The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-17
Eat DEENGLEE (DINGLEY.)
Trials of Mile. Paoia del Monte Caus-
ed by the Tariff

! New York, Sept. 17.-BIlle. Paola del
! Monte, the French dancer and singer.
| who hopes next Monday TO b. gisl an
! engagement at Roster & Balls muse
/ hall, was i'll in her apartment at the I'M
perlal hotel yesterday with Dlngley
| fever
Mile del Monte. who arrived from
Paris on the st. Paul last Friday even
ing. had seven trunks full of costumes.
They were all held by the customs Off
Gals until she should pay the duty up
on them.
In vain she expostuIated; fruitless
were her frenzied declarations that the
costumes were as old a s her manager,
NJ. Maurice Forbee, of the Folies-Ber-
gere.
'Pay!" roared the heartless agent.
In order to gain time NJ. Forbee, who
is a little man, inquired how much the
! tax would be. He was told the duty
would be sixty per cent of the real val
ue of the goods.
] NJ. Forbee broke this as gently as
might be to Mile Paola del Monte, who
tainted in her carriage. She was drlv-
en- to her hotel, where she has since
been in feverish condition:
lie nglee!" she exclaimed yesterday.
with INFINITE scorn, Il hate eem. am
desolees."
''Madcmofselle spik no Eengllsh.' said
her manager, enthusiastically, but she
this 'Deenglee' bill. If we know it we
never come here. We have nothing in
the trunks but old costumes. she have
d
they say she must pay seeksty per cent
duty. Bah!
The costumes are in France. worth
10000 francs, what you call $4,000. Well
we must pay $4,000 TO get them"
"Oh, Eat DeengleeI" sobbed MademoI-
selIe.
shall you pay the duty?"
Nom" almost shrieked NJ. Forbee;
1--WE cannot pay SO much. 1t will be
ridicule. We go back unless NM. kos
ter & Bal give bonds. The costumes
are passe. 1 tell you. Why should we
pay for them over again. Ma, no; we
go back!''
''Ah, perfde Deenglee!" CALCULATED
Ma demoiselle, rolling her black eyes in
thor of the tariff bill tremble could he
have beheid their bri.liancy.
"Mademois lie is frlghtfully nervous"
continued M. Forpee. she try yester'-
day to learn little Eengiish song, but
it is always Deenglee that is in her
head. I fear she can never forget that
name"
ZEE YER b-a-a-d man, NJ. DeengIee!"
repeated MadamOise lie.
You see," cried n. Forbee, q have
to get her a little song with Deeng- &c
in it or she learn nothing. She try yes
terday the song AT Isle de Gomez" but
it was no use. 1t was always Deenglee,
instead of Gomez"
"Mademoiselle is a singer, then, as
we'll a dancer?"
"Oh, oui," said NJ. Forbee innoceatly.
"She sirg much like Mile. Held, the on
ly difference being hat Mile. del Monte
have a voice. But what is voice with
out costumes?
But 1 think we get them tomorrow.
What will this man Deenglee do when
Mile. Cleo de Merode comes? She have
a houseful of costumes. She can never
pay. She must go back to Paris like
us. Poor Mile. de Merode."
Mile. al Monte began to weep silent
ly; her maid, Celestiue, soon Joined her
tears TO the shining stream provided by
her mistress, and NJ Forbee removed
his glasses and rubbed them vigorously
with his handkerchief. The densest
special agent of the customs service
would have been moved by the specta-
Gle.
''Oh, that Deenglee1'
Like the wall of a burdened soul the
name rang through the corridors of the
hotel In the lobbes on the ground
floor they were laying odds against
mademCiselle getting her costumes.