The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-08

finement, art in its most stimulating
presentments. and all in an overwhelm-
ing democracy. Good order prevailed
without apparent effort to preserve Il.
The whole scene. though elegance and
distinction might be said to rub shoul-
ders with the work-a-day world, justi-
fled Bismarck's saying: Paris is the
salon of Europe" In England all classes
mingle on the road to EPSON. But
nerves not well in control must suffer
from the registering enjoyment that pre-
walls. At Ascot one has only high gen.
tility, rather dun, and aristocracy. A
coronation is only for the nobility
and privileged classes At the dia-
mond jubilee of Queen Victoria the
There is no such wonderful mingling in
England as was at the opening of this
septennate at the Paris Hotel de Vile.
1t had been given out that Mesdames
Fallieres and Loubet were to act as
sponsors for Mime. Poincare. AS they
could not go three abreast in the same
carriage, they were to await her, il was
said, at the main entrance. However,
she came alone. For some minutes. as
she waited for the master of ceremonies
to take her in. she spoke quite anna bly,
to the servant who opened the carriage
door. He, well-trained. stood stiff and
Unconditional as a stone. No heroine in
the last chapter of an old-fashioned
novel was ever of happier appearance,
She looked as if she wished to en-
brace the crowd, whose warm sympathy
she must have felt
She wore a small hat, rather elabor-
ately trimmed with bows of ribbon on
the brim and a cluster of bows over
one ear; then a bird of paradise
feather, and behind ii curled plumes
the color of the dark and light violet
'pekines" stripes of her dress, fashion,
able in the very much draped and COM
pick folds and retroussis of her skirt.
A voluminous scarf of white fur err
mine, without the tails. hid the cor
sage, and the muff matched the scarf
in amplitude and color. One could see
foreign taste in a certain accentuation
of what is fashionable. But she be-
came her clothes and they suited her.
The face is fuller than it used to be
when she and NJ. Poincaire spent their
Sundays motoring and dropping into
inns of File de France, but
she wears well and has an agreeable
presence.
The two ex-Presidents were already
seated in the Sale des Fetes when she
entered and took her place slightly
before them. While verses were being
recited by Mime. MarteI. of the Theater
Francois. the President came up,
though this was not in the programme.
and room was made for him to sit be-
side her. He and she contrasted strik-
ingly, he being deeply grave, as if I'M
der a sense of stupendous responsible
lities and entirely absorbed in thoughts.
She seemed overjoyed, and evidently
would have felt still happier at being
free to show her delight. A lunch was
prepared in a beautiful little loggia
for her and the two ex-Presidents'
and a small number of ladies. She
witnessed the departure of NM. Poin-
caire and Fallieres from a window, and
heard again with evident transport the
blare of the trumpets by way of a
good-by, ard then the "Marseillaise."
Two days later she attended the OBJ
sequies of the late wife of the great
surgeon, Leon Labb, a Senator and
great friend. When he saw her he
caused her to be shown TO the front
row, reserved for the family. In a
black but not extremely fashionable
dress, she looked to advantage. wear
ing veil less thick than any of the
ladies near her.
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