The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-12
BY PAUL VlLLIERs.

by PAUL NlELlERS,
PARIS, July 29.-It takes a great
deal to shock Paris, that is fashion
able Paris, but a Mons. Poiret has sue
ceeded in accomplishing that feat eff
fectually.
The means was what is called a
Persian banquet and there were some
$50 guests present.
He began by carpeting his pretty
garden with valuable Persian rugs.
Then he secured the services of the
Russian dancer, Mademoiselle Trou-
zanowa, and the Partisan dancer,
Mademoiselle Regime Badet. His in
vitation list comprised numbers of
beautiful women, and among the male
guests were men with large fortunes
and with or without regulations. All
were announced under assumed nick
names. The party was to be artistic,
wherefore reputation mattered less
than the power of amusing.
1t was of course fancy dress party
Two of the guests sent Paris into fits
early in the evening by dining in
their costumes at the Cafe de la Paix
AS one of them wore a little gold
tunic which began we'll below the
shoulders, and came to a sudden end
some way above the knees, the effect
can certainly be better imagined than
it can be described.
Other guests wore gauzy costumes
through which their charm was rather
more visible than would be permissi-
BILE anywhere than at an artists ball.
and altogether the appearance of
Monsieur Poirets garden when the
guests assembled was more than a
little Eastern. Weird animals and
birds walked about the grounds. There
were two or three pink ibexes and a
baby elephant. The guests reclined
on satin and silk cushions during their
= leisure moments under tiger skins,
and other skins of costly fur, and I
am told that 100000 was spent in the
evenings doings.
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Mademoiselle Troubanowa had been
asked to dance in "the altogether"
This she refused to do, but her Co.'S
tune would have shocked Hottentot
beauty on a warm afternoon. Madam
oiselle Badet had no scruples of the
kind. She danced with exquisite grace
in a costume of jewelry and smiles,
and her performance won enthusiastic
plaudits.
In the house were rooms set apart
for the smoking of hasish and the
smoking of opium. Numbers of negro
servants, men and women, walked
about the grounds with Oriental re-
freshments upon trays of silver, gold
and mother-of-pearl. The guests
themselves contributed in many ways
to the amusement of their friends,
and when the crowd grew tired of be-
ing otherwise amused there was a
bazaar upon eastern lines in which
were all manner of beautiful things.
Would Do Worse.
There was no payment offered or
expected for the very simple reason
that there was little or no room for
pockets in any of the costumes. And
the party broke up between five and
six the next morning, and has created
something of a scandal Monsieur
Poiret has said that he was not alto.
gether satisfied with his arrange.
ments. He thinks that he can beat
his own record. He means one OF
these days, he declares, to flood his
pretty grounds and to give a Venetian
fete on Sybaritic lines. But stories OF
his Persian effort have now reached
official ears, and it is not at all Ger
tain that he will be allowed to exer
else his imagination in the entertain
ment line much farther.
ONLY ONE WIFE IN TRANSVAAL
CAPE TOWN, July 29.-In connec
ton with the APPLICATION of a MahOm