Paris, Aug. 21.
All Paris is now at Deauville—that is to say, all the Paris that is supposed to count. The rest of the world is also represented by a mixture of aristocrats, new rich and theatrical and other celebrities whose livelihood depends on keeping up appearances in the accepted manner. One cannot walk fifty yards in Deauville without running into a duke or a princess or a commercial king of some sort or somebody who has to be seen here in the company of these uncrowned royalties. The Deauville season cannot be said to last more than four weeks, and of these there is only one, the present, that is really important from the social point of view. This is the time when mil-bonaires sleep on board their yachts and semi-millionaires metaphorically beg, with their hands. full of bank-notes, for accommodation at the hotels. Money seems to be no consideration whatever at Deauville. To all intents and purposes a five-frane note is the smallest available legal tender.
The only exception to the rule is on the ferry boat that plies between Deauville and its dethroned predecessor Trouville. This trip! costs two sous when the tide is up. When it is down, and_passengers have to walk part of the way on duck-boards over the ulud, the rate is reduced to one sou. There can be very few things in the world that can still be had for a farthing, which is about the present value of a French sou, and Deauville is hardly the place in which anyone' would have begun to look for such a rarity. As a contrast we have the revelation of a Paris milliner, who stated in a burst of confidence that some of her customers had spent fifty thousand frances on hats for Deauville alone, and that one of these ladies estimated her needs at four new hats every day.
Fasnion's Fine Fearners:
The racecourse is a blaze of colour like a vast flower-bed. Hundreds of women have adopted the enclosure as the one place in which they can satisfactorily display dresses of the very latest style and of the very finest and most expensive materials, in whites and brilliant yellows, in brick _reds and deep' sea blues, with long cloaks falling closely round the figure, with hats so large as to make sunshades unnecessary. Miany of. these super-summer gowns were! trimmed with monkey fur, used in accordance with the principle that has produced velvet hats in summer instead of winter. They tell the world at large that to be really) fashionable a woman must be in, advance of the seasons, because this is one of the ways of distinguishing her from the vast crowd of!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.