Senator Paul Dupuy, the managing, proprietor of the "Petit Parisien,? who las just returned home after a long tour in the United States, has been entertained at luncheon by the American Club of Paris, to whom he described their country in the most glowing colours. He found ie said, in a period of indus. trial activity "and magnificent prosperity, eased on definite principles, such as the desire to help one's neighbor, to make new outlets for enterprise, and to place within the reach of the nualtitade the advantages hitherto enjoyed only by the fow.
resident Coolidge, who has teen described as cold and tacit turn, received "M. Dupuy with "utmost cordiality "and. im. pressed him "as ay man of great moral courage and force ter. M, Dupuy was particularly struck by newspaper. developments in the United States. A new form of journalism, Seid, prevails: Tnstend of pen-dering to the tastes of the least educated arid most humorous sction of the community, the leading journals are cultivating the spirit of "personal dignity and are constituting themselves the ich protectors of it readers. The result has been a groat expansion of the power anid' influence of the Press, which has at the same time became far more prosperous. He mentioned one daily newspaper at St. Louis which never comes ut with less, thab @4 pages, and 2. New York Sunday edition which recently broke the record with 180 pages.
Curious litigation is taking place over the estate of M. Reng Degas, brother of the " great French painter. The latter died collection of paintings, including ju Pavis in 1017, leaving "ne some of best of his own works; He left his estate
the daughter of his deceased equally to, his brother Rene and sister. 'The collection was sold Fra, 10,000,000 gross. After pay-auction and realized about ment of death duties and other expenses, M. Rene Degas', share came to' some Frs, 4,000,003, He died in 192), leaving his pro-porty to his three children, who were al] brought up in France, "To their intense surprise, an American - lawyer came forward with a statement, supported by documentary evidence, that their father had contracted 'a marriage in the United States lon, before he met their mother, ringe. took place at New 1869, and, after two children hud been born, it ended in a Givores, which' was' granted before divorce became a legal institution in Franco (in 1884). s therefore argued that M. Rone Dogas's second marriage, contracted-at atime when divorce was (Of recognized in. Trance, was iMegal, and that his three French children were therefore illegitimate and. could not, inherit to the exclusion of his Iawful pro-gony by his first marriage. The children of the second wagon point out that their father's Wish, as expressed in his well, was that they should inherit is property, and. they propose as compromise that etch of the five children should have one-fifth. 'This offer has eon doclinul Ly the American claimants, who' bear their mother's name, Musson, and the ease is now ing fought out in the French courts, Probably" thers would lever have been any trouble but for the misplaced activity of one of those "singular products modern civilization who call themselves genealogists and make living "by opening cupboard h family skeletons are stowed away. The Mussous never in terested themselves in their ignored his existence until father's " marriage and iealogist revealed the possibilities of the situation to them.
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