The Washington times., 1905-07-09
PARIS ADN|RES
YOUNG ALFONSO
No End Of Stories Told Of
His Ready Tongue.
GOSSIP OF THE BEAU MONDE
Countess Melanie Pourtales an Enter
tainer VINO Turns Sailors Into
Fairyland.

PARIS July S.-Since the visit OF
the stories told of the young monarch s
ready tongue. Here is one which gives a
good idea of his tact As the young SOW
e-eign received a deputation OF manu-
facturers asg shopkeepers he noticed
that. though French, they were all dec
GRATED with the order of Charles " OF
Spain.
"I see that you all wear the same dec
Grafton that 1 do, but with this differ
ence, gcntlemen-that you have earned
yours, whereas 1 got mine through no
special merit of my own, as it was given
to me among other royal presents when
I was born.
Hero is another good story about him.
When he arrived at the ministry of for
eign affairs, after the bomb outrage he
said: 1T isn't true, you know, that /
thought it was a gas explosion: only
said that so as not to alarm the dear
good Mr.. Loubetr
The Kings youthful air. his cheerful
expression, and his merry ways. com
bined with a gift for making pretty
speeches, won the hearts of the French
public It is safe to say that if he keeps
on in his present way he will soon be
the most popular monarch in Europe
Her Salons Like Fai1yiand.
Countess Melanie PourtaIes holds m
disputed sway over fashionable Paris.
md nf
go she is always the leader when It
comes to organizing social entertain
ments. This year che has closed the
season with a grand ball
Never was her beautiful home in the
Rue Tronchet more superbly decorated
to receive her guests than it was upon
this occasion 1t seemed on crossing her
threshold ~ though one had suddenly
entered sU3 enchanted palace of the
Arabian Nights.
From the entrance door to the last of
the salons long garlands of roses and
hortensias, in which the flowers were of
glass. lit UP by an electric current hung
in graceful curves across the ceiling and
encased the doors and windows The
effect was such as the most famous
of fairy princesses in me children's g
books might have envied.
Countess Melanfe Pourtales has all her
life long been celebrated in Paris as
beautifying everything she touched, and
though she is no longer in her first
youth she holds her own admirably in
the midst of younger and ambitious So
ciety leaders.
Countess De Noailles' Latest Novel.
Each year Countess Matthew de NoaiI-
les produces a novel or a volume OF
poetry. Last year she acquired fame
through the publication of a volume
which she entitled lie Visage En1er-
Vile in which she showed us a young
nun haunted by sentimental notions and
engaged in ali conceivable love intrigues
This book has caused considerable
scandal in the world to which The
countess belongs. and. for that matter.
In pretty much aH Intelligent circles in
the French capital. But her last years
book was mere nothing as a shocker
compared with her latest production.
Domination Here the author shows
us all the passions of which mans
heart is capable.
1t Is not necessary TO point out that
some of them are far from proper. and
IT must be admitted that, to say the
least. Countess Mathieu de Noailles' last
novel is frankly immoral Decidedly. the
: longer l live, the more convinced 1 be-
, come that women We're created to be
mothers not writer's.
Four Russian Beau Brummels.
In the last century the height Of
fashion was personiied by a single in
dividual- Count d'orsai was the King
OF fashion during the reign of Louis