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Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
ARE STRANDED FAR AWAY PRINCESS TASMANIA FOR CATS
American Opera company's Collapse
in South Africa Leaves Sing
ers There Needing Help
Special CabIe % The Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald.
LONDON. July 7.-Forty American
opera singers, some of whom are accus-
toned TO salaries of ESQ a week. are
trying to reach home from South
Africa. where their company collapsed.
Ten have arrived at southampton, but
the rest are still destitute in Cape
Town.
The James Nelson company went
from New York to Johannesburg,
where it was booked for nine weeks
The repertory consisted of The Prince
of Pilsen" and similar works. Business
was bad from the start, and at the end
of the seventh week salaries were no
longer forthcoming
AS the price of living in Johannesburg
is abnormally high, the singers had
not been able to save for a rainy day
and were absolutely stranded. But,
bad as was the plight of the male art
lists, that of twenty-four women in the
party was infinitely worse. By the
generosity of friends funds were raised
to send the company on to Cape Town,
where each one had to shift as best he
could.
Ten managed to raise enough money
to secure berths on Union Castle in
termediate steamer, and they have
reached Southampton en- route for New
York. one of the singers says that
things are terribly bad in Johannes
burg, worse than the people Of England
realize. Although gold is being pro-
duced in large quantities. hundreds OF
people are almost starving and busi-
ness is in desperate state.
altogether $4,000 was lost In the
venture said the singer. "In this
amount were several sums of some
hundreds of pounds each which were
subscribed by members of the company.
Although stagnation of trade was
the principal cause OF our failure, a
strong factor was popular prejudice
against Americans"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
THINKS FRENCH WOMEN
WEAR TOO MANY CLOTHES

tight that they have all sorts of nerve
diseases that were never heard OF IN
Cambodia.
Everybody here talks too much.
Everybody talks all the time; women,
children and men are shriekng at each
other all day long. Women, without
fearing punishment, interrupt when
their husbands are talking. servants,
without prostrating themselves, talk to
their masters.
mo one has good manners. But the
most insolent of all are the men who
make pictures. Even my sacred dane
ers they threatened with their diaboli-
cal picture machines, which they hide
in little black boxes"
His observant majesty also says that
the French do not pray often but he
admires their wonderful temples built
of fine white stone"
After the custom of Cambodia, Sisa-
wath is fully clad when he bathes in
the pink marble tub which his bath
room, lined with precious onyx, con-
tains.
He sleeps in the same gorgeous bed
in which the czar reposed at Compiegne
but he angrlly says it is uncomfortable
and that he will use the low, unpreten-
tious couch he always carries on his
travels
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
King Edwards Daughter Has Regular
Mansion With Separate Apart
ments for Each Family
Special Gable 10 The Herald.

Special Gable 10 The Herald.
LONDON, July 7-Prize cats are
Princess Victoria's passion. At Frog
more, near Windsor. she has a mag
nificent cattery, in which a numerous
tribe of valuable blue and chinchilla
Persians live life of luxury.
There are room houses, divided into
day and sleeping rooms, kept at an
even temperature for the preservation
of delicate feline lives, with covered
grass runs for their recreation. The
day rooms are kept clean and dry with
oilclOth flooring, while cozy beds of
soft cushions and blankets are pro-
vided in the bedrooms. Each house is
inhabited by one cat family. This
fine establishment, of which Princess
Victoria of Schleswig- Holstein is very
proud, was founded by Queen Victoria,
who bought at a private sale for $3.50
two pedigreed Persian kittens and pre-
sentcd them to her granddaughter.
They formed the nucleus of the present
collection of prize pussies.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
ASCOT EYE SHADE NEW FAD
Smart Women of Europe Now Protect
Their Eyes With contrivance
Resembling Lorqnette
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald. As
LONDON, July IA becoming and
conspicuously useful shade for the eyes
was one of the novelties Ascot has
produced. 1t is the invention of a wonl-
an, who has called it the Maisette, and
already royalty and many smart women
have welcomed it.
In new photographs that have ap-
peared of the queen of Spain her majes-
ty may be observed holding in order to
shade up to her forehead in order to
shield her eyes from the glare of the
ardent sun of Madrid. Princess Ena
took the shade from London with her
when she went to Spain.
In form and in the air of alert smart
ness it conveys the shade approaches
the lorgnette carried by many women.
1t has the folding stick of that useful
object, made of tortoise shell or gold,
but not the lenses. Instead of them
there is an elegantly shaped bar of
tortoise shell or gold lined with green
ribbed silk, and it is this bar that is
raised to the forehead and there allowed
to rest, in order that the eyes may be
protected from glare.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
SARAH RETURNS
WITH MUCH COLD
Goes to Home on Coast-DiscoVers an
Author of Ability in Obscure
Young Poet and Accepts
His Play
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
PARIS, July 7.-Sarah the Divine,
with pocket full of money and a heart
full of charming recollections, has
brought back an enthusiasm for that
dear America and has gone to her rock
bound home on the coast of Brittany to
give it vent and to recuperate her
strength by running barefoot over the
rocks.
"Ah!" she says with a sigh of fullest
content, "think of it, A young man
from a dry goods store in the west came
to me with tears rolling down his
cheeks and told me: Madame, learned
French only to hear you, and it was
worth it.
Her admiration is less pronounced for
the excited woman who, determined to
have a remembrance of the great act
ress, tore a gold buckle from her shoe
without doubt ignoring its value -
comments madame.
Bernhardt's debtors, among them the
city of Paris, are rejoicing at the profit
of S25O0OO which the land of the free
afforded her, and aside from all inter-
estCd motives are enormously proud of
their favorite's success.
The actress is bubbling over like a
child with the delights of it all. Her
first act on her return was characters
tic She consented to receive a young
unknown poet and listen to a play of
his. The favor from a woman so pur-
sued by literary friends was beyond
computation.
Rene Fraudet, the poet in question,
was fully aware of this, and, wholly
confident OF his play was in no mind 10
lose one jot of the opportunity.
Sarah believed she could dismiss him
after the first act, but his fire was ir-
repressible. He was not to be put off
Wearied from a long days manifold
undertakings, she found herself becom-
! ing engroSSed.
But if the first act held her. the Sec
ond fascinated her, She urged him on,
and at the close the pair wept and em-
braced each other, and Bernhard de-
clared she had found another Rostand
1T was so he first won a hearing from
me. l played Rostand's work. 1 shall
play yours. And l will play it-ahr
So it was settled. La Mutt Perverse"
will be included in her repertoire dur
] ing the season.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
snecIal cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, July 7.-Young, vivacious,
and as fresh as ever. Nine. Patti de-
lighted a large and brilliant audience
at the Albert hall the other day. 1t
was her only concert of the season.
Her songs ranged from "Casta diva" !"
the famous air from Norma" to
Home, Sweet Home" but not one was
more fascinating than the delicate and
intimate effect of the Interpretation of
Gounod's "Berceuse," to a violin obli-
cato played by the wonderful little
violinist, ViVien Chartres.
To the simple charm of this gifted
child's playing was added the absolute
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
is ACTRESS, NOT AMAZON
Girl Posing as Strong Woman in Show
Is Prosecuted by Physical
CuIturists
Special Gable to The Herald.

Special cable TO Inc Herald.
LONDON, July Life is being made
miserable to Miss Carrie Moore, the
clever young actress who had so much
to do with the success of The Dairy
maids" at the Apollo, by Would-be
strong women and physical culturists
of all kinds.
Ever since Miss Moore took London
by storm with her "Sandow Song" she
has been inundated with letters from
women who think she is a female
Hackenschmidt, asking her to teach
them how to get strong.
Miss Moore, when seen last night in
her dressing room at the Apollo. was
wrestling with a quantity of letters,
which simply covered the floor, the
dressing table and the chairs.
what have 1 done to deserve all
this?" she asked pathetically, taking off
her dainty sunbonnet and tanning her
self with it. Il am an actress, not an
Amazon. 1 could not juggle with
dumbbells for a thousand-guinea mo-
tor car"
Miss Moore then read some of the
letters aloud. One from Mazda Vale
was as follows;
my husband said that British wom-
en- should be tall and strong, and that
any one who is not is a disgrace to the
country. l am small and weak. but if
you will tell me how to become strong
I will pay you any fee you ask"
A Camberwell matron's letter was
pathetic: "Oh, dear Miss Moore-My
husband is no taller than l am, but he
is stronger and knocks me about when
he likes" il ran. 81 enclose one and
nine in stamps for you to tell me how
TO get strong and be able to knock him
about"
Some of the letters are amusing. and
some are pathetic, but | wish people
would realize that I am not strong,
said Miss Moore as she bade her visitor
goodnight"
Outside the stage door was a great
crowd of women waiting for Miss
Moore to give them lessons in physical
culture.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
specIal CAble to rhe Hernld.

Special cable to The Herald.
PARIS, July 7-Sisawath, king of
Cambodia, who has arrived here in
state, declares that the French women
wear too many clothes.
His majesty does not, cannot find
the same fault with his wives and fa-
vorites and the women of the royal
corps of damses who fill his sumptu-
Gus residence here The government
has rented the splendid Hotel Brion on
the avenue Bois de Boulogne for the
Cambodian monarch's residence during
his stay here; until the middle Of July.
Seated in the red and gold salon,
King Sisawath said to Commardant
Lannes of the Eysee palace:
Your women should wear no more
than two garments; one fitting close to
the skin and the other covering the
first. Besides your women harness
themselves so tight that none of their
motions are free. At least they should
have their legs entirely free"
His majesty summoned several dane
ing girls and illustrated his ideas of
feminine dress to Commandant Lannes.
Sisawath is remarkably frank in ex-
pressing his opinions Of France and her
people.
THE women squeeze their bodies so
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
AMERICA FALLS
INTO PAGANISM
SO THE REV. DR.. CR0THERS
TELLS THE BRITISH
He Says That Entire Sections of the
United states, Especially in
New England, Have Fallen
Into Pagansm
Special Cable to Tho Herald

Special Cable to Tho Herald
LONDON, July 1.-THE Rev. DR..
Crothers, the well-known American di-
vine, delivered striking. address on
the defects of secular education in
America, at Essex hail.. Essex street.
Strand, In connection with the annual
meeting of the British and Foreign
Unitarian association.
TO believers in ecclesiasticism. he
said. America stood today as a horrible
example of the results of secularism.
and though he (Dr Crothers) might not
tell 1t in Gath, yet he was quite willing
frankly to confess that every one Of
those results which the most ultra con.
servative churchman imagined would
follow In a country where there was
perfect freedom in religion had actu-
ally come about in America.
In New England there were country
communities that had relapsed into
paganism that were standing examples
of the futility of mere little sectarian
communities. 1t was a place where
there stood no one great church with
sacred associations-only a few little
meeting houses scarcely attended by
the people.
One of the serious problems in
America today was the growing pagan
ism of country communities There
was no religious teaching, sectarian or
otherwise, in American schools, and
people asked, Are you not educating
the new generation of men intellectu-
ally without educating them morally,
making them keen and quick TO achieve
and ambitious, but not giving them the
guidance they need of true citizenship?
That was another of the great and
terrible problems of American life
American civilization had evolved men
from whom Americans turned back af-
frighted. America did not keep these
men, however; they came to England to
spend their money. (Laughter.)
| The two most popular preachers in
America were Andrew Carnegie and
Theodore Roosevelt. They appealed to
the masterful element in young men.
A preacher might stand at the street
corner and cry, Repent, repent, for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand" and
the comment of the good-natured, pros
porous citizens would be, II guess that's
! all right. The kingdom of heaven is
! coming, sure enough, and 1 guess we're
it." Gaughter)
| Today the United States of America
is repenting the sin of materialisin.
of which it had in the past generation
been guilty, and is seeing the neces-
| sity for finer and higher ideals. Gap
| plause.)
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
KING MAKES UP
WITH MRS. WEST
Wives Mustn't Be OIder-Edward Can
Hardly Forgive Woman for Mar
rying Man Younger Than
Herself, as She Did
Snecial Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald
LONDON, July Ever since Lady
Randolph Churchill became Mrs. George
Cornwallis West she and the king have
scarcely been on speaking terms. His
majesty has a positive horror of wo-
man marrying a man who is younger
than herself. When Lady Randolph an
nounced to the king her engagement to
Mr. West-who is just a year younger
than her son, Winston Churchill-he
said to her something to this effect:
Jenny, 1 always regarded you as a
clever woman. 1t is great regret to
me to find that you are going to make a
fool of yourself. Such marriages as the
one you are about to make never turns
out we'll"
AS everyone knows, Mrs. West ig-
nored the kings remarks. with the re-
suit that his majesty dropped" her
She was never invited to country houses
to meet him, never asked, as hitherto,
to Sandringham or Windsor. But the
other day the king relented and motored
off to see his old friend telephoning
first that he intended to do so.
l hear it was Consuelo, duchess of
Manchester's sister, who induced his
majesty to make it up" with Mrs.
George" and gave him no peace until
he had promised to do so. On hearing
from the king, Mrs. CORVALLIS West
wired to Consuelo, duchess of Manches-
ter, and to Lady Mary and Kellie, an
other of "Bertie's" friends, and both
arrived on the scene in good time to
greet him. 1t was a great reunion.
Champagne was broken-an unusual
circumstance, for the king and ladies
| in question never touch this wine al
lunch. The occasion, however, had to
! be celebrated.
so you are glad you did not take
my advice four years ago." said the
king to his hostess.
'G and l are still on our honey
moon" was Mrs. Vests reply
Ever since the king has been to see
! his old friend, invitations have flown in
upon her from people who have never
! invited her since her remarriage. Mrs
| West, who has all of the American wo.
mans keen sense of humor, has beer
| enormously amused. A kings smile to.
| day in England makes man or woman
| The kings frown means destruction
| Toadyism is the order of the hour. Mrs
| George West is triumphant. For hel
wit and originality she has always helc
a place in his majesty's regard, and ir
| allowing her to drop out of his circle oi
friends it is quite an open secret thai
it was case of the kings cutting of
his nose to spite his face.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
is A JOURNALIST FACTORY
Teaching the Nobility How to Be
Public Educators Object of
London's New School
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, July IA select school
for the nobility and gentry has been
opened in New Bond street, where Mr..
oliver McEwan. who has written the
incredible number of twenty three
books and pamphlets on shorthand, un-
dertakes to initiate the most exalted
persons into the mysteries of secretarial
work and to guide their tender foot
steps into the primrose paths of jour
nalism.
There is, Mr.. McEwan has discovered,
an inexhaustible demand in business
offices for "gentlemen's sons" VINO have
had a public school or grammar school
education, instead of board school
boys" who few years ago threatened
to carry everything by storm.
Similarly, as regards typewriting,
there is a call for young women of
superior education to that possessed
by most typewriter girls"
There is, Mr.. McEWan says, an all
round demand for the services of gen
teeP persons.
For the sons of gentlemen who have
a literary bent and who, to begin with.
are not entirely dependent upon earn
ings, the profession of journalism of
fers a congenial occupation as well as
the prospect of brilliant career" says
a booklet in which Mr. McEwan intro
duces his school "'to the nobility and
gentry"
AT the same time, the nobility and
also the gentry are warned that no
school can turn out a finished" Jour
nalist and that the aspirant can only
be grounded in the technicallties of the
profession.
The young nobleman or gentleman
who wishes to become an ormanemtn in
Fleet street is advised to acquire a
knowledge of shorthand, typewriting
proof reading, sub-editing, dserimina
tion i'm the choice and rejection OF
copy" ability to write smart para
graph or a short article, and a clear
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
ARE JACKS WITHOUT JILLS
Women Wanted for Lonely Empire
Makers In the British CoIum-
bia Northwest
Special Gable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, July 7.-Educated women
assembled in large numbers at Caxton
hall. Westminster, recently and lis
tened with sympathetic interest to the
tales of lonely Benedicks in British
colonies.
The occasion was a conference on
COLONIZATION by Educated Women, -
and to object to open up more avenues
of activity for women.
Sir John Cockburn, who presided, ap-
pealed to women to go out to the col
onies.
In Canada and Australia" he said,
there is a surplus of 250000 men over
women. Two hundred and fifty thous-
and pairs of arms are awaiting, for
Jack is lonely without Jill. Societies
which are trying to adjust this dis
proportion are deserving well of the
empire"
Mrs. FitzGibbons of Canada joined
earnestly in the appeal.
In the past our imperial expansion
has been carried on on a one-sided
plan," she declared. Men have every
inducement to emigrate. Matters ought
now to be equalized, and women should
have an opportunity to play their part
as empire makers"
Miss Vivian of the South African
Colonization society complained of the
lack of adaptability of women who go
to the colonies
The trained nurse" she asserted,
required almost as much waiting on
as the patient; the teacher teaches only
her special subjects; the dairy worker
thinks it menial work to wash out milk
bottles.
THE most useful training for colonial
life is learning to do without. Women
who go to the colonies ought to be
willing to work"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
POETS ARE PUT ON THE RACK
Professor of Literature at Glasgow
Says They Should Not
Run at LARGE
Special Gable to The Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald.
GLASGOW, July 1.-THE poet at
large in the community is worse than
a lion in the street." said Prof. Mac
nellie Dixon, professor of English
language and literature at Glasgow
university at the Royal institution.
He disregards convention and over
leaps custom; he decries responsibility;
he despises the law.
Milton appears to have had lean
ing toward polygamy. Burns, Byron
and Shelley were reckless of social
order.
For these things society is not yet
prepared, and it is therefore, perhaps,
justified in declining to accept the poet
as a law giver."
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

purity of the famous divas voice. The
song was redemanded.
Nine. Patti for one of her encores
sang the old-world air by Lotti ''Pur
dicesti,' and again, in Mozart's ''Voi
che sapete," gave an epitome of the
whole art of perfect voCalization.
Time, indeed, has dealt lightly with
this incompatible artist, who was
born in 1S43
Mr.. Stanley received a warm well
come on his appearance and was voci-
ferously encored for his vigorous sing
ing of an old operate air by Paer.
Busoni was encored also after his bril-
liant performance of Liszt's Don
Juan" fantasia. Miss Ada Crossley and
Mr.. Ben Davies gave of their best to a
generous program.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
LONDON FULL OF AMERICANS
Number of Visitors From This Coun-
try Believed to Be Largest
on Record
Special Gable to The Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald.
LONDON July If consuls' opinion
may be taken as an accurate gauge,
this season has been one of the most
notable on record for the number OF
Americans visiting here. Persons in a
position to know are unanimous in de-
claring that London never has been so
overrun with tourists as it is at pres
ent, and this view seems to be borne
out by the fact that incoming steam
ships are crowded to the full capacity
On Wednesday more than thousand
Americans reached here from New
York irrespective of the number who
arrived from the continent and other
points. These additions to the throng
of tourists already in London have
made the town quite American in it's
aspect.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
COUNTESS OF WARWICK SAYS
STATE SHOULD FEED CHILDREN

Her view of the question is socialis-
tic and she argues that if the expense
of feeding the children be too great it
would be better to abandon the public
elementary schools and spend the
money on feeding them thus raising "a
race OF healthy barbaFians" rather
than "a race of specialized and amaze
mic degenerates."
Concluding, she says; rs the future
Of the race in doubt? Then let the chill
dren be our first care. Let us lavish on
their nurture and upbringing all the
wealth that the richest country In the
world can provide. There is now no way
In which we could get greater return
for such outlay, and no task which
could more ennoble a nation in the do
ing"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

London tailors are 10th to admit that
their work can be surpassed in any
country, and they even take the credit
for the smart appearance of American
candies on the ground that the best
dressed Americans have their clothes
made in London. One noted West End
tailor put it thus: The cultured
american is probably as well dressed
in al respects as any man in Europe
but in saying that we are only paying
ourselves a compliment, for almost
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
ANOTHER WILDE PLAY FOUND
AND TO BE PRODUCED SOON
snscial Cable TO The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, July IA theatrical event
which is being awaited with interest in
London is the coming production of the
late Oscar Wilde's short unpublished
play, "A Florentine Tragedy" This is
undoubtedly one of the most striking
pieces Wilde wrote and it would not be
surprising If the production in London
led to performances of the play in the
United States. But perhaps the most
interesting thing about the play is the
curious story of it's disappearance from
its authors study soon after it was
completed, and of how, five years after
ward, another draft was discovered by
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

Wildes literary executor" and by him
pleced together for use on the stage.
This story has just been related by
Robert Ross the literary executor"
who is the editor OF Wilde's de Pro-
funds" According to, Ross, "A Flor
entne Tragedy" was originally written
for George Alexander and was COM
pleted in April, 1896, only few days
before Wilde was declared a bank
rupt,
my friends then asked me.' said
Ross, ito go to his house and take
possession of all his unpublished manu-
dence just before the bailiffs entered.
OF course, the authors letters and
manuscripts would nave been exempt
from seizure, but | found the manu-
script Of 81 Florentine Tragedy