Evening star., 1914-04-18
REBEL
AGAINST MARRIAGE
Objection to Matrimony Made
to Order Amounts Almost
to a Strike.
PRINCE OF WALES ALSO
is SAID TO BE Baking
Church Of the New Ideal, Which
Admits No Men to Membership.
Holds First Services.
Foreign Correspondence az The sts,


LONDON, April 10. 1914
european courts face what is practi-
cally widespread strike on the part of
pr1ncesses against matrimonv made to or
der individual protests against being
made a.victim of the old system. whereby
royal children have no voice in the se,ec-
tion or life partne are as old az tbe
system itself but the stand now takan
particularly by the princesses is said to
appear Ike concert OF action. II is +,
olow to the royal matchnakers who
oiaine poth the scarcity of princessas and
'ile CROWN of feminism for the failure
" tneir pet system. In this connection
!. IS known that many of the roval dow
ayers are inclined TO lay the responsibility
Tor TINS state of affairs on the fair sho,,i
ders of Princess Patricia of Conna,,sT,.
uaushter of the governor general NJ
canada. who is said during her residence
IN the new world. to have acquired GER
tam ooious democratic ideals not al all
In harmony with her station.
The recent birth of a son to the Duchess
OF Brunswick, the only daughter of Em-
peror William of Germany has served 10
eail attention again to the small number
OF prlncesses. and has given further force
to the excuse of the royal bachelors thar
they are unable to find suitable partners
OF their own rank. This excuse NAV or
may not be entirely valid but il i u,
dountedly true that both the young men
distlnct disinclination toward matrimony
made to order
among the eligible princesses who seem
IN no hurry to accept the partners select
ed for them by their royal parents are
the elder daughters of the Emperor Mich
olas of Russia. notably the Grand Duchess
latiana. the beauty Of the Russian i'm
perial family, and Princess Elizabeth of
Roumania. The latter is really a beauti-
full girl. and any debutante might envy
her perfect features, her cloud of lovely
hair and her very expressive eyes Both
she and her younger sister, Princess Ma
RE. have inherited the wonderful Coburg
elegance, coupled with the half gay, half
sad charm of their native land.
But the strike Is not confined entirely to
feminine sprigs of royalty. It is even
said that the Prince of Wales the most
eligible of royal bachelors. has turned up
his nose at the suggestion Of a union
with very high placed but extremely
unattractiye princess.
New Church Excludes Men.
The Church of the New Ideal. which
admits no men to membership, has held
its first services. The church is located
at Wallasey, the newly constituted bor-
ough on the Cheshire side of the Mersey.
Some two hundred women assembled for
the inaugural sermon, delivered by the
Rev. Hatty Baker of Plymouth. Men
were vigorously excluded
A preliminary declaration of reasons
for the formation of the church sets
forth the epoch-making advance in the
self-consciousness of women as a sex"
and women's realization OF equality with
man in religious as well as other spheres
OF life Their exclusion hitherto from
any share in conducting church services
is referred to as an exclusion by which
the general progress of humanity has
been delayed.
The Rev. Hatty Baker, who wore what
is described as white choker" and a
black gown of conventional clerical type
took as her subject "Goo's Glorious
Ideal" She declared that churches as
founded and conducted by men obscured
this ideal, and the present effort was to
create a church of the future which
would be along the lines of the ideal
Abraham. she said. as long as he acted
on his own initiative made many mis-
takes and twice had to be told by God to
take the advice of his wife, and the great
est tragedy the world had ever witnessed
would never have taken place if Plate
had listened to his wife. The male bias
had obscured the message of Christ in
the past and the present church would
do away with such bias. The preacher
warned her adherents that they must eX-
pect persecution and ridicule. In the
evening service to which men were ad-
mitted was held