The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-10

and so 1t is the fashion to marry for love in Holland. The early settlers of New York may be proud of Holland, the cradle of their race.
 Mir. Frank Lacroix Gardner, the we'll known and wealthy Paris-Americau, who made vast fortune in Australia, has just stepped into a hornets nest The wasps which are stinging him are the Imperialists, and they are very much more than justly indignant be- cause of what they claim to be a slight upon the memory of Napoleon-"The Little"
 MT. Gardner, it seems, is a collector of Napoleonic relics, not because he is Bonapartist, but because he has magnificent house in the Avenue Ra- phael which he delights in decorating. Recently he purchased the baptismal fount at which Hortense Beauharnls' little son was baptized. This son, we all know, afterwards became Napoleon the III.
 Now it happens MT. Gardner is very fond of birds and he has many rare singers flying about the fine acre lawn which surrounds his beautiful Paris house. Thinking always of his birds, and forgetting, alas, all about the past gories of the dead Emporer Napoleon, he turned the baptismal fount into bird-cage. The birds therein sing sweet songs which lulls MT. Gardner's baby to sleep, while without the Bona partists shout 'SacrilegeP'
 Mir. Gardner is also the proud owner of one of the cradles of the great Ma poleon's son. '1Aiglon." Another griev- ance of the Imperialists Is that the son of a miner should sleep in the cradle of the son of an Emporer. But MT. Gardner thinks even the cradle of 'PAig- lon" none too good for his chubby boy.
 Among other relics he has collected are portraits of Napoleon III, and of the Empress Eugenie, nee Montijo, as Henri Rochefort calls her The portrait of Flu genie shows her in the heydey of her ravishing beauty.
 Back to antiquity have harked our American beauties in search of outdoor amusement The Astors in England, the Stewards in Scotland and the Shontses in France have revived. simultaneously, the ancient art of archery.
 Mrs. William Waldorf Astor, her sis ter. Mrs. Paul Phibbs, and her sister in-law, Mrs. Spencer Clary. are most en- thusastic over the sport and the labled arrow fish of Asiatic waters, which was said to prey on insects by shooting drops of water at them, was not more deadly in its aim than are the arrows of these charming ladies.
 Miss Margerita Drexel and the former Miss Anita Stewart are thus enlivening their Highland homes, while the Duch- esse de Chaulnes, who recently went to | America for a visit. and her aristocratic French relations have enlivened the hills | and dales surrounding the lonely Chateau | de Dampierre. introducing this noble art into modern | France It may be remembered that | George Eliot indorsed the sport of | archers in Daniel Deronda." She wrote | that it broke no shins, bred no athletic | monsters and left no nasty stench of | birthstone"
 Archery is likely to become a popular | sport among the French as well as the | Americans.
 Captain Caesarvitch an Albanian of | f1cer, at present serving under Thomas | Cook & Son, as head of the guide bri- | gade has drawn up special itinerary | of American landmarks He claims that | Paris from historical point of view has more American landmarks than New York.
 In proof of his assertion he pilots his tourists to the place where General Horace Porter found the body of Paul Jones, although 1t Is not generally known that the discovery was really due to letters furnished by his only surviving relative, grandniece, Madame Com bault, an American living in great pow erty in Paris. Then he escorts the vis- itor to the cemetery where the Marquis de Lafayette lies; to the place where Tom Payne was imprisoned; to the cele- brated Georges Sand.
 The visitor Is then taken to Benja- min Franklins house in Passy; to Yer sailles, where they see. in imagination, the aged philosopher pleading his coun- trys cause with Louis XIV. They are shown where Thomas Jefferson helped the Revolutionists frame a constitution