Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-23
GOODNESS IS PLACED FIRST
is the Second Quality to
Win Men.
ELEGANCE ~TNDs LITTLE FAVOR
Romance of Mile. Hamet Shattered in
Rude Fashion.
AUGHT HER INTENDED STEALING
Seceders from Party of the Left Are
Trying 20 Form n New Liberal
Party BOY Murderera
Get Life Terms
BY PAUL VILLIERs.


BY PAUL VIILIERS
PARIS, April 22.-(special to The Bee)-
The idea that Frenchmen, especially resi-
dents of this city, have loose ideas about
the marriage tie and womankind I'm general
Is dissipated through unique newspaper
test
What is the most excellent point in
woman" a paper asked its readers. The
paper asked each person to name the ten
virtues he prefers I'm a woman. Sixty vir-
tues have been named. The seven first have
always been at the top of the poll since
the beginning of the ballot IN the follow
ing order: Goodness, orderliness devotion,
thrift. gentleness, intelligence and anna
blity.
This is a tribute to the essential solidty
of the French people. First OF all they
ask for goodness, and secondly for order
Illness in its women. The former virtue has
scored 19,SOs votes, and the latter 1870.
The fact that devotion comes third with .
II 9O4 would tend to show that many Of
the voters are men.
1t will ,startle some hasty judges of
French character to find that only 2,3Oe
voters mentioned elegance as one of the
ten most excellent things in women, which
takes only the thirty-first place the
list. 1t will surprise everybody to learn
that pride is asked for in woman by only
52S votes and that its place is fifty-second
on the list. But perhaps the most instruc-
tive point OF all is the sixtieth and last
virtue, meekness, for which only ninety-six
men voted.
Romance sadly shattered.
| Mile. De Hamet's romance is over. Her
fance will be seen no more in the gay
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man is in prison.
Maurice Lescaut, though this is not his
real name, was the son of a Judge who
dfed years ago at 'Poiters Maurice was sent
to study law on an allowance insufficient
for his tastes. He led a happy life until
debts became too pressing and acauaint-
ances just the reverse. To complicate
matters still further he fell in love, not
a respectable young man should place his
affections, but with a lovely girl without
penny. And II was one evening when
both had consumed q lot OF champagne
that casual friend of the young man
told Maurice Of easy way to get money.
Maurice had told Pedro Gonzalez that he
was in love and had explained that money
was the only bar to marriage. Gonzalez
who claimed to be the son OF an ex-presi-
dent OF a South American republic ex-
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quite easily IF you will join, me- he
told Maurice. you can in a few months
make sufficient to marry" So Maurice
became a gentleman burglar. His name
provured him admission everywhere, and
his Mephistophees was always at his
elbow.
Miss HRmet Faints.
Maurice and Gonzalez were the thieves,
but though he has g >Sessed that much
for Maurice cares ndta3lore what becomes
of him-he has refused to say where the
iewelry has gone. and Gonzalez has van
ished. There was ball at the house of
some rich South Americans. "Arevue" was
played by the friends of the audience, but
half way through the second act there
came a cry of horror from the stage, and
Miss de Hamet, who played the leading
part fell fainting. A doctor sprang on the
stage and in a few moments revived her
but IT was only to fall into Mysteries and
to point to the back of the drawing room.
Between her sobs the girl was heard to
say: There there, behind the palms. 1
saw his hand! / saw him take the neck
lace and l saw his facet There was a
Shrek from an armchair in front OF the
palms to which she pointed. The woman
who sat there had clapped her hand to her
neck and missed a diamond necklace. I'm
mediately there was an uprosr, but among
the guests who hunted \both for the neck
lace, which was worth $4,000 and the thief,
there were detectives and one learned that
one of the guests had slipped out Of the
room. They gave chase As they passed
the open door Of the hostess bedroom they
noticed an empty Jewel casket on the floor.
The thief had helped himself as he passed
ltt,r INF IN he
servants staircase, and as the detectives
followed they heard the smash OF glass
and saw him Chamber through the window
TO the roof. They followed. Maurice-for
the thief. OF course, was Maurice-held
them at bay nearly half an hour with the
revolver, but he was finally caught.
During the last eight months jewelry TO
the amount of S750,OOO has disappeared from
houses az which dinner parties and other
, entertainments were in progress. South
, Americans have been the principal losers
The police have tried hard to stop the
crimes.
I New Liberal Party.
Some forty progressists have decided "a
form, together with a few seceders from
the democratic left a new liberal party
which is to be styled the union repub-
licaine" The president will he NJ. Leblond
, mayor Of Rouen, who sits for enc Of the
, divisions OF that city. Tho program OF
the new group comprises the development
OF public liberties and the promotion Of
social reforms
e life Terms for BOY Murderers.
b The two boys who we're recently con
r demned to death for an atrocious murder
J will spend the rest OF their lives In prison
s thanks to President Falieres The lads by
4 cunning plot lured a bank messengey
into house and murdered him. The
2 took his money and spent u In rououI
70 living hut we're suspected Of the murder
Q by a girl friend To whom they boosted
They confessed their crime