The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-10-25

PANS. September 10Th. 1878.

49, ~6S " NA"takNs AtA@sN1 %h@ @tNttN
auctioneer, is undefatlgabiy busy In
his rostrim, and we'll nigh without
surcease, his ivory hammer, symmet-
really turned from . dead mans
bone, comes in sharp contact with the
edge Of his pulpit as he cries tsgolng,
going, gonei'' j have seen spcctacu-
larry the dissipation OF my time, and
Its most typical emblems seem to me
mainly to have disappeared. Paris
assaredly ls regenerated; bat fall 10
see that the New Birth Is, ethnicaliy
considered, In any way preferable to
She old one. All the booths in Vani-
ty Falr-sadly Knocked about by the
vieissItudeb OF seige and civil war
have been re-painted and re-plaSter-
cd, gilt, swept and garnIshed; but It
would be rash hastily to assume that
the spirits that inhablt the restored
edifice are In any way cIeanller than
those which abode In II Of old. ]
Il
heard that the Jaydiin NaJize was do
ing a tremendous business, and that
theIcanean was noctnrnaIly extant in
its widest exhuberance the Armida's
Garden oi tho Champs Elysees. So
we made up a party TO visit Mabiile.
/ put on pair Of square-toed shoes
and the most moral looking hat I
eoald find, so as to warn OFF any Ros-
camboles or Cascadettes who might
seek TO tempt me to Join 10 the mazy
dance did not the Heathen. Man Of
old stop his ears against the wantons
or the sea?--and the lady Of our par
fy donned no less than three wells, one
over the other, the last a thick avn
ing Of blue silk, the effect Of which
was certainly TO prevent any ono at
the mabille fran seeing her face,
while on the other hand, the three
wells so eGectually excluded the out
ward atmosphere as impcl her event
uaIIy to raise the triple barrier,
gasping in the throes Of semi.sufboca-
lion, and impctuousIy TO demand
iced lemonade. They charge you
one franc twenty centimes for
glass of lemonade at Mabille. The
beverage. in tho u. s. would certain
iy be thought dear at 10 cents.
Happy for you IL you make ono of
party at MabiIIc. Under these cir
cumstances you can laugh and talk
and wonder that people can be found
night after night TO pay for the priv
iiege or inspecting this barren sham;
but should you be alone your life will
be made bu riensome to you by the
thousand daughters OF the Horseback
--all SO far as their whitcned faces
go, 50 many whitcd sepuIchres, poor
creatures. They do not even go 50
far as to paint themselves. Rouge Is
apparently too dear; but they lay on
the I,earI powder, the white lead, ihc
arsenic, the pulyerized chalk---wha
ever the stuff may be-and then,
with voices hoarse as those of night
cabmen with exposure TO the nIghtail
and continuous tconsummations, .
they poster you to trust them.
shrink from surInising that they
drink 1.-THE OF the beverages tt
which they are sometimes treated
Did they do SO they would surely bS
tlpsy before shutting up time. / Sup
pose they receive commission from
the Administration or from the wait
ers, on the refreshments which they
are the cause Of ordering.
The dancing Is mere hollow i'm
posture. Nineteen-twenueths Of th,
poor women who come to lMabill.
would as soon think OF disportinl
themselves on the dancing platform
as OF earning an honest livelihood
But to keep up the delusion that Ma
| bile IS the favorite home Of Terpsl
chore, the administration have fey
couples Of semi-professional dancers
tenth-rate coryphies from the smalle
theatres, habitDes or saloons, or hair
dressers apprentices Of an acrobati
turn Of mind. The postnre master
and mIstresses throw their limb
about to the music of toIerable bant
at stated Intervals during the even
ing. At no period on Thursday di,
II notice more than 1Ye set of postur
! / makers going through the 'intercstInl
gambadoes. They danced in iso
lated groups, and each group wa
surrounded by a scrried circle {
gObehsoaehe spectators whose presenc
thus entirely destroyed the avaiIabi
ity of4be platform for general dane
; ing purposes. the attitudes induIa
ed in by tho hired fandogo-dancel
werc oastyes and uucouth enough; bu
they in no way sinned against decor
cy, unIess studied v6Igafity can
considered an indeIicate exhibitioi
On the whole / am inclined to thin
that the entertainment for which v
had paid Eve francs a head wou
have been dear at ten cents The
was plenty Of gas to be sure, but tn