The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-05-06
TRICKED PAULINE.
Napoleon's Pert and Pretty Sis
ter's Pride Was HumbIed.
TWICE SHE MET HER MATCH.
The Empress Josephine Once Gave
Her, So to Speak, a Dressing Down,
and the Fashionable Nine. De cou-
tades Fisuratively Boxed Her Ears.


tades Fisuratively Boxed Her Ears.
Napoleon was anxious 10 have Gen
eral Marmot marry his sister Pauline.
but the willy old soldier refused 10
make the flirt his bride. Then Napo-
leon turned to General Leclerc, who
really loved Pauline, and they were
welded. Leclerc was then sent as
head of the French expedition 10 Haiti,
Pauline going along under protest. Lee
clerc died of fever in Haiti, and Pau
line returned TO France with his body.
After a time Pauline, whom Lyndon
Orr in Munsey's describes as a "feath.
er headed, languishing, beautiful, dis
tracing morsel of frivolity," resumed
her heartbreaking tactics.
presently it became noised about"
writes Mr.. Orr, that Prince Camille
Borghese was flirting desperately with
Pauline. The prince was an excellent
specimen of the fashionable Italian.
He was immensely rich. His palace at
Rome was filed with artistic treas
ure. He was the owner moreover of
the famous Borghese Jewels. the finest
collection OF diamonds i'm the world.
Napoleon rather steTnly insisted
upon her marrying Borghese. Fortu-
nately the prince was very willing to
be connected with Napoleon, while
Pauline was delighted at the idea Of
having diamonds that would eclipse
n q
ed, for, like all the Bonapartes, she
detested her brothers wife. SO she
would be married and show her dia-
monds 10 Josephine. 1t was a bit of
feminine malice she could not resist.
1.-The marriage took place very quiet
ly at Joseph Bonaparte's house be-
cause of the absence of Napoleon, but
the newly made princess was invited
TO visit Josephine at the palace of
ST. Cloud. Here was 70 be the tri-
umph of her life. She spent many
days in planning a toilet that should
be absolutely crushing to Josephine.
Whatever she wore must be a back
ground for the famous diamonds. Final
ly she decided on green velvet.
when the day came Pauline stood
before a mirror and gazed at herself.
with diamonds glistening in her hair,
shimmering around her neck and fas-
tened so thickly on her green velvet
gown as to remind one of a moving
jewel caslSet. She actually shed tears
of Joy. Then she entered her carriage
and drove out to st. Cloud
But Josephine, though no longer
young, was woman of great subtlety
as well as charm. Stories had been
told to her of the green velvet, and
therefore she had had her drawing
room redecorated in the most uncom-
promising blue. IL killed the green vel
vet completely. AS for the diamonds,
she met that maneuver by wearing not
single gem of any kind. Her dress
was an Indian muslin with n broad
hem of gold.
"Her exquisite simplicity, coupled
with her dignity of bearing, made the
Princess Pauline. with her shower of
diamonds and her green velvet dis
played against the blue, seem abso-
lutely vulgar. Josephine was most gen.
erous in her admiration of the Bor-
CHEESE gems, and she kissed Pauline on
departing. The victory was hers.
''There is another story of n defeat
which Pauline met from another lady,
one Nine. de Coutades. This was at
u magnificent ball given TO the most
fashionable world of Paris. Pauline
decided upon going and intended, in
her own phrase, to blot out every
woman there. She kept the secret OF
her toilet, and she entered the ball
room at the psychological moment,
when all the guests had assembled.
"She appeared, and at sight of her
the music stopped, silence fell upon the
assemblage, and sort of CULVER went
of the finest muslin bordered with
golden palm leaves Four bands spot
ted like leopard's skin, were wound
about her head, while these in turn
were supported by little clusters OF
golden grapes. She had copied the
headdress of Bacchante in the
Louvre. All over her person were
canoes, and just beneath her breasts
she wore golden band held I'm place
by an engraved gem. Her beautiful
wrists, arms and hands were bare.
She had, in fact, blotted out her rivals.
Nevertheless Mime. de Coutades
took her revenge. She went up TO
Pauline, who was lying on a divan
to set off her loneliness, and began
gazing at the princess through a
double eyeglass. Pauline felt battered
for moment and then became uneasy.
The lady who was looking at her said
to companion in a tone of regret:
"'What pity! She really would be
lovely IL it weren't for thatp
"'For whatY returned her escort.
"'Why. are you blind? It's so re-
markable that you surely must see it.
Pauline was beginning to lose her
self composure. She flushed and look
ed wildly about, wondering what she
meant. Then she heard Mime. de Cou-
tades say:
"'Why. her ears! If had such ears
as those I would cut them OFF,
Pauline gave one great gasp and
tainted dead away. AS a matter Of
fact. her ears were not so bad. They