| Show BOGUS COUNT AND HIS WifE Tricky Couple Sell Rich Boston Widow Rare Bare Old Paintings for Much Money Which Turn TurnOut TurnOut TurnOut Out to Be Merely Imitations YANKEE WOMAN SUES HER FORMER FRIENDS All Paris Laughing Over the 4 Incident and arid the Principals Are Being Taken Off in Vaudeville Shows LATEST FRENCH FASHIONS ARTS May Mar 14 Once be PARIS r feminine always eternal Two I American women omen who vrho have hae had bad the ibe center of the stage tae for some twine das darn I till retain It and what la b I more will UI continue to do so for lor some sometime I time They are the talk taik of Paris Parla and to such nn extent that together with the of one of them they and their experiences experience are being portrayed Dud and caricatured on the vaudeville of the French capital The case is that of Mrs Irs Charles Ham nam Hamilton ilton lIto Payne of Boston and the Comte rind and nd 1 dAulby Aulby d de ele Gatig ny fly the Comtes being also aillo a Boston floston BostonIan inn Ian before she graduated into the ranks rank I of at the near aristocracy arl c Talk of a canse Tor Zor or gossip and aUlI scandal The now cele erie celebrated celebrated picture fraud affair In WhIch Mr Payne Is I the victim Is i the talk of Paris and Dud promises to be so for tor some sometime sometime time lime Mrs Payne who is very wealthy continues to t occupy the magnificent former residence of the in the Avenue de Bois Bole has bas brought brou ht suit for against the Comte and dAulby tTe cle of Tours who lay claim to even een more imposing and tItles charging that a number of paintings sold to her as genuine old masters are nothing but clever modern reproductions There are those however who say that the paintings incident Itself Is not the entire cause of beautiful scandal and court pro proceedings proceedings proceedings against those who until a avery aery avery very ery short time ago were intimate friends of ot the plaintiff There are hints that the pseudo count cherished a strong feeling of admiration for the tha widow of the late Beston copper king Icing chief aim when In hi the flesh tIesh u seemed to be pe to provIde the necessary financial sinews of war to carry arry on the storming 8 of the doors of the social cas castie tie occupied by the Paris Four Hun Hundred Hundred un undred dred Both Doth Bostonians The pseudo countess like her former friend is also from Boston where it itis itIs itIs is said she belongs to a and nd simple family who never entirely approved of her marriage The pos possessor possessor possessor sessor of a remarkably fine contralto voice Francesca Lunt had visions be before before fore rore meeting the count of an n operatic career she at that time was a member of f the choir of a fashionable Boston church After Alter the marriage and bent upon I social Locial success the comte cox te and com corn tesse tess went to 10 England from Boston but after an unprogressive stay in Lon London London don they U ey journeyed to Tours Tour France and endeavored to acquire that accent In the ancient French city which is said laid to be the purest in all France From Froma a modest boarding house they made debut by means of ot a stony front frontIn In the select circle of the most exclusive exclusive sive French society of old This former dwelling section of the old kings of or France remains conservative to a degree but the city of Tours prop proper er or is rather more progressive Many of its residents love lore a good dinner dinne Continued on Page Pace Nine BOGUS COUNT GOUNT AND HIS WIFE Continued Prom From om Page One ne f r with equally goodwine goodS good wine Hence with this fact tact in view and the prestige of ot alleged American wealth through the wife the made considerable cons erable headway All was not smooth th sailing s however for many of the doors of the most desirable houses remained closed to the strangers whom none knew and who although h bearing a French name name spoke French with a 5 delightful Ceck C k kney ney accent Money Turned d the tb Trick Enter Mrs Charles Hamilton Payne of Boston U TJ S So A with millions in her bank account magnificent furs priceless gowns of lace and a cloth of I gold The acquaintance which began when the two ladles ladies sailed as fellow passengers from Boston to Europe soon eoon grew into closest friendship What more natural than that the should show her new found friend her chateaux and likewise her titled friends of or Tours urs At the former the comte displayed hl his hilt treasures of Q art artand artand artand and showed a willingness to oblige the Boston with an evidence of his taste and superior knowledge of ot how things are done ov r here bere Hence when wh n the tile rented furnished house occupied by Mrs Payne was WB given up it was walt the comte who found one more suitable and incidentally much more expensive and who assisted i In supplying what he declared to b bp be most essential In the form of a picture gallery I as an a friend will loan you mine for fora a mere mere trifle annually he offered I will even cven consent to sell you Jou a few of ot the best works at t a friends price he added Who could resist such an offer otter and who would question the motive The French courts are now establish establishing establishing ing the fact little by little that It would have been advisable for Mrs Payne to have n ve investigated with genuine genuIne ine me Yankee caution before accepting the comtes oUst offar but as the law in France Is very verv strict about most mat matters matters matters there is little doubt that Mrs Payne Pane will receive proper prop r satisfaction in a financial way wa Count t Son of London Tailor The wound to her pride however in finding that the titles of nobility claimed by her two friends Is of ot the same character as the painting she bought at exorbitant prices that the husband Is not nota a prince not even a count but just plain Mister Daul vey of London England where it is said his father Is a tailor can never be entirely healed Yet there Is said Bald to be balm In Gilead for Mrs Paynes woes for she site finds a aready aready aready ready listener and a deeply sympathetic friend In the thc person of a bona fide duke no mistake this time even though he be but of ot the old empire Well primed with an knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge of art It Is said that It Is he who first discovered the fraud in the paintings and was bold enough to pro proclaim proclaim proclaim claim the fact to Mrs Payne And a tiny bird chips that the real duke believed too that there would be beless beless beless less danger In the field neld If it the pseudo count were removed as a possible le rival So there you are with the eternal feminine Meanwhile Paris ever eyer ready to seize on a situation and turn it Into ridi ridicule ridicule ridicule cule has already Incorporated the facts In a tableaux which is being given In a n number of music hall hail revues Pleasant for Mrs Payne Pane Well how about the Fashion Notes Rich and poor high and low young youn and old every Frenchwoman has a pocket In her petticoat and not a bit bitof bitof of ot a false modesty Is there about her when she lifts her dress skirt whether in the street strict or In a public conveyance and exposes to the public gaze a petti petticoat petticoat petticoat coat of ot silk moreen or unpretentious colored cotton as the case may be while she dives Into her Inside pocket and grabs her purse purS When WIlen she has taken from It whatever cash she needs she tucks It away again together with her handkerchief In the aforementioned pocket Needless to say that when an American not used to Paris ways was first sees this performance she Is often struck dumb with astonishment And no wonder vonder Were such a thing to happen In public in any large American city a small sized riot followed by an ar at arrest arrest rest would quite likely take place As may be bl seen they the do things differ differently differently over here Oh these hats They con continue continue to grow weird Indeed And the reversed flowerpot effect with flow flowers flowers flowers ers springing out at a most curious an angle angle angle gle are among the weirdest Worn by a n saucy young girl they may be rather attractive but when seen on a lady no longer youth youthful youthful ful tul the sight 51 ht is one which may well make angels weep The Plateau Rat Hat One great milliner with a worldwide reputation is 15 showing howin her ber art in the manipulation of the plateau hat shap shaping shapIng shaping ing them to suit sult the requirement of ot each individual customer A mass of or flowers upon which the disk Is raised from the hair In one style while an another another another other Is the brim crumpled and bent with here and there ther quantities of the most looking hooking birds peeping out from underneath Most of the thc newest models of even evenIng evening evenIng Ing i owns gowns are quits devoid of or the em embroidery embroidery and other elaborate trimming that has haa prevailed for so long Lace Lae is much to the fore again as veiling for forthe forthe forthe the slips of liberty A smart gown I saw paw recently was of coral liberty satin draped with fine black spotted net with a n wide flounce of chantilly form formIng formIng Ing Ute the trimming around the bottom b of the skirt Foulards and md cot cotton cotton cotton ton crepe are all employed for morning wear and are made up of very vary simple lines The black taffeta Is very popular This years make Is very soft and pliable and Is often otten com corn combined combined with a light weight cloth for fo rather more dressy gowns gowns |
