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Such a Disappointment.
GOV. HUGHES of New York. in a re
" cent discussion of corrupt politics

GOV. HUGHES Of New York. in re-
" cent discussion of corrupt politics.
said:
Corrupt politics fail in the end. From
the beginning of time they have failed
invariably. He who hopes for lasting sue
cess from them will be disappointed like
But listen.
~ friend Of mine. touring in Scotland.
discovered young Scot under the seat
of his railway carriage. He assured the
youth in kindly tones that he would not
betray him. and added:
Are you going all the way to Glas-
gow?"
Before any reply could be made a sec
ond stowaway crawled from under the
opposite seat, and. swearing voiubly.
rushed with his friend from the COM
partment.
ut seems, after all their trouble, that
the two young men had taken the wrong
train"
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Modest Dragging.

A REPORTER congratulated George
AIDE upon his retiring modesty-
Take care" said the humorist, "or 1
shall commit the erro of bcasting about
my modesty. like Taylor of Chicago.
Taylor got on the subject of modesty
one night at the Press Club.
Practically all acts of charity said
he. are performed out of vanity. Mod
est charity Is very rare. yet II is the
only sort that counts, you know. with
the-er-recording angel. Ell? I remem-
Der once, motoring in the east. 1 came
to a small town that had suffered from
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"American Husband Best"

DR. c. F. AKED. in a sermon on
l. "Chivalry" at the Fifth Avenue Bap-
fist Church, said:
I'm America we find less than in any
other country in the world the man max
ing a slave of the woman-thinking that
the whole Of life centers about himself.
The American husband is the ideal hus-
band or the world, and the husbands of
the old world may we'll sit at his feet.
Later. at a dinner. DR.. Aked continued
his praise Of the American husband.
The old world husband he said. lis
too apt to resemble John Henry Vigors
Of Liverpool.
'Vigors complained one night at supper
that the tea was weak, the meat tough,
the potatoes soggy, and SO forth.
His wife, at last, burst into tears
John vigors.' she cried, Il have
cooked faithfully for you for seventeen
years. My one thought has been to
please you. There's not a man in Liver.
pool has better cooked food than you
And this is all the thanks get-growlings
and complaints, growlings and complaints.
day after day. Why can't you praise me
once in a while?'
You are the most unreasonable wom-
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Two Pictures.

MISS MARY GARDEN, the prima
AVA donna. praised. on the eve of her
departure for Europe, the new school Of
opera-the school of THAT'S "Salome'
and "Herodiade."
I'm these works. said she. 1.-THE char
acters live; they are me- mere singing
puppets And these works must be acted
as well as sung.
In fact" she concluded, the modern
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a flood. In the empty post office there
was Il contribution box for the flood
sufferers. Not IA soul was about No
body saw me knew ne. 1 pushed a
twenty-dOllar bill into the box and
slipped away unseen. And that act, l
claim-that modest act of charity-was
worth more than these acts. involving
many thousands. which are made on
public subscription lists, to the loud
fanfare of trumpets"
Taylor paused and relighted his ci-
gar. His companion said:
"'Quite right. Yours was genuine
modest charity. Taylor. No wonder you
brag about it,
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The Roast.
MFRS. ARCHBOLD SACINDERSON "
4X& desc rihinq in Now York her

MFRS. ARCHBOLD SAUNDERSON was
AVA describing in New York her big
game hunts in South Africa.
Don't judge woman by her looks"
said she. The most ethereal appearing
girl may be able to bring down an ele-
plant or lion.
ITO judge woman by her looks is to
court error. ] know man who, while
carving at a dinner. wished to say some
thing that would please the pale, deep
eyed. spirituelle girl at his side.
How do you like Maeterlinck?' he at
last inquired.
Well DONE she answered, not once
lifting her eyes from the great roast he
was working on.
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Nc

KTARCHIONESS Nc
N4 LAUGHLIN of Brook
lyn the Latest-Her Hus-
band Once a Rope Maker
and a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Maloney, Former Plumber
His Wife a Marchioness-
Countess Annie Leary of
New York-1s a Settlement
Worker in Little Italy,
Count Reginald Ward of
New York-Has Received
Orders From Many Crowned
Heads - Now Roumanian
Consul General in London
Calls Himself Lord of the
Manor of North Scarl"-Sad
History of His Wife and the
Blight Which Rested on Her
Family Son of Westing-
house, the Airbrake Mag
nate. an Italian Count-Al-
bert K. Fairfax, Native of
Maryland, Now Recognized
as a British Lord - His
Father a Southern Country
Doctor of the Uncle Sam
Type.
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10 make the step Shorter. QUICKER. The
orchestra, strangeIy enthuseu: llays the
music lastei ne oaliaua singers al!
uncohsclouslS, iet themselves loose ana
gGt INTO the iloVelien,'
Rounu anu IouHu .hey wnirl at the
court OF inc aiois, IN penoemon1um
Vi gay etS-'uS "aIt| tnS waltz
Ihen crash-anu oarkness! and two
centuries must pass III france pefore
tne "ai.z IS oroush' oach py the ar
MES OF Ndpoleoil.
IN between. however. we are given
poetic snnipses OF us supposed eVolu-
lloh IypeieS 'ake IT'S vague beginnings
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opera excels the old as the modern trained
nurse excels the old-fashioned one.
My physician told me the other day
how he had called in the morning at a
house where the nurse. young and mod
ern. gave him every detail of her patients
night-temperature and pulse every hour,
respiration and what not.
"At the next house the nurse was one
of your motherly. kindly. old-fashioned
types.
'"'Well, nurse said the physician here.
how did our patient sleep?'
oh said the nurse, she must have
slept fine. She didn't wake me once"
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Parable for Suffrauettes.

MRS. HUMPHREY WARD is against
Iva votes for women. She has joined
in London an anti-suffrage league. In a
circular letter she says:
1.-The league promoters consider that
each sex is a sphere as important as the
other, and they earnestly deprecate the
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DeIicateIy Put.

THE late Peter F. Daley. at a din
i ner In New York. was talking
about Philadelphia friend.
What family has our friend Gus got
by this timer" some one asked.
Well" said Mr.. Daley, Gus can find
his way to the registry Of births Office
blindfold now"
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able establishment in FulweI Park.
Twickenham, London. in which city he
conducts brokerage business.
His wife. who divorced him in 1908.
shared generously in a strange i'll fate
which overhung her family for several
generations. Her paternal grandfather
married Miss Reed on what was sup
posed to be her deathbed, but she re-
gained her health and bore him several
children. While she was suffering from
a fit of insanity she threw her three little
sons out of window, and while two OF
them were thus killed. the third. Mrs.
father as president of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad. Before his death,
however his wife sued to have him de-
clared incompetent to manage his estate.
and after she lost this suit she lived
abroad. The daughter four months after
divorcing Count Ward. married Nathaniel
Gibbs Ingraham who In little more
than a year sued her for failure to carry
out an alleged ante-nuptial agreement to
pay him 81 800 year. This suit is said
to have been settled out of court, and two
years ago this unhappy lady died Of con-
sumption in Scotland.
1t was lately reported that Mrs. George
WESTINGHOUSE. wife of the airbrake mag
nate. had bought for their only son the
Italian title of count. under which he is
presented at the courts of Europe. al
though not making use Of 1t in this coun-
try All of this is not at all improbable,
those of ancient lineage. and others. who.
having bought estates, take the titles be-
longing to them.
Marylander May Sit in Lords.
Overshadowing all of these cases. how
ever, is that of Albert Kirby Fairfax, for
merly of Prince George county, Mary
land. who calls himself twelfth Baron
Fairfax of Cameron. i'm the peerage of
Scotland" and who is spoken of as Lord
Fairfax by his associates in the New
York brokerage firm of which he is
partner. Indeed. this peerage is his by
right of blood, he has for some years
been received in English society as a
lord and he is included in Whittaker's
list of the peerage. Although his claims
have never been questioned in England
the king. complying with a. formality
necessary for the legal use of the title. re-
ferred to the house Of lords few weeks
ago the petition 'tof Albert Kirby Fair
fax. claiming to be Lord Fairfax of Cam
eron, in the peerage of Scotland. that
his majesty will cause his right to the
title and dignity of Lord Fairfax of Cam
eron to be declared and established.
But Baron Fairfax of Cameron. and
likewise of Maryland. will not upon this
confirmation OF his title have right to
seat IN the house of lords until he can be
elected from Scotland in the same way
that Lord CurZon was recently elected
from Ireland.
This young man, who celebrated his
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creatures clogs. jigs hornr pes and
sand dances in variety through a whole
year.

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sand dances in variety through a whole
year.
BY this time the Young American had
caught the Paris fever. At first his pri-
vate pupils were professionals. like
Otero. cleo de Merode Muria and Guer-
zero. Then came Paris dancing masters
to learn TO teach the Newport. the
waltz lancers. the Washington and
particularly the Boston already danced
and talked of by the Americans OF the
colony.
They did not know that they were
learning from at least a part inventor
OF the Boston. Children Of the English
and American colonies found IL out
first and brought their parents. Then
the French PILED in. until today all the
swell youth Of Paris has passed through
the hands of Washington Lopp. from
the children of the Baronne Alphonse
dc RothschiId to those of the late
Casimir- Perier: from the young Ouch
esse dies to the Princess Colonnas.
the Duchess de Grammonts, tie Prin-
cesse de Migrants.
Washington Lopp is today proprie-
tor of the million dollar Washington
palace. on the Champs Elysees where
come Off nightly some OF the SWEETEST
functions of the capital
Rich French. Americans and English
rent the palace complete. for ball.
with its vast dance floor. supper hall.
its many salons. dressing rooms and
ultra modern Kitchens And while II
prise to get the advertising OF the
operas waltz centennial. NJ. Messenger
swears he will put in tho Boston dip
and the historic San Diego incident,
which all Partisan society believes in.
Thus another American. Russ Walker.
is to have eternal fame.
The Boston as danced in Paris So
ciety." says Mr. Lopp. in a recent inter-
view lis not the Boston Dip OF course
When quite young fellow / ran on
and joined a minstrel troupe At san
Diego. where IL stranded. i set up a
dancing class. and there wei and my
pupils-evolved the Boston as j have
taught IT in Paris.
The original idea" he continues, Il
had received from a friend of mine.
Russ Walker. a dancing master of Bos-
ton. He had written the Boston dip.
which attained much popularity in GER
tain circles. They took long dip
during two measures. in which the
dancers almost touched the floor. then
waltzed and repeated the dip ad libi-
tum. I saw that 1t had great possibili-
ties, but that Ii must be materially
changed for a dance OF society.
First the step was made longer. Then.
instead of dancing IL round. they danced
IL forward and back. The Paris Dos
ton" therefore. must be described as a
waltz that Is danced forward and back
ward. in turning very little-a pendu-
lum-like movement. which, If exagger-
ated, becomes vulgar.
But that is its arstocratic feature.
exclaims NJ. Messenger. enthusiastic of II.
The Paris Boston is a touchstone OF
refinement Those who exaggerate 1t
betray their innate vulgarity." 80
Which is exactly what Lord Byron
said ot the round and round waltz
without reversing-round and round
away back In 1903, a hundred years
ago this year!
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IMarCh1QneSS -AcLaughl1n.
Europe. The King of Portugal decorated
him with the grand Cross of the Royal
Order of Villa Vicasa and made him
knight commander of the Order of Christie
while the King of Spain made him
knight grand commander of the Royal
and Distinguished Order of Carlos III.
and he also got coronation medal from
Alfonzo XIII. The Shah of Persia consti-
tuted him grand officer of the Imperial
Order of the Lion and the Sun. and the
King of Servia invested him with the
titles of grand officer of the Order of ST.
Sava and knight commander of the Order
of Takavo. He also received a coronation
medal from the King of Roumania. who
now has him under commission in Lon
don as consul general Besides all of these
titles he is member of our Order of .the
Cincinnati. the Military Order of Foreign
Wars and the Society OF Mayf1ower De-
scendants.
IN the British "Whos Who he calls
himself Lord of the Manor of North
Scarle. Lincolnshire" He belongs to the
Wellington Club of Bath and the Travel
ers' Club of Paris: is an enthusiastic
motOrist and maintains quite a fashion,
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Copyright 1908. by John Elfreth Watkins)
yHAT Americans laundering for
titles of nobility can now obtain
them without Drawing the perils
of international marriage, and
even without renouncing their
citizenship here, appears not to be fully
realized by the public. While the Con-
stitution forbids any federal off1ceholder's
receiving title from any king. prince
or foreign state without the consent of
Congress-which never in the world would
be given in the case of title of nobility
citizens in private life can become counts
countesses. marquises. warehouses; and
what not ad libitum provided they pos
sess the eclat or the money, particularly
the latter.
Mrs. Hugh Mclaughlin. the Brooklyn
woman made marchioness the other
day by the pope. is the fifth American to
have recently received title of nobility
from the vatican. Had he lived the title
of marquis would have been conferred
probably at the same time upon her hus-
band. the late Hugh Mclaughlin.
hS for IF sSok Ths faas has
he began life as ropemaker and
was later a fishmonger would have
had no effect with the present democratic
pope. whose DrOtner IS a letteT carrier
and whose sister is the wife of a wineshop
keeper. Mr.. Mclaughlin became a rich
promoter and was one of those who
pushed through the scheme for the Brook
lyn bridge. He was also one of the
founders OF st. Mary's Hospital In
Brooklyn. where he aided the newsboys
home and subscribed generously toward
the building g. st. James PrO-Cathedrai'
which he also presented with marble
altar costing $4,000.
The new marchioness married him just
after he left his position as master
mechanic in the Brooklyn navy yard
to become register of Kings county. she
was Ellen Reyes of Newton. n. j.. and
before her conversion to Catholicism was
a member of the Dutch Reformed Church
Since her husbands death she has carried
out his generous charities and recently
when Bishop Mcdonnell led pilgrimage
of Brooklyntes TO Rome he reported her
generosity to the pope, with the result
that now. at the age of seventy-eight she
becomes maychoness and a member or
the papal court.
American Marquis Former Plumber.
Another American marchioness Is the
wife of Martin Maloney. the Philadelphia
gas magnate, who is himself marquis.
both of their titles having been conferred
by the present pope in reward for gener-
Gus Catholic charities; and in this case
for Martin Maloney. who was born In
Ireland. began life as a plumber ana gas
filter. But in America plumber IS an
autocrat of autOcratS-a much more Tor
midable parsonage than even a marquis
and Mr.. Maloney has not allowed his new
title to turn his head. He does not pub
lish it in the biographical gazetteers
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Marquis and Marchioness Malone.

Marquis and Marchioness Maloney.
GRAFTON. and after she has worked them
through her kindergarten and primary
courses she is going to institute high
school and later university, where
degrees will be given in science, medi-
cine, law and other branches of learning.
Pope Leo also made a count of Reginald
Henshaw Ward. formerly of New York.
tho great-great-grandson of Artemus
Ward, who was first major general of the
continental army during the revolution.
When Reginald Ward was still in his
twenties he prosperous broker in
Wall street. and his first foreign connec-
ton was when he became acting Rou-
manian consul in New York. Later he
gave up his American interests and went
to London. soon afterward receiving the
title of count from the Vatican. In 1889
he had married Miss Edyth, daughter OF
Horatio Victor Newcomb. a New York
capitalist. formerly of Louisville. In
London Count Ward and his young wife
were intimates of Mrs. Ronalds the
Countess Romney Lady Randolph
Churchill and AIRS. Arthur Paget. Soon
the, count had heaped upon him decora-
lions from many of the crown heads of
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"A dance. ' '"'S
1t was gay and audacous:
SO novel in both step and tempo: so en-
thusing and heart-melting that the armies
of Napoleon almost forgot fighting while
they learned it,
1t was danced by couples
The man took his partner by the waist.
while she chung to his shoulder. The two
other arms were held outstretched. hand
always clasping hand. And round and
round the couples whirled to music with
a strange new lit. dangerous and agi-
tated soothing and exciting sentimental
diabolical,
Now, that is dancing" said the SOL
diers Of Napoleon, and they took it with
them, taught the conquered nations as
full compensation and in 1905 they brought
the waltz to Paris.
Thus the world has waltzed 100 years.
This year is the centennial of waltzing.
and in Paris we are to have a grandiose
celebration of 1t at the opera.
OF course. there are French patriots no
more willing to give complete credit for
the waltz to German peasants than, for
instance. those of Boston will be to admit
the Boston had its rise in San Diego,
Cal
According to such-and with them
Charles Malherbe. archivist of the Paris
Grand Opera-the waltz is old French-so
ancient that it got forgotten!
'1n the twelfth century, says the
learned Malherbe, 1.-The waltz was known
in Provence and called the volta. Then
it was not only danced, but sung while
dancing. and the song was called the
ballada.
Under Louis XII (year 1900 the volta
was brought to Paris. where 1t remained
in vogue at the court all through the
sixteenth century. Would we recognize it
as the waltz? Though slow and pompous.
with much of the minuet about it. it was
certainly in waltz time
All the same. this volta waltz was so
forgotten away back in the year 1000 that
anly savants like Malherbe can dig up
vestiges of Its music; and the world went
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an ever saw he said, coldly- Many
and many a time I've sat down TO meal
and never said a word about II from start
to finish Wasn't that enough of COM
pliment for you? Don't you know per-
fectly we'll that if there had been the
least little bit of a thing to find fault
with Id have found il?
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on 200 years completely ignorant Of II.
Imperial waltz, imported from the Rhine.
Famed for the growth Of pedigrees and wine. 81

So sung Lord Byron just 100 years ago
while they were cabaling for and against
the new dance in the gay French capital;
and no better evidence of its utter nov
city could be asked than the outcry that
started up spontaneously against It's sup
posed improperly. For a month the fate
of the waltz again trembled in the bal
ance. when
gentle Genlis. in her strife with stael.
Would prescribe 1t from Paris ball,''
Which. of course seems now absurd and
scarcely understandable.
To understand that strife and the extra
ordinary animus of Byron's 'Ode to the
Waltz" we must remember that nothing
resembling its positions and movements
were then known in the European CAPT
tails.
To hold ones partner by the waist
seemed utterly audacious. while to keen
a grip on her hand all the time induced
the great poet to exclaim:
"Can aueht from cold Kamchatka to Cane Horn
With waltz compare or after waltz be boFn:
Evidently yes: but they did not know It,.
The maZourka wild sort of cOtil1on.
having something Of both waltz and
polka was already being danced in re-
mote parts of Europe by the Poles. Hun
garians and Czechs.
The schottische was to he introduced
into Paris considerably later about 1870.
And the polka itself, coming from Bo-
hernia by way of Vienna and Baden. was
to take Paris and London by storm in
1874
The extraordinary thing about the waltz
was that it came before them.
All this and vast lot more will be told
in a splendid waltz ballet on the boards
of the Paris Grand Opera. where the ia
nous Messenger is now director.
Messenger is a great enough composer to
be freely permitted-for a centennial cele
bration like this-to take his waltz mate
rial from all the great composers. And
what rich material!
"Of all dance music" says Malherbe.
1.-The waltz. by reason of it's elegant. ami
able and relatively passionate nature. Is
almost alone in approaching what we
may call great music-permitting the
composer to give free scope to his learn
ing and genius. So the greatest-Mozart,
Chopin, Weber ct al.-cultivated the waltz
gladly; and Webers Invitation to the
Dance may indeed be put down as the
epoch-marking composition of our actual
waltz
So. in Messengers forthcoming centen-
NAL production Won Webers Invitation
to the Dance" is to have almost religious
honors done it in the elimination of the
second act. where the waltz. reborn hum
bly, among German peasants. frightened
by wars. yet gently conquering invading
armies. finds her way to the court of
Wurttemberg, to be recognized a god
dess.
The new waltz story-honoring all
great waltz composers-is admittedly
built up upon the 'Tans-Maerchen" and
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W7ALTZING 100 Years
w Old - Its Centennial
To Be Celebrated by Paris
Grand Opera-The Dance
of Humble German Peas
ants - Conquered Europe
With Napoleon-Lost Dip
at San Diego and Is Taught
to Paris Society by an Ameri-
can.
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the love
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PARIS. June "a. 1908.
zee Of The Star.

4 HUNDRED years ago the armies
~ of Napoleon found the peasants
- of Thuringia dancing a new
L ~ dance.
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Copyright 1908. by John Elfreth Watkins.)
HAT Americans laundering for
titles of nobility can now obtain
them without Drawing the perils
II of international marriage, and
even without renouncing their