The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-02-09
THF. WzIFE'S ALLOWANCE AND
HOW IT AFFECTS THE. HUSBAND
More Careless Since He Does
Not Pay the Bills.
OUR FRIENDS ON OTHER SIDE
tDame Durdea" Takes View Of soeis'
Matters ABROAD = Hen Not Sues
cess as Cooks = The
Princes Visit.

cess as Cooks - lhe
Princes Visit.
Lordon is disturbed over the labor prob
lem. ana n curious change is taking place
over there.
The men are doing houseworas. ana
The women are going ;n;o shops and fac
tories. Co!ncident with this fact comes
the statement from the I.ady's Pictorial,
an English publication, that iunacy is on
The increase in London. Now, II IS
not necessary TO be grini-gra.S-eyea
woman expert in crys:al-gazitlg, &c put
these two facts together ana deouce d
1oSican sequence. Tie sdeta4is OF mouse
work are enough 10 drive any mere
man. crazy it takes a wo1nans brain
10 cope with such problems.
pIaygocrs in London have given MI
Trees production OF stephen Staiiiips
poetic drama. Ulysses, their cordial
.snrroval and the press of London IS
unanimous in its praise. The oaliy TX
pres says OF it:
.,Olr. Tree has endowed the play with
setting whose glories& will be the talk
of two ncmispheres and which VIII con-
.;rIn his reputation as the most lnspired
producer OF his tlTne
But the setting is kept IigidiW sub
seryient 10 the picture, whose concep-
lion by Mr.. Phillips is as bold as its eX-
ecution is mastery. It is the most
:7trikinElv Imaginative production the
present generation has witnessed
In literary circles in England interest
IS again aroused over the Baconlan the
Dry OF the authorship of Shakespeare
works.
This time it is q woman, Mrs. Gallup,
an American. ] believe, who has
.,esurrecfcd this old controversy. Mrs
Gallup brings forward q bi-lateral cipher.
which according 10 an exchange proves
tco much, as it proves that Bacon wrote
,sot orly Shakespeare plays anu poems
hut Spencers poems, The Canterbury
,ralas.'' THE Dunciad," the King James
1rallsalarioa of ire Bible, and 'Babs thu
Impossible
Tho coronation absorbs the interest OF.
Englands smart set There is Tu1nor
that the King will institute at that time
IN Alexandra Order, which will be linz
sted TO ladies. aud will probably be OF
three degrees
The subject of coronation robes occupies
the feminine world. and nodlitcations of
the models first displayed have been
adopted.
In this connection the Lord Chamber
lain has issued the following announce
ment:
The King has been pleased to permit
that a high court dress of silk, satin or
velvet, according to the following de
scription. may be worn in future at thelr
maiesticS' courts and on other state oc-
casions by ladies TO whom. from illness,
infirnlity or advancing age, the present
low court dress is inappropriate. VIZ:
Bodies in front, cut square or hearc
shape. which may be flied in with white
only. either transparent or lined; ct the
hack. high or cut down three-nuarters
height. sleeves TO elbow, either thick
or transparent.
TRAINS gloves and feathers as usuai.
.tTt is necessary for ladies who wish to
appear in high court dress to Obtain per
mission, through the Lord Chamberlain.
Doesn't that seem funny to American
women?
Tho only cloud in the coronation Sky
IS an epidemic of smallpox, whlch seems
possible. even probable.
All the members OF the royal family,
from the King down to the Prince o.
Wales eldest son, have been reVaccl-
mated. It is a remarkable coincidence
hat il, 1888. the year OF Queen Victoria
coronation, London also had a heavy
smallpox epidemic, which much inter-
zGreu VIII the uuIIlDtt "a NIS-NS4 , Eii4N
the size Of the street crowds.
The latest Partisan fad is .telepathic
photography" l wonder f you know
what that means, because don't An
exchange explains 90 as follows:
The high priest Of the new photography
IS DR.. Baraduc. In order to photograph
the absent or dead.it is necessary for the
subject to concentrate his thought very
;sraphed. The greater the Intensity the
clearer win be the photograph. The inn
preston is conveyed to the plate, not by
lnatcrialiStic means. but by intense
thought, and the exteriorzcd plate must
be highly sensitive.
1t is easy to take the photographs Of
absent sweethearts from the brains of
girls in love. These most distinct photo
graphs DR.. Baraduc calls .'phychomancs-
Oh. me! 1 have just feared how to see
things in a crystal and now here is tel
epathic photography It IS terribly hard
1 70 be an up-to-date faddist.
I knew (..somcboay told me 500 that
AMERICAN women were Fascinating, but it
seems that abroad American girls have
the reputation OF being irresistible. That
is the reason, so :they say, that we
are TO have Prince Henry and not tha
Crown Prince as the nations guest.
The Kaiser fears that The Crown Prince
,msht fall IN love With an American,
sil'l, There l.ow, aren't We charming
Again. Lady Sarah Wilson. of Trans
sa;i lame. SAYS Of us:
Every enc who visits the United
States talks of the American girl French
travellers are particularly enthusiastic
over her. They exhaust the vocabulary
OF complimentary adjectives in describ-
ing her. The reason Why she is so much
discussed is that she is a distinctive
product. She is always in evidence
Hers is a story Of that wonderful Old
1nan The Pope. In spite OF lis ninety
two .cars he retains his sense Of humor
and INDUCED in a quiet little satire no,
long ago at The expense of a most esti.
a,able and pious member of one of the
royal hcuses OF Europe. This lady, wis
flsclps herself an artist, painted his
portrait upon a piece of canvas. leaving
Il ,iali. at the bottom in which she re
apested him TO write his autograph
1tnn, tho ,,ictfrra was received it was