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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. JANUARY 15. 1911.

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C. bad impression upon me. There are only two authentic pictures by this artist, one of which is in Chantilly, and the other at the Cooiedlo Francalse. I was under tho impression that the picture before me was a bad copy made efter an engraving. lit Y3V rmSMnr MSI Who Has B8 en Very 111.

a convincing one. he encnants you wnu his flowery eloquence, and leads you to the goal with persuasive rhetoric. I have just beard him speak on d'Annunzlo's book. I was dazed, and the Count. almost persuaded me that one day I could admire the Italian poet's works.

The Count spoke for an hour and a half, standing In the attitude of a fashionable emperor, full of disdainful condescension and languor that seemed to hall from the half-fading boutonnicra of violets. He stood on Persian rugs and the electric lights reflected numerous halos round his head. There were blue hortensias on the table, In corners, everywhere. The audience was royal, every woman, superbly dressed, paid absorbing attention to every word that the Count superbly uttered and gave forth memorable sentences to celebrate the publication of the first roman tic book, which expresses the bliss of the conquest of the heavens above the clouds and then ended by singing out that d'Annunzio was the aviator of words. The Count probably thought that d'Annunzio was the god of words, and that Count Robert de Montesquiou was his prophet, but naturally was too modest to say so.

We have Just had the ultra sensational trial of Gaston Wache de Roo, who killed his mother. If he had not been a society man, a man of the world, but a poor man It Is as sure as there is a idge la France, that he would have been sentenced to be guillotined, but as It is he got ten years of recluslon. What did he murder his mother for? Simply because she, being widow for many years, and having reared her children end got them settled In life she wanted to marry again. I hear you exclaim. "Well, what about It, did she not have a right to marry agalnT" Not In France without being severely blamed, end I have heard scores of people who empathize with the son, not for hav ing shot his mother, but for feeling badly that she married again.

Customs and usages are very different in France from those In America. Indeed they could not be. more different if the two countries were In different planets. You may not, believe it. but the family ties ere sacred.

It Is. in a certain measure, still the patriarchal system which exlstB In France, and the opinion reigns here that when a woman has grown up children, and settled in life, and has enough to live on, she must live for her children, who during their lives have made other ties, and do not live any longer with the mother. As a general rule women cannot live alone, but the French widow with children must suffer solitude and other ills Just because her children do not want a stepfather. There must have been peculiar circum stances which prompted Gaston Wache de Roo to shoot his mother. Here is the case truthfully stated, for no person has denied it: Mme.

Wache de Roo was left with a large fortune, two daughters and a son were married, and the other, Gaston, the murderer, was single and lived with his mother. Naturally each of three married children received their marriage dowry. Gaston went to Madagascar to launch a business enterprise, but failed, and came back to Paris, after his mother had paid his debts to the amount of $60,000. While he lived with his mother he did nothing, was not a wicked man and pretended to be most fond of his mother, Bhe made the acquaintance of M. Hajos, a financier, to whom she gave some money to Invest, which always brought good in terest, and was Invested in good securi ties.

The children made no objection to that. But Mme. Wache and Mr. Hajos, a widower with three daughters, became great friends and last year agreed to marry. Mme.

Wache's children, getting wind of It, became very angry, talked with their mother, and she, seeing the children so opposed to the project, gave up the idea. Mr. Hajos, like a true gentleman, gave up calling on Mme. Wache. However, business relations continued between them, and afterward they finally married In secret.

This led to a great scandal in the family, the more, that Mme. Wache was 69 years of age, and the man only 46. Having accidentally heard of their marriage, Gaston came home, went to his mother's room one evening and asked her if It were true that sho was Mme. Hajos; she said yes, and, as ia in ill Urn Ei 1 JMTX' ILJijT'Ss 111 IS d'Angleterre PUBLIC FRANCE Proprietor. FRANCE.

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96 Ave des Ternes, nr. Bols. But no sooner have we settled a generalization in regard to human natuie In given conditions than an exception arises to destroy It. A few months ago an ocean steamer with a thousand passengers on board was three days out from New York on the way to Liverpool when the chief engineer discovered fire in one compartment of the hold. The work of subduing the fire could not begin too soon.

Hatches were battened down and sealed, that not an ounce of air should feed the hungry flame. Steam was pumped in. Smoke was pumped out. As the heat still Increased, carbonic acid gas was injected in large quantities. That at last stopped the rise of temperature in the ventilating stacks.

Meantime, upon the discovery of the Are, the order had been given: "Tell every officer and every member of the crew; including stewards and stewardesses; but caution them that no word of the accident be breathed to any passenger." So the days passed slowly, anxiously, silently, for the scores of mea and women to whom the safety and the service of the ship's company were entrusted, pleasantly and without care for the passengers. The twenty stewardesses, as if to disprove woman's proverbial inability to keep a secret, went on their placid, helpful way. There were double hour3 of duty for every one. No one of the company's servants undressed for five nights. Chief engineer and captain had but two hours sleep in the five days.

When the Liverpool dock was reached, the secret had been kept. Not a passenger had dreamed of danger. Not a nervous woman had been made ill by apprehension. Not a child had been ks. merry because there was a monster eating the heart of the ship.

When the last person and the last piece of luggage were landed, the moment came to open the hold. The hatch was lifted, and with a roar the flames leaped high above the upper deck. But the Liverpool fire department made short work of them. The great ship and Its resources had stood the test. The men and women who served it had proved themselves as stanch as Its steel, says the Youth's Companion.

Moreover, when some one praises them for courage and silence, they enter a slow, English protest, "Oh, that's all In our job!" Ignorant George. Were George Washington to be suddenly restored to life and be dropped down In any bu.y American community, he might have a great deal of difficulty in carrying on an ordinary conversation, and it would certainly require long hours of study to bring himself to an understanding of what are now the merest commonplaoez. Until the matter could be explained to him. he would not know what was meant by the word telephone, and automobile would be all Sanscrit to the Father of His Country. Drawing only on those every-day conveniences that no longer attract passing attention, General George would "have to be shown" before he could understand phonograph, street car, aeroplane, airship, ocean liner, Pullman car, motor, Incandescent light, gasoline, skyscraper, asphalt paving, cotton gin sewing machine, trunk line, searchlight, armored cruiser, fountain pen, repeating arms, radium, X-ray, appendicitis, postage etaijip, telegraph, Suffragette, express, San Francisco, Klondike, breakfast food and thousands of other terms that have been developed to meet tho needs of th modern Inventions.

Ho would probably prefer to return to eternal rest than try to catch up with tho modern stride. And George Washington did not live eo very long ego at Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon. AR1S, January 7 The thirst for notoriety Is immensely greater In modern times than that for martyrdom in ancient days. Have you ever thought how much mentality has changed? I am saying this while I think of what I want to say to yo': concerning the picture trial, which affair took place In Tours, and In which two American women figured, the hus fcand of one of them, Hamilton Paine, who participated in the purchase of the pictures, died before the trial took place In connection I cannot help but notice hew many kings you have In your re public. To express supremacy I should think you would have coined a word, rather than have the one people created republics to get rid of.

I think I have Ibeard of at least three or four steel kings. Mr. Paine was a steel king. Like all other modern kings, be was under the sway of. his queen, who, after her hus hand's death, by the way, hurried away and married a French nobleman, the Duke do Praslin, who added Cholseul to his name, and will probably be sued for it at some future time by the real Cholseul family.

The letter of protestation was read In court, and a round of applause followed. Yes, applause, for now In France, at least, trials are part of the theatrical performances of the country. The presiding Judge protests, but just for fun, for he is fond ef having an audience who appreciates his wit and enlivens a trial which might otherwise be too solemn, as the one mentioned above, in The Building Which Will House the culprit was charged with mur-'dering his mother. Mrs. Hamilton Paine came to Paris to hine, and she did.

Anyone with money ican shine in Paris, there are so many bogus ways of doing It. Mr. and Mrs. 'Paine rented a mansion in the Avenue du Bole de Boulogne, and when It was fur- nished with what they thought authentic! antique furniture, and the walls covered 'Wit'', real pictures of the old Italian and Dr-tch masters, they launched Invitations to the American colony, ami thar. yart of the French who live to have fun, I lalmost all of these bearing high sound- 'ing titles, and gave a series of dinners, receptions and dances.

I know scores of people of both categories who I dined with the Painos and danced to the Paine music, while they uttered exclauia- tions of admiration In the presence of the hosts for having in so short a time gath- ered such an incomparable collection of, -'furniture and pictures. There were a1 few connolssucrs who smiled incre-lu- )ously at this wonderful collection. lu' never In the presence of the owners. Parisians are at least polite. Mrs.

Paine, for a few years, war, in her glory, she had everybody whom she saw at her feet, the papers of the two wrote about her festivals, and mentioned her name In full. She had bo-1 come Intimate with the Count and Countess J'Aulby, who had a chateau in Tou-raine, and who had the extreme kindness to give advice to Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Paine for their Installation in Paris, and also selling them some of their priceless pictures for a mere song, and among them one or two old masters for something like $9,000 each. Count d'Aulby was the great master of the order of Me-1 culine.

and when he condescended to put! on the dazzling uniform covered with medals, on special occasions such a reception by the President of the Re- public, at the Elysee Palace, he had the' admiration of throngs, as well as that of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Paine, who natur-tlly thought all that glitters is pure g)M. What happened after the death of Mr. Paine to give his widow doubus about tit" authenticity of what Count d'Aulby ha 1 sold and loaned her? Yes, loaned her; for be asked her JS 000 a year for the loans which gave him an annunity while the objects of art were still in his possession.

With that, together with a percentage on everything he bought for Mru. Paine, and that was a'tuost everything Bhe was in need of, he was able to live decently; that is, keep his chateau Ja Touraine, and spent his leisure in composing music, for it is said that be was a genius in thm art. Mrs. Paine at last made up her mind to go to a genuine expert, and secured Roger Miles to pro- I Bounce upon the authenticity of her expensive possessions. For your edifioa- Hon, and aluo for a lesson, I shall quote i what Roger Miles said In court about the i pictures.

It will not be tedious, for a Frenchman always gives some style to what ho says: 1 "The first picture I saw was a Largil- JJre, the portrait of Duclos. It made a MMn ffW- I 0 I if 1 ffiff mil PiiarfflflAfi, Riviera C. BRAUN, "Manon" and "Werther" Is given. He Is so essentially a composer of pure French music. The opera of "Don Qulchotte" in flv: acts was given at the Galete Lyric Theater, after having seen the footlights last winter at Monte Carlo.

The opera is full of melodious music In all parts, which thrill the French, and which they retain to whistle and hum when they feel sentimental and gay, which, as you know, often happens to them. I know the music will please the Americans, also, for it is well written, and it has parts that are gay and amusing, as well as tragic, suppose Massanet calls It a comic opera, for there are some recitations in it. Don Qulchotte Is a favorite hero with the French; Cervantes' book has been dramatized, and I think an opera had beeu made of it, before Massanet took it In hand. Henry Cain, who Is the bookmaker of Massanet's opera, made many changes. Dulclnee is a young, beautiful woman, who does not hesitate to break Don Qulchotte's heart after flirting with him, and ridiculing his Jaunty appearance before her more handsome admirers.

The part was admirably sung and acted by -Marcoux, who belongs to the Opera Comique, and whom I think you have heard in America. When he sang at The Hague, the women were all In love with him, and he received scores of letters dally. The inimitable Fugere took the part of Sancho, and a most diverting part he mado of it. You know the Opera Comique is a subsidized theater and the government requires some of the good singers to take part also in operas given at the Theatre Lyric. The French are most fond of French music, and are willing to pay a certain price to hear It.

Nor is the' Lyric a very expensive theater, being situated In a populous quarter, and is becoming very It is here "Quo Vadis" was given, and now Massanet's "Don Qulchotte" will probably run all winter. There are now so many museums In Paris that you would not think Paris needed another. This new one Is Intended for the French themselves, for if they know more about art than people of other countries, they are still ignorant concerning health and modern comforts. This museum will, consist of twenty-five halls containing designs, maps, plans and models of all that pertains to the public and private hygiene and perfection in modern improvements. In the first there will be models and plans of parks, places and squares, water works, lighting, sewerage, cleansing of the streets, and the taking away of the garbage.

There will be all sorts of models of public carts, drainage utensils, and for the Improvement of underground traffic. All that pertains to public disinfection: the plans of public laboratories, and for the purification of water. All tho models of modern Improvements In private houses will be on exhibition. There will be three sections reserved for the hygiene of houses such as hospitals, schools, colleges and garrisons in the buildings called "collectivltcs." That is where the improvements aro most needed. Just think of garrisons where 500 soldiers live, move and have their being, and the difficulty of keeping such a place cloan and wholesome.

Yet it i3 said that some garrisons remain to-day just as they were built seventy-five years ago. EMMA BULLET. Nobody Told. We associate courage and reticence with the highest type of character. Courage is most often displayed when something must bo done, and done quickly; end reticence, although not so spectacular, is usually manifested, by men or women of noble family traditions and high Of less disciplined folk we say critically, "They tell all they know and mora, tool" 2 'ihm-i'-' Mrs.

Paine gave me a catalogue to show me that it wag a masterpiece. In the drawing room wag a Titian, which had never been done by that master, and the Murillo. 'The Young Girl with the FIow- had not the special vibration of Jiuruio worKs. uorregglo Tne Sleep of from which the one In the Louvre was only a copy In Mrs. Palne's estimation, was worthless.

As for the mother of Rembrandt, a picture that seems as if the painter had painted It while praying to the Most High, this copy rough and badly done. But that Is not the only authentic copy of that picture. There are any number of copies of Rembrandt's mother. We can say there are Innumerable copies of all the celebrated old pictures, and done by different kinds of painters. Some who study to understand the munner of the master they are copying, and others who try to inake the pictures look real by tricks with the brush, such as to give the patina of time with the oxydation of color." "But," aelied one of the lawyers, "could these pictures be taken for real by a society man.

a snob?" "There are two kinds of amateurs," said Roger Miles, "those who have studied to know, and those who can only remember; the latter are simply reminded of a great name, and when the pictures are not too bad, these may be taken In." This was said In court, but the words are only a repetition of what Roger Miles said to Mrs. Paine, when she called him in, advising her not to buy the pictures which Count d'Aulby had left to be purchased later. Count d'Aulby is evidently the Paris Conservatory of Music. an adventurer, who is possessed with the Insanlly of illusions, "la folie des grandeur." His name Is Daulby, and he Is the son of an English tailor. From time to time he would change his high name.

He was Count d'Aulby de Gra-tigny, then Duke of Borghetto. He founds ed the order of Moluslne, of which he was the grunt master, and most probably was the uttieue member. But in Tours he seems to have friends. He has always paH itis bills, did some good, and did not seem Inordinately infatuated with the glory with which he surrounded himself. His children were sent 10 school and he lived the lite of a peaceful citizen.

His w'le, who was born Miss Pout, is a Bos-tonian. and aa witness she merely said that she had learned only to be a giod housekeeper and (lid not pay any attention to her husband's transactions. When told that she coul-i not spend a year without v.o-'.b r'i: where the money came from, sha taid thnt in her country 000 was nothing Ufe; a home with, nn I she took them to keep her home in order, provide for what was necessary, and she minded her own business; in a wori, she was an American woman. She tai all this In court calmly, with com-plaeency, as if she was talking in her drawing room, with fan in her right hand, with which she emphasized her words by touching her left hand. Sho lifts the good will end sympathy of all who have anything to do with her, cither In a social or business way, In Tours.

I repeat the couple lived very quietly with their children, In their chateau and put on no airs, except when Mrs. Hamilton Paine visited them. Mrs. Paine had become the most Intimate friend of Atiioy, and wnen sue was a guest at the chateau dinners, receptions and 'oil kinds of festivities were given in her honor. Now did that change in their mode of life take place bci-iiuse the couple d'Aulby wished to continue deceiving Mrs.

Paine and to sell her spurious articles or, knowing that Paine loved social life and entertainments, and thereby wishing to give her a good time, remains to be known. In the tnllsi of the trial Mrs. l'aine d' siHt and abandoned the pursuit. Why ilid sit" attempt it? She was rich enough to sacrifice that money to an advent tircr and make no fuss about it. for she ought to have known that an hottest woman never gets the better of a man who is surrounded with a net uf deceptions and lies.

He is always ready to fabricate others implicate and dishonor his enemies. The one who advised her to retire did well, hut would have done much better to have told her never to go before the courts against such a man. Tills story brings again the punishment which people with spurious titles ought to meet with. The third republic has made attempts to abolish them. Tho penal code says any one who attributes to himself a title of any distinction to which he has no right, shall be fined from $100 to $200, and It will be made known what name ho has no right to carry.

Titles of nobility ta disappear iu Tlie Duchess of Orleans, these democratic times, but instead they increase. The French have an eternal hankering for distinction. A bourgeois whoso name Is Legrand, and who has been prosperous in business, has made enough money to buy an old brick house, which has the high sounding name of chateau, will with time, sign M. Lo Grand; M. Ducautols' children will assume the practice of signing Du Cautois.

When Bomo of their friends are too Inquisitive and impolite, ask them how it Is they have changed the spelling of their name, they tell cock and bull story, say that before the great revolution their forefathers were Barons du Cautois, and saved their heads from being cut off by cutting oft their title3, and now, under a republic, they think it look3 better not to take the title of baron. More than half of the nobility have no legal right to the title, but who is going to hinder them from using It? The tribunals, by request of the minister of the interior, ought to register the patents of all legal titles and this would prove that a man is veritably a nobleman. Now the government cannot ask for those legal proofs, for during the revolution those in -4 4 Mile. Leneru, Author of the Piny power burned all the legal papers of Ihe real nobility, and left many of those which were not legal. Many of tho nobility are too indolent to prove that their titles are legitimate; they simply say that their titles aro used in drawing rooms, and that Is enough.

I recently had a proof of the resuscitation of titles In the Eagle Bureau. A woman came to see me, who had been my neighbor for twenty ycarB, and whom I had not seen for five years. Her name was Mine. Beti-olt. She informed me during her visit that her husband had at last won a lawsuit, and now they have again taken their title, Count and Countess Ilenoit de Sa-ligny.

I could not help but smile. It may nil bo true. I may accept her invitation to visit her in her grand chateau, situated somewhere on the Mediterranean, but 1 sliaU never get used to calling M. and Mine. Renoit, Count antl Countess Denoit d- Sallgny.

I think I lived too many yt ars in America and have become too democratic. There are still a ft Beau Brummels in this world, but tluy are not all English. I don't know if there are any that can claim that thty are national descendants of the historical Beau Bruiniuel. l.as become more difficult to be an ultra-modern Brummel, than when the one who gave the name to the class Among the French Brummels is Count Robert de Montesquiou, who'll many of you htrd I he honor to hear lecture in America. It is necessary for such geniuses to keep bi fore the public; therefore Count Robert do Montesquiou has lately delivered a lecture 111 Paris on the new book of d'Annunzio, "Forse che si, forse die no," which means, "Perhaps it is and perhaps it is not." It is the first work on aviation which conies from the pen of a great poet, and the words are so lofty, bound so heavenward, so beyond the clouds, that Con it y'l't do Montesquiou lias given d'Aa- 7-'-- I 1 I i I 1 I I I nunzlo the name of "L'avlateur du the aviator of words.

The present Beau Brummels must show their erudition as well as fine dres.8, they must be well versed In the history of art, and when expressing an opinion they must do it with words that are not used dally by plebeians of the pen, but rather rare, poetic, be in accordance with the etat d'ame, the decorative floral surroundings of the place, and with the tie and pin as well as the buttonhole bouquet which the poet has spent hours In choosing. His gloves must be made to measure, and a pair taken from a dozen. His whole person must look as If he had taken perfumed baths, and every hair of his mustache, after being combed, brushed aTid perfumed must harmonize with the others. These men have a way of lengthening their eyelashes. I can't tell you the secret, for I don't know It.

Tne hair must be brushed for an hour off from the Olympian brow for the Beau Brummel of to-day must look Intellectual. The coat and other articles of dress must be original in cut and cloth, but that is only detected by a great connoisseur, for the Beau Brummel must 4wfoT-a lakaafe BZZl at the Odeon "Les AfEranchis." look as If he were dressed like other people, only a little better. The lecturer had a glove only on one hand, and the other shows how soft the hands are after the long bath In bran, and how perfectly the nails are colored and manicured. The collar of the mod- ern shirt must be' of a certain height, and come together In front so many frac tions of an inch, or the wearer would caste. The.

handkerchief, which shows in the small front pocket, must be perfumed with the essence of the flower of the boutonniere. Count Robert C.e on the day he pored forth his (loquenee In the well-termed "Hotel 'dts Modes," his buttonhole bouquet consisted of a bunch of almost wilted violets (the odor of the violet Is said to be the finest when the blossom Is in that semi-state of preservation). You will of course readily conclude that this mod cm. Intellectual, poetic Beau Brunynel has been a lifetime studying attitudes, and that he attudinizes to perfection! He has doubtless spent many hours to assume the one in which he has been photographed, resting gracefully on the li ft arm, looking graceful and supercll-jiocs at an Imaginary crowd which he is Isrcntly criticising "de bas cn haut." Such a man need not be a king on a throne to think that he is made of a dif-; fi rent clay from the rest of humanity, and nature will surely keep him In a perfect state of preservation, so that he can appear before the high tribunal on Judgment Day, faultless both in body and clothes. You may Imagine how much Count Robert de Montesquiou is admired by the women who wear hobble skirts and gigantic hats.

They simply worship him. But unfortunately there are manly men in France, who listen to the Count with an enigmatic smile on their Hps. and sing dubious praise when they write about him. Shall I auote one of "The Mrs Paine, Now the Duchess cte Choiseul, Who Was Victimized in the Purchase of Unauthentic Pictures, Alleged to Be Painted by Old Masters, Which Case Is Now on.Trial at Tours, France. he became very angry, she told him if he did not like It he could leave the house.

Thereupon he took a revolver out of his pocket and shot her. It is always an event here when a new opera by Jlaseanat, the composer of.