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In and desperate, It turned upod It pursuer.
Lady Constanc leaped from hsr horse n4 ran
straight toward tb angry animal, which ju tar
sprang at her In a frn$jr of rag. :
8ha Bred again, Jul tint with fatal effect, but riot
before the ugly beast was nearly wltbjn striking ci.
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Cowboy who had followed and witnessed th en
counter turned a whtt with fear a their an
. (oofttied cheeks, could do; they fully aipeoteJ to a"
tb daring girl rlppad almost Into atrip by tha knife
Ilka tusk of tha javolin. .,,,.
A littles later tha Intrepid young woman ahot an
other wild hog under almoat similar circumstance.
Her paw friend, fhe cowboy, now: highly , enthual
aatlo, loudly cheered both her courage and her aim.
During the nv daya that aha remained upon tha
Laurelea ranch Of Captain John ToddV veteran cat
tleman, aha wn busy and kept other busy during all
the waking hour; for ftva days h hunted and rol
licked to tha limit of th phyalcal anduranca of a
hardened marl. '.'"''
Almost level, tha plain of that section la covered
itti prickly pear cactus, mesqult arras and thickets,
which hid the wild hogs that stray north iron
.imico ami Central America. Jt waa a new expert
ise for the daring Scotch girl, and aha promptly be
Kin ine nuni. , t.
It was said that the cowboys, accustomed to spend
li' greater number of their waking hours In tha sad
-He, were marci-ly able to maintain tha pace aet by th
young woman from over the aea, who galloped bare
and there through the brush all day.
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Ballet Dancing Now
One of Lady Stewart
Richardson's Accomplishments
W ENGLAND has a brand-new sensation,
hi And it's all due to a daring young
woman who has made that staid
land of roast beef and rotundity gasp more
than once.
To the long list of her other accom
plishments Lady Constance Stewart-Richardson
has added ballet dancing. The ballet
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One of the entertainments provided for her Jraataui
Improvised round up " Wie plnred herself at the head
of the cowboys, and all hied themselves over tha
plains to the pastures whcie there wera 4000 bead of
graded cattle.
About one hundred of the lot wera "cut oot" by
I.ady Constance and her companions. The Scotch girl
noon "roped" the pl k uf the lot and threw him, but
had not progressed suftlclently In knowledge of tha
work to "hog tie" him.
When th party returned to the ranch houso Lady
Constsnca delighted the crowd by an exhibition of
mounting and dismounting. Starring va tha ground,
with her left hand on the pommel of tha saddle, aha
would vault into th scat, and at times throw hrself
clear over the horse.
During her hunting trips Lady Constsnca usually
wore the costume of a man, or, at least, ona Tory,
similar. At other times arm wore kilts her favorlta
costume, by tha way a sweater, with a handkerchief
around her neck and a belt atocked with pistols. Th!
rig waa topped with a broad-brimmed felt hat, whUo
high top boots completed th attire. . '
In addition to hunting wild hog aha engaged liW
lively wolf hunt and went on a successful fishing trip.
Her greatest arrrusement aeemed to bo derived from at
tending severs country dances. -
AH In all, sha mad a great hit with the apprecia
tive Texans. "Sha ought to have been a man," re
marked an enthuslastlo cow puncher. "For a woman,
sha beats them all. For riding and ahootlng ah Is
the best I've ever seen."
General attention was attracted to thla young
woman amieiio aDinties wnen, scarcely out oi nor
teens, she carried off the Ladles' Challenge- Shield at
the London swimming contests. ,
She was conspicuous from the first among other
upon her many and daring exploits by suddenly con
tracting a romantlo Highland marriage with Blr Ed
win Auatln Stewart-FUchardson. both her courtship
strutting her, says she has a real genius for ' nid.r.biy r.mored from th.
the art.
There are few men and not a woman
in all the ranks of British nobility more
noted in sports and athletics than this lithe
Utttbed daughter of the house of Mackenzie.
Champion swimmer of the London Bath
Club, she is alsc a fine shot and an expert
rider. She has ridden through the wilds of over Bcottish hiiis. ...
'iiiw w ;uuiioiiu ill llio Uiii llVktW awv
Tain, In Roaslilre, but as there waa nobody In Tain to
give the news to the world at large, the world at
large heard nothing of it until after the marriage,
whirh waa Just what Lady Constance desired.
Tha few persons asked to the wedding received
their invitations by telegraph at the last moment, and
so suddenly ws the hour of the ceremony fixed that
some difficulty was found In obtaining' a clergyman to
officiate. After tha ceremony Scottish pipers struck
lary.
Perhapa It had not been expected that the young
woman who had cantered astride through Somallland
and In many other astonishing but harmless waya aet
conventions at defiance would ever consent to the
stately, mora or less prim wedding usually awaiting
a society debutante.
Her courtahlp was romantic. It was conducted
largely on horseback while ahe and the stalwart
young barenat of Pltfour Castle were galloping gaily
Somaliland; has shot big game in the Rocky
mountains, alligators in Florida and wild
hogs in Texas, and her prowess is no less with
the rod, as she holds the English landing
record for salmon.
Will she go upon the stage, this hand
some daughter of one of Britain's proudest
houses? her country people are asking with up a clan march, to the music of which the couple
bated breath. IV o one knows wnat tne oru- . .,..
1882, a daughter of the second earl of Cromartle, who
was a son of tha late duke of Sutherland. Her father
Inherited the title from his mother, who was a Mac
kenzie. The title and estates are now held by the
liant ,and versatile Lady Constance will do
that is, no one except Lady Constance, and
she is keeping her own counsel.
Countesa of Cromartle, alder sister of Lady Constance,
who enjoys an income of 1200,000 a year. Eon war
born to tha sisters about the earns time, f
Four years ago, a few month before her rhtrrlage.
Lady Constance Mackensla enjoyed an extensive hunt
ing trip through tha United Statea, her prowess re
sulting In trophies from th big gam of tha Rocky
mountain, as well as the alligators of Florida and
th wild hogs of Texas.
Wherever ah went ah enjoyed herself Immensely,
but nowhere, apparently, better than among th cow
boy and rough rldera of Texas, to whom her horse
manship, no less than her skill with th rifle and re
volver, proved a revelation.
From the first day that found her on the plains of
southwest Taxaa to th evening when ahe boarded a
train for her return horn ah rod and hunted from
dawn to dark. Two savage wild hogs were killed by
har under circumstances that would have shaken the
nerve of most men.
Particularly vlcloua when at bay are the wild hogs
of Texas called thera Javellnea and in the dictionary
peccaries. Strong and wiry, they possess long snd ex
ceedingly sharp tusk that can do fatal execution In
a twinkling.
When aroused they fight In a manner calculated
to cause terror, ripping and tearing savagely with the
dangerous tusks. On of them ha been known to kill
or malm every on of a largo pack of dogs within a
few minute.
It was after a long hunt that Lady Constancy came
upon her first Javellne. Sha promptly set out In pur-
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suit, urging her wiry pony to a dead run. When near
enough she drew her revolver and fired.
The shot struck tba fleeing animal, but did not
disable it. It waa made very angry, however. Snarl-
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kB nil A PS a desire to master the art of ballet
dancing was born In the busy brain of tha then
Lady Constance Mackenzie one balmy spring
evening shortly before her marriage, when, be
ing on a tour of Egypt, she created a decided sensation
v at .a mask ball In Cairo.
All the elite of the ancient city had gathered tn
Gczlreh Palace, when an apparition of loveliness drew
all eyes as a magnet draws Iron filings.
It was the dashing young English woman who waa
already well known upon thfe streets of the cities and
the caravan routes of the deserts. Lady Constance
had elected to appear at the ball in the character of
an Egyptian syce.
"Her costume," stated a news dispatch at the time,
"was more beautiful than voluminous. Lady Con
stance, who Is blessed with exquisite feet, had no
scruples in exhibiting them, with bare legs from th
knees downward. She was attended by Miss Baln
bridge, in the costume of a dragoman."
At any rate, the young woman scored a deoidad
success and was the center of attraction throughout
the evening.
It Is not the ordinary or garden variety of ballet
of the comic opera and spectacular stage that she has
now taken up. She has gone in for the real art of the
thing, the art that made La Fontaine, Florence, Tagl
lonl, Fannie Blaster and others famous long before
its latest convert was born.
A widespread revival of tha old and ever-graceful
art of dancing has been attracting the attention of
Europe and America of late; the best dancers are win
ning fame aud fortune here and abroad.
SOCIETY TAKES UP FAD
Even the blase society circle of New York have
taken up the revival with enthusiasm, and not a few
of its prominent young people, it la whispered, are
mastering the Intricacies of the ballet.
"There seems to be no bounds to the length to
which Lady Constance Mackenale will go In her predi
lection for the unusual," stated an English writer,
somewhat plaintively, half a dozen years ago.
Even at that lata date the English people had not
quite grown accustomed to being startled by the high
inks of high society. Aristocratic house parties had
lot then taken to playing "Raffles" and "burglaris
ing" for sport the homes of neighbors in the dead of
light.
"Wherever she goes," the seemingly astonished
writer went on, "Lady Constance now carries with her
a pet sQake a tiny creature, to be sure, but still a
enake.
"This uncanny familiar she lodges in the bodice
of her dress, and upon occasion plays with It. much
s ine average woman toys witn her rings, ber fob
or a jeweled buckle.
"Twice a week the snake Is fed upon fish and in
sects by Lady Constance, who, it Is aald, ha satisfied
herself that the reptile ia possessed of more intelli
gence than the average person credits snake with
displaying." '
She. did unusual thirtgs.there Was no doubt of that;
she had done them since early childhood. And when,
four years ago, sha placed a crown of orange blossoms
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Pogj Romany Vanitu Ever Warn' ?
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vanity., ever
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ruling passion, strong
in death as in life?
And does it con
trol, as Paola Lora
broso, the observant
daughter of the great
Italian scientist, de
clares, the action of
the human female
from the first baby
hour when she is able
to creep to the look
ing glass to the mo
ment when, perforce,
she lay9 her mirror
down and breathes her
last, expiring sigh I
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IIILB residing
temporarily in
Europe, the
wife of an
American mill ionaire beautiful, ambitious, extrava
gant on occasion, as the wives of American million
aires are so prone to be expected a visit from royalty.
At a cost of $10,000 she ordered two dinner gowns,
sublime creations. Until the festal day she could de
lay making a choice between the .two. The gowns
came. One, rose colored, transformed her into Eve.
the temptress; the other, white, made her an Incarna
tion of the angelic.
Both fascinated her; she could not lay aside either.
Her resolve wijis worthy of the discernment of Solo
monor of th vanity of the queen of Sheba.
In the middle of the dinner, while the royal eyes
were still ravished with the entrancing vision of rose,
an obedient butler, acting upon orders secretly given,
spilled gravy in the lady1 lap. There was an invol
untary groan about the table, but the hostess smiled
the bright, unconcerned smile of millionaires' wives,
made her excuses to sympathetic royalty, left the
room and changed her gown. So she was able to ex
hibit both charming creations the sairre evening. 1
In a recent article on coquetry, SIgnorlna Lom
broso And the extravagant vanity, of the American
woman an anecdote which has, by the way, been told
of women of every nationality In every court under
nearly every reign th Europe different lirno essential
feature from that or the African savage who walked
250 miles through snake-Infested Jungles that aha
might procur a yard or two of red cloth.
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Women are all alike, she find, from the cradle to
the grave.
She argues, too, that it is well they ar. for the
Instinct of their vanity Js Integrally part and parcel
of the race Instlnot of the unalterable law which de
cree that the female shall be intuitively prone to
summon to her side by her silently eloquent charms
the male with whom she shall mat.
Anecdotal and philosophic, the distinguished sci
entist's daughter did not neglect opportunities which
her father's famous investigation brought to her at
tention. She studied women In Jail, the last plac where
vanity might be expected to aurvive, for tha prisons
of Milan bar out the very sight of men from the fe
male convicts.
Well, there the women auooeeded in breaking
every regulation prohibiting th adornment of their
person. One picked the whitewash off the walls
chewed It and secured a powder that enabled her to'
chalk her cheeka into some semblance of poudre de
Another continued habitually unruly, in order that
she might be placed in the punishment cell, where
she could steal from the gratings wire, from which
h "ntructad a pair of coraeter that aha laced so
tightly as to make her faint.
A third soaked crimson threads, which she drew
from her prison dress, until sha obtained a dye suffi
ciently strong to paint her fac. "ul,nea ave sum"
A NOVEL REWARD
At last the governor of th prison, helpless in tha
presence of the general insurrection, confessed him
self vanquished, and made rather becoming tailor
made Jail costumes the prixea of good conduct, in a
short time all the prisoners wera behaving like angels,
and all were wearing tailor-made suits.
They have passionate nature, over there In Italy
and It is possible that the . Italian bent for beautv ,
might not hold good in the colder climate of the
United States.
But the experience of all officials demonstrates
that it does hold good In America to precisely the ex
tent to which regard for appearances la displayed by
women outside of Jail. The completely negligent
woman and she is of the type that frequently arrives
in una is as ii-siiKeni, uuway ana unkempt In her cell
as she was In her home.
But the female prisoner who has been accustomed
to preserve her appearance at its best speedily finds
ways and means to convert even the prosaic prison
garb into an attire th neatness and freshness of
which are in themselves an adornment. And, It may
be remarked, the worst offenders are often the most
presentable prisoners.
Final as the prison verdict may seem, there are
two ultimate deeps to which a woman may come that
represent tba extreme test of her vanity. One la
when she commits suicide; th other, when she goes
mad.
The testimony of coroner I that women, as a
rule, present the characteristic of premeditation in
their suicides. A man, despondent, caught in the
crotch of some nipping adversity, la liable to walk up
stalra and hurriedly blow out Ills brains, hang him
self or cut his throat.
A woman is prone to think It all out studiously, to
arrange everything as carefully as she can for the
certainty of her death and the settlement of her af
fairs and to choose th method of suicide which is
least painful and th least disfiguring.
That is why so many suicides of women come to
be classed by coronera under the head of "asphyxia
tion." When they take carbolic acid, It is usually be
cause they are in ignorance of the anguish and the
unsightly scars they incur; the Woman wjio poisons
herself wIUi carbolic acid is commonly the one who
snatches up the bottle on Impulse.
But the woman who select illuminating gas, ordi
narily, knows perfectly well that ahe Is going to pass
away dreamlessly, and that ahe will be found in the
morning with a tinge of strangely lifelike color in
cheeks to which tha tinta of youth have long been
strangers.
She will oftentimes dres herself in her best, put
under her pillow a memorandum of her accounts and
dispose her very body so that the daylight will find
her, at least, a presentable corpse.
It Is only when women become Insane when they
lose the mind that Is the seat of all intelligent mo
tives and emotions that their vanity drops awav from
thorn, like some garment that clothed them in such
loveliness as they could make adjunct to their sex.
Universal as is the regard for their appearance
among women so long aa they are sane, certain as
are jailers to find always aoma small trace of womanly
preening among the most hopeless of prisoners, ex
pectant as are coroner' deputies of encountering a
neat case" when they are called to Investigate a
woman's suicide, the physicians attendant in a lunatic
asylum have their greatest difficulty in keeping the
female lunatics from the most complete disregard of
dress and of the ordinary conventions of life.
Up to the border line of insanity, even when,
emerging from the blank abyss of sheer lunacy, tha
patient recurs to an Intelligent consciousness, all her
normal pride or vanity asserts Itself. But the hour
when her sane self Is forfeited, her self-esteem van
ishes, so far a9 any trace ia diaoerned la her physical
condition.
With one exception an Important one: That many
of the women Insane develop a mania for adornment
and a pitiful imagination that they ar, In truth,
female personages famous in history for the beauty of '
their persons or the magnificence of their raiment.
In the intellectual death, aa in self -chosen physical .
death, the ruling passion stay atrong.'
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contestants because of her swimming costuma of
bright green, with' tartan trimmings, adopted In honor
of her Scottish connections. Thl Costume, remlnlscenr
of the Highlands, waa destined to flash la front of
competitor. . :. u
When the next year's contest cam on and It wa
announced that Lady Constance would again eater
the lists or water-more Interest was aroused than for
a long time. The cream of English society wa pre
ent, and there were many ladle with proud tlti
among the spectator. A London sporting magazlr.
of the day. in describing the contests, said: .
"On one of tha hottest of hot days no more at
tractive of entertainments could well be imagined
than the annual awimming competition glveq;a';tha
Bath Club, In which th lady members competed for
the Challenge Shield. The tasteful clubrooma fronting
on Berkeley street and th green gardens were scarcely
less pleasant than the bath itself, hung with basket
of ferns and creepers and with only a stray tunbeum
to lighten th cool depths of the water.
DID MANY FANCY FEATS i; ' .
"The greatest Interest of the morning cents n
perhaps, on the awimming and diving of Lady Con
stance Mackenale, who won the shield last year, an
who certainly proved worthy of holding Jt ano-Ju
year. ,:;?
"The competition consists of swimming two Ion art.!.
of the bath, or fifty yarda; motionless floating; f;n.
swimming and diving from springboard , and fio
6-foot and 10-foot boards.
"Besldea Lady Constanee, Miss Vera Dawnoy, M
Florence Chaplin. Mis Bice -Millar and Miss Ym.i.
Bovlll entered. The shield was awarded by poln: .
and out of a maximum of 2ft Lady Constant l.r .
kensie aecured 27. Miss Dawiiay 3. and JMis Ch-
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."The fancy swimming was much applauded,
among the movements selected by the compttJt.
were swimming- under water, waltsing and sulii'
To swim below the surface appear a mera ti
ing for Lady Constance, and latar on, when th
atructres and her pupil gave a combined exhi',.'
of skill, she again performed under watee, ti,i t ,
in shadow awirriming, when ' on -- vwiinmat, kei-j
time with another directly above her, repFesf i n ;
ahadow In the clear water. A wonderful strt rn t;.
decision of stroke haractrid Lady Cousunca .
kensie'a awimming." . .
iWllt fhl athlsUo woman, who I tlll yur -
vigorous, win new laurel through, ar prv! . ...
pallet daacln? Who know. , . .
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