OUR PARIS LETTER.

Evening Star, Issue 3965, 9 November 1875, Page 3

OUR PARIS LETTER.

{Concluded.) Respecting visitors they were never more numerous than .it present; no less thin six four-m-hif us leave town every morning to m ike the jonruey around the most interesting parts of t the sub'iib;j, all full inside and outside ; the drivers must 1 e becoming men of property, as every day they lend their jjazad hats to be sent round at the moment when passengers are in the gushing mood and small contributions are not general. Cut what a pity the lady visitors cannot lliow off to advantage thdr toilettes ; the materials are rich und costly, but all are cast into the shade the moment an ordinarily dres-tod lady passes by. Why not place themselves for nnco only unreservedly in the hands of a French modiste ; it is interfering with her that leads to sti'th sad b.eaking - down in point of taste. Ladi'S occasionally persist in following the latest fashions, totally regardless of its individual suitability. At the present moment the matter is ioi: ortant, where plaids and plain tissues require so much judgment to be mixed. Ne/er ler, the squares be too large, nor the colors too gla-ri ;_'. The plaid pattern over a plain jupon, in dilferent shades, is very elegant, and a r . p.esent also made to lie useful robes Cashmere and are materials generally worn ; a uv.ifo.m silk dress is hardly tw be met with—it now only forms the jupon. Jec is very much wont, as also galoe.n in various designs, mixed with silver, ; teel, and gol!. White beaver hats a e trimmed with corresponding jet; thfhals a. e Hower-jiot or Tyrolian, and are tilled with flowers and fiuits ; but the most lady-like trimming will ever be found ingrapis _ The coarse straw hat, trimmed with the richtst laee, a muslin scarf, or an Algerian ganze, has luore than tvert is geod fir travelling ; the pouch, and Joan of Arc belt, with ribbon iuterlacings, continue to be in favor, an nlso the cnirasse corsage and the Bulgare pnlf. It in said that there are no more obi ladies now-a-days, any morelhari thtie are childrm, the latter arc so precociuusand tho former so rejuvenated by the dress-

maker, the perfumer, and the dentist; cer, tainly white or grey bair is becoming a vanity with Indies on the shady side of fifty ; absorbed in so many anxieties to inftke heiself young, the old lady is rapidly losing hur acquired char.icter of being amiable, a charming en wan', and a wise counsellor, and yet if history be not unaligned, the most influential and respected women have ever been old ladies. One young-looking lady is about disappearing, f the wan-faced dauuel that represented the Republic in tho postage stamps. Jnstead of one, there will br henceforth two dear creatures supporting a globethe demoiselles Atlas-on which will be engraved a large figure representing the value of the stamp. It is an illustration of how the more one changes things in France the more they re main the same Bad as the Napoleon family is now held by many, the country is not wholly ungrateful; thus, the tomb of the First Napoleon—it will be a long while before- the nation e.ects a statue to the Third—is to be covered with a glass screen ; to have all its beauties scanned, instead of the present close I iron railing. m As we can never get on without some kind of rowing, the most troublesome Home question is—not employing Bouviers to forge indictments against Republicans and applauding the functionaries for being tricked but the struggle between the tram carß and the cabs ; the latter will not keep off the rails, despite blasts from horns, suggesting the trumpets of the Last Day. This would be n > harm if the public were not run over, or passengers left in the train pending that the driver runs after a butcher's cart or a cab : policemen, generously cone to the aid, and drive the train to the nearest bureau. There is an agitation on foot to reduc* the salaries of actre.ses who are ranked as stars, so exorbitant have become their demands, that while they roll in luxuries, managers are packing up for tue Bankrupt Court. \he chijfonuiers have duly honored the anniversary of their old chief; thH "scavengers" are to give a Billy O'Uourke's banquet to theirs.