Evening star., 1928-09-09
Chef Who Served Famous Men Now Living Here

| according TO M. Chaudouard, and they
are kept very subordinate. There Is
| no manufacturing labor for them or
| education Of any kind. They are paid
pitifuIly small wages, and their pun
ishments are severe. Once, when a
titled lady lost a jeweled ring, the cul-
prit who had stolen 1t, was hanged as
! an example to the other natives.
In building their temples the. natives
show great persistence and patience.
NJ. Chaudcuard described how they
carry one stone each on their backs
miles over q period covering many
| days, and, having no money to buy food,
| they come to the markets, where the
| native venders squat beside their tall
| baskets of corn, rice or wheat, ana
! there the traveller hurnbly begS for a
| little of the grain. He is given few
grains in his hand and he may then
be seen laboriouSly pounding it into
flour, which he may stir with some
water from a little mountain stream
and make into a paste that he eats
raw or bakes over haSti7 improvised
fire into crude bread. This food and a
drink of water may be all he gets for
many miles of travel.
An odd fact about many Of the ma
| tiveS, due to their religions, was fre-
| quently brought to the attention Of NJ.
| Chaudouard. Members of the sect
| known as Animists the oldest religion
of India, worShiping many gods and
| holding the COW as sacred animal,
and the Hindus will not touch animals
to eat the flesh, nor will they even
handle dead animals which are to be
| prepared for other people to eat. They
believe most devoutly that If they do
SO they will lose their religion"
There are eight kinds Of religion
among the people of India--that is.
eight dominant kinds. They include
the Animist, the Hindu, the Moham-
medan, the Buddhist, the Christian, the
Jain and the Parsee.
These natives also eat no eggs, and
the Hindus generally live on raw cab
bage and cucumbers. with crude use of
grains.
IN 1902 Louis Chaudouard left the
service of Lord Curzon and re-
turned to Paris, where, in June of that
year. he was engaged as chef to Mrs.
Guggenheim. who brought him to the
United States. M. Chaudouard was
with the Guggenheims until the World
War. He left them and in 1919 re-
| turned to France, where he stayed for
| four years. He also was chef for the
Countess of Warwick for q while be-
fore returning to the United States. He
liked America, however, and in 1928
came back, and for six months was
chef to Gov. Smith at Albany. He
prides himself especially on the beauti-
full spun sugar Easter pillow that he
made for the governor, with a gay diff
fcrent-colored sugar egg on 1t for each
member of the Smith family. M. Chau-
douard speaks with particular enthusi-
asm of the beautiful home of the gov
er.-Jr and the regular practice of hav-
ing motion pictures in the drawing
room in the evenings, when the whole
household was invited to enjoy them.
M. Chaudouard came to Washington
and was chef for the Italian embassy,
for Countess Szechenyi at the Hun
garian legation and also for Mrs. Arthur
O'Brien, who introduced her daughter,
Allison Roebling (now Baroness Won der
Elst), to society couple OF seasons
ago.
M. Chaudouard was urged to go into
business for himself and decided to do
so. He opened the Maison Louis, la
vile de Paris, on Wisconsin avenue.
But M. Chaudouard was an artist, not
business man, and he soon realized
the discrepancy and the probability
that never the twain shall meet" AS
he says with such pathoS: But yes. 1t
is impossible. To make money at 1t one
must take recipe that, say. calls for
one pound Of butter and make it up
with only one-half pound Of butter. 1t
is inartistic. will not do it." And so
the Maison Louis passed into the
shades.
Nj. Chaudouard retired to private life
In dignity and now awaits another op-
portunity to be chef where again he
may make his creations" While he
! waits he does not wait alone, for there
Is Mime. Chaudouard, formerly Leon
tine Thomas of Ruon, France, who
came to the United States in the serv-
ice Of Mrs. George Vanderbilt (now
Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry and who gave
Cornelia Vanderbilt her first conversa-
tional French, Nine. Chaudouard has
travelled considerably. too, for she was
for some time governess to an Egyp-