THE WAYS OF THE PARIS DEMI' MONDE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8082, 24 September 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE WAYS OF THE PARIS DEMI' MONDE.

Parisian women of light character are generally considered to be mercenary persons, and sentimentality is hardly ever supposed to enter into their composition, yet the ways of some of them are curious to contemplate. Only the other day one of them married a mountebank, and another of them shot herself through disappointed love, just as a third asphyxiated herself from the same motive a few years ago in the Rue de Richelieu. The latest victim to the pangs of unrequited affection is a person named Fierson, who was 24 years old, lived in a stylish apartment in the notorious Quartier de l'Europe, and was an assiduous frequenter of the Bois and Clubs, the circuases, the nocturnal caf£s, and other rendezvous of what is known as la haute noce. The woman, who had been abandoned by her protector for some weeks, sent her servant out with letters which were directed to her mother and sister. When the bonne returned she found her mistress lying dead on her bed, with a smoking revolver by her side. The unfortunate creature had fired into her mouth, and the bullet, passing through her palate, lodged in the akull,— Jfetascwh*