Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-07

his wife. who. with the chameleon quality
of her transplaEted countrywomen, was
already Partisan in dress. Still less SO
his daughter. who had by this time ap-
scrbed the pecuiarities of her French.
German and Italian governeSses Yet
neither had yet learned to evade their na-
tiynality-or apologize for it.
MIR Maynard and his family remained
for three years in Europe, his stay nav
i've been prolonged by political excite
:nent in his own state of South Carolina
Commerce IS apt to knock the insuiarlty
oct Of people: distance from ones own
distinctive locality gives a wider range to
the vision. and the retired merchant fore
saw ruin in his states politics, and from
the viewpoint of all Europe beheld. IN
stead of the usual collection of individual
states his whole country. But. the ex-
element increasing. he was hnally I'M
PEELED 10 return in the faint hope OF DO
ing something to allay it. taking his wife
with him. but leaving his daughter at a
school In Paris. At about this time. how
ever. single cannon shot fired at the
rational flag on Fort Sumter shook the
whole country. reverberated even in Europe.
sending some earnest hearts back to do
battle for state or country, sending others
less earnest into inglorious exile. but. sad
Gest of all, knocking over the school bench
of the girl at the Paris Pensionnat- For
that shot had sunk Maynards ships at the
Charleston wharves. scattered his piled
cotton bales awaiting shipment at the
quayS. and drove him a ruined man into
the Home Guard against his better judg
ment. Helen Maynard like a good girl.
had implored her father to let her return
and share his risks BY the answer was
ITO wait until this nine days madness
of uprising was over. That madness
lasted six years. outlived Maynard whose
gay misdoubting head bit the dust at
Balls Bluff: outlived his colorless widow
and left Nelly Denniless orphan
Yet enough of her country was left in
her 10 make her urageous and independ-
ent of her past. They say that when she
rof she cried a litfla and then
laid the letter and what was left of her last
monthly allowance in Madame Ablas lap.
Madame was devastated But you-im-
povsrished and desolated angel!-what of
you? Il shall get some of 1t back" said
the desolated angel with ingenious candor.
for l speak better French and English
than the other girls. and 1 shall teach
them until l get into the Conservatoire, for
l have voice. You yourself have told
papa So" From such angelic directness
there was 10 appeal. Madame Abas had
a heart-more. she had a French mana
geress' discriminating in stinct. The
American schoolgirl was installed in
teachers desk-her bosom friends and
fellow students became her pupils. To
some of the ri-hest, and they were mainly
of her swn country. she sold her smartes:,
latest dresses, jewels and trinkets at a
very good figure-and put the money away
against the Conservative in the future.
She worked hard. she endured patiently
everything but commiseratiol- I'D have
you know. miss she said to Miss De
Lame. DAT ghter of the famous house of
MUSLIN. he Laine & Co. of New York
that whatever my position here may be
it is not one to be patronized by tape
sellers daughter. My case is not such a
very sad one, thank you, and i prefer not
TO be spoken Of as having seen better days
10y people who haven't. There. Don't
rap your desk with your pencil when YOU
speak 10 me- or / shall call out 'Cashr be-
fore the whole Glass; So regrettable an
exhibition of temper naturally alienated
certain of he- oompatriots who were un-
n hai iOfp md
formed considerable colony who were
then TeFeiinS In the dregs of the empire
ana me last orgies of a tottering court
eventually cost her her place.
republican so aristCcratic vas not to be
tolerated by the true-born Americans who
paid court 10 DE Morny for the phosphor-
eScent splendors of St. Cloud and the Tuil-
cries. aid Miss Helen lost their favor
But she had alreadysaved enough for tho
Conservatoire and a little attic in q very
tall house in a very narrow street that
trickled into the ceaseless flow of the r ,a
Lafayette. Here for four years she trottaJ
backward and forward regularly to her
Work. with the freshness of youth and the
lnilexiole set purpose of maturity Here
rain or shine, summer or winter IN the
mellow season when the large cafes ex-
banded under the white suncbine into an
or when the red glow of the brasserie
shoae through frosty panes on the turned
up collars Of pinched Parisians who hurried
by. she was always to be sem
Half Paris had looked into her clear c-rav
eyes and passed on: smaller and NOT
very youthful portion of Paris had turned
AMI followed her with small advantage
10 Itself and happily no fear to her For
even In her young womanhood she kept
her chiids love and knowledge of that
great city: she even had an innocent cam
araderie with street sweepers kiosk keep
ers and lemonade vendors. and the stern
ness or conciergedom melted before her
IN this Wholesome. practical childs experi-
ence she naturally avoided or overlooked
what would not have interested a child,
ana so Kept her freshness and a certain
national shrevd simplicity invincible
There is story told of her girlhood that
one day, playing in the Tuileries gardens
she was approached by a gentleman with
waxed mustache. and a still more waxen
check beneath the heavy-lidded eyes.
There was an exchange of polite amenities
And your name ma petite?' Helen -
responded the young girl, naively. What 3
yoursT' All" said the kind gentleman
calamity. pulling at his mustache: IF YOU
are Helen. ] am Paris" The young girl
raised her clear eyes to his and said grave