Paris, June 12.
This year the Parisian art students deserted the Latin Quarter for the moment and held their "Bal des Quatz'? Arts' at Luna Park, just outside the Porte Maillot. This ball is supposed to be reserved for students, so far as men are concerned. For the other sex there is more latitude, provide oF course peri has a well established ne can pass muster as a reputation for impropriety that have frequently heard highly respectable but modern _married ladies express a strong desire to be present and see for themselves what goes on, so as to be able to tell their friends about it—n desire which is immediately discouraged in every possible way by their male belongings.
The ball is not such an orgy as it hug been made out to be. It is a revel of youth and Gallic high spirits t which do not take the form recognized among Anglo-Saxons. Speech and gesture are very per sonal, to say the least, and clothing is scanty, but in this latter respect the models one sees at the Quartz'Arts do not go much further than the ornaments of our modern silens in their latest Parisian evening gowns.
'This year the Quatz' Arts ball was supposed to represent the revols of old Carthage, and everyone was required to wear a costume that could pass muster as Carthninian. Though the lords _and warriors Were wonderfully attired, the priestesses and dancing girls! and the devotees of the Carthaginian equivalents for the Roman Venus and the Greek Aphrodite were even more wonderful. Their costumes were as rich as they were scanty. Veils of every hue under the rainbow, and in many cases combining them all, formed the most substantial part of some of the dresses.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.