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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY 'mORNINO, MARCH 21 1009 i mm B V' ilM'i1V.ivVM',"'ift'.-.(. t . TWA. . J ' BSB n. nS9k. ' " .SSELSCSSe- .V England's Wail Over Growing Habits of Feminine Extravagance L ONDON, Great Britain generally, and Europe to a large extent, having re - viewed the Incr'minatinr evidence against the American woman; are uniting upon a formidable indictment against her. "I With one voice, and in accents of horror and dismay, ' the people of . the Old W orld bring-against her the serious accusation: " 'Madame, you are corruptingTtS all." ' Extravagance; an extravagance that has penetrated to the sanest and mo t reliable of the treasured middle classes from the' terrible examples of wanton latishness" is the kind of corruption laid at the door of, American women. j , . ' w "By the heedless display and waste of will bu to ltegdiu street, or Gvlicnua, but sliu will ba gowned m tna latest laanion. - Formerly, the iiildaie-ciuba g-irl or wife did not dream ot provoKln iK cumpawons wltli the aristucracy. eltUer In clothes or conduct; now, fed on the jjoIhoiious apple of knowleUKO uiai you need only iook liKe money lu order to be lady, they insist on hiring motor cars to Kd choppinK for a pacKage of complexion pills. It Is very, very ad Gettlnar down to tlgureu, one of the more enterprise , . . v l J inS journals Di Juunuon unueriuoK an investigation 01 WCir Sliver atUTiUUW ueatlll, urt mc.vne precisely now inuin icmiuine cxiramgunce ua en- . ,1 r . t. J .J t tl.'... hanoed the cost of living to the virtuous middle classes. AS the nCWty exalted Wives Of famous mem- Tna nliddle classes were expected never to need so were the backbone of the British - nation and knew their place. Yet this is what H cost a sample stock broker and his wife for a "modest evening's pleasure": Their cab from Kensington to a restaurant cost 2 shillings 6 pence; tips to the cloakroom servants, 1 hll ling 6 pence: dinner, 'With a bottle of champagne, one liqueur and the waiter's tip, 1 Us. 6d.; cab to thp the- hers of the uobilitv. und on the other by their reckless profusion as plain 'Americans visiting the Old World, they have set such a standard of reckless spending that neither the ordina- ..A.. J: ..:,.; I.;- :;., . ' liqueur and the waiters tip, 1 Us. 6d.; cab to thp the- - ruy rich gentleman can maintain his family on is. d.i cloakroom tips, is.; two theater seats, n t trill nn-iy ffrmfif suitahl t fir 'hit hnultnn ' cab to restaurant. Is. d.; light supper, with a a SLttie nQJ) aecmca lUliauie fur WS VUSinon mMl bottle Of hoek. lis.; cab home. Ss. Total. 4 6d. nor the prosperous merchant ana professional man indulge in luxuries which once seemed "inexpensive pleasures" So runs the foreign indictment. ' j BWTISTI papers and mairaslnes appear to be shocked at the discovery Of her culpability British Journalism is always more shocked at . 4,. anything which Implicates somebody else. , Before the fascinating American serpent ,c'w'e.f tnto the British Eden th British Eve was as tnn?3e; f stylish and very expensive clothes ss the Iad; the original fig leaf: now. tho prodigal British matron Thftm vAs 120 or mo ntient for n n fvfinlnir'i nlinaittik which, before the American social Invasion, would have been enjoyed In Its essentials for .95 at most. v . DISSATISFACTION EVERYWHERE Now, at four times the cost, it left the stock broker and hlB wife with the sensation that, while they had complied with the demands of "their position" by being seen in the best restaurant and the best stalls at the theater, they were etui only half as luxurious ip their to be. , Afternoon teas, social functions, maintenance of motor cars, fashionable couturleres. variety ef furs all the costly frills and fads incident to social promt- nence without in the least attaining to the reality have led th British press and public to look askance, for the first time since the rejoicing over the millions in Imported ' American' dowries commenced, .at the , American woman and her notorious luxury. The Indictment Is far from being an echo of last year's diatribes against the extravagance of her. com patriots, voiced by Hetty Green, who so recently In dulged her own daughter in the luxury of a husband . old enough to bo the bride's father. It Is the outcome of 'the new conditions of living inspired by the American woman abroad, and now suddenly realized . by the people at large In all their ruinous costliness. . The uplifted hands of shocked ecorromv have. therefore, cast rather disparaging shadows upoa the astounding evidences of wealth displayed by the. latest American heiress who. in the ascendlngr st ale of trans atlantic ostentation, has succeeded in dazzling the na tives. She is the Countess Oranard, until the middle of last January Miss Beatrice Mills, daughter of Mrs. Ogrden Mills, of New York, and granddaughter of I. O. Mills. All London has. "been In amazement over her Im posing Jewels, which include the diamond collar given as a wedding present by her aunt. Mrs. Whltelaw Held; the mafrniflcent diamond and pearl brooch from Colonel and Mrs, John Jacob Astor; the superb long chain of pearls and pearl clusters from Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbllt, and the marvelous all-around tiara of, pearls and diamonds, tipped with pear-shaped pearls and diamonds, from her mother. But all London has petzed upon the4 occasion as one for deploring" the ad ditional example of expensive living which the Coun--tess Granard provides. . Even the court circle, late in February, was Im pelled to find too much ostentation In the array of diamonds that hid pretty nearly all the lovely whtte neck when the new countess of Oranard appeared In her marriage robe In the Jewels whicii. covering her corsage, made It glitter with th .tect of a gorgeous .ninn anrt t We' other ornaments that left her gown only a well-flifted setting for the prince's ransom sha s- wore In Jewelry. She 'wore both her tiara and the diamond collar, while a band of sunerb nton. Ave and a. half Inches wide, the gift of Mrs. Matiirln Livingstone, stretched across her corsage. Her dress wb!j the "most marnlfl- icin ruua over won in me .urmaii court, its sleeves fairly Xllled with algulllsttss of diamonds , . -Tbs countess arrived wltli her Jewel-clad shout ders shielded by a rap made of sixty royal Russian n via .9 it ii o niciusu. ul Twium MinrM with cuplds sotd doves mounted on Sticks of gold, was' ..one owned by the Empress Josephine. Although tha king and queen received her specially and had her ta supper with them privately, the loyal indorsement could not repress the .growing resentment against her unexampled grandeur. . --',; It would be hard to find anywhere in Great Britain an American woman who has equaled the pace in ex penditure set by fond Anna Gould during the period ' of her more" than loyal devotion to that miniature Sarda napalm, Bonl d Caslellane. Her record-brak. ing gorgeousness in France has been recalled by some of the later critics as a case in point, but scarcely with such convincing proof of her individual respon- iDimy as wnon tney cite tne truly heroic immolation of her fortune by the late Lady Curson upon the altar of ambition for the vice regency of India. , airs. yuracuey Martin has gone the limit of overseas expenditure as few American women have ever done and she has got more In return than most of them, with her position no more titan the role of American mother-in-law at that. .But when her daughter became the countess of Craven the mother descried a career over there for herself, and she invested in the vast estate of Balma caan, in Sootland, where she plays the part of Lady Bountiful and maintains the traditions of the lavish entertainment with which, years ago, she first blew open the doors-of American society. Her name in Great Britain Is a thing to conjure with as significant ot Aladdin riches and fabulous gorgeousness. RICHEST ARE AGHAST The countess of Craven herself has not been far behind her mother in impressing Great Britain with the idea that American wealth has been made to be spent tn all that goes to make luxurious living. Her entertainments there, since her tiiarriage,- have left -the richest of the nobility aghast at their costliness, a Tl 4 haB Bfirfail t n tnalr all K, nlha wstvnAi. n 1 thM .JlMtefl.JBllejajilejBnlesg.-1 hei fin! ,tmt otuthsir taniiiy incomes ana dangerously beyond, tney can uuvr tney jlhuvt suiueiuing, at least, eooui xaso ionable living. . - .. .:i-.-v--'i-.v--- The duchess of Marlborough, she who was Con suelo Vanderbllt, is another American whoSe Jewels and lavish living, once the ecstatic admiration of all Kngllsh society, are now deprecated rather than lauded for their splendor. ' Her whim has been pearls, voted startling in size and beauty, many of them said to have once belonged to Marie Antoinette. Last year, in an exceptionally fulsome adulation addressed to her in a London paper, her panegyrist remarked: And you show your sense in the matter ot these price less ornamnt, for you do not keep them out of night la a bank or In.nn easily burgled safe, end. like so many women, do not tlust them to the tender mercies of paid dependents. No; you adopt the better way, and wear the pearls by day and night evn under your plain tailor made gowns or simple cottons and muslins. Most charming innovation, this of the duchess of Marlborough, untu Just now, when the sting of ex pensive Jewel buying and wearing on the part of less wealthy Englishwomen has converted the American duchess'' fondness for her pearls Into -a corrupting example. , - The duchess of Rdxbursrhe. ' who was ' Miss May Goelet, took to her husband a fortune estimated as . between 920,000,000 and 925,000,000. It was the marvel of England when the duke of Roxburghe got hold ot it; but a greater marvel followed when the generous young American bride gave enough ef her millions to , completely rehabilitate his residence and estates. Perhaps of all the expenditures that have been made abroad ' by the American woman, this of May. rioolet hue been leant criticised, and that rhlftflv he- cause it represents permanent improvement and In vestments, wnere tne money win do English people . the most solid good,, while restoring to ancient dig- ' nities a title the mass of the population Is willing to hold In reverence New Zealand Bridge nj J -i . si. . i " f ' 'V- - -- . 2 .d n An Elephant as a Plowhorse World's Highest btatue The Death of an Iceberg Old Church in Norway V ; 1 --" " f '; . Si. l s - ' St I ..w N . ail IT 19 tif-t .! that if,e in n bits nt of a tiilniy fopuiate-d dietrlrt ma hare a brMce located st the nwt -nrnin pniit for them. At times . Inrn it iirrl 'S the r.eel tn ejovet manner. i;ir (o - )" i nd I n th l!luirt1 1- il.e ,! r. lit il trfile l-rit.'g- that the people pf t il iuii:ry 'utf" are f.-. J as quite com-." i f rfjf :; la a tct rnpe trtche,l 1e tr. anl n. horwl nrtn'.y oa h bank, t ; ' 1' la r'r t run: frm the la pi1m1 t-. t !-, tit"- t! he jrrtm:X'f atafe. l !i a ...- i!" i rrxa ft." M'moj he "' ' t a "..- lVft h rai 1 r;e ' ,t,r.,4 i rrr t V rl -. h-Vrt.'T lrtw I - f ' T rt "nn" H'ry th-n K drawn ba k ' - " Bi-r boe ry tse e cf the sill repe fast- 1 thee. V1PITORS to the southern countries cf AIa have sen frequently elephants employed In many useful capacities. They are willing beasts of burden when properly treated, and their enormous strength enables them to do a vast amount ef rough work. ' Kecentl)-, aelenlthed residents of the rountry about IIotTfy" England, hin Wo amazed to see en elephant Informing the duties ef a plowhorse. The proprietor ef a circus winters his animals en his farrm at Horley, and makes his elephants help pay for tbelr keep by pulling plows. It Is aa!d to b worth goirg mile te see one of the big. patient brut-ee lumbering grsrely up and dewn a Be Id. drsjflrg a plow with as little apparect Cert as a man wo aid trail golf stick behind him. Da r" is - s ON THE dividing line between Chile and the Argentine Republic, in the very heart ef the Andes, steads, la impressive solitude, the high est statue in the world-tfcat Is, the statue erected s,l Ice most lofty kilitode. . It U a rolosesl . figure of Christ, and was plad there eus a perpetual token of peace and good will be tween the two nations. The statue is ef bronze, and wae cast ia the arsenal at Huenoe A res frens csnimn. The erranlie base on whh the elatne tdamlf Is. twenty leet high, axd the Kurt of Chrit l tweety siz fet bih. Th monurrent la th reet.W f a tneve Tnnt started and carried to a-c-es ry Madame de rta. eiee f the meet Influential ar.d cultured wemea cT South America. - '. - t . v Y THEN an iceberg breaks away from Its fellows VV in th nortn'rn eaa nd drifts southward to " warmer waters it "meets, sooner or later, the fate of dissolution. f Jiany a winter passenger en transatlantic vessels has seen towering Icebergs floating near the great ecean "pathway, hut' comparatively. few voyagers have witnessed the death hours, so to speak, of - one ef these majestic, forbidding mountains built up by tbe bands of the frost king of the Arctic. ' It is curious what fantastle shapes the remnants of Icebergs will resolve themselves Into before giving up the frigid ghost. ' , Warmer - waves than they hare known before laving- tbelr sides, leaping upward and caressing them under the propulsion ef strong, warm, southern winds and aided In destructive purposes by the grew Ing sultriness ef the sun. eat great Assures In their -sides, mit away- tke uctder and upper ear faxes, and -' In time reduce the towering pinnacles of Ice and snow te .something little snore then a child's plaything. Durrng the latter part ef the melting process the bergs are eaten away te faetaslto shap. sm that some ef them elmnst renb!e a human akeleton. The ptrture shows the laat days of "I'-e fnirbtr , fcerg. whlcn. when t brfce away fress the northern Ice Held eed staj-ted r uth. vir big and . reeietieee" enough la Its snaaelve power te ht eent to the bet tom tne steuteet eblpa that ely tbe eta ked they col lided with It wltk any degree ef eretA. , V. 3D . A :S s't I . re"!? m . ! ill QOMB of the moat curious specimens ot church architecture In the world mar- be found In Nor- - X ' l i. ... ., ... ,. . .,.!. r. x "Si s7VIMHU, S.W I f;s.BiuiyiV SS n ai s looking edifice that was erected ia me. or earner., Antiquarians have never been able to determine the tiart oat,. - -- - t - - The Borgnnd church is built ot legs, covered thickly with tar outside and InelJe. This coating perhaps accounts for the preservation of the building. When the doors are closed the Interior is almost entirely tn darkness, as light comes then enty throngs -small openings in the roof. , . In this church eennej Interesting relic. Includ ing a weodeej rnnl ri bnt nn lov that hae hung from a yiiisr fr -iturlea. and e very oM hapHsmal font cut eat ef a tint I, block of ston. Tbe top ef the altar is a ink of slate, mdely trimmed: the altar-piece Is a teprtsf station ef the eruciSs, -ndely trimmed.
