The sun., 1908-12-20

advertisement given by photographs ana
tho prsss nowadays TO ye.ing actresses;
thirdly, the fact that the girls are clever
enough TO desire and insist on marriage.
and lastly. the want Of attraction OF girls
in English society.
The latter. Lady Violet says. do not lay
themselves out TO please men as they
used; they are too engrossed In their own
am,,sements and games 10 care. and they
associate 50 much en- cdindrdde with their
rpale friends that the glamour. the mys-
terry. which is carefully cherished by the
stage. has disappeared.
All women have votes at the village Of
Korisowa In the north of Hungary. The
reason for this is that there are no men
left TO dispute their right.
The male population has gradually
emf grated to America TO seek their for
tunes, says the Vienna Tagbiah. The
last to leave was the Mayor. The women
thereupon elected good looking girl
of "a as their chief magistrate, and also
appointed a woman town clerk and a
council Of two.
How this Adamless Eden will progress
under feminine rule Is a matter which is
watched with keen curiosity by the neigh
boring villages.
This year, although unoompleted. al
ready holds the record for suicides among
school children in Germany. Wedekind,
the dramatist, attributes the increase to
the force Of example. and says in oonfrma-
tion that the publication OF the "Sorrows
of Werther" led to an epidemic OF self
destruction.
Oficial figures are published showing
| that In Prussia from 1880 TO 1908 the aver
age number of suicides or attempts at
suicide among pupils 6f the higher schools
was fourteen a year, and since then the
figures have steadily increased. with the
exception of 1904. when only nine cases
were reported. In 1905 there were eigh-
teen cases. in 1905 sixteen, In 1907 twenty,
and in eleven months of this year the
number has already risen to twenty
three.
At Dresden there has been an extraor-
dinary sequel to the Beier murder case.
Crete Beisr, aged 20, was executed for
the murder of her fiance. whom she shot
after having attempted TO poison him.
The tomb Of the criminal has become the
object of strange species of worship.
Wreaths are frequently deposited upon
the grave, to which every Sunday women
belonging to the best society Of Dresden
resort to pray. Last Sunday the crowd
was so great that the police were COM
pelled to take special precautions, and
now access to the cemetery is forbidden
to such visitors.
A Vienna magistrate has been called
upon to decide whether kissing in the
street is an offence against public moral
ity.
| Arnold Schmidt, university student,
was taking a fond leave OF his sweet
heart at the door of her house. This 90
shocked clerk who saw the embrace
that he complained to the police, and
Schmidt was arrested for a breach Of
the public morals, =
He pleaded In court that his kiss was q
token Of respect TO theanaidsn. An-el-
derby spinster living inSthe house oppo-
site, who had been an Involuntary wit.
ness Of the scene. told the magistfate
amid much laughter that che indignantly
withdrew from the window at once, be-
cause. she said. kissing was not es-
thetic.'
The Court. after much deliberation
dismissed the case. holding that kissing
was no transgression Of common morals.
The chief of the sanitary department
OF the city Of st. Petersburg got Q sur,
prise the other day when one Of his best
| friends. a young man named Vladimir
Niedochin, walked in and asked for a
job as street scavenger. The official
thought Vladimir was joking. but the
man was in dead earnest and explained
his case.
Continued on Tvefh Pdge.