Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-29
PARIS SEASON over
Fashionable World Leaving
for Chateaus and Resorts.
NOT SAME TO TOURISTS
Visitors There After Spring Ends
Fail to See City at It's Best.
"THE MAY PIGEON" POPULAR
New Dish Fast supplanting the
"Dodine" Of Duck and
Strawberries.
NOT SAME TO TOURISTS
"THE MAY PIGEON" POPULAR
Special Cablegram to The Star.

special Cablegram to The Star.
PARIS. June 29-The Paris season is
over. The weather is hot, the leaves of
the trees on the boulevards have lost
their green freshness and the theaters
are playing things that are not meant
for Parisians. The fashionable world
is leaving by train or motor every day.
going to their chateaus in the coun-
try or to the favorite seaside resorts.
The bOulevards are no longer Pa
risian. but cosmopolitan. The gay city
Is opening its doors to the annual in
vasion of foreigners, who come here
every summer to see Paris and who go
back thinking they have seen 1t, though
the city they have seen is no more
Paris than Coney Island Is New York
city.
The metropolis Of France by no
means despises the annual invading
army. 1t welcomes it with open arms,
tries to anticipate its every wish. gives
1t just what 1t wants. 1t is wicked and
immoral to those who come to see
wickedness and immortality, it's treas
uries Of art and beauty are open to
those who come to study and enjoy.
and it's shops display all the things of
refinement and luxury for which they
are famous; but the spirit Of Paris has
gone and does not return until the
crowd of visitors has left A glimpse
of the real Paris these people never
see. do not even see on the national
holiday. July IA. though there is dane
ing. in every public square. military
champs. He who wants to see the
real Paris must come here in the early
spring, and spring has left long ago.
Cooks Seek New Dish.
So much has been written about
the iodine" Of duck and strawberries
a la Sarah Bernhard that cooks here
in Paris are doing their utmost to in
vent q dish that may vary the monotony
of dinners at the present moment
Since the recipes of the duck and
Strawberries have been published in
the daily papers there Is not big din
not figure on the menu. 1t may be,
therefore. interesting to recall an old
recipe from the eighteenth century Of
what is called 1.-The May pigeon" dish
that any cook can prepare. The
points. cut into small pieces. and two
chickens Hvers, and is served fanked
by mound of asparagus points that
have been allowed to stew in the gravy
of the bird. just before the pigeon
with glass of old Madeira. This
makes an excellent entree and a change
from the duck. that Is beginning to
be as bourgeois" as foie gras at off1cial
banquets.
The Catholic bishops of France have
taken up in earnest the question of
cheap and healthy homes for the people,
The subject has long been one to engage
their attention. for spiritual work is hope
lessly hampered by the evil conditions in
ton united action on their part was not
allowed by the terms of the organic ar
ticles tackled on to the concordat by
Napoleon I. In the last five years the
to face the problem deliberately. Through
out France there Is now a number of
groups of Catholic men banded together
In one common social movement. The
bishops desire that the clergy should keep
in touch with these groups on the house
problem, explaining the facts in confer
ences and lectures. and gradually forming
a strong current OF opinion in the country.
Thus the hands of ministers anxious to
promote the necessary legislation will be
strengthened.
Actress Shoots Her Sweetheart.
A tragic incident in which an actress
and her lover figured occurred in the
Rue Dejean the other night Mile.
Louisette Lager. handsome Creole. who
figures in the production of .Orphee aux
ENTERS" was the sweetheart of young
amateur musician named Derval. The
courtship had lasted two years. Then
trouble arose. and Derval left the actress.
When he left his residence last night he
found the actress waiting for him. She
begged him to return to her, and succeed
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home There she resumed her supplica-
tions. But Deryal was not to be won
back. Asked II he had really made up
his mind not to resume the old relations,
had scarcely uttered the words. when two
shots rang out and he fell with a bullet
in his temple and another in his chest.
Louisette Lager threw away the re-
volver, which was very tiny one. and
proceeded to the theater where she per-
formed her part in the play. She disap-
peared after the performance. The
musicians wounds are not dangerous,
thanks to the small size of the revolver
used.
An pathological curiosity has been dis
covered in the Luxembourg garden. 1t is
rare bird-a white blackbird. 1t was
found a short time ago In the bushes be-
hind the residence Of the president OF the
the garden no one can say. A white
blackbird appeared in the garden two
years ago, and was pet of artists and
children. The question has now been ask
ed whether that bird left descendants.
However this may be, the white black
bird is enjoying itself among the chest
nuts and shrubs. The gardeners show
great liberation toward II, permitting 1t to
roam freely among the seeds and the
young shoots.
The bird is watched night and day, lest
an INSCRIPTIONS "Barnum'' should cap
ture it. Like other blackbirds. 1t sings
very melodiously. Also. the bird is not
entirely white. There are little patches
of black In the snowy plumage.