The National tribune., 1907-08-08

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l air. in an inclosed place. is for person
I afflicted with this vice or disease mos
> fruitful of results. The treatment O
drunkenness by Imprisonment pure an
simple is patent failure. In the firs
stages of the disease this may he necCS
5 sary. but with the return of norma
r conditions all visible signs of fore
, must be removed. An intelligent. well
bred man, a victim to the drink habit
accustomed to ordering his own life
finds any such confinement intolerab
as soon as the poisonous effects of liquo
: begin to leave him and his brain be
comes clear. In the carrying out o
the Massachusetts idea, a patient. a:
soon as possible. is put out of door
! to work on the farm, and in the pure
air engaged in the healthful farm wOrl
he finds once more that self-respect o.
which the demon drink had robbed him
and in the finding of which he is ena.
bled to take again his place among hi;
fellow men as a respectable, respected
member of society.
! OF course there must be many mer
who are really attached to their mother
in-law, who rejoice in her visits, ant
find her d valuable addition to the fam
lily. But according to poets and news
paper wits such men are exceedingly
rare and constitute the exception rather
than the rule. Consequently Mr.. ELL
gene c. Mathivet, wealthy Cleveland
lawyer, is brot at once into the lime
light by his extraordinary and unusual
point of view on the mother-in-'Gw
Question His wife's mother made her
home with Mr.. and Mrs. Mathivet, and
some time ago left her Son-in-law's res
idence. He has now begun action to
compel her to return. pleading terrible
| lloneSomeneSS as his reason. and claim
ing she. has been persuaded to leave
him by the Misrepresentation of a
wicked neighbor and restrained from
returning to him.
! The only Indian woman lawyer in
the world is Miss Conley, of Kansas City,
who is fighting now to save the old
cemetery of the Nyandotte Indians from
| the United States Government, which
has declared its intention to sell the
| historic spot. Miss Conley has applied
| to the courts, claiming that the ceme-
| terry does not belong to the Government.
and says if the courts do not sustain
her that she will stand guard over the
cemetery with a shotgun. This ceme-
terry is situated in the heart of the busi-
ness section of Kansas City, and the
ancestors of many of those high in
lsociety lie buried there. Miss Conley
has been a practicing attorney for five
years, and has all she can attend to in
the way of business. She is a true In
dian, claiming that her freedom from
strict observance of the Indian rules of
health. She can work days without
food, yet feels no fatigue Many of Miss
Conley's family are buried in the old
cemetery.
Marie Corelli, the prolific English
novelist in the preface to a new book
she has just written, delivers a mes
sage to her sex which IS largely a de-
nunciation of men and a general show
ing up of their vices and shortcomings.
She says men no longer want to sup
port women, but are more than willing
to be supported by them. Men are jeal-
Gus of everything women do outside
the nursery and drawing room, and
the moment she does anything really
worth while, he hurls that terrible word
.'unsexed" at her. Miss Cerelli thinks
the true intention of womans destiny
is not yet revealed, but that she is fight
ing towards that end. tho using her
weapons generally in the wrong direc-
ton. II is not by opposing herself to
man that she can become his real help
mate, but by cultivating and cherishing
everything womanly. by performing her
share of the worlds intellectual work
with modesty as well as force, and by
an example of gentle reserve and deli
cate chastity. Miss Corelli's message
to her sisters comes at a time when
much has appeared in print with re-
gard to the great number of problem
or sex novels flooding the market, writ
en- by women, and which are completely
outstripping in sales all other books.
Edmund Kelley. the American law
yer who represented Anna Gould in
her divorce suit, says that the Countess
of Castellane is made very unhappy by
the fortune hunters who besiege her.
Apparently every nobleman in France
wishes to share her millions and give
her his name. She receives scores of
proposals daily. If she goes out for a
walk, a note is dropped into her para
sol; for a drive, a billet-doux falls in
the carriage at her feet: wherever she
goes IL is impossible to escape the i'm
passioned appeal of some impecunious
Frenchman with more or less we'll
known name. Even women who come |
to call upon her make it plain in a |
short time that they are the emissaries |
of INDECENT noblemen. All this is no
disgrace in France, where nobleman
feels that he is acting perfectly fair
and square in giving his name in ex-l
change for money. Mr.. Kelley says
the Countess is a very different woman |
from the Anna Gould of II years ago. |
She is now finished woman of the |
world. at home in any circle of the |
highest European society, a woman of |
great charm, tact, and ability. Count |
Boni, he says, is not by any means the |
fool some people seem to think him, but |
a cleNer, SnFcWU IellOW. 10 exc out |
his present slender Income he thinks |
of becoming a sort of social dictator |
for the Parisians. Being extremely ar
tistic, he realizes that he could be of |
the greatest assistance in the establish |
ment of a salon, or the furnishing of |
a sumptuous boudoir. He has achieved |
a reputation for unsurpassed taste in |
the matter of furniture, draperies. ar
of statuary. hanging of pic |
lures, etc. Madam Anna may return |
to this country to live, so Mr.. Kelley |
says, in order TO dispose of her prop
erty as she wishes. If she remains in |
France. the laws entitle her three sons !
to three-quarters of all she has.
ambassador Whitelaw Reid has quite
taken the breath of I.ondoners away BY |
the SumptuouS character of his enter
tainments. He has set a pace in lavish
hospitality during the past two seasons
which only a millionaire can follow.
Dorchester House, like Buckingham
Palace, has its controller who looks
after all the functions Never in its
history has the American Embassy oc-
cupied the prominent position il does to-
day under Mr.. Reid. The number of |
brilliant entertainments given at Dor
chester House is absolutely unprece-
dented, which have been characterized |
by an elegance, distinction, dignity, for
mality and lavishness worthy of royalty |
There being no international complica-