The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-05

Mile. Heno,,on, Frou-F rou and Renee Maa.
perrin, with something more spicy, more
~ ldrisieass than any of them.
And the authoress .scatters red pep
per through her pages with = lavish hand,
like . young cook Who Is afraid Of not sufi-
GENTLY favoring his sAnces. 'Frou-Frou and
Renee were 81 least anxious TO repair the faults
they committed, bvt PAulette is absolutely
heartless. She v q pretty little animal, oddly
ss she is in her words, and yet she Is supposed
TO be . refined, we'll bred French lady. The
noble authoress frankly sets her heroine be-
tore as .t the very start, in the chapter entitled
.G9nseils dune Mere" in which Madame
d,Hanseretan, on the eve Of her dsughser's
marriage. tries to prepare the latter for the
Change that is about to- take place in her e1-
istence. asI I! ssy,s mamma, replies Pau
lette ~ "to-morrow : will be quite
quits ussles. that I should begin 10 bore mys
self tonight" aud she adds . wish that it WAS
tho came! hour GU the next day; .sfor then 1
wil,have no one to bore me but my husband,
and IN undertake to manage him" No chance
n. d'A.aiy's name ist Joseph, She tells her
mother that the first thing she is goi * to do
il to make him chsngeit eNo man should be
called Joseph;l 1t is shameful" When the
wedding Journey bsgin-, and D'Alaly begs her
to call MIN by his Christian name, her reply is:
.'That is the rub;" aud says she WON'T DO
it because the name Joseph is identified
with a most ridiculous story, referring to the
affair between Pot phar's wife and the young
man tLaS ran away from her embraces. NJ.
d'Alaly las another Christian name, Antoine,
but tilat docs not please her either, for il il
identified with another one who resisted temp
taton; but, she says, call the saint. are not
IDIOTS" Tho morning after her wedding night
Paulette indulges in q long monologue, which
includes SO many naughty observations that.
though l am neither 3 Joseph NOR an An
thony, l positively do not dare to translate
her refiecaons Along with all this that she
saws to her husband, what she says to her male
friends, to the artist for whom she poses as
70, the prlestoss, Of Venus, with the slang
that she mixes up with 1t, there is CROUCH to
make a wtole' regiment of regular cavalry
plush, Aud yet this book; originally published
in,a weekly Journal which has y circulation of
nl2,ooO was written BY a lady Of fashion!
We'll, we'll, everybody seems anxious to read 1t;
for, they say, SIT is 80 amusing" 70l''f FI,
AT nEAuyHLE.
Deauvule - merely y prolongation Of the
watering place in which ] am now sojourning.
and hence this village il sometimes called
a caslno ot its own, is really q different sort of
a place to Ttouville. 1t was the Due de Moruy.
the bastard half brothtr of Napoleon Ill, WHO
made 1t known to the amusement world He
purchased land, erected houses, and laid out a
race course. SO as 10 give to Deauville the tone
OF ducal Gnodwood. and to lot it be a depend
ency OF Trouville, as Goodwood is of Brighton,
he made this course q perfect one, Just
a. hs was himself q perfect mau OF fashion.
Twenty Years with the Women would not be
an inappropriate title for a chapter in the an
nails OF Deauvi.le-a chapter in which would
be found the names of all the great ladies Of
fashion who have sojourned there, or who have
passed through the place. First of all we
Mines. dc Metternich, de Pourtalcs aud dc
Ga;hnet. the three true queens Of
fashion, whose reign seems eternal.
Time was when q certain great lady OF the
taubourg Saint Germaiu had q villa vt Iron
vile with fourteen sleeping rooms in it, and Q
sable at Deauville In which there were four
and twenty thoroughbred race horses. Those
were the days when or moline. was still in all
its glory. One day the Marqulse de Galiirst
made her appearance at the races iu q close
been, and how beautiful she must have
is implacable, but fashion is also
very good. for it changes our tastes, our way
Of looking ~ things, and shus prolongs our
Those were tho days Of the great hats a Ia.
bergere, transparent dresses Of grenadine or
black lace over cherry or yellow skirts, or OF
white skirts with pink or blue transparent
siuf on the outside. There were also enor-
been copied from pictures by Rembrandt, very
becoming, but terribly in the way of those who
sat behind them. Times have changed. The
duke is dead; DeauviEe erected a statue to
him, and horse racing is the life of til place.
Tonight / shake the sand OF this deliciously
wicked town of my feet, aud start Tor Houl7
gate: .Thereis quite an American colony down
there, and I'm going to the place TO give the
dear old gossips a chance to overhaul my rep-
utatiou. The road is most of thstway up hill.
Some'ladias, of my acquaintance are going to
drive to Houlgate in y carriage. I'm going to
walk. We are going to see Honlgate there frat
H.FHFn- SsrS Ia 81 HIS! j. II, HAYNIE Z