Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-09

think?' they worried sisowath had just
left Paris.
''Sisowath?" suggested Bibaine. Siso-
wath-Review at OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
FallfereS-''
II have it exclaimed Guinchard: and
in ten minutes the diplomatic secret of
the Cambodgian kings admiration for
Nine. Steinheil at the military review
and fixed intent to make her queen was
put on paper. Guinchard ran with it to
the Matin-and came back with $3.50 to
liquidate the refreshments and get the
gentle Bibaine out of pawn.
The "canard cost the French govern
ment 800 francs in cablegrams TO pacify
the indignant king: that is nothing: but
note. also, that the Paris correspondents
of the world aggregated $1,411 in cable
grams and illustrated features from it.
On another occasion. Guinchard and
Philogone found their meal tickets stop
ped at the Sucking Calf. AS the clientele
was running down the addle-headed
painter said to the proprietor:
''Maitre Georges, if fiIl your estab-
lishment What do we get? ."
Your bills wiped off, free meals and
present in proportion" was the prompt
answer.
Give us 81 expenses No? Then buy
us postage stamps and stationery
So. the two Bohemians spent two hours
ads in Paris daiies. money borrowing,
good will vendors, offers of marriage.
business partnerships and opportunities.
they made the appointments at the Suck
ing Calf And so the place filled up with
lingering new customers.
All right. What did they gain? Their
meals for.two short weeks. But the Pro
prie;or, a business man, hastily got in an
agent Of affairs and sold out the concern
on the strength Of its fourishing con-
dition.
None of the Bohemians who draw the
tourists OF the world to the artistic tav
ems of Montmarte get more than So
per evening out of it-while the proprie-
tors grow rich. Sails, of Chat Nor fame
was conSummate business man who in
troduced Bavarian beer to Paris and re-
tired on a fortune. And Sails, jr. who
now runs the Red Ass, has an equally
level head.
He looks Bohemian enough. struggling
for silence with a dinner bell for Ba um,
a real Bohemian, to sing his "Atmos-
pheric Lobster" But, what will you? 1T
is the only song that Baum has written
in the past five years. 1t stu sunces'
but | admit that tie labor is not great.
Herve, a giant of Bohemian composers,
wrote it forty years ago:
cette historic veridique
de la Iangouste atmospherique
But it is Baums originality to revive
it, to new words and new music. AS he
has also changed it's name in honor of
President Fallieres, he is armor-plate
against plagiarism. BY poetical license
Baum calls himself Rodrigue-just as
Bibaine and Philogone have other names,
and when the long-haired ones begin 70
bawI:' .Rodrigue, have you heart?
Sails, jr, starts in with the dinner bell.
people often ask why these Artistic |
raverns' are always packed with the
rich and successful from ell over. The
:ongs ard business sound almost silly
when told colby But the truth is-and
he audiences feel it-that these ill-paid
3ohemians are sincere, really enjoy |
themselves and disdain to put up a |
for their So per. So. when the |
xeedy Bibaine sings his "Berangeresque |
dyP' of the ambitious young man who !
owed a laundry girl and married an |
leiress, he starts up queer memories in |
he usually iron-hearted. of course, he |
ought not 10 have kept his first loves |
etters:
HE dare not open the escritoire:
The little laundry girl is In the drawer"
Men who have been caught late by this
hunger and thirst for sincerity and SIM
,Iicity form the angel choir of false Be-
lemians.
Regularly tiley are dsHauIeo Oh theIi
money. and quickly get rid of ii each |
month by helping out the brethren. One |
such is Conner. whose self humiliations |
must have disquieted many an American |
ourist.
He clings to immaculate frock-cOat. silk |
lat, patent feathers and gardenia in his |
)uttonhole. Seated on cafe terrace. he /
ooks what the stranger thinks him: |
Some old beau, sport, but Well looked |
ln for his money.
Suddenly the old swell will pull brushes |
and a bcx of backing from his pockets. |