The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-17

dispatched all the important but uninter-
esting business Of the day and is ready 10
go to her famously beautiful music room
or spend half hour with her secretary
From her desk to her kitchen runs aiso
a pneumatic tube, by which written OF
ders. letters to be posted and notes TO De
delivered are dropped right into the zap
of the servant. In winter the house is
heated throughout, while in summer con-
cealed electric fans drive a conunuat
breeze through the tiled hall and the long
drawing rooms that are partly 1uThlshe"
with palms and Towering plants.
Houses like this have not failed TO open
French Women's eyes and make IL clear
to them why the American women get on
with so few servants and yet manage 70
keep house and maintain their place u,
society as well, beside carrying on WAN. AL
these cares so difficult and distinguishes
a profession as that followed by MITE
Story.
Two Famous HostesseE.
Among the American hostesses In Paris
who have astonished the natives by their
splendid hospitality and Western innoVa-
lions is Mrs. Moore, on the Avenue MO,
Der, and Mrs Tuck who owns the mooei
apartment on the Champs Elyssecs' a
hush of something like awe comes over
Parisians when they speak of Mrs Moore
white marble mansion, with It's Greek ter :
race at the back where specially favored
friends are sometimes asked to exquisite
little breakfast parties The terrace aiio
garden are even more perfect than those
at the famous hotel Ritz, and from It's
grassy lawns a visitor can step down 10
faultless basement gymnasium and 10
the white marble plunge bath. Every fair
morning in spring breakfast Is served In
the garden and the faultlesS meals are
designed and chiefly prepared by a fat'
black. clever negro woman who was I'M
ported for the purpose from Virginia.
Mrs. Tuck is the lady who taught
French architects how to build apart
ments on the American plan. Until her
coming two and three-story apartments
were unknown in Paris. but In the hand
some building on the Champs Ulysses a
duplex was contrived with buffers pam
try fitted in detail from America. Mrs
Tuck entertains lavishly on the great
boulevard and out at her country place
next door to Malmaisop. In fact. her
house is built on a portion of the property
that once belonged to Josephine, and the
rooms of the Americans mansion are flll-
ed with exquisite empire furniture that to
collectors is almost worth Its weight in
gold for much of 1t was used by the sad
empress in her years OF unnatural widow
hood
A trife further along from Mrs. Tuck
apartment, and on the most beautiful
street in Europe, stands the Evans house,
now the temporary Partisan dwelling OF
MIR. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, who are
keeping open house during the exposition.
and give notable luncheon parties in tbs
famous stained glass breakfast room of
this truly regal residence. All the walls
and ceiling of this room represent scenes
OF Roman Greek, Persian and mediaeVel
feasts; the floor is done in glass mosaic.
and under the regime of ehe Potter Pal
mers. not only the delicacies that the
French markets afford, but every dainty
from America, is served quite as II the
fastest steamers required five hours In
stead of five to seven days to cross the
ocean.
A Ike lberality in entertaining pre-
walls in the lovely house presided over by
Mrs. Horace Porter, who, though she
found it ample for her needs and charm
ingly furnished. preferred to have bath
rooms attached to all the bedrooms, as
in her New York home, and was ac-
cordingly provided with these convent
ences. that in the American estimate OF
life are the common necessaries for de-
cent living.
DO you wonder we gasp when we hear
of women who merely speak like the fav-
ored few in the Arabian Nights" and
are Immediately obeyed?" asked the
French woman who talked IL over. I'VE
gasp and are learning all the time from
this handful of rich Westerners. On the
other hand, 1 think the 10000 Americans
resident of Paris have taught us 10 be
shockingly extravagant, and the very fact
of their living here. their style of en-
Pertaining and their luxurious demands
have in the past fifteen years raised the
whole scale of living 80 per cent. in re-
fnement as well as in cost"
Emily Holt