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THBORCLEOFCACHETTE By 10BEBT d V. LxTESS. lOop7ricfatlsn.br Americas Press Assort*. •ttn-J L Mile, de Boncour was in a considera ble quandary. And she had never been in snob a thing as a quandary till she be came enthused over some Americans in Paris, their delightful chic, their ravish ing sang froid, their piquant extensions of lee convenances. She at that time told the oompto, her brother, that she feared the anoien regime had become pease, while she was confident that she belonged to New France under certain conditions, to the New World under any circumstances. Of course thia greatly ahocked the oompte, and his friends to a man blamed him for baring permitted Natalie ao much latitude of association with the American ladiee and their pe culiar ideas of the eternal fltaaee of When Natalie met a Vaaaar girl, la a costume by Felix, who told her that the worked for her living, the die was cast. Natalie was poor herself, the little dia monds hsqneathed bsr by her grandaunt representing all the wealth ahepoaseaMd, and the ooanpte’e unique speculations on the Bourse made even those tentative at times. She determined to emulate the Vaasar girl, wear taOete by Felix, and earn her own living. She knew she dare not ap proach the oompte with this determina tion, ao she watched acme American girls to find out the most effective way to cut loose from old, if picturesque, aa- When one lovely young thing, with eyee the color of heaven and Theeke like tender young roes leaves, told her ahe had traveled around the world “all by heresir and not a shadow of harm had happened to her, Natalie watched her chance and went to Tiffany’s fb sell her grandaunt's quad-historic diamonds. She was told that the atones were only large enough to be used in collar buttons, and was referred to a dealer with a generous type of nose, who offered her what seemed to her to he a ridiculously small •urn of money for the jewels. But the Vaamr girl worked for her living, and bare was money sufficient to carry Nata- Ue to New York and something over; ba tedas, the jewels were ridiculously small also. She let the diamonds go. wrote a letter to her brother that caused him to tear hie hair and expunge her name from the family register and become the laughing stock of the Boone for a bad quarter of an boor, and Natalie sailed for America and freedom, carrying a handbag and a cage, in which flattered her pet canary, I believe there was something dm that actuated her in this stage of her mad career, and that waa that le oompte had told her be intended to arrange a marriage between her and the old Marqnia d’Epinville, whom head ebook when ha walked, who wore horribly large white artificial teeth, who drank the delectably green absinths openly on the boulevard and called Natalie “ma At any rats. Natalie sailed for the states, and landing in Nsw York went to a beautiful hotel that almost took away her breath by its chargee. In New York As met many of those she bed known in the colony at Faria. But, not strange to say, they were not quite so friendly when they heard under what circumstances she had come to onr hos pitable shores, and one woman and nkothsr threatened to write to the oompte. Than the Vaasar girl, who it turned ont earned her own living by tying her papa’s white cambric cravats of evenings, for which task aha received a yearly stipend which ran assay into four figures, did not ask her to tbs house on the avenue, and informed her that for her part she would have thought it quite de- Ugfatfnl to be the Marquise d’Epinville, especially as the marquis was so old and sore to hare another stroke of paralysis soon. Bat Natalie sraa not to be dis couraged, the combination of French nerve and American idea* is a motor whose power is only to be ganged by P< Nku£ o flTst of all moved from the boaattfnl hotel and satohltohed herself In a charming flat srtth a professional chaperon old enough to be anybody’s mother and plain enough to baths syn dioate stepmother of all the virtues. Now Natalie defied criticism and made her effort toward making her way. She could notgo back to Paris, that was certain, and she did not intend to let America “go hack on her," as a young man said, the Vaasar girl’s brother, who met bar and admired her. but told hie Mar she’d better be a little careful, yon know. Natalie oonld embroider ravishingly; ■he had learned bow to do it from the patient Man in the convent where she had ben educated. She embroidered now. It is not altogether an everyday event to have the rtster of a count em broidering your table covers and potting C initials upon your linen, so the or osme In with oonrtderable merrl vnM hardly offer cm smear or a count, a might-have-been asarqaiae, the beg garly sum yon might give to some poor aonl in a garret. Bo Natalia mote and more Amsricanlaed, and said “Chestnuts" to bom of the stories of former msgnifl esnes told hsr autobiographically by her yr—faw She considered herself hap py for the first time in hsr Ufa. Of ssws there wen moments when she •offered a tittle from m»I da pays, when the lilies of Franco meant something to her after all. aad she thought of mamma papain PMe la Chaise with the bead wreaths npon their tomb. Yet she wnald look no at such times • to Cacbette, her canary, which the had brought away with her from Paris, and ■ay: “Eet-oe bien vons (Are yon well). On ehetteT and Cacbette would twitter down to her in a wicked American way and'aim for flies and say there were none on him. But after a few months patronage fell off—yon cannot encour age even a count's sister, a might-have been marqniee—beyond precedent. And Just then there came to town the wife of an English baronet who was known to have inspired a tender passion in the breast of a prince, and might have be come a princess only that the unwritten law of royalty forbade it Then began that awful quandary of the rent lids quandary lasted several weeks. 1L Natalie wondered if the wonld hare to take a cheaper flat, go gradual!y down and down till the Anally landed in the eaat aide, which the read to much about in the papen and with to much horror. Bat the cheaper flat came nearer and nearer every day till at last it could no longer be kept off. The companion made room for a lower priced article in the way of a half tiled maid who could i acorch a chop and rain eggs in the meet accepted fashion. Still the greatest quandary of all was not yet That was next to it when Natalie had not the rent for this cheaper flat, the Vaaaar girl pasted her on the street as one suddenly struck with blindness, and for daya at a time Cachette was the only living creators she saw, the “girl” not counting as a living creature, in so much as she existed for the sole purpose of spoiling whatever ahe undertook and warbling popular melodies to the ac companiment of piano organs that ■topped under the windows. Natalie grew wild of gaie and took walks on the Brooklyn bridge and looked at the water with speculation in her eyes. And those eyes were remarkably flno ones, too, and consorted well with the clear white complexion and even teeth and a charming figure that came as the ineradicable bequest of a long line of cultivated ancestresses. Then it came about that Natalie was merely “the French girl,” and the fla* was a lees expensive one still and more heavenward, and “the girl" faded from the perspective, and money wm a scarce article indeed, and the shopkeepers said that really we did not want hand em broideries any more—they had gone out. don’t you see, and passementerie had tt)W«n their place. It is possible that Natalie’s American ised idem had undergone considerable moderation by this time, and of nights when she could not sleep for wondering how she would get through tomorrow maybe her thoughts flitted over to Parle and the gayly lighted streete and the theaters, the bright boulevard* and the antiquated bat kindly friendships she had once enjoyed—from ell of which she wm separated by more than time and distance. “Oh, CachetteP she would cry up to her inseparable companion with his head tinder his wing, “none sommea etrolt mentnniar (We are very closely united!) Then the great quandary of all came— ■he oonld not pay the rent for eren her poor flat, her gown was rery shabby, and the pot an fen was neither eery suc culent nor nutritions—and all this in a yearl The only work ahe had waa a kerchief for Mrs. E. Platt Clayton, and she cried ■o much that ahe could hardly see to do it and made a false stitch here and there. In Paris ahe had met Mrs. E. Platt Clayton at a reception—of which more anon—and the lady held to her yet Though it may as well be confessed just here that Mrs. E. Platt Clayton had ul terior views regarding her friendliness, and her sisters and sisters-in-law were beginning to complain; for Mrs. E. Platt Clayton had sent them so many useless embroideries that they spoke among themselves, and mutually owned that Amelia had always been a little odd and that maybe it had gone to her bead. Still, eccentricity waa a fad in these times— look at the English! The truth is that Mrs. E. Platt Clayton was an artist She had been in Dresden and the little town of Sevres, and believed the afflatus had come to her and that she stm a poet in china. And Natalie struck her from the first as being an ideal subject for il lustration. She worked up to Natalie before she made a direct attack on her. Then she ordered a gorgeous altar cloth, to have put which into the church would hare raised a schism. When she ordered that •loth she took off Natalie's bead-sketch ed it, you know. When the cloth was finished and she made it into an afghan for her sister Margaret’s baby coach, she bad stolen Natalie's arms, her hands, her hair, one eye—indeed, she might have opened a museum of comparative anato my in a tittle while. And all because she designed a coup, no less than an ex quisite plaque with Natalie upon It, in the style of Watteau and Poisson, the subject, “Ariadne Deserted by Perseus.’' No wonder she ordered so many em broideries, she wanted so many uncon scious sittings from the girl, and a model is alwavs best, thoncht she. when she toes not know sne Is posing. She had Natalie oome to her house be fore the girl's clothes were at their shab biest, and John Abingtoo, Mrs. Clayton's brother, saw the tittle thing and laughed long and heartily, and went to Margaret and the rest and told them Amelia’s se cret, and so saved the family traditions for sanity. “And what a beauty the girl is!" thought John Abtngton. “A Dresden sbsperdess, indeed. 1 never thought Amelia had good taste before." The plaque went on and so did the rent for Natalie’s flat, and so did Na talie’s healthy young appetite and her power for wearing out clothing, until at last the kerchief was all the work she had. and the olaooe was mn*lv finished But, than, thi« waatha climax, and. aa I everybody knows, after a climax things can only be worse or batter, never aa they were before. Natalie picked up the kerchief one day and set about working a daisy in it All at onoe a diamond drop of dew lay in the heart of the daisy—atear. The eon touched the dewdrop and flashed np to Cachette’e cage, and the bird began to shriek-to sing heavenly, Natalie would have said. Whereupon np Jumped Natalie, a aeoond dewdrop on her lily cheek. “Quel set le prix dn loyerrshe Mid. (What is the rent!) I will soften the heart of my landlord, who admired Ca cbette only yesterday P For the owner of the flat had paid a domiciliary visit to bis tenants the day before, and had snapped his Anger at the bird for making ao much noise, called Natalie “Mias Bunker” and had after ward given the agent a piece of his mind for renting an apartment to a lone girl and letting her get in arrears tor rent at that. “My other tenants are ladies and gen tlemen,’* be said, “and I won’t have it. Bounce her next week.” But how was Natalie to know any thing of this? “Os panvre Cacbette P (poor Cacbette). she said. Cacbette put his head to one aide and poured out a flood of melody. Natalie took him from his cage and held him np to her chee^ “Adieu, CacbetteP she said. “Thou art all that is left But the landlord must be softened—did he not admire thy song yesterday? He may give me time in which to pay my rent.” She plucked ft long tingle feather from the wing of the bird end dropped it into her baaket among the floetoe and tilrer threads with which the waa embroider ing her daMee. Still wavering, loth to let it go, the kept the little feathered thing in her hand off and on till evening. Then with a great wrench and a throb in her throat ahe finally decided. She pat Cachette Into hit cage, threw on her hat, and cage in hand wont forth to the brown atone apogee of Mr. Oun beraome Brown, her landlord. And now let Melpomene take her nap. [CONCLUDED MBIT WEEK.] N fiIILH \m OUPKMIES? Tke ntrrftwhisuUt Set Says “fa.” Otkm Say “is.” “Msmma cried the first lime I went in to the street alone,” said a bright youhg Italian girt who after seven years of American life is about to return to her native Florence, into whose streets ahe may never venture alone, ,‘lt shocked mamma’a traditional idee of womanly modesty and propriety, you know. But really,” ahe added apologetically, “chap erones are necessary on the continent. The men are so bed. Hut they must be getting wi« aed in America,” she contin ued. u li'.h a sudden aub-rose in her melo dious, rota, “or it wouldn’t lie so fashion able tu he chaperoned, would h?” Can the Itilian girl’s aWlu.ti ve solution of fashionable American'* adoption of the chaperone be the universal construction put upon the transplantation of this Latin institution? Are American men felling from their high estate ? With due respect to American manhood, much exaggerat ed sentimentality has and continues to be wasted at home and abroad on their re puted chivalry toward women. Granted certain conditions,they differ hut slightly from the masculine biped of other climes. An inch given, the American knight is m liable to take a square yard as bis con tinental brother. Will the chaperone as an American in stitution check or augment this elasticity ? Tradition lends to the continental chap erone s certain awe that commands and receives respect. The American exetic has its tradition to make. The natural, free, untrammeled relationship of the sexes in our country—a relationship that rarely fails to invite the incredulity of foreigners, especially women, who, while they admire, have no desire to imitate their American sisters—is the direct and inevitable outgrowth of the early con ditions of onr civilixaton. There was no sex in the “hewers of wood and carriers of water” who trudged over the mountains and through the dense forests of America, laying* the cornerstone of the republic. Onr pioneer man and woman are the only tradition toward which the chaperone as an American institution may look for sub stance. Reared to believe all womankind capable to sustain and defend herself, the masses of American manhood give to her the respect, the confidence which insures it. The chaperoned American girl, there fore, is a reflection upon her countryman’s traditional honor, a prick at his amour propre which finds natural retaliation in the suspicion that the chaperoned is not com me il fant. Since foreigners are prone to attribute onr adoption of the chaperone to the moral decline of American manhood, may not the latter be justified in attributing it to the moral laxity of modern femininity? Viewed in any light, the chaperone as an American institution is not without honor. Happily it can never find root beyond the “Poor Hundred,” without which no city is now complete. It will ever powerless to encroach upon onr working women, who, from the intellectual to the menial, know that so long as they respect them Helve* and mind their own business they are likely to go to the ends of the earth unmolested. As Amt (lafegr md Tin. The Russian newspaper* are reporting a singular discovery in central Asia. They aay that in Roaaian Turkestan, on (be right bank of the Amoo Darla, ia some rocky hill# near the Bokharan town of Karki, a number of large eaves have bean explored which were found to lead to an underground town built apparently before the Christian era. Effigies and Inscriptions have been found, and also designs upon gold and silver money, which load to the belief that the town dates back to aome two centuries before the birth of Christ. There are a number of streets and squares surrounded by houses two and three stories high. Urns, ▼saw. rooking pots, end other etmails b«v# been found in great abundance. The symmetry of the streets end squares, end the beauty of the baked metal utensils, attest the fact that the people had reached ea advanced stage of civilixa tkn. It la supposed the town was con cealed In the earth to give the population a refuge from the Incursions of savages and robbers. A Srtal Mvew Medlctae. 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