Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-21

| French capital is somewhat cOnsldered, IN
an artistic sense, as school of examination,
where, after having passed muster before
the most jealous and severe of judges, you
are stamped with certain value which will
permit you to claim the attention of the
rest of the world. Therefore, all artists OF
any note in their native country hasten
to Paris to receive that stamp, so that the
gay capital has had in review all the
celebrities of the world. As it is the
artists object to make himself known and
concerts find a most damaging rival in
theaters, vast number of invitations are
sent to artistic celebrities, who, fatigued
with the monotony of the entertainments
to which they are constantly invited, usu-
ally give these tickets to relatives or
friends, for there are alwaysa number of
amusement hungry people
FoRAGING FOR A CONCERT
Or theater ticket which may permit them
! to obtain their food gratis. The con-
cert rooms in consequence are always
filled, yet is there no money Forthcoming,
and as each artist who gives the
concert must have other artists to
assist him, and these artists have
to be paid, so no money may be lost
| by the affair, convenient arrangement is
arrived at between these different artists
They separately agree to sing or play at the
concert of certain confrere if IN turn he
will later take part in their concerts, and
SO on, until in order to have given CON-
| plete concert one self he must have per-
formed at ten others. Ladies as general
thing at the present day confne their
| talents to the piano or to singing, except
| in Germany where an entire orchestra of
| ladies is to be found, and which has be-
come world renowned. The other evening
| met in private salon a Venetian lady
who plays the flute with the talent of
great artist. Her gentle manners, the
sweetness OF her voice and the soft, limpid
expression OF her eyes, peculiar to the
women OF her country, which seem to
have caught the moonlight glimmer
on the water surrounding the
gondolas, all were in harmony with
the sweet, delicate instrument she had
chosen as the medium of expression OF her
divine inspirations. La Signora Bianchini
had met with great success throughout
/ Germany and Austria after having left her
native land, aud came to Paris expecting
to gather as great harvest of louis d or
but, although she has performed in per-
haps ten concerts, and after gave concert
OF her own, in which those indebted to
her took part, she was unable to realize
anything, and is about to take her depart
ure for London, to endeavor there to re-
trieve her poor fortune. But artists, if
unfortunate with their concerts, find.
means of making money by performing in
| fae on nIa o0To,e yybo Thew
| general thing, magnificently remunerated
! for their trouble, and no soiree is con-
sidered complete unless artists of
more or less note are present to charm
the guests, and as a matter of course
the more distinguished the artists the
greater the expense incurred by the host,
and the more elegant the entertainment.
Even among the petits bourgeois whose
purses may not permit them the luxury of
paying professional singers, Their evenings
entertainment is considered unsuccessful
unless some amateurs OF more or less tai
ent edify the guests through their artistic
efforts. In fact any one in Paris who is
gifted with musical talent is never In need
OF friends, or | should say of social enter
tainment, for his society is constantly de-
manded by ali those who may be acquaint-
ed with hin.
EDUCATION.
The French Republic is paying marked
attention to the education of the masses,
and the higher education of the women is
not subject OF the least Importance. Mr.
Jules Simon has been an eloquent advo-
cate in favor of the women, inspired, it is
said, by his wife, who was formerly
school teacher. / remember at the time of
the last grand exposition at Paris of seeing
her In the American educational depart
ment lingering all the ponderous books and
having explained to her the different meth
DDS of instruction so successfully followed
in that land of liberty. REMARKED, how
ever, that in the ideas proposed by Mr.
Jules Simon before the Senate he neglected
to mention the source of so much wise IN
formation. The most eloquent advocate OF
the higher education of women in France
has been Mr.. a. Say, the brother of Mr..
Leon Say, the President of the Senate.
| He has spent most all of his senatorial ca
reer in passing bill for the establishment
OF High and normal schools for girls. As
incredible as it may seem the clerical party
of the Senate cried outagainst the proposition
/
licans of wishing to send the women of
their country to the devil by giving them
too much learning, as though the want OF
learning and their religious instruction had
so far placed them beyond the reach Of the
devil. The bill, after the most furious op-
position, was at last passed, and normal
schools are being established throughout
the country Heretofore, young girl IL
| = L.,
far advanced as those of our grammar
schools, and when she had passed her ex-
animation at the Hotel de Vile, examina-
tons conducted by the Government, she
was provided with certificate to teach,
and considered as accomplished as airy
woman had a right to be, although with us
she would have Deen only prepared to en-
ter the high school with her head crowded
with religious history and devoid of.much
practical science All this is now to be
changed, and the French woman is to be as
well educated as those of Russia, America
and elsewhere. There is society called
the Ligue Franchise de l'Enseignement, :"
composed, of course, OF all the professors
of the land and distinguished sayants of
the country.
CONGRESS-
Was recently held at Paris composed of
delegates Of ali the educational societies of
France, and grand meeting was held in
the Trocadero, sale de .tete, presided by
Mr.. Gambetta, who made ore of the most
eloquent speeches on education it has been
any ones good fortune to listen to. Mr..
Jules Ferry, the Minister OF Public In
struction, invited the delegates to attend
the Theatre Francois, and engaged some
five hundred seats for them On that
evening comedy of Alexandra Dumas
Gls was to have been played, but as it
was not considered sufficiently instructive
or dignihed for so august body, the Minis.
ter had the programme changed and Les
Femmes Savantesn of Moliere was given in
stead. Even that choice could scarcely be
considered appropriate since therein Moliere
ridicules the idea of a woman's being educa-
ted beyond the pot-and-p pan, which in those
days and at that particular time he was