Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-19

until nineteen. That did not suit me.
What did YOU do
Il did what l wished. | went t. Wash
ington with papa. Instantly there was
a transformation, balls. dinners. the love
iy life over there. and Washington in
PARTICULAR
rs life over there really 81 agreeabe:'
l asked. in my quality of old expatriate:
'Oh. charminS.''
Diplomatic society must be the same
everywhere
No: there is fun i'll the United States.
tIhis Russian girl woke i'm my memory
old locutions. long forgottenD There is
more going. For years 1 never dined
at home. OF course. they give dinners
and balls in Paris: but not the same.
Americans have more of it, and better.
Society is awful small in Washington.
yet you can he doing something every
night. That shows the going, Ameri-
cans entertain more than any other
people,
Did You sing in Washington"
NO: | think that ] sang only once, an
evening at our own house.
How do YOU account for that
BY the fact that ] did not know how
to sing.
You had no ambitionse You just en-
joycd good time?'
Il may have had ambitions: but I had
not weighed things in the balance
could not think of opera while papa re-
manned in the diplomatic service. Yes. it
was good time. Married women rule
European society. In Washington girls
rule. When | got back to Paris / con
tinued.''
And they let you?' 1 asked
Il pass as a kind of American. and it
goes. The French have an expression,
You take a phi. All depends on how you
start. Paris is right enough in its way.
but it lacks American men. They are
splendid. They are good dancers. good
cOnVerSatiOnaliStS and good sports
"They supposed to lack something
that Frenchmen possess. Il certain knowl-
edge OF women
noticed it"
American men are said to neglect
women
Really" | am too much of an Amer
lean to have observed it. American men
are deeper than Frenchmen. who are
really lightweight. An American man
would he ashamed if he could not make
money to keep his wife. Frenchmen are
looking for some woman to support them.
Americans are far more gallant than the
French, in sense that counts. y Wom-
an goes alone in the street, or in a street
car, all respect her In an elevator no
one knows who she is, yet all lift their
hats. In Paris she Is more likely to he
jostled. In America they tip the hat be-
cause she is a woman. In Paris they tip
the hat because She is pretty or Well
known.
Il comprehend Your bias said. you
are engaged To an American.
(Which" What? When?'
1T has been published everywhere that
You are going to marry young Amer
,ican who saved your life.
II DO not know how that story got
around answered the countess. II was
at SpieZ,. Switzerland. There was an
American crowd. Naturally. T used to go
FOUND with them lot. But / do not
member anybody saving my life. made
no ascents / was never in danger. No..
] do not remember being engaged TO any
one there.
She said it renectivey. as though won
dering over an unknown danger safely
passed. of which she had just learned.
Evidently she has great confidence in the
press. Il reverence for the printed word
that she may have picked up in China.
"You would remember had You been
engaged in Switzerland" | veEtured to
insist
Il think So