The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-23
SEASONS EVENTS
 ARE COMING FAST Never Were Americans So Prominent in Paris Society SLEEPY GIRL OF FRANCE Mile. Marie Dabin Has Been Sleep ing soundy and Peacefully for
 More Than a Year.
 Many Visitors.
BY PAUL VlLLlERS.

Special Cable to the Age-Herald. Copy
 right, 1907. by W. R. Hearst.)
 Paris, June 22.-The season here is rapid ly rushing on to it's continuation, and the engagements are so numerous that it is all society hostesses and the people of fashion do to get them all in.
 Never were well known Americans so prominent in society doings as they are today. Miss Mary Gardens party at her apartments in the Avenue du Bos de Bou- logne to witness the arrival of the King and Queen of Norway is still being spoken about as the greatest success of the sea- son.
 The national holiday, the Bastlle Day, on July II, promises to be gayer than ever and the American colony Is already talk ing of how to return the compliments which the people of Paris pay their coun- try by celebrating more and more the American national holiday on July 4.
 American art students in the Lotin Guar. ter are thinking of decorating the streets of that part of the city with American and French flags intertwined on the anni- versary of the fall of the Bastile. What 1 high American society will do> in honor
 of the French national holiday is not yet 1 known, but 1 am told that a great fete champetre is thought of to be held in the 1 Bois de Boulogne.
 It has just become known that King
 Haakon of Norway met with q highly | amusing adventure during his visit to Paris.
 It was the night of the arrival of the royal young couple, and they had returned from the state banquet given by the Pres of thn 1iO rhn FuI apartments on the Quai dOrsay were very hot, and the air outside seemed de- | liciously cool
 His Norwegian majesty thought he would like a quarter of an hours stroll
 and exchanging his uniform for a smok- ing jacket he put on white straw hat, and left his apartments shortly before midnight, while Queen Maud was getting into her night attire.
 King Haakon avoided the grand stair
 way, which was full of lackeys, turned
 down a corridor and reached side en-
 trance leading to an inner courtyard, at
 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
 Hardly had he reached the bottom of
 the stairs and was lighting cigarette,
 when he was confronted by a police off
 cial.
 You can't pass" the policeman said. The King tried to persuade him, but
 without any success.
 "Our orders are strict, sir. Nobody is
 allowed to pass through this door unless
 he has an order from the military gov | ernor of Paris"
 There was nothing for the king to do
 but to walk up stairs, and this he did,
 losing his way in the many corridors Through one of these he reached an other side entrance and thought the way l into the street clear, when he was stopped by a soldier with fixed bayonet, who told him that nobody must leave the house.
 ba tod a 6ndinp him self a prisoner in Paris, where he was an honored guest, gave up the idea of going out to breathe the fresh air, and 5 returned sadly to his apartment. In some way the authorities heard of
 the affair, and the day before the de- = parture of the royal couple the officer in 3 command of the guard handed the King a pass which would enable him to go in
 and out of the palace as he pleased.
 Tt Is a little bit late.' King Haakon re- } marked. smiling grimly at the thought of the restrictions under which monarchs must always suffer.
 News has just reached Paris of an as- - tonishing case of catalepsy, at n small vil- ] lage in the southern part of France, where } for some months past hundreds of visi- . tors have been going to look at a sleeping girl. Mile. Marie Dalbin, daughter of wel-to-do farmer, has since the first of
 June last year been lying on her bed in
 a state of complete torpor, perfectly ob- livious of all that passes. but breathing regularly, and with an absolute normal heart beat
 Seven or eight doctors have examined the patient, but are unable to say what Is the matter with her. The most re- markable circumstance of the case is that during the twelve months of her sleep,
 the young girl, who is about fifteen years of age, has taken absolutely no nourish- ment, and still she has not grown thin ner. Her face Is calm and somewhat pale, with faint smile, and one would say to look at her that she was simply taking a midday nap. Her pulse averages
 about lfty-1ve beats to the minute. An interesting concert and ball have just been given at the Washington Palace, un- der the patronage of the American and
 British embassies for the benefit of the American Catholic church of St. Josephs 7 Avenue Hoche. Mime. Marchesi argan- ) ized the musical part of the programme, and the Rev. Dr. McMullin opened the
 ball. Among those present and acting
 as hostesses were Mrs. D. Mash, Mrs w.
 N Peckam Mrs. Kpling, Mrs. Gunther,
 Baroness Graffenred, Lady Lang, Mrs.
 Morgan Suess, Countess de castellane.
 Marquise de St. Croix and Countess FUSS.
 Sixty Knights of Columbus from some twenty states have arrived In Paris Land
 ing a Naples April 2. they have been ] travelling ever since without the slight
 est hitch and have visited in turn Ma
 ples, Rome. Florence. Venice Milan the Lakes Lucerne, Interlaken, Munich Am sterdam, Berlin. Frankfort. Cologne The Hague and Brussels. At Rome they had an audience of the Pope. who spoke ln- dividually with every member of the party, and they had chat with Cardinal Merry del Val. MT. Frank A. Cross of Buffalo is the leader of the party, who are going on to London. sul-general. presided over meeting of the association of Protestant students of
 Paris at the Rue de Berri church the other day.
 Dr. w F. Anderson. one of the first members of the association. in an inter- estinR speech, described the work as 1t