The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-08-05

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rooms of Partisan society, comes thi.
week to enliyeu the end of the sea
son.
The ease with which divorces car
now be obtained in France and thei
consequent increase has slowly bu
surely done away with the habit .
the exclusive dowagers of st. Ger
main to keep the gilded doors of so
ciety closed to divorced women. The
question now under discussion Is
Should a divorce be announced tC
ones friends and acquaintances just
as a death or a birth message, and
if so, how?
Official announcement is pretty
generally necessary to avoid embar.
RAISING situations, and since in most
cases, the divorce proceedings are
conducted with discretion, no one
has an inkling of them unless the par
ties concerned choose to make them
known. But the formula to be
used in the printed cards is a matter
Of much discussion, and so far moth
ing has been found that meets with
general approval.
Several suggestions have been put
forward and all duly criticised. For
instance, MIR. and Mrs. X regret to
announce etc, has been found to be
faulty, inasmuch as the sentiment OF
regret can hardly be sincere on both
sides. Then, again, one would not
dare say, Mr., and Mrs. X. have
pleasure in announcing" etc, be-
cause it sounds too frivolous.
The time-honored French formula
appears to be very appropriate: Mr..
and Mrs. Y. have the honor" ETC., but
this is also found to be banal and
open to ridicule. The use of an Off
cial notification pure and simple,
"The Court has declared a divorce
between Mr.. and Mrs. X to the profit
of Mr.. X" although meeting with
the approval of many, has found
great enemy in the young smart set,
who utterly refuse to use legal ter
minology in a matter which they
consider not sentiment.
There have lately been several
cases in which young Divorces have
gone back to their appellative of
Mile utterly ignoring their few
years Of married life. Their example.
however, is being followed by some
middle-aged matrons who had been
married many years, and the method
became the subject of satirical re-
marks.
So far the way out of the guam
Diary which is most favored is the
sending of a simple visiting card as
follows: Countess of D., recently
divorced, reassumes her maiden name
of Mile. De c." This is well and good
so far as the sender is concerned, ,
yet another question remains to be
solved: What should one do on re- !
ceiving the announcement? Would
one send congratulations or condo |
lences? Society women are still con-
sidering that question.
Nobody has as yet dared to spread
broadcast such visiting cards, and it
is highly probable that should thew
ever be sent they would not be re-
piled to.
KITCHENER TO EGYPT.
LONDON, July 15.-Oficial an
nouncement was made today that
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener has |
been appointed British agent to
Egypt. He succeeds Sir Eldon Gorst.
who died on July 70.
Lord Kitchener's name has often
been mentioned of late as Sir Eldon's
successor in Egypt; in fact, it has
been divided in this manner a certain
section strongly opposing the Field |
Marshals nomination on the ground
that it would be unpopular among the
Egyptians. Lord Kitchener himself
was not very keen on getting the ap-
pointment 1t is to be noted that
those members of the cabinet who
opposed Lord Kitchener's selection for
Egypt are those who have most
strongly supported Sir Eldon Gorst.
The latter's supporters, by the
way found their hands strengthened
by the ill-considered action of Colo,
mel Roosevelt Sir Eldon's fate had
been in the balance long before the
Colonel returned from Egypt and the
cabinet generally was coming to the
view that a stronger man and stron-
ger measures were necessary in
Egypt, when Colonel Roosevelt was
induced to express a similar opinion
in his speech at Guildhall, suppos. |
eddy on the representation of a I'm
ionist coterie who thought that the
Liberal cabinet might be embar-
raised in this fashion but In raoIit,,