SUICIDE INCREASES
If RUSSIAN ARMY
Long Periods of Service in Iso
lated Districts Held Par
tially Responsible.
OFFICERS AFFECTED ALSO
Prolongation of Term of Service
to Three Years and One-Half
Sot Regarded as Apt to
Lighten Homesickness.
ST. PETERSBURG. May 30. (Spe
cial.) The "Razvedchik." the semi-official
organ of the Russian array, pub
lished some startling: figures about the
extent of the suicide mania anions Rus
sian troops, quoting a report recently
presented to a Moscow learned society
by a well-known military surgeon. lr.
Prozoroff. It appears that in 1905 no
fewer than 144 cases of suicide oc
curred in the Russian army. In the
following- year the number rose to 192.
Since then it steadily kept on growing,
being 210 in 1907, 242 in 1908. 23 in
1909, 268 in 1910. 347 in 1911 and 405 in
1912. Within seven years, therefore,
the number -of suicides Increased about
150 per cent.
The figures for 1913 have not been
published, but, according: to Dr. Prozo
roff, the first eight months of the year
showed 377 cases of suicide and 18
cases of attempts at suicide. That this
mania is not confined to common sol
diers Is shown by the fact that out of
the 377 cases of suicide Just mentioned
72 occurred among officers.
The Russian papers point out the
conditions in the German army are
also grave enough. It has recently
been calculated that since 1870 the total
number of suicides In the German army
has amounted to 10.439, which makes
about 240 cases a year. In addition
there yearly occurs, on an average, in
the German army from 130 to 160 at
tempts at suicide.- Nevertheless the
figures of the Russian army are con
siderably higher and, what is more im
portant still, they exhibit an unmis
takable tendency to rise, whereas the
German figures are declining steadily.
It Is pointed out that a large por
tion of the troops are stationed in des
olate places in Central Asia or Siberia.
Only to a- slighter degree operates in
the same direction the pretty general
rule to draft the rescruits for service
In other localities than those in which
they are raised, so that a soldier from
Little Russia often finds himself con
demned to live three years amidst
strange surroundings in Poland, whose
language even Is unknown to him, and
a soldier from Poland has to pass the
most impressionable years of his life,
say, in the Caucasus or the wild soli
tude of the Perm forests.
Again it is considered that the pro
longation of the term of military serv
ice to three years and a half is not
likely to afford relief to the depressed
epirtts of those who are Inclined to
tret after their homes.
OLD MASTERPIECE FOUND
Restoration Reveals Signature
Painter Under Outer Coat.
of
VIENNA. May 30. The Lemberg
Journal says that a genuine Titian has
been discovered in the picture gallery
belonging to Count Ossilinski. The por
trait represents an elderly nobleman la
a fur mantle. The lace is in an excel
lent state of preservation, and gives
the impression of a master hand at
the first glance.
The remainder of the picture, how
ever, has been painted over in several
places by an Incapable person. The
picture was dispatched to the Vienna
Art Academy to be restored at the re
quest of a high PolisTi aristocrat.
During this process, the custodian
discovered Titian's "Titianius P.," un
derneath a superficial coating of paint.
The portrait is of Don Giovanni de Cas
tro, dates from the year 1516, and is
described as a magulflcently beautiful
specimen of the master's work.
UNITED EMPIRE IS DREAM
Fig-lit Against Home Rule Weakens
.Nation, Says Loyal Englishman.
LONDON. May SO (Special.) Rev
Father Vaughan, answering a question
as to what he thought of the prospects
of the home rule bill, said: "I am no
follower of politics, but an observer
of men, and the only thing I can say
in answer to this question is that hav
ing traveled over the world for the last
two years, I. as an Englishman, loyal
and true to King and country, am sat
isfied that those who are co-operating
in the rejection of home rule are busy
ing themselves in weakening the foun
dations of the empire, not merely near
home, but even in our far-reaching do
minions. in Australia. Canada, India
and South Africa.
"I long to see what we have not now
an empire with every section of it
united in a federation of Christian
friendship."
LARGE POWERS ARE GIVEN
Authorities, Under Bill, May Pro
hibit Use or Sale of Absinthe.
BERLIN, May 30. The government's
new licensing bill, now before the
Reichstag for action, contains an
teresting , paragraph, of which no no
tice has been taken until now. It
gives the licensing authorities power
to restrict or to forbid entirely the
use or absinthe in any of its forms.
Thus far absinthe has never become
popular in Germany, and there has
been no occasion to regulate Its pro
duction and sale, but the authorities
desire to have a weapon against Its
possible extended introduction. It is
reported that the Reichstag wiM ac
cept the bill, and thus far there have
been no protests from the liquor trade
against auy or its provisions.
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DRASTIC LAWS OPPOSED
Two Sections of Members Leave
Council When Party Passes Act.
JOHANNESBURG. May 30 (Special.)
A situation which isbelieved to b
unprecedented in British colonial par
liamentary annals was created at th
Transvaal Provincial Council. when
the members of the government a
Dutch opposition left the house in
body in protest against the action
the Labor party in forcing through
legislation declared to be too drastl
by the law officers of the Crown.
The Labor members remained an
passed the legislation ln question,
which deprives the government of near
ly all its powers.
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ANDER. A rather unusual photograph was caught recently of the two
greatest living actors of Great Britain Sir Herbert Tree and Sir
George Alexander as they appear in private life, without the tinsel
and glare of the stage. The photograph was made Just as the two
foremost Thespian exponents were recently leaving Tandridge
Church, London, and entering a park.
JAPAN URGES PEACE
Envoys Sent to Remove Preju
dice of Australia. "
WAR RUMORS ARE DENIED,
Stories of Impending Invasion Infect
All English Official Circles and
Xaval Preparations Are Made
by Dominions on Bis Scale.
LONDON, May 30. The Japanese
Government has become bo seriously
concerned over the anti-Japanese spirit
that is being cultivated in Australia,
New Zealand and Canada that missions
have been sent to England and the
Dominions to counteract this feeling.
In Australia the antagonism against
Asiatic immigration is even more bit
ter than in New Zealand. Canada or
the "Vyestern states of America. It Is
believed that the Japanese have de
signs on Australia. It is for this rea
son that conscription has been Intro
duced into the Dominion and the start
has been made In. building a navy.
Among the stones current in Aus
tralia is one to the effect that a map
of that country is hung up in every
schoolroom in Japan, to which the at
tention of the students is directed as
being that of a land which should form
part of the Japanese empire, une
Japanese deny this and say that the
only Justification for the invention is
the cry of To the boutn Beas, wnicn
Is often heard in Japan, but which
means nothing more than a movement
of commercial expansion, and has no
political significance.
The feeling of antagonism of wnicn
the Japanese complain is not confined
to Australians and New Zealanders.
Englishmen visiting those dominions
are infected with It. General Sir Ian
Hamilton, Inspector-General of Oversea
Forces, who is paying an official visit
to the Antipodes, referred to it in a
speech that he delivered at Wellington.
New Zealand.
Answering the question why extraor
dinary precautions were being taken in
Australia and New Zealand, he said it
was because of the shortening of dis
tances caused by the advent of elec
tricity and aeroplanes and of high ex
plosives. The Pacific, he said, was the
meeting ground not of nations but of
continents, where it might be decided
whether Asiatics or Europeans should
guide the destinies of the world.
Other reasons no less obvious were
under the surface. In the Malay States
a fine -people were going down before
cheap coolie labor, and China showed
signs of breaking up. These were il
lustrations of the change-evolving
chaos, resembling the time of the
French Revolution. Foreigners, who
lived on rice and monopolized business,
were invading British countries. New
Zealand was close to the danger zone,
and New Zealand was no less eager,
ready and willing to help her big sis
ter. AVIATORS FLY IN STORM
Kxt inordinary Competition Held by
German Army Airmen.
BERLIN, May 30. The officers of
the army flying corps participated In
a 'competition of an unusual nature
this week. Three aeroplanes, each
piloted by an officer, started simul
taneously from the garrisons of
Cologne. Posen. Kerlngsberg. Halber-
stadt. Metz. Straasburg, Darmstadt and
Graudenz (East Prussia) for Doberitz,
the exercising ground of the guard
regiments stationed In Berlin and the
neighborhood. Each garrison is about
300 miles from Doberitz, and the offi
cers had to follow an exactly pre
scribed route. Each officer was ac
companied by an observer, who signaled
with a newly adopted system at cer
tain points on the way and dropped
TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND,
messages over certain towns. The
weather was wet and etormy, but each
squadron reached Doberitz intact.
The best flight was made by the
Cologne officers, who reached Doberitz
together three hours after leaving
Cologne, having made an average of
103 miles an hour. The Cologne pilots
had the wind with them most of the
way, while those from some other parts
of the country had a hard struggle
against wind and rain.
The military authorities are extreme
ly pleased with the results achieved.
HORSE BOUGHT BY MILE
Peasants Invent Xovel Methods
Transferring Property Title.
in
GENEVA. May 30. In the Canton of
Argrovle a strange custom exists in
the selling and buying of horses among
the peasants, who delight in outvying
each other in discovering original
methods.
A few days ago. at the village of
Sulz, a peasant bought a horse from
another at the rate of 200,000 a mile.
The buyer thought he had a bargain.
but when the horse' was measured by a
veterinary surgeon, from nose to tail,
the price worked out at J470 about
S150 more than it was worth.
A lawsuit followed, but on the sug
gestion of the judge an arrangement
was reached out of court.
GAME PRESERVATION AIM
Russian Minister Proposes to Utilize
Forests of Kuban.
ST. PETERSBURG. May 30. (Spe
cial.) M. Kasso, Russian Minister of
.ducation, has brought forward
scheme for the preservation of the rarer
kinds of game, such as the bison and
ibex.
He proposes to apprdpriate state for
ests covering an area of over 850.000
acres in the province of Kuban in the
Caucasus to form a park where the
animals would be allowed to run abso
lutely wild.
The building of towns or villages
would be forbidden, and neither farmer
nor mining operations would be al
lowed.
ARMORED' AIRSHIPS BUILT
Steel Shield' Protects Two-Seated Bi
planes to Be Tested Soon.
PARIS. May 30. Six armored aero
planes will undertake their official
trials soon at the camp of Mallly be
fore military experts. It is understood
that they are the only machines so
far which have come up to the-preliminary
qualifications imposed by the
authorities.
They i are two-seated biplanes, and
the place where the pilot and passen
gers sit is surrounded by a steel shield,
which cannot be pierced by rifle shots
at a distance of more than 750 yards.
They are equipped with 85-horsepower
motors, and have a speed of 65 miles an
hour.
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EPICURES ON PILGRIMAGES
Tours to Be Made to Cities Re-J
nowned for Cookery.
PARIS, May 30. (Special.) A dozen
English epicures, active members of the
Gourmands' League, have decided to
organize aj series of pilgrimages to all
the towns and villages of France re
nowned for their cookery or whose
names are enrolled on the scroll of faraa
by reason of some famous delicacy that
is theirs - exclusively
T.he first pilgrimage undertaken by
the gourmands will occur in a few
weeks to the ancient town of Troyes.
the home of the "andouillette" (a small
sausage).
Suffrage Poll Taken In France.
PARIS, May 30. (Special.) The bal
lot organized by Le Journal in order
to ascertain how many women In
France desire to vote closed a few
days ago, in all. 407,194 voting papers
have been received from all parts of
France, signed with names of women
expressing a demand for a vote. In 107
cases the printed formula had been al
tered to "I do not demand the vote."
WAGNER HEIR CASE
NOW LEGAL TANGLE
Isolde, Wife of Munich Con
ductor, Makes Claim to Be
Child of Composer.
SQUABBLE IS 7 IN COURT
I Woman, Aged' 49 Vears, Starts Suit,
Aim or Wlucta Is to Decide Chil
dren of First and 'Second Hus
' bands of Mrs Von Bulo-yv.
BERLIN, May 30. An unedifying
family squabble has at last brought up
for Judicial determination the vexed
question of how many of Frau Cosima
Wagner's children can claim paternity
of the great operatic composer, and
how many are the offspring ot her first
husband, the pianist and conductor,
Hans ven Bulow. The case, which was
opened at Bayreuth, takes the form of
an action by Fraru Isolde Beldler, wife
of the Munich conductor, to be recog
nized as the daughter of Richard Wag
ner. This suit Is based upon the follow
ing circumstances. Cosima Wagner's
five children were all born during her
first marriage, which was finally dis
solved in January, 1870, but there has
never been any question that Richard
Wagner was the father of the two
youngest, Siegfried and Eva, who is
now the wife of Houston Stewart Cham
berlain, author of "The Foundations of
the Nineteenth Century." Just as cer
tain does it appear to be that Bulow
was the father of the two eldest daugh
ters, Daniela and Blandine.
Doubt Only ta One Case.
Only In the case of Frau Cosima'a
third daughter, Isolde, the present
plaintiff, does there seem to have been
any doubt. On certain biographical
works she is entered as the offspring
of Bulow, but in others she is de
scribed as belonging rightly to her
mother's second union. Among the lat
ter authorities is one of so much weight
as Glasenapp, according to whom
"Wagner and Cosima von Buiow's sense
of belonging to one another asserted
itself In '."
Now Frau Beidler was .born in April,
1865. But the strongest point in favor
of her contention appears to be that
until last year she was treated by the
Inmates of the Haus Wahnfried as a
member of the Wagner family. The
composer himself dedicated poems to
her as his daughter, and her grand
father, Liszt, in correspondence ad
dressed her as "Fraulein Isolde Wag
ner." In the official notice of Richard Wag
ner's death, published In Bayreuth in
1883, mention is made of his "Widow
Cosima and children of bis marriage,
Isolde. Eva. and Siegfried."
Woman lTpset to Lean of Doubt.
Frau Beldler herself pleads that until
the middle of last year she had been
under the firm belief that she was
Richard Wagner's daughter. Some
months previously professional differ
ences of opinion had - arisen between
her husband and Siegfried Wagner, and
this quarrel led to an estrangement be
tween herself and her mother. Event
ually all friendly intercourse between
the two households ceased. Then, on
June 30, 1913, she received a letter from
a lawyer, which, on Siegfried Wagner's
instructions, was addressed to her as
,'Frau Isolde Beidler. nee von Bulow."
Naturally she was much upset to find,
in the full maturity of her years, doubts
cast upon her relationship, to the most
famous of modern musicians, and she
wrote to her mother, begging her to
put an end to all uncertainty on the
subject. Frau Cosima Wagner replied
somewhat oracularly in a letter, of
which she had written merely the sig
nature, that her daughter had "created
a situation which demanded judicial de
cision." Acting upon this hint Frau
Beidler brought the present action
against her mother.
ENGLISH TALK DRY NAVY
HIGH OFFICIALS LRGE 1UEV
GIVE UP GROG RATIONS.
Plan SuBgested to Increase Pay of Sail
ors Who Agree Not to Use Liquor
While ta Service.
LONDON May 30. While it has not
been suggested that the British Ad
miralty follow the example of Secre
tary Daniels and prohibit the use of
wines and liquors In the navy, a move
ment is afoot to induce the, men to
give up drink.
Admiral Sir G. King-Hall, speaking
of this movement, said that temper
ance In the navy was making progress
all along the line, but there was still
room for much Improvement. He con
demned the practice of giving out grog
and said 50 per cent of the men would
give it up if some small addition to
their pay were substituted. He hoped
some First Lord of the future would
take up the matter with wisdom and
boldness. It would mean adding only
another $300,000 to the pay of the men
to bring about the reform, which would
lead to a decided Increase in efficiency.
It is said.
In the Indian army the progress of
temperance is remarkable. According
to officers back from India, about 60
per cent of the. .British soldiers there
are total abstainers.
PRESIDENT IS DICTATOR
CHANGES IN CONSTITUTION
CHINA AID TO OFFICIAL.
OF
Part In Affatm Given to Vniif
China nnd Rumor Says Exclusion
Mir Lead to Rebellion.
PEKIN. May SO. (Special.) The
convention appointed to amend the
provisional constitution has completed
its task. Extensive powers are con
ferred on President Yuan Shih-Kai, but
that is hardly worth, considering, since
he has wielded dictatorial authority
since the dissolution of Parliament-
The amended .constitution is of little
importance, since- it may be torn up
or re-amended "ad Infinitum" merely
at the convenience of the government.
The essential - feature of the political
situation In China remains. entirely un
changed namely, that Yuan Shih-Kai
is a dictator. -
The amendments, however, provide
some formal changes not without inter
est. The cabinet and premier disap-
pear and also, - apparently, the senate.
Departmental ministers hereafter will
3IAY 31,' 1914.
be responsible directly to the president,
who will be served by a secretary of
state instead of by a premier.
An' advisory council will be formed
upon which the president will depend
for sanction in dealing with Parlia
ment. Some sort of an elective assem
bly is arranged by a body nominated
by the government. Its powers are not
likely to be extensive or of a character
seriously representative of the people.
The advisory council will, of course,
be nominated, as also the convention
which will draw up the permanent con
stitution. Whether Yuan" Shih-Kai is wise in
excluding Young China from any voice
in the affairs of state remains to be
seen. The constitution aa amended
bears not the slightest resemblance to
the one casually prepared at Nanking
two years ago and will certainly em
bitter the feelings of the whole revo
lutionary party against the president
and may before long lead to a further
rebellion. i uan Shih-Kai can justify
ENGLISH SOCIETY STIRRED OVER
SACKVILLES.
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Earl De La Warr. 3
his arbitrary assumption of power only
by the successful use of that power in
the future.
ENGLISH SOCIETY AGOG
EARL,
DIVORCED. SOW TO
SINGLES LIFE AGAIN.
TRY
Forty-live-Tear-Old Gilbert George
Reginald Sackville Watched aa
Is Jerome Bonaparte.
LONDON, May 30. Society is astir
over the arrival here on the Mauretania
from New York of Earl de la Warr,
who returned. It is announced, to be
gin a life of single blessedness. He has
been visiting in new xora ior some
time, while his wlfa was getting a di
vorce from him. Soon after he learned
that the" divorce had been granted he
started home. His name is Gilbert
George Reginald Sackville and he is
the eighth Earl de la warr. lie mar
ried first Muriel Agnes Brassey, who
divorced him in 1902, and then the
daughter of Colonel Tredcroft, who has
Just KOt a divorce. He is 45 years
old. He has two daughters and a son
who will inherit his title.
Society is also interested in the so
cial-aims of Jerome Bonaparte, de
scendant of that Bonaparte who went
to the United States and settled in
Maryland.- who was married to Mrs.
Harold Strebelgh, the divorced wife of
Harold Strebelgh, of New York, and
Narragansett Pier. Mrs. Strebelgh
was Blanche Pierce. Mr. Bonaparte
has been reported at various times en
gaged to marry. Mrs. Strebelgh got
a divorce from her husband only a few
months ago in Aiaerica and so quietly
that ' few of her English friends even
knew about it.
PARROT'S TALK IS CLEW
"He Will Live to Be 100," Says Bird
and Is Sent to Emperor-to-Be.
VIENNA. May 30. An amusing story
is in circulation here which shows
how the Viennese regard the relations
existing between the Emperor Francis
Joseph, 83 years old. who is ill with
bronchitis, and the Archduke Francis
Ferdinand, the heir-presumptive.
The story goes that a policeman re
cently found a "parrot in a tree outside
the Belvedere, the Vienna palace of
the Archduke Francis Ferdinand. As
the parrot . freely used the names of
various august personages the .chief
of police was informed and he ordered
the bird to be brought before him for
cross-examination. The parrot talked
freely, using the most violent exple
tives but always winding up with the
phrase "He ll live to be a hundred!"
Thereupon tne 'cniet oi ponce saia
there was only one man in Vienna to
whom the parrot could belong and or
dered the bird to Je taken back to the
Belvedere.
EUROPE MAY BECOME ISLE
Strange Prophecy Is Made by Well-
Known German Geologist.
BERLIN, May SO. (Special.) A
curious prophecy as to the eventual
fate of Europe is made by a well-
known geologist, Herr Golsche, in one
of the scientific reviews. He points out
that since a certain period great cre
vasses have been produced in the con
tinent, and that thus Iceland - and
Greenland were separated from Scandi
navia and a channel formedbetween
England and the rest of Europe.
The tendency to the formation of
crevasses, he adds, still exists, and the
day may be foreseen when the sea will
penetrate into the Ural regions and
then spread from Lake Ural north
wards across the Steppes, to the mouth
of the Obi River, and the Arctic, thus
making Europe an island,
PRAYER SAID FOR AIRCRAFT
German Lutheran Liturgy Is Altered
by Request of Kaiser.
BERLIN, May 30. From today the
German Lutheran liturgy will contain,
by express command of the Kaiser, a
special petition for airships and aero
planes in the imperial -service. s
The prayer for the armed forces as
now altered, reads, "That it may please
thee to protect the royal army and all
the imperial forces by land and sea.
especially, also the ships upon the sea
and all the alrcralts now voyaging.
REAL LIFE RIVALS MOVIES
French Family Falls Through Floor
. Among the Chickens.
PARIS, -ilay 27. (Special.) A little
story has Just reached Paris from An-
zin, near -Valenciennes, which shows
that even a klnematograph faroe can
sometimes approximate real life hap
penings. The other night the good M. Moreau
and his wife, highly respectable poul
terers, retired to bed at their usual
early hour, and slept the sleep of the
just until a little before dawn. Then
the pair were suddenly roused by a
loud noise of cracking, their bed
pitched like a bark in a stormy sea,
shot forward, plunged through an abyss
that suddenly gaped in the floor and
shot into the shop with its occupants.
M. and Mine. Moreau's shrieks rang
through the house, and their young
daughter at once rushed to her par
ents' room. Unfortunately. in the
dark, she did not see that the boards
had given way in the middle, and she
slid down the sloping remnants of the
floor, through tho gap and on top of
her father.
All three raised their voices in panic,
and. while they still clutched one an
other, the bed, balanced on a beam,
DOINGS OF BONAPARTES AND
Photos by Bain.
Jerome Bonaparte.
suddenly capsized and huddled them
ento a conglomeration of dead fowls
and smashed eggs and buried them be
neath the bedding. They were dragged
out, more frightened than hurt, by
neighbors.
UNIQUE PASSPORT FITS
Journalist, Armed With. Menu, Gets
Through Customs Lines.
VIENNA, May 30 (Special.) A
journalist who wanted to go from Cat
taro. In Austria, to Montenegro, but
had no passport, solved the difficulty
in an amusing fashion.
At a hotel he explained his difficulty
to the head waiter. -The latter picked
up the menu and said, "This is the only
passport you will need. Every time
you are asked to produce It. just hand
the officials a packet of tobacco. -
Armed with his menu-passport, the
journalist did as he had been advised.
The Montenegrin Customs officers
gravely went through the menu
glancing at the traveler from time to
time to see' if the. description" tallied,
and then with a bow restore the
document and told him to proceed. The
first dishes on the hotel menu were
"Calf's head, pigs' trotters, shoulder of
mutton.
WOMEN'S BILLS PROMISED
Measures" Will Give Tliem Seats In
Town and County Councils.
LONDON, May 30. The Liberal gov
ernment has promised to introduce two
new measures, which, if carried by
Parliament, will make it possible fo
a much larger number' of women to
become eligible for election for town
and county councils in England and
Wales, and for town, county and par
isn councils in Scotland.
As the law stands, only electors are
eligible for these bodies, and as only
Householders may exercise the muni
cipal and local franchise, compara
tively few women are eligible. Th
new bills will make it possible for any
one who has resided in the district for
one year to stand for election in that
section. The practical effect of thi
law will be that married women and
other women living in the homes of
their relatives may become members
of these local bodies.
2 TORPEDO-BOATS VANISH
French Authorities Amazed at pis-
appearance of Targets.
PARIS. May 30. An extraordinary
affair has occurred at Toulon, where
tne naval authorities are still lost 1
amazement at the mysterious vanish
ing of two old torpedo-boats that had
been used as targets for naval prac
tice. Four torpedo boats were towed
out to sea, and after firing, in which
one was sunk, two of the remaining
three were taken back to the harbor.
The authorities have not discovered
according to a message to the Matin,
that the fourth vessel which was left
at anchor has disappeared, and that
the boat which was sunk has been re
floated and carried off. A rumor
current, . however, that the anchored
vessel broke away from her mooring
and drifted out to sea, where she has
been picked up by an Italian craft
ROMANCE STARTS IN JAI
Ex-Prlsoners Are Married In Church
Opposite Prison.
LONDON, May 30. Two ex-prisoners
at Knutsford jail, Cheshire, were mar
ried at the parish church, which stands
opposite the prison.
The bride and bridegroom had just
completed their sentences of one month
and while in jail they had carried on
a love correspondence.
The man proposed, and being accept
ed, the prison chaplain made the sects
sary arrangements for the union and
officiated at the ceremony.
BODY PRESERVATIVE FOUND
Siena Chemist Thinks He Has
Learned Way to Prevent Decay.
MILAN. May 30. (Special.) After
many experiments on animals, a chem
ist at Sienna, named Partini, claims to
have discovered a new method of per
manently preserving the human body
in perfect condition after death.
He is now exhibiting the corpse of a
man of 30, which has been left lying in
the open air for four months after
treatment. The body is just as It was
at the time of death, even the eyes re
maining unaltered. - ' -
OUTHFUL HEROINES
OF
Ellen T. Fowler's Story in
Which Woman Is Married
at 50 one of New Style.
AMERICAN IS CRITICAL
Writer Tells ot Making Rounds of
London Theaters and Coming to
Opinion Voiced in "Between
Sunset and Dawn."
LONDON. May 30 "The women of
today are eligible for balconies tn their
80s and IneliglDle for shelves until their
0s, and even then the shelves are quite
prominent and comfortable resting
places."
This is a quotation from Ellen Thor-
neycroft Fowler's new novel, "Her La
dyships Conscience, and this book is
example of the new style of novel.
Tlie heroine is 40 when the story be
gins, the hero a journalist who suc
ceeds to the peerage, and the bride is
nearly 50 when they are married.
Youthful heroines and soldier heroes
ere all but out of date now. Indeed,
well-known American author, who
has just visited all the London thea- '
ters in turn, declares she has come to
the opinion of Jim Harris, a character
in the play. "Between Sunset and .
Dawn." Jim believes "modern women is '
all alike. They ain't got no backbone."
Barrle'a Heroine Cited.
In' proof of this she cites Barrle'a
heroine, the lovely Leonora In "The
Adored One."
"This," she declares, "is a kittenish.
nconsequent, pouting, appealing, flir
tatious mother of seven (a real mother
of seven, not a mythical one who writes
letters to editors), all 'sweet eyes and
ow replies and coquetry and curves.
She says she has spoken at suffrage
meetings at the Albert Hall. . Nobody,
looking at her, would believe it, bow
ever. She is not that kind of woman
at alk
'But she has a genuine gift for strik
ing picturesque attitudes. She even
goes so far as to sit in a sunbonnet
n the drawing-room window shelling
peas (she knows the stodgy but hand
some hero has a weakness for women
shelling peas). When he sees her, of
course, he proposes to her at once.
Many early Victorian proposals were
maneuvered in exactly the same fash
ion. It is all sweetly sentimental, but
also wearisome.
"If Leonora is a kitten, Mary Which-
ello in 'Mary Goes First' is, however, a
cat. There is all the cruelty of the
cat in her running to earth of the poor.
ill-equipped rival. - Mary is merciless
with the mercilessness of the old-fash-.
ionel woman, to whom social trivialities
are of vital and supreme Importance. A
truly modern woman, possessed of
Mary's intelligence would have been en
gaged in philanthropy, politics and lit
erature. She would have left 'cattl-
ness' and the social climbing to the
stupid ones of her generation.
Another Heroine Denounced.
"Then what words can describe the .
feelings of the heroine in . 'The Real
Thing' who tails such an incredibly
easy victim to the clumsy wiles of '
the police official? The conduct of this
creature is odious in the extreme. He
spies on the lady, questions her ser
vants, dogs her about, slinks into her
drawing-room, listens and crawls and
creeps, and withal maintains an air
of sickening self-complacency and cer
tainty of conquest. Yet he has only to
leer impudently into her face and gab
ble a lot of platitudes about domestic
happiness, and the lady falls into his
arms, after having previously shared
a biscuit, bite about, with him (a pretty
little fancy which would have com
mended itself more to Dora in 'David
Copperfleld' than, say, to a 'hunger
strike of today), y
"One had imagined that the women
silly enough to think they could, by
marrying him, reform a rake (the old-
word term is the only appropriate one)
had become obsolete. Yet two par
ticularly harrowing examples are to be
seen on the London stage just now. In
'People Like Ourselves' Vivian Va
vasour, the musical comedy actress, in
stead of doing the 'correct' 20th. cen
tury thing by marrying a Marquis or
Earl, fixes her affections on a prod
igal son, who has nothing what
ever to recommend him but his prod
igality. By the raptdly-becoming-anti-quated
methods of 'managing' or
wheedling his parents, she secures this
poor creature for her very own and
the curtain goes down on the twain
talking, about love (with a capital L.)
y Another Resener Shown.
"In 'Never Say Die' Is another rake
rescuer, a sweet, gentle, characterless
creature, who prettily protests her love
for Hector, the prodigal in the first
act, but protests it equally as prettily
for the wealthy and, it must be. con
fessed, much more facsinating Diony
sius in the last.
"The old-fashioned, the hysterical,
the yearning, the stupid, the namby
pamby, and the catty, of these heroines
and such as has only to leer impu
dently Into her face, and gabble a lot of -platitudes
about domestic happiness,
and the lady-falls Intd his arms, after
having previously shared a biscuit, bite
about, with him (a pretty little fancy
which would have commended itself
more to dora In 'David Copperfield'
than, say, to a 'hunger strike' of today).
"One had imagined that the women
silly enough to think they could, by
marrying him, reform a rake (the old
world term is the only appropriate one)
had become obsolete. Yet two particu
larly harrowing examples are to be
seen on the London stage just now. In
"People Like Ourselves,' Vivian Vava
sour, the musical comedy actress, in
stead of doing the 'correct' 20th cen
tury thing by marrying a Marquis or
Earl, fixes her affections on a prodi
gal son, who has nothing whatever to
recommend him but his prodigality. By
the rapidly becoming antiquated meth
ods of 'managing' or sweedllng his par
ents, she secures this poor creature for
her very own, and the curtain goes
down on the twain talking twaddle
about love (with a capital L).
"In 'Never Say Die' is another rake
rescuer, a sweet, gentle, characterless
creature, who prettily protests her love
for Hector, the prodigal in tne nrsi act,
but protests it equally as prettily for
the wealthy and, it must be confessed,
much more fascinating Dionysius in the
last.
"The old-fashioned, the hysterical,
the yearning, the stupid, the namby
pamby, and the catty, of these hero
ines and such as these, I got full meas
ure and flowing over, but of the inde
pendent, the witty, the enterprising,
the profound, spiritual, or the spark
ling, not one could I discover in any of
the score of theaters I visited."
For Shiny Serge.
National Magazine.
Sponge the suit or dress with hot
vinegar and press in usual manner. No
odor of vinegar will remain, all the
"shine" caused by wear will disappear,
and the garment will look like new.
The vinegar leaves no stain.
NOVELS
PASSING