The Washington herald., 1913-07-22
Court Gossip of Interesting
Events on Two Continents

| ing tasteful schemes Of decoration was
well worth seeing.
queen Alexandra drove through the
streets, halting at Kensington Hall to
accept bouquet Of the blossoms a. q
token Of homage.
The resolution Of the Town council
OF Fafis. carried by . great majority.
| mat the Legislature give women a
vote at the municipal elections. n NO
uncomfortable event 1t NAV have
oeen platonic. Even SO, IL means a
1 fipehins OF what il known as thu
| ~omehs question, the doings of the
sunrasettes notwithstanding. What
\ enhances its significance il that IL fol.
lowed at so short an interval the pro-
nouncement Of Baron dEstournelle..
as spokesman on behalf of the Senate
| on the occasion of the Matin Grand
Prize for heroism awarded to Nine.
| Manouvrier, and the Homecoming Of
Sarah Bernhardt from her seventh tour
OF the United States. the longest one
| she ever made. and the most fatfeu-
Ing. though she is willing to begin
/, again.
As time cannot tell upon her, save 70
mellow her gifts. one may speak of
her in the point of years as the &c.
o. w." as We used to speak of Glad
stone as the G. o. n. She played
through the six months of her tour
twice a day on all the days Of the
week, and sometimes gave readings
from religious parts of "Sainte Their
ese of Catulle Mendes" on Sundays.
She feels overjoyed at finding herself
once more in Paris. In a few days
she goes to Belle Isle, of the south
cost of Brittany. to recoup physically.
II 10 an ideal place for q rest cure, the
spray of the Atlantic being 30 rejuve-
mating. and trippers being afraid 10
cross over the rough channel in the
cockel-sheil steamer that plies between
that place and the mainland. Her plans
are the quiet reading of manuscript
plays offered for her theater until mid
september. when she goes to London.
staying there until the end of octo-
Der. Then back to play q revised and
and good deal altered "Princesse L.oin-
tame" at which Rostand has been
working.
The heroine to whom Q fury, euiled
from the bourseoisie. petty and higher.
awarded the 10000 francs prize for hero
ism a Nine. Manouvrier, wife of a peasan,
farmer In the north Of France, was found
oy friends, who came to congratuIate
her. tending hay in the orchard. She "a
said to be goodlookinE, tanned by open-
air farm work. looks about six or seven
and twenty, is quite. lame, and often
finds the spots in her legs, where the
skin was removed to graft on the badly
burnt body Of her step-son. 30 sore as
to faint But she IL ready to BEGIN axain
should those still unheaIed burns call for
fresh sacrifice. The limb that was most
cut from grows black when she has been
walking for some time
1t seemed to her. as she Is fond Of her
husband. and has almost more than q
mothers love for the youthful step
son, only natural to sacrifice herself,
when the surgeon asked II any one would
volunteer. She was noted before the
operation for her robust physique, her
CHEEKY temper and willingness a. a
worker. Her health has been impaired
by all this vivisectfon. VIII any ZEN
thusiast'' for research In the interest Of
science and the human race. permit to
such an ordeal? For a woman, and es-
pecially as mere step-mother," this
farmer woman towers far and away over
many men. FLANEUR