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At first thought it seems improbable that the
squalid wretches who can barely earn sous enough to live on, to whom
fifty cents a day are fine wages, should have a ball. But all things
are possible in Paris in the way of popular amusements. In the Rue
Mouffetard, then, near the Rue Pot de Fer, we read on the wall of a
gloomy building a yellow advertisement which is translatable thus,
literally:
GREAT HALL OF THE OLD OAK.
MOUFFETARD STREET, 69, HOUSE OF LACROSSE,
_All the Sundays, departing from the first January, up till
Fat Tuesday_.
BALL OF NIGHT!
DRESS, MASK, DISGUISE.
A Grand Orchestra, composed of Artists of Talent, will be
conducted by G. Maurage, who will have performed a Repertory
entirely new, composed of Quadrilles, Valses, Polkas,
Schottisches, Varsoviennes, Mazurkas, Redowas, Lancers, etc.
ENTRANCE--On the Sundays, five cents; at ordinary times, four
cents. One commences at 8 o'clock.
Although one commences at eight o'clock on the bills, one does not
commence in reality at any such unfashionable hour.


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