The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-05
1 PARIS LITERARY SALON
EXAMPLE or 4 HABfT AMERf-
CAN WOMEN FALL INTO.
Music and LITERARY Diversions Tea and
Cakes and Gossip st tho Home OF
, Former Consul q enrrai-Gae Who
/ Could Not Read Their Titles clear.

Cakes and Gossip st tho Home Of
A Former Consul & eneral-Guest Who
Could Not Read Their Titles clear.
The American woman who lives IA
Paris for time II she has means OF her
husband has official position. "a apt 20
get into the salon habit. Some years
ago the ~ife Of the American Consul
General in Paris had the habit and the
vsitor AZ one ri her gathern Is was apt
to meet n lot Of Americans who were not
In the habit Of teing invited TO the re-
ceptions at Ihe embassy. together with
sorne foreigners whose position was az
least open IN quest ion.
There a. llsiIallv miIsic ~ some kind.
for there wer" anv number of aspiring
Americans young mon and women. who
were only too glad To- get a chance To TIA
heard at tho Consul Generals. III the
hope thai soru. wealthy person might
be sufficiently impressed bv their voices
to in vite them Z" sing for pay. Some
times a Ion z haired expat nat. would read
. poem Of his own cnmposition. as vet
unpublished and there were tea and
cakes and gossip.
A traveller who was m Paris at that
time was taken to one Of these gatherings
and the first person he saw was a palnlist
who had left New York shortly before
under stress Of circumstances.
What's that fellow doing herel' de-
manded the traveller OF an American
woman :" whom he had been int roduced
-He? Why. thar ls Coun; -
Count -? Why. that's nohodv hut
20 and so. the palmisr.
oh. you have not heard that he u now
Q Count? He has Just bought a news
paper over here. and he knows everybody
and is received everywhere He only
gives select readings now and charges
tremendous prices for them. hut many
women 60 ia him to have their palms
read. How did he get his title? From
the King Of Formosa." and the American
recalled the story of the Italian advsn-
turer who had recently come back from
the last and proclaiming himself Hing
OF Formosa mad distributed titles and
orders about Europe
member NJ IN. family in an awed
whisper introduced the traveller To the
various meni'srs NJ IN" family of A rich
American dentist. now deceased ad-
dressing thGn 10y their titles If Marquis
COmte. Nicomte and Nicomt.Hssa large
stout woman crowded INTO 4 tiny waistnd
haok silk frnck came into the room.
Shs was an American. hut sEn was an
nounced az the widow of n Russian Baron
Accompanying h"r was "a Young woman.
very pretty. but mad" M som" years
later she figured N To. zap. az home
In connection wifn "A murder case.
The traveller got ACQUAINTED with tho
Baroness and sE", finding him applr-
emily s'npath"tic coni Il 4 70 him that
abe h. 4 iopt"d RI" vor.r: woman who
was h"r n:"c". and hai hrnught h'r q"
Europa - marry n 1T
with h"- face and - figure" sad
the BaronnSs -srr ought - rr,rry M
least a Count On ire dIv sho - married
I am EonS ~ civN h.t 900 france
hadn't you better rIiS" 'ia lntn'-
sHgg Posted tho tr1V0ll'r It's a yraTrv
poor titl' that can Ia bought Over hoo
Tor thai sum
Thn newt Carso1 90 whom - a traveller
was Pre- sAn'"d Was a tail thin. oIdarlv
woman who had wri;rnn y p""rrl on spring
and had thus achieved H." reputation -.
being literary Tn" Baroness was intro
dwced to h"r n va, nor MANY wcoks
afterward that tho American colony was
stirrad hy scandal
At that tim" the wife of the Amhassa-
dor tnok n great interest IN tho sewing
sori~tv NJ rho American church in th"
Rue de- Be-rl IL was difficult IN rnnat her
and invitations 10 RI. embassy were
issued carefully The Baroness tried a.
get one hu- without succ~as Later ~
was said thar sh- had given the lir"rarv
woman a present 81 ihI francs IN intr"-
dIice her AZ tho sowing CirCln II turned
out that the young woman vas not r"-
lated 20 she Baroness. n all and the Raron-
eos was accused Of bringing American
girls tn Euroc 80 marry thorn OF
There was an extraordinary niImher OF
widows al the salon II the Consul Ciener-
ala wife and American men We're scarce
When one learned that A woman was
widow IN" ;nvariable question Vas Is
she grass or sod
sometimes Won were introduced to
an American man who turned ont 20 he a
hunter after commissions and tried TO
get customers AZ these gatherings His
method NJ earning a living was IN sug-
gest 10 Americans the best shops for 7ur-
chasing certain things and either 'o IS
cor- or to send them there aftsrward
calling and collecting his commission
Then you would sea the wife IT a former
United States Government official who
losing his lob over here got various
appointment in succession A. foreign
commissioner 70 some opposition or
other His wIfc was SUPPOSED To got along
by introducing people :" one another
The trouble about this salon was that
YOU were never quite certain about whom
Won were going to ba introd ucnd to- and
10 You remained in Paris any length ~
time YOU were apt ~ spend lot Of tim.
10 avoiding people about whom Won had
made INQUIRIES. Tue pn-ui-fiens fat Used
70 say tina; h" kept open hou-n for hi
countrym"n AZ th"s" times and all w.r.
welcome
The colony did not have airrhips To Ia
amused with in those DAYS and avrnno-
billing had inst begun to h" taken w.
90 that in the winter tim. bot II p.ooie
we're loft with tim. on their hands which
they were glad 70 have occupied in SOM"
way or other In tho-e.iay- tho Amer.
can colony in Paris was sharply divided
into two parts. those who went 10 Tho
Ambassador and those who went 10
the Consul -Gen"rsl's. and there wer. com.
para'ivcly fe~ who took IN both
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