
Buddha. The object of this society the
overthrow of Christianity, and the building
up of the brotherhood of nations; also the
eviction of the English from Indias.
There is also society of the Immaculate
Conception, which expects to bring about
pure and lofty humanity by methods which
1 could only explain to you III Latin. l don't
know Latin.
There is also society of propagators of
love. A man has eight wives who work for
him. Each earns 81 day, which gives him
an income of so francs day-enough TO
keep HIM. He is the president of this nice
society.
A millionaire has Just died, leaving nine
wives and thirty-eignt children, a wife for
each state (sic). They have been recognized
as his lawful wives and the estate has been
divided between them.
To make up for this, women have some
times more than half dozen husbands, all
legitimate. Divorced from these husbands
these latter have to pay them an allowance
ronaltu of the
first of each month they go to each of their
husbands to collect their little incomes.
There are spiritualists here who have found
out the secret of the fakirs of India. They
float in the air by means OF combination OF
magnetism and anti-magnetism-so they
say. From the heart OF one of these spirit
ualists issues a smoke which turns into an
Egyptian genii. A Russian lady has been
named to me who pretends that Demos
themes possesses her. She has found fol-
lowers
Even more sururising is the case of a gen.
tleman who has just been presented to me.
He belongs to the TEMPERANCE society, and
wastes bis time preaching against the alco-
holisms OF the Sclavs. The voice of one
crying in the wilderness; who knows it
better than l?
Despite all eccentricities, the country is a
paradise. What civilization, What polite
ness, Women are queens They go and
come; they dine alone at the restaurants,
and yet are not taken for cocottes. They do
not need escorts to conduct them everywhere
like dogs in leash. Why was not born an
Amencau2 l shall join all the societies pos
slble, even that of the Indian Vedas.
You have heard about the last American
invention. the phonograph, have you not?
| saw the gentleman who invented it. 1t
consists of roll of paper. When you want
10 hear Patti sing you send your servant 10
the theatre. and he rolls the paper up. Then
he returns it to you, and you unwind the
paper at home, and you hear her voice just
as If you we're at the theatre. You can re-
peat the operation several times, until the
paper tears.
Men will find themselves nicely caught by
this invention. Every time any one makes
declarations to me, will roll up the paper
and put it aside. Years afterwards you can
make the traitors listen to their broken
oaths. No young American girl goes out
without her photograph.
So. So Europe is decidedly an old, slow
coach. Hurrah for America and the future.