The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-28
Charles I. the Monkey for Whose
Death Its Owners Asked
$4,000 900 Damages.

- He charming Baroness Ursula Bar
bara Won Kal!nowsky, OF Vienna and
New York, has set new price
upon broken hearts. BY her suit
against James Hurley. wealthy st.
Louis contractor and clubman. she has
sent quotations on fractured loves rocket
ing skyward Two and half millions.
in vulgar bourgeois figures. s2,500,ooo.
Is the value she places upon heart no
longer whole.
BY this claim she causes Miss Daisy
Markham, the London actress to bow
her head in humiliation, for Miss Marx
ham asked and received only paltry
quarter OF million for her broken heart.
The son Of nm earl gave Il TO her, TOO.
From which, although II is the record
verdict, we must conclude that Miss
Markham's bruised affections are, ior
some reason not readily apparent, worth
but one-tenth those Of the German Baron
ess And the heart was given TO the
wealthy Marquis Of Northampton, too.
The question arises; What is broken
heart really worth? How can it's injuries
be standardized?
Merely commercial minds are also core
~ puzzled by the fact that while the
English court placed so high a rating on
maidens heart and while u German noble
woman raises the ante ten times the
largest equivalent granted for whole
human life, which certainly includes
com implicitly disabled heart, was that
awarded Mrs. Katrina Trask for the
death OF her husband, the late multi
millionaire, Spencer Trask 100000.
This verdict did not however deter
the owners Of the trained monkey
Charles j. from asking 100000 for their
loss by his death.
Again jury gave six cents to his
parents for the killing of college youth
and another New York jury granted one
woman $4,000 for the loss of her leg But
while a Judge across the Hudson River
refused to permit any damages 10 be paid
for the same sort of loss. saving that
the remarkable modern efficacy of cork
legs must he taken into consideration
One baby's life was rated at $500 an
other was deemed 10 be worth the ex.
penscs OF burial, $50, and a third ac-
cordng to the Judge, had absolutely no
pecuniarv value
An actress has received $3.50 for an
injury to her eye that robbed her OF easy
facial expression, and milliner was re-
fused $4,000 although her shoulder was
so SCARED by an accident that she coulo
no longer wear a decolete gown. Her
shoulders, by the way. were unusually
beautiful
This confusion OF ratings suggests that
NC need Standardization of human
values. including broken hearts. and raises
the question why heart is accounted of
more worth than leg, why spurned af-
icctions bull the market while the loss
OF an eye or a les hears it. Why is love
worth more than life? Why are an &C
tress dubious affections OF more com
mercial value than rich philanthrop!st
life? And why should tilted lady get
$2,500.OO0 for her fractured heart while q
woman who lost both arms and both legs
in Il railroad accident received only $40,
600 The Baroness heart will be good
hereafter for all practical purposes. while
tho other womans members were not.
The Baroness Relationships logic Of the
situation friend says, is this 1t is
much better to be dead than to have been
robbed Of your hearts happiness, for with
out happiness life is less than nothing.
The Baroness says this false and eu-
sive Mr.. Hurley is her first love. That
in itself is a possession beyond price.
girls first love is better than widows
second or a divorcce's sixth. The Baron
css believes THAI she is allowing Mr.
Hurley TO escape lightly with the pay
mcnt Of two and half paltry millions.
We believe that if this broken-hearted
noblewoman secured actual Justice he
would forfeit all his fortune to her and
so to prison for the resi- of his life, there
To mediate on the sin OF fickeness. The
Baroness has a title and at Wiesbaden
their value. Is not the heart Of Baron