Arizona republican., 1898-11-29
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from the trammelS Of SOmDer attEe. In future, we are told, he is to adorn his dress suits with elaborataly en- broidered or gayly colored revers, and thus put an end to the not infrequent fate of being taken for a wai',er by in discriminating fellow guests at supper parties or exclusive functions. In Paris and London tailOrs arc already build ing the new dress suits Tn considerable quantities A disadvantage, however, is that the innovation suggested would be more extrayagari. than the plain style at present iI, vogue, and which suits the average pocket better than the lace and ruff1es of a couple of gen eratiOnS back.
 There are many people with seem ingly well balanced minds who argue not only the economic justice but the morality oi suicide. When life is not worth living, when never Q cloud has silver lining, why, they ask, should not the unfortunate, weary Of breath "shuf- fle off this mortal cOil?" These, at least, were the thoughts Of a well dress ed Frenchmdn who threw himself from the parapet of q bridge over the Seine near the Place de Ia Concorde. \ work man who witnessed the rash act" jumped into the river and dragged him
 
 to shore he began to abuse his rescuer in the most violent manner. What" he cried, has q man no longer the right to drown himself if he vans to? What business have you to interfere with other peoples affairs?" The work man could not get in word, and thinking him insane he turned him over to policeman. When taken be- fore the commissaire 1t was found that he was a civil engineer, ard that pow erty had driven him to thoughts of sui eide. He had q little girl depending on him, and had only 10 cents in the world.
 What with the Fashoda business. the Dreyfus affair, the communist agita- tion, the alleged military plot, and the conspiring of Nap0leonists and Bour- bons, France undoubtedly has been passing through perilous times. But the republic still lives and seems des- tined to last Coups d'etat, revolu- tions, and barricades are apparently things of the past, and though Paris will have her ferments the government will endure. The chief trouble, writes q correspondents, caused since the IouH- datiOn of the third republic came from the dynamfters and from the perpetual
  throwing over ministry alter ministry. Boulanger, who had chance Of chang ing the government by a "coup detat, lacked Ghe courage of Louis Napoleon and had no daring men around him CT tle stamp Of De Morny and St. Armand Neither do any of the French generals on active service want to bring about an upheaval The due d'Orleans may be inclined to act if he sees a good chance. but nothing of the kind is like ly to be offered to him unless France were again defeated in a big war As to the other pretander, Prince Victor Napoleon. he has contracted a nor ganatic marriage with the lady Of his choice. and he is satisfied to live in peace and quietness at Brussels, in Moncalieri, or Rome, according to the season.
 The blackmaiIing record has been ec1ipsed by Mime. Brucks of Munich. the divorced wife of Count Yon Lar isch- -Moenich and the morgonatic daughter of Duke Louis Of Bavaria, brother Of l.he late emperor of Austria, by a Jewish actress. Mime. Brucks, after her divorce from the count, mar ried an actor, and her blackmailing consists in publishing, or threatening to publish, a novel called "A Royal Story She has already, it is said, re- ceived $50000 by way of hush money from the royal personages who are in terested in keeping her pen quiet, but she wants more
 The American scribbler of fashion able inanities and -oadying personali- ties is justly a subject of comment and ridicule, but the Jenkins of the London Daily Mail, in particularly Of descrip- tion and familiarity of phrase, leaves him in cutter darkness Here, in part, is what he says about the recent open ing of skating rink called Niagara '' Any commen. would detract from it's picturesouene and completeness:
 Lady Coke, than whom TO more graceful skater can be found, was upon the ice, skimming about in bird-like flights; Lady Florence BOurka, another habitue, was iE. gray, with violets in her toque, and skated with great en- ergy; Miss Call was there, in her best form, and looked charming in red skirt with a blouse of cherry-colored silk. and a ,oque that matched it in shade, and Mrs. Jimmy" Davies was neatness itself, il a striking dress o. chestnut brown velvet with boat shaped hat to match, smartiy curved at thc sides. Lord Clanricarde was pl- rouetting in the center, working sedu- lously at his favCrite figure, and MT. Beresford. Freddy and Henry Cues, and Lord Alwyn Compton were among the usual dextrous skaters.
 Pretty little Mrs. Ralli, who has been seen so rarely of late on account Of her mourning, was one Of those who had tea in the new room at large table, which was presided over by Hwfa Williams himself; and no one looked prettier than Mrs. Cyril Marti- neau, who came with her husband, and who had relieved her mourning by wearing 9 black and white checked re- vers to her little black coat. Miss Bridget Bulkeley was not skating, but she put in an appearance for little While.'