Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-23
Some Women
IRIS. HETTY GREEN does not

~'A prospective mother-in-laW. Her
son has made q confession that he Is
contemplating welded bliss, in fact
that he has been prospecting with
great gusto, and that the realization
has come to him that he is up against
the impossible. Nobody seems to want
to have the moneyed Hetty in the
family. There may be other reasons
for young Green's difficulty in his
search of a bride-perhaps American
girls are beginning to look askance
upon fortunes to be obtained over the
love route-but the case looks pretty
gloomy for Mrs. Green.
Felix Won Weingartner, director of
the Imperial opera house. Vienna,
| tried to get along with his prima
donna, Mile. Lucie- Marcel, who has
been a star at the opera house for
| year, and as a result the remainder Of
the company has lent such an interest
to things in general that the unwise
manager has been forced to bid his
| position farewell and leave the city.
The prima donna will leave Vienna In
another direction. Director Vein
gartner favored Mile. Marcel with eX
tremely important parts, and the other
! singers raised a howl. The howl was
! elevated by the artists without any
| regard to tempo or modulation, and all
that, and it panied even the inartistic,
commercialized taste Of Herr Vein
gartner. Mile. Marcel probably viii
be engaged by the Metropolitan opera
| house, New York, while the director
| will visit Boston pending the develop
ment of divorce proceedings which his
wife has started.
! Thrifty London ladies desirous of
saving their pennies may now place
them in the care Of another London
! lady. Miss May Bateman, novelist
and writer, who represented several
newspapers in South Africa during the
! Boer war, has been appointed man
ager of a new banking institution
operated for women exclusively. Three
hundred other applications We're made
for the place. and three hundred other
applicants were disappointed. The VEN
ture starts with more than four hun
dred patrons transferred from other
banks. Pity the new bank in a panic.
Imagine the feminine hysteria and the
gnashing of feminine teeth.
Halle Ermlne Rives has just been
| received in special audience by the
dowager Czarina. The husband of the
author of Hearts Courageous and
other novels is George Post Wheeler of
New York, at present secretary of the
American embassy at st, Petersburg.
1t was easy on account Of this posi-
tion for him to procure for his wife
the enjoyment of such an honor, but
it is due altogether to the fact that
the empress likes to while away an
afternoon in a hammock, If it ever
becomes warm enough in ST. Peters
burg for hammocks, with one of Mrs.
Wheeler's books, that she received her
much earlier than il is the custom TO
receive women whose husbands hold
similar diplomatic positions. The en-
press has strong appreciation of the
literary achievements of Mrs. Wheeler.
Although court etiquette would not
allow Mrs. Wheeler TO say one word
about her half hours talk with the
empress, she let the secret out tina.
the empress is a very charming wo-
man, is very handsome and looks so
young that nobody would take her for
| the czar's mother. She incidentally
handed out a little advance notice
about a novel which she is going to
! let the American people see just as
soon as she sits down and writes it.
| 1t is to deal with the cheerful side of
Russian life. Mrs. Wheeler thinks thar
enough has been written concerning
the gloomy side. She is going to reel
off a nice little yarn about Russia's
aristocratic women. Her sister, Amelie
Rives, we'll known as the author of
"The Quick and the Dead" by the way.
married Russian fourteen years ago
Prince Albert Troubetskoy.
1t is understood from members of
the family of Count Sgray who mar
ried Harriet Daily, daughter of the late
Marcus DAILY, that the brides dowry
was $6, 900, 900. This in itself is not
startling, but when it is given out that
only 5000 900 of this will be at the i'm
mediate disposal of the count for the
settlement of his debts, a shudder
passes over the continent. Persons
who have at heart the success of our
American collection of counts are eX-
tremely worried over the effect of this
near-stinginess upon other titled in
dividuals who are looking America
ward for wives and pocket money. Such
persons regard it as very high folly
that So, 400, 900 of the dowry is to be
placed as an investment, upon the in
terest of which the young couple are
to live. 1t is feared that the count will
have to be so close in his expenditures,
having to economize on laundry bills
and deny himself frequent hair cuts,
that his brother counts will give Amer
lea the frigid shoulder and look else
where for nestmates.
The heart of Miss Mae lie Mar, whose
home is in Washington, was nearly
broken when she was discovered re-
Gently over a set of ponderous office
books in a beach front hotel at Allan
tic City and taken back to the social
whirl of the national city from which
she had flown several weeks previous.
She protested that she was not longing
for the whirl that she wanted to do
something worth while in the world.
She is 16 years old. Sergeant Cox of
Washington took her back to the old
home. Her friends are wondering if
it viii be necessary for squad of
policemen to accompany her when she
goes out to dances and parties to see
that she is talkatiVe and pleasant and
otherwise socially dutiful.
1t is the opinion of Mrs. T. p. O'COn-
ner, wife of the noted Irish leader, that
the women of Great Britain are coming
to the opinion that they can obtain bet
ter results in their suffrage movement
by more peaceful methods than they
have been pursuing. Mrs. O'Conner,
who has been visiting in this country
for several months, has sailed for
home. While here she met many suf-
fragist leaders and was convinced by
her observations that the movement is
making rapid progress in this country.
Before leaving she expressed herself as
being as enthusiastic as ever in advocat-
Ing woman suffrage.
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COST OF CRIME, HER SUBJECT
Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells. the we'll
known lecturer on prison reform will
give an addresses on the ''Cost of
oati at aYlE of Ions