The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1???-19??, 1895-09-01
Communicated.
PARIS, August II, 1895.

glimpse into heaven; or, maybe, like
the old negro said when I got my
eye lashes, brows and face all pow
der burned, "a peep at hell" Really,
it is not worth while to come here
unless one has lots of time and a
barrel of money. Our party broke
up here on arrival from Bremen, and
I have done Paris alone, except for
an occasional acquaintance. Having
spent a summer here IN the long
ago, there was nothing left to me
but the shops and good time. After
look IN on the galleries
of. the Louvre-the grand
and beautiful Madeline took up
the shops, and the millions of beau
tIful things seen have simply be-
wildered me. The dresses already
completed at the women's tallors',
the wraps, the world of enormous
hats, with top heavy assortments of
bows, flowers and feathers loaded
upon them, the fabrics for dresses,
all so bright, so ovel and SO beauti-
ful, have just simply knocked me
silly. I have vague kind of mem
ory of it ala kaleidoscope vision,
as it were-an impression like one
had from listening to Neely's SER
mons or Lamar's grand impassioned
efforts in his earlier days. All / can
say is this: the hats are large,
broad-brimmed, simply loaded with
futed light stuff, great forms of rib
bon, flowers or feathers, sometimes
all, until a hat seems like New
York summer roof garden. Another
thing: while the English women
wear their hair in enormous puffs,
futed, or in one big chIgnen, as 1T
were, the French wear theirs in
tumble down fashion-that IS, kind
of plated and coiled behind, but
very loose and about to fall down all
the time, but doesn't, don't you
knowH Of course this description is
not technical, and / hope none of
your readers will endeavor to make
up by it. The women here have
enormous suits of hair, and so black.
Lots of them have small moustaches
and old ladies almost a beard. l
have used my French for all 1t is
worth, ard the sentences have con-
structed would make old Ollerdorf
turn over in his grave. I have had
lots of fun with 1t, though I do not
mean to convey the idea that have
had it all, for I have made many
smlles for the other fellows. Good
living here is about as dear as IN
England. The cheap is bad,
as it is every where in the world
really not worth having. Beer costs
about the same as in New York, FIVE
cents a glass; brandy five and ten
cents a glass, wines the same, and
champagnes, the best grades, 81 to
$2a a bottle. Oh, but it's good,
and in this climate one can keep half
full all the time, perfectly obllvIous
of his troubles, get up the next morn-
ing as fresh as a daisy and go right
along. The American bar Is here,as
in England. In fact it has many
drinks I never heard of before. For
instance, ''Maiden's Blush" ''John
Collins" s'Santa Cras Swizzle," !"
''Leave it to Me- and "Heap of
Comfort" The last two, it is need
less to mention, have as their princi-
pal ingredients good old whIskey.
The bars here are tended by men,
and not so numerously attended as
in England, because there pretty
girls mix the drinks, and the boys
are always about. In fact, our party
had favorIte bar in London. and
she was a beauty-had sense like a
horse. The bars over there are pat
ronized by women also. They uF
and order their ale or Scotch and
water just as the men do, and 1T is the
proper thing to ask the whole party
in for a drink, whether all men OIL
mixed.
Last night went to a concert gar.
den called Moutin Rouge, one
of the best of its kind in Paris. Il
was filed to oqsrtiowing, but the pro