The National tribune., 1908-10-15

wealth, cannot enter there The Kip.
lings, whose home is in a quiet Surrey
village. have been seen much in these
London drawing rooms lately, which
has led to the suspicion that that vigor-
Gus and versatile genius may be con
templating a novel on English society
Our dapper, would-be- mannish little
friend, DR.. Mary Walker, whose ex
tremely slender figure in it's neat man.
suit, jauntily swinging her cane as she
walked, was once a familiar sight OF
the streets of Washington, appeared il
the Capital City during the convention
of the General Federation of Women:
Clubs. who are taking up the figh
lagainst tuberculosis. DR.. Mary says tha
tobacco is the cause of tuberculosis, and
that she knows what she is talking
about, because she has studied the sub.
ject from A to z. Having but few
brains, she modestly affirms, she knows
where to find them when she wants tC
use them, and she has made good use
| of them in going to the bottom of this
all-important subject. DR.. Mary also
says that there is absolutely nothing in
the theory that tuberculosis is conta-
gious. absolutely nothing.
Prince Ferdinand, whose recent couu
d'etat in declaring Bulgaria independ-
| ent and entirely free from even the
| SilduOW- VI IuThlSn RUE, lids tIFOWL
| Europe In state of intense excitement
has been a widower for nine years, with
four little children on his hands to look
after in addition to his other cares; that
is. he was presumably settled wild
over until his frien1, the Grand Duch-
ess Vladimir, of Russia, took him in
hand year ago, declaring he certainly
ought to marry again, and that she
would find wife for him. The Prince,
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Louis Philippe, is 40 years cs age, and
married the eldest daughter of the
| Duke of Palma for his first wife, who
| lived only six years after, leaving him
at her death the care of their four little
children, the Oldest of whom was just
| five years old. The Grand Duchess
Vladimir is a great beauty, very fasci-
| mating and clever, a thoro woman of
the world. an inveterate smoker and
gambler, etc, and has been not little
talked about for her utter disregard of
the conventions. Gay ard worldly as
she appeared, however, she had deep
and sincere admiration and affec-
ton for her serious minded, deep
|ly religious friend and cousin,
Princess Eleanor Of ,Reuss, whose
splendid work as q Red Cross nurse
remembered by many. Princess Eleanor,
a pleasant-faced, but quite plain middle
aged spinster was devoting her life to
good works, having given up all thought
Of marriage. Every little while, usually
when the gay Duchess was obliged to
take rest from her social dissipations.
she would induce her friend, Princess
Eleanor, to come to st. Petersburg to
make her little visit, and the whole
character of the Duchess seemed to
change when with this serious, noble
minded woman, in whose plans for do
ing good she took the liveliest interest
1t was, indeed, thru her influence that
the Duchess organized, equipped and
dispatched q Red Cross train to Man.
churia at the outset of the Russian war,
with Princess Eleanor in charge of this
hospital on wheels. Thruout the entire
war the Princess lived on board this
train, becoming "Sister Eleanor" to the
sick and wounded men she nursed with
tender sympathy day and night. The
Red Cross flag only preserved the train
from capture, which many times was so
near the front as to have its windows
shattered by flying bullets. Upon Prin-
cess Eleanor's return to Russia after
the war she was overwhelmed with ex-
pressions of gratitude and praise, and
has been an object of universal love and
respect ever since, not only with the inn
perial family, but with all Russian So
ciety. When. therefore, the Grand
Duchess Vladimir, while visiting Ferdi-
nand at Sofia year ago, told the
Prince, between puffs of the cigaret held
daintily in her jeweled fingers, that he
simply must marry again, If only on
account of his children. she thought
almost at once Of Princess Eleanor. So
well did she manage the affair that, as
all the world knows, Prince Ferdinand
and Princess Eleanor of Reuss were
married last March. ~
Evelyn Thaw says that all stories
about the Thaws having settled any
sum of money on her are utterly false,
and that her husband, Harry Thaw, has
not contributed penny towards her
support for two months. Mrs. Thaw,
Sr., did write and sign an agreement
giving Evelyn a lump sum and a GER
tain income for life, provided she would
consent to an annulment of her mar.
riaeTe, but as soon as the annulment
papers were signed by young Mrs. Thaw
the elder woman seemed to forget all
about her promise, consequently the
counsel of the former Immediately with
drew the suit. Evelyn says Thaw's
mental condition is what it has always
been and always will be, that the real
cause of his insanity has not yet been
made public. Evelyn without money,
and Thaw unable to get his freedom,
1t looks as IL they were beginning to
realize little bit that the way of the
transgressor is hard-sometimes
In addition to the many other sue
cessful business ventures of Cassie
Chadwick, she is now said to have
swindled Uncle Sam out of more than
s1,000,000 in duties by smuggling dia-
monds and other precious stones into
the country. In the hey-day of her
prosperity, when she was giving away
pianos, etc., to her friends for Christ
mas presents, she went abroad every
Summer, presumably for pleasure, al
ways accompanied by her son and
daughter. 1t seems she really went to
hunt up and bring back rich jewels.
which she sold to her special clients in
America, especially those in Pittsburg
and Cleveland. So cleverly did she
manage to leave and board steamers
that even after she was suspected 1t
took some time to catch her. She IS
supposed to have smuggled successfully
into the country about 100000 worth
of jewelry during her checkered career,
and goodness knows how much she
made on them. AS more becomes
known of this really wonderful adven-
turess and her remarkable success in
getting money, the more one wonders
that she didn't manage, even uninten-
tionally, to get neat little fortune
tucked away in some safe investment,
but apparently she spent every penny
of the immense sums which her wo-
mans wit extracted from a credulous
public.
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