Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-01

indication of the temperament and
tastes of this gracious queen.
She was born Princess Elizabeth of
Wied, and is now in the stately white
glory of 65 years. She married King
Charles of Roumania in 1869.
She is an honorary doctor of the uni
versities of Budapest and st. Peters
burg, but that is merely incidental She
is probably prouder of her ability as
weaver.
Miss Elizabeth M. Kilbourne of Win
sted, Conn.,, claims to be the first
woman who ever took stitch on the
sewing machine. She was formerly a
teacher in Hartford, where she visited
Elias Howe's shop and was given
chance to try his new invention.
BY the will of the late Baroness
Adolphe de Rothschild, which has just
been published, legacies have been left
amounting to a sum of over 81, 500, 900.
Hardly anything in the way of a char
table society has been forgotten. Thus
100000 goes to the Society for Re-
leased Female Prisoners from st. La
zare Prison, $1,000 to the committee
of the charitable employment fund and
100000 to the committee of the Jewish
benevolent fund.
AS an exemplary housewife and
IlOlIleF lIle GeIiIld1 eIIlpI6SS, AuSuStt
Victoria, has no equal among royal
parents. Her children and her home
duties. are as important as though She
had no other interests, and her first
thought is always for her family.
Not only as a mother, but as COM
panion, has she kept the condolences OF
her children, for she has entered into
all their pleasures and sorrows and has
taken keen delight in their athletic
sports.
The empress is splendid horse
woman, and, when dressed in her regi-
mentals as colonel, she takes charge of
the Second Pomeranian Cuirassier regi-
ment. is an imposing figure.
May Yohe, VINO used to be Lady
Hope and then became the companion
or governess or what you will of Put
nam C'Rutty') Bradlee Strong, the one
time promising son of mayor of New
spent half a million dollars, easily, in
enjoying herself. is now doing
wretched sort of singing ''toin" at TO-
cent variety theater way downtown.
1 saw her there the other night. She's
a lined, scanned old woman, and looks
far from happy in her shabby stage
clothes.
The empress of Japan is essentially q
woman's woman. She is tremendously
interested in everything that pertains
to the social and industrial progress of
her countrywomen. She believes in the
higher education for women, and every
year she sends five or six of Japan's
clever girls to study in an American
university at her own expense. She
has just passed her fiftieth birthday
In addition to being at the head of the
Red Cross society of Japan the empress
is largely interested in educational mat
ters. Chief among these is the Peer
esses' school in Toxic, which the daugh-
ters of the nobility attend The court
ladies of Japan have all graduated from
this school, which is under the direct
patronage of the empress. The girls
of this school receive special training
in court life under the supervision or
the principal, who is a former member
of the Japanese court and especially
well fitted to coach the girls in the hnc
points of japanese court life.
The countess of Warwick announces
her intention of starting early next
year on lecturing tour of America,
the proceeds from which, as well as
the proceeds from her memoirs. which
she is now writing. will be devoted to
realizing my great ambition, owning
and editing a paper"