The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-22
York real estate.

IOr the 1nuuCClOn TO the stage OF MIS-.
Jackson Gourard, the former spark
ling Amy Croker, of San Francisco.
She is making ready for her premiere
next week at one of the new music
halls fashioned after the Moulin
Rouge" 1.-The Dead Rat and other
world-famed Partisan establishments,
and New York looks for surprise.
tation for doing the unusual and is
expected to maintain it when she
makes her bow for public approval
before the footlights. By those who
know her best, it is not believed she
will find life congenial on the stage,
with it's wear and tear, and they are
inclined to think she will give it up
as soon as the novelty of it wears off.
1t is understood along the Rialto that
she proposes to introduce something
real daring, but just what this means
no one will venture to say. At all
events, Gotham is pretty we'll satisfied
that it will be well worth seeing.
AS a condition precedent to their
separation, it is reported Mrs. Olive
Celeste White, wife of Archibald S.
White, the banker and partner of
Charles p. Taft, brother of President
Taft, will receive an allowance Of $780,,
600 a year. She and White are said
to have quarreled over the matter
70 expenditures incurred by her for
for jewelry. The latter paid $780,
900 to Tiffany for a diamond neck
lace, but she wanted an emerald ring
worth $4,000 also. She bought it and
had the bill sent to White, who re-
fused to pay it. Subsequently he re-
turned the jewel to the jewelers.. From
that day to this the couple have been
drifting apart. Mrs. White is the
bankers second wife and before her
marriage was a chorus girl with 1.-THE
Bostonians" and understudy of Grace
Van Studdiford in 1.-THE Red Feather
and other operas.
Every woman in New York with the
exception Of Hetty Green, the worlds
wealthiest woman, had a new Easter
bonnet, which it is estimated cost the
city on an aggregate Of a million dol
lars. Vowing that the present sea-
sons headgear for woman is to giddy
and sinfully extravagant,- she elects
to continue wearing the dumpy little
hat that is familiar in the financial
district. The other day she was ask
ed to look at 100 prize hats made by
Gotham's smartest society matrons
and misses for the poor girls of the
East Side and shook her head disdain-
fully as she viewed them.
There are too many fripperies
about these hats for the young women
who will get them,'' she declared
These hats are entirely too gay"
she went on. '"They will keep the girls
out on the street. What the girls
need is a plain, old-fashioned small
bonnet, almost Quaker bonnet"
Former President Roosevelt's state
ment in one Of his Pacific Coast
speeches recently that he believed ev-
cry married woman should have at
least four children, has brought upon
his head a heap of criticism. Ignor-
ing the earlier expressed conviction
made on the same subject by former
President Eliot, of Harvard Univer-
sity, that the number should be eight,
the club women of the city have been
centering their fire on the Colonel,
charging him with being a meddler
and trespasser upon the rights of the
individual. All week the hostile bonn
bardment of the former President has
been kept up, until one would imag-
inc that he was the most unpopular
man in the world. The fact that a
large percentage of New YOrk's club
women have no children at all may ac-
he has been jumped on from all quar-
terS.
Through the failure of a lawyer to
formally file with the clerk of the
county the divorce decree granted her
FORMER UuSDdIQ ny the court, Mrs.
Cyrus V. Townsend, that was. is I'M
able to marry until next October Her
husband, who is a prominent physi-
clan, has married again and as a re-
suit of the discovery is wondering
what is the status Of his present wife.
Recently his former wife accepted an
offer of marriage and planned to have
the ceremony take place next week.
AS required by the present law, she
had to present to the clerk of the
Marriage License Bureau a copy of the
decree, which was granted in another
State, before he would issue the nee
esSary permit to wed. When she
made application for a certified copy
of the decree she was Informed that
it had never been officially entered.
The woman was then obliged to re-
tain counsel and sought to have the
court order a copy of it's decree issued
to her This the court refused to
do until the expiration of six months
Hence the pOstponement of the we'd
ding until next October.
With the intention of singing their
way to the Pacific Coast, David Mac
fayden and his young bride left this
city this week for San Francisco in
an old-faShioned prairie schooner,
drawn by two horses. On the way they
will entertain the natives with all of
the latest songs. The couple expect
to travel by easy stages and will not
reach the other side of the continent
until some time next October. Be
fore departing they visited Mayor Gay