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men's buttonholes and at the horses ears how the ladies would be dressed. Julie (we have named most of them) did not look as well in her new frock of black gauze and scarlet as she sometimes does in her peignoirs - but Zöe looked perfectly lovely in the most fascinating pale blue and white-striped surah and a flat hat with white ostrich feathers around the brim and black velvet bows. She always looks like a lady. One of them was in straw-colored surah with hat and shoes same color. And one had black gauze trimmed with rows of pale green satin ribbon V neck only gauze over her arms and black and green parasol and hat. Some of them are in white silk and it is a cold cloudy day. The carriages are most of them low victorias entirely open. Suppose it rains!
   
These ladies spend a great deal of time at their balconies and we cant help watching them. The other day May took a photograph unbeknownst. Indeed one cannot be as much shocked at them here as at home. They are sugary and childish - and seem as irresponsible as their poodles. 

What do you think of my going to the opera with Dr Bacon! Was'nt that 'sport' as Sallie would say. He appeared to think nothing of it at all. It only cost us 60 cts apiece and May he and I went. I thought it would be a great omission to leave Paris without seeing that wonderful place, the opera house. And the opera in its highest developement and then I'd know what it was. It was l'Africaine by Meyerbeer and anything

Transcription Notes:
surah: woven twill fabric