The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-31
rRANcEs NEW PRESIDENT.
Something About Monsieur Fallieres
 and His Family.

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 Something About Monsieur Fallieres and His Family.
 The newly-elected president of France is combination of farmer, lawyer and politician. He will be no more stick Ter for formal etiquette than his prede- cessor Loubet has been.
 He has already returned to his fore noon health walk of two or three miles. It is taken unknown to the police sent to watch over his safety and alone, without any protector but an umbrella. In his walks he often drops into the studio of some sculptor or painter, for, 1 like most Frenchmen, he is keenly m iterested in artistic subjects.
 It has been for years his habit when feeling hungry to step into bakers and buy one of those crescent-shaped rolls of delcately favored bread and to eat 1t standing in the shop, or even in the street walking along.
 There is no more hospitable entertain CT is an unaffected way than M. Fall Heres. His table is not luxurious, and is except on days of grand parade" distinctly bourgeois, but excellent. on the day of his election he kept sixteen visitors to dine with him. Mme' Fal- Ilieres had to send out, as she often did before to a restaurant for supplement tai plats. The host brides himself on his cellar and on his own white wine vintage, for which he claims as good renown as any enjoyed by the white Bordeaux.
 Mime. FalIieres, when she came to Paris in 1877, had a head of jet black hair of vigorous growth. It is now nearly white, but the vigor remains, and it gives picturesque character to the head and forehead, which is almost of masculine size and development. There must be a deal of fine brain be- hind it.
 At the time I speak of, says the edi- tor of Truth, the accentuated aquiline of the nose, the dark complexion re- minded me of Mrs Humphrey Ward, and the eyes, too, when Mrs. Ward smiled and looked pleased. But those of Mime. Fanieres had variety of ex- pression and often an intensity only to be found in those of a South of France Iwornan of non-aristocratic birth
 The eminent English lady whom l Ihaye just named had in a far greater degree the refinement of breeding and Ieducation. but not in higher degree an air of race. Mime. Fallieres was much Hess tall and already plump, but of weli-turned figure, which gave no warning of her present physical devel- Ioprnent. She did not hide her strong faith in her husband, her admiration for his many fine qualities, and she felt proud to have been the first to divine them. She insisted on marrying him about forty years ago, when all the wiseacres of Nerac thought him wild lpolitician who would certainly provoke the imperial government to transport lhim to Cayenne
 Mime. Fallteres resolved, for her hus- hands sake. never to make an enemy and to cherish as a rare treasure every friend. She kept, so far as politics went, out of the arena and protessed herself merely housewife devoted to her husband and two children, both of whom were his images. Her means en- Iabled her to be hospitable in the home lIv. hearty South of France manner She had the amount of religious devo- tion necessary for a respectable bour- geoise.
 Her devotion to Armand" had so sharpened her nerves that she could tell by the sound of the doorbell wheth- ar A friend or a hidden foe had come to see him. It is doubtful whether with a wife of a different character he could have remained so disinterested and so faithful to his inner light and higher instincts.
 Armand" had a fair, ruddy counte- nance, could have been psalmist if he had but had religion, for he was de- lightful poet, and had sunlit blue eyes that won sympathy wherever he ap- peared.
 As to the children, the son is rising ar risen advocate at the Paris bar. If he has his fathers fair hair, ruddy face blue eyes, and nose, he has ye- hement eloquence in pleading not pa- ternal. He has long been his fathers first secretary, which somehow has not stood in his way of his legal practice, which Is chiefly in civil affairs.
 The daughter, no longer in the first bloom of youth, is of sylph-like fig ure. fair blue-eyed, and may be spoken of as distingue and interesting. Her friends saw in Chatrain's portrait of Miss Alice Roosevelt a resemblance to her. There is similarity of figure, eom- plexion features,