New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-03
PARISIANS AT A BALL.
SOME QUEER PEOPLE,


PARIS April 49, B.
The ball at the Hotel de Vile for the benefit of
tho poor of Paris and of the victims of the Tonqnin
campaign was brilliant financial success Tho
expenses came to $34. 400. But as $4,000 was
spent On necessary furniture of permanent kind
this sum will be paid by the city. The charity
fund remaining after lights and temporary decora
tions are paid for amounts to 100000.
The furniture was of a makeshift and
fiimsy character, and principally consisted
in benches covered with red cotton velvet
aud cane-seated chairs. In the reserved
| rooms carpets were laid down, aud there was q
sufficient amount of fine furniture give rich AIR
TO these apartments The brilliant company ex-
pected, however made default. Municipal Council
lors and their wives had this suite the first floor
looking tho Place dc Hotel de vilIel all to
themselves. A diplomatIst and then dropped
in. | saw Mr.. Levi Morton and General Walker;
the Greek Consul. who is very prosaic German
jew and son-in-law of Sldell. jeff Davis's enis-
sary to Europe; Beckman, tie head OF ths
journalistic staff at the German Embassy and
head OF the Paris branch of the "reptian
chcsira," few young attaches of the British
Embassy, and tbs inevitable Counts GnTewsk and
do Lancashire. The former is brother-In-!aw of
Queen Isabella; for why' He carried of by q
ladder of ropes Spanish Infanta in 1912 from
father the Dake of Seville. The Count is
ubiquitous. lie is invited out much that he can
afford to do without cook aud keeps his servants
on board wages. II il wonderful how his animal
spirits resist age aud the inevitable effects the
liver of an eternal round of gala lunches dinners
and suppers. l believe no was penDleSs when La
came here when Freedom gave that celebrated
shrek over the fallen Kosclusko, but through his
pleasant manners and Royal Spanish connections
has managed not only TO keep afloat, but to live
Oh the fat of the land, command box tickets for
opera houses and theatres, be courted by fine ladies
pocket handsome income as guinea pig"
director of railway and mining companies. and
have all the enjoyments which rank and wealth
rive without their irLsomo duties or cares.
The Count de Lancashire Is Portuguese OF Plan
tarenet descent md tho husband Of Lady Cardigan.
He is hardly less ubiquitous than the Count Gorow
ski and without prejudice of any kind. Wher-
ever there is fashionable STIR going on there he
is certain to be found. He does not seem to enjoy
it. bat he would be miserable without it. In tho
reserved rooms at the Hotel de Yillc and walking
through the crowded galleries be had the air OF .
ghost / saw him there with his uncle.
the Duke of Sadanla, when Baron Hauss-
mann entertained tho ate and present
Kings of Portugal, the late Queen Christina, her
second husband and their half dozen so of beau
tiinl daughters The company mt the Charity ball
was so different from that invited by the de-
ana DaIou W
RoyaIties in question! don't say it was NOT
essentially Just as respectable But its ways were
NOT those of tho circles In which tho Count has all
his life mixed Then the canc-seacd chairs and the
bare walls were shocking to his fastidious taste.
The Sale ST. Jean had tho air OF German lagerDcer
saloon. Ii used TO be tho guard room ia the tlmo
oil Haussmann. This immense apartment has
marble floor and the three long parallel arches
forming its ceiling are supported by two rows or
pillars and as many OF pllasters. The AIR on
the night of tho Charity ball was thick with
tobacco smoke, Beer was about the only drink
glass of Strasburg beer and two francs for small
bottle of English ale.
The crowd was bourgeois. with an 3rist0cratic
sprinklng. l neyor saw an uglier lot OF people.
The men were poor creatures and the young ones
the poorest. Shallow brains, characterless faces,
meagre chests and shoulders and low statues wero
the rule The tall men were weedy" AS 10 inc
women, they were plain as plain could De. 10
iudge from their faces they never knew what an
elevated sentiment OF deep feeling was. Monetary
considerations of small kind must ever have been
upperlnost in their minds. Wounded and highiy
exeited vanity gangrened their lives All this was
written plainly on their conntenances. Az ZOE
greed and nothing for love has been the RUE IN
middle ard upper class marriages IN france t,cm
time immemoral and 1t explains why m0nen iih S
Ieonide Leblanc, who spring from poverty anu
ancestors who welded because they ioyed eacn
other. carry ali before them here. 1 was never 90
nainf,llIy struck with the impotence OIL poadse ID
re To dispuise coarse skins. Perhaps this was Do
cause the light was OF searching strength Inc
toeftss were in most cases fresh and elegant and
hore The true Partisan stamp | hardly saw
train. did not see many Americans or Engiisns
Rut lisa ans not rare and heavy, homeiy ana
dowdy they looked for the most part. Yet ladies
among them had fine faxen hair and compexions
in which the rose and lily II not blended were "
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