THE SUNDAY OREGON1AN, FOllTLAKD, JANUARY 18, 1920
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Mrs. J.J Johnson, Jewly In- i ,
st&Hed Matron, of JiarfJi "
Wesnzngfon Cft&pttro ?7ie if . . ' A
Order of Eastern St&r:
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RDYAL PARENTS CLAIMED
liOXDOJJ SriCIDE INSISTS SHE
IS CROWN PRINCE'S CHILD.
zrr.FIorvnce rlrrros; VSio
Will tear TJzzs Week for-J&hfYorJc.
And Mrs. A. H. Heathcote of this city,
who was in the naval intelligence de
partment, has received his discharge
from the navy and, accompanied by
his wife and child, is now the guest
of his father-in-law. Judge John Rice
of the supreme court, in Boise. Idaho.
In the spring they will return to
Portland to make their home.
MEXICAN WOMEN ADVANCE
STrs. WccS-crixnson, (?u.een of
the Isuf?2ters of fieJzZe.
2Aat C.lmerfrc
Mr. and Mrs. Judy will reside at The
Dalles.
Kroder-lilncoln.
A wedding of local interest oc
curred at 7:30 P. M. Thursday, Jan
uary 15, at the home of the bride's
parentH, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Lincoln,
500 Davenport street, when Miss 1 in- j
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S&n? end Danced, ?f ffze szt-er-f&zwnmi-
6zv?s2 Z?y flze
Zoyvl 0rzer of Jfrce&ess,
TAurjdey Erenzn?
a daughter, who will be named Susan
Jane.
Mr. and Mrs. H R. Kdmunds, ti. B.
Erwln and Miss Daisy Ooodspeed mo
tored up from Tillamook early in the
week and are at the Hotel Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Young are
visiting relatives in Pasadena, Cal.,
for a few weeks. They will tour
southern California, before returning
to Portland, some time in February.
Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Jacobs of Juneau,
who have spent some time in Cali
fornia, are at the Hotel Portland be
fore returning to their Alaskan home.
This is Mrs. Jacobs first trip out for
four years.
Mr. and Mrs. Anthon Eckern left
Wednesday for a sojourn of a month
in southern California, Mr. Eckern
is vice-president of the State Bank of
nd is taking his vacation
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bride of Walter J. Kroder. , . ' . .
Mr. and Mrs. Kroder will be at home ' H"h.M. Glen, late president of the
to their many friends after February , Portland Linotype company, has with
i nt 7i- fattnt. a Idrawn from- that firm and, accom-
NeuenauvanfleT'Thompfioii.
Alfred Neuenswander and Miss
panied by Mrs. Glen and Mr. and Mrs.
Fred F. Glen, have left for Los An
naln. wt,o.A . . n 4a. Ill Ano-ann 1 ,
Gladys Thompson were married at BlmUar llne of business.
v niiLuuvcr ibw i ear s eve, x lie
bride is well known and popular
among the younger net. The bride
groom, although havinft made his
home In Portland for some time, is
from Kalem where his parents reside.
The young couple intend to make
California their home.
SOCIETY PERSONALS.
Mrs. J. J. Berg, Ik now at home to
her friends at 575 Main street.
Mr. and Mrs. Bamuel Goldenberg an
nounce the birth of a daughter.
Mrs. M. Riedel and her daughter
Miss E. Kiedel, are upending a month
in southern California.
Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Dunbar are down
from Astoria for a few days and are
guests at the Hotel Portlum).
Senator and Mrs. 3. R. Xickelsen of
Hood River, are the guests of Mrs. W.
E. Sheets, 821 East 47th street.
Mrs. Belle Thompson of this city, is
a guest at the Merritt Jon's hotel In
Ocean Park. Santa Monica. Cal.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Collins of the
Campbell-Hill, annourir-e the birth of
Mrs. Susan S. Samuels, accompanied
by her daughter, Miss Samuels, and
her son. and daughter. Dr. and Mrs.
C. J. Chamberlain, are touring south
ern California, They are at present
In San Diego and will return to Los
Angeles by way of the Imperial Val
ley and Salton Sea.
John Kay Heathcote, a son of Rev.
Feminist Council to Take Hand in
Affairs of Republic.
MEXICO CITY. Mexican women
are preparing to take a hand In the
affairs of the Mexican republic. They
intend first to eliminate social and
Industrial evils and later to make a
fight for political equality. This is the
programme of the Mexican Feminist
council, a national organization, with
headquarters in Mexico City.
The council does not believe that
the mass of Mexican women are at
present prepared for complete suf
frage, but hopes eventually to make
them a vital political force.- The pres
ent Mexican government looks with
favor upon their efforts, according to
Senorita Elena Torres, general secre
tary of the council. Heads' of the gov
eminent, she said, advocate "complete
emancipation of Mexican women.
The feminist council has organized
groups to teach Mexican women how
their conditions may be improved In
dustrially and socially. The next step,
saidSenorita Torres, will be organiza
tion of women workers in industry
to demand fair and equal treatment
at the hands of their employers. They
will not countenance any bitter sex
war, which has characterized the fern
inlst movement in some European
countries, but expect co-operation
from the men. The council Intends to
bring the Mexican women's movement
in contact with similar organizations
in other countries and to work with
the women of the world for peaoe,
disarmament and antt-imperialism.
Senorita Torres predicts that Mexi
can women will create a new era of
amicable relations and a more com
plete understanding between Mexico
and the United States. Later, she said,
the feminist council Intends to pro
pose the formation of a Lattn-Amerl-can
union to bring about - closet1
friendship, culturally, industrially and
politically, between Mexico and the
countries of South and Central America.
Pretty Society Woman Broods Over
Trouble Until Tragedy Is
Enacted.
Some Vienna theaters do without
ushers by mounting electric lights in
such positions that they Illuminate
the numbers on seats as long as they
are unoccupied.
LONDON. There is no hearing the
end of the famous story of the Crown
Prince Rudolf of Austria and the
beautiful Baroness Marie Vet sera.
whose tragic deaths at the hunting
box at Meverling castle on January
SO. 1889. deprived the Emperor Franz
Joseph of his only son and provided
the world with a sensation, the echoes
Of which have never died down.
The many attempts to elucidate
this, on of the greatest mysteries of
modern times, have only served to
make it deeper. It la now being ar
gued about again here as a result of
the sensational suicide or tne loveiy
society woman, Mrs. Steane, who,
barely two months after her marriage
to Captain Cedrlc Sebastian Bteane,
poisoned herself with cyanide of po
tassium after returning home from a
victory ball at Claridge'a hotel, held
to celebrate the first anniversary oi
armistice. Mrs. Steane believed her
self, apparently from her girlhood, to
be the daughter of the Ill-fated Crown
Prince Rudolf and Marie vetsera.
Her suicide made all the greater
noise because it was the second death
of a beautiful woman to follow . "vic
tory ball" in London, the other being
that, last year, of pretty "mme iar
leton. the popular actress and "dope"
victim, who died as the result of an
overdose of cocaine following her re
turn from a big "victory" affair at
Albert Hall, which Va attended by
nil th laarilncr fashion members of
the "smart" and Bohemian worlds of
T.ondon.
Mr KtAAne. who was well known in
society here and renowned for her good
looks, was married to captain Biea.no,
an ex-army officer of independent
means, on August SO of this year. She
was first married in Canada, to
Georsre Osborne Hayne of Montreal,
but was divorced from him after an
unhappy married life. At the Inquest
Cantain Steane stated that, previous
to their marriage, his wife -had been
ncras-ed to somebody else, tnis en
gagement having been broken off. As
a result of her grief over that affair.
she had previously attempted to poi
son herself, and had had a narrow
escape from death. All during their
short married life, captain bteane ae-
clared, she was subject to attacks of
hysteria, nd frequently spoke of
making away with heraelf. hhe tola
her husband that both of her parents
ha committed suicide and affirmed
that she often heard her mother's
voice "calling her." Captain Steane
said his wife was entirely happy with
him, except for the memory of her
past unhappiness which preyed upon
her imagination. The coroner's ver
dict was that she killed herself while
of unsound mind.
It was not until after the inquest
that it became known that Mrs. Steane
firmly believed herself to be tne
daughter of the Crown Prince Rudolf
and Marie Vetsera, and that sue suf
fered from the delusion that the
"curse of the Hapsburgs" had fallen
upon her.
Previous to her first marriage she
called herself Alma Vetsera, and her
Btory was that, after the Meyerling
tragedy, she was sent out of Austria
by the government in charge f
priest who took her to Canada. Some
of the more sensational London news
papers have made much of this claim
of hers, and supposed likeness has
been traced between the portraits of
Mrs. Steane and the famous hero of
the famous shooting box tragedy: By
the writer's own showing, however,
this claim of the beautiful -and un
happy woman must have been a pure
obsession.
At the Inquest her age was stated
as 29. If this was correct, it disposes
once and for all of her claim to royal
paternity. The Meyerling tragedy took
place, as has been stated, on January
80, 1889, or close on to 31 years ago;
So Marie Vetsera was dead before Mrs.
Steane was born. Another fact which
casts doubt on the stateTnents she
made of her parentage Is that, during
the war, when it was necessary for
Scotland Yard to make Inquiries about
her, as one who claimed to be an Aus
trian (and thus an enemy alien) by
birth, the authorities satisfied them
selves that she was actually by birth
Canadian, and there was no need
to keep her under surveillance.
There is abundant evidence that
Marie Vetsera never had a daughter.
Some years ago, the Countess Larisch.
niece of the late Empress of Austria,
cousin of the Crown Prince Rudolf
and in the confidence of the lovers
before the Meyerling tragedy, wrote
a book In which she stated that
Rudolf murdered Marie and then
killed himself. In this book there is
not the slightest suggestion that
Marie Vetsera had a child.
Countess Larisch mentions an in
trigue with an English officer at
Cairo which she alleges took place
before the baroness ever met Rudolf.
but there is no suggestion in the "book
that there wu an offspring of that
meeting, and if there were, it would
not be a child of the Hapsburg.
Nevertheless, the fact remains that,
throughout her very remarkable life,
Mrs. Steane adhered to her romantic
claim, even in the law courts during
the divorce proceedings which she in
stituted against her first husband,
George Osborne Hayne. With the lat
ter she visited Austria, and tried to
obtain from the authorities recogni
tion of her claim to be the daughter
of Crown Prince Rudolf. Her efforts
failed, and during the same year, 1911,
the Austrian government issued an
official pronouncement stating that
as no child was born as a result of the
infatuation of the crown prince for
the-Baroness Vetsera, no person could
genuinely claim such ancestry.
Mrs. Steane was educated in various
Canadian convents, most of her girl
hood having been passed in Toronto.
It was while there that she met
George Osborne Hayne, then a cadet
of the Royal Military College, King
ston, and with the wonder of the
great world outside the convent walls
hardly out of her eyes, married him.
Not long after the New York courts
granted her a divorce from her hus
band. Mrs. Hayne then settled in
New York. Later she began to pay
visits to London, and married there
for the second time. Again marriage
proved a disastrous adventure for her.
After a brief period of living together,
her husband left her. and she eventu
ally secured a divorce from him. Then
she married Captain Steane.
It was noticeable that from this
point her melancholy deepened, and
her capacity for brooding Introspec
tion began to assert Itself above her
inclination towards gaiety. Still be
lieving that her parents were the
tragic Meyerling pai of lovers, she
evidently came to the conclusion that
she, too, was doomed to unhappiness
on earth. The idea of a "voice calling
to her from fhe grave" slowly
strengthened till it gained such a
power over her that she was unable
to resist.
Some three years ago she came to
England to settle In London, bringing
with her the child of her first mar
riage, a boy known ns "Bunny." Here
she made many friends and became a
well-known popular figure in society
circles. During the war she engaged
in Red Cross work. She lived in an
hotel In Piccadilly and had a flat in
the west end, where she entertained
frequently.
Again tragedy this time the final
tragedy of all for a woman beautiful,
young and accomplished, who believed
her life to have been cast In the
shadow of a royal drama and who was
driven by this obsession to fhe con
clusion that the sequel demanded was
her own self-destruction. -
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by man's innate desire to surround
himself with things of beauty.
THAT, in part, explains why Westover
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the ideal artistic setting for attractive
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IT does more. The natural .beauties of
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55 YCARS hUKl BPOAOWAY
January Clearance of Winter Apparel'
Newly Arrived Jersey . Dresses
Go Into Sale at Clearance Price
New
Styles
$29.50
New
Colors
Sketched Models Portray the Beauty
of These Dresses
' Dresses such as these will be shown to a big extent for spring, but not
at anything like this price Dresses which are so practical and comfort
able throughout the year in this climate.
Youthful Styles for the Miss
Matronly Styles for the Woman
Elaborately embroidered in silks of contrasting colors, also braided
and plain designs, some with smart pockets, nearly all belted models.
Taupe
Navy
Browns
Pekin
Rookie
Copenhagen
Made of good quality wool jersey, the same quality as used
in all better dresses.
Sale Beginning Monday ' -Morning,
at Nine 'Thirty
Clearance of Beautifully Styled Coats
The season's choicest coats are now offered at worthy reduc
tions. Fabrics and styles in great variety. Many hand
somely fur trimmed.
Clearance Prices
$34.85, $4435, $54.85, $64.85
Suits Reduced for Clearance $44.85, $54.85
Fabrics suitable for all year wear. Colors most in demand.
Styles for women and misses.
Buy a suit now while savings are greatest. You will need
it in the springtime.
Selling of Exceptional Styled Blouses
1 e tj T7" Our most exclusive blouses, which
y-X Ur T were originally marked $55.00
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j "v T A large assortment of fine blouses,
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