The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-23
SOCIETY FoRGIvEs THEM.
The Gay World OF Paris Winks at the
Misdoings OF Fashionable Women.

The Gay World OF Paris Winks at the
Misdoings OF Fashionable Women.
Lucy Hooper's Paris Letter to the 81. Louis
P0st-Dispdtch.
Mrs. Deacon's wealth, her beauty, her
social position-that last altogether unaf-
fected by many rumors that were afioat re-
speeding her-made Of her one Of the most
prominent society ladies of the American
colony. She was warmly welcomed into
its most exclusive cliques. And It is possible
that once she has obtained her divorce she
may come back and receive and be received
as usual by her former friends. For society
over here has infinite liberation for the little
escapades Of a lady OF handsome fortune,
particularly II she chances to belong to
one of our old families There are
certain drawing rooms in the Ameri-
can colony where the American mis-
tress of French nobleman and the deserted
wife Of the gentleman herself also an Amer
ican) were occasionally invited to the same
entertainments. 1t is true that the last
named lady left the room when the other
one entered it. But she was alone in her
withdrawal. The other lady guests sat
still and looked on alphabetically.
do not know il the good old custom OF
not receiving women Of improper character
Is still maintained in the social circles Of the
United States. 1 know that it is not here in
American society. have met at certain
very aristocratic houses in the American
colony women whose moral status did not
admit of possibility of doubt-creatures
the very touch of whose garments in pass
ing should have been an offense to any
honest woman. There is one elderly and
aristocratic American dame who delights in
the society of these women and is in the
habit OF taking her friends around with
her and of introducing them everywhere.
There is, in fact, too much easy tolerance
of such people among our American host
esses in Paris. Nothing, neither high
crimes and misdemeanors nor fragrant in
delicacy of conduct and appearance, avail
In the least to break down the rule Of uni
versal acceptetion. There can be imagined
no atmosphere in which a woman, pretty,
unprincipled and vain, with the seeds Of
vice lying dormant in her nature, could
find reader encouragement for the up
springing OF the evil growth than in
Partisan society, whether Franco-American
or genuinely French.
l have seen a woman of color, who was
also a woman OF most immoral life and an
tecedents, married to a western widower
whose mistress she had been for years be-
fore their union was lsgalized, the guest of
more than one of the most honorable Amer
lean families in Paris, and that long after
her history had been spread abroad A ire
mendous scandal finally put a stop to her
career as a society lady. l have known a
woman who had been divorced for the
same state of affairs that led Mr..
Deacon to shoot M. Abeille, who had
married her lover and come to Paris
to live, intrusted by one of the Lead
ing ladies of the American colony with the
chaperonage of that lady's young daughter
at French watering place. l have met
repeatedly at the leading houses of the
American colony an elderly American
woman who was living openly and I'M
disguisedly with the husband of another
woman. | could go on multiplying such
instances by the score. But / have mar
rated enough of them to show that, if Mrs.
Deacon chooses to again run with the hares
of responsibility after going hunting with
the hounds Of immortality, she can easily
manage to do SO.