New-York tribune., 1903-02-15

diant knobbed cane. from which en1anate eiee-
tric wires, while tiara with electric arcs eheh
ces the poets head. The comments 'i ''e
Partisan papers complimentary ooihs '
tiee to the lecturers undoubtedly brilliant ,ai-
ents. but are. written in tone known aS
doux' somewhat suggestive of the paiatapie
sour and sweet taste of Virginia pickles.
Nine. Therese Humbert. or. to use the nick
name by which she is spoken Oh U" 'e
houleyards. the great and unique Therese'
has acquired a certain undercurrent of popular
synnathy in a preliminary passage of arms thal
on Wednesday and Thursday made the Ninth
chamber of the Palace of Justice the centre Oh
mundane attraction, and bets have oeeh oiieie
at long Odds it is truc-that IN the DIE anu
final trial. the date of which is stiii very iiue
nitely protracted, the great adventures WIN ~
acquitted Among the reasons for the chafise VI
feeling in favor OF the Humberts are the ldiiei
able figure presented in court by the Jaime
Cattaui and because "Therese's' Nicunis ''e
almost all capitalists, company promoters SHARP
eyed hard listed bankers and professional hloheS
lenders. whom the indefatigable Therese accuses
of rs,,,,v and some of whom. according 10 OH
cial experts lent money a go per cent OASIS
The dislike of fnanciers of this class Is 50
marked in Paris that some of the ablest ffei''i
LAWYERS say that Partisan jury, always eager
to pronounce an acquittal. will be readily llilu-
enced by the fact that. after all, the oiiS ie
sufferers are the unpopular money lenders "i
are usually pretty able TO look out for tiieh
selves At all events, Therese Hnmpert eNi-
IDENTIFY has many trump cards up her sleeN e. a'
her horoscope is certainly much more cheeflui,
after her brush with the banker Cattaui. than al
any time since her flight from Paris last spring
President Roosevelts letter TO Mrs Van worst
deprecating the increasing tendency OF Amerl--
cans to shirk marriage duties has been taken up
hy the Paris papers as the text for a lresh cam
paign against the depopulation of France fres-
ident Roosevelts patriotic exhortaton IN laN"t
of parentage has been translated INTO frehon
and published in the leading papers IN Paris ana
the provinces. and NJ. Brieux, the robust and
combative dramatist, who in his plays Eva
sion" Robe Rouge and Les Remplacantes'
made furious onslaughts the medical faculty,
on the judiciary and the employment OF wet
nurses has been stimulated by President Roose-
vet's letter into Fastening the completion OF his
"Maternite," a great work which he hopes VIII
prove his masterpiece, and which VIII soon De
under rehearsal at the Theatre Antoine M
Brieu1 in -'Maternite.'' with. his unshrlnklns
analytical audacity. attacks the institution OF
childless households and the tendency to lnclp-
lent child murder, all the features of which,
censorship permitting, viii be put on the stage
of Antoine's Theatre in the most realistic aspect
demanded by the naturalist school
There was very fashionable audience last
night at the Opera Comique on the occasion OF
the revival Of La Travata, when all the char
acters appeared in costumes and dresses of 49,,
several singers making themselves up TO re-
semble Napoleon III. the Due de Morny, NJ
Rouher and other personages of the Court of the
icat ana
tion of lie Dame aux Cameas," which had not
been given in Paris since June, 1886, proved
highly successful. The vocal honors of the
evening went to young American soprano
Miss Mary Garden, who, after winning her lau-
rels at the Opera Comique Melisande and as
Manon, revealed herself last night delightful
Violetta and elicits from the Petit Journal" a
paper usually hostile to foreign artists, the YER
diet that Mile. Garden scored a merited triumph
that places her definitely among the rank of our
really great artists, for. besides her musical sue
cess, she played the part of Violetta, especially
in the death scene, consummate actress"
The twenty second annual exhibition of
women painters and sculptors opened yes
terday by President Loubet in the Grand Palace
of Fine Arts. There upward of twelve hum
dred numbers in the catalogue. and the Presi-
dent walked for nearly hour veritable vic
Tim OF DUTY III lniS "loeihess oL cdHsaSeS, rep
resenting flowers, fruit, pastoral ny1nphs and
beauties of fugitive Ewes, plaster marble.
The exhibition this year is mediocre and con-
tains no artistic revelation. There several
works however, of real merit First OF all is the
full length portrait in white of Princess Argon-
don by the Marquse de Wentworth, Ameri-
can painter, one of whose pictures hangs in the
National Luxembourg Gallery. The Duchess
dUzes exhibits a large statue Of the Virgin
moulded with great delicacy and anatomical
truthfuness, and Mile Jeanne de Montigny, a
pupil of her stepfather, Comte Suau de la Croix,
sends some beautiful specimens of jewery in
translucfd enamel. style Of ornamentation that
is rapidly gaining favor in Partisan society.
c. l. B..