Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-24

OESoPEZ CAN4LIh0 IA,
favorte model at high pay, as goes in the
| world of models. But:
| There is no money in high art" she
| unused one day. and luminous idea struck
| her. She had been posing in Gallo-Roman
| draperies, her gold-brown hair bound with
| ribbons, her arms and shoulders bare-a
| Gallo-Roman Amaryllis calling to her Tity-
rus on the pan-pipes, With photographs
! of three such poses in her hand she went to
| a foremost Paris photographer.
| 1t was toward the beginning of the post
| card craze. The photographer-who has
| since made a fortune in it-saw that the
| girl had found a genre He offered her the
| usual terms, perhaps $50 bill per pose:
| but those post cards were the beginning of
| the fortune of Lutece. The Paris public
| came to revel in her dainty prettiness. She
| appeared in classic poses on the stage,
| and today they have her whenever they
| need artless, unaffected beauty. At Car
| lier's trial she testified that she had not
| paid rent for a year and half.
My landlord brings my rent receipts for
| nothing. since 1 showed him that his house
| filled up only after | moved in" she eX-
! planned seriously. People like to live In
| the same apartment house with great
| artiste.'
Louise Mantle is another who boasts of
| paying no rent. She, too, had small be-
| ginnings-like her sister of the ballet, Cleo
| de Merode, with whom she grew up from
! the age of seven In the. ballet school of
| the Paris Grand Opera. [ once heard tell
| how she and Cleo distinguished themselves
| at ball of the Hotel de Vile in those
! youthful days before either Of them owned
| a single jewel.
Other People Didn't Dance Right.
Those who have seen the charming
! creatures in the mazes of the dance at
! the grand opera naturally imagine what
| splendid partners they ought TO make at
a ball. They laugh about 1t now The
| young son of a Paris politician had OBJ
| tanned tickets for them. He was enam-
| CURED of Mantle. The function was at its
| height The girls had seen the sights and
| taken lots of refreshments.
Now, let's dance" the young fellow said.
| He had brought Cleo a partner. Then the
| terrible thing happened. The girls tried TO
| waltz with them-and could not! They, the
| hope of the grand opera ballet Two of the
most learned little dancers of their age in
| all the world The music don't go right"
! they said, there is no room. The others
| don't dance right And we have never
| learned to waltz like that, just round and
| round held by a man,
Both Cleo and Louise Mantle are today
| well fixed, and like Elise de We're and the
! dashing Casabianca. they may well have
| begun the real estate speculatious that
| alone would have made them warm babies
| by utilizing their rent money and not pay
| ing for their gowns or hats. The seat of
| these speculations is known to be on the
! Coteaux st. Cloud. Anna Held is also
| known to be in IL, well as DOrtZal and
Desprez. In fact. 1t is a kind OF theatrical
booming of building lots, the first time it
was ever worked in Paris Two girls are
known to have sold the same lots half a
dozen times each-but that was an excep-
ton. All the same, the others have come
so well out OF the speculation that they
are beginning TO debate whether real es-
tate-eVen as inVestment-tS not more re-
munerative than jewels
Call
This tendency to put their savings In
Jewels grew out of the successes of Otero
and her imitators, who actually starred on
the strength of them. and furthermore one
can have forced sale" every now and
then.
1 will not name the latest Paris beauty to
pull off this reliable old coup, but para
graphs began appearing that recounted
sympathetically her financial sorrows. She
must part with her wonderful jewels! was
their burden. Fraud. all fraud On the
day of the sale, therefore. You might not
understand a thing you saw. Half the pro-
fessional beauties of Paris were present
Also slick descriptive reporter tor each
of the Paris daily papers. Every mothers
daughter Of the beauties knew that the
jewels there exposed for auction at the
Hotel Drouot were not really those of the
alleged unhappy beauty, but were furnished
by speculative jeweler. Yet you saw the
fair ones bid them UP like forced-sale bar
gains.
word viii explain the mystery. Per
haps they We're a little dear, said one who
had bought a couple of rings, but not so
dear as in a Rue de la PaiX shop and |
get my name In the papers as a buyer-see
the long description. 1t will do good
now-and later on. when [ have my own
sale. And Furthermore with an entranc-
ing smile), the money that bid with was
not ali mine. / was atded!
Such is feminine sagacity-of the style
disclosed by Lucie Gerard in the case of
Charles the Bald.
Why should not a millionaire horse owner
| boost" the fortunes OF young ana tai
euted artistic? Such one accompanied
Lucie to the races. 7 must bet on my own
horse he said and the more so, as he
has good chance to win. Here Is a 500
note. Do you so and bet it. You will bring
me luck. If we win, you shall keep half
the winnings.
Took the Long Odds and Won.
It was only a step to the "Parl mutuel"
| betting booths but Lucie and her friend
Jane Hading had 10 pass the bookmakers to
get there They heard the odds whispered.
-Four to one against Charles the Bald.
Lucie repeated, why that is our horse
janet"
Fifty to one against Dewdspp H. said
a voice nearby.
Il say. jamie. argued the sagacious one
1.-THE baron is a silly. His horse will pay
only 4 to / and Dewdrop will pay 80 TO /!
I'm going to put the money on Dewdrop.
She did it: and when Charles the Bald fell,
throwing three Others the baron told her
gently not to mind At the next obstacle
two more horses came to grief so that the
wretched Dewdrop reached the winning
post-alone.
1--WE vim cried Lucle. Wasn't / sa-
gacious?" AS a fact, Dewdrop paid 10 for
l in the Paris mutuelss
Its all yours said the disguised baron.
as the fair actress came back with her
$1,000 81 could not bet against my own
horsel'
In contrast TO all this easy money getting
know of no more touching history than
the adventure Of CAVALIERS unknown pretty
sister
This sister. Ada Cavaiieri lives in Genoa