Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-09
PRIZE BEAUTY'S SMILE
Valued More Than Gold in Ave-
nue. of Paris BoiS.
NOD OF LOVELY CREATURES
They Are Very Saucy and Fear Only
One Thing on Earth.
GUIGNE MICRoBE OF BAD LUCK
High Prosperity From Small Begin
nings-Principles Concerning
Cherries"
Special Correspondence of The Star.

| Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS, May.27, 1906.
There is an avenue where beauty's smile
of recognition is priced more than gold.
It is the famous Allie des Acac:as in the
Paris Bots, beneath whose falling locust
blossoms pass the equipages of fair women
whom the Paris conservation has made
| world known. To it's frequenters it is the
height of chic to lift the hat TO them and
receive their careless nod.
l know a Partisan who subscribed for a
weekly box at the Olympia to be acquaint-
ed'' with Lame de Pougy in the Bois An
other loaned money repeatedly to old
swell In return for a few on-hand presen-
tations the porch at Acknowledged
for the Bots only! Now he lifts his hat to
Nadia and de Villars and Conchita-
But the height of the nfatuation was that
of the young Brazilian who, getting pre-
scented to Chavita. the danseuse of the
Opera Comique, gave her a superb emerald
ring. Three days later she cut him dead in
the Acacias.
1t was too much. He sought her and re-
preached her. mentioning the emerald.
"Oh, the ring?" she answered. That was
for the Opera ComiQue."
He underStOod-and handed her 800
diamond scarf pin from his cravat Smil-
ingly the beauty took it. Now l know you
In the Bois,'' she said
Iney are SO Sducy tney rear Out one
thing on earth. This is The Guigne.
Briefly, it means bad luck. But more
and particularly. In a way, 1T is the hoo
doc. Also you may call 1t he-"aura' or the
mcrobe of bad auckland it is catching
Again, it is viewed an intelligent en-
tity, to be offended and placated, also fooled
and baff1ed.
To Inanimate Objects.
1t can easily attach itself to inanimate
objects. The lovely Dorgere of the Va
rietes was recently given mandolin that
had belonged. first to Josephine, the I'M
happy wife of Napoleon /. and subsequent
ly to the ex-Empress Eugenie-both queens
simply STEPPED in bad luck.
Two of her friends-Wiehe and Verona
warned her to let the historic object repose
reverenually under glass in her salon; but
Dorgere preferred to touch it In the twi-
light, improvising sad little old-fashioned
airs
All right Within week her bull-pup
sickened; her sable stole was stolen; she
quarreled with two friends; her auto had
daily accidents. and she got pimple on
her nose.
your Josephine Eugene musical instru-
ment is just soaked in cherry juicei Put 1t
under glass! Lock it up! But If you go on
handling 1t, you will get appendicitis or
fall in love with poor man, or something
equally awful! expostulated the sibyl-faced
Robinne, Chavita and Conchita (supersti-
tious Andalusians BOTH, and the voluptuous
Verena, who spends her days avoiding hoo
doc.
Not on your life!" replied Arlette, 1.-THE
historical mandolin goes straight to the
Josephine Museum at Malmaisonr' And
the pimple quit her nose that same after
noon!
When a newspaper editorial referred TO 1t
as a coincidence. Madeleine Thiery of the
Opera-Comique FASTENED to communicate
the case Of her historic ring of a blue dia-
mond surrounded by brilliants.
1t seems to have been originally worn
by the beautiful but unfortunate Gabrielle
d Estrees: and 1t remained In the Elbeuf
family until it's extinction with Duke EN-
manuel Maurice, an officer also In the serv-
ice of the King OF Naples. Well. during
the past seventy-fye years. that ring of
bad luck has never been worn by Thiery