Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-03-17

residue of the money, after paying the
debts, was the property of Countess
Leven, Boris widow.
Lady Maud thus found herself in
possession of a considerable fortune,
fes she accepted the inheritance when
she was assured that it would go to
the Russian crown if she refused it.
The wealth Lady Maud thus COM
mands enables her to carry much
further than formerly the peculiar
form of charity which she believes to
be her own invention. if it may be
properly called charity at all, and
which consists in making it worth
while and agreeable to certain unfor-
tunate people to live decent lives in
quiet corners without starving, in
stead of calling to them to come out
from behind the virtue-curtain and be
reformed in public. 1t is very ex-
pensive charity, however, and very
hard to exercise, and will never be
popular; for the popular charities are
those that cost least and are no trou-
BILE.
Nine. Konstantinos Logotheti is
learning French and English on the
Bosphorus with her husband, and will
make a sensation when he brings her
to London and Paris. On the day of
his marriage in Constantinople Logo
theft received a letter from Lady
Maud telling him how sorry she was
that she had not believed him that
day on the yacht at Scaletta, and say
ing that she hoped to meet his wife
soon. 1t was an honest apology from
an honest woman.
He received a letter a few days
later from Margaret, and on the same
day a magnifcently printed and reck-
lessly illustrated booklet reached him.
forwarded from Paris. The letter was
from Margaret to tell him that she
also took back what she had thought
and her before long. She said she
was glad, on the whole, that he had
acted like a lunatic, because it was
likely that they would both be hap
prier She herself she said, was go
ing to be married to Mr.. Van TOrp at
st. Georges, Hanover square, before
sailing for New York, where she was
going to sing at the opera after
Christmas If he should be in town
then she hoped he would come and
bring his wife.
The booklet was an announcement,
int with of n
effect that "The Nine. da Cordova and
Rufus Van Torp Company" would
open their new opera house in Fifth
avenue less than two years hence
with a grand Wagner festival, to last
two months, and to include the per-
Torrance of "PaFsifal' with entirely
new scenery, and the greatest living
artists, whose names were given.
Mr.. Van Torp had told the diva
that he would like her to choose a
wedding present which she really
wanted, adding that he had a few
things for her already. He produced
some of them, but some were on pa
per. Among the latter was house in
New York, overlooking the park and
copied exactly from her own in Lon
Don, the English architect having been
sent to New York himself to build it.
Two small items were two luxurious
private cars of entirely different pat
terms, one for America and one for
Europe, which she was always to use
when she travelled, professionally or
otherwise. He said he did not give
her the Lancashr Lass because it
wasn't quite new"-having been about
ten months in the water-but he had
his own reasons, one of which was
that the yacht represented senti-
ment to him, and was what he would
have called "souviner." But if she
could think of anything else she fan
cied, now was the time"
She said that there was only one