New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-11
now THEY LOOKED, TALKED AND ACTED
AT DINNER

w,o, ,r,sr. ,rcy Az CORRESPONDENT OF TIT TRIBUNE,
PARIS. April %.
The Beers have gone South this morning. en- rOnte
for Lisbon had the pleasure OF meeting them last
evening at the banquet at which they were enter
tanned bv the Geographical Society at the Grand
Hotel If Mrs Trollope had been OF the company
dare say she would have tried to show them up as
beings worthy of the contempt OF folks processing
10 have manners. | thought them most interesting
men 10 study and their simplicity OF nature theh
ouet mauliness, and the line poise OF their moral
and mental qualities which showed Itself IN theW
demeanor. encouraged me 70 persevere N thinking
tina, the pressurc civilization aesthetic culture and
many other things which Europe aud America no"
ran after are not good for the human rae. The
first impressions which ceiced of them were sum
mary I shall now supplement them with those
received at the banquet.
When entered the salon. u. de Les,eps who was
waiting 70 receive the company along with
the Dutch Penipotentiary, gave me his
impressions about the terccntenary fete AT
Edinburgh lie looked gay and his manners were
sparkling with ready Gascon Wit and genial self
assertiveness The death OF Prince Leopold some
what marred he said. the public part OF the ceeoIa
ton But lac SAID that in their homes his Scotch
friends did not let their spirits 60 down, aud they
were even disposed to carouse. The French cook,
he found has not made his way north OF the Tweed
IN the anne extent that he has done in England.
same Scotch cheer in all its od-fashiOned char
octerstics remained Just rs Scott might have best
crjoved II and described il in his ;ivy7s ana MS
poe,ns. ~ dc Lesseps told me that Scotch hospital
itv resembles rather American than English hos
pitality but that 10 has robust character when is
entirely its own He had the freedom Of the rail-
WAYS and the hotel where he put up for few hours
and was bone of contention among noblemen, law
lords city magnates, famous savants and scholars
who all wanted TO make much Of him and his
daughter in their respective houses NJ. de Lesseps
arrived here yesterday morning and had been
twenty hours without cessation in railway carriages
and steamboats,. He had presided in the afternoon
at meeting of the Geographical Society, was going
~ take the chair at the banquet in honor of the
Boers and then drop in b the reception of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. F. Morton and 10 50 rec at NJ. Pierre
Verou's Of the Chorirdrtl.
NJ de Lesseps then introduced me to those OF the
personages round him with whom he perceived !
was unacquanted. Among those whom kne"
were NJ Myre de Viiliers. Ex-Governor of Cochin
China and Commissioner 70 TonquIn; COmte
Foucher de Careil, French Ambassador TO the Court
of Vienna and the Dutch Minister. who complained
that he is always mistaken for his diplomatic col
league of Belgium, and deplOred the elects OF Nj.
Thers's death on European diplomacy. He said the
muddled state into which things have fallen since
lost hun u not only a IhlSAoi1uH iOi 'iA0 'O'
Republic but for all Europe.
While the Minister speaking Count Beeiarts
van Blokland came up and said that the Boer Iri-
umvirs would soon enter ] saw that he looked
frightened as he glanced at one of the ladies'
present. who wore a low bOdiced dress. She was
going later 10 the reception at the United States
Legation where the fullest dress required. lhe
scared expression OF the Count greatly exercised her
and she inquired OF another lady what 1t meant.
Presently her attention called to the fact that
she alone of the SIX ladies who to the banquet
Wa not in a high dress What of thatf Simply,
that President Kruger at the Royal dinner to!whch
lie was invited at the Hague, saw there the young
Oneen OF Holland in low dress, at which he ex-
pressed his disapprObation and left the room. But
the lady In question here said Probably Her Ma
iesty was not dressed by Paris cOuturiere At
any rate the President having been last night at the
opera to witness the performance Of Sappho,' is
better prepared now for a display of neck and
shoulders than he was when he first visited Ho
land. | shall not keep out OF his way at all, hut
walk up straight 10 him the moment he comes IN
and shake hands with hum" So said, so done. The
President at first put out both hands to take those
of the lady But when be saw her bare neck he al
once dropped his eyes, ayerted bis head ana ran
sway-but not out of the ROOM The lady was OPP
p0sIte to him at table and the Others were amused