Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-27
the democrat of dances.

the democrat of dancesi
Can you find healthier mixing than
the set between the band stand and the
curb? Two soldiers-common soldiers. yet
sorry two years service; one valet de
chambre. one mayors adjoint. one jani-
tress. Mime. Durand. who owns the
creamery: Mile. Baptiste. whose papa
has a large bookbindery, and Nine. Jane
Hading's cooks lovely daughter. going
through the Conservatoire for an actress.
Crash. Bang. 1t is the American
quadrille'-the 'merry-go-round." the
basket" the bakers wife"-what do 1
know?
Crash. Bang. And it is midnight. and
the breeze is up. the air is cool Between
each dance they lead their partners to
their mothers or their husbands at the
little cafe-terrace tables. AMIGA BILE
glasses climbing! Light words. lightly
spoken,
''Vive la republique."
They say it just as we would say:
"Hurrah, for the United States"'
give la republique."
It does not come into their heads to
think Of any other form Of government
What do these dancing French folks
know of kings or emperors?
In France they dance till sixty. But,
you see. the sixty-olders really don't have
much pull with the ladies, and the ladies
always under thirty eight-cannot re-
member any government but the repub-
lie
Thirty-eight years ago the Napoleonic
dynasty lost France a war uncounted
lives. billion dollars and two provinces.
Yet those hateful losses did less harm to
the Napoleonic cause than has the SIM
pie passing of time over its neglected
and neglectful-head.
When. after the treaty of Versailles.
Napoleon III came to his court at Cam
den place. though sick and suffering, he
made a plan that all but brought about
his restoration.
The dethroned emperor wrote a bro
chure on The Military Force of France
in 1870" 1t placed responsibilities; II
would have injured many. and when his
confidential agent. instead Of getting it
published In Paris. returned to tell how
a cabal in their own party had closed
every door against him Napoleon did not
hesitate. With something of his old
audacity he appealed directly to the 10y
atty of an adversary. St. Genest: and
erful publicity.
It raised great stir. Many who. after
Sedan considered the Bonapartes COM
pletely lost. now talked of return
the fact that. without the emperor it was
nothing. And suddenly. again, Napoleon
found himself surrounded and. appealed
to as in old times.
He was appealed to-and surrounded.
Even the details of his medical treat
ment became reasons why certain of his
friends from France could not always get
TO see him. Yet after a year of strug-
gle. suffering physical torment and men
tai anguish. the last of the Eagles disen-
gagged himself from the Let. dominated
rebellious wills, and completely organ
lied return. All was done with gentle
diplomacy. without a sign of open con-
f1ict.
1t was in 1873. when the deputies had
turned out NJ. Theirs, and the republic
existed only in name. All eyes were turn
ed on Napoleon III. on whom foreign
courts still looked as the true ruler of
France. All but the last minor opera
lions for gravel had been successfully per-
formed by Sir Henry Thompson
IN month we'll be on horsebackr'
laughed Napoleon.
Then he oied. by a stupid error. from a
massive dose of chloral-that was to have