Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-28
DUKE DRANK WINE
FROM W0MAN'S
SLIPPER
Philadelphia North American.

Philadelphia North American.
- - MESS the demon press agent is
again at work, another member Of
royalty is diverting himself by
purchasing large quantities OF
wine for American chorus girls ana quall-
ing 1t from their slippers.
This time it is the Grand Duke Boris
of Russia, who has recently blazed vlo-
lently festive way from the Orient 70 chi
cago. including a boisterous stop-on at
San francisco. 1t was in Chicago that ne
acquired the chorus-girl habit
With a party Of retainers his HignheSs
went to see a comic opera, the name OF
which is given conspicuous place IN
the dispatches. 1t is evidently an opera
company addicted to the blondes, and the
curtain had not been up long before the
Grand Duke followed the example. OF the
opera company.
Summoning the Baron Schlippenback,
who is Russian Consul in Chicago, ne ol-
rected him to go behind the scenes. gain
er together the ladies of that complexion
and assemble them at a midnight supper.
This required a more delicate diplomacy
than even the astute Schlippenback was
accustomed to, for there were brunettes In
the company, too. but he executed the
embassy with skill and address, as the
sequel proved.
Royal Supper to Actresses
Six golden-haired ootlight nymphs
were at the table at the appointed hour,
and 1t is said that their entertainment
lacked nothing in royal hospitality. There
was wine and crystal to drink 1t from.
but the Grand Duke. either conscious OF
precedent or instructed by me press
agent, made the customary speech con-
corning the superior flavor Of wine when
drained from chorus-girls slipper, and
presently he was trying TO perform the
difficult task of drinking champagne from
twelve slippers at the same time.
That he was impartial in the bestowal
of his favors is evident from the state
ment that nearly ali the girls returned TO
their carriages in their stocking feet, and
that the Grand Duke did not arise next
day until o'clock in the afternoon.
His last recorded utterance on that occa-
sion was to the effect that II would be the
brunettes' turn in New York, to which
city he is now bound. r...t
The peculiar allurement to which the
Grand Duke Boris has succumbed is not
by any means new. Strangely enough, it
appears only to those of the highest cir
cles of society, chiefly royaisy and noOil-
itv. Therefore he has had many illus
trious exemplars. 1t is not on record lat
they all drank wine from the slippers OF
their charmers, but they certainly all
bought IL, and in almost every case the
siren was a stage person.
Charles II. and Nell Gwyn. Napoleon
and Mile Mars, the Due de Reichstadt
and Fanny Ellsler and Louis Of Bavaria
and Adah Isaacs Menken are, perhaps, the
most notable cases in point, but they are
almost ancient history, and one does not
have to go back so far.
Some Modern PRESIDENTS.
In our own time, there is King Leopold
of Belgium. whose favorite relaxation Is
TO disguise himself as a common" person
and frequent the Partisan cafes with the
particular lady Of the moment. For
long time. she was Cleo de Merode. t
King Milan, of Servia, was more no
torious example because he was quite
careless of public opinion. Besides, he
carried his eccentricities quite too far,
even for royalty.
Other affairs of the kind have been more
respectable in the sense that they have
not acquired so much publicity of detail.
Lord Sholto Douglas, son of the Marquis
of Queensbury, married a concert hall
singer out in our woolly west.
The King of Greece is almost always
entertaining one or two comic opera COM
panies in Paris or elsewhere. and it is ru-
mored that he intends to organize the
atrical syndicate.
Lord Francis Hopes melancholy esca-
pade with May Yohe is contemporary.
The Duke of Manchester completed his