Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-20
A PARIS NEW YEAR
You Can Have Your Cards
or Gifts Distributed.
OLD CUSTOMS THERE
Ex-RoYALISTS HAVE REGISTERS
FOR CALLERS NAMES.
Polite Greetings Expected, but on Any
Day Except the First Of
January.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
PARIS. December s, 1902.
There are a dozen agencies in Paris at
the present moment advertising how we'll
they are furnished to do all your New
Year calling for you.
cards, with their corners correctly turn
ed, delivered by hand. by a personnel ou
choixp"
Our young gentlemen are distinguished
in manner, correct in dress (silk hat, cane,
gloves patent leather shoes, fancy frock
coat, trousers, smart town overcoaD; they
have none Of the look Of an agency; we
guarantee that. in every case, they will
make friendly remark to the janitor on
leaving the cards. Tips handed to janitors,
per arrangement"
I'VE do 1t as well as you could do it your
self" ANNOUNCES another firm. Special
terms for mounting the cards to the apart
ments themselves. Gratuities given to ser
wants per arrangement
No agency could go further. No agency
could be more helpful.
There Is need of such agencies. The whole
Paris population of 100000 iabors through
the New Year season, under an almost
unbearable burden of hidebound etiquette.
Every Partisan, no matter what his rank
in life, must-absolutely must-eXpress his
good year wishes to each one Of his
friends and acquaintance.
If you neglect family In this matter
your name is scratched from that family's
visiting list for the next year. Passing you
on the street, its members may fail to per-
ceive you.
Any one, therefore, can make the calcu-
lation for himself or herself. The popula-
ton of Paris is 100000 souls. But throw
out half as being under age or over age
or sick in bed or otherwise incapable. There
will remain 100000 valid -Parisians to
wish each other good and happy year"
1t makes a simple multiplication-1,5 500 600
multiplied by 100000, or 100000, 100000
New Year greetings of one kind or other.
In effect, there are four ways to express
your "souhaits de bonnie annee,' although
there ought to be fifth to guarantee they
sincere. You may express them YER
bally by letter, by cards or by gift, the
latter added to and clarifying any one of
the three others.
There is one other rule, however, very
rigorous in general society. You must not
on the New Year day itself Select some
other day, before or after, in the week.
1t Is not a contradiction. Visits-and con-
sequently the leaving of CARLSON New
relatives and intimates. There are but two
exceptions-first, receptions of officials and
their subordinates and. second, the inscrib-
ing of names the registers of kings in
exile, princes and heirs to thrones on the
spree in Paris and ambassadors.
Fer example, the Grand Duke Vladimir,
the august ia Their OF BOrlS-yOu know BOrfS
is now staying at the Hotel Continental.
On New Year day-as on the emperor
birthday the grand dukes birthday and
other days of ceremony-the Grand Duke
Vladimir will fetch his register out of his
trunk and hand it to his valet The latter
will place it on a small table in ante
room Of the grand dukes apartments. Then
good Russians-and more good Parisians
and others than you would imagine - do
themselves the honor and the pleasure to
stem I'D and write their
Other Registering Stations.
For such as enjoy this sort Of recreation
there still remain certain number of reg
listers in Paris. That of the Due d'Orleans
is kept by his French lieutenant, the young
Due de Luynes. For the ex-Queen Isabella
you inscribe yourself at the Palais de Cas-
tile, Avenue Kleber. just opposite the
American embassy. The eX-Queen of Ma
pies has her register at the Hotel Vouille-
ment, where she has lived forty-two years
in exile. OF the old royal family the Due de
Charities, the Due d Alencon and others of
the younger generation are still open dixie
their registers to the New Year wishes
of the dwindling faithful. OF course, none
Of the actual "pretenders may live on
French soil. Thus Prince Victor Napoleon
keeps his register in Brussels, but his aunt,
the Princess Mathilde, keeps another in her
palace near the American church Of the
Rue de Berri.
If you have been presented to King Ed