Year: 1878

painted them, for you can hardly
realize for moment that they are
the work of human hands. It is
here that the genius Of women
shines out superlative and glorious,
and an hours communion in this
fairy bower brings you nearer to
nature and natures God than all
the pictures that were ever painted
on canvass or all the statues that
were ever carved in stone. It is
not only the exhibition of flowers
which is worthy Of attention, but
such a rare collection of fruits has
seldom blessed mortal eyes, purple
and golden grapes rich with the
warm bloom of the southern sun
hang in tempting clusters from the
vines, luscious plums, apricots, cher
ries and strawberries are there fresh
and bright as if just gathered from
the gardens of Hesperedes, but you
might linger here all day and never
get tired. A few steps further
brings us to a new revelation Of
art; it is the dress department.
dedicated exclusively to the glory
and adornment Of woman. It may
be the vanity of Yanities, but there
is no denying that it is very beau
tiful. It was only the other morn
ing that I went down at daylight to
the Great Central Market of Paris
to find myself in the midst Of a
race such as I had never seen be-
fore the whole place swarmed with
men and women, different in looks,
character and language from any
to be found elsewhere. These
were the men and women of the
| 5arricades. coarse, hard featured
and strong, the food on which
revolution feeds and the stalwart
arm on which communism relies. J.
looked at the women, with waists
like butter tubs and skins like tan
bark, with hoarse voices and un-
kempt heads, and remembered with
grief all the onslaughts I have made
on dressmakers and milliners away
in the olden time. I have said
many unkind things in my day
against the fellow that invented
corsets, but 7 now publicly recant.
l take it all back, and from this
time forth I shall regard him as one
of the greatest benefactors OF the
race. Oh! what waists. those mar
ket women had, what hands, what
| feet, what -; no, I viii go no
further, but if this be your natural
woman just as she was created,
give me the cultivated article. I
can swallow Worth with his enor-
nous trains, Demorest with her
founces and furbeloWs, MareFals
flowers and Donegan's corsets, but
no market woman for Joseph.


But to return, the dress exhibi-
ton is exceedingly beautiful and
tasty. If you think of going to see
it, it might be we'll to leave your
wife and your daughter at home,
for if they once get a sight Of those
ravishing toilettes-and your bal
ance at your bankers is not large
''better for you that a milestone
had been tied about your neck and
that you were drowned in the sea"
In London and New York You hear
nothing but Worth, Worth, Worth.
why there are dozens of dress-ma.
kers here exhibiting, who could
have designed an extra glory for
the robes of the Queen Of Night,
and have prepared a wedding dress
for Queen Mab~that would have
driven the fairies crazy. By all
means go and see the dress depart
ment, but as I said before, leave
your wife and your, daughter at
home. Tell them that you have the
headache or neuralgia and don't IN
tend to 60 to the Exhibition that
day, and then slip off quietly or you
are a ruined man.


Probably no place in the world
offers such superlative advantages
| to the student Of comparative ana5.
omy as Paris. Not only Hercules,
Cupid and Apollo-minus socks
and shirt collar-are constantly
staring you in the face, but Clyte
and Psyche and Venus are to be
found in every street, and mount
guard on every boulevard; they
climb up the lamp posts; they sit
on the tops of the chimneys; they
adorn the front of fashionable
houses, and kick up their heels out
of third story windows no flmy
robe, no gossamer scarf conceals
the handiwork Of nature; they are
all in that delightful simplicity of
costume which distinguished our
mother Eve before fig leaves had
corrupted her heart; its light and
airy, very airy, in fact, the convic.
ton is forced upon you that the
theory advanced by modern scien-
lists is true, and that there was an
Arcadian period, perhaps millions
OF years ago, when Paris was under
the Equator, and that the necessity
for breeches and petticoats did not
exist that exists at the present
time. All the ministers and most
of the fashionable people are now
giving a series Of grand and fash.
ionable entertainments-that OF
Mons. Waddington being one OF the
marked events Of the season. We
oro in dailv eynectation Of having 8