The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-07

unofficial work at such places as the
Figaro reception rooms. 1T is more i'm
portant,' he remarked once. that an am
bassador be a man OF the world, than he
pose as the advance guard of an army
You can cement the friendship between
two countries just as well over an infor-
NAL cup of tea as in your office with your
grand Gordon under your dress coat"
All the came the "cup of tea" of
which he spoke. is conspicuous by its
ahsende at knese gatherings. II you
want to eat or drink there you will
have TO bring your provender in your
pocket. 1t is related that the witty and
fiippant Parisienne, Madame the Con-
Jesse de Martel, known to the world as
"Gyp," once humorously insisted to NJ.
de Roday that as she had been invited
to a Five O'clock" it was his manifest
duty TO provide her with tea and cakes.
She argued the point with such learning
and force that NJ. de Roday finally
brought her and her stawart son out of
the offices and solemnly bought them
each cup of tea and q cake at the cafe
at the corner. Nine. de Martel pocketed
her cake, threatening to have II put in
a glass case In her salon and labeled
Reward of diligence; the only article of
nourishment ever known to have been
accorded to a guest at the Figaro Five
O'clock"
The fetes are very cosmopolitan, just
as in a sense they are very exclusive.
A Spanish dancer who has freshly bios
somed in Paris may share with the au-
thor of a profound history or the orig
inator Of a new school of painting the
glory of being the guest of the day.
And among those who will be brought
up to kiss her hand and say light moth
ings there may be a Russian grand
duke, a little king, the Prince of Wales
and a new Norwegian or Swedish writer.
You can hear all languages round you
in the sale and one we'll known French
writer declared the other day at liter
airy cafe that he proposed to prepare
profound treatise on the charact eristic
laughter of different nations, taking as
the basis of his observations, what he
called the Cosmopolitan Laughter heard
at the Figaro Five O'clocks
Among the perennial habitues of the
Figaros sale are the journalists of Paris
and the foreign correspond in the city.
Here they CLEAN from the lips of society
women the latest gossip of the butter
fly world Sardou will take them by the
button-hole to explain TO them the idea
and treatment of his new play The favor
of a little article will be solicited from
them by the latest candidate for the
green embroidered jacket of the Forty
Immortals of the Academy, THE For
ty Thieves of Fame" as a disappointed
aepirant in his wrath once called those
who sit in the coveted fauteuils and keep
others from becoming Immortal. Depu~
ties of the chamber are there seeking by
ingratatng ways, by mods and becks
and Wreathed smiles" to procure that
adulation and advertisement which is as
the breath of life to them in their van
- fVA Of fha c1fh
tly true saying of Lord Beaconsfield, the
witty Premier of England, and author
of so many brilliant society novels: '"T'he
two vainest classes Of men," he said,
"are journalists and members of parlia~
ment; and each is vain of knowing the
other"
The Five O'clocks'' in fact are rich
mine to the writer. who can pick up
there in an hour or two enough matter
to fill his whole paper with light gossip
and anecdote of the Partisan flavor and
substance which all the world loves to
reed. In a certain Western newspaper
office It used to be the consigne, when
you don't know what to write. liquor
up" The Paris foreign correspondent.
who is hard pressed for a subject, need
not adopt that crude method of intellec-
tual stimulous. If he wants to keep in
touch with the fevered, laughing life of
Paris, which he has to recount to his
readers, he has but to put in a diligent
appearance at the Figaro, and his note
book will run over with light, readable
matter, the cream of the talk and vivaci-
ty of this city of witty conversational
lists.
These Five O'clocks'' are functions
which the travelling American ought to
see. But let him be wiser than our
worthy biscuit manufacturing friend, and
not hona To hi1v an invita tinn