Show Paul Villiers in inGay Gay Capital BY PAUL PArr Republican n Special Service COI Copyright 1507 ParIs Pails May Ia IS Leopold Leopold II 11 king icing of or ortho tho ho nc Belgians l lan has lias again been In hr Paris Pari Although hl his visit was to lo h be I regarded as he called twice upon the tire president of or tho tire French republic M. M and people are tilO asking themselves them Item selves what whal was as the real motive for this iris visit to the French capital The Journal says S The Time Theoya oya voyages es of King Leopold never ne Interest est people very tery 1 much In lar an But lInt still when a n. chief of a a. state stale loaves laVeS hl iris his country In tit time the midst of or a ministerial crisis which Is particularly particular ly I y complex to tu pay jay a a. visit to fo hl Iris his neighboring neighborIng neigh neigh- h- h boring head of stat state It H is not merely i L quest of or courtesy It If l 1 h nut I lr 10 n l lit h. n T I t at that this Iris vl visit lt of r rI I Leopold ol e attracts lil e- e attention from the larl ian public ItIs It ItIs Itis Is wild saint that King Leopold who Is haIn having hay hav In big ing great groat at In th the Con Congo o wishes to propitiate France FIance This supposition sup sup- position betrays a great groat Ignorance of the ll national situation It Is true that France has a right of oC preemption of this tins Free State but this tills right light cannot can can- not riot be exercised el except In case of or Bel- Bel glum glut refusing the magnificent domain which its HM monarch has shown such a lesire to possess Belgium has decided to take toke tho the Congo Conlo has hos even boon ben a debate debute heM held In Iii th the the- chambers chambel'S on ott theS the tho subJect S U t. t Does Docs his menu nn that the lie kings king's tri PanI P l 00 no connection the ConK P. P fI l all aty Js Us tim thu on which r Is Belgian at the ires- ires pies pies-j o ont at true time and amI It is not I magine that this flits was the tho real ic-al cause causa of or Ills Majesty's visit to Paris Pails S S S SIt It has been said Raid that a good woman 1 has las no price This docs does not seen seem to 0 tobo tobo I bo be the ca case e with a n man At a small village near here M M. and Mme 1 Foros oro lived Ived happily for fOl over twenty years until a f few w da lays days s ago the husband husban was fascinated with the charms of a young who had recently mo e moved to lo the time village vi I Ia ge Mme Mine Foros saw aw that thal her husband Intended abandoning her for tho the other woman and this caused her great un- un happiness She tried all oil she could do llo doto doto to win her husbands husband's affection back again but hut without success Being a practical woman she decided ll to get some sonic benefit out of or the situation so soshe soshe she went vent to the widow willow and anti offered to sell her hus husband and If It the other would I buy him Th illI wl o proposed francs Cranes hut but the wife ICo claimed 2500 francs After a great deal of talking about the matter matter matter mat mat- ter It was at nt last decided that the widow should have M. M Foros Fares for 1250 francs Cranes All this time while the tire transI transactions trans trans- actions were going on M. M Foros was I calmly sitting on the lie steps of a neighboring neigh neigh- boring hou house e smoking his Iris pipe as through though the whole thing did cliel nol not con con- cei eel il n him at all a S S 0 S Parisian women are arc In terror and dare darc not go o out after dark daale for tor or feat fear of an individual whose weapon Is a hatpin hat hat- pin jun His modus operandi operand is to walk walle beside or ci h behind a woman vonian whom he he- has picked lucked out as his Intended victim antI and then just as they have r reached the entrance to a side street suddenly stick the pin Into frito h her r back neck neel and arms and disappear Robbery Bobber Is not his motive e he seems to be animated simply with a ma ria- licious desire ir to wound Ho lIe has not yet yot ft I boon n but the tire police arcon are arc on his iris track and Parisians ian ae ac be beginning lIe ire ginning to Lre breathe n again nin 0 e C 5 5 0 Homo has become too small to hold its inhabitants and this in Iii spite of the fact that several se now new quarters have ha been added to It recently i This is duo dun duoto to the tire of Americans arid and En Eng Emig- I lish iiii who hmo go JO to spend the tire whiter In Rome Home man many of ot whom have their own private residences there Then there aio aro the Inci ever er easing number of or students of all ill countries who Hock Mock f there theio wro each year for fOI the time purpose of or studying the art ensures ti-ensures of or the ancient an an- dent city who have also to bo be housed house The Time question fUe of or hou housing has lins now been n taken up UI l h by the Italian It M. M anti and It Iras has met let the city ot or Rome Home 1100 acres aCIe for or l' l the SO o of building now buildings The Time pooler class clans es especially es- es o nr-o to to bo be thought o In J this now Sl building cherno J F. F h T i. i N do do elk l n c ca trice Winans Inan of oC Baltimore is the tile American who fl Js is made most u ot aC by Fr French ch 1 so so- so clOt clet Shu Im is ono one or those thoo who Vho sets seta tho tIme ra fashion hero and ul Jho eh VIo lieu lieu- reuse one ono of or the best hes best society journals Journals Jour jour- nals nas In tn Paris quotes her hem as being the most t stylish and arid best dressed American Ameri Amen American can woman in Paris Palis Her marriage it will be berea In fn June 1906 came near nar being the cause of a duel lUci Her husbands husband's s 's cousin Prince Hel Holy of or threatened threat threat- at- at erred ened to foi forbId bid the banns an and send hl his seconds to Prince de tie Beam after aCle r having called him a Q usurper for or adding add l ing Rig to hl his name o of Beam that of D D.- D. Chalais Prince de Beam got out f f f the by being married t I I ly hy and dropping tt- tt title tithe altogether r He lie was married as plain AL M. de H flea n S S S SOne One of the busiest Americans n ot It present In Paris ia Is Mrs hs Cornelius Vanderbilt Van Van- who can dall dally daily be seen driy- driy Ing through the he capital In her 24 4 4 power horse Darracq making mal calls on her numerous fi lends friends here herc or r purchases in the time Rue lIne de la Ia laix A favorite place of or Mi's Mis is the tho Pie Pre Catelan and he she can ean often be met with there them In with one of her friends A great friend of or orthe the Vanderbilt family 1 13 ms Count El- El altache to tho time Italian em embassy bass In iii tire the St. St main Gem their salons salon me ore exclusive enough Thore Thre have han been charity entertain entertain- ments attended by all Paris Parig at which Mine Legi was assisted h by Sarah Bernhardt Hc Caruso and all nIl the well known personages Cs in arts and ancI letters hitters Thore There lute have been beon musical fetes I alTan arranged d by 13 the tho Countess s who is the cause enu of bringing to ParIs some ome two hundred musicians soloists t. t I and ancl sin singers ea's who during the month of or orIa May Ia will give gl us the tho famous Salome against t which America was so 0 justly severe re to say nothing of the select little receptions 1 of Mme lIme Gaston Lerand Le- Le gm grand rand n 1 |