GAY LIFE IN PARIS.Preface.
GAY LIFE IN PARIS.
There is an old Italian proverb, “See Naples and die,” but the French paraphrase it in a more pleasant way and say “See Paris and pray to live there until the end of the world.” It is with some of the females of Paris that we have to deal in this little book. Life in the great Metropolis is far different from the comparatively sober method of living in our American cities. A well known journalist says: “Men and women plunge intothe lovely city as into a bath of pleasure, buffet with the breakers, float a brief time on the cosy sea of life there, and are then sucked down in the dark and sinister depths where ruin, disease and death lay in wait for the prey they are sure of in the end.” Of course this writer doesn’t mean that all men and women get into the evil way, but he does mean that a greater proportion are tempted by evil in Paris than in any other place.