Evening star., 1924-04-27
Princess, Descendant Of Franklin,
Revered by Paris Cabaret Patrons
American of of
the Tragedies of the War;

In Passy? Tut, tut. In the rue des
SauIes, when you are a man of intel
lect with fringed and muddy pants.
day-and probably be given time to
raise 1T.
So the devoted wife went, simply. to
the Lapin Agile. not by any taste or
choice, you can imagine well, but to
assume a strategic position. There
only she could keep an eye on the
prince.
There too the really considerable
revenues of the establishment (for
tourists know that it is genuine If
roughly permit Frede to pay handsome
enough cachets to a genuine princess
who recites her genuine own French
verses-she who is of Oxford and the
Sorbonne, and descended straight from
Benjamin Franklin.
Do they appreciate her? They re-
we're heri
She has never sought to make capi-
tai, in her distress, of birth, social
position, title by marriage. war
charities and services. high political
connections, or other handle.
In particular (and here Americans
think highly of her conduct) she has
seemed, even, to refuse resolut1y any
exploitation of her direct descent
from Franklin.
1t must not be thought strange that
descendants of Benjamin Franklin by
sons bearing his name should be
found in Europe. One of such sons
was acknowledged by him. but aban-
doned when the son, who had become
colonial governor of New Jersey, took
sides with England in the revolution.
The history of the son and of his de-
scendants belonged, aftcrward, to
Europe and India. and these descend
ants have become well known in
France.
| One of the male descendants, not
| long ago, was Il Paris newspapr man
whom 4 often met, and last saw at
one of the weekly lunches of our
Anglo-American Press Association of
Paris. His name is Ben jamin, and the
| French government. when some ques-
tion of an honorable appointment
about the descent of the various
! French F'ranklins.
| At the great benefit assembly for
| destitute Russian artists, Madeleine
was recognized by some Of her old
| friends; and when they asked her
what she was doing, she answered,
simply: Come and see, some eve
ming, at the Lapin Agile"
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RUT not one American tourist in
fifty up to a week or so ago, al
| though adventuring in gay parties TO
"the toughest Bohemian resort of
Paris" had any idea that the lady of
| refinement 50 anonymously doing
her turn" toward IL pm. was in the
widest way inaginably such an un-
! expected and impossible parsonage as
the great-great-grandda of the
American, Benjamin Franklin.
| Her turn comes.
"At present, If you are willing to
make silence in the laboratory
| Frede introduces her grandiloauently,
| your unworthy gourds may fill with
| honey distilled by the suave princesse.
! in her works"
! (Not word about Poor Richard)
| The lady stands, one hand on the
| wine-stained table, cultured and self
possessed, but also friendly, sympa-
thetic, one might feel. even. conf
Dental with these roughnecks, in a
| silk robe a volants of the vintage of
| 1918, declairning in a sweet, firm
voice, her lines beginning:
"En revivant tes joies,
Tu revivras tes peines
| Give again your joys, you viii live
I again your pain)."
| The sloshing walters even knew the
! lines by heart. 1t is a moment of
! sentiment, of pure emotions of poor
| humanity, love leading life and all
| that sort of thing. The local crowd is
moved to genuine uplift.
| But the princess suddenly stops
short.
| A tragic figure enters. shabbier
| than the Christ in Tatters, but solid,
tall. big-boned and hairy. although
the face is as white as plaster against
| the black frippery of an ancient frock
| coat. To the princess he holds out
! the hand. she standing there as white
and haggard as himself.
Then, receiving from her what he
seeks in his hand, upsetting chairs
and table in his haste, the apparition
| disappears into the dripping night Of
! the lugubrious Rue des Saules.