Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-03
Notables of France Are Inclined
to the Plain, Simple
Life.
PRESIDENT SETS THE EXAMPLE
M. BRAND of the People, and Glad
of It.
CHILDLESS, BUT ADOPTS THREE
Home in an Questionable Section of
City.
GREATLY DEVOTED TO MASONRY
Young Men Now Seem to Have the
AscendRncy in French Politics
MANY Good Things for
Officials.
GREATLY DEVOTED TO MASONRY
BY PAUL VILI.IERS.

PARIS, July Especial Dispatch to The
Bee.)-The men of the hour In France are
all men Of simple habits, the quiet unas-
suming democracy of President Fallieres, is
perhaps the most noteworthy character
isttc; NJ. BRAND the premier who may sue
coed Falleres is also a man of the people
and Is not ashamed of It, NJ. Brlsson who
has been elected president of the chamber
of deputies, is a worthy confrere of Fal-
Heres and BRAND.
He measures up to former President
Roosevelts ideal citizen of a republic If
he has no children, he and his good and
accomplished late wife adopted three or
phans, whom they brought up as If they
were their own. They belonged to a close
friend, NJ Albert Jolly, an advocate, who
| rendered noble services to the cause they
| had at heart under the empire and during
| the moral order regime
| M Brisson takes life and his duties AZ
| a public man too seriously not to look a
| little solemn.
! witty and Accomplished
| Yet he can be witty and even humorous
/ ana Is man of the finest culture. He has
never attempted to climb the beaten paths
OF Parnassus. None the less he might have
| shohe on them, for he is a poet of rare
! Ilhlsh and delicacy He never took lin
residence in his wife's time in the Petit
Bourbon. They gave their official dinners.
concerts and receptions, but continued to
| nave their home among his electors in the
| questionable neighborhood of the Chateau
dEau. More than ever he prefers the
home where he lived with her In close COM
| munity OF sentiment and intellectual pur-
suits and of parentage to the orphans of
the dear, cherished friend, whom they
adopted. His private fortune, without be-
Ing large. Is sufficient to secure independ-
-encet The great part OF his salaries as
deputy and president goes In works of
repunhcan and Masonic fraternity, for he
Is devoted Freemason All his Influence
tact and experience will be needed In pre-
| siding over this chamber. 1t contains far
more young members than any previous
one.
Advantage of Deputies,
II Is, by the way, a somewhat peculiar
development of French political life that
an unusual number of quite young men
are taking an active interest in politics
A seat in the chamber now brings q
salary of 5000 francs a year, a first-class
ticket through four years on all the rail-
ways or France and Algeria, patronage in
all directions, the freedom of stalls and
balconies of all of the subsidized theatsrs
and access to the wings
mink OF the field of operations which
TINS gives to theatrical sirens and the sus.
ceptibiiity of a young provincial to their
wiles. hardened bouleyardier sims
through their hands. They can do VIVA
they please with member green in wears
ana In want of knowledge of la vie Paris
ienne At the last elections the young
candidates seemed ravenously alive To ths
good things membership OF the chambe,
offers. They elbowed out with spirit m.
Bald pates and the greybeards
POntificaI ZOuavcs DecIininw
the Pontifical Zouaves are thinning
they We're about 1850 years ago when the,
fought for the Pope. But recently AZ m
muster in Paris only about 200 answere,
the roll-call. The celebration began bv
parade outside the Sacre Occur the grea
paslllca that dominates all Paris and IN
l."t seine valley from the northern point
the one mn OF the city, the Mount of Mar
tyrs The veterans. grey or white all n
them' but straight backed still. as fight
ing men should be. were reviewed by thei
own chief, General de Charette WHO go,,
them all the touching French accolade an
the greeting of an old brother in arms
After the review, high mass with an ora
ton by Monseigneur de Cabrieres bisbo
OF montpelier who made the interestin
reflection that most of the volunteers 4
The Papal service were Of noble blood 9
. that an Italian general into whose hand
good batch of them had fallen nv m
luck OF war, said the roll OF his cantivo
read ike guest list from the court n
Louis XIV. The DE Profundis' was SIM
for the dead of the legion. and then m
veterans drove off to the social oelebra
/, ton under the presidency Of their chief
Al journalism in Paris.
e Two fiery Paris journalists met I'm m
night telegraph office OF the Boursa. wbenr
p they telephone to their journals. and 70
out throwing their visiting cards In eac
others faces. This meant a duel, but m
! antagonists were too much in a hurry I
wait until seconds had arranged meeting
The two, who always carry loaded p,
, volvers, strobe out into the street walke
twenty PAGES apart, drew their firearu
q and blazed away without result. Befo,
more shots could be exchanged the pol,,
a arrived and the impatient duelEsts win !
!, summoned.
n H0N0PS EnR TIIPkIcu uEJI