The evening times., 1895-11-06


| than four languages 18th easy fluency
| 1t is music, how ever. to which she has
turned all of her enthusiasm, and she play Us
the harp in a way unusual In an amateur
Her manners are graceful and winning
and She has The sweet gentle ways char
acteristic OF young Spanish women. That
her first " inter will Till her most arden,
expectations, since she is the only debu
tante in the Diplomatic Corps, and " Ill be
| chaperoned by her mother, one OF The most
popular omen in society, goes withou,
| saying.
1t is tco bad thinks every one, that Mr.
Kurino does not bring his family TO Wash
| ington. Madame kuki Madame Mutzu,
and the wives OF other japanese ministers,
| were valuable additions 10 society at the
Capital, and are held in aifeCtionate re-
membranoe. Although Mr.. Kurino is the
most hospitable of men, and an ideal host,
| it would be agreeable to have woman
| at the head of social affairs at the japanese
| legation. If kr. Kurino has any immediate
| intention OF bringing his family here, he
has not yet announced it, but, in any event
the legation promises to be as gay this
| winter as usual.
or course everybody in the sacred pre-
| for that matter, is talking of the rece mt
! Spat between Bob Neville a nd Prince
| IturbiGe, which occurred in the rooms of
| the metropolitan Club. Both men are
well known here. and both men have large
followings among the spo rting contingent.
Mr.. Neville has the point OF view and all
| the traditions OF a Southerner. He is full
OF life and gaiety, and goes In for all
sorts of sports, is a sportsman. In fact,
| from sheer love OF sport, like the ideal
| country squire of the three volume English
| novel. Generous, warm hca ri ed, courageous
1 and responsive, IL is smal II ma tier for wonder
| that hesis loved by men in his own set, and
looked UP - by the younger spnrtsme n as n II
| authority in all sporting matters. His
| fistcuff with Mr.. S. S. Howiand, at the
| Horse Show I'm New York TWO years ago,
which resulted In asce ne in the police court,
has not yet been forgotten.
! Society, from the beginning, was inclined
| TO sympathize with Mr. Neville rather tina n
| the wealthy New York, who. contrary
TO all precedent, carried the fight between
gentlemen into court. after the fashion Of
the ordinary street-bra wlcrs.
Prince Iturhide has been familiar fig
! urc in Washington since he was a lad III
his teens. He is an aluunus of Georgetown
| College. ana has spent, indeed, his entire
| life here. with occasional absences in Eu-
| rope and Mexico, where, suspected OF
| some political intrigue. he suffered years
| Imprisonment. His mother, who died
| some time since, was a Miss Greene a belle
and beauty forty years ago, and connected
with the family whose homestead. near
| Tenleytown, was bought by President Cleve-
land during his first administration, re-
christened Oak View and used by him as a
country place. 1t is now the property
Of Col. Robert Fleming, the architect.
Prince Iturhidc is generally liked, though
not a S popular as Mr.. Neville, whom he took
occasion to publicly insult and the out
come a this quarrel between them will be
watched with much interest
With The granting OF an absolute di-
vorcc 10 Mrs. ternsiIdo iznaga IRON he,.
former husband, all legal obstacles to her
union WIN Count Zicuy have apparently
been removed.
Recently, however, the friends of both
have been discussing the obstacles Oh au
ecciesiasiic nature, which nave arisen to
perpieN The prospective Droe anu bride-
groom.
Count Zichy is Roman Catholic and
member OF Roman Catnolic court,
namely, that OF Austro- Hungary. 1t is
generally understood that lie and the new
Countess Zichy would not be received at
court, II the marriage were not valid one
in the eyes of the Catholic church.
Mrs. fZnaga, or rather, Mrs. Mabel
Wright, as, at her Request, the court di-
rected she Should now be called, Is still
living at Yankton, S. d., and, according to
reports received from there, is now study
Ing the Catholic faith with a view to en-
tering the church. 1t is evident, therefore
that Doth she and Count Zichy desire to be
married by Roman Catholic priest TIE
wedding would naturally take place at ST.
Patrick's Cathedral, in New York city
but as yet, owing to the difficulties in tue
way, no application has been made to have
the Ceremony performed there. Regarding
these difficulties well-known ecciesiastic
who is thoroughly conversant with The laws
OF the church, said:
'Unuer the canon law there is a bso-
luteiy no departure from the rule of the
church that no marriage can be dissolved
or rendered null unless il be shown to have
been invalid from the neginning. The
Pope himself is without power To afford
relief through a dispensation, except on that
specific condition.
I'm order for NJ RS. Wright to marry Count
Zichy, therefore. it must be shown that the
previous marriage with Fernando Yznaga
was invalid from its inception. The fact
that Mr.. YZnaga had been married before
and that his former wife was still living
when he married NJ rs. Wright, and is living
yet, for that matter. is presumptive evil
utiSt tfidb tut nEiSul- L.fdRd ma rflu re
was never valid one. But, suppose IL
should be shown that Mr. Yznaga's first
marriage was not valid In the eyes of the
cl irch. That would tend just as much to
prove the validity of the Wright Yznaga
marriage, and the consequent impossibiiity
of Wright-Zichy union.
Now, either OF these Yznaga maria ges
may be technically invalid for number
OF reasons other than the interposition of
divorce. In general, it may be said that
marriage between two persons. neither
of whom has been baptized in any church,
is presumably valid"
Miss Mary Estel.e Morris, of Rh ode
Island avenue. is visiting friends in Peters
burg, Va. she Will spend several weeks in
Richmond before her return.
Master Willie Barnet was given birth
day Darty Monday night by his narents n