Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-13
PROFIT TO THE COLLECTOR
General Uneasiness in France Be.
lieved to Portend Revolution.
ACTIVITY OF BONAPARTIsTS
Costly Jewels Worn by Queen Of
Holland on Recent Visit
to Paris.
speciai Csblesram TO The star.


series Of high prices for works OF art
Of all kinds has been the feature of the
last week in Paris. The prices reached
Landolfo-Carcano sale and at the Doucet
sale have been. experts declare. out Of
all proportions to the real value OF the
pictures and curios sold In the Landolfo-
Carcano sale the profits realized on prices
originally paid were. It is said. enor-
nous. but at the Doucet sale this was
cases almost the same prices were
realized.
Collecting in Paris is RAPIDLY becoming
now care to keep their collections very
long. They realize big profits on their
pictures Of q special period, or OF a
special painter. or Of a special school; they
give up. at handsome profit. collection
Of furniture and collect books or something
else with the purpose OF realizing their
collection again, and the newspapers are
printing variations on the old stories OF
prodigal sons Of the early Victorian days.
and are proving that while the two viz
tuous brothers who invested their money
in land and in gilt-edged securities came
to the poorhouse. the prodigal who flung
his patrlmony away on pictures and ar
tstic trifes sold his collection FOR a
huge sum and lived happily on a large
income ever after.
Cause Of General Uneasiness.
The general uneasiness which the
prevalence of socialism. the increase in
the price OF living and the general po-
litical discomfort in France had brought
with them. encouraged the Bonapartists.
who have been quiescent recently. to
hold a monster meeting at the Sale
Wagram the other evening. The Marquis
de Dion was the principal speaker Five
thousand people listened to him and APP
plauded to the echo his plea for "a con-
sular republic" The Implication. OF
course, was that Prince Napoleon would
be the consul.
Although there IL little likelihood of a
monarchy. an empire or even consular
republic in France In the immediate fu-
ture. there is no doubt whatever that the
French people are ripe for another revo-
luton. Nobody Is quite satisfied with the
present form OF government. Everybody
feels. no matter what class he belongs 10,
that he Is overtaxed and over-red tapped.
There Is q general feeling that the real
rulers Of the country twho are not merely
The government, but all the members OF
the two chambers. and far too many OF
their friends) are much too expensive a
luxury.
MhAy-hC6QGQ IN ROVER.
If Gen. Boulanger were alive there
might easily be coup d etat tomorrow.
BY turning out the congregations, the
nominal rulers Of France have set the
many-headed In power. and they are hard
er masters than either the priests or even
the mobiles ever were The bourgeois is
a long-suffering animal but he is begin
ming to kick against the pricks The
socialist element has so swelled a head
that its demands are rapidly becoming
more than the bourgeoisie will stand,
and In France when unrest has become
as general as 1t is now becoming a Hare
up Is inevitable.
politician said the other day that
war OF one kind or another must break
out In France within the next five years.
His meaning was that if war with an
other nation did not come to turn peo-
pies thoughts away from their home
troubles. civil war. with or without
bioodshed, revolution peaceable or
otherwise, would be a necessity.
Queens Magnificent Jewels.
The magnificent jewels worn by the
Queen Of Holland attracted a great deal
Of attention during her stay OF few
days in Paris. and a good many people
wondered at a remark she made at the
Elysee to NJ. Lepine. Her majesty told
the project of police. after asking him
countless questions about French police
organizations. that she had brought her
best stones with her as compliment 10
him.
The meaning OF this remark is explain
ed by the fact that soon after her ma
Jesty's accession the official keeper of the
crown jewels was found one morning
arA
greater part OF the queens jewels had
been stolen, and no trace of the thieves
were to be found. Her majesty offered
$25,uUU reward for their return. promising
asked. Two years later a Frenchman
cal ed at the Dutch embassy in Washing
ton and received the reward. From in
foI nation which he gave the royal jewels
were discovered under tombstone in
Greenwood cemetery. The identity Of the
thieves Is still unknown. and probably
will remain 50.
Veterans Held in veneration-
Paris owns two artistic veterans who
own in their turn eight feet between
them They are the famous horse and
the little donkey which Rosa Bonheur
used as models. The horse. whose coun-
terfeit presentment is in so many OF
Rosa Bonheur's pictures. is twenty-eisht
years old now, and is at grass at Nogent-
sur-Seine. HIS last visit to Paris coin
cided with the visit of the Shah Muzaf-
fared-Din. who wanted a statue on horse
back for Teheran. The little donkey is
thlrty-fiye She Is at grass in one Of the
rare farms in Paris in the Nauslrand
quarter, and is spending happy old age
in the middle OF a colony OF artists in the
Rue de Dantzig.
France is to have nickel pennies and
halfpennies at last. The minister OF
finance has announced that 100000 ster-
ing in nickel pence and ha fpence viii
per coins will be called In. The new
nickel coinage will have hole In the
haf "a diSfinRllfS she'd