The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-03

business wisdom Of this policy was proved sc
many years ago that It 10 regular part OF the
late summer dealings OF local merchants with
the visiting buyers The increase In the number
OF WON IN who como annually othe city to buy
from the local firms. made IL seem necessary
to do something for their amusement. DO that
need was gradually looked after BY the Local
wholesale dealers II has now become part
fths duties OF the younger employees In these
firms to provide for the entertainment OF the
BUYERS from Other sltss pf'S BE-
eS'' .h. E''n af tnH the s''fi pusins'. Hfc
ShESrts Of shS rcSuanss.ss p0 :sd
It's easy for ' tRss. youns men to oier cir
Ser ~ We 70 so non q,
y the theatre, and similar. diysrsions help
leagues do. Such q course would not have
who 70 New York only
timo ago was not large enough to make 1t
into account They are regular features Of the
SSui,ine,s year now-a.daXs. and IN the hotels
may ;. seen taxing with tf' tRslr col.asaes q
| the other sex. who are apparently perfectly
willing to discuss business with them on equal
| terms.
| Itwould have taken tho pen OF Baizac to do JUS
tco to tho career OF y woman who hanged her
| self In Berlin last winter. When her escapades
finally brought her moro firmly than she had
ever been before into the grasp Of the law. she
got cut OF the way herself, and her own mise
ries came TO an end. But the malignant Unfit
ence OF her life had boon too powerful to end
| with her death. Her installations had ex-
tended too far to be checked Immediately. 30
the trial OF the Duchess de Bauffremont, ono
OF the women who had befrende ed her. followed
| the death OF the suicide in North Germany.
Everybody who came into her orbit met dis
aster as consequence OF her acduain tance.
This was more or less serious according to tho
degree OF intimacy. The Duchess de Bauffre-
mont is one Of tho curious figures to be met in
the flctsam and jetsam of Continental life.
She has title. and at one time had boon a
woman OF wealth. But for long time she has
lived In n frowsy circle Of adventurers rather
tho victim Of most Of Thorn. lending the use OF
hor title to their schemes Just she at ono time
put much Of her great fortune at their disposal.
For the past few years she lived at one OF the
small Paris hotels with her dauEht and their
cheap apartm ents were thronged with strange
SGT Of Adventures from every country in Flu
rope She had her own career in London. War
saw and Vienna, but lives to-day with her title
and reputation as the only m en- cries OF hsrfor
NOR wealth. Until she met Rveline Tilkln. the
Duchess at least escaped prison. The woman
Of title makes a shadowy background for the
active, seheminR. vivid figure OF her young
associate. an adventures who hanged herself
because the geographical limit Of her yillanes
had finally been reached.
The Duchess. born of an Official family In
dowry Of nearly s560o.06o. lie died Of cid
age within short time alter their marriage.
and draEes Of her fortuns Much OF it went to
the Church and considera bic wasIwasted In her
desire TO make brilliant matches Tor ths i'm
pecunious parasites who gathered around her.
TO marry them of wei Was one OF her am b.
tons, and to this her INA downfall is due. TO
her shabby salon. flIst with titled adventur-
ers. some OF them authentic and others
spurious Game the Tiikin woman. She was
EoinE TO play on the old wonan's passion for
Kysllps was az daughter q IeIan trades
ness vas suoS that he dsd Of Gt and
grief before she was nineteen. Evelins on
ioysS all the pleasures Of paEis life o hat her
s1d came with him e the UniteS states: while
t!nehta cities and Ev.Iine soon wear sd Of
THAT she wanted title and assumed one
This spurious distinction was not to her lk-
with man Of wealth and title. She offered a
Il5sr3i c9m1iss!9n e The RuShsss when they
be found The old WON an genius for oiF a;ch-
making had not been exhausted BY forty years
81 w9f Tor She Seeded on re he bus
orablc man that has appeared in this long
string Of frauds and ntrisuers. He was Henri
baron de Courcel. the former French Ambassa-
dor to the Court of 81. James. To mako such a
bride ssould have some claims to noble birth.
1t was easy enough to find a nubeman to act
as an one weEa p ats 40 ,ne e
impoverished Polish prince living in Paris had
these requisites and disposition to lend him
"a oh n hA opl fa.,
years oder than the woman who was to pe his
daughter That objection was finally overcome
was said to have been born in Venice Thither
went the Duchess, her godson. a Florentine
OF birth necessary for her marriage.
The Duchess was remembered by at least
a The tho ehurch
Venice contained, of course. no record OF the
birth OF any such person as tho Belgian ad-
to Paris win iorged cs sa Il
va, Vas rsysT nerded ior Ne Gonspiracy against
its bearer happsned 40 be waiter in q cato
Tropbet,koy. With the. pervsrs!ty of fate.
'G fell nn IN o1. R9b
hero and she left her husband to become the
gatEns WIFI .t Lncty h; learned before tho
ready maTrisd. She had indeed been mar
sian chapel in Geneva with great corsmony
In the litigation that arose over thu ring the
forgery OF the certificate Of birth became
known, All the titled plotters. spurious and |
genuine. all ,miserably sordid. i'm pecunious
and ,deprayed. were arrested; A duchess who |
lived In II NTH rate hotel. n prince who waited
In a cafe. and Polish priuce who sWore him
self tho father Of woman nearly as old as |
himself for few francs these were tho figures |
In the strange conspiracy. Evslinc. seeing the
end Of a. hope for her projects. after the az
posure OF the case. hanged hersel ii in a Prus
sian jail, She threw all the blame OF the affair
on tho Duchess The old woman came ont ~
her trial with but little additional damage TO
her reputation. The other eonspiratorS
escaped with slight sentences. None Of them
was so in terestinR as tho state of aocistxt