New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-01
MADAME CARNOT AS HOSTESS
LER SKILL IN ENTERTAINING HER GUESTS
PRINCE OF MONTENEGRO.
Paris. january l6


10 the Prince of Montenegro, which was not fol-
lowed by reception, and yesterday dinner to the
Corps Diplomatquc. which was followed by
soiree to which all personal acquaintance Of NJ.
md Nine Carnot were invited through the Jour
nal Oflicel" / knew the Elysee under Presidents
Theirs Marshal Mcmahon and Grevy 1t is much
more stately under Garnet than under any of his
predecessors.
Nine Carnot shows remarkable talent in the
art of entertaining She gives her best attention
20 the subject and neglects detail. She is not
afraid to innOvatc. Thus, when at fete at the
Hotel de Vile, she struck with he grand air
which given TO the stairs by placing OF each
step two cuirassiers in full dress uniform, with I'M
shcathcd swords in their right hands Tie guests
thus assembled between two rows of guards Nine
Garnet remembered that the Hundred Guard of the
Empire utilized in the same manner at tie
state balls at the Tieres. She thought there
was no reason why the President OF the Republic
might not enhance the spectacular eject OF MS
grand functions by having curassiers on duty
in this manner on the stairs leading from the
lower vestibule Of the Elysee to the higher one
One feels on entering that is in the house, NOT
of O distinguished bourgeois, but of the head or
the State. The servants are remarkable for their
style Some are in black, with silk stockings,
silver-buckled shoes, and swords, and others OF
q lower grade have chains round their necKs'
The Wallets are in tr-colored liveries.
Flowers arc used with great taste, and with
discretion, and music is now regularly brought
into the programmes OF the Flysce entertain
ments. 1t is constantly varied, and the musicians
are kept either in the concert room of the palace
or at the end of the large conservatory running
parallel to the banQueting-room. Last night theie
were the pick of Colonies instrumentlsts. with
the best choral singers the Opera House could
furnish.
There is tone of great politeneSs. Inc fresi-
dent is losing the shy constrained manner which he
had in the early days of his tenure of Office lie Is
now at home il his great office, and all the sweet
courteousness of his nature is allowed free play
He and his wife are of one mind in nearly all
things and he, having been brought up by a
father who was a warm advocate of women's
rights, never attempts to check or chill her IN
spiration She has singularly quick and adrolt
mind and a judgment that is hardly ever at fault
AS she grows used to the position she does courteous
things with an appearance of spontanclty and con-
scquent graciousncss which is charming. she pays
a compliment neatly and kindly never looks
worried, harassed or cross, always has her heao
clear and her wits about her, and nothing escapes
her rapidly glancing eye.
Last night the two sensations at the party were
the pearls of the Duchess &c Mandas and the
diamonds of Madame Humbert The Duchess Is
the Ambassadors of Spain. 1t is said that any
day she pleased she might get thrice the jewelers.
value of her set from either of those two great
pearl fanciers the Queen Of Italy or Baroness
Alphonse de Rothschild, whose overrullng desire
is TO leave to each of her daughters SUCH neck
laces as the world never has seen. She WISHES
each pearl to match every other on the string on
which il is set in size and orient, and TO have as
many rows as she can get hold Of Each pearl
bought is scanned under magnify
ing glass. She has special caskets for
these Jewels, of oriental WOOD, hIIeu
with sand fetched from the coast OF the ked Sea
The sand is frequently changed.
The Duchess of Mandas claims to have finer
nearls than those which formed the celebrated
fve-row necklace of the Empress Eugene. Her
earrings are formed Of the largest pear pearls
ever saw unless in the famous pearl and diamond
brooch which was left TO Madame Rattatzzi by
her grandfather, Lucien Bonaparte.
Madame Humbert's diamonds are brazilian.
never saw Indian ones sparkle with more IN
tense fire. This lady, South American, IN
herited one of the greatest fortunes ever known
in diamonds from a great-uncle who lived in the
Province Of Douro PretO. She had the plastron
Of diamonds which show in the French
the stand of Mellerio who charged 10 set
them in manner to fit on to the front of low
corsage in q way completely 70 cover it. The
silver embroidery Of the tahlicr and edge of
her princess dress matched il design the paStron
Wherever there was an embroidered flower the
heart was formed of q solitaire diamond Soil
taire diamonds which might have been worth,
say, $4,000 frarcs apiece, were placed in her
hair, which was dressed in the Japanese style,
and then there a kind OF radiant ornament
formed by arrows stuck around the high chgnon.
The feathers" of the arrows were represented
by diamonds Her tan chain, formed of square
links, to initiate q Greclan ornament, was also
in itself a fortune.
The Prince of Montenegro is the nearest thing
in Earopc to Fergus MacIvor Vich Ian Voir
lie is rather the chief Of tribe of rude noun
taiuecrs, each having a strong sense of personal
independence, than sovereign. His income IS
small and his wants are few. His palace rcsem-
bled barn when hc was first called to the chief
tainship of the Black Mountain, where he usually
dresses in the tribal kilt and other picturesque
garments He educated here at the Lycee Louis
lie Grand, is a man of political shrcwdneSS,
and has a talent for doing things which should
not he left undone at the nick of time He is on
capital terms with the Sultan, aud was spoken Of
by the Gar not long ago as tic Only real friend Of
Russia. One of his daughters is the wife of a
grand duke another Of Prince of LeuchtenLerg,
and third of Prince KaraGeorgrwi,ch or Black
Goreeson the pret4nder to tie tiIOne Of Servid.
which Milan and Natalie, by squabbling as they
do, in way to secure 10 him. The Prince of
Montenegro expects soon scramble for territory
among tie Christian States Of the Balkans and
wants 10 secure the support of France as well as
that - Russia. lie wants Albania and 10
Greece and Austria and be would like the Monte
negrn and the Servan territories to Join, AMI the
latter being under Naraecorgewitch. to prevent
Austria from pushing down to the Sea of Marmora.
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