The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-07-22
pornographic innuendoes Openly sumo

pornographic innuendoes openly SUM
on the Partisan variety stage 10 .dav.
TO doubt there ware lines ia tn,
songs OF lie Colonel and other sung
so charmingly by Judic and Theo thai
would not be considered quite the
proper thing in young ladies' board
ing school, but most of the songs nov
sung w tn such brazen eff ontery a,
the Ambassadeurs, the Voala and the
hlcazar, II not as offensive in word an
Those sung before male crowd at tn,
cider cellars and the coal-hole IN
the days OF dear old Col pendennis
are even more corrupt by implication
ana still more unfit TO come before
New York audience of any society OF
circle.
we need not, it is true. occupy our.
selves with the marvels Of foreign
cities, any more than need the Jella
oys OF the missionary craze when they
nave savages in the slums of their owr
land. Hamburg's pollutions made il
necessary for our sanitary officers tt
ward oil the CHOLERA bacillus. SO, the
chanSonette bacillus, having in the
last two wears found its way into New
York, 1T is only right to expose itsir
its foul reality, now that it is re
celved into the Vaudeville Club, anc
later, perhaps, into New York drawing
rooms.
The French language is less spoken
in New York than in any metropolis.
in the civilized world The Admira
and his officers of the Arethuse, sc
lately feted here, expressed their as
constituent at the ignorance of tht
langu &c and the difficulty found il
conversation with the majority of cul
tivated Americans. The cri icism il,
just, though funny, coming from
fr nchmen, VINO VIGOROUSLY give
themselves less trouble than any ma.
ton to learn foreign languages.
The fact is that French having foi
centuries been the Ian yuage OF courts
and diplomacy, the French have found
it easier TO find fore gne,s MAX ne
themselves understood in French thar
it was to try to make themselves un
derstood in English or German. J
have met Frenchmen who have beer
residents for twenty years in foreign
land with the baress vocabulary o.
their adopted country and pronun
citation like parrot with impediments
in his speech.
But all the same, as q rule New
Workers do not know much French.
Then, again, there is no language ir
which slang seem SO prolific. Eve, '
year in Paris adds To- the vocabulary
of the street, the stage and the studio,
What was lion" in the time of Louis
Philippe becomes 'gandin" in the
Napoleoaic Republic, a petit
creve" under Napoleon Ill, a
'gommeux" later on, and sc
on, so that not only had Pari,
sian to know the new slang, but tc
forget the old. On this account it is
possible to introduce into the song OF
the day many expressions and many
forms of speech not only misunder.
stood by the provincial visitor 10 Paris.
but incomprehensible to the foreign.
ers who do not know the language OF
the boulevard, which is as different
from pure Noel and Chap,al as White
House oratory is from Bowery thiefs
lexic)n.
TO say that this 81 ger or that
among the Fougeres, the Bordeaux.
the l'ompons and others who have in
vaded our variety halls, is better or
worse than wet c Guilbert, now the
recognized planet Of French chanson'
cite singers, does no, affect the ques.
ton. When the committee of the
Vaudeville invite Mile. Cochonnette,
OF whatever her name was. to sing be.
fore the maids and IN irons OF the
400" it i, presumable that they them
selves had Int lie real knowledge of the
incoming of much that was sung, but
none the less was it heir duty to find
out from some competent individual!
whether the songs were tit for publ
cItion before any female audience in
New 70 k, whether understood by IL
or not.
The same feeling that inspires any
man of honor with dislike to seeing
woman of known ill-fame in the
same restaurant or conveyance with
his own female relatives should make
him blush if he hears offensive words
used in their presence, even II tn" w.
port Of such words falls unhe.ded on
their ears.
Go nto any of New York's best
known variety halls when French
singer is On omit ar, uercttc who's
or ginal fun is quits sutfici mt e. ia
sure success, W tn nut resorting to ltn.
uuarc at all and tn re you will lind
that to that large class of Amcri ans
and Germans who do not understand
the verses ~ t't
PR their benefit. while the few French
who are present snicker and nudge
each other in Unsurpassed laughter
while the frequent Obs testify TO
the indecencies delivered in the most
open way t. the delighted listeners
Ev,rv one knows how lNette came
over To London last season TO sing at n
stag party in one OF TIL finest
houses in Belgravc square. Ladies
were not invited. l'oor cau'c.
do not wish to pose as Letter than
my neigh Dor have roared over farces
at the Palais Royal and laughed at
many an after, dinner story in which
wit was palliative for questionable
taste, but the Fren n song of the pres
ent day. as song by ivette Guilbert
and repeat ID by all her followers is
nauseous. as well as indecent. The
prettier the woman, the more offensive
the thing bee mes to nv mind, and
like 10 believe that modesty is stu a
virtue in all society.
The Throw Him Down McClo,kies.
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