The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-02

| 1 barrier to the union, especially if the wedding is deferred for a year or | eighteen months. Madeline Force, who married Colonel Arstor, last summer was only eighteen when she | was led to the altar, a circumstance which many think furnishes a prece- | dent which young Astor might feel would justify his marriage to Miss l Andrews at the end of a suitable pe- riod of probation.
 1 AS a schoolboy the young Astor heir l caused his parents no end of worry. He was sent to Eton, the Famous ! English preparatory school, but caus- ! ed so much dissatisfaction among the 1 other boys by his display of wealth | that his parents withdrew him. Then l he was sent to St. Georges School at Newport, where he had the same | trouble.
 Since his early boyhood young As | tor has been in poor health, and un- til recently was unable to enjoy out | door sports. When seven years old he was stricken with appendicitis, and an operation was performed which left him in a weak condition. He is 1 very fond of the sea and is a. born yachtsman. He also enjoys fast au- tomobiles.
 1 While driving at Newport last year he accidentally drove his car into an | other machine in which the Duke | Franz Josef of Bavaria, Mrs. Robert Goelet and Congressman and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth were riding. All most overturned. Young Astor has wanted for nothing that money can l buy. He has been petted and pam pered all his life, has his own retinue | of servants, his valet, a string of horses and his own automobiles | AS in the case of young Astor, the friends of Harold Vanderbilt, who is a cousin of the Duchess of Marlbor- ough parry the question as to when he intends marrying Eleanor Sears, the strong arm" girl of society, who was smitten a year or so ago with Claude | Graham-White, the English aviator. | The two have been almost insepar- | able for many months and the other | evening, Miss Sears gave an elaborate | dinner in honor of Vanderbilt to a select number of their mutual friends. | By society the affair is taken as a sure sign that the couple will short ly be ready to call on the Parson and | fix things up. | The recent reference of Dr. Robert J. Sprague of Amherst College to | the average Woman's college as "an | old maids factory" has provoked the | retort courteous from representative college women of this city. The fre- quency with which the higher educa- i ton of women has been attacked here | by pedagogues and others within the | last few months is believed to be a reflection of the growing bitterness | engendered by the suffragettes in | their propaganda for political equal I ity. Most of those who have been active in the fight for the right to vote are unmarried college women l who openly ayow their preference to | a life of lonely spinsterhood to the trials and responsibilities of the mar | ital shelter.
 | "As for women's colleges being old maid factories said Dr. Anna Garlin | Spencer of the Ethical Culture School l the other day, replying to Dr. Spra- gue's strictures that's been proved cred by the Intercollegiate Alumnae show that while college women mar ry a little later ir life than do other women, their marriages are on the av-
 craze much more happy. The pro- portion of divorces is strikinglS small children is a trifie lower, than among non-colIege women, the death rate Is a, great deal lower. And surely from the purely racial point of view, it's l better to have three children and
 bring them up properly to maturity than to have six, and all but one die in infancy.
 s1n a city like New York there are quite as many business and profes- sional men who remain bachelors as
 
 terS. This is partly from economic l reasons and partly because most of home life can be obtained without the
 burdens \. of matrimony.s But why doesn't some one lecture these men i about their race suicidal tenden- cies? ?''
 Do you agree with pr. Sprague that every woman fulfilis her big des- tiny in marriage?" l asked.
 '1 think that true for the majority
 of women, and men, too. but there are some women to whom art really does mean everything, just as there are some men to whom work is more
 than love of women. l think this minority should be recognized. But if the we'll educated and successful business women to-day have difficult
 ty in finding men they wish to mar ry, the situation would seem to be up to the men!"
 'The professional woman is hap billy not compelled to marry for a home. She has the opportunity of presents himself And if he never
 comes she does not need to contract an unhappy union and bring up un- fortunate little children in a atmos- phere of diScord.
 Strutting about town with his fight ing chin set for trouble and his belli- cose spirit on edge is the Baron Max ime de Sheyder Shottland. The mo-
 bleman got into an altercation the
 other day with the manager of a semi-fashionable hotel adjacent tc Fifth avenue, because the latter is alleged to have said to Mrs. Alma Hayne, a friend of his that she was receiving too many visits from male
 callers. Mrs Hayne says she is 8 daughter of Grown Prince Rudolph o1 Austria and the Baroness Maraie Vet zera and granddaughter of Empe- TOT Franz Joseph. The male callers
 who visited her at the hotel were
 newspaper reporters, it was explained
 later but the manager declined tc
 amend his criticism. The woman
 informed the Baron of what the hotel l manager had said to her and he forthwith proceeded to his office tC
 demand an apology from him on be-
 half of the lady. This the manager
 declined to give. He said some
 thing to the baron about "butting-in.' "I butt in-what does this Yankee
 beast mean?" shouted the noblemar
 excitedlp. "I say you are a dog-a
 beast-you understand. A coward
 ugh such a dog"
 continued the baron when explaining
 his troubles in the Magistrates court
 'I asked him for an apology-one
 two, three times-and he say-bah
 poof !piffle! Then I get mad an6
 tell him what I think. He get mao
 then and strike me-ugh the dog Strike me-not like gentleman-set
 chust like a beast. He punch me ir , the eye, this way'' and the baron H. ) frustrated. Then he kick me out
 ugh the brute.''