New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-14

~ con;uoaI unhappiness They cause many per-
CONS ~ small means to reflect as to the expense
before they plunge into divorce proceedings.
To neonlc OF no means, however, or who live
from hand to mouth, there is the Depar OF
the Assistance Judciaire. The Government helps
the artisan. the clerk and the petty tradesman to
readiust their matrimonial relations. provided they
are not too proud TO say that they are unable 70
nav for legal assistance. That the people be-
longing to the working and struggling class are
not. as il generally supposed, more content than
Others 70 abide by the tickets they have drawn
in the lottery Of marriage is proved by the
startling fact that from January l, 1888. TO
the commencement of the present wear. the Bureau
d,Assl,tance of the Metropolitan District received
no less than 81 900 applications for legal assist
auce from petitioners for divorce, Surprising the
decree were granted In each Of these cases. there
would have been in the brief period Of four years
81 600 homes indically broken up in Paris alone.
and all these belonging TO the poorer casses-1ust
those in fact that expected to provide the
country with the vast majority OF its population.
The Government Is now called upon TO face
the problem OF what Is TO become Of the children
of the working and poorer classes whose parents
have been divorced The courts cannot provide
for their future as they able TO do in the case OF
TIE ofrspnnc of persons belonging to weather.
sphrre in life II is certain that a very large
proportion Of these poor children neglected If
not abandoned when their parents marry again.
And nearly all divorced people do marry again as
soon as they are freed 1t is their lottery ticket
that they are Disguised with, not the lottery IT
self Indeed It looks as II the time were APP
preaching when first attempts at matrimony VIII
he universally REGARDED as mere tentative expert
m.nts and that all those who respect the tie in
.,-,;11 bo nit ia1 or apnffpd
at by the majority for their infatuation To
make matters easier by reducing to minimum
the terror Of public scandal, all divorce suits are
heard in camera, and only in very rare instances
il the Judgment OF the court considered to be Of
sufficient interest TO be published in the news
papers.
The curious fact that in nearly all the duels
which have taken place OF late between military
officers and civilians, the victory has remained
with the latter instead Of with the former has led
w. Dc Freycinet, the Minister OF War, to devote
his attention to the fencing skill Of the Army,
and il is understood that he proposes to effect
some very radical Transformation in the present
style Of fencing as taught by the military maitres
darmes 1t appears that in the Army here both
officers and soldiers are taught fencing with folls
in merely conventional manner as no accounts
in the chest Thus. in the Army man Is es-
tccmcl a skilful fenccr II he wards off lunCes
AZ his chest, athong he may have been repeatedly
touched in the arm, legs, hand and head. More
over the army system Of fencing has hitherto
been ono Of mere parry and thrust there being
no UNEXPECTED double or simultaneous strokes
A COMPLETELY different style Of fencing prevails
among civilians who far more proficient in
bv-plav. and not So ant 10 get too near their OPP
ponent Civilians too are, ms n rule. able 10
spend much more time in the sale darmcS and ~
practice fencing means Of preserving their
health moro than military men. who are too busy
with rcgimen,al work
While the visit Of the Grand Duke Constan-
tine. of Russia. TO Nancy at the very moment when
the Gar VS. paying his lonc-deferred call TO
Emperor William al Kiel, afforded great satsfac-
ton 10 the general public here IL greatly dsmayed
thc hautr france Of Paris and has led 10 the
definite rejection by the French money market
Of rho new Russian loan. Previous TO the Grand
Dukes visit 10 Money the great banks here were
almost eager 20 accept the offer Of the Russian
Minister Of Finance 10 Issue per cent loan
~ o. the only stumbling block being the strained
relations between the Courts Of Berlin and 81.
pc,cr,hury a. the hautc finance here stipulated
,ha, tho Berlin money market should take its
share in the transaction. To satisfy this dcmAn
Of the French hnanciers. the Gar reluctantly do
cdcd 10 remember the lonG-standing debt which
he owed IN his brother monarch, Emperor william,
and n return his call, II L. hardly necessary
10 remind the readers Of The Tribune how curl
| ously this act of courtesy was performed and how
| il Vas discounted, cIaccd and even turned into
gross insult 10 the German Cour; and the German
Nation by the simultaneous visit Of the Grand
I ~, ta,f,t lao. Erap eh
AT large were delighted by tho Czars conSldera-
ton for their feelings. yet the clever men Of
| business in Paris did not allow Themselves 10 he
taken in by the compliment, and forthwith re-
fused then and there TO undertake the
loan ut any price. They realize that they
are already saddlcd with Russian stocks
TO the tune Of five milliards of francs.
and that unless they could palm of fair slice
thereof upon the Germans, they would be foolish
10 make further sacrifices 10 their Russian allies,
especially as the latter have only shown them
selves ready TO grasp the ever outsretchcd hand
| lust when IL suited their book TO do So