The National tribune., 1910-01-13

says, is with her husband, as devoted as
ever to him and believing wholly in
him; there has never been the least
shadow between them. The distress OF
the whole Cook family, with all its in
laws, is very great over this most de-
plorable matter, and they are praying
| for the Doctors recovery, believing that
with that will come a satisfactory eX-
planation of much which at present
seems uneXplainable. Apropos of COOK,
| A. d. Burton, an Alaskan prospector,
Whom Cook in a magazine article claim-
ed to have rescued from death by a
bear, says the whole story is false. He
did indeed have a mix-up with bear,
but Cook was not within $50 miles of
him at the time. John r. Bradley,
Cooks hacker, has announced his in
ttention of fitting out another eXpedi-
| ton to the Arctic in order to verify the
existence of the point of land when
Cook claims to have discovered in ms
search for the pole and which he named
Bradley Land, in honor of his patron.
Thomas A. Edison, the great inven-
tor, draws a most fascinating picture
of the future, especially for the labor
ing man. The cheapening of commodi-
agriculture will bring this desirable
state of things about, he says, and the
ordinary laborer will live as well as a
man does now on an income OF SzOO'-
600 a year. The manual labor in the
factories will be replaced by machinery
which will be watched by Superintcnd-
ents. Men will work with their brains
and not their hands. But there is some
thing in Mr.. Edison's picture which ap-
peals most powerfully and. directly to
all women He says that when this
Elysian condition is reached Women's
clothes will be SO cheap that every wo-
man will be able to keep herself dressed
in the tip of the style all the time. and
that there will be plenty of new fash
ions, too. The only shadow on Mr..
EdisOns prophetic vision is n big one.
All this, he says, will happen in about
200 years, and what fun are we going
to get out of it?
The magnificent house in New York
lived in by the millionaire known as
Silent Smith," furnished by Stanford
White, Harry Thaw's victim. has been
bought by Harry Payne Whitney with
all its priceless tapestries, furnishings,
pictures, etc, which We're described at
some length some months ago in these
columns. The house, it will be remem-
William c. Whitney, the father of its
present owner, who gave Stanford
White cart blanch in the selection of its
furnishings, etc Mr.. Smith in his will
expressed the desire that Mr.. Harry
Payne Whitney should be given the first
chance to purchase the house, but at
the time of Mr.. Smiths death Mr. Whit
ney was so situated that he could not
take advantage of this opportunity.
wi rn Il al al,ac
has come along in the meanwhile, so
Mr.. Whitney gets the house after all.
He is supposed to have paid $2,900,000
for it, and says he bought it to please
his wife, who desires to entertain on a
large scale.
Apropos of Stanford White, few wo-
men have been doing better work in a
perfectly quiet, transformations way than
has his widow for the last year or two.
She has been living in the Latin Quarter
of Paris, gay and wicked Paris, with
her young son, who is a pupil of the
famous school Des Beaux Arts, where
his father studied, and she has made
herself Veritable mother to all Amer
lean boys over there studying art, eX-
posed to the temptations of that free
fascinating life of Bohemia, which is
supposed to derive its very being from
the Latin Quarter Americans living in
Paris have brought back to us quite
terrible stories of the way our young
men (and girls, tool conduct them
selves who have gone to Paris to study
art or music, and who have installed
themselves in this part of Paris for
divers reasons. They are entirely re-
moved from all family restraint, per-
haps for the first times in their lives,
and that they do become a little reckless
under the appealing influences of their
novel and fascinating surroundings is
no great surprise. Mrs. White has
taken such an interest in these young
people and has ingratiated herself so
wisely and tactfully into their favor
that she has completely won their love
and confidence, and it is said, no doubt
truly, that she has saved many an
American boy from utter shipwreck.
King Albert. Belgium's new ruler. is
an unusually good-looking man. He is
face of the best German type, inherit
ing the straight, clear-cut features of
his mother, who is the sister of King
Charles of Roumania. He wears a
slight moustache over his firm, we'll
shaped mouth, and his expression not
only indicates strength, but the intel
lectual tastes which distinguish him.
ne udS always DeeH great traveller
and an earnest student, civil engineer
ing and political economy interesting
him more than anything else, tho he is
thoroly up on most subjects. He Wis
tied America in 1898, and studied rail-
roading under the guidance of Mr.. Jas.
j. Hill, than whom there could have
been no one better fitted to instruct
him on this subject. King Albert has
a positive talent for civil engineering.
and has given practical evidence of his
ability and knowledge of this science in
many countries AS we have said be-
fore in these columns, he is exceedingly
simple in his ideas of living, hates
pomp and display, is affable and easily
approached, is very conscientious. and
thoroly Interested in the happiness and
welfare of his people He and his
Queen, Princess Elizabeth, with their
three children, lead an ideally happy
domestic life. She Is highly cultured
and accomplished, and is known as one
of the most learned Princesses in En-
rope. Albert is Belgium's third King.
After the revolution of 1880, which re-
suited in the separation of what is now
Belgium from the Netherlands, Prince
Leopold, of SAKE Coburg- Gotha. was
elected King of the Belgiums, and as