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Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
BELGIAN TOWN CONDUCTS
BACHELORS SCHOOL
Remarkable Results of Brides Fetes
In Getting Husbands

Special Cable to The Herald
BRUSSELS, July 2O.-The town of Ecaus-
SHINES Lalaing In Belgium is overstocked with
marrageable maidens Until nearly two years
ago, Nine. Coulter of that place was the re-
sponsbe mother of seventeen of them, and
never a swain had looked their way. In the
spring of 1906 a lawyer from Brussels by some
chance stopped at Nine Gouter's house and
became alive to the plight of madame and
her seventeen marriageable daughters. He
said he would prepare brides fete for GER
tain Sunday anI invite all his unmarried
friends to come up from Brussels. He did
so, and so prosperous was the day that be-
fore night four Of the seventeen announced
their engagements to their sisters.
In the following spring the BRIDES fete be-
came a municipal affair The mayor met at
the town hall the eXpectant bachelors who
deposited with him the proper credentials and
were then introduced to the young ladies'. The
introduction was followed by a promenade,
then came dance and the supper
This brides fete resulted in forty engage
ments
Preparations are now making in Ecaussin-
nes-L LaIaing to hold another BRIDES fete to-
ward the end of September when 1t is anti
cipated the remainder of the towns marriage
able rnaidens will find life partners. AS most
of the rural districts of Belgium, according
IN the last census, have male to every
Ave females, it Is quite likely that next year
the brides fetes will be held in numerous
MIA
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21

things. They were created out of the
leavings. The devil was sent around to
pick up the scraps after that superb ami"
NAL man was made, and he fell to and
made woman out of scraps and few
other things. Now a woman is two parts
meat and one part angel as a rule, al
though l will admit that the ones l like
are two parts angel and 1 would be very
disappointed if people didn't think was y
Likes American Women
But what of American women? Why
do you say you like them?"
"Oh, for very many reasons, Lady VOL
seley answered. "One is because they are
so beautiful and wear their clothes so
we'll l do think that as a rule they wear
too light and conspicuous things on the
street, especially in the morning. But
whatever they have on is worn superbly,
Then, they are bright and clever. The
best compliment 1 ever get is when I am
told that 1 am like an American. 1 want
so much to go over to your country, and
hope to some time soon.
While 1 have married a most delightful
man, my only regret is that he isn't
an American. But 1 am going to do the
next best thing and take him over there to
learn how to treat his wife, for your
American men are wonderfully good to
their women folk-far more considerate
than the Englishmen. Too much So at
times, for l think the way American
women are allowed to go abroad every
year while their husbands are at home
working is OVERRIDING kindness to a de-
gree. The women should be more con-
siderate.
"A gentleman was talking with me one
evening. and of women he said that he
preferred the pretty ones to all other
kinds
well, 1 should rather be plain and
clever than pretty and stupid l replied.
But you are BOTH he added, and
have never figured out just which two he
meant"
To Lady Wolseley London owes the
founding of one of it's most popular clubs
for women, the Ladies Park club, over
looking Hyde park. 1t has proved a tre-
mendous success and has 1000 members,
despite the fact that they are most partic-
ular in theis lists.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
BRITISH WOMEN NOW SEEK
CONGRESS TO AID WELFARE
New Way Proposed for Solving Suf-
frage Question in United King
dom-Noisy Minority Is
Scored
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, July 2O.-Numbers of influential
women have been for some time organizing a
movement to improve the social, legal and
Industrial status of women in the united
kingdom. They propose to establish wo-
mems congress, to which qualified woman
fIcm each parliamentary constituency VIII
be appointed This congress will meet period
ically to discuss and frame recommenda-
tions regarding all laws affecting women
welfare, then submit them to the govern
nient of the day.
One of the objects will be to enable women s
views to be represented authoritatively, in
stead of leaving their representation in the
hands of a small but noisy minority who
call attention to themselves by unseemly con-
duct.
1t is proposed to steer the middle course be-
tween the woman suffragists and anti-woman
suffragists. This voices the views of an enor-
nous majority of English women, who not
only desire parliament to try and enfranchise
them, but who recognize the crying need oi
reform.
Every trade and profession in which women
are employed should be represented in the con-
gress" is the motto which will guide the wo-
men in their hght
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
NOBLEWOMAN TO HUNT
GRIZZLIES IN ROCKIES
Duchess of Vendome, Sister of Future
King of Belgium, to Visit
America with Her Hus-
band This Fall
Gable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
BRUSSELS, July 2O.-The duchess of Ven
DOME daughter of the count of Flanders, AMI
sister of the future king of the Belgians, the
best shot among royal sportswomen, has decid-
ed to accompany her husband on his coming
expedition to the Rocky mountains in quest OF
grizzlies
The duchess has shot over every royal pre-
serve on the continent. Her exploits include
ctamos hunting in the Austrian Tyrol. buffa'o
hunting In the czar's preserves, wild boar hunt
Ing in Italy and at Amerios in the Belgian
Ardennes and stag hunting at Rambouliet.
But 1t is particularly at Ischi, in the Tyrol,
that she has acquired her reputation as dar-
ing sportswoman. With her alpenstock in
rand the duchess in company with her hus-
band starts from the Emperor Frincis Joseph S
shooting box at a.. m. and generally spends
the whole day in the mountains. She raratJ
misses the chamois springing from rock to
rock. .
While in her native Belgium last autumn the
duchess went to Amerios to hunt stag re-
pcrted to be of great ferocity and to have
killed a woman. The bringing down OF this
animal made the duchess popular In Belgian
sLortng circles.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
JAPANESE ACTRESS COMING
TO THE UNITED STATES
Arnold DAILY Engages Her for Long
Season in New York

Special Cable to The Herald.
PARIS, July 2O.-Arnold DAILY writes from
Berlin that he has engaged Nine Hanakon, the
talented Japanese tragedienne. who has been
appearing in Paris at one of the small thea
ters under the management of Loie Fuller, for
series of performances at the Berkeley ly-
ceum in New York in the fall.
Il consider myself lucky" says Mr.. Daily
for there was sharp competition for her SER
vices. With her company Nine. Hanakon will
appear in six of her most famous short plays
l shall play two pieces each evening and she
one.
"As the bill will be changed every five
weeks her engagement will last thirty weeks. I
myself expect to produce nineteen twenty
plays during the season"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21

MRS. COREY
TO BEA SINGER
JEAN DE REszKE GIVES HER
LESSONS IN ART
HOPES TO ENTER GRAND OPERA
REALM
MabelIe Gilman That Was, Former
Light Opera Star, Has Ambitions
to Shine as Prima Donna and
Money to Crafty Them

Special Cable to The Herald
PARIS, July 2O.-Mrs. w. z. Corey, wife
of the president of the United States
Steel corporation. has the distinction of
being the last pupil to whom Jean de
Reszke has given a lesson this season.
Mrs Corey, who left the comic opera
stage which she illumined as Mabelle
Gilman, has ambitions for higher things
and is studying singing under De Reszke
with enthusiasm equal if not superior,
to that of any of his pupils. Report has
it that Mrs. Corey possesses a voice that
may win triumphs in grand opera. De
Reszke, it is said, has high hopes for this
particular pupil, who pays double prices
and to whom, as said, he gave his clos
ing lesson of the season before going to
the country for the summer.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
PARISIAN MAN MILLINER
TALKS ABOUT KAISER
Compares Him with King Edward in
the Matter of Dress-king
Gets the Better
of Il
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald.
PARIS, July 20.-A Partisan man milli-
ner who wants to remain nameless in
the awful controversy, comes out boldly
and declares that the kaiser has no
taste whatever in the matter of dress"
except military dress, of course.
His German majesty he continues,
buys his ordinary clothes at the loudest
London tailor, and as a consequence is
always ahead of the fashion and-out of
it. When sitting down he crosses his
legs, he makes show of hose support
ers of some loud colors-that is bad
enough. but having them adorned in ad-
dition with diamonds is certainly most
execrable taste. A gentleman would
rather use safety pins to keep them up
than diamond garters. King Edward uses
the most unobtrusive gold buckles on his
garters, maybe they are simply gold
plated. Nor Is his British majesty lavish
with jewelry of other kinds. Unlike the
German emperor, he wears very few
rings, only such of quiet colors and
forms, while William sports locomotive
headlights on his fingers and in his shirt
bosom.
Elegant but Economical Dresser
''King Edwards wardrobe costs less
than 5000 year, which includes his bills
Tor uniforms, lne MOST CoSlly eHudNd-
gances he is compelled to indulge in.
For his trousers, he does not pay more
than SIS TO $40 The highest priced suit
he wears costs $48 to $50. For an evening
dress suit he never paid more than 800
1t is not true that his majesty wears a
suit only once. Like other gentlemen, he
avoids being seen in the same suit more
than once or twice per week, but on the
average he doesn't buy more than thirty
suits per year"
The Partisan regrets only that the king
will not take kindly to the "artist era
vat" with flowing ends, such as Elbert
Hubbard wears and wants others to wear
lat his price.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
AMERICAN SOCIETY WOMEN
SHOW RIVALRY IN JEWELRY
Londoners Amazed at Display by Mrs.
Belmont and Mrs. Drexel
Special Cable to The Herald.

LONDON. July 2O.--At the Ritz restaurant
during the last fortnight there has been n
gorgeous display of jewels, due to the uncon-
scious rivalry between Mrs Perry Belmont and
Mrs. John Drexel.
Both women have been dining with large
PARTIES, and their array of diamonds, pearls
turquoises and other precious stones is some
thing remarkable, the like not having been
seen in a hotel restaurant in London for many
years. Which is entitled to the palm for tho
mere beautiful array is a matter of hot dis
pute.
In this connection it is noticeable that Mrs
j. ]. Astor rarely wears many jewels, con-
nnng herself to a few ornaments in the hair
end a modest necklace.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
MANY PARISIENNES
WRITE; FEW GET RICH

Special Cable to The Herald.
PARIS, July 2O.-Offcial statistics snow
that about twenty thousand women IN
Paris are engaged in literary work wrlt-
ing novels and articles for magazines ana
newspapers. But only about two hundred
make a good living. The most fortunate
If NOT the ablest, make $4,000 year. Fifty
others make $1,000 and one hundred and
ftly from 5000 to $1,000. The great major
itv have other employment
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
CRIPPLES IN PARIS
MAKE WAR ON "FAKES"
Trades Union Is Formed of Those
Really Afflicted to Combat
Those Who Falsely Ask
Charity
q ecIaI cable 70 The HeraId.

2 N@dUTH II"E''17E
pARIs July 20-A trades union of French
o,innles is now a fait accompli. They intend
to make war on the fake oripples who exploit
public charity The headquarters OF the new
turned down the deputatlon which recently
Visited him, Rosn and Cartier, the president
and vice president Of the union, two one-iegsed
aan started to walk to Paris to lay their
s'rievances before the government. They VIII
dsiiver lectures en- route on the tricks OF fake
cIIpples and sell picture postcards They were
esn,rted The first mile Of two their long
tramp by members of the union, escorted by
its band.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
OF.DICkENS DOOMED
London Store Is Soon to Be De-
molished
special Gable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, July 2O.-Old Curiosity Shop, near
Lincoln's Inn fields in which American tour
lists have spent thousands and thousands OF
pounds will be demolished soon Countless
Americans have accepted this store as the
"Old Curiosity Shop" of Charles Dickens, but
1t never has been established that the great
novelist had it in mind when he wrote his
story of Little Nell"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
A Happy Man

is Amos F. King of Port Pyron, N. Y,
(S5 years of age) since iore on his leg,
which had troubled him the greater
part of his life. has been entirely healed
by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. the worlds
great healer of sores. burns, cuts,
wounds and piles. Guaranteed by Dean
Drug Co. Price 25c.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21

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The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-05-07
AUDITORIUM
MAY BE FEATURE OF THREE
LINKS" BUILDING.
Odd Fellows Employ A. l.. LassiteI
To Prepare Plans For Remod-
cling Structure.

Last night a committee appointed
from the odd Fellows lodge formally
signed up contract with Architect
A. L. Lassiter to draw plans for the
reconstruction of the Longfellow
school at Fifth street and Kentucky
avenue to be known as the "Three
Links" building. There is some doubt
as to just how the building will be
,remodeled. 1--WE have been requested
to consider an auditorium, and will
|embody this in our instructions to
the architect, Mr.. Peter Beckenbach
la member Of the committee, stated
this morning eve have met num-
Der of prospective Office tenants and
ARE sure We will have no trouble in
Idisposing of every Office for which
we arrange in the new building"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-05-07

We can't withhold pity from the
fellow. who has no social position and
is afraid he will lose It.
Chicago had cleanup day" yes
terday. All the schools dismissed
and 250.O00 children joined in the
crusade against dirt. Streets, alleys.
yards, parks and courts were swept,
and last night Chicago was hidden
under the blaze Of bonfires. There
are some things, even in Chicago,
worthy of emulation. We should be
a trihe afraid personally to tackle
some of Paducah's alleys. If the
board of public works feels that II
has no money to burn, dislnfectlng
|alleys, one Of our civic organizations
might institute a cleaning up day
and we could burn some of the
trash.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-05-07
She Couldn,t Help It.

One Of the brightest and incest lit
tie patients in the surgical ward oi
one OF the city hospitals lay on her
bed moaning with pain, says the Bos-
ton Post. She had just come to con
sciousness after sight operation
and though only years. old. was ex-
hibiting heroic nerve.
Yet she couldn't Keep from occa-
sional low cries escaping her. She wa.
the sort of child who hates above al
things to give trouble, and when one
of the nurses stopped before her and
as she thought. looked a bit re-
proachEul down at her. she explained,
between the paroxyisms with a pitiful
little smile:
ooh. Miss Smith.sI can't help it. ]
can't help 1t! I'm not used to oper-
atoms"
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-05-07

Senator Bacon recently told his col
leagues the following story about an
old Georgia negro who was notorious
for his chicken stealing but who, after
having been persuaded to attend a
religious revival, had expressed his
desire to live a better life, and was
called to be questioned.
"Well. 'Rastus," said the revival
lst, 81 hope you are now prepared to
live a Christian life in accordance
with rules of the church. Have you
been stealing any chickens lately?"
"No, sahl l amt stole no chicken
OBJ late"
"Haye you stolen any turkeys or
pigs, them"
'Rastus looked grieved when he re
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-05-07
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

Palmer. e. Brock, Greenfield
Tenn; ]. R. Nelson. Cincinnati; D
e. Penick, Union city. Tenn; w. H
Euler. louisville; 2. T. Pope. India
napolis; G. NJ. Green, Nashville; s
B. Levy, Atlanta; w. G. Orr. St
Louis; j. M. McCandless, Memphis;
A. F. Blaess, Louisville; Robert Hall
New York; c. G. Beale, Evansville;
A. S. Warwick, Columbus, o.
Belvedere-R. M. Mounce. Brook
port; A. v. Baisden, Atlanta; G. H
Smalley, Chicago; C. NJ. Carney, Cir
cinnati; ]. P. Hanlon, indianapolis;
S. L. Links, Louisville; A. j. Ransom
Buffalo; L. Stranger, Cincinnati.
New Richmond. F. Heath
Birmingham; Chris Haralambe. Mem
phis; ]. B. Williams, Burdette; H. B
Mitchell, Golconda, ILL.,; Joseph
Frankel, Louisville; Mrs. James
Walker. Mound City; ]. B. Newburch
Kenneth. Mo-; ], r. covington, Me-
tropolis; ]. w. Davis, Brookport; s
L. Dale, Kevil; w. B. Fort. Birming-
ham; R. NJ. Longworth. Memphis.
st. Nicholas-Mrs. r. Orm, Car.
terville. ILL.,; E. F. Holmes. Hender'
son; e. L. Parker. Howell; r. A. AID.
ans. Clay; John C. Griffin, Dycus-
burg; Silas Manus, Dycusburg; Boil
Trousdall, Paris; Lester Bead, Paris,
Charles Pember, symsonia; r. S
Schisler, Emporia, Va; J. NJ. Munal
Metropolis; w. c. Quinn, Johnston
City, III
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-05-07
TAFT ANp HIs FRrENps.

Secretary of War william Taft is
in need of being rescued from his
friends. They-some of them-are
willing to jeopardize party interest,
party harmony and party prospects.
In an effort to saddle on local organ
izations the burden of his candidacy
before the occasion arises. In doing
this they are bringing his name into
disrepute as a disorganizer and sub
jecting him to criticism which he
does not deserve. Secretary Taft
would make an exceedingly strong
candidate for the presidency, but let
us do one thing at a time and in or
der. We are not considering a pres
idential race just now, but a guber-
Material race.
The Louisville Evening Post,
which has but recently shaken off
its Democratic ties and declares it.
self free from the yoke of party
afIiliation, is behind a movement in
Louisville TO secure for Secretary
Taft the Endorsement of the state
convention. That is wrong. and the
Louisville Post has not now and
never had at heart the interest of
the Republican party. It has not
even at heart the welfare of the
country. It's editor, with character
istc audacity, is simply pinning his
faith to the Taft candidacy, hoping
thereby II luck is with him. to be
father to a movement. that will put
the paper at the head of the local
Republican organization as its organ.
and place the editor In command
ing position under the national ad-
minlstration.
Secretary Taft has a strong fol-
lowing in Kentucky, and the national
administration is as popular as ever.
The latter Will be Endorsed by the
state convention heartily and unan-
imously: but not Secretary Taft as a
presidential candidate, nor any other
man. There may be Republicans in
Kentucky who prefer Fairbanks for
president. or Root. or one of half
dozen other favorite sons. They
have just as much right to their
choice, as have the Taft men, and the
Taft men have no right to go into a
state convention called for the sole
purpose of nominating candidates
for state Office. and representing no
body's sentiments but their own as
TO the presidential choice. and cram
Taft resolution down the throats
of the other delegates.
Let the presidency alone. and let
us all unite in choosing a winning
ticket for next fall That will aid
us in making our demands far
voice IN the selection Of the next
president Of some force. Friends Of
Secretary Taft. vice-President Fair
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-05-07
Modern squaws.
(Leslie's Weekly.)


II the woman of the Twentieth
century is going to give the greater
part of her waking hours to unnec-
essary care of her body, she sinks
to the level of the Indian squaws, who
were the pets of the great chiefs hun
|dreds of years ago. The squaws were
oiled and painted and overhung with
sharks teeth and wampum they
had rings on their fingers and bells
on their toes. WHAT real differences
are there between those fine ladies
Of today? And yet there echo in the
ears of the modern woman the cry
of the tenement mouse, the cry of the
child laborer, the cry of all the press
ing, unsolved problems of the home
and of the world-the cry of her own
immortal soul the while she daw-
dies over her silly face and grimaces
before mirrorl The squaw was the
nobler woman of the two. At least
she ''lived up to her lights" The
whole "beautification" enterprise is
deMsive. the woman who scrupu-
lousy regards neatness, who OBJ
serves the laws of health, who does
the duty of each day as though 1t
might be her last, and then gives
her best efforts to making her world
better and happier, without much
considering her own complexion II
that woman is not only admirable for
her character, but she is also likely
to be far better looking than her
be-laced, over-dressed, powdered.
rouged, created" massaged and
over-manipulated sister.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-05-07

While his parents, carried away by
the dramatic possibilities of the sit.
uation. had hired detectives securing
the country in search of his supposed
abductors. little Horace Marvin, OF
Dover. Delaware. lay in cold swamp
until he slowly starved to death a
few rods from his home II they had
just considered of the natural theory
to account for the lads absence
but what might have BEEN is cru
lei subject.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-05-07
ReIntions Arc BROKEN ON.

Washington. May t. Although
telegraph wires have not brought to
Washington the actual news of the
severance of diplomatic relations OF
Guatemala and Mexico, officials here
have no doubt that Mexico took the
action today that will result in Civ
ing to the Guatemalan minister In
Mexico passports for his withdrawal
The Mexican minister in Guatemala is
now preparing to return home.
The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-05-07
TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION.
Human and Bovine Causes Consider
ed at Washington.

Washington. May L. Tuberculo-
sis infection from bovine and other
germs versus. infection through hui
man germs was discussed at length
today. At the meeting of the national
association for the study and proven
ton of tuberculosis, in third annual
session here. The question was not
settled, and the proposition was
mooted of appointing committee to
continue their study of that subject
Several papers were read and a gen.
eral discussion followed each.