Paris herself again in 1878-9 . A PAETIE CAEEEE AT -\ BOULEVAED RESTAURANT, IX THE TEMPLE. 211. DEBABDEURS AT THE BAL DE LOPERA (BY CHAM). costume of the debardeur, a costume which may be said to haveexpired with its tasteful illustrator, the incomparable audacious garments tell their own story, but I may hintthat when a maillot suit of fleshings is padded, it is technicallyknown as a confortable. The Carnival is coming; the maskedballs at the Opera and other Parisian theatres will speedily set in;and ere many weeks are over a vast number of young personswho ought to know better
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . A PAETIE CAEEEE AT -\ BOULEVAED RESTAURANT, IX THE TEMPLE. 211. DEBABDEURS AT THE BAL DE LOPERA (BY CHAM). costume of the debardeur, a costume which may be said to haveexpired with its tasteful illustrator, the incomparable audacious garments tell their own story, but I may hintthat when a maillot suit of fleshings is padded, it is technicallyknown as a confortable. The Carnival is coming; the maskedballs at the Opera and other Parisian theatres will speedily set in;and ere many weeks are over a vast number of young personswho ought to know better will be capering about in the pink andsky-blue satin trunks and tights long after the hour when theyshould be in bed. The restaurateurs of the Boulevards will bedoing a roaring trade ; and the jeuncsse doree of the period willsquander, in rather dull and monotonous dissipation, large sumsof their own, or of other peoples money. At present the mas-querading trumpery on the secondhand clothes stalls of the Templelooks grim. Pierrots white sleeves are smirched with claret stains,or dinted with
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