Show I HOW LITERARY PARIS EATERTAIIVS Four Famous Women at Home Notwithstanding all popular opinion to the contrary the French are a very formal nation Bohemia in the British sense does not exist in Paris for those belonging to that vast undefined land are content to meet in cafes restaurants I I restaur-ants and public halls and nothing would be further from their thoughts than to become literary entertainers Still there are in the gay city some half dozen hostesses who keep up the best French tmditions and whose sa lons are filled each week with a de lightful cosmopolitan society composed largely of writers and artists who meet I to discuss intellectual and kindred sub jects anu wno are content with far less formality than their English brethren Thus a dress coat and low dress are unknown ifi i the Parisian world of art and letters and this although not a few of their meetings take p1ace in the I evening after the early dinner which oldfashioned Parisians delight in Dliidamc Daudet Receives Such gatherings are held on most Wednesdays In Madame Alphon3e Dau dets pretty drawing room the great novelist his wife young son and little girls live in one of the old world streets of the Quarter Latin there Madame Daudet well known to all students of French literature as a remarkably re-markably delightful and delicate writer writ-er receives her guests with simple cordiality cor-diality and good nature whilst assisting assist-ing her to do the honors will generally be found her daughterinlaw Madame Leon Daudet the beautiful fairhaired girl for whom Victor Hugo wrote his Art of Being a Grandfather The mistress of the house though she can hold her own in any conversation seldom sel-dom alludes to her own literary work Were it not for me her husband will sometimes excaim people would scarce believe the fact that there exist I ex-ist in this house two writers Madame Daudets drawingroom always gay r with the sound of young voices for she was always her two sons closest com r I < i > f V + I I I MME SEVEREVE panion and friend and all their college jl comrades tions are welcome to her recep A Novelist at Home J Gyp the brilUant Comtesse Martel notwithstanding the fact that she has made her home outside the fortifica tions on one of the Neuilly boulevards boule-vards is a center of social life She also receives her friends and acquaintances I acquaint-ances once a week and all those who have any claim to being considered worthy of recognition in any branch ofj I work are sure of a warm welcome f from Gyp and tor children 1 4 tI v4 < a f i u ftS < 7 i1 < A gre t dame in ith6 si i sense v > of 1 1 the = 1 wsra MirabettUs eat niece is so sure of hef poisiticn < ftiaTljhercan i Encourage J streng V9r of Bohemian I Ismi without fear of comment or4cre mar < Her husband Naiie of thejbe knownr sportsmen to Fxance deBghts In his wife 3v5kr5Mid is not the least brilliant talKer JmJ jiV theia gitrlirel I rounder each Tuesclay > V TheOomtesse de Martels sitting room is a strange mixture of ancient j and modern things great tapestries which formerly hung in g royal chateau chat-eau form a lovely backgroundtb the Told family portra1th modern paStels and delightful crteahires which line i the unique salon < whifet Ihe windows jlok out oJl a vastgarden the rchI f j attradtionof < jyps uburban home for j down the broad alleys she is able to exercise the beautiful 1 > mare on which ishe rides daily fihe or wet The Com I sEe de Martel notwithstanding the three tall children to whom she points with prlde is H put fur looking woman wo-man with a iLgaffiSjUi i spiritual face and shock of shortf fair purly hair occasionally shewill ask some favored friend into the large stud bel1rO + 11 wher he does n41 her writIng in the early hours Of the morning but as a rule Madame de Cpmtesse Is content to receive in the great suit uf salons occupying the full front of her Chouse An Editor Hostess Throughout the winter months Madame Ma-dame Juliette Adam the well known editress of the NQuvelle Revue is at home herfriends twice or three iimes a week both in the afternoon and evening Her receptions are con duoted on a far more formal and impressive im-pressive scale than those off her friends Madame Diudet and the Comtesse de Martel and both her editorial l and political po-litical work have brought her into connection con-nection with diplomats naval and military mil-itary officers and most of the distinguished distin-guished foreigners of the day Russians abound in cid days Skobeloff was a frequent visitor and men of all parties par-ties from the Due dAumale to the latest radical poet delight to form part of the throng which fills her dainty boudolrsalqn Studybedroom How a Journalist Entertains J Severine one of the most conspicuous andr brilliant journalistic J personalities receives In mpre frankly Bohemian fashion her pretty rooms situated in the very > heart > of Paris on the great boulevards aye filled morning noon and night with4 crgwd of journalists discussing the latest news the bomb of today > the scandal of tomorrow One cannothelp wondering how the famous lad journalist ever gets through her wofk for her door is seldom sel-dom shut to visitorsjiospitably with that largehearted French hospitality the most insignificant reporter knows that there he will find a cup of coffee a slice of homemade bread and a l kindly greeting Socialist almost anarchIst in theory Severine nevertheless is the beloved j of princess for In her drawingroom hangs the portrait of the Comte de Paris eldest son Philip of Orleans in scrbed To Madame Severine the kindest and most generous of advocates advo-cates A Conscript in reference to the days when the prince was imprisoned impris-oned at Clalrvaux for having attempted attempt-ed to enter the French army in spite of the fact that he and his > family were outlawed Another significant token hanging in the same room is a little oak tablet in which is encrusted the first < bullet shot Jn the miners strike of Carmaux Severine started a subscription sub-scription for the strikers starving wives and families and after the dispute dis-pute between the masters and men was over the former presented her With this strange little memento of theirS their-S I Madame Severines reception rooms consist of three apartments a large hall diningroom lit by four gas jets the study lined with books and filled I with huge green baizecovered tables at which Severine 4and number of herr her-r friends are generally employed busy I scribbling copy Two great greyhounds and a lovely Angora cat form her retinue reti-nue and are generally crouched before the fire giving little or no notice to the many strangers who come in and out The salon a dainty little corner comes after and is seldom used except in the evenings there Severine keeps her flowers her needlework and the thousand thou-sand and one little feminine fancies which are dear to the heart of every woman It is impossible to dismiss this pleasant corner pf Bohemia without with-out saying word of the hostess a beautiful thoughtful looking woman still on the right side of forty who with true French taste is always soberly sober-ly gowned as s should be one whose work brings her in constant contact with mankind J S STIELE |