Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-12
Berlin Suffragette Springs Original
Argument for a Change in
the Law.
WILL SEEK CANADIAN HUSBANDS
First Propose to Become Subjects of
Great Britain.
HIGH COST OF LIVING IS CITED
This Factor Blamed for Failure of
Men to Wed.
COLOSSAL SURPLUS OF FRAULEINs
Smart Young Women Sent 20 Prison
for Three Years for working
on the CreduIity of Seekers
After Excitement.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

BY MALCOLM CLARKE.
BERLIN. March u.-(Special to The Beef
A novelty in the way Of suffragette
threats is that contained in letter to the
Tageblatt The writer threatening that
German girls will comnete with their Eng
lish cousins for Canadian husbands, owing
to Prussas obsolete franchise system.
The writer, who appears to be a suf-
fragetto with keen insight into the politi-
cal affairs OF the nation, says:
It see by the newspapers that Canada is
looking for 5000 brides and that there are
5000 eligible bachelors there without suit
able feminine acquaintance. Give us the
fullest possible information about condl-
lions in Canada, because we intend going
there to find husbands We do not see
why English women should snatch the best
catches from under the very noses Of us
German girls.
"Snce the German government pays no
attention whatever to the colossal surplus
Of German girls. and as the high price of
meat Is making It increasingly difficult
| for respectable girls to get married. the
| girls Of our circle have unanimously de-
/ cided to become British subjects, and to
/ emigI ate to Canada in order that the as
pirations of the Canadian bachelors may
be gratifed The Prussian government
will then realize that through its obsolete
! franchise system the young women to
whom the vote is refused have been driven
into the arms of England"
Worked the GuIIIIbIe.
one of the most extraordinary stories
that has ever come before a court of law
was told in remarkable blackmail case
which has Just ended in a fashionable
young woman, Emma Helm, being SEN
: n
prisoner made living by charlatanry ac-
companied by certain amount of skin in
hypnotism and palmistry, with the aid Of
which she pandered to the cravings for
sensation and excitement of a number OF
/ the idle rich She rented d handsome flat
fuFTf'sfed wttff luxury. one room of which
was decorated furnished and dIaped en-
| tirely in red, and II was here that the
seances took place at which Emma enter,
tained her fashionable clientele
The trial arose out Of an action for ex
torting money brought by a former serv-
ant girl named Kruger and it was this
witness who gave the evidence which led
to Emma's conviction.
Fortune for Philanthropy.
The sum Of $125,OOO was recently left by
an Cctogenarian woman named L4izler. who
has died and the bulk Of il goes to the
railwaymens home and blind asylum.
Deceased. the widow OF a railway station
master, had been blind since her thirty
eighth birthday. She saved most Of the
money herself
Hitting the Krupps.
Herr Hue, who represents an Essen con-
stituency, attacked the firm of Krupp He
admitted that the firms expenditure on
social institutions was large but said
the profits were enormous. He calculated
that the Krupp family alone had cleared
Sl,6OOOOO i'm the last three years and de-
clared that the industry had squeezed the
whole district out like lemon. According
to the report OF the Essen house inspec-
ton, 40 per cent Of the dwellings con-
sisted Of two rooms, in many cases with
one bed for four or five persons
WiIheIm's Trip Innocent,
1t is authoratively stated that the en-
peror's coming trip to Corfu is intended
to be nothing but holiday and that there
Is no question Of an official visit TO Italy
The emperor will touch both Austrian and
Italian soil, but there will be no special
greeting In Austria, and according to exist
ing plans, no meeting with the king Of
Italy All political combinations" are
said to be baseless.
Emperor as Farmer.
Many members OF the distinguished COM
pany which filled the spacious hall Of the
Prussian HerTenhaus for a setting of the
German Agricultural council had come
expressly to see the emperor. Few ex-
pected to hear him, but the gathering had
the interesting experience OF being pres
ent while their sovereign added yet one
more item to the list of diverse roles in
which he has appeared before the public
On this occasion he was practical agri
culturist, describing in graphic terms.
spiced with humorous remarks the success
full reclamation Of waste land, made at his
own initiative on his farm, at Cadinen
MOrmOns Disliked.
While in England nothing has been done
so far to stop the work of Mormon mission
aries strenuous measures were taken in
Germany last year. There had been a com
munity OF Latter-day Saints In this city
for years but Il had not been going well,
and when Mr.. Mckay, the head OF the
Mormon church In Central Europe, came
with twenty apostles to brace things they
were promptly expelled from the country
as "obiectional aliens"
The Naval Game Again.
debate has taken place on the navy
In the Reichstag. Herr schrader, a radical,
called attention 70 the Misrepresentation
with which scare-mOngers in Great Britain
have famed the flames of alderman
feeling. All along It has been Britain, and
mot Germany, which has forced the mace