The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-04

| Russel Colt. It is only a little more | than year since Mrs. Belmont, who
 as Miss Eleanor Robson, was one of
 the most accomplished and most
 popular of the younger stars, gave up
 what she esteemed "her career to
 settle down in tranquil domestic af- fluence as the wife of one of the | city's wealthiest men.
 Belmont was more than fifty and had son by his first marriage almost
 as old as the pretty actress who be-
 came his stepmother. To many | struggling young women, exposed to the hardships of the stage, marriage 1 to a multi-millionaire would be the
 fulhllment of the most extravagant of dreams. but it is said to have pail | ed on the former star, who still hears
 the applause of the enraptured audi | ence in her ears and feels the fasc1n- ating thrill of the life behind the
 scenes The report of her ambition
 to return to it has come as a great surprise to the theatrical and social | world, /lnasmuch as she vowed at the
 time of her marriage that she had
 read her valedictory to the profes- | conspicuous figure. However, as
 Ethel Barrymore said the same thing l when she married young Colt, who | has million or more to his credit and
 everything to tempt young woman l to enjoy it in leisure and recreation, only to return to the stage in a lit | tie more than fifteen months, society | has come to look for the unexpected l happening and to accept it as the in evitable when the infatuation for do- ! mesticity begins to show the tarnish of wear and gets on the nerve.
 Although he is paying his former wife (Katherine Clemmons) the sub stantial sum of $36,00O a year ali- | mony, Howard Gould continues to be pestered with her creditors who in- sist that he settle some of the old outstanding accounts of his one time spouse. Testimony was taken this weeek in actions brought against him
 by firm of French jewellers who de- maEd payment for something like $50,000 for jewels furnished to Mrs. Gould in Paris just prior to and short ly after their separation in the French capital, Gould has refused to pay on the ground that he had never order l ed the material and that it was well known at the time most of it was de- l livered that he had left his wife an.. had made her an allowance for her | own separate maintenance. Ever
 since his wife secured the limited di- vorce from him he has been in re- ceipt of bills of all kinds from mil liners, furriers, dressmakers, hotels and a horde of other purveyors to the
 follies of the idle rich. for goods sup piled to her. When he gets through the annoyance of contesting the end less litigation which his refusal to
 pay these claims has lprecipitated, he will regard himself as truly happy man. As his income is about $7O0,- cially if he has to liquidate all of these debts, but he feels that he has been used as a "good thing long en- ough and he says he'll "'be hanged if he pays one red cent until the court makes him.
 The more Sheriff Bob Chanler seems to try to disentangle himself from the web he wove about himself when he led Lima Cavalieria, the
 tar, the deeper he apparently Ge H. trives to get into the mess. Last weeek he sought to settle the claims of the singer against him for $50,- consent of his first wife, who is in Paris with her two children, was nec- essary to make the pact legal. Mrs. Chanler No. 1 is not disposed to assist the great grandson of John Jacob As tor out of his difficulties, feeling that he has brought unnecessary humilia- ton upon their children by his mar riage with the Italian songbird and the notoriety which has followed their separation. Chanler received a telegram the other day from friends here that Orestes Cavalieri, the diva's big brother, had gone home, and he took the first ship back from, Ham ilton, Bermuda, wither he had sought an asylum when the former came to New York looking for a chance to friends in this city, Miss Cavalieria, who is now singing in St. Petersburg. declares that she got stung when she married Chanler and that she will be, forever Americans" she said, ''boast of the fair play of their men in their deals with women, but my experience with Chanler has been quite to the contrary.
 When you begin to ask yourself the question, Who's loony now?" see green-eyed' elephants climbing trees. and imagine yourself ordering John D. Rockefeller to shine your boots, it's time to take up hobby, says pr. Carlos Mcdonald, eminent brain specialist who has figured in the Thaw and alll the other big criminal cases in Gotham in which insanity has been urged as a defence during the last quarter of a century. There's noth- ing like real, serious hobby" says the specialist ''to ward off insanity. A good hobby is of the greatest possible assistance to physical and mental bal ance," added Dr. -MacFarland. 'I have known of cases where men worn out with overwork and on the verge of melancholia or neurasthenia were re- stored to perfect health by giving themselves up to their favorite hob bies. Women, especially, need to cultivate hobbies" Dr. Macdonald continued. 'Men get certain amount of stimulation and interest from their work. There is no fun like work in my opinion. But many women are unhappy simply from the lack of definite duties and responsibilities. Many of our rich women lead but terf1y existences which bore them to death. They should have some real occupation, some genuine responsibili- ity, some definite duties, and some hobby. no matter whether it's phil anthropy or golf, collecting beetles or foreign stamps. I don't think we are a specially nervous people, We are not so nervous as the French, nor indeed, as the English. think every where the human race has grown stronger, more rugged, owing to bet ter sanitary conditions anL a more general understanding of the laws of health and cleanliness. There is a popular notion that insanity is alarm ingly on the increase. but such is not the fact. There has been an in- crease in numbers, but hardly of ra- tio. And owing to the better care and understanding, the longevity of the insane is much greater than it used to be-"
 LEOPOLD DIES AS
 RESULT OF A FALL
 Unconscious since Sunday after-