Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-05
EUROPEAN CAUSERIE.
Max O'Rell's Interesting Chat on
London and Partisan Customs.
THE FRENCH SOCIETY LADY.
A Hard Days Work In RIgh Life-The
Academy Observation-Disclosures in Art
DO Tract Societies COuvcrtt-The
Future Of Highly Educated Girls.

Special Correspondence of The EvEsISs STAR.
LONDON. June Is.
n PARIS white Is no longer the fash
III ionablo tint for pretty faces The languid
a heroine with the small shoes and small
III W appetite, who rose at noon and began the
~Ss@ business of her butterfly day little be-
fore shutdown, has given place to vigorous
young person, who takes her morning tub at
the same hour as city clerk affects nourish-
| ing diet OF rosbif and kindred foods, and, clad
in tailor-mado gown and sensible boots, sallies
forth regularly after breakfast to a real English
constitutional. The die-away lady who looks
as if she sat up ali night reading novels, has
few admirers in the Paris of today; to be ia the
swim an elegante must be good walker, good
eater, good Laughter.
hard days work lies before the fashionable
Parlslenne. She must be seen abroad at 10
with her little dog, walking TO the Ccrcle des
Panes or on horseback in the Bots de Boulogne
getting up her appetite for lunch at noon.
ms Is clearly an improvement on the old style
OF things, for the day of fashionable woman
who had pretensions to beauty used to begin
with an hours sitting at her chamber window to
give an air bath to her complexlon-a process
tiresome at the best.
On the way home from the Bots there is per-
maps, some elegant trifc to be tried on at the
y.
are intimate friends to be received and gossiped
with until 1t is time to be off to picture CALLER
les, flower sales, sales of brlc-abrac. Refreshed
with a change Of toilet. our belle is next to be
seen at 3 clock teas, fitting from one friends
mouse to another. At she must make her ap-
pearance at some garden party-an other En-
gilsh institution almost tourishing as lie feevc
O'Clock.
DINNERS on HIGH.
One of the latest fads of fashion is to give
dinners on the Eiffel tower No need for our
tired beauty to drive home to change her
frock again, for the cream of Partisan society
has decided that a high-necked dress and a
bonnet form the correct costume for dining in
MID air. SO the 1iower-decked lift takes her up
to her hostess she is, and, by and by re-
freshed by good dinner and the sojourn in
the upper atmosphere, she is ready to don some
wonderful creation of the man milliner and
put in an appearance at the opera or a ball.
perhaps both. 1t is little wonder that she has
to call in the aid OF massage and cold douches
for her tired nerves and the friendly raw veal
outlet for her complexion.
If imitation be the sinceres. fattery English
society ought to feel very fattered. Since lie
sport was acclimatzed across the channel the
tailor-made gown, the low-heeled boot the
constitutional walk, the afternoon tea the
| garden party. have all been copied from the
British. Occasionally one hears of the most
| amusing absurdites perpetrated by Anglo
friend of mine described TO me n dinner at
which the conyives were young men of big lif
| The menu was excellent, the table appoint
ments perfect. but the great feature OF the
feast was silence 1t had been agreed before
hand that there should be no conversation.
And this was supposed to be 80 English
| you know"
EYEGLAss, But NO STRING
The young French dandy takes kindly, too,
to the single eyeglass, which, to be really
| effective, must now be worn without anv string
do not mean that the stri lg takes away from
| the virtue of the glass but 1t has been decided
that II detracts from the stylishness of the ele-
| CANT aid to vision. An eyeglass must not now
| be an appendage, but a part of ones self The
aim Is clearly to show that one is SO confident
| OF his ability to maintain the glass III position
| that a string is needless. The great desideratum
| Is to be able TO eat with it. ride with it, dance
WITH II. laugh with 1t. sneeZe with it (if you car
see with it 80 much the better in fact to look
as If you slept with il and found it in its place
| m the morning. OF course accidents will
| happen to the best regulated eyeglasses and
| necessarily. part of the training for wearing a
stringless one properly is to learn to pick it up
| nonchalantly when it does stray from home
| unless you adopt Mr.. Whster's plan: he car
| ries a supply i'll his waistcoat pocket and if one
| deserts him replaces the rambler out of this
| reserve stock.
] SADNESS IN ART.
|
iect of the sadness that has crept into society
| tastes and pleasures L have taken another
stroll round the academy rooms at Burlington
| House. and been more than ever struck by the
| the number OF dismal pictures in this
years show. As L looked again at a
| picture OF n corpse washed up by the
sea on a dreary beach, and at another can
vas with a solitary detected figure with its
head in its hands and labeled Sorrow" [
could not help wondering what such pictures
| are painted Tor. Who buys them? 1t is easy
| to understand an artist painting misery or
| death when there is some lesson TO be taught
| by SO doing. Paint a lockout, or q revolution
| scene, or an eviction, and spare no ugly detail
| OF hollow cheek and sunken eve; paint so that
! the gazer may read the cruel story in every
| line, and learn at u glance from the canvas
truths that no newspaper account, nay
| nor volume, though written by the
pen of a Carlyle, shall bring home so forcibly
| to the heart and mind Paint ugly vice and
| sad ruin, and teach such lessons as Hogarth's
/ pencil taught But why, OH. why paint ..Sor-
| row., whose mission is only to sadden. and
| death that has no message tor the living? A
| consumptive girl dying for love of a king, a
| peasant child dying to give opportunity for a.
| hne pose IN the priest who holds up the cruel
| fix; who wants to hang such figures on his
walls? Few girls fade away under the effects
| OF untold love, i am happy to believe, and L
am sure no one can wish the number increased
by extra ones dying on canvas. Sorrow is
| plentiful enough in the world; we want no
| painter to remind us of it and paint it per Sc
| And just fancy your wife and family out of
town and yourself about to sit down to a solitary
| dinner. How pleasant to have your gaze meet
stranded corpse as you enter the family dining
room.
WAR AND PEACE.
Pictures like those OF Vassilli Verestchagin.
| which show the miseries OF campaign in all
| their hideousness, may serve good purpose
| in CT eating detes.ation of war in all who see
| them. Nothing short OF such Il motive IN the
| artist could excuse the portrayal OF such
horrors It was during a visit to Chicago sew
eral months ago that saw these pictures, but
1t will be long before l forget them Blood
shed and butchery, three rooms full Pervad-
! ing the atmosphere was a smell of carbolic acid
which brought back recollections of weeks
spent in a military hospital twenty years ago
and completed the realistic effect The build
| ing had shortly before been temporary home
| OF a travelling circus, l believe and carbolic
acid had been freely used to ramove the odors
OF the ring. l walked through the rooms. al
ternately sickened and fascinated by the terri
| BILE realism of the scenes
russian was small one in which hung a single
picture. That picture was Miilets Angelus.
Miliet's dear little Angelus that hymn of peace
aongslde OF all this roar and carnage of battle
The exhibitor thought, perhaps, that sedatiye
might be needed after the strong dose Of
| Nassiili Vercstchagin but imagine that no
one who went into that little room after the
| others was IN mood to listen to Millets