The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-05
GOSSIP FROM PARIS.
Miss Glider Writes of Partisan
Clothes, Tips and Types.

If we don't do something to make New
York more attractive" said he, I'VE shall
have no milliOnaires there to spend their
money. They are Just the people who can
afford to live in New York, and they are
Just the people who are shaking its dust
from their heels.
They are over here in shoals" he con-
tinued, Besides Willie Aston, who has
burned his ships behind him and made
England his home; there is w. K. Van
derbllt, who has country house in Eng
land, and has just taken three years
lease of hotel in Paris. And George
Gould-you know about George Gould2"
No, didn't.
George Gould is now hand-in-glove
with the Prince of Wales; you know what
that means! George knows, too; but he
is willing, even anxious, to pay a high
price for the friendship of prince. He,
too, is going TO have house in England,
and with H. r. H. as his sponsor he will
get all he wants in the way of social dis
tinction. And the Gould girls-you have
heard all about them?'
Again l had to confess my ignorance.
They are in Paris now, and all the i'm
pecunious titles in France are at their
feet"
Il hope that they will crush them"
We'll, they did crush one pretty effec-
tually, duke al that, and a man with
no end of pedigree, but an exhausted
eXchequer. He was given the sack as
soon as his intentions became known,
and that was pretty soon after he got
an introduction. l never saw so many
Americans in Paris before in my life
New York must do something to hold her
millionaires, or they will all be living in
England or France before long"
| had not been in Paris many days be-
fore l realized the truth of what my
American friend had said. What can
New York offer in the way of outside
attractions Look at her noisy streets,
see the filth of all but the principal
thoroughfares! We have a beautiful
park, but what pleasure is there in being
ratified over stone pavements to get to it?
Look at the beautiful wide boulevards
of Paris, lined with trees and bordered
by grass What have we to compare
with the Champs Elysee? 1t may be said
that Fifth avenue could not be so wide,
owing to the narrowness of the island
but does that excuse the stone pavements
and the dlsgraceful stages that run up
and down its length2 Very little is done
to beauJify New York. Everything is
done TO beautify Paris. The Parisians
like beauty themselves, and they are
clever enough to know that it attracts
people to their city, and people who spend
money in their shops.
would not live in Paris, but l like to
visit it, and so do others. For francs and
a few sous to the driver, you can drive up
the Champs Elysee, and up and down
the avenues of the Bots; and what sights
you see! Some that you would rather be
spared, but then, in Paris nothing shocks
because nothing surprises you. Whatan
endless procession of carriages and cabs
of all sorts and conditions in the Bots
The less said of the occupants of some of
he hot hut 4 4 81,
gayety OF the scene. There, women are
terribly made up" but beautifully
dressed. How entirely unlike the fash
ions of English women! You see no
buns hanging at the necks of these wo-
men. Their hair is done up fairly high
on their heads, and their hats
are set square upon it. Many
of them wear white wells with
large figures worked in them; others are
unveiled, except by paint Some are
young and pretty; others old, ugly and
brazen. Many of them have little child
rem in the carriages with them-poor lit
tie things, rugged out in silks and feath-
ers, looking as artificial as the women by
whose side they sit. It's strange show,
I'm glad we don't have that, though it
is as much a part of Paris as the boule-
wards and the fountains. / wish we had
them.
Why do you live in Paris2'' I asked
another American whom l met
Because my income is limited, and
can get so much in the way of amuse-
ment for my money. There is
always something to do, and my nerves
are not kept on edge as they are in New
York .
why not in London"
II can't stand the Sundays In London
on Sunday all a man can do by way of
amusement is to go to church in the
morning and to pub IN the evening.
Prayer and drink is all that is offered
him. Here l can get the theater and
three or four concerts in a day"
| admitted that there was much truth
in what he said, but, though am no
Puritan, prefer the English Sunday
Setting religion aside. it is good to have
one day of rest in the week. 1t is exas-
perating in London sometimes, but on the
whole it means a finer race. A Sunday
in Paris differs from other days only by
being, perhaps, a little gayer, and at
night a little wilder-or, should I say
wickeder2 Bicycling has taken Paris by
storm. Not only men, but women, are
constantly spinning over the asphalt
streets. The women wear the divided
SKIRT more than any other. Some have
seen in knickerbockers and leggings At
night they carry Chinese lanterns
at the PROV, and the effect is very
gay, Most people imagine before
they go to Paris that the tardins of un-
savory fame and the cafes chantants are
of on the side streets, and are greatly
surprised to find that they are right out
in bold sight on the Champs Elysee. Dear
old Judic. whom fused TO think the most
delightful operate singer on the opera
boufe stage, is Low singing at the AL
cazar. Once the queen of opera-bouff
now cate-chantant singer, and not the
greatest attraction of the place, either.
They have new sensation in Paris. It
at the Chat Noir, and repre-
sented a young girl getting up in the
morning The Alcazar-not to be out
done-has the young girl going to bed. 1t
is very realistic, and is a much greater
attraction than Judic, with all her art.
AT the Ambessadeurs Yvette Guilbert,
fresh from her London triumphs, holds
the town. She is the most delightful
thing in Paris, / mean in her Zine" No
words can overpraise her art or grace.
She says that she has had overtures from
American managers but, oh that awful
ocean. She would be the greatest kind of
a success in New York, where every one
would laugh over her songs without quite
understanding their meaning. But they