The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-28
by LA MaRouIsE DE FONTENOY.
~ RINCESS JOACHIM MURAT, wife
~ of the head OF the Murat family,
1 and by birth Il member of the
house Of Ney. great Rrandchild OF

~ OF the head OF the Murat family,
and by birth member of the
house of Ney, great -grandchild OF
the famous field marshal of that name
has started, together with some OF
the other leaders OF the Partisan
great world, movement against the
unwarranted use of their nanses in
the lists OF guests at dinners given
by people imbued with social aspira-
tions. This is very common practice
even among a certain class OF Ameri-
Guns In Paris, who furnish TO the
press. for publication in Paris and es-
1 pecially on this side OF the water. lists
of guests at their dinners and dejeu-
neTs containing names of persons
whom they may have invited, but
whom they scarcely know, and who
under no circumstances whatsoever
/, would have accepted their invitations.
1t is to this that must be attributed
Il the dispatches from Europe which con
/ Ney the impression that leaders of
the great world abroad. renowned for
thelr eNciuslpeness, are in the habit of
according their intimacy to and OF
| dining with Americans who for one
reason or another do not command the
| regard of people of equivalent stand
ing in this country
! Some years ago, 1T may be remem-
bered. the present Duke of Somerset.
/ who is the second peer of the British
realm, ranking Immediately after the
| Duke of Norfolk, addressed a commu
1
pers, denying that the duchess had
1 been present at dinner given in
London by some American visitors,
| whom she scarcely knew. but who
I had issued her name to the press az
having been their principal guest Mt
dinner Princess Joachim Murat sent
| out similar communication with
/ regard TO an analogous dinner given
lin Paris.
1t is only fair 10 add that the Paris
correspondents OF American papers
usually act in good faith IN this mat
about these social doings, upon the
/ larisian press, the social columns of
| watch, at any rate, are extremely
venal. III there has been so much
| holiness on the part of the Offenders
lit is because they have usually re-
| lied that the people whose names they
| used would either not see the printed
! Items in question or would through a
| desire of avoiding notoriety or through
| Incidence. refrain from issuing de-
nial. Things have reached such
| pass, however that drastic measures
have become Imperative and Princess
Joachim Murat, who has just assumed
| the Office of grand mistress Of the
household to Princess Clementine OIL
| Belgium, recently married to PRINCE
| Victor Napoleon, has inaugurated q
movement, in which the Comtesse de
Greffulhe. the Duchesse Dues and
several other of the great ladies OF
Paris are associated. to put an end
to the abuse.
1t is only fair to Lady Meux, the
former music hall favorite, who
brought her somewhat extraordinary
existence to q close last week at Theo-
balds Park, to state that her name
viii remain on lasting record for
something beyond mere eXtravagances|
and eccentricities, Part Of her honey
moon with Sir Henry Meu& was spent
in Egypt, and although she failed In
her efforts to purchase from the Egyp-
tian government, no matter at what
cost, the obelisk of Ileliopolls, the only
one of the o-called Needles of Cleopa-
ira which still remains standing upon
it's original site, where it was erected
thousands upon thousands of years ago.
yet she developed I, pronountea = preui-
Taking advantage of this, Ernest
Bulge, the famous Psychologist and
curator of the Egyptian department
of the British Museum in London
managed to persuade her TO furnish
the relatively large sum of money
needed for the. publication, Of his
remarkable studies, drawn from an
in the possession Of the museum, and
treating, of Egyptian life under AleX-
ander the Great. These studies are
embodied in a couple of masnlillc,ent
trated dedicated in big letters to Lady
MeuN, and which will be found IN
most OF the moro important Of the
American public libraries, Ihey shed
a new light upon the career Of AleN-
ander the Great are Of snrpahSising, ans
and to students of Roman and Gre
oan tines and VIII rem a'lR a wna l pes
,.asserl OF much native wit, but of lit |
epturs ed1ealon s never Waa GRANT aama
~ III ne london music halls, that
1 her name would become celebrated
throughout the scientific world an con on
nection with that Of AleNander the
Great of whom she had probably
never heard at the time III
Bu daus the money mo needed for the pub
lication OF the. so-called Book Of
Paradise, containing tho history !. and
savings az tho monks and hermits q
The Egyptian and Libyan deserts use g QUE ihe
Christian era, comprising the writings
PalaaInas HteronymII1s ana n,ne n9t
only for the Theological critic, but also
forTthe students OF the folk lore, magic
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