The National tribune., 1909-06-03

Dress candy and novel reading as any
others, are quite original and amusing.
A fad for trimming hats with natural
| flowers, either obtained from the florist
or gathered by their own pretty fingers
in the woods near Northampton, has
lately broken out in the college. Some
girl got hold of a 15-cent hat which she
bought in Amherst, only a short dis
tance from Northampton, and just for
fun she trimmed it with natural flowers
and appeared in it. 1t was so pretty
and becoming that Immediately those
! 15-cent hats, decorated in the afore-
mentioned manner, became the rage,
and the cars running between North
ampton and Amherst were crowded
daily with students going over to pur-
chase them. AS the prettiest wild flow
ers in the country grow in the woods
of that locality, it can easily be fmag-
| ined that some of the results are very
charming. p
High society in London and this coun-
try has been greatly excited of late over
the marked stamp of royal approval
which King Edward has bestowed upon
Lady Granard, formerly Miss Beatrice
Mills, D. o. Mills's granddaughter and
niece of Whitelaw Reid, who was mar
ried only few months ago. 1t seems
some English Lord on a public occasion
recently made some very diSparaging
remarks about Lady Granard, referring
| to her. as "a dumped American heiress
| fortunate enough to have secured
title" and the King resented this in
the most handsome manner. He made
! the Lord apologize, and he directed that
Lady Granard be invited to three din
ner parties where he was to be enter
| tanned. He has even gone further than
| this, for the other night King Edward
drove from Buckingham Palace very
quietly to the home of the GranardS
and dined with them privately, an honor
| of which very few American women
married to titled Englshmen can boast.
Consuelo Vanderbilt, with all her money
and the great name of Marlborough
which she bears, was never SO honorad,
and one wonders little why Edward
has picked out this particular young
American woman for so marked man.
| Hesitation of kingly favor. The King
has ever had an eye for feminine
charms, and 1t may be that the royal
preference has been somewhat affected
by the personal attractiveness ofyoung
Lady Granard.
The divorce case of the Frank Goulds
| has been carried on very quietly and
! decently, with all unpleasant details
kept carefully out of the papers, and
has now been decided in Mrs. Gould's
favor. She is once more a free woman,
with the right to resume her maiden
name il she so desires. and at liberty
to marry again after a stated period.
She is wealthy in her own right. and
did not ask for alimony-which makes
her case quite unique-but there is
nothing else unusual about it in any
way except the disposition of the chill
Edren. There are two of these, both lit
tie girls, Dorothy and Helen, aged four
and six respectively, and the arrange
ment which the court made for the
| future of these children is most COM
plicated. Hardly will they be settled at
mammals, with their dolls unpacked
and everything ready for a good time,
before they will be taken off to. papa's,
and so it will go till they are grown up.
For instance. on each alternate Friday
during December. January, February.
March and April Mrs. Gould has to send
the children to Mr.. Gould's home. while
j he returns them to her on the following
( Monday. Christmas Day is to be di-
vided between both parents evenly, and
from September to March neither par
ent can take the children more than
100 miles from New York City without
the consent of the other. There is lot
more quite as complicated as this,
which, perhaps, is necessary for play
fair, but which gives one a tired feeling
on account of the two little innocents.
There has been a good deal in the
papers lately about the planet Mars, and
several of our well-known college pro-
i1SSSOIS nave duNdHctu tHeOTlcS with re-
gard to establishing communication
with that distant world. One professor
thinks it could be done by a series of
mirrors, another by wireless telegraphy
etc. Prof. Todd, of Amherst, is a be-
lever in the wireless idea, and proposes
himself to test it. He will make an
ascension with the aeronaut. Leo Stew
ems, In his balloon in September, at the
time when Mars is supposed to be near
est the earth. They will go up as high
as possible. much higher than any bal
loon yet has gone, taking with them
wireless telegraphy instruments, and will
attempt to catch some message from
\ Mars, Venus or any other planet that
happens TO be hanging around at that
time. This learned and enterprising
gentleman admits, of course. that II
would not be possible for him to read
the message should he be fortunate
enough to catch one; but, then, he
thinks In time IL might be puzzled out,
and by learning the Mars code he would
be able after awhile to return the mes
sages, and actually communicate with
our neighbors of the sky world. Prof
Todd has put in a great many hours in
studying up about Mars, and he has a
lot OF interesting theories with regard
10 that planet. He thinks the Martians
are thousands of years beyond us in
progress, and that, among other things
they nave entirely mastered the mys-
+. teries of electricity. Someone else sI,g-
: gests that the meteors which every little
l while fall TO the earth may possibly be
something In the nature of letters or
: postal cards from our distant friends,
and that it would be a good idea to
split them open, and see If inside there
could be found anything which looked
like communication. Life grows more
interesting every day, and we of the
10th century. so proud of the wonders
of our age, may really be as little chill
. dren in the kindergarten of tie worlds
development
5 If the stories OF the diamond fields of
r Pike County, Ark. are true, women
t whose secret ambition it has been for
E many long and weary year to see
e those gems flashing from their hands
and necks. may possibly have that de-
sire gratified. For, they say, the soil of
e Pike County is like that of the cele-
brated De Beers diamond fields of South
e Africa, and we all know what that
: means OF course, people have rushed
} to Pike County, Murfreesboro having
/ nearly doubled in population within a
5 year. Some 600 diamonds have actual
e ly been found, some of very good size,
e and nice, white stones. 1t would prob
r ably take people some time to believe
r that an American diamond was as good
Y as an imported stone, and that would
3 tend to make the Arkansas sparklers
e cheap and within the possibility of pos
: session of those who at present could