The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-03-10

as thoroughly by the active particle
pants IS by those who come as her
guests to be entertained. She means
TO have a children's party-not your
ordinary, everyday children's party, in
which the young folk ape the society
manners of their elders, but a new
style of fancy dress and semi-mas-
querade. There VIII be toddlers as
young as five, and boys and girls as
old as twelve. and they are to appear
In character costume. Cinderella and
the usual group OF fairy queens will
be there, but there will be many novel
addltlons. Admiral Dewey and Gen.
Miles will appear in full uniform. and
VIII be saluted by midshipmen and en-
signs, and hob-nob with King Edward
and his queen Then there will be a
little Mrs. Chadwick and three or four
pank presidents, to say nothing of a
peVy OF real society, all under seven
years, who will appear in the most
startling decollette costumes imagin-
able-and this hit at fashionable follies
Is expected to be ''the hit" of the enter
tainment.
The taking of Griffons. Bruxel-
lolses and Brabancons, to say nothing
OF Yorkshire terriers, is not the only
point in connection with those utterly
useless little dogs that Is agitating
LOT Inefe Is a hue
ana cry in Great Britain over the
smuggling of the French pets from the
lana OF champagne, and the matter has
reached such proportions that it
threatens to engage the attention of
the ministry. 1t appears hundreds of
the Griffons are taken into England bv
the underground route every month.
and that an equal number of Braban-
cons is imported in defiance of the law
Whereat the British woman of fashion
smiles serenely, but the British matron
VINO isn't on speaking terms with the
noolilty lifts her hands in holy terror
IL Is Dad enough, says the matron in
substance, for the canine product of
France to be permitted to compete with
nome industries at all, but that il does
so without governmental authority is
too' TOO. much. 1t Is said a parIia-
mentary commission may sit on the
SupJect shortly, and when that august
Douy begins calling witnesses, there's
no knowing where the scandal will
stop. Even Queen Alexandra and the
Princess of Wales may be involved.
POOR Empress Eugeniei How can
sne pear TO revisit Cairo. fraught as the
Whole place must be with tragic recol-
iecllons or the first check to her bril-
liant career? Yet nothing could dis
suade her from her determination to
go TO Egypt again. 1t was in Cairo the
downfall of her imperial husband. the
cruel death of her only son. the world
famous prince imperial, and her long.
SAD widoWhood were foretoId nv the
most celebrated dervish in all Islam
she. was in the zenith of her mower
When, wearing thick veil and accom-
panied by one attendant she visited
the dervish in curiosity and rashJv
asked him for glimpse of her future
he amazed her. the story runs nv
naming her as empress of the French
AT your BIRTH" he continued che
stars toretold for you great power and
greater sorrow, for your happiness VIII
De only temporary, but your sorrow viii
last forever. You are doomed to lose
your throne, your husband and your
son, and to wander alone through the
world like lost star. These events
VIII not happen at once. II they did
you would die. To you as an empress
IL VIII not be permitted to enter the
land OF your husband or your son. ex-
cept by permission of those Won de-
splse You VIII have to seek a homo
with strangers. and the dress of woe
Will never leave your form. Your lew
els VIII be tears She threw a nurse
OF golden louis at his feet. called him
an impostor and fled from his cell
W lu she remember the fearful nredic-
tlon and its still more terrible fuIfiIl-
inent as she strays forlornly throupb
tne streets of Cairo9