A CHANGE OF TASTE.
The amatory tastes of the youthful Gauls (says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph) are rather peculiar. Parisian dandies have lately taken to paying their addresses to elderly dames who are what is called bien conservees, while youthful beauties are rather left out in the cold. The belle who is bien conserved may be 50 or 60 ; in fact, the older the better, provided that the wig fits on well and that the ralelier has been pub in its place by an experienced dentist. A countess who is not at all old was lately asked why she persisted in giving herself rather an antiquated appear ance Her reply was characteristic of the time. " Mon cner, I do so to teach the young fellows better. If I fail to do so, they would all run after that horrible old hag of a barortne, who is sixty-five if she is a day."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8986, 25 February 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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