The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-18
Vice in Brussels.
nssels Letter in Chicago Times


Brussels Letter in Chicago Times,
Go from the cafes to thehotels. The
proprietor will wait and fawn upon
you-if you be we'll dressed and have
a few diamond rings on your fingers
just as his Partisan confrere does.
Here you will find those privaterooms
Or as they call them, cabinets par
ticuliers-that are, by the bye, mere
imitatiOns,of the class at the Palais
Royal, in Paris, where gailants eat
and drink tete-a-tete with the fashion
able tatterdamalions of the city, and
where married women forget their
nuptial VOWS in the arms of dudlsh
dandies. On the streets after nlghtfall
we meet with the same disgusting sights
so common at the same hour on the
bOulevards and Faubourg Montmar-
tire of Paris-the rouged and powder
ed battalions Of smirking vice, fiaunt
ing it's gaudy dresses and staring you
immodestly out OF circumference. Stroll
into by-lanes and into alleys, where
you will not need very much dlsCrimi-
nation to see that Brussels even ex-
ceeds Paris, proportionally speaking,
in the number of it's dens of corrup-
tion tolerated by the statute book and
patronized by many who have some
thing to do with the manufacture Of
statutes, dens where British, Irish,
French, and American girls cater to
the brutal tastes and proclivities Of
scoundrels of every class and Of all
nationalities. Go into society, fre-
quent fashionable tea parties, dance
st fashionable balls, and eat and
drink at midnight suppers, and what
do you find except that strange same
ness of habits and ideas so prevalent
in the city by the Seine-Uhe same
fashionable dictum, if not openly ex-
pressed, at least secretly implied and
acted on, that q married dame
who does not afford herself the luxury
of a paramour is the wretchedest of
sottes; the same prurient, practical
philosophy that ties respectfully
brought up girls to their mammas'
apron strings till the nuptial day--a
philosophy which makes the minxes
hypocrites before marriage and God
knows what after it; the same SIM
pering civilities exchanged between men
and men or women and women who
have no more regard for each other
than an Irish dynamlter has oris sup
posed to have for the hide of the
average Saxon. Over the tea cup the
same scandal is banded about as in
Paris. Nine. A. wore, it seems, the
same dress three times consecutiyely
at her box in the theater. nj. b. is
proud of the youngsters, B. never
dreaming, poor soul! that they are
not his own. Nine. c. is stupid
enough to love her husband, although
the fellow lavishes thousands OF francs
monthly on one of the actresses of La
Monnaie, etc.
Go from the tea-table to the politi-
cal caucus club, and there you will
find the same Dolitical profiigacy run.
ming riot. Here as there deputies are
secretly paid thousands and thou
sands of francs for allowing their
names to appear on the directing COM
pany in the prospectuses of financial
speculations. Here as there the depu-
ty's or senator's pockets are lined with
gold for begging ministerial favors.
Here as there political big-wigs carry
on the same petty fntrigues, the same
double-faced chicanery, the same
| double-dyed hypocrisy. Where pub
lie positions are got by bribery poll
tics becomes trade, and political
traders Tor tricksters) are as proper
tionately numerous in Brussels as they
are in Paris.