The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-02
TALE OF KINGS AND THEIR COURTS TOLD
OUT OF HOURS BY AN AMERICAN WOMAN
WHO FINDS ROMANCE IN MANY ROYAL HAUNTS

INV - hAbu pldCtb dDIOhu Is us
cuased very informally and diverting-
ly, with much telling OF unconvention-
al stories, in the book called "lntimac-
les Of Court and Society" (Dodd, Mead
a. Coz, by THE Widow OF an Ameri-
can Ambassador" Our author enter
tains us in republican France and at
the courts of Italy, Russia, Germany
and Great Britain, besides giving us a
social view of Government House in
Canada and a brief, impressionistic
chapter on Washington. incidentally,
she treats of the life, duties, privileges
and tribulations of the Ambassador,
with some thought of how America
fails to provide the house in which he
may lay his head.
Among other amusing anecdotes we
find one which tells how, shortly be
fore coming to London, John Hay had
been out in Ohio on campaign business
and had exchanged a few words with
local politician After several years
of busy London life he had forgotten
the mans very existence, when he re
ceived letter from him, written with
the familiarity of a lifelong friendship,
to say that he was bringing a party of
forty tourists to Europe and would he
show them around the House of Com
mons and give them tea on the terrace
U1 IN t. Uln
on his prospectus!
However, coming to our rounds Of
visits among the great.
I'm the other European capitals the
daily drive of the King and Queen is
a feature of the life. But one misses
it in Paris. President Fallieres takes
a walk every morning, but Nine. Fal-
Heres takes neither walks nor drives.
"A witty Frenchmen once said that
Paris was invented so that foreigners
should know nothing of France, and
Nine. Fallieres belongs to that france
of the provinces whose life is a
sealed book to most strangers 1t is
the type of the petite bourgeoise or
lower middle class of the South, de-
scended from generations of women
honest and modest, whose existence
has been centred in the home, in keep
ing it in order, overlooking the ser
wants and living close to the children
"a type conserved through genera
tions and seemingly as little impressed
with the march of time as the Sphinx
of Egypt
A Presidents Plump Little Wife
With Nothing to say for Herself.
Going to call on madame one day
We found little woman, very
plump and very dark, with regular
features and bright black eyes, her
folds OF black hair slightly marked
with gray drawn back in an old-fash-
toned way. She was dressed with a
simplicity entirely provincial and
without a single ornament or jewel,
and she greeted her guests with a
timid, sincere smile and a modest, dep
recating manner, as if trying to eX-
cuse herself for her surroundings. The
strangers who filed past her, each took
turn resting for a few seconds in
an armchair beside the big one Of
Aubosson in which she was seated.
She had nothing to say. She has
never travelled beyond France, as Pres
ident Fallieres never did until he came
into his present high office The last
piece at the theater-she has not seen
it. The opeTa-the Presidential box
is seldom occupied by herself or her
husband. The latest book-she has no
life of books. Paris itself she knows
only in its streets and buildings, no.
thing of the great Paris of arts But
she wore a certain happy air which
! knew was admiration for the hus-
band who has mounted so high | eX-
pressed my own admiration for him
and she took it with the pleasure of
bride.
AT the Pantheon, daring the cere-
monies of the interment of lola, when
the shot of Gregori was fired, Nine.
Farrieres heard it instantly and cried
out, Some one has shot my husband.
She thought of the tragedy of Garnet
and suffered agones curing the mo-
ments that passed before the truth
could be known Speaking Of it at this
time, she said. Those moments have
more than Overweighed any happiness
I have enjoyed at my husbands sue
cess.
Mime. Fallieres Fires State Chez and
Brings on Her Own Home Cook.
shortly after Nine. Fallieres took
up her residence in the Elysee she sue
ceeded, after a protracted struggle, in
discharging the Presidential chef and
installing her own time-honored and
beloved cook, accustomed to the daily
visits to the kitchen of herself and her
daughter-and how many an official
dinner guest has since then, accepted
the lesson of experience and taken the