The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-02

said: You knew the telegram by
heart: Rendezvous the day after to-
morrow. My time is yours. You know
the place. We will bring seconds. Only |
faint hearts win back out
WellF said the Emperor, you sent |
that telegram to the Prince of Wales, |
afterwards Edward VII of England. |
That duel must not come off,
The general was now laughing much |
to the Emperor's amazement. He ex-
plained. "The rendezvous for the day
after tomorrow is at the Cafe Anglais
and the duelling ground in the Grand
Seize. The seconds are two ladies' and
he named two actresses. It was the
Emperor's turn to laugh. but he sud-
denly looked dismayed why the po-
lice have stopped that telegram he
exclaimed, and he rang for an aide-de-
camp, gave HIM the telegram and said:
Send this off at once"
The new standard laid down in the
Paris law courts forSa married womans
dress allowance by which she must not
spend more per anrum in dress than
the rental of her home does not meet
with general approval.
! Nine. Miropelsky. one of the hest
known woman lawyers in Paris, does
not think the judgment can be taken
seriously nor as applying to all cases.
Imagine a fashionable woman she
says, being obliged when ordering
dress to give the account of her rent
and meeting with the declarations: If
madame only pays 500 a year, then
I can only furnish her with an even
| ing dress at $500 and a costume at
N00.'"
| Men are equally Interested in the
| decision. but from another point of
view. They fear that women will con-
| slider themselves justified in always
| spending the maximum sum allowed by
/ the court. Nine. Lamperiere, a distin-
guished woman lawyer, points out that in
many eases such a sum would be ex-
| cessive.
| Certainly Maitre Henri Robert chose
a very attractive title for his lecture
at the Univerzitie des Annales. 1t was
How I Should Have Defended Lady
Macbeth" The large hall was crowded
| by big-hatted ladies anxious to hear
how he would have done II; for Me.
Robert is perhaps the most famous
criminal lawyer in France today.
Heaven knows, how many heroines of
''crimes passionels' he has restored to
the bosoms of their sorrowing FAM
| ilies.
| The eloquent Maitre found himself a
little hampered by his surroundings.
After all the Universite des Annales
| is not a law court. and frock coat
!
robe Then Lady Macbeth is pretty dead
| She was not there, q few yards away.
| in the deck, In rich but simple mourn
| ing for the deceased King Duncan.
There was no jury save the sea of
hats and ladies'. as all the world knows,
do not sit lightly in judgment on their
| erring sisters. The circumstances were
| rather against Maitre Robert and his
client. Then Shakespeare, it must be
confessed makes out a pretty damning
case against Lady Macbeth.
| Still. Maitre Robert struggled brave
| ly against his manifold adversities.
| First he drew us-in warm and vibrant
tones--a pathetic picture of a lonely
lady, young. charming, adorably blonde.
awaiting a husband long in coming
from his hunting and his wars. Then
| he attacked her husband, who was
with difficulty recognizable under the
| title of General Macbeth, on the prin-
| ciple presumably that attack is the
| best defense. Besides husbands, like
the absent. "ent tenjourn tort"
| At this po'nt the sympathies of the
audience went out in full tide to the
| eloquent Maltre.
/ And then Mr.. Robert went on with the
most charming consistency to confuse all
| the issues. First, he argued eloquently
that the crime, from design to execution,
| as the sole work of the vicious, cruel
and vacillating General Macbeth lie
argued that If the 'charmingly blonde
/ and lonely lady" had been-which she
was not-an accomplice in the murder,
there was ample excuse for her. King
Duncan having made pretty havoc vita
| her friends and relations.
| Colonel Teyssier, the famous COM
mander of Biche, who held out against
| the German armies during the entire
| France-German war, is now In his nine
ty-second year, living retired at Alibi, his
birthplace, and his prowess is being re-
called to the public mind by the highest
distinction which can be conferred on him
namely, his promotion from the rank
| of commander to that of grand officer
of the legion Of honor. The decree mer-
tions that at his retirement the colonel
had seen 3S years of active service, that
| he had been in five campaigns and had
been wounded four times. His native
town. Alibi, decided a year ago to erect
statue in his honor. Colonel Teyssier
| defended Biche. against the Bavarian
| troops from August q 1870 until March o.
/ 1871, with small force of 800 men, When
Richie opened its states at last the ar
mistice had already been signed for more
| than two months and the assemble ma
'ionale had been sitting for one month,
and had ratified the preliminaries of the