The times., 1898-10-30
Round the Clock in the Gay
and Giddy Capital.
FOLLY AND FRIyoLITY
What the Fashionable Folks Do for
Their Amusement Hour by Hour
From One Early Morning Until the
Ncxt-The Early Risers Meet Those
That Is Cosmopolitan.

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/ THE early morning phase OF Paris life is
worth studying. From to 10 o'clock Paris
! is the briskest city in the world. AS
early as 8 O'Clock main thoroughfares are
alive with the peasants carts laden with
vegetables or poultry, all going toward
| the Central Markets. man drives and
woman sits beside him. a dog, full of his
| own Importance, is perched on the noun
| tain of farm produce. or perhaps on the
| drivers footboard. The dog has a seri-
Gus function 10 discharge. and he knows
! it. While his master and mistress look
out FOR customers or sell, he is TO stand
behind the cart and keep off individuals
who might loot It, One often sees wo-
| man only on the box, in which case the
dog sits on his hams beside her. She is
either widow or has a sickly husband.
and has stepped into his place. Toward
| $50 the streams of traffic from the coun-
try fill the streets with noise. At that
hour also workmen hurry, in the long
| days, to the places where they hope to
find employment or have found it. The
! morning papers are already out and being
hawked in populous thoroughfares.
'.At o'clock the suburban trains and
railways throw into circulation thou
sands of workgirls of the better sort.
They are CHEEKY chattering beings. one
| notices the neat attire SO well betting
their station in its simplicity. They are
| early risers, and the morning air exhila-
| rates them. Young ouvriers are brisk,
| but do not show the joyous liveliness of
the young ouvriere. Hope Is very act
| i've principle in the latter when she Is at
| all good looking. Between and o'clock
another interesting sight Is the cuisines
! in hooks and corners in such streets as
the Rue Montmartre. Stoves are there
set up in doorways sheds just large
enough for the cooking apparatus and
the cook. Hot broth. black coffee, cafe
au lait, chocolate, and hot milk are rap
| idly served at these places with bread
| One really has the worth of ones money.
| But one has to take the rejection stand
| ing in the street.
Later in the day more substantial food
is vended at these stoves. Thousands, and
not the poorest. profit by them. In
frosty weather the fried potatoes, burn
ing hot, are most savory. That is the
time for hot chestnuts, which are also
roasted in hooks, corners, and doorways.
! The chestnut roasters are from the Can
ton of Ticino. Going west at in the
morning. one sees enthusiasts of the
wheel spinning along in shoals The
wheel fiattens down class distinctions.
One could detect an aristocratic some
thing in a due driving a dog cart or a
duchesse handling the ribbons of team
of ponies. But dues and shop assistants
on cycles are six of one and half dozen
of the other Lord Dufferin. when am
bassador here, was an early rider and a
good cyclist.
"Equestrians and amazons are less
| numerous in the Bois than before the
cycle and motor car became the rage
The latter pestilential vehicle. to these
behind it, is now the fashion. Sti there
are many equestrians of both sexes in
the Bois when lie tout Paris is not out
of town. When it is one must not show
ones self horseback there. Mile.
Marsy however rides in the morning at
all seasons when she has theatrical en-
gagements. Her stud is famous. She is
a star of the Longchamps course. The
riding habit brings out her points. NJ.
Felix Faure spends the best part of TIE
Summer in the country. But when in
town he goes nearly every morning 10
ride in the Bois He scarcely minds bad
weather. When it rains he is not mo5bed
by cyclists and chased by ladies' who
drive motor cars. The motor car is
taken up now as sport by fashionable
women.
Between Il and / o'clock Paris
lunches No woman of style dresses
before luncheon. Her toilet has a Eur-
ried air The clothes are plain and con-
venient; they would not be cut of
place on the top Of a tramcar At 3
some ladies begin to think of war paint.
But the toilet de vile is far from luxu
rious. No lady of great preteEsions now
promenades with trailing six or satin
skirts in the Champs Elysees, and
man servant walking behind her. Nine.
Faure, in her walks in the B5is, Is one
of the few who remind us of the ein-
pire, but she shows a strong sense of
her own Importance. The valet in at
tendance is as majestic as the mistress.
..'The toilet de vile may be mannish.
with. however, a fashionably cut skirt
II is good to wear at a Sorbonne lecture.
in running through the Louvre galleries.
or in making call on the other side of
the Rue de Rivoli-Cote de Jardn, as
they say in the theaters. Art solicits the
fashionable elegante on one side of the
street and nature on the other. The half
mannish attire is also good for visit to
the chiro-mancienne or the cartcman-
cienne Mater familias. with blooming
daughters under her wing should on no
account take them to these pythonesses
The professional peerer into futurity is
too often the excuse for going into houses
that are not visitable.
Society in Paris Is no longer French
but cosmopolitan. 1t takes. however
French veneering The units composing
ii live for pleasure only, and their epi-
curean standard is not high. The
wealthiest are here today and away to-
morrow. They are not subjected to the
control of public opinion. Besides, in
Paris. and the seaside and Mediterranean
pleasure or health resorts. nobody who
spends money freely and avoids noisy
scandals is ever censured. Society has
immensely widened since the empire, thus
increasing the area of corruption 1t has
become more cynical. Thus a young |
duchesse might now. without shocking |
anyone. talk of her frequent visits to the
cartomancienne. There was some social |
disapproval expressed lately at a surprise |
party on American lines being paid to a |
fortune teller. AS there are always fur +,
nished rooms to let in the houses where !
the sorceress dwells. the unwary mater |
familias should be careful not TO hire |
them. beautiful stranger should on no |
account consult a fortune teller in Paris. |
To do so might render her liable to dis |
honoring Introduction.
AT O'Clock dress and manners change. |
though not in the bourgeois monde, |
where few ever dress for a family or |
friendly dinner. But in the monde shoul- |
ders are barred. hair is dressed by a pro-
fessional coiffeur, and beautifully euuip- !
ped for conquest. The manner and speech |
are less free than from or 3 to 5. The |
husband is a free man throughout the
day. He is his wife's slave from until !
her social evening circuit is accomplished. |
This round may include some gala dinner |