Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
PRINCESS PARLAGHY.

Il was thinking about ladies' smoking.
Why should they not If they wish to? l
cannot understand They do in Europe.
l do. See, have my own special ciga rette
made for me. and with my name on 1t.
They compose my mind. soothe my nerves.
Why should I not smoke? Why should
men who smoke themselves try to make
laws about ladies smoking?"
Il
Nine la PrincesSe is not here to paint
portraits. There are people here. men
worthy. but a catholic variety of them.
of whom she would like at least to get
sketches. She mentions among them.
aside from the President Thomas A. Edi-
son, Cardinal Gibbons, John Mitchell.
Andrew Carnegie. men Of action and Of
intelligence. She expects to make her
way out to the coast, stopping to visit the
principal cities, and to sail for japan.
where she has IAN engagement to paint
the mikado-a peaceful engagement"
that for a Russian in Japan! After shat
she soes to India as the guest of one of
the native potentates, and to paint several
Of them. Then-She thinkS-She will gu
home.
Home is Nice. where madame has a
beautiful villa with most artistic studios
and music rooms and lovely gardens and
WneIe size mas a CHOICE assortment OIL
pets. She has travelling with her now a
small fluffy white dog and smaller
fluftier white guinea pig. the former of
the Pomeranian type. the latter an an
CORA guinea pig that would impress the
casual observer as being badly in need of
a hair cut. And let no one suggest that
they must be a terrible nuts ance travel
Ing. Madame is indignant that American
railways do not furnish accomnsode tons
for pets. as she says they do in Eurcoe.
Finding that they did not. recently she
took a stateroom, thinking that in the
privacy thereof she could keep her little
dog with her. But the Pullman officials
were Obdurate. Bobby must go out in the
baggage car. And finding protest in vain,
madame also went out into the baggage
car-spent the night right out there where
pie be1an trunks and boxes jostled her own
red. white and green coronetted luggage
seeing that no. harm came to Bobby
Every one of her trunks and boxes is
painted with the red, white and green
of Hungary in broad bands. and adorned
in one corner with the coronet of her
rank. Madame says it makes it easy to
pick them out ''in a crowded baggage
room''-which seems entirely probable. for
one could hear them with ones eyes shut.
Just why the Princess Parlaghy spent
the night in the baggage car herself with
her pet instead Of sending the maid or the
secretary or tn major domo who make
up her retinue to guard the slumbers OF
her pet is question that must remain
unanswered. The major domo-maitre
dhotel. she calls him-as the most impos.
ing member of her suite. In the morning
he is an almost clerical-looking gentleman
with a strong French accent In the
evening the French accent remains: but
the clerical appearance is forgotten in
black satin knee breeches and a lovely red
evening coat with touches of gold braid
He maintains his stand outside the
princess door at the Arlington. a sort OF
private bellboy and porter rolled into one
From which 1t may appear that the
Princess Wilma Lwon Parlaghy maintains
a certain amount of state, even when
travelling in democratic America. Nor must
1t be gathered that because she scorns the
painting of clothes madame belittles the
Importance Of the feminine wardrobe
She brought over with her splendid as
sortment Of the very latest Partisan mod
els. and enjoys frills and furbelows quite
as much as any mere society woman
here. She has been too indisposed to "a
ont since Der arrival but II Lakewood
does for her all that SHE hopes she NAV
when she returns have some of the best
dressed women in Washington watching
her with daZZled ami er.vious ewes