New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-17
LIFE IN PARIS.


SACK PRINCEss-OLGA DE JANINA-KIrE-FLYING
IN PARISH. DE RoTRscHnD's LITTLE JOKE.
ISRoM REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE rRrDuNEl
PARIS, March 15.-In America when you have
fire you burn up city. In Paris when you hear the
cry of Fire it is generally actresses wardrobe The
number of condolences l have seen burned out is
Incredible People take advantage of their ardent
natures to argue that they set their own dwellings
on fire. Aurelien SchoIl, the Champfort Of our Pa
risian journalists. said yesterday IN his chronicle,
There is nothing new ademoiselleI4asseny hasno
been burned out this week, any of her SORT lhe
last fire consumed 800 900 francs worth Of furniture
for Mile. Lasseny, whose apartment in the Place
vend6me was like an earthly paradise, after the ap
ples were eaten. The insurance companies are loud
IN clamor but the public answers, Why do you In
sure actresses then Has not Mile. Sarah Bern
bardt been burned out twicef Draw your wallets
and pay like gentlemen You know you are dealing
with imprudent beauties who go to bed late and
never blow out their candles. Do you dare accuse
the princesses Of the stage of arsOni Take care
they don't make you pay half million or dam
ages for assailing their honor When a journalist
asks damages for SANDER they give him four five
dollars to patch up his wounded reputation. But in
the case of an actress You can't give too much be-
cause there is SO much repairing to be done.
Far be it from to these theatrical ladies
seriously of setting these fireworks in operation at
their homes. At bottom they L" honest fellows"
II not honest women. Besides, Mile. Lasseny having
allowed her dogs which she adored to be burned IN
the conagraton has given the best proof that there
was no generalization. If the fire had destroyed
merely her lovers, we might be permitted TO doubt
We have in Paris great lady, foreigner, who
goes in society with unblushing front, and who
nevertheless has committed that inhuman crime-a
woman who has set her husband on fire. The story
may be worth telling There is an extenuating cir
cumstance. The husband did not love his WIFE
Why did he marry her, then In America a man
sees a pretty girl with no money and marries her,
saying that beauty is the as specie and he Is
right. In Europe he sees an ugly woman draped IN
banknotes and marries her. saying there is no happ
without money; and he is wrong. This is what
Count Dill did He took Mademoiselle Armande
O. because of the million she incumbered. But
he had reckOned without his host Mile O. was
u character She was not to be triAed with. She at
once took high ground with her husband. " Mon
sieur" she said to him in full honeymoon,
which in this case Ia hne ro@sse,
81 know you have haison which con-
trolls you, but | viii let You know you are
not to control me. If you behave gentleman
will pardon you for the sums that connection has
already cost you and me. But if find you only mar
ried me for my million I will be revenged." The
husband accepted all her revenges with philosOphic
camness and continued TO waste her substance.
When dignity has fed from a house its inmates are
no longer man and woman-they merely GRIM
inals and maniacs. In this unhappy marriage they
came-shall say it i-even to blows. Violence took
the place of insult. The husband talked of separa-
ton of person and goods "Ah, yes" said the lady,
81 understand. You wish a separation of persons,
having made way with the goods" EYES," said the
husband coldly. "That does not suit me-" said the
wife "You have killed my heart, my reason my
honor; and now I shall have your life"
CountdH--t tried to laugh at her But, Madame,
why should YOU wish my death when ask nothing
better than to leave your Because that is my
only possible revenge" Nonsense. my dear Cow
ards and women revenge themselves. and you are
neither II must be that you want to marry again."
"Why not SirY have been very little married with
youD This charming coniugal conversation ended
with the usual climax of endearment Ia SJandretto.
The wife had the bitterer tongue the husband the
heavier fist. The lady retired beaten but not salts
fed and resolved to be rid of her husband. But how
TO go about iti She was not strong enough to use
the ponard, and she revOlted at the cowardlce OF
poison. This is what took place. One evening she
found him in bed reading letter in a woman's hand
writing. In a sudden rage she set his curtains
on fire and ran away locking the door on the out
side He screamed Fire, but the servants were too
far TO hear him. 1t was horrible. He ran frantic
ally about the room. The chamber was upholstered
In Louis XIV cretonne which instantly took lire from
the bed. NJ. dH-- at last got to a window, and as
he was about TO throw himself out, ms wife took pity
and opened the door, asking what the matter
with look of innocent surprise. The husbands lie
was saved but his Disagreement was complete.
The case has been much talked about and there
are those who do not hesitate 10 defend the WIFE,
They accuse the husband of having tOrmented, de-
ceved and ruined his wife, When the court Or
dered their separation there was only left TO her
some three OF four thousand francs year OF her Tor
tune with which she make very little inquire III
the world. But the husband will show to still less
advantage with his SCARED and scanned cheeks and
forehead 1t is sad to carry into the world the scars
received at home.
We have another strong -minded woman IL Paris
Madame Olga de Jauna, who is making frightful
noise. She came to see me yesterday, with priest
Here is her history, as she gives it, in few words
She is a Don Cossack, with all the wildness of that
desert country. She is part faun and part cenfauT
with blood of fire. There are women of whom yOu
never think without prayer-book under thelr arm
this one ALWAYS has a horse-whip in her hand
Princess upon the banks of the Don she Is AT present
merely pianist and novelist She plays the piano like
List and writes novels like George Sand, when
George Sand wrote Eue ct La. In her famous book
Les Souvenirs dune CosdQue she relates with an IN
credible tranquility of spirit her adventures with
Able Liszt-the famous List OF the salons The
illustriOus pianist had flung himself into the Church
70 escape from the women for he was not hardened
sinner But Mime. Olga de Janina, who had disem-
barrassed herself of her husband took Llszt without
ceremony out of his sanctuary. The penltent be-
came impenitent again. For three years List went
on sauandering his share in Paradise in company