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The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1865., [Electronic resource], A Carnival ball in Paris. (search)
lace bands — the whole trimmed in the purest style with flat pearl beads; a narrow ribbon of exactly the same shade, dotted with pearls, tied around the neck, with long floating ends; three rows of the same ribbon, with pearls, in her hair, which was dressed with light curls. During Lent, a succession of brilliant concerts will be given at the Tuileries and at the Hotel de Ville. In fact, there is no real cessation of entertainments during the Lenten season, except among very devout Catholics. The beau monde continues its gay career until Holy Week, when a general feeling of remorse and penitence seizes upon it, and it cries "dust and ashes" for a whole week, recommencing with Easter Monday the distractions essential to its very existence.--American society has all winter had no salon of reunion to replace that in which Mrs. Dayton welcomed her guests with so much distinction and kindness, and which will always be remembered as the most agreeable soirees ever given at the Amer