THE CULTURED PARISIENNE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 120, 13 February 1908, Page 3

THE CULTURED PARISIENNE.

; This all-important question of clothes gives u S] all a great deal to think of, and quite rightly up to a certain point ; but it is pleasant ,to know, that .oven in Paris' the home:; of frivolity, it .does not .quite 'overwhelm the culture of, the .mind on other subjects.;; It' is,, however,, not generally known that-one of th^ favourite amusements of tho I arisienne, . and ; one least followed by the foreigner, is that of - attending lectures 1 Every, day 'there are three' or four given in Pans; on. subjects, grave, and gay, and every day the Frenchwoman looks, at'her;paper to ;C.ho°so which she : shall go -to . if she can possibly find time. Sometimes it is to hear a dissertation on a minor poet,' followed by recitations, of .his pooms, but: more often it is. to follow a,.course of. historical, artistic or. solid;problem,. and,;always,> ali ways, .it-.is..well done:; for'the Frenchman and.-nowadays tho' Frenchwoman, is a keim critic, and at 'a . modern Frenchwoman's at-home ..to-day tho stranger within her gates, is" often' surprised. to. hear . ' from a pretty,., artificial-looking ' woman's '..lips fan analysis of some play, book, or burning question which is suggestive of a mind tho very reverse ,of her - appearance. Thus proving oiico.more that outward .appearances aro deceptive. '. '