Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-29
At the French Capital.
Special Cablegram to Thc Star.

Special Cabesram TO Thc Star
PARIS. June aS.-Tomorrow sees The
end of the grand week. the climax.
! the finale. then the dispersal of the null
titudinOus company who have made the
season glorious.
And in this COMPANY many charming
American women figure who grace the
highest society.
For tomorrow when the Grand Prix is
run at Long Champs race course will
be assembled the best horses in tho
world. the most aristocratic men. and
above aii-the loveIiest women clad in
| raiment that would have made. the
Queen of Sheba look like a recluse.
After that the scattering to the sea.
Paris will hurry away: several millions
of Paris will remain. but Paris Will be
Enthusiastically
\ he foreign element this year at Long
champs will. as usual include several
! hundreds of Americans. but will. be made
up largely OF English and South Ameri-
cans. To judge from the extraordinary
influx this season, Buenos Aires, Rio
Janeiro. Montevido, Lima and Caracas
must be empty at the moment. For every
New Yorker in Paris cafes one now
meets four or five Americans of Spanish
origin. They do not spend their dollars
over freely, and are therefore not much
loved. They pervade the whole town
the hurdle races at Auteuil have drawn
crowds this week. Among the smartest
of smart Americans at the big contest
for the grand steeplechase de Paris We're
the Duchess of Marlborough, Mr.. and
Mrs. Perry Belmont. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Carroll, Mrs. II. O. Oehlrichs and
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Garland.
The most popular American hostesses
have been giving their last entertain
ments-necessarily they will soon flee
Paris for awhile Among these recent
entertainments were those by Mrs. Girls
void Gray Of New Y ork. Mrs. HorWitZ
of Philadelphia. Mrs. Frederick Jennings
Parsons of New York. Mrs. William
Sprague, the Comtesse Rodellic de
Poizic, formerly Miss de Trobriand of
former mbassador Charlemagne Tower.
and Mrs. Clarence Postley of New York.
Functions arranged by Mrs Potter
Palmer this season have been more dis
tinguished by smartness than by magni-
tude Mrs. O'Hara Murray of New York
and Mrs. Rutherford Stuyvesant have
been active and attractive entertainers.
Peary's Gift.
What shall man do with reindeer
in Paris? Rear Admiral Peary presented
two reindeer to NJ Chassaigne Guyon. the
new president of the Paris municipal
council La Vie Parisienne states quite
soberly. Naturally the reindeer became
white elephants and NJ. Guyon in turn
gave them to the Jardin des PIantes.
where Clipped ice is being sprinkled on
them to make them feel al home. At
the same time we are informed that
the maiestic fifteen-foot giraffe I'm that
zoo committed suicide by crashing its
head AGAINST the wal rather than stoop
its proud neck to eat the plentiful prov
ender. But the wits declare the giraffe
got sore throat and lost hope of re-
covery.
The Due de Luynes and the Count de
I Contradiction two men of fashion and
of the most aristocratic blood in all
France declare that the male of todays
species should revive the glory OF his
plumace: that the attire of man is too
somber. painfully funereal.
De Luynes is uncle of the very young
Due de Chaulnes. whose wife was
Miss Theodore Shonts of New York. The
Count de Gontaut-Biron's brother. now
deceased married Miss Martha Leish-
man, dauc liter of john G. A. Leishman.
lately American amba ssadOr at Der in.
These two beauX-it is spoken respect
fully-declare that masculine attire has
been degeneratine since the days of the
citizen king. Louis Philippe. Several
attempts have been made in the last
eighty years to Introduce picturesque
dress for men. a time was when the
dress of men of fashion cost far more
than the most eloquent robes OF women
A feeling IS growing in Paris that women
have completely turned the tables in
point of extravagant elegance while the
dress of men has become too simple and
ugly.
The first attack has been directed
A gainst vulgar oyercoats The two leaders
vow we must return to the graceful
cloaks which poets and dandies of $50
wore. They also say that the claw
hammer evening coat must be left to
hotel walters and hired mourners. To