Evening star., 1894-01-27

An international IMisunderstan ndinG.
American art students in Paris are said to
be more numerous than those of any other
foreign nationality. Then, a certain num-
ber of students of past years remain on,
working and waiting for fame. There
are few hundred agents and clerks of
commercial or industrial houses in the
business parts of the city, and there are
some rich families settled in houses or
apartments of what is called the "Ameri-
can quarter between the Champs Elysees
and the river. To find the rest you would
have to make census of the boarding
houses and the hotels. All told it is not
probable that at any one time the total
number of citizens of the United States in
Paris would amount to more than 10000.
including the 1900 to 1900 who may be
called residents. This is something very
different from the number very ordinarily
given, which would reckon them at three
or four times as many.
But if the good American does not go to
Paris to stay he is pious enough while there
to support four churches. one Roman Cath
oIc, one Episcopalian and one Congrega-
tionaiist-aH on the right side of the river
and a chapel in the students quarter. The
latter has also club. and the Young
Mems Christian Association is doing work.
There are two professedly American news
paperS-the Paris edition of the New FORK
Herald and the American Register-not to
speak of the appeal made to Americans by
the venerab BILE GalSnani's Messenger.
In general, American families resident
In Paris. whether from the United States,
Mexico or South America. are well to do
and are universally known to be such
among the Parisians. OF late they are
affecting the neighborhood from the Arc
de Triomphe toward the Pare Monceau.
This district. even with respect to its
French inhabitants. is said to belong to
the "aristOcracy of art and money
Rich American Residents.
OF the American residents in Paris per-
haps the one who is most noted socially
in the great world of today is Mrs. Aver
the widow of the world-famed DOCTOR She
Is commonly described as la richissime
Americaine. and seems to have succeeded
where Mrs. Alackay failed. Her jewels are
equaled only by those of the Duchesse de
Pomar. and it is commonplace of the
French society columns to note the ap-
pearance of Mime. Aver wearing precious
stones TO the value of several million" :"
She is prodigal of entertainments, dinners
concerts and reunions, where the best tai
ent of the Paris stage appears in turn to
amuse her guests. These are chosen i'm
partially from those distinguished in art
and society among the American colony
and that portion of the French who are
willing to step out of their own circles
Mrs. Aver lives in the very pretty Hotel
de. Mouchy. which she rents; it is just op-
posite the Invalides, in the full Faubourg
Saint -Germain.
International Marriages.
The French complain of late that the
prejudice existing in the families of the
old aristocracy against matrimonial al
nances with the new democracy does not
exist to the same degree in respect of re-
publican heiresses from America. A gener-
alton ago there were only two marQuises
and one comtesse of American blood in the
whole court of the Empress Eugene. Now
that court life has passed away the noble
families seem TO have opened wide the
doors of their salons to the American girl
provided she be rich and beautiful. Her
pretty hands, as they well know, are quick
at catching a cOronet. but better so than
form an alliance with some bourgeois fam
tly whose money came the same way. 1t
would now be easy TO count up American
titled ladies in France by the dozen; and
American wife. was not content until he
had married American widow. His
daughter by the former and his stepdaugh-
ter by the latter have both been married
of in turn. So TO add fresh American
vfSor % the somewhat pale blue blood of
question Of titles. however. in these inter-
national marriages. and American wives
are sometimes round in what is called the
republican n5hlesSe. This is the case of
Nine Ribot. wife Of the ex-prime minister,
who was once young lady from Chicago
II is also not true that all these alliances
ere 2 matter Of money or that all Of the
brides are heireSSes. This very common
idea may have cOnsiderab BILE foundation in
fact. but II really dates from time when
such marriages were next to unknown
Stenohai. whose writings have continued to