The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-21


marked increase that has taken place
within the last few years among those
who have become disciples OF the
paint box and powder puff. A study
of the faces at any of the fashion
able restaurants, hotels or theatres
of the city any afternoon or evening
will reveal a large percentage Of the
women patrons aglow with make-be-
lieve color. Those in touch with pub
lie sentiment express the opinion that
the hostility displayed by the Queen
toward the use Of rouge and cosmet-
les of this kind generally will have
marked influence in checking its
use in future.
Loves Married Life.
General Thomas L. James, former
Postmaster of New York under Pres
idents Grant and Hayes. Postmaster
General under Garfield and million
aire banker, on taking his fourth wife
the other day, declared that he had
horror of dying wffeless, Gotham
was reminded of the militant spirit of
the frontiersman who elects to die
with his boots on. The bridegroom,
who is still sturdy despite his eighty
years, caused all Of the patriarchs of
the town to sit up and take notice
by his last sortie into the realm of
matrimony. His third wife died but
nine months ago, aud 1t was accepted
by everybody that he would rest con-
tent with his three previous experien-
ces in the marriage field.
"A man is as young as he feels"
explained the General when question
ed about his new venture. And then
he added with q merry twinkle Of his
eyes-'Tm still a buster even If I am
eighty"
TO those who wondered how he con-
trived to preserve his youth so WELL
he vouchsafed this advice:
always surround yourself with
young people and you'll feel young
yourself. Never keep late hours. Live
regular life. and If you must dissi-
pate do 1t mildly. Above all else, don't
let yourself believe that you are get
ting old. A man who desires hap
p1neSs should always have a compan~
iona wife. Age has nothing to do
with It. One can be as lonely at
eighty as at eighteen"
His new bride is forty-four years
his junior and is a divorce.
Marriages Galore.
BY the marriage in Paris this week
Of Elsie Postiey Curran. daughter Of
former Commodore Clarence Postley.
| of the husbands brother, Guernsey
Curran, the knotted relations of the
two families became still more COM
picated and interviewer than ever.
i
| liant society wedding in this city sew
eral years ago, divorced Ross Amber
Curran, her first husband. Coinci-
dentally, Guernsey Curran was di-
vorced by his wife, both cases being
htigated in Paris to avoid the I'M
pleasant notoriety that would follow
| the ventilation of the case here. Last
week Mrs. Guernsey Curran, that was.
married Walworth Pierce, of Boston.
/ hnr 6rcf rrfo era he yyae q
Marie Burr Harmon and was con-
sidered one of the most attractive of
| the younger society matrons Of the
city. What effect the marriage of
Elsie Postley Curran to Guernsey
Curran will have on the couples re-
lations with the bridegroom's family.
/ which seemed to feel keenly the d.
vorce secured by the present bride
from Ross Amber Curran, is matter
of much speculation here. The sit
uation created by this second marri-
age of the former Elsie Postley into
the family is rather unique, and So
ciety here is afraid may lead to a
division of the family and their
friends.
Sues Preacher for $4,000, 900.
The friends of the Rev. DR.. Newell
Dwight Hills, of Plymouth Church,
were much surprised to learn this
week that he had been made a de-
PENDANT in a suit involving $40, ZOO, 900
filed against him in Victoria, B. c.,
alleging fraud and Misrepresentation
in coal land deals there. The fact
that the clergyman was interested in
land speculation in that section of
the world was unknown to his par
ishioners. Plymouth Church is the
old stronghold of the late Henry Ward
Beecher and has enrolled among its
active members some of the veal
thiest and most prominent men and
women in the city. There is ground
for believing that the clergyman was
used as a dummy in the transaction
by some of his well-to-do acquaint-
ances about the city and that he had
no share in any profits from the deal
in question.
DR.. Hills Is charged with having
procured options on 10000 acres of
coal lands near Staidgate on the rep
resentation that he was acting for
Leigh s. j. Hunt, we'll known capt.
talist. 1t Is asserted he did not rep
resent Leigh Hunt or others, but OBJ
tanned the options to endeavor TO, sell
them and ultimately made a deal with
James Moore. of Seattle, for the Yves
tern Steel Corporation. in which the
coal lands figure as assets and are
valued by the corporation at $780,
900, 900.
DR.. Hills is reported to have re-
Gently endeaverode to procure capital
in London and Paris for the develop
ment Of the property.
Chauffeurs as Lovers.
In the old days it used to be the
riding school. teacher who was the
dread of the solicitous mother with a
party, susceptible, not over sensible
daughter, but recent events in and
about Gotham indicate that the chauf-
feur has transplanted him as a soft
pedal love artist. Within the last
twelve months of the chu-chu car
navigators have enthroned themselves
in the hearts of their wealthy en-
| ployers' daughters and made off with
! them, as the bold knights of old were
accustomed to do. Attention to this
new danger was again directed this
week when Mrs. Margaret Madison, a
wealthy widow. applied to the SUI
preme Court for power to bring an
action to annul the marriage of her
f1fteen-year- daughter. Anna, to
her chauffeur on April 26th last. The
court promptly acquiesced in the ap-
plication and expressed surprise that
a chauffeur should be so foolhardy
as to subject himself to the prospect
of going to jail for twenty years for