Evening star., 1923-08-15
Poland's Beloved Printer President
Unembarrassed by Regal Trappings

nigh Irresistible fascination-and
among all of them the old journey
man printer, tall, spare. with silver
hair and silvery goatee. moves with
so much native dignity and complete
simplicity. with such absence Of all
self-consciousness and pose, that to
none does he seem out of place amidst
his brilliant environment.
He owes his rise to his remarkable
development Of the cooperative
movement in Poland. 1t is the work
ing classes who have raised him to his
present position He is deeply reIi-
gious. and so great has his influence
become that when his masterful pre-
decessor chief magistrate of the ma
ton, Marshal Pilsudski. became in
VClved in a bitter quarrel with Gen.
Szeptycki, the minister of war, over
some army matters, and challenged
him to duel, it sufficed for the print
er president to quietly inform the
two hot-headed soldiers that he dido
not wish the matter to proceed any
further. for them to abandon all ideas
for shedding one another's blood Only
those who are cognizant of the role
which the duello code exercises upon
the life of the people of Poland and.
indeed upon that of most other con
tlnental countries of Europe, will be
able to appreciate how decisive has
become the authority in Poland OF
this wonderful old printer president, .
who has earned not only the respect
nut also the dlIecIlon OF MS country
men of every class, in spite of the
handicap of his somewhat jawbreak
ing name. WojciechoWski
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Prince Jean de Faucugny Lucigne
has an American mother in the person
of the former Natividad Terry of New
York. who. after the death of her first
husband. Prince Guy de Faucugny. Il
few weeks before the outbreak of the
great war, contracted, toward its
close, another marriage with Jean
Iswolski, son of the one-time minister
of foreign affairs at Petrograd, and
who was the late cars ambassador
in Paris until the overthrow OF the
monarchy in Russia, Nine. Iswolska,
nee Terry, is a frequent visitor to her
native city, namely, New York. and
was there only few weeks ago. She
Is very rich, having inherited a huge
fortune from her father, and has two
young daughters in addition to he"
son Jean. The latter is barely nine
teen years of age, will not, indeed. at
tain his majority for another two
years. Under the circumstances, the
formal announcement of last week of
his impending marriage in October
to the only daughter of Baron Emile
Beaumont d'Erlanger and of his wife.
who is daughter of the French
Marquis de Rochegudo, calls for espe-
cial attention. The brides brother.
young Baron Robert d'Erlanger, mar
ried, last year, the widow of Peter
Cooper Hewitt of New York. the in
ventor, n lady who was formerly Mar
ian Brugiere.
Both the future Princess Jean dc
Faucigny and her brother, Baron Rob
ert dErlanger, have a strain OF
American blood in their veins. For
their grandfather. Baron Emile d Er-
langer, the Paris banker, married Ma
tilda SlidelI of New Orleans, daughter
of the United States Senator John
Slidell of Louisiana, in turn member
of Congress and United States min
lister to Mexico. who was sent by JEFF
ferson Davis to champion the cause
of the Confederacy in France. 1t may
be recalled that the senator, while
making his way to France in behalf
of the Confederacy on board the Brit
ish liner Trent, was held up on the
high seas by the United States war
seized all members of the Confederate
mission and carried them OFF as pris
oners on board his cruiser to Boston,
|. although not before he had been sub
jected to a personal encounter with
Miss Matilda Slidell, afterward Bar
oness Emil d'Erlanger and the
grandmother of the Mile. d Erianger.
Capt Wilkes was afterward held TO
have acted in defiance of the dictates
of international law in Difference to
which, after rather heated contro-
versy between the British and United
States governments, John Slidell and
his party were set at liberty and al-
lowed to proceed to Europe.