The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-06

1 lawyer, to rush the SulI 70 LElaAs My friends here and on the other siea give me much annoyance by continue
 ally asking me about the delay"
 well, why don't you study law
 yourself and try your own case?' sug~ | gested the clerk.
 That would be just the thing if ] ] had to earn my own living. don't 1 know of anything I'd like better" ans
 wered Mrs. Van Valkengurghs wlaa sometime ago was reported to be dtsa
 posed to drop the case Mrs Van 1 VaIlzenburgh's troubles with her hus-
 band are supposed to have originated i from the receipt of information fur
 n:shed to her over the telephone by "a
 green eyed woman" of unknown iden- | tity, and have been the talk of the | town for more than the prOYerbta4 | nine days assigned as the life of all
 wonders.
 While widows have been generally distributed by many learned judges
 into two great classes-"grass'' and l ''sod,'' Surrogate Fowler this week
 dealt judicial blow to the divorced | type of the grass variety, which
 would seem to put the term s'wfdovv'' i as applied to divorcee, out Of the 1e-
 The surogate's ruling grew out of
 the effort of Mrs. Augusta Temple
 Merritt to escape a State transfer tax on a bequest of a fund Of $66,00O left | to her by Mrs Julia Merritt the ! Two years before the elder Mrs Mer- Iftt's death, an agreement was made | by which the eon's wife should have i $2,S00 during her life or until she re
 married An additional evidence 0G | Mrs. Meritt's affection for the sons l former wife was the bequeSt-
 Mrs. Merritt sought to eVade an ap-
 prafser's tax Of per cent. on the fund
 under the section of the law providing | that the wife or widow of son. is
 only required to pay one per cent. tax
 'HThe. word widow g said the surr0-
 gate, 'has certain welI-dedued
 meaning, viz--a woman who has lost ! her husband by death and remains un- married. The words used to describe | a woman who has been divorced from her husband are equally free from ann | bigufty and are not now regarded a8 synonymous with the word widow. It would appear that it was not the in-. tentioA of the Legislature to include Ivithin- the significance of the words ! wife o~ widow of a som a divorced wife cf a sou-'' The Surrogate's opinion closes bW sta ting that the appraiser propery lew 1 jed a 5 per cent. tax on the inheritance and dirc2ted that an order be Issued | accordingly.
 Lillian Russell, the other night un-
 C. nsciousiy brought her first husband
 ana Alexander P. Moore, publisher oE
 the Pittsburgh Leader, who is shortly
 WalIacks Theatre. The fair diva who though the e1lrnanacks aecuse her
 of being fifty this year, VOWS she's but forty-foi1r, did net plan the meeting or intend it. She just stumbled Ante 1 it by accident. She and her new
 hance went 10 the IT satre to see Dis
 raeIP' and tsccupIed box overlo0lEinE
 the orchestra pit. Down In the pitt
 as they took their seats Harry Bra
 ham, leader of tEe musicians was working a fiddle fer his dear life. The trombone man HokEd him in the ribs
 so hard that he almost tumb'ed over
 On top Of fat German blowing a flute. Turning round BTahams who
 was -hs first lord of tLe manse ob-
 served his former spouse radiant in a
 gorgeous new gown looking squarely toward him. There was mystical nOIe of queenly tIlrmph in her gaza
 but Ut a sign of recoErE ton that she
 had ever seen the loWiy fiddler before in her life. It is twenty-szz years since they were divorced. In that time Braham has moved forward bue
 little, while his one time wife has be-
 come the acknowledged Queen Of com fe opera and the popular fetfch oG thousands of beauty WorshfppeTss Prospective husband No. I did not dis vousness until after the show and tasz he had a big laugh all tO hinaself. BEa1s
 hem thought at 6rst that the joke was
 on him but now he thinks 1t was oB
 Moore
 For failure to prosecute. the DistrEce Attorney has caused the indictments found iI 1910 against Kit Dowden and
 Mary WE4iar~s for robbing WaTnsE Van Norcen of S,e0e to be disEnisssd. of the Van Nurden Trust Company | this city and had an allowance q
 something Ike s5n.oGa g year which he spent freely about ttI7n- The alleged robbery he said occurred fn front oe the EaldGrf-AStcl ia late in the even l ing He charged that the woman buTl<ed into fiTn as re was leaving the hotel and drew a wallet containing the money from his oveTcoat pocket He did not miss the wallet or the
 The woman denied that they had taI- en it.
 When searched it was not found on
 them. They told an entirely different story of their meeting with Van Nor
 den, claiming that he had taken them for a taxi-cab ride and visited tha young Van Norden, who had been efven Van Norden's Magazine by his
 father as a toy with which to keep him busy, gave up that publication now supposed to be living. Enort8 to induce him to return to pFoseeutG the women proving unayalltnes taa district attorney asked the court to dismiss the indictments. Counsel for the women claimed that the young millionaire Feared the netorfety that the case promised to excite H put to trial and decided tc let the case so by default
 There is one real mad man In town these days and his name is August Hecksher, a banker of this city. some cne-a jealous, enyfous woman it @ SuSpected-gaVe out a report the oth@ CT day that Miss Antoinette HecEsheEs his attractive looking daughter had broken her Engagement with the Hon orab'e Oliver Sylvian Balloi Brett old est son and heir of the Viscount Esh- CT. Miss Hecksher and her mother are now in Paris buying her wedding trousseau and everything between tha couple is going along swimmtnglE, with not a ruffle evident anywhere The marriage is set for the spring ana ae- cording to the present outlook VIII be one Of the smart events of the poGa Easter season.
 Ths father and traders Of the youna woman, who has moved in the best Gotham society since her debut taa years ago, and is enc of the cleVsrssi women fencers in the city VasHa shocked the other morning by ions newspaper aecounts of the breaking oE