The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-11-05
PAYLOWA COMES
HERE DECEMBER 1
ARRANGEMENTS WERE MADE nv
HsH MANAGEMENT AND To-
CAL PEOPLE YESTERDAY
VIII Appear With Her Famou. svr,.
phony Orchestra In Court The.
stre-oniy Tours LARGE
Cities.

Dennite arrangements were cam
pieted yesterday between several To-
cal men and Shirley Olympus renre-
sentative OF the Pavlowa Ballet Inc
Tor the appearance OF Mile Arr.
Paviowa and her Imperial Russian
Ballet and symphony Orchestra ar
the Court theatre Tuesday night ne
cember 1. The Pavlowa Appearance
here VIII be for single Performance
ana In order to insure Il the local
men have been called upon to ruar-
antee a very large sum OF money
The expense OF Pavlowa's comnanv
runs close to $4,000 a week. and az
sne cannot possibly play more than
eight times a week. the guarantee for
a single performance is seen at n
glance to be very large.
Only the largest cities in the rrni,a,
states VIII be visited by Paylowa mi.
year, and her tour will be OF A vnir,-
wind nature. Prior TO coming IN
Wheeling she will play single ner-
formances in Washington. PhIladeI-
phia, Richmond. Va. Buffalo cIeve-
land. Cincinnati and other large cen
tiers. The Pavlowa season onened
last night at the Metropolitan Opera
House. New York. where hundreds
were unable to gain admittance. The
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over to the father Is no longer followed
proper person. Courts now look deensr
INTO the facts surrounding each case
L Li,u Justiee - usually In cases OF this
Aihu tempered with mercy.
Reiict OF DARK Ages.
Under the laws OF West Virginia On.
or the disabilities that married ~oroeo
labor under Is that they cannot he fhs
SSaeeut TT, OF an estate where will has
oeeh Iett. nor can they be adrniniStra-
triN OF an estate where there has been
no Will This law r. a relict OF m.
I ,hI ages when II was the BELIEF that
De influenced TO wrongfully use an es-
tate having been prompted to do so by
The statement often heard that n
woman cannot be the guardian OF her
own children IL not strictly true in
long as she does not remarry. A mar
rled woman cannot be the guardiarr- OF
any enid IN this state. This law and
the one above mentioned only apple.
10 married women.
Under the West Virginia law an IL
seEiumate child cannot inherit from its
rather but can from its mother Why
a child cannot inherit from the man
whom a legal investigation has declared
70 De Its father IL more than common
sense can really understand. Under
this law the father might publicly adj
mt the parentage OF a child and yet
that child could not inherit one farth-
ing or Its fathers property at the death
OF the father A law allowing the child
to inherit from its father would be &
proper law.
AS TO voting. West Virginia. as well
as most OF the other states OF the union
place women In the same category as
idiots. pauPers and unnaturalized for
elgners' that Is a woman cannot vote
nor can any or the others enumerut ted
, above. This law is the one that mas
been altered In those states which give
the right OF suffrage TO the members
OF the feminine gender. In this state.
as well as Pennsylvania and Ohio n wo-
man cannot hold an elective office In
! West virginia she may be a member OF
the state Humane Society board and
she II legally entitled to-