The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-23

cauld, daughter of ex-senator Mitchell
of Oregon. The marriage of the duke
and duchess is said to have been one
of the few International matches made
on account of sentiment, for the brides
face was her principal fortune. No
woman in Europe is more celebrated
for originality than is the Duchess de la
Rochefoucauld, her frankness being UNI
excelled even by that of Marie Bash
kirtseff. Like the pretty Russian, the
fair American does not undervalue her
telling points and is reported to have<
calmly asserted on a certain occasion:
Il know that l am one of the most
beautiful women in the world. NY fig
ure is perfect. and 1 shall marry for
position. There are very few women as
eXquisitely beautiful as 1 am, and I
mean to make the most of myself"
Naturally Il young woman of such or.
iginality would startle conventional
French society. but the duchess has
had the tact rever to antagonize any
body, and today she is both popular
and influential in the most exclusive
set of the Faubourg. One of her most
daring recent experiments was a SEN
Sational balloon ascension She was
one of the first women in Partisan high
life to assist nature in heightening the
Titan shade of her locks. Gossips say
she adds to the slender resources of
the house of De la Rochefoucauld by
chaperoning rich American girls who
wish to marry titles.
Lady TankerviIle.
One of the most unconventional Of
British peeresses is Lady TankerviIle,
wife of the evangelist Earl of Tanker
vile. She is the daughter of the late
T. G. Van Marter. who during the civil
war was an officer in the Twenty
second New York cavalry and after
ward made fortune in Tacoma, Wash.
Lord Tankerville has been interested in
the Salvation Army, Christian Science
and the revival work of the late D. L.
Moody. He has frequently appeared
upon the platform a revivalist.
Sometimes he eXhorts, while his beauti-
full wife re-enforceS his arguments
with sacred solos. The Tankervilles
have hitherto been Indifferent to So
ciety. and when, this season, they
opened a house in London and began
entertaining the smart set society was
much amazed, although quite ready
with a cordial welcome, for the coun-
tess is a charming ard accomplished
woman in spite of what the English re-
gard as her American peculiarities.
The Diplomatic Freak.
have liked to draw President Roose-
welt into her dispute with the American
minister to Sweden, who declined to
present her at the court of King Oscar
and whose refusal she took in the light
of a personal insult, has presumably
shaken the dust of republics from her
feet forever. Mrs. Won Claussen has
recently sailed for the other side. an
nouncing her engagement to a Swedish
nobleman and issuing a farewell phi
lippic, in which she scored her enemy,
the ambassador to Sweden, and other
prominent officials of this government.
While many of those American wo-
men who have the interest of half Eu-
rope centered upon them are not repre-
sentative. yet in the eyes of indiscrimi-
mating foreigners all American woman
hood suffers for their shortcomings.
American men ought to be good
enough for American women, but if
international marriage must continue
let those who are parties to it use tact
and tcommon sense enough to keep out
of the yellow journals. The Daisy
Millers are no longer amusing at home
or popular abroad.
ADELE ATCHINSON.