The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-07-26

a n American city woman was
sailing home from Paris.
IA Charlie" she said to a
Partisan friend of the family,
matte, knobby-handed,
with a bold spot, but still in circula-
ton; Charlie, am quitting this Mod
ern Babylon, this Cavern Of Folly
Pardon, Mabel, but you got about
with celebrity" replied the equity one.
mo Parisienne of my acquaintance
can begin to touch your record"
'Oh, but Charlie, it was not for
pleasure" she reproached him> gently.
often was quite tired. but / kept
up-just to see"
Such were her last words. His were:
Mabel. you're fraud!" But he was
mistaken. ALI the rich Americans who
come to Paris get about the resorts
with energy, fearful of missing some
thing. Parisians do not understand.
They just wanted to see!
The husband of Mabel and two 9th
ers trusted Charlie to take the ladies
to supper at the Abbaye after the thea
ter. Amid gypsy music, lights. tot
lettes, popping champagne, laughter,
practical jokes and calls from table to
table, they noticed pair of Spanish
dancing girls weaving a fandango in
the aisles. Charlie stepped aside a
moment to speak to the maitre d'hotel,
and, returning found that Mabel had
invited the dancing girls to their table.
Its ~rrorise, Charlie" she said
guiltyily; but the scolded you know
you should not do it," he said. What
possessed you?"
oh" she answered, at is just to
make study"
After all, she said to him, because a
whole series of very smart resorts base
their existence on previous Partisan
desire to make study" to see some
thing different" and exclusive.
ALI the genesis of the little jewel box
theatres cote, ION the side," so popu-
lar alike with rich Americans and
Par'a!ans, is here.
Pay for Insults.
It began when someone discovered
Alecandre Bruant's little cabaret for
laborers and masons, to whom rude
but powerful song writer's warbled
their ballads of the people," Friday
evenings the fashionables began arriv-
ing in dress clothes and string Of
elegant eQuipages, to pay the beer 50,
and be good naturally insulted by the
chorus of habitues as they departed.
Next it was the Cabaret OF Janitors
the Quat'z-Arts, the Tavern Of Assas-
sins. Fursy's Shanty-to which the
smart world still goes-and many an
other, all copied on the same model
1t was seen that the fashionables were
glad to enter little hall, where
everybody could not go because there
was not room, because 1t was dear and
different. AS soon as the middle class
and flourish public caught on the fash
ionables quit and tried another.
Grasping this taste OF the rich the
managers OF those that remained
smart kept their prices very dear
Thus. you pay $3.50 for the poorest
seat at the Capucines and dearer for a
back seat at the Michel than for an
orchestra chair at the Grand Opera!
Notwithstanding resorts insure
their cioakroom for q million and the
bonds Of its employees aggregate a like
sum.
Rich Americans flock to the Capu-
cines. hidden on the boulevard. on
posite the Olympia. The Olympia. blaz-
ing with lights. has a 40 cents en-
trance. You must hunt for the Capu-
cines through dim porte-cochere into
an ordinary apartment building court
yard, where 1t Is surrounded and top
ped by business Offices and flats. There
is scarcely sign. Inside. bijou hall.
with II rows Of seats, six boxes, tiny
low balcony as dear az the rest,
Jewel box stage. Beaux-Arts scenery
worthy to frame Regina Badet and
$3.50 cheapest entrance.
Here the young King Of Portugal
met Gaby Deslys. as star Of Review
cite. Here Regina Badet, one-time
ballet queen OF the Opera-C omique,
plays, sings and dances In "Sappho
and Phaon," whose dialogue. however