Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-01
HIGH LIFE In PARIS.
The Queer Ways In Whsch Some Great
Nob.emen and Nobleooomen Make Money.
CORRESPONDENCE New York SUM-

GCorrespondence New York SUM-
PARIS, July 10.
The leaven of positivism is working
with a vengeance in the lump of the Eu-
ropean aristocracy. BY posltlvlsm mean,
OF course, that practical temper OF the
time which strives above everything else
to put money in the purse. With our
mobiles of today this question OF money
is uppermost; indeed, at the rate things
are going. the Yearbook of European
nobility will soon be nothing more or less
than a business directory.
In England. the law Of primogeniture
has kept the great fortunes and estates to-
eether: vet even in England not few
slenderlv. portioned younger sons go into
trade NOWADAYS. 1t is in Germany, In
France. and in Italy, however, that the
descendants of the Crusaders have devel
oped the keenest passion for the chase OF
the gold piece. In Germany, because the
greater part of the nobility is poor, In
common with the rest OF their country
men. In Italy, for the same reason. In
France, because the Revolution and the
abolition OF primogeniture destroyed the
large fortunes.
1t is in France, of the three, that the in.
vasion bv trade of caste that formerly
used To turn up its nose st money-maklng
and money makers is the most notable
and noticeable. Net to speak here OF the
marriages OF beggared mobiles with the
heiresses of Cincinnati pork-packers or
Peruvian guano dealers - matrimonial
unions these that enrich finely the worn
out acres of the descendants OF the Chew
aliers-there are the great industrial en-
| oil nd
whose Boards of Direction serve as hot
houses for the fine flower of the ruined
aristOcrG cy,
Moreover, the richest mobiles set the ex
ample to the poor ones. The number OF
Dukes, Princes, Counts and Bsrons who
sell the famous vintages of Champagne,
Bordeaux and Bourbon, WOULD suffice to
organize courts in all the republics of the
two Americas. But that is a quasi
cratic commerce, and sundry crowned
heads do not disdsin to turn an honest
penny by il. Let us pass, then, to the
petty trader. We shall end that the Book
of Heraldry includes the names of q
crowd of tradesmen and trades women
who would not be out of place in the
square of the Temple or under the pillars
of the ishmarket.
There was Duke Pozzo di Borgo. just
dead, millionaire q dozen times over. lie
sold his game, the poor, thrifty man, as
eagerly as though he had been simple
poacher, and he retailed the fruit of his
country seat at Saint Cloud like kitchen
gardener of the Plain of Genneviliers.
He also sent TO market baptized milk-he
was pious man, the noble Duke-fur
nished by his two COWS.
Another grand selgneur, the Marquis de
Chabrol, drives thriving business l.
losning out silver plate for weddings al
dinner parties IN town. It is the family
plate which ne puts to this use, and the
| pieces ornsmented with the De Ohabrol
coaLof arms furnish forth the table OF
Monsieur PrudhOmme, to the delight of
that worthy hut title worshipins man.
The Marquis makes O handsome thing
out of it.
There is slso the great Barren de Foy,
inventor and propagation of the matri
monial profession" Do you want wife
not too mature, not too sentimental =?
Address, in all confidence, any of the
branches of the house-Paris, London or
Vienna. Deposit 100, 500, or 1890 francs,
according to circumstances, plus q com.
mission of 8 per cent. on the lady's dot
Once in awhile the house has to sue de-
linquent patrons; usually, however, the
excellent Baron gets his fee, as his
SPLENDID chateau at Saint Closd testif1es
He has rivals, though, in the persons of
certain Marquises, Countesses, aud
Bsronesses, who are trying to draw trade
away from him by cutting under his
rates; they are satisfied with deposit of
80 francs, or even % francs, and charge q
commission of only per cent. on the dot.
Let US not overlook the Countess de
Benouville. She leased hs3f-dozen small
houses and apartments IN the quarter of
the Champs Elysees, furnished them eco
nomically by making her purchases at
auction sales and rents them out to Eng
lish and American visitors at handsome
profit. Note that the Countess is very
rich and that her husband gives her an
allowance for her toilet that would CON-
fOrtably support an entire family.
Three Of the most elegant and distin-
guished ladies of Paris, whose Eames are
constantly recurring in the soc iety news of
Journals, have formed company of the
most original kind and keep skap, their
confidential agent doing duty 80 shop
man. They furnish the wares-nc thing
else than their cast.off dresses and toilet
knickkDackg of which they have Become
tired. II is understood that these ladies
are doing capital business, AID that
sometimes, in,the intimacy of the boudoir
they graciopsly exhibit their account
books for the inspection of particular
friends.
The Baron &c Morlange has amassed a
pretty fortune IN still more singular
traffic. He opened an anonymous agency
for the procurement of masses. His
drummers secured the country, knocked
at the doors of the chateaux, and can.
vassed the cities in quest of persons de.
sirous of having masses said for their
dead; undertook to discharge this duty
in consideration OF sum OF money paid
in advance; then hurried off in search of
poor village priests, out of whose mod
esty or necessities they coined profit of
30 cents per mass for their employer.
The Marchioness de Lstour Treboigne
carried on indirectly business no less
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