PARIS -AN- UNRECORDED REVOLUTION IN MANNERS
[To the Editor of the SrEcremon.]
Sm,—I was much interested in Mr. Angell's article on the. Paris music halls. I, too, have recently been in Paris after a long interval, and I must confess that I was rather taken, aback at first by the complete absence of clothing in certain scenes. But I soon realized--first, that only the most beau tiful women were allowed to discard clothes (there was no general nudity) ; secondly, that it was in no way suggestive— merely a display of the human form at its best as a thing of beauty ; thirdly, that (as Mr. Angell points out) it was accepted as a matter of course, by a mixed and (for the most part) per- fectly respectable audience.
—Let us hope that the odious " tricot," or tights, which create, by emphasizing, indecency have disappeared for ever—at any rate in Paris.—I am, Sir, &c.,
PATERFAXILIML
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