Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-25
PARIS OF TO-DAY.
Autumn in the Gay Capt.
tai of France.
RACHAEL AND ROSA BONHEUR
our C0untrywOmen and French
DresSmakers--HOw the Partisan
Workman Takes an Outing.

workman IakeS an OuClHS,
PARIS, O3tober l6.-Never was Paris
cleaner, prettier, more delightful than
it is to-day. The magnificent weather
OF this October is bringing out the ches.
nut trees into blossom again, and how
ever bad that may be for them next year,
we who are here now and do not expect
to be here next spring bear the misfor.
tunes of the future as Rochefoucauld
says that we always bear those of our
best friends-with certain philosophy!
never saw the Champs Elysees, even
on the day of the Grand Prix or Var.
nishing Day, more crowded, more gay
than it has been the two last Sundays.
1t is really worth coming to Paris to see
how it rejuvenates under the American
visit. Male Parisians know that in Sep.
tenn and October they may expect the
American ladies who desire pretty
dresses to take home, and American
money-some call it by the harsher
name of American female vanity-is do
ing for the Paris is the present financial
crisis what Lafayette did for us in our
Revolution. We are returning his hos
pitality. The pecunious Americans are
buying out the Boulevard des Italiens.
They hire carriages with certain reck.
lessness. They go to theatres, to the
cafes, with profuse and delightful ex-
penditure. The French love Them and
see long winter of comfort out of the
American golden dew which falls on
them every autumn.
There is no sort of doubt to the ira
veler who observes all women that the
American women dress better than any
women in the world, for they are natur-
ally neat and natty. "They are born
with rustic" as some novelist said of
her heroine. They are stylish from the
cradle and they do not care what they
spend-so the French dressmaker has
the pleasure of realizing her dreams upon
the beautiful young
WIVES OF WALL STREET BROKERS,
Who are as pretty as peaches and quite
as Indifferent to bills. No European
women, even princesses, spend money
as do the Flowers of the Forest What
check books the western bellies seem to
own! Chicago, indianapolis, Peoria,
Dakota Territory. No wonder the Par
isians think the West is Ell Dorado.
''They are the only women who order a
dress without asking the price" said q
French dressmaker the other day, and
''that is the only way to get handsome
costume" 1t is to be said, however.
that one can get modest and tasteful
toilet very cheap in Paris, more reason.
able by far than the same dress in New
York. And it is also true that one must
go to the women who work only for
the French people, not to the spoiled
childred of fashion whom Americans
have ruined.
1 see much in the French paper as to
the comparative safety of human life in
France and in America. 1t has become
fashionable subject to write about.
They 90 on with French dramatic inten.
sity to tell of those unknown crimes of
whose mystery the dark nights of Paris
alone hold the solution and whose au.
thors are not discovered of that dread
full story of the woman cut to pieces
whose members, all but the head were
found over Paris; of the little dead girl
of the Rue du Vert Bois; of all the ter.
rible aud obscure dramas whose unknown
victims still form the unsolved problem
of Justice. No one but Edgar Allen
Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne could
have given such sombre interest to these
stories. In regard 10 America they tell
of the bodies chopped and packed in bar
rels; of the theft of the body of dis.
tinguished citizen, of the assassination
of the President at Washington, and
they ask:
"wHERE is LIFE SAFEST 7"
To us Americans it seems, until we read
these highly favored articles, that life
is as safe in New York as it can be any
where; but then indeed where does it
seem safer than in Paris l drive from
far uptown, the neighborhood of the
Arc de Triomphe, every evening out to
dinner and home often alone, from the
Faubourg st. German across the Seine,
back and forward, and never see even
a disturbance. go with parties to the
theatre through the crowded Boulevard
Sebasta poll never even met with a
drunken man. Nothing can be more Sc.
rene than Paris up to IL o'clock, and
have come home from balls much later
than that to find everything most calm
and perfectly peaceful. 1 cannot believe
as 1 pass st, Etienne du Mont, with its
midieval front so clear and so pretty
sgainst the dark.blue midnight sky, that
an Archbishop was murdered there.
Here they have just gnillotined two as
sassins; which gives the Figaro an OPP
portunity for one of its poetic editorials:
IL have seen the facade of the Roquette;
1 have seen this cruel picture whose
realism was Partisan and artist, etc.
The double execution of Riviere and
Frey, who are called "two ignoble
droles," was a most pitiable sight. They
had the cowardice of fools and fiends;
they had been dragged through long
trial; they had been exhorted to repent.
ance; they died mocking and cprsing.
Altogether the guillotine has done well,
perhaps, to cut off two such unworthy
heads, and-voi la tout! will not lin.
ger in this revolving scene. From the
accounts have read--and who can help
reading these horrible details--1 should
say the guillotine was more merciful
than the gallows.
The divorce which la Marquise de
Talleyrand Bessie Cuutis) had obtained
from the Marquis gratifies her friends
very much. She keeps her name, she
keeps her daughter, shereceives 500. 600
francs indemnity for money which he
received with her, she receives from the
Due de Diners, father of the Marquis,
all tho money he was to leave to his son.
She receives the respect of the Faubourg
st. German, which has always sustained
her, and is now receiving the felicita-
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