The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-09-19
SOCIAL GOSSIP OF
FOREIGN CAPITALS

Drake has remained the typical. fun
loving. vivacious American GIRL despite
the fact that her parents. the Henry
Millington- brakes, have made their home
in Europe for about twenty years past.
She and Muriel White were chums dur
Ing Mr.. Whites term as American Am
bassador at Paris Though only few
years out OF school. Miss Jessie holds
court OF her own at the pslatial home OF
| her parents in the Avenue du Bots de
Boulogne. where a number OF the most
eligible youth of the American colony
seek TO find favor in her eyes.
Nevertheless, this graceful young woman
continues heart whole She was intro
duced into society at a ball given by the
| Princess de Polignac, who was Miss
Singer in his country. Artists ever
since have been raving about her grace
and beauty. though II is a well-known
fact that she is endowed with her share
or innate Yankee common sense. She is
nothing II not original. Her ideas are
not those OF the long ago. She demon
strated this the other day at a fancy
| dress ball at the MarGuise de BIS. There
were all the bepowdered specimens OF the
| conventional Roccoco period. But not so
Miss Jessie, who startled everybody by
sweeping into the ballroom In a flying
machine. OF course. the little machine
could not fly, but II rolled along the
| floor driven by a small electric motor
| Wasn't this clever and pure American
! originality? How could she help. with
such an idea personihed, 10 become the
belle of the evening?
Her brother also has made a name for
himself among the American colony
abroad. In 1915 ne took the chief honors
| at Elton. becoming head OF the college
during class week. He was the class
mate Of Marshall Field. Sd. and OF
son OF Lady Leland. a former Miss
Chamberlin. OF Ohio.
| The recent rescuing OF a granddaughter
Of the great Napoleon from indigence by
the French republic, making her chief
/ agent at one OF the government stalls
for the sale OF tobacco Of the state mo-
/ nopoly, recalls that the first French EN-
peror was the father OF a frst-born Of
whom very little has been said A reg
| istry at the Paris health bureau tells OF
the birth OF male child December 10.
! 1896. al % Rue de la Victoire, by Mile.
Eleonore Denuele. aged twenty-one;
father absent. This absent father at
once was notified by estafette (courier),
who was dispatched 10 far-away Poland.
II was none other than Napoleon Bona
parte. then on the way 10 Friedland after
/ hts s1cce0sff,f caropafc, that a,rtbu..oa
| Prussia at Jena and Auerstaedt. The
courier found the ''grande armee'' near
| Polstuck and handed his dispatch TO Gen
| Lefebre. late Duke OF Danzig (the IA
| nous marshal who married Nine. "Sans
/ Gene'). He took the note 10 the En-
peror, who, upon reading IL. exultantly
/ exclaimed: AT last I have a SON." The
son was an accident. the mother. Eleo-
| more Denuelle. having come under the
! imperial eve while In the employ OF Caro-
| line Murat. the latter becoming a princess
! by the marriage Of her brother. the
Beau Sabreur," 10 a sister OF Bona
parte
The infant was taken from its mother
/ and brought up very much Ike a legit-
mate scion of royalty The father-in-law
OF Napole0n's secretary. Count Menan.
was appointed the boys guardian and
1 mentor. Leon, as he was called. was
well taken care OF by hts father. who
| left him an annuity in his will. But hav-
ing been raised in afiuence and unfit for
| work, he went from bad 10 worse mar
ried a dressmaker, and died a beggar
He did not hesitate to ask a plpefuI OF
! tobacco from any one on the streets: and
/ yet this reprobate at one time had been
! the destined heir of the crowns OF France
and Italy. for Napoleon, shrinking from
I leaving Josephine. had almost decided 10
/ legitimatiZe his son and make him his
! heir.
/ Count Leon Bonaparte's mother appar.
/ emily never was remembered by Napo-
ieon' for her name appears nowhere
among those receiving gratuities or pen
sions. Perhaps an adventure he encoun.
/ tered while in Poland may have had
something 10 do with this. The very day
that word reached Napoleon that he was
rather he met at Brodnia Nine. Va
leska, famous beauty. who captivated
his fancy. and who. until the downfall OF
the empire, shared his heart even more
tenderly than Josephine or his second
/ wife. Marie Louise of Austria,
Ihings In Spain apparently are not as
bad as pictured in the press dispatches.
for at any rate King Alfonso does not
seem greatly worried. He finds time for
! frolic, and even for pranks which a man
on 'tottering throne" would not be
apt TO think Of much less play. Alfonso
has democratic mind; no doubt of that
| Recently. when in Paris. the royal fun
lover was driving with the President of
| the republic, NJ. Fallieres. The President
wore black conventional cylinder hat
! Alfonso was in full uniform. Suddenly
! 1t occurred 20 him TO change hats with
NJ. Fallieres, and no sooner thought than
done, right in the public street in the
midst Of a cheering multitude The eff
feet OF his cockade cap on the Presi-
dent who was CARRIED in black. was gro
tesque and raised a storm Of laughter