Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-16

| after hundred miseries, died in Brazil, her
| husbands place of exile and Nine De
Boulancy. the guiltIess confidante of Ester
| hazNs contempt for present-day French
| men. driven from Paris by the silly rage
OF public opinion.
Il am absolutely convinced vrote Ea,ar
hazy to Nine. De Boulancy that this peo-
pIe IS not worth the ammunition to xiii It,
ana all the little tipsy-woman cowardces to
which the men give themselves nm confirm
me in my opinion. For me there 10 one
human quality. and that ia completely
lacking in Frenchmen; and IL I were to be-
10 toid I'M, rhis evening that tomorrow should
pc Killed as Uhlan captain cutting down
farlSlans should be perfectly happy oh
their on dit Que,' with the ON anonymous
ana cowardly, and these unspeakable imita-
lions OF men running from one woman to
another with their filthy gossip would they
not make sad figure in the red sunlight OF
battle, in a Paris taken by assault and
given over to the pillage of hundred thou
sand drunken soldiers?'
Made a Scnpegoat.
1t is a dozen years ago that Esterhazy
wrote this amiable appreciation to his
cousin. the playmate of his childhood and
the CONSIDER of his ripper years Nine De
Bouiancy does not seem to have been on
cordial terms with Nine. Esterhazy On
the other hand. Mme De Boulancv swears
that she herself did not give IN those LOT,
ters for publication. In some mysterious
way, however, they came to see the light
OF publication; and her dearest enemy could
not wish greater revenge on the "Uhlan's"
unfortunate correspondent. The Parisians
rather timid of the redoubtable command
ant. TOOK 1t out on Nine. De Boulancy As
Tor Nine. Esterhazy she has her divorce
Refined and retiring, she bore the eat
ing up of her fortune without a murmur
She bore the insult of Esterhazys collage
with Marguerite Pays. She permitted Es-
terhazy to complain in the Paris papers of
ner famflys stinginess and his own sacri-
hces to support her-at a time when she
was giving him money. But when he had
t tne indelicacy to speak of the state of her
nealth-and that falsely-as an excuse for
MS sallantry Nine. Esterhazy revolted and
smut her door forever on the man.
Meanwhile Marguerite Quatre-Doight, as
she was once called at the Moulin Rouge,
laughed gayly and proudly as "her COM
mandant" steered their frail boat, over
loaded with sinister secrets, through the
rapids Of the lola trial, his own court-mar-
tial and dozen criminal instructions. It
was marguerite Pays who made the say
guerite Pays invented the flower pot hiding
place Tor secret papers. Marguerite PAYS
carried Esterhazy's poison for him. lest It
should be taken from him before he could
Rouge girl to the ruined French officer
never Wavered. She went cheerfully TO
prison for him. She sneered at a brihe Of
s2o'ooU. 1t broke Esterhazy's heart because
she did not take 1t. Think what a time
we could have had spending itr' he moaned
10 her In London. Whereupon she only
again. In London she is the rage.
as the right sort and a real little brick
10 men who tolerate her man only by night
around the supper tables of the Cafe ROYAL
ct Esterhazy is a great and somber genius
OF whom the world has not yet heard the
last. To Marguerite he is 1.-The man who
ha hal aP
Blanche
Then there is Nine Bodson. for whom
Dfeyfus-oh, long time ago-forgot his
studies for a moment. A witness at Rennes
mas TESTIFIED to remark that will make
MI bodSon historical character in
rance The witness did not like the COM
pany he met at Mrs. Bodson's, and he
olurted it out frankly at the second inter
view. But 1 am very happy to hear thar,
cried the friend and conffdante of a day.
VINO mad picked him up in the Bots
=, Don think those people are my friendsl
Ihey are the friends of my wife and Won
must have perceived that Drevfus is her
over! He wanted to chase Dreyfus from
ne army; and it was then that the solemn
du Breuil made the remark that
las made the name of BodSon SYNONYMOUS
With resignation: Il attributed this TO his
ilscontent as a wronged husband, and re-
'ponded: Monsieur Bodson if they were
% chase out OF the French army every Off
,er VINO has taken his neighbours wife, per-
laps there would be a famous cleaning IN
If the lists!' "e
BOrup Their Guest
Inc Bodsons ought to be peculiarly in
ereStlng to Americans because it was at
helr reunions-now so famous-that our
'Wn one-time military attache to France
ne enlgmatic Captain Borup, figured-at
east In the eyes of the information DEPART
nent-as a vague menace to the patrie
oorup served his country, they saw "a
and Panizzardi served
heirs. at risk and peril. When caught trad
ns forbidden secrets he could not in honor
Plead the baby act'' and tell the truth
hat all the other attaches were doing the
anne thing. So he accepted his lot in
ilence. If this Dreyfus case will have done
10 other good, 1t will at least have demon
trated the evil of Transforming honorable
oldiers into spies. And Nine. Bodson?
line Bodson still exists. She still receives
And there are gay times at her Sunday
venings.
Without the revelation of the Dreyfus
ase many people would still be ignorant of
he confidential relations always existing
etween the Paris police and the janitors of
arts apartment houses-yours or mine
rhen anything worth notice goes on in
hem. ESterhazy's concierge. the woman
ierard, kept a diary in which she wrote
own everything she saw, heard or sus-
ected. all the while maintaining the
riendiest intimacy with her tenants.
STERLING HELLO.