Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-28
HERO OF 4 CARTOON
Count BonI castelIane Affords
Paris a Laugh.
INCLINED TO SIMPLE LIFE
But He win Fight to Retain His Seat
a Deputy.
ECHOES AFTER THE CRASH
How the Countess Sold tho Autos
Stories Of the Irish Tailor and
the Oxford Tutor.

the Oxford Tutor.
/ Special Correspondence Of The Star
PARIS July Is, 1906
| A1l Paris is laughing over fulI-page car
| toon of which Comte Boni de Castellane is
hero.
While he never arrived at setting mems
| fashions. young Castellane has always been
smiled at in Paris as a curly headed tall
| or.s block. When first elected deputy Tor
congressman he said: my object is to
| teach those fellows how to wear their frock
| coatsr' And the present cartoon makes a
sort OF final exposition of that glorious Cas-
| teIlane speciality.
| For month past fashionable Paris has
been startled by the apparition of an Elijah
come to judgment white-bearded pa
1 triarch with white locks falling over his
shoulders, bare foot on sandals and clad in
| a single seamless garment. He walks with
a pilgrims staff and a bundle of tracts.
He calls himself a prophet to awake tho
sleeping Babylon: and his thesis Is the
| simple life. In Fashionable alleys OF the
Paris Bois he stops the SWEETEST prcmenad-
ers and harangues them nightly:
day! Sleep BY night! Eat herbsl Throw
| OF those expensive trappings and dress In
a seamless garment
| He is a naturist, because he warns men
back to nature Well, the famous cartoon
shows the naturist just lie has stopped
/ Count P.)ni in the wonderfully popular new
promenade beside the Alice des Acacias and
| called THE Path of Virtue.
The naturalist is hypnOtizing Boni. He
stands rigid. accusing. implacable. The
wind plays through bis snow white beard
| and locks. What dost thou?" he asks
| Boni.
| Aud Count PonI- In the most ma guifi -oOt
| of his frock-coats-lets his eyes fall mod
estly and his hands fall ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
| II feel am growing wonderfully natu-
| rali'' says Boni. And all Paris gufaws.
All Paris looks on 1t as a tremendous
| Joke that Boni should be finally without
| money.
TRANQUILITY Counted Boni Out.
| Don't vote for Castellane, he has no
money leftr' cried his political opponents
| in the recent elections. That they have just
| invalldated his seat as deputy on the
ground of fraud and corruption is not look
ed on as a contradiction. Though he had
| a majority of LOO votes, they TRANQUILITY
| counted him out. Now he receives condol-
ences in his mothers house. where he is
| beloved. but departed wife prominently
| placed on his writing desk.
II remain in the breach mot breechl. he
has telegraphed to the mayor of Castellane;
which means that. as his seat has been de-
! cared vacant, he will run again.
AS to the photograph OF Anna Could
Castellane which he keeps faithfully on his
desk, Parisians say yes, 1t Is, of course.
possible to go on loving a woman deyotedly
| after she has not only Withdrawn your In
come, but actually sold your last antomo-
bile under your nose, bat it ought to be
| diflcult The story of how madame sold
| the automobiles is considered what they
| call a ''bien bonne''-a good one.
After the Comtesse de Castellane had ned
&l,aJ nta a nd o.
ceedfngs Boni sent his father to urge her
| to return to the pink palace temporarily.
| for their joint dignity. Il cannot permit
| the mother of my children to live in a Paris
hotel" he said. II will quite the house.
| Let her return to it!
Not on your life!'' her lawyers warned
| her: Should you go back for single hour
represent 1t as a reconciliation
The French courts are full of such cases.
| For years past judges-acting with benevo-
feature of the law a trap for the unwary
divorce-seeker. and the lawyers of the
countess told her of the following case In
point:
After the legal ''enquete" by Judge In
chambers. when her divorce was well under
way. much-lnjured wife was quitting the
court house behind her husband
The street was deserted, and the willy
husband had an inspiration. He slipped,
fell and lay still II could not leave him
| like that" the wife told afterward. Il had
no suspicion. Out OF humanity 1 dragged
him to his feet, called cab. put cordial
into him at the nearest cafe. drove him to
our old apartment, and helped him up
stairs. Well. he had his witnesses Result:
He set up q reconciliation. His lawyer
pleaded 1t eloauently-and the Judge re-
fused me my divorcet
Sale Of the Autos.
When the Countesse de CastelIane let
Boni know that she was posted on the
law he showed up noble. Without another
word he sent her lawyers a full legal I'M
dertaking. duly executed. not to plead
reconciliation should the countess return
temporarily to the palace.
The countess returned, and one of her
first acts was eloquent both of her implac-
the noble offer was but a noble bluff.
Within two days there was stir in the
Avenue de la Grande Armee, the automo-
bile-mongering street of Paris.
1.-The Countess de Castellane Is selling her
automobilesf' News of the good thing ran
from friend to friend. The Castellane
chauffeur was besieged by SPECTATORS Of
fering commissions. but the secret had
been too much told: true. there were nine
magnificent autos, but there was court
yard full of spectators. Madame saw
them from her bower and asked what
they might be.
1t was too late to rob her and at the same
time hold up the SPECTATORS. Wen have
an auction sale!'' said madame and when
premises she said: Let each one make
his offer In sealed envelopei"
So she sold those nine autos to nine diff
ferent spectators that same day-at great
loss true, but the loss rather attached to
the carrosserie, the upholstering and the
fancy fixings. One vehicle had its rose
velvet cushions covered with magnificent
Irish point lace The Spectator who got
1t for nothing made it into a lace gown for
his wife.
Having sold the autos, madame put the
mass of the money In her pocket: and she
would have sold the horses, had not credi-
tors stepped in with an attachment the
next day.
Among these creditors there Is one who
dates from the earliest days and to whom
Boni de Castellane should have displayed
more gratitude. He Is an Irish tailor
Indeed, there Is extraordinary inter-
national tetralogy in the life Of this young
man. At the most critical moment of his
youthful fortunes he was made by an Irish
man (this tailor: then he was sustained
by an American This wife1, financially
ruined by a Frenchman (himselD. and,
finally. smashed by an Englishman-the Ok
ford tutor of the case, of whom you shall
hear presently.
That it was an Irish taiior-soleIy and
simply-who made it possible for Boni de
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