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Show ill ROUSES PLEiTYJ FRIGE Statistics Show That Where They Are Thickest Drunkenness Drunk-enness Is Scarcest. BONAP ARTISTS HAPPY Son Is Born to Princess Clementina, Who Is Now "Our Lady of France." By GEORGES DTJFBESNE. Special Cablo to The Tribune. PARIS. Feb. 21. The chamber of deputies dep-uties has been discussing drinks I mean at the bnr of the house, not at the buffet outside, though I dare say the discussion dis-cussion was continued there. It has been calculated by someone who had nothing noth-ing worso to do that in France there is ono licensed house for every twenty male adults. So it Is not. or at least It need not be, a long tlmo between drinks over here. Ono proposal was that no new cafes should be opened within a certain radius of churches, town halls, and ojther public buildings. However. I am glad to see that somebody some-body pointed out and proved by statistics statis-tics which, like newspapers and 'George Washington, cannot lie that there was not the remotest connection between tho number of cafes and tho number of "drunks" in any department of tho country. coun-try. Tho south of Franco, with one house of call for something like ten persons, Including the baby, and the family cat, was, it was conclusively proved, sobriety sobrie-ty itself compared with Normandy, whore you havo to walk nearly a hundred yards for a drink. Bonapartists Resuscitated. In the struggle for a throne b6tween Victor Napoleon and Philip of Orleans, the former has now an immense advantage advan-tage over his rival. The birth of the little Prince Louis Napoleon has put new life Into Bonapartlsm. Ho Is hailed as tho "lesslah," and Princess Clementina Is "Our Lady of France." There is to be a solemn To Dcum at Notro Dame des Vlctolres as soon as the princess is well, and it is trusted that her imperial highness will be at tho ceremony. Of course, tho wife of the pretender may visit Paris as often as she pleases and bring her little daughter, Marie Clothilde, with her; but Baby .Louis must remain behind or run the risk of being arrested I The law exiling the French princes 13 emphatic. -Not only "the heads of families having reigned in Franco," but their "heirs in direct lino" aro excluded from setting foot on French soil. A deputy has put the question to the minister of the interior, and Is waiting for an answer. Ho knows what the reply re-ply ought to be, but ho wants the government gov-ernment to utter It. And there's tho difficulty, dif-ficulty, for the repeal of tho exile law has been much mooted of late. Socialists Social-ists and even Radicals do not, in principle, prin-ciple, favor such legislation. The government, gov-ernment, too, Is not ovor anxious to treat tho birth of a child as a pressing danger dan-ger to existing institutions. There Is no harm In waiting, and if it Is seen that tho little princo Is being used to further Bonapartlst schemes It will be time enough to act. Woman Playwright. Mile. Marie Leneru has written a play, "La Trlomphatrlce," which will be read to the committee of the Francals shortly by the new administrator. M. Albert Carre, himself. If, as seems probable, the play Is accepted, it will be the first work by a woman performed by the Comedle Francals since tho days of Georgo Sand and Madame do Glrardln. j Mile, Leneru has had a remarkable history. his-tory. She was "discovered" by M. An-1 tolne at about the same tlmo that M. Ootavo Mlrbeau "discovered" Marguerite Audoux. tho authoress of "Mario Claire;" There Is nothing In common between tho two writers, except the fact that the circumstances of both lives so em scarcely scarce-ly such aa would moko literary artists of them. Madame Audoux was a very humble workwoman when Bhe wrote her first book. Mile. Leneru lives "in different differ-ent surroundings, but sho 1b hampered by physical Infirmities, which almost cut her off from human Intercourse, Nothing is yet known of "La Trlomphatrlce," Trlomph-atrlce," except that it has aroused the enthusiasm of Madame Bartet, who will play the principal part, and of M Carre, who will read tho play to tlie commlt-teo commlt-teo himself, ns tho authoress Is unable to do so. |