Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-30

| hurled brickbats at the windows of the
! house of commons and were prompt
| ly locked up for their pains in demol- |
ishing panes. In Paris, Nine. Picot-
she pronounces it just as you pro-
mounce the street-hurled anathemas,
and she too was jugged. They have
freedom of speech in France, but that
| doesn't necessarily mean freedom OF
| the speaker as Nine. Picot discovered. |
The Madam has a crouch against
the army She doesn't believe in arm
| les anyway; and she wants to vote so
that she may bring about national
| disarmament by the simple eXpedient
of cutting off the army appropriations.
1t takes money to run an army, you
| know.
Consequently when some careless
colonel marched his regiment right by
her front stoop, Nine. Picot rushed out
to the front gate and proceeded to
tell the troopers just what she thought
of them She made a good job of 1t,
too. The colonel himself couldn't get
in word edgewise. That's why he
was peeVed.
The colonel got even, though. He
sent an aide scurrying around for
pair of gendarmes and when they ar
rived they gently but firmly escorted
| Nine. Picot to the city baStile. There
are married men both in France and
in this country who Will envy the col
onel his prerogative and his opportun-
ity.
Mrs John D. Rockefeller, wife of
the worlds money king, has gone to
the Rockefeller country home in Tarry-
town, N Y, hoping there to regain
the health denied her during the past
twelve months. Mrs. Rockefeller has
been an invalid for the past year. her
trouble following an attack of pueu-
monia contracted at the Hot Springs.
! For six months she never left the
| Rockefeller castle i'm New York city
! and when she arrived in TarrytoWn the
other day the brief journey had so
exhausted her that she had TO be car
ried from her car. 1t is hoped, how
ever, that the invigoratlng air of the
Pocantico hills will prove beneficial and
that she may soon be restored TO
health.
Mrs. Harry S. Schumacher, of 2022
North Thrty-second street, New York
city, has been advised by her deceased
husband to marry again. Mr.. Schu-
| macher's advice was conveyed in his
will which places his entire estate,
valued at $4,000, in his wife's hands
and at the same time advises her to
marry some good honest man who
can provide" for herself and her two
| sons.
Mrs. Schumacher declines to say
whether she will heed her husbands
admontion.
For several years past Mrs. Anna o.
Hagstedt of New York city has had
an ambition to be known as high
flyer. In furtherance of this desire
| Mrs Hagstedt has invented an airshir
on which the government has allowed
her n patent The patent, by the way,
antedates the sweeping patents grant
! Il h., forbt under
which they claim and have maintained
| n monopoly of the construction in this
| country of heaver-than-air flying ma
chimes. The Hagstedt invention, how
ever, is something moro than a mere
| air craft. 1t is a combination airshp, !
| automobile and boat. 1t is designed
to carry two persons through the air
| on land or over the seas, as may be
expedent That's going some and in
| several different ways at once.
| Mrs. Hagstedt is ready now for
practical demonstration Of her inven-
| tiol. That is she will be ready just
as soon as she can raise money enough
to build a machine. That's all she
needs, and she Is willing to part with |
a one-third share In her great inven-
tion for a price.
Miss Matilde Townsend as Clarence |
Kolb would put 1t, must have had a |
| curious dragging up" Miss Town |
send Is an American girl, heiress to |
| the Townsend millions and at present |
| in receipt of an annual income esti- |
| mated at 100000 Yet she has extended |
to the duke of Alba the right hand of |
good fellowship, the hand concealed
within a silken mitten. In other words
| Miss Townsend has respectfully but |
| firmly declined to be made a duchess. |
on the other and unmittened hand. |
| Miss Townsend has decided to become |
| hriA Of T1pin nNnrVdaU A Amppi- |
can citizen named Peter Goelet Gerry. |
| That's why Washington society is |
aghast, for. you see, this Gerry person !
! isn't chauffeur or a jockey. He isn't |
even prize fighter He's just the Sec |
| ond son of old Commodore Gerry, with |
family behind him that goes back |
| in this country to the landing of the |
| Pilgrims. What's more, he has no |
Pittsburg chorus girl record to
| boast of.
Queer sort of a girl, this Townsend !
heiress. Certainly she must have had /
curious dragging up"
DR.. Laura d. Gill is the latest indi-
vidual to raise the cry of back to the
farm" DIR. Gill herself is not an agri-
culturist but a foot specialist. 1t is
not her business to raise corn, but to |
remove corns. Incidentally she is
| prominent in the Intercollegiate Alum
nae association.
Her plea for bucolic endeavor was
made a few days ago in the course of !
an address to Wellesley students, |
whom she advised to turn aside from |
the usual paths traversed by woman. |
1.-THE idea that a college woman can |
only accept work that she can do with |
dignity is all wrong" said the doctor. |
| "Any work the girl graduate under |
! takes becomes thereby uplifted by her |
| superior knowledge and higher culture. |
| There's farming, for instance. / should |
| like to see women farmers, and why |
act? It's a good job"
DIR. Gill, however, has no objection |
| to women marrying. She said so her. |
self. Meantime the pigs are squeal- |
| ing, the COWS mooing and the horses |
| neighing to be uplifted by superior
! knowledge and higher culture" Like
wise the land stands fertile to the
| plow-woman.
Miss Liane ziegfeld, daughter of
| Anna Held, is in Paris taking a post
| graduate course i'll the convent school
at Versailles in the art of home-mak |
| ing. Miss Ziegfeld already is accom-
| plished in the essentials of a young |
| girls training. She dances diVinely, |
sings prettily, plays the piano, and
can talk small talk in several differ |
| ent languages. Now she is being fin |
ished The frills are being put on her
education and she is being taught how
| to make beds, how to sweep and dust, !
how to cook and how to darn her own
stockings.
Liane is a tall, graceful girl with
| a stately beauty very unlike the