Show PRETTIEST WOMAN OAN GIVES GRAND FETE I Distinguished Guest Advancing Advancing Advancing ing to See Dancing Nymphs I Falls Into Pool WHO IS BEAUTY OF 1908 I Wife of Ambassador White II I Comes Next to Leaders I B By I Mention in ill Press t BY MARQUIS DE Dl CASTELLANE I Paris Au Aug 21 Paris Palli Paris has had an Incomparable fete there fete there Is no other I wor word to describe It ft when you ou bear hear In lit mind that It was held at Versailles I and find orgy organized by b the prettiest woman I In France the Countess It ItIs ItIs I Is m my duty to add that tho the fete was wag incomparable al also alno o for tor tho the number of oC mishaps that went with It We c had he been n asked for Cor 0 9 o'clock p.m. p p. in nl At that hour the smartest people In Paris gathered In the grove ro c of QC Apollo It was before bor the curtain rose rOle and disclosed time the grotto I which had been arranged as fiS a J kind of or open air stage Madame san sang the grand I aria from rein She Sho had hardly opened her mouth when of or a sudden all the electric lights went out Wi live sat in darkness and amI listened Then came somo some young O dancing I girls from rom tho opera who po posed cd is lS Gr Greek ek nymphs Th The moon ha had come conn out enough to permit u us to sec ee them vaguely but hut the stage e was las so o small that th the poor poor girls danced on each others' others toes And one ono of tho the most distinguished ul hed dramatists Monsieur advancing ad In order to got a better hellet look at them fell head over heels Into the pool of o water The Tho fete ended with fireworks sent up from front tho boats on the thc Sake fake Unfortunately Unfortunately Un Un- fortunately a L thick fog had risen by hy this time lime and the reworks fireworks were al almost almo almost al- al mo most t Invisible But every overy on one crowded round tho the Countess and nd con congratulated her on tho the success of or her fetO silo fold sho is Js such a pretty prett woman Who ho gotH gets the laurel You 1118 remember that a few months ago I wrote that every year car Paris chooses an m J American beauty whom it faithfully adores for an entire season and I told you that the beauty beaul of oC 1908 was Mrs II Rutherford Stu Stuyvesant vesant I made no mistake Still I always like to bo absolutely IY certain In matters of or this Importance So I have o been faithfully consulting con- con Milting the tiles flies of or tho great Ireat Parisian lan dally daily newspaper which records the doings of our highest social world I hale lm gone carefully over tho the thirty numbers for Cor June June the tho best of oC the season and I have discovered that two In o names have been printed oftener than nn any others These aro are Mrs 1 Moors Moor and Mrs Rutherford Stuyvesant ant There are aro far Car farIn CarIn farn In n the lead lend being mentioned tim s s Next text comes Mrs l White time the wife of oC your tour ambassador to France and M Mrs Marshall l who have had hud the honors nt or print mint 00 times In the month montiz of ot Tune little I alm almost t for forgot ot Miss Mice H I Funny Fanny Reade who who was mentioned three times Alphonso o XIII dourly loves 10 Mon Mon- leur Loubet Lounel who loves him dearly in they the have stood the the- nrC of or together to ether His Ills Spanish majesty t who ho loves Monsieur MonI Mon Men I And ho he loves King Lang Edward of or England Nor d Ides docs es ho Ito dislike dis- dis dislike dis 11 like tho empress of or China Chinn or of the Mikado In the world of ur emperors and kings there Is only one whom ho detests And Aud that one is Wilhelm II Tho reason of or his hostility ha has never never nev ney- er been heen told and hero here it is The first meeting between Alphonso Alphonse o XIII and the tho kal kaiser cl tools took place on the Imperial yacht when tho the young king Icing had just como come to the thC throne Alphonso XIII appeared dressed as an of or tho the German Gorman marino marine was wan a a. charming bit of or politeness on hl his part purt Unhappily he ho had hall selected nn undress uniform 11 looked l I as n an Intentional discourtesy and did not pardon It HP lie even cen went tho the length th of I reproaching his visitor with having to lo appear In such tuch informal dress Tho young king icing was h by tho the attack and tho the tears camo came to his c eyes cs But ho he didn't forget and ho he didn't t for forgive lo It Today Spain has joined the band of or rotations nations Inimical to Ger Ger- man many Such slight causes shape shapo the I destiny of oC nations when kings are concerned |