New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-25
TENANTS OF THE ELYSEE.
NJ AND NINE CARNOT WEARY OF OF.
FICIAL SPLENDOR.
Paris. March 8.


Paris, March s.
The Illness of Nine. Carnot is more serious
than was at first thought. 1t began in what
seemed rheumatic fever but has turned out to
be a typhus fever. Possibly it was both. Seven
years spent at the Eysee under the high press
to which Nine Carnot submitted, are equal
to thrice that time passed in the conditions In
which she lived before her husband was raised to
the Presidency OF the Republic. She was too
active and eager and new to the high station to
take II easily 1t was incumbent, she felt on the
President and herself to contrast their mode
Of living with the quiet simplicity OF NJ. and
Nine. Grevy, who were never put out by any
event, however strange or stirring, before the
disgrace of their son-n-law obliged them to re-
tire TO private life. Nine. Carnot therefore set
herself to solve. without going into debt the
problems Of how to keep up an almost royal
state on the limited civil list Of the President
She had also to think of enabling the President
to save as much money as If he had remained
a Deputy and entered three or four Of the
Cabinets that have existed within the last
seven years Her capacity for domestic ad-
ministration and vigilance was taxed to the
utmost to reconcile show with economy. to live
on handsome scale and yet to keep we'll with
In the civil lists income.
The living on a handsome scale necessitateo
the employment of a chef and culinary AIDES.
What with State and semi-State dinners. and
the daily presence at the Presidential board ae
the midday and evening meals OF the General
the colonel, the captains. forming the Presi-
dents military household and Of the civil
secretaries. the chef never had holiday. Now.
there is no greater trial to strong constitution
than to have ones daily bread provided by
frst-rate chef. He makes food too heterogeneous.
and so tempting to lead one to taking moro
than is required to repair diurnal wear and tear.
Waste accumuates Govt In some Of its many
forms ensues and the organism thus becomes a
propitious soil for no matter what disease. Gam
BETA did not much die from accidental
pistol shot in his hand as from the cookery Of
his chef. Trompette. Nine. Carnot showed equity
tendency in the flush of her complexion and In
the thickening of the drum Of the ear which
made her very deaf. 1t has latterly manifested
itself in ar,cular pains and aches. in fever ana
prostration. chill caught at a reception
brought on the crisis. Of which there were
numerous premonitory symptoms, and the
typhus came in at the wide-opened door The
soil had been further prepared by the sequelae
OF influenza. and by the anxiety Of mind arising
from NJ. CARROTS long and painful hepato
malady.
He has never recovered from the lunches and
banquets of 1889. | doubt II he will try to
get himself reelected President. His tastes are
domestic, and he is weary of a life OF parade
and unrest So is his wife. but not to the same
degree Her ambition and feminine elasticity
have so far kept her up and given zest to the
brilliant conditions in which. first lady Of the
Republic, she is invested Still there is physical
WEAKNESS. and the vexation OF spirit is endless.
In a way she and NJ. Carnot are in an enemies
wives thinking that they themselves have .
better right to be at the Eiysee than the Carnots.
The growing deafness Of Nine. Carnot renders
her duties of hostess difficult TO discharge. She
shows tact and cleverness in hiding this in
trinity. But the tension OF all her faculties 10
so great. that a reception is now TO her a source
of no pleasure and of much fatigue. She watches
the expression of faces and all the time chats
for herself and those who are calling her.
Being a clever and well-nformed woman. he's
chatty monologues are interesting. But how
they must her.
Another reason why NJ Carnot is likely to re-
tire in November is this He is a rigid Re-
publican. The conservatism is constitutional:
possibly od-fashioned. but stanch. He repre-
sents entirely republican ideas and would not
like to anything to the Clericals or dis
guised Royalists now known as Rallies. II he
such concessions to the Radicals as would
the cordial understanding with the
Gar; If he the tack Of keeping on
through the votes Of the Conservative Republic
cans he would have to backslide toward the
Right His chief rivals NJ. Casmr Perier and
NJ Dupuy are doing this So is NJ. Spuller. who.
II appears. fancies he might command a ma
jority OF both Houses of the Legislature. which.
resolved into a Congress. elect at Versailles the
Hence, II is surmsed, NJ Spuller's
new departure as friend Of the Catholics. NJ.
Lacour, Speaker of the Senate, has q
majority in the Senate AS the vote Of the other
House will be split into fragments he may come
first to the winning post
The Carnot family. since the President had
the fxmness not to let OF Valiant, are greatly
threatened by Anarchist cranks. The latter can
now do nothing to wreak vengeance. But there ID
no saving what reprsals they might not take II
NJ Carnot were again In a private station.
hear that Nine. Carnot has been looking at q
fat in the Boulevard ST. German, in the house
n which her friend Nine. Mchau lives. The
rent Is 81, 900 year. more than double the rent
of the set of rooms the Carnot family tenanted
before December. 1897 They left that home with
reluctance Music science. literature were cul.
tivated peacefully there and the education OF
four children attended to- There was no home
IN Paris in which the domestic virtues were
better cultivated Some hours after his election
NJ Carnot in looking round on his household
rods there. said to his children: What pity
20 leave this nest, which We have formed our.
elves to go to that hotel the Eysee"' f. c.