The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-09-28

d.Alaly: This Paulette IL . compound of
WIG. Benotton, Frou-F From and Renee Msu-
peril, with something moro spicy, more
And the authoress scatters red pep
Per through her pages with lavish hand,
like young cook who is afraid Of not sul1i-
@ently hAvoriDg bis sauces. Frou-Frou and
Hence were q least anxious to repair the faults
they committed, but Paulette is absolutely
heartless. She Is pretty little animal, coldly
IS she 10 In her words, and yet she is supposed
to be refined, well-bred French lady. The
noble authoress frankly sets her heroine be-
1ore ns ~ the very start in the chapter entitled
40 dune Mere" in which Madame
d'Hantereta1, on the eve Of her daughters
change that is about to take place in her ex-
istence II say, mamma, replies Pau
letse. TO meerrow will be quite
sufficiently disagreeable day; it is
self to-night;" and she adds wish that it was
the e, same hour on the next day; stfor then I
will have no one to bore me but nv husband.
and III undertake to manage him" No chance
1s missed to show how much Paulette knows.
n n. tGtAaiys IA name Is Joseph. She tells her
is to make him change it s.No man should be
called Joseph; it is shameful" When the
wedding journey begins, and D'AIaly begs her
to call MIN by his Christian name, her reply is:
That is the rub;" and says she won's do
it because the name Joseph is identified
with most ridiculous story, referring to the
affair between Potlphar's wife and the young
man thai ran away from her embraces NJ.
dAlaly has another Christian name, Antoine,
put that does not please her either, for it is
idenhhed with another one who resisted temp
teton; but, she says, "all the saints are not
idiots" The morning after her wedding night
pa9lette INDUCES in long monologue, which
includes SO many naughty observations that,
though am neither q Joseph nor an An
thony, positively do not dare to translate
her reflections: Along with all this that she
says to her husband, what she says to her male
friends, to the artist for whom she poses as
Hero, the priestess of Venus, with the slang
that che mixes up with 1t, there is enough to
make whole regiment Of regular cavalry
plush. Aud yet this book, originally published
10 11 weekly ny journal which has circulation Of
575, OO0, was written by lady Of fashion !!
Well, well, everybody seems anxious to read it;
Tor, they say, sit is 80 amusing"
AT DEAUvuLE
Deauville is merely prolongaton of the
watering place in which I am now sojourning,
Trouville- Deauville. But Deauville, which has
casino OF its own, is really different sort Of
place to Trouville. It was the Due de Morny.
the bastard lf-brother Of Napoleon Ill, who
made 1T known to the amusement world He
purchased land, erected houses, and laid out q
Of ducal Goodwood, and to let it be depend
ency Of Trouville, as Goodwood is of Brighton.
he made this course q perfect one, Just
o. he was himself q perfect man of fashion.
Twenty Years with the Women would not be
an inappropriate title for chapter in the an
be found the namee of all the great ladies Of
fashion who have sojourned there, or who have
passed through the place. First of all we
would read the names Of that inimitable trio,
Mines. do Metternioh, do Pourtales and de
ts.hiae' the the three true queens Of
Time was when certain great lady of the
Faubourg Saint German had villa 1T Iron
vile with fourteen sleeping rooms in it, and q
stable at Deauville In which there were four
and twenty thoroughbred race horses: Those
were the days when crnoline was still in all
its glory. One day the Marquise de Galliffet
made her appearance 1t the races in close
fitting dress. What hurrah there must have
been, and how beautiful she must have
looked. SONS protested, for fashion
il implacabie, but fashion is also
Of looking at things, and thus prolougs our
pleasures by varying and renewing them.
Those were the days Of the great hats la
bergere, transparent dresses Of grenadine or
black lace over cherry or yellow skirts, or Of
white skirts with pink or blue transparent
stuff on the outside. There were also enoEz
nous Louis Kill hats that seemed to hd'
been copied from pictures by Remh,nsion,
sat- behi1sai them: III: TassS ElAE..ss,aAs
duke is dead; Deauville ,1sss-4 i statue to
him, and horse racing is TSSu .Iq&e Of til place.
Tonight shake the sand OF this deliciously
wicked town off my feet. and start for Houl-
gate. There is quite an American colony down
there, and I'm going to the place to give the
dear old gossips chance to overhaul my rep
utation. The road is most of the way up hill
Some ladies Of my acquaintance are going to
drive to Houlgate in carriage. I'm going to
walk. Weare going to see Houlgate there first
]. 3. HAYNIE