The Donaldsonville chief., 1878-06-15

and an hours communion in this fairy
bower brings you nearer to nature
and natures God than all the pictures
that were ever painted on canvas or
all the statues that were ever carved
in stone. It is not only the exhibition
of flowers which is worthy of atten-
/ ton, but such rare collection of
fruits has seldom blessed mortal eyes.
Purple and golden grapes, rich with
the warm bloom of the Southern sun,
hang in tempting clusters from the
vines; lucious plums, apricots, cher
ries and strawberries are there, fresh
and bright as if just gathered from
the gardens of Hesperides but you
might linger here all day and never
get tired.
A few steps further brings us to a
new revelation of art: it is the dress
department, dedicated exclusively to
the glory and adornment of woman.
It may be the vanity of ranites, but
there is no denying that it is very
beautiful. 1t was only the other
morning that l went down ut day.
light to the Great Central Market of
Paris to find myself in the midst of
race sucl, as have never Seen before /;
| the whole place swarmed with men
and women, different in looks, char
acter and language from any to be
found elsewhere. These were the
men and women of the bGrricadeS,
coarse, hard featured and strong, the
food ON which revolution feeds and
| the stalwart arm on which commun-
| ism relies. looked at the women
with waists like butter tubs and skins
| like tan bark, with lloarsc voices and
unkempt heads, and remembered with
grief all the onslaughts have made
on dressmakers aud milliners away
in the olden time. | have said many
unkind things in my day against the
| fellow that invented corsets, but /
now publicly recant. / take it all
back, and from this time forth | shall
regard him as one of the greatest
benefactors of the race. OH what
waists those market women had, what
hands, what feet, what -; no, /
will go no further, but If this be your
natural woman just as she was cre-
ated, give me the cultivated article.
can swallow Worth with his enormous
trains, Dem0rest with her flounces
and uibelows, Mareval's flowers aud
Donegan's corsets, but no market
woman for Joseph.
Bnt 70 return, the dress exllibi-
ton is exceedingly beautiful and
tasty. If you think of going to see
it, it might he well to leave your
wife and daughter at home, for if they
once get sight of those ravisiiing
toilettes-and your balance at your
bankers is not large you are ruined
man. In London and New York you
hear nothing but Worth, Worth,
Worth: why, there are dozens of
dressmakers here exhibiting. who
could have designed an extra glory
for the robes of the Queen of Night,
and have prepared wedding dress
for Queen Nab that would have driv-
en- the fairies crazy.
Probably no place in the world of
fers such superlative advantages to
the student of comparative anatomy
as Paris. Not only Hercules, Cupid
and ApOllo-minus socks and shirt
collar-are constantly staring you in
the face, but Clyte and Psrche and
Venus are to be found in every street
and mount guard on every boulevard.
They climb up the lamp posts; they
sit on the tops of the chimneys; they
adorn the front of fashionable houses,
and kick up their heels out of third
story windows. No filmy robe, no
gossanier scarf cOneeals the handi-
work OF nature they are all in thai
delightful simplicity of costume which
distinguished our mother Eve before
fig leaves had corrupted her heart. It
is light and airy in fact, the convic-
tion is forced upon you that the theo-
ry advanced by modern scientists is
true, and that there was an Areadian
period, perhaps millions of years ago,
| when Paris was under the Equator,
and that the necessity for breecbes
at the present time.
All the ministers and most of the
fashionable people are now giving Il
series of grand and fashionable enter
tainments- that of Mons. WaddiHgt0n
heiag one of the marked events of the
season. We are in daily expectation
of having a King or two on our visit
ing list Princes and Dukes are as
plenty as blackberries, and a. for
Couuts, well, We don't reckon them
at all. Nothing short of a Dey or a
Bey or n Shah will create sensation
new, and hoping to catch one for your
especial benefit, am, yours truly,
BROADBRIM.