The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-24
A NEW JEWELRY
 FASHION IN PARIS Necklace of Queen Ena of
 Spain Is Copied AMERICAN WOMAN LEADS Highest Ambition of French Youth Is To Secure Snug Little Positions
 Under the Government. A Life Pension.
AMERICAN WOMAN LEADS
BY PAUL VlLLIERS.

Paris, November 23-(Special Cable.)- A new fashion in jewelry will be one, at least of the outcomes of the visit of the young King and Queen of Spain to Paris on their way to England. Queen .Ena, it will be remembered, bought much of her rousseau in Paris and the shops in the Rue de la Paix are well known to her.
 Hardly had she arrived in the Vile Lu- miere before the young Queen ordered her automobile and went round to Callers, the famous jewellers, and bought there an article of jewelry which, it is stated on good authority, will be the rage this com- ing season.
 It consists of an antique necklace of curious and artistic design, which strong ly reminds one of the English sherin s ancient emblem of office. The necklace is composed of four rows of small pearls to which is attached diamond pendant studded with pure water diamonds. It is said that Mrs George Kessler, the wife of the well-known New Yorker, Inl- mediately ordered one of the necklaces of exactly the same design.
 l The highest ambition of French youth is
 
 little position under the government. 1t means responsibility, not too much work, a regular if small income, and, last but by no means least, a pension after thirty years.
 These lasts will account for the news that the Paris municipality is so over crowded with applications for official em- ployment that It has just taken remark able measures to restrict the rush. At the tiD1a fharq fewer than &, ,00O names on the lists of approved and accepted candidates for positions in the public service as soon as and when va cancies occur.
 It is calculated roughly that it would take seventy years to find positions for all these people, many of whom are very serious candidates, being recommended by councillors and others in authority. Nor has the crowd of applicants ceased.
 The list increases daily, and in view of this state of affairs the municipal council has decided to close the list and absolutely accept no more names until 1910
 M. Francois Flamany, the celebrated French artist, has just completed a portrait of Queen Alexandra. A num- Der of interesting events are now talk ing place in the French artistic world
 The unveiling of statue at Dieppe to the famous composer Camille Saint Saens. which was the gift of Q lady admirer, was one of the very rare cases in the history of hero worship of a man being present in the flesh at the unveiling of statue to himself this being reserved with but very few ex- captions, to royalty.
 A pretty literary manifestation took place at Montmorency when the. statue to Rousseau, by Carrier -Belleuse, was inaugurated. after many years. to take the place of the one destroyed during the Commune, in the place where the philosopher had his Hermitage"
 A French shepherd has had the honor of receiving charming letter, with a good-sized check, from Queen Margherita of Italy.
 One day last September the Queen arrived by automobile at Chalons-sur- Marne, and at the hotel 1t was noticed that a beautiful mantle trimmed with costly lace was missing.
 Efforts were made by the local au- thorities to find it, but in vain. When the Queen had left shepherd named Kraken brought the mantle to the police, saying he had found 1t on the roadside, and the Queen was informed of it's recovery after her arrival in Italy. The shepherd is the father of twelve children and is expecting thirteenth.
 Loie Fuller is giving her own version of the Salome drama in a wonderful Arts. It is wordless play, in which