New-York tribune., 1902-06-22
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

THE TALK OF THE DAY.
The status of former mother-in-la" II, 80
l., hitch new wife has been installed mas oeeh
handled with rare courage by Judge 1otNet' - -.
Illinois court. William Giese hed oeeH 'ii'ee NJ -,
= widower The mother OF two OF ms -. took
vrera sisters-was living with him when ne looN
-, .,,tb ,rifa She objected to the superhu-
,,erarv rnother-in-law. and shortly iet' hel ""'
hands home. writing him this letter;
pear Papa ! did not have any tnousiIt o' 70 IT,
,r ron am only gone. I will no longer hNe
i3h ,.o,,r r,otber-n-lavy. AS soon as you nave Il
1oro. for me YOU can let me know. ana VIII Coe
hack to you. Up to tho time you get d HoHno :
must support me. But WITH s''a'e0
will not live -.
Later she brought action for separate man
tenonce and failed Judge Holden explicauns the
legal situation in this humane iashion;
a. man has a right to keep mother-ln-ia" III III
bic rorsn lust as ne has right 10 keep dog II
x .t 80 soos mt hite his wife cannot complain be-
co,,s he keeps Il in the house. and 1t Is the same
with an Observation-Disclosures is' the mother OF d
former wife II she doesn't harm anybody. the
last wife has no grounds for complaint II u''-
miss the bill for want OF equity
Inherited the Business,-"Orm descn.ded rom
Brian BoTu. na'am. ord hov ye know" declared
the naughty Mrs Fjt5 clanceiy,t iSt Mrs Casey. the
-, ma I9dv of The corner fruitstand. Faith. Ofm
a DESCENDANT of Eve. the first apple woman -
Philadelphia tress-
army oficer who has Just returned 4Ioi'i 'e
PbiIinpines SAYS the native women are initiating
.Lo American women school teachers and wives
~ army officers, In the matter OF dress PERSONA
adornnent and manners. During the last year d
great change of this nature mas oeeA opseI EeN
among the native women who have oeen thrown
,r.o contact with the "Americanos." The Philip
nine women now insist not only upon having more
clothes but better clothes. ana the result Is d
marked Improvement in their average personal ap-
pearance A year and half ago this ofhcer passed
! ;floC-a IN TJlZ
lodged was A girl OF ten or twelve years VINO
smoked big black cigars. and apparently enjoyed
them Visiting the village q few months ago
the officer called to his friends. the natlVe
raniIv He found the girl. now a little larger, OF
,o,,ree and also very much better dressed
.syo,, are not smoking, see" he said to her.
NO sefor.
mo thank YOU sehor" replied the girl IN fair
English me no smoke now Americana women
smoke
Thrittless-Poor Wonan-Ah your ladyship It the hs
very serious illness of husband has consumed
'gt Ladv"Dear! dear How could your husband be
so thrftless to get i'll SO much beyond MS
A painting of Fort Sumter in war time, made in
1868 by Lieutenant John K Key. a nephew or
Francis Scott Key author of THE Star Spansled
I Banner" is on exhibition In Charleston II was
shipped through the blockade to England, where 1t
remained until IL was returned 10 IharIeslou d lie"
davs ago. 1t was the property Of Colonel II. w
Bielden of the British army, and has been pre-
sented by him to Augustine T. Smythe. Of Charles
ton. Colonel Fielden resigned from the British
army to accept commission under the Confed-
eracy and served through the war on the staff of
General Beauregard. II at his request that
the picture was painted
A woman In Summerville who was the possessor
of a solitary piece of statuary one evening
giving party. Shortly before the guests arrived
shG ng %ss in oTder Missing the Venus from lis
hEfIsr wberes my piece of statUary? e 'i
Miss Weeny you mean ma am?' answered Lee.
Yes. the Venus Where is it?
Well Miss MaTgrt aam ma !eS I thought as as
Miss Weeny under de stahs."-(Lppincotts Maga-
zine.
Two American girls were recently visiting a town
in Japan not much frequented by foreigners, and
a friend who understood japanese told them OF
the comments made on them when they appeared
in the street. Said Miss Peach Blossom to the
Hon Miss Chrysanthemum: "Oh. dc look at those
foreign women! See how strangely they are
dressed. They short ktmonos, just like the
men How very improper!'
Yes" acquiesced the other THE foreign
women have taste in dress. In Toxic. where
I have been once. no foreign woman's toilet is
complete without stuffed bird her head. II
she has enough money to buy whole stuffed
bird, she buys a head, the wings feathers.
They are very strange the foreign women
But" exclaimed the first, did you notice the
terrible size of the noses of these two foreign
women? Are the noses of all the foreign women
as large these?'
Yes, they large. But they proud
of their large noses. The foreign women do not
consider a large nose q Disagreement"
How very strange And. see-their are as
round as the full moon"
Yes, round the full moon. They stare az
you without any expI ession or feeling
And their walk! Do look at their walk! So
ungainy-just like great big birds!''
The castle at Marienburg, the restoration OF
which Emperor William has just celebrated, was
the residence of the Grand Master OF the Teutonic
Knights, a German body which was formed in the
Holy Land during crusade in 1le0, and which de-
voted itself its ChristaniZing Prussia.
II was greatly weakened by defeat by the Poles
under Jagellon in 14l0 and century later Albert
Won Brandenburg, Grand Master, annexed its terri
tories TO his own States The order still survives
| in mild form in Austria and the Archduke Eu-
gene. brother of the Queen Mother OF Spain is its