Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-05
NH ctMS OF ENGLADS FUTURE KING SHOW

side him. or the flushed and pretty If
teen-year-old girl approaching on her
morning walk, with her dog her seven
teen-year.old brother and her governness.
Loiande de Luynes. .'our neighbors in the
country" They talk of the dog "A
Boston terrier. brought by our cousin
Iheodora from America" They pass.
hsh-Paris youth named Scott. Knew
him at Osborne" Scott. delighted, can
tiers on The boise, of early morning, is
Tor youth: but youth ought not linger.
1t does footing when not horseback,
and lodges briskly into empty by-paths.
1t is long before the hour Of fashionable
noon dawdling. Youth is out for exer-
else. and improving chats with tutors
willingly accepted; these boys know the
world already; they would get an educa-
ton with least effort.
Once, again. they stop for young mar
rled couple-aunt and uncle of the French
chums- The lady is doubly related to
them; she not only married their fathers
brother, the Vicomte de Breteuil. but, as
Miss Edith Grant, is family connection
of their mothers.
1T is. indeed. an American-graced set
into which King George has sent his
youthful heir.
The Theodore mentioned by the bloom
widowed Duchesse de Chaulnes who was
Miss Theodore Shonts. Other neighbors
In the country are the de Ganays, in the
lordly chateau de Coutaances, seat of
their father. But their indulgent grand
mother-Who recently leased her Paris
mansion to the American embassy-was
born Miss Ridgway of Philadelphia.
AND the two French chums with whom
he stays-ask them their names and they
will say plain Frank and James lie Tom
heller. aged nineteen and seventeen years,
respectively. and adding de Breteuir' "a
the rest of the family name-until he
comes OF age. no French youth wears a
title. But their father is the Marquis
and Comte de Breteuil
And their mother is an American
AS Miss Marcellite Garner she was ono
or three daughters Of a former vice COM
modore of the New York Yacht Club who
all married abroad And some Amer
leans may remember the yacht accident
Garner family lost their lives in New
York harbor when these ladies were but
children.
One sister married Count Leo Won Molt
Ike Of the Danish family from which the
great German marshal was also descend
ed They live in Paris.
One sister married Sir william Gordon
Cumming, in England.
And the third sister. Marcellite, mar
ried the Marquis de Breteuil and became
the mother Of these youths.
In their London house, during the sea-
son. King Edward was ever familiar
guest-old friendship. as will be'seen, dat
ing from the young days Of himself and
the marquis in Paris. In their Paris
house. when he slipped over as king, he
ate with joy those fine little lunches and
dinners which made him pronounce gas
tronomy hopeless outside of France
The exterior Of this Paris house looks
modern. but 1t Is only q modern case for
priceless treasures Of the past, The walls
are covered with eighteenth century
wood carvings. To obtain those by Du-
ter de Chamblain an old house in the
Rue de RicheMeu had to be sacrificed
Other wall panels were likewise removed
bodily from the ancient Paris mansion of
the Rohan-Chabot family. Still others
come from the Chateau OF Issy, dis
mantled in the Franco&Prussian war.
There are tapestries by Boucher and Au-
dram more precious than those of Prince
Ks famous bon mot: az prefer my
Bouchers"'-when he refused 500 600 for
them!
Wall paper is for you. wall paper 10 for
me-but pot for the Breteuil boys!