PARISIAN CHIT-CHAT.

Kumara Times, Issue 916, 6 September 1879, Page 4

PARISIAN CHIT-CHAT.

Paris, June 7.

At present a great many ladies fill the public eye by their misfortunes and their caprices. The actress, Sarah Bernhardt, is a kind of “Joan” of all trades, and would allow one of her little fingers to be cut off rather than be passed over by the newspapers ; as an actress, above all in Racine’s plays, because they are moat feminine, she is superb, inimitable. She finds in that author a new charm, as Rachel discovered a fresh shudder in Corneille. Yet she dislikes this success Ingress ranked his knowledge of the violin above his talents of painter. Sarah Bernhardt is ambitious of distinction in sculpture, painting, and journalism. She loves ballooning because it is eccentric ; she fences like a trooper, and is said to equal that personage in another proverbial accomplishment. She is the daughter of a Havre lawyer and a Dutch mother, a Jewess by birth, but a Christain by baptism. Her beginnings were very severe, and managers refused to employ her, but she never became discouraged. She is also remarkable for her serpentine gait. Her house is one of the moat luxuriously fitted up in Paris. Ordinarily, she rises at five in the morning, and like Rosa Bonheur, dresses in flannel-pattern male attire ; in her bedroom, hung with black satin, is her coffin, covered with black velvet; formerly she slept in this. In a room off her bedchamber is a real skele ton, leaning forward regarding apparently, a lamp, which burns day and night. The Princess de Bauffrement is famous for her lawsuit, extending over several years, with her husband. She became Gorman ih order to remain at Roumania, as the French law, while according a separation, does not sanction divorce ; as she declined to place her daughters in the convent designed by the Court, in order to be educated, she has been mulcted in a daily fine ef 1000 francs for her disobedience, and her property in France has been placed under sequestration ; her husband, a bold, bad man, is endeavoring to now seize her property in Belgium. The Count de Misnessy is at law with his lady. He alleges that the “voices” order him to bring up all his daughters as nuns. He has done so with respect to three, but the Countess objects to the remaining two going to a nunnery. Then I'vt! 8 the Princess de Monaco, sister of the Duke of Hamilton, who was forced by her guardian and relative, Napoleon ill., to marry against her will. All the matches made by the Empress and her husband have the reputation of having \rZ e t?L h f ly U The Prince3s »» a *ay d maßter ,hree months after the wedding, and, since, she has been trying to escape from him with her child. I once travelled in the same JESS thi *' y°«°g from Calais toJt'ana, where she was coming to school and a more gentle, innocent creature I never encountered. The ex-Queen of fepain has been forced to sell her jewels. Ine pearls and sapphires were relativi 1, inore beautiful than the diamonds—the latter were not well set, and many of the stones were ill-cub.