The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-08
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him the pleasure of bsing after some
years buried in a tomb of rose colored
marble"
It is said that advertisements of this
seductive nature appeal very strongly
to the hearts of young Japanese gem
tlemen and that several desirable mar
riages have already been contracted by
this mean.
It is said the Baroness Burdett-
coutts is much broken up over the
financial troubles of her American
brother-in-law. Sir Ellis Ashmead-
Bartlett and the disturbance in con-
nection with the hospitals in South
Africa. For time, says the New York
Press, there was no better known wo-
man in the world than the Baroness
Burdett- Coutts. but when she married
an American husband thirty years her
junior she incurred the displeasure OF
Queen Victoria and after the hubbub
about her marriage was over she grad
ually ceased TO occupy the large share
of public attention which she had at
tracted as a benevolent spinster and a
Lady Bountiful for all the world The
Baroness has been ailing of late and
her doctor has ordered that she shall
have complete rest and not be bothered
any more by hospital scandals or
bankrupt brothers-in-law.
When one realizes that Angela Bur-
dett-Coutts was born before the battle
of Waterloo 1t does not appear sur
prising that she has lost some of her
former elasticity and strength. The
enormous wealth from which Lady
Bur dett-Coutts has given so abundant
ly came to her in her twenty-third
year. When she was born the chances
of her ever coming into the possession
OF the great fortune of her GRANDPA
Their. Thomas Coutts, the banker, were
exceedingly small. The banker had
married for his second wife Harriet
Mellon, the actress, and left her every
penny of his wealth upon his death.
After Mr.. Coutts' death the expec-
tations of his children, such as they
were, were still further reduced by
his widow contracting a second mar
riage with the Duke of St. .Alban S. The
probabilities were that the bankers
money would go to patch up the rather
out at-the- elbow dukedom. But the
Duchess, having no children of her own,
Justly thought that as the money had
come from her first husband It should
revert to his descendants. She there-
fore chose the youngest daughter OF
Mr.. Coutts' youngest daughter, Angela
Burdett, and to her she willed the vast
wealth of her grandfather, making only
one small condition, which was that the
girl should take the name ana arms Oh
Coutts This was in 1887.
The Young lady at once became the
great matrimonial prize of the oay'
but she sent all suitors about tnelr
business and settled down to a life OF
| celibacy and munihcent charity. For
her great benefactions she was made
a peeress in 1871. When the Bartlett
bows. William and Ellis, came into a
| little property and went to England TO
seek their fortunes William secured,
| after a while a position as secretary
to the aged baroness. He became Wen
known as the almoner of Lady Ceutts'
and was regarded as a rising young
man in London. when one oay tne
world was astonished by the announce
| nent of his marriage to ms
noble patron and employer. This
was in 1881, and the bride was OF
the mature age of 81, while the PRIDE
groom was 81. The Queen was shock
ed and inexpressibly grieved, ana never
forgave the Baroness or her husband
When william Bartlett came into ms
first windfall by Inheritance from MS
mothers family he took the name OF
Ashuead in addition to his own, and
| after his marriage with the Baroness
! Burdett-Coutts he tackled on her two
| names to his, so that his cara now
reads Mr.. William Ashmead- Bartlett
| Burdett- Coutts"- hyphens, which
is doing pretty we'll for poor YANKEE
boy.
Why do women disnke women! asAS
the Denver Times.
eft isn't Jealousy" said one OF the
sex, who is a newspaper reporter, be-
| cause the dislike is not confined 10
homely and unsuccessful women, and
the objects are not always pretty ana
successful ones. 1t may be because wo-
men are not so easily done From
reporters point of view, It is distinct
ly humiliating to feel that you are eUl-
Grated in your professional Capacity
lust because you are a woman, that
YOU are given time and attention that
would not be shown a man simply be-
cause il is not customary to show
woman out the door
"And vet all women in business do
take advantage of these little courte-
sizes, shameful as the admission may
SEEM But it is not really indefensible
A woman works under so many handi-
caps that do not touch a man that an
occasional advantage must be eagerly
seized to make chances anything ike
even She is denied the inestimable help
of bullying, and her smiles and glances
are lust another form of bluff but
then it is the only form lett her ana
makes lust so much for success.
1T is not because women are women
that they are disliked by their own
sex in business. 1t is because the aver
age home woman doesn't understand.
Usually she is monarch in her home,
absolutely the most important person
in il, and she loses the true apprecia-
ton of the Importance of other people
outside it, A man in business is con-
stantly brought in contact with men
who are his equals or superiors, who
have equal rights with him, whereas
woman may spend two hours a day
visiting with callers of her own grade
of intelligence. as against sixteen spent
with the children and the servants
When she does meet men II is either in
the capacity of grocery boys or clerks
whose business it is to defer to her
opinions, however illogical, or in a So
eial way when it isn't worth while to
combat her ideas if they happen to be
giraffe.
80 that unless she makes a very
great effort she becomes positive and
degmatic, and when she meets other
women where there is clash of in
terests, she expects the same
difference from them that she
receives in her daily surround
ings from men. and this is in
a great measure the reason why wo-
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