The Washington times., 1936-12-02

League will be . .
singing Christ 49,
mas Carols un- a
der the White
House windows.
And at h t @ -
fireplace of the ESSSS SS$S II
personal study Al Smith
Of Mr.. Franklin D. Roosevelt, will
hang a nifty new sock from the
wardrobe of Mr.. Alfred Emmanuel
Smith.
Baltimore, though having its
special romantic and interna.
tional interest just now, continues
its undiSturbed social routine. The
Bachelors Cotillion Club has sent
out its annual anxiously awaited
invitations for the Monday Ger
man on December at the Lyric
Tilghman G. Pitts is the Secretary
of the Club.
At this German, the Cotillion
will be danced as it was when the
Club was first organized more than
a hundred years ago. Then girls
were presented to society with the
dignity and social consciousness
typical of both early and present
day Baltimore.
The Cotillion or the German,
whichever you may call it, is a
development Of the French Quad
rifle. At the opening dance of
the Baltimore Cotillion, debu.
tantes and their partners proceed
in long lines that break up into
figures. At certain points in the
Cotillion, "favors," trinkets U.s.
ually furnished by the Cotillion
managers, are exchanged.
The charm of a Baltimore wom-
an once before held international
interest. The young Miss Betsy
Patterson startled two continents
when she married Jerome Bona
parte, the youngest brother of
Napoleon.
Betsy, who was small, witty and
dazzling, met Jerome Bonaparte
at a ball given by Samuel Chase,
signer of the Declaration of 1nde-
pendence. During a figure in a
quadrille, young Jerome'S chain
became entangled in Betsy's hair
Amazingly soon thereafter they
were married. The groom was
19 and the bride 18.
One gentleman guest at the
marriage in describing the brides
wedding, said, there was as little
as possible of any gown at all
could have put all her clothes
in my pocket"
Hoping to make Napoleon
think his brother had married
well, President jefferson, Secre
tary of State Madison, Mr.. Liv
ingston, Ambassador to France
ard Mr.. Robert Patterson, thu
brides brother, addressed the
Emperor of France by letters anc
personal visits.
Napoleon continued in a rage
He said the marriage of jerome
and Betsy was "pretenled.
should his brother bring hi
supposed bride" to Europe, she
should not ''put a foot on thu
territory of France"
At Lisbon a French guard pre-
vented Betsy from landing anc
took Jerome to Paris. jerome
eventually married Gs Napoleon
told him to and beca ne the KinE
of Westphalia. He never say
Betsy again except at a picture
gallery. Not until the death O.
Napoleon did she enter France.
The son of this romantic epi
code, Jerome Bonaparte, was edu
Gated at Harvard. One of hi
descendants, Charles erom
Bonaparte, was Secretary of tn
Navy and Attorney General dur
ing Theodore Roosevelt'S admin
istration.
Betsy's Napoleanic snub dit
not break her heart. Her life wa
long and amusing until at tn
age of "a she wrot-;
"I am dying with ennui. I
am too old to cOquette. With
out this stimulant fear I shall
perish"
When she was at the height o
her blooming, Madame Bonaparte
as she was called, was a clos
friend of Dolly Madison and oftel
visited at the White House. A
ways Madame Bonaparte's clothe
were sensational. Dolly Madison
herself wrote that at one part
Madame Bonaparte'S "back, bo!
ON, part of her waist and he
arms were uncovered and the res
Of her form visible. -. 'No on
dared look at her except b
stealth"
Further notes on clothes.
Politics are now becoming t
women. I thought so as I sat a
the annual luncheon of the Won
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