Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-08
dreds of youngsters scattering flow

dreds of youngsters scattering now
ers and singing hymns.
King Albert, the queen and all the
royal family attended the function,
by his vicar. The statue is placed in
the water and a religious ceremony
of blessing ends the functions. Prague
has also recently solemnized the IA
nous pageant not presented to the
people since Bohemia lost it's national
existence hundreds of years ago.
The president of the republic. DR..
Thomas Masaryk. gave the use of
the gardens of the executive mansion
and all the young men of the country
went through gymnastic exercises
and then some ancient games were
drama ended this ceremonial. which
was attended practically by all OF
Bohemia and many from the adjacent
Saxon highlands. Lord Leverhulme
offered the use of the lovely gardens
at Hampstead. outside of London, for
and the Nymph" which is an East
Indian fairy tale, never before seen
in England.
1t proved a phenomenal success, al
though given first by amateurs and
for the entertainment of their friends;
it will be repeated for charity and
some professionals added to the cast.
Everybody seems to relish pageantry
and to have plunged with excessive
zeal into all that savors of 1T, pro-
viding. as it does, pleasure and ex-
element with fine profit for the ia
a revival founded on the Canterbury
Tales is discussed in London and that
all the great pageant producers of
this country as well as England have
been invited to take part
Nine o1r1 "a
appeal to the French people not TO
depose her distinguished husband
from his high office of President of
France because of his failing health
awakens keen sympathy on this side
of the water. Madame says that she
has witnessed the recuperative pow
ers of NJ Deschanel many times be-
fore and she is certain that if he is
but given a reprieve all will be well.
But few of the first ladies of the
French republic seem to have caught
the popular note more clearly than
member of the nobility which is call
ed of 1.-The robe" to distinguish it
from that created by the first Ma
poleon, she is one of the most dem
ocratic mistresses which the old Ely
see palace has sheltered.
Her father, German Brice, an ar
fist, has only recently retired from
the chamber of deputies, where he
served almost lifetime as member
from the Isle and Vilaine division.
NJ. Brice and his wife reside in
fine old mansion on the left bank of
the Seine. quite adjacent to the Acad-
envy of Immortals. of which the Pres
ident of France is member. AS
Mile. German Brice, she was a mem
Der of the famous salon in which NJ.
Deschanel shone as star and where
he met her first. There are three
fifteen
Louis, thirteen, and Emile, not yet
twelve. There appears to be no field
of activity in which the French pres
ident's wife does not shine and her
love of sports is decidedly not a Gallo
trait, though it has not leSSened her
hold on French affection.
She is prominently well gowned
woman but never follows the ex-
tremes of fashion and SO conservative
yet SO faultless is her taste in dress
that many of the modistes await her
Judgment about new styles before
centuring to indorSe them. She is
profoundly learned without being
pedantic and has been an incentive to
her husband in the literary as well as
in the political sense. Her splendid
attitude now recalls to the chivalrous
French that the President of France
and his accomplished wife began life
in humble circumstances and by their
own efforts reached the topmost rung
of fame.
The elder Deschanel, Emile. and
for whom the second son is named,
was an exile by Napoleon III. He
was the leading authority on Greek
and a professor of the Sorbonne.
NJ. Brice. though an excellent paint
er, had never won golden re-
ward. So the young people wed with
out the usual dover of the noble
classes and their first home was over
a bakery shop and here their lovely
young daughter Renee and their ell
der son, Paul Louis, were born. After
the five years, fate was kinder and
they have climbed steadily and rap
idly ever since.
In that extensive senatorial colony
which is gathered during the congress
sional sessions at 2400 18th street
are the Junior Senator from Georgia
and Mrs William j. Harris, both of
whom are better known in Washing
ton than the average newcomer in
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