Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-05-31
Extraordinary!
OF NEW YORK SOCIETY AS
DESCRIBED IN A PARIS NEWSPAPER.

rECUIIARITIES OF NEW YORK SOCIETY AS
DESCRIBED IN A rARIs NEWSPAPER.
The Paris Figaro has established a
''Pic-Nic" department, to which its
editors and friends contribute OF their
| abundance of anecdote or Imagination.
Nine. Lydie Paschkoif is represented in
:he last issue by letter from the Grand
Hotel, Be avenue" New York, March IA,
some extracts of which will be of interest
rs well AZ for information to Americans
Nine. Paschkoff says:
Il only arrived yesterday and am hor-
ribly tired. All day long | received Wis
its from reporters, who asked me point
blank my age, my history, my tastes, my
character, my political opinions. my ad-
ventures, an autograph, 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 a book that is having great
run At London (she writes English better
than Russian; onl y We can do tha). This
lady is 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 $1,000. 900 if Buddhist temple
is built in New York to prove that Jesus
Christ is only an imitator of Buddha The
object of this society is the overthrow OF
Christianity. and the building up of the
brotherhood of nations; also the eviction
OF the English from India.
There is also society OF the mmacu-
Iai. htah
about IL pure and lofty humanity BY
methods. which | could only explain to
you in Latin. don't know Latin.
There is also society of propagators
of love. A man has eight wives, who
worl. for him. Each earns 81 day,
which gives him an income of so francs
day, enough TO keep him. He is the pres
ident of this nice society.
"a millionaire has just died, leaving
nine wives and thirty eight children, a
wife for each state (Sic). They have been
recognized as his lawful wives and the
estate has been divided between them.
ITO make up for this, women have
sometimes more than half-a.dozeu hus-
bands all legitimate. Divorced from these
husbands, these latter have to pay them
an allowance under penalty OF imprison-
ment. On the first OF each month they
90 10 each OF their husbands to collect
their little incomes.
There are spiritualsts here. who have
found out the secret of the takirs OF India.
They float in the air by the means of a
combination OF magnetism and antim mag
netism-so they say. From the heart
of one of these spiritualists issues smoke
which turns into an Egyptian genie A
Russian lady has been named 10 me who
pretcnds that Dcmosthcnes possesses her.
She has found followers.
Even more surprising is the case of a
gentleman who has Just been presented
10 me. lilo belongs Ia the temperance
society. and wastes his time preaching
against the alcoholism OF the Sclavs. The
voice oi one crying in the wilderness:
who knows it better than [?
despite all the eccentricities. the
country is paradise. What civilization
What politeness. Women are queens.
They % and come; they dine alone at the
restaurants, and yet are not taken tor
cocottcs. They do not need escorts to
conduct them everywhere like dogs in "A
leash. Why was not born an American?
| shall Join all the societies possible, even
that of the Indian Nedas
You have heard about the last Ameri-
can invention, the phonograph, have you
not? saw the gentleman who invented
it. 1t consists of 4 roll of paper. When
you want to hear Patti sing you send
your servant to 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 il you were at
the theatre. You can repeat the opera
tion several times, until the paper tears.
MEN will find themselves nicely caught
by this invention. Every time any one
makes declarations 10 meet me | will roll
up the paper and put it aside. Years
aiIcrward You can make the traitors
listen 10 their broken uaths. No young
American girl goes out without her pho
noCraph.
so so! Europe is decidedly an old
slow-coach. llurrah lor America and the
future ~