The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-02-20
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| and who knows she must begin heI
| work again at the next morning, take
with the few evening hours? A trusted
and capable housemaid is given many
advantages, and her life is a compare
| lively easy one. In these days, when
the general housework girl has nearly
disappeared, even in our average house
holds the servants have much extra
| time. Any girl who tries to do her best
and who shows any capability will win
the real affection of her employers fam
lily. and such girl occupies as digni-
fed position in that household as any
OF its members.
Count Boni de Castellane, the misfit
husband of Anna Gould, was found
guilty of assault and battery on Prince
Helie de Sagan and fined $40. The
Prince got 20 cents damages. It, will
be remembered that the Count attacked
the Prince in front of some church in
Paris Immediately following the me-
mortal services of a mutual relative
which they had been attending. The
cause given is jealousy on the part of
Count Boni on account of the atten-
lions of the Prince to Nine. Gould. This
disgraCeful affair interests the Ameri-
can public very little. The only interest
which 1t has for us lies in the fact that
two of the Oldest families of France,
both of which have contained distin-
guished men who did the State much
service. have been dishonored by their
2Uth century representatives who seem
to have entirely cast aside the restraint
imposed upon their actions by the fine
spirit Of "noblesse oblige." Both these
families We're leaders in their remote
districts before crafty old Louis XI. be-
gan molding the French people into
what is now France. The CastelIanes,
who were heard Of before the Talley-
rands and nobler at the start, We're a
sovereign house" shortly after the year
1000. Their County was the district
around their "castellated" stronghold,
from which it took the name of Castel-
lane. On the top of a foothill of the
French Alps the buttresses of the old
feudal castle belonging to the family
still stand, and the little village at its
foot still keeps its name, some $500 of
its voters proving that loyalty existed
before royalty by three times electing
Count Boni to Parliament AS with
the Talleyrands, the national notoriety
Of the Castellanes begins with the
French Revolution. The Count Boni
de Castellane of that time enlisted at
the age of 16 under Napoleon, and be-
fore 80 had fought in Spain, Germany
and frozen Russia. He was a Colonel
of the Guards of Honor at the time of
Waterloo, and like the rest of the
army kept his place I'M the ranks until
the restored Bourbons made him Cen
eral. Napoleon Ill. made him Marshal
of France, and it is said that his relent-
less military spirit, acquired in the old
army, did more than anything else in
keeping the French army up to the old
standard. He was the great-grandfath-
er of the present Count Boni. The Tai
leyrands made their way upward in
nobility chiefly thru clever marriages.
The family has always gone in for the
Church, prelate at court being worth
two mobiles at any time, Talleyrand
Bishop and afterwards Cardinal at one
time carrying thru the election of four
Popes in the interest of France. But