The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-30

lIIdI OTQer III the case. Mcbelldn aI-
 ter arranging for the production here
 of several new plays by his brother
 (. M S. Mcclellan, author of some of
 the most popular of the Casino musf-
 cal shows of few years ago, will re-
 turn to England in three weeks.
 In marked contrast with the atti-
 tude of other fond but resentful fath-
 CTS, the position assumed by Profess
 sor Michael I. Pupin of Columbia
 University, toward his new son-in-
 law, Hugh Willoughby, an English
 horseman, who eloped with his beau
 tiful and accomplished daughter, Va
 vAra, Is highly interesting. The brides
 father has forgiven the young couple
 and says he will welcome them home
 when they get back into town from
 their improvised honeymoon. which
 they are spending in New England.
 Professor Pupin is well known to the
 scientific world as the inventor of the
 Pupin Underground cable which makes
 possible the transmission of telephone
 messages under ground, and which he
 sold to the American Bell Telephone
 Co., for $50000O. His daughter be- came acquainted with Willoughby at
 one of the local horse shows at which
 she has been for years a regular at tendant. Subsequently she took rid ing lessons from the good looking Englishman and fell in love with him. Fearing that the father of the bride might interfere the couple marched off to Justice of the Peace In Hoboken, across the river from the city and were married In the pres ence of a few witnesses summoned by the justice. When notified of the marriage, Professor Pupin said he was surprised but would make the best of it under the circumstances.
 The place where the couple were married is the same in which Flor ence Croker. daughter of Richard Croker, the former leader of Tammany Hall, now living on his estate in Ire ! land fled to be married to James
 Breen. her riding master a little more than eighteen months ago. Proceed | ings are now under way to annul this marriage, which the family of the bride from the beginning refused to recognize. The large number of TO- mances in which professional horse | men have figured within recent years presents a phase of the social life of New York that is curious to under stand.
 Twice within a relatively few years horsemen have won their way into the family of the late Giovanni Nor issini, one time partner of the late Jay Gould, grandfather of Lady De- cies. Victoria Morissini the oldest daughter ran off with the family | coachman and is now exiled in some quiet country convent. Guila, the youngest daughter. last fall married a mounted policeman, who stopped her runaway team on the Speedway | the income of her s2,000,000 estate. Then there was Charles Wilson. train- | CT for Alfred G. Vanderbilt, who was followed to England by the beautiful Grace Schency and was disowned by l her family. Still another strange
 ~f O-a for horsemen was that of the former Mrs. Diedrichs. wife of a millionaire Pittsburgh steel man who ran off to Europe with her English coachman
 to whom she has since been married on the other side. To society these to blame say some; arrant womanly stiffness say others is the cause.
 Andrew Carnegies cabled interview from Skibo Castle, Scotland, in which he deprecated the oStentatiouS display and ceremonial in connection with the coronation of King George and ex- pressed the conviction that it would be the last coronation England would probably ever see, has stirred up no end of discussion in the city. There is a suspicion that the Iron Master II was playing to the gallery in the hope of pleasing a certain element on-l this side who are fond of hearing the eagle scream. He has been much an- noyed of late by the statements of John w. Gates and others that he compelled the organization of the bil- lion dollar steel trust by the active steel war he waged against compet- ing mills and the charge that as con- for his retirement from the
 field, exacted $500, 100000 for his inter- ests, twice what he had previously agreed to sell out to Henry C. Prick of Pittsburgh. It is the widespread that the interview, which was unsolicited was given out to di- vert attention from the Congressional Investigation now on in Washington. It came as big surprise to many of his fellow Scotch countrymen in the city and it is likely that he will hear from it on his return home.
 With the trend toward the higher education of women reaching new high record proportions, Dr. James Monroe Taylor, President of vassar College which has been obliged to re- fuse admission to 300 applicants for next season, says there is practically no difference between the girl to-day and the girl of twenty-five years ago. He takes direct issue with those who nave been decrying the higher educa- ton of women and claim that it makes them less interested in mar -iage and the obligations of mother hood than other women. Where it turned out but four graduates in 1867, E vassar this year matriculated 22S sen ors out of it's total enrolment of l. )OO
 "The college girl marries as early md has as many children as any oth- ,r girl of the same social set She loes not come from the class which K narries early and without any thought of the future because it has nothing to lose and because it is just l E IS easy to support two persons on nothing as it is to support one. |.
 While I agree it should be no con- ,ern of the women's college whether Or