With that keen sense of the passing mood which she displays with such wrierring instinct, the Parisian hostess is adding to the piquancy of her evening parties by annexing the Einstein philosophy. Thus, for example, she has forsaken the glorification of minor poets, which was her social mission last year, and she now invites her friends to come and hear a talk about relativity, led by some authoritative person who is supposed to understand the subject. In their newest and smartest apparel, women, attended by their husbands and admirers, all bearing up manfully, arrive in droves.to hover gracefully round the circle of earnest people who hedge in the exponent when he begins to expound. Then they flutter lightly away, but not before they have picked up some pithy and devastate ing phrase to be hurled to-morrow at some friend who has not studied relativity and is therefore not quite up to date. Einsteinism in this form has become quite a pleasant drawing-room game. Many efforts were of course made during the philosopher's recent visit to Paris to make him a social lion, but, with simple good taste, he resisted them, with the assistance of Professor Langevin and his French colleagues, who kept his place of residence a secret and never let him out of their sight during his waking hours. The purely scientific character of his visit was thus maintained intact. Einstein's massive simplicity and intellectual power made a_ great impression on the learned Frenchmen, who debated his theory with him at the College de France. Ho afterwards said that he was surprised and pleased to find so much objectivity and breadth of view, and that M. Painlevé was the ablest opponent he had yet encountered.
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