The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-23
GOTHAM GOSSIP
(By Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910. by the National News Service. N. Y)

(By Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910.
 by the National News Service. N. Y)
 New York, Sept 22-Kitty Gordan,
 the English actress who some years ago married one Of the Beresfords, cousin of Lord Decies, announces her intention to marry Count Morris Fries,
 who according to the post cards has @ castle and a hunting lodge and few other things in Austria. In max ing known her betrothal to the noble man, she is apparently losing no sleep over the fact that she has not yet ob- tained divorce from hubby No. l, from whom she has been separated for several years. Discussing this fea- ture of her personal affairs the other day, she frankly declared that Beres- ford wanted her back but she had made up her mind to listen to no such importantly When some one suggested that her husband might oppose her action for divorce and thus block her plans for marrying the Count. she shrugged her shapely shoui- ders and said she anticipated no rou- ble on that score
 One of her friends naively intimated that Beresford was a much more handsome man than the Count, who was never moulded to take a prize at a beauty show. ''True" replied the English beauty, who is shortly to be starred here in new show, "but, you know I do not think much, of hand some men.
 "A homely husband is the best hus-i band. Imagine a husband so busy thinking of his own looks he would have no time to think of your comfort. Besides what woman wants to ina herself married to a man that every other woman is trying to get away from her? When a sensible woman marries she marries for comfort and rest.
 Personally, I have not the slight est desire to spend the remainder of my days running around after hand- some man. People may call the Count Fries homely,'' she explained, 'fbut homely or not he has all the qualities that would be essential to me in a husband. Tn the first place man to make the right sort of a husband has to be manly. Then he has to be honest I mean, tell the truth and be straightforward Of course he has to be very fastidious personally. No really nice woman could ever care for a man who was not perfectly groom ed Count Fries is one of the best groomed men have ever met
 Fries became acquainted with the actress last winter while she was showing here in Alma" He attended most of the performances at Weber's theatre and haunted the stage door until he got to be considered a nui- sance by the door keeper For months he figuratively-and part of the time literally-sat on the door mat of the actress apartment and defied her to chase him away. In the end his strange infatuation and devotion melt ed the heart of the woman and she took him in. With a score of the r- nek fx, Nctxr York trailing at her feet, it was matter of comment along the Rialto in the early spring that she threw them all down for the queer looking little Count. In the beginning it was thought she was simply toying with him as a beautiful woman sometimes does with a dog or prize cat that has momentarily caught her fancy but when she returned to England in June he went along and seems to be now firmly established in her affections.
 When or where they will get married will not be settled until the English divorce is granted. This is expected in the early part of the winter. Pro viding Miss Gordan is in New York at that time the wedding will take place here; otherwise on the road.
 R. T. Crane. the Chicago million aire, whose book "The Utility of High CT Schooling is an indictment of American college life has been elected men of New York Where the Cam bridge University reporter" who fur nished the millionaire with the mater ial for his book, got the statistics up- on which he based the charge that 95 per cent of the undergraduates of colleges in the United States are drunkards is a mystery. Some one must have filled the English student with buncombe as a joke, say the leading college men of this city. Of the 95 per cent of college member ship who are drunkards, fifteen per cent go irretrievably to the bad'' says the book. Warden Kennedy of Sing Sing Prison has been enlisted in the defence of the college fraternities.. Of the TIPS jail birds in that institution it is claimed but two are college bred men, Therefore, the college men say that Crane is a muckraker of the yell lowest order and the Cambridge stu dent from across the water, just col lossal perverter of the truth.
 Our record for the year ending last October says Warden Kennedy. shows that of 1,722 inmates, only 10 were collegians and 34 more had ac- ademic or high school education. There were 265 il1iterates and 235 could only read and write. That left 1,178 WHO pOdSlSu Ol d COtiiiilOu SClioOf So- ucation.
 "Now in the tables showing hab- it's of life, g per cent were total ab- stainers. Only 25S of the 1,722 pri- soners convicted for all sorts of crimes from murder down used liquor freely, that is, were heavy. drinkers. Fully half this number used liquor moder- ately And, again. of this total 1,722 there were 583 aliens.
 "So, you see, if 15 per cent of our students 'go to the bad, which means prison sooner or later, and you only find ten college men here, and of that number only two Americans, the rest being foreign born and foreign edu- cated, it is plain Mir. Crane is off on his statistics.''
 What is regarded as very rare and unique feat in modern surgery was performed the other day at one of the local hospitals where the bone of a man killed in an accident was en- grafted onto the bone in the leg of a woman patient. Several weeks ago the woman entered the hospital suf- fering from necrosis of her shin bone. She had been experiencing pain in that quarter on and off for ten years with out knowing the cause. An X-ray ex- animation at the hospital disclosed that the bone had been rotting away and setting up inflammation, which made it's removal necessary. About