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SUNDAY AMERICAN'S SPECIAL CABLE LETTERS RECEIVED EROM ALL THE GREAT CAPITALS OF EUROPE
Bread and Cheese
Best Meal, Said
J,Pier ?® ntMorgan Patient Nurse to Sick Mother
Princess Pat a Devoted Daughter
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Fraux-Pas in Kicking Out Farmer
Tenant Brings Ridicule Upon
His Sensitive Head.
BITTER ATTACK BY PRESS
Penniless Farmer’s Enticing Ad
vertisement for Wife Creates
Riot in Small Town.
Sptoial Cable to Sunday American.
By STEVEN BURNETT.
BERLIN, April 26.—The Kaiser Is
i«!d to be sincerely wishing that he
had never taken up fanning, or at
least that he had been satisfied to
farm as other royal personages do
Instead of trying to poae and speak
a a If hs were an expert. He feels
lhaf for the first time In his life he
hss covered himself with ridicule to
which he Is exceedingly sensitive.
Nor Is this all, for his farmer ten
ant Herr Sohst. whom he ejected
from his farm and grossly offended
in publicity stating that he kicked
him out because he was a lazy and
stupid tenant with no idea of farm
ing. continues to make trouble. As
may be remembeied the German
courts from the lowest up to the
highest found the Kaiser guilty of
offensive conduct and declared that
hie accusations against Herr Sohst
were absolutely unfounded.
Quite naturally the offended person
iesired some apology from the Kaiser
and at first he expected that the first
gentleman of the country would send
him one without being asked, but as
this hope proved vain, he finally wrote
a letter to His Majesty, but received
no answer. When he mentioned this
fact to a reporter the radical press
began a series of bitter attacks upon
the Kaiser which have caused him
great annoyance.
Thus "Berliner Nueste Nachrich-
len” the other day asked the court of
ficials to say whether they purposoly
kept Sohst’s letter from reaching the
Kaiser, or. whether they considered
him a troublesome crapk,
"The people about the Kaiser,” the
paper save, "have had the audacity
to keep him In Ignorance of the true
state of affairs and their silence in
il ls case is equivalent to deliberate
lying. They have furthermore per
mitted the Kaiser to be made the ob-
jeet of much unfavorable comment.”
That the Kaiser was wrong .in the
| Swiss Inn Could Give Late Financier
No More, but It Was Good
Enough.
Special Cable to The American
BERNE, April 26.—Little stones of
the late J. Pierpont Morgan are the
vogue i:i Switzerland which befell
him during one ol his annual visits
to Vevey, where he studied at the
Slllig School In 1864-56:
The American financier was return
ing to his hotel at Vevey when his
! motor car broke down at the village
of Echallens, in the Canton of Vam:
He entered the local inn and asked
for dinner, but the innkeeper de
murred, stating ;hat he had a most
Important banquet to serve to the
village authorities, and had no viands
to spare.
Mr. Morgan was, however, hungry
and ordered cold ham and chickens,
but again met with a refusal, the
innkeeper saying that all the ham
and poulet would only be sufficient
for his civic customers. He offered,
however, bread and cheese and beer,
and the offer was accepted.
It was probably the cheapest meal
Mr. Morgan had ever paid for. but
he said It was the best he ever had
Police Cut Colors
Off Flowers Poles
Give Paderewski
Russian Officers Guard Doors of Hall
Where the Famous Pianist
Appears.
Special Cable to The American.
ST. PETERSBURG. April 26.— ■
Paderewski has been giving a series
of concerts at Warsaw, and was
everywhere received with enthusiasm,
not only as the greatest of living
pianists, but on account of his ser
vices to Poland.
At one concert many private indi
viduals and public institutions sent
bouquets and wreaths of red and
white flowers, trimmed with mag
enta-colored streamers.
As white and magneta, or ama
ranth, rather, are the Polish national
colors, the police stood waiting for
the arrival of the flowers outside the
concert room, and cut off the stream
ers with their swords before they
allowed the flowers to be carried in.
I Some enterprising persons man
aged to pick up a few’ fragments
while the police were busy with the
rest, and gave them to Mme. Pad
erewski, who took them away in her
vanity bag.
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She Goes Into Social Seclusion
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ATEST portrait of Princess Patricia of Connaught showing
one of her famous ropes of pearls.
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feohst affair was perfectly clear to
very body from the first and so con
vinced was the whole legal fraternity
'hat he would lose his caee that it
f as only with the utmost difficulty
' 'at the Kaiser found a lawyer will
ing to defend Mm and in another case
vv hieh is to come up shortly he has
not yet been able to find an attorney.
A well-to-do farmer of private
means (widower) seeks partner for
M joys and sorrows' of a country
ife - Some capital desired.”
I'-ils was the advertisement in a
t Munich paper, which produced amaz-
ng ■'•yenes at an Intended wedding in
Jm f little country town of Wallerfels.
} h ' advertiser was an almost penni
es Peasant farmer, aged 77.
I’he^ other morning an old maid,
-' <1 :,4, traveled from Murium to see
he “wealthy widower.” They met
aT the nearest station, and drove in
‘ povt diligence, late in the evening
Wallerfels. On arriving they found
thf- entire town awaiting them. The
tmwd stormed the diligence, and the
maid was obliged to seek shelter
n the posting-house. The farmer was
” -ailed with all kinds of election-
ring missiles, and was escorted
mme by the gendarmerie.
: 'ater he tried to arrange a meeting
w *h his would-be bride in the hotel,
the crowd surrounded the hotel
mml bombarded the windows, so that
_m police and gendarmerie were
anally obliged to disperse the rioters
Mth their swords.
Eventually the Mayor of Wallef-
£ entered the hotel where the couple
cowering behind closed shut-
® PB ar *d pointed out to the bride that
* proposed husband was practically
penniless. Thereupon the woman ad
mitted with many blushes that she
, a,J been obliged to borrow the money
° r her .own journey. The Mayor
laid the return fare, and the lady
■ i -ft with a strong gendarmerie escort
I* 1 midnight.
Jeers at Uniform
He Planned Cause
of Artist's Death
Frenchman Dies of a Broken Heart
When Clothes He Designed
Proved Failure.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, April 26 —It is perhaps not
generally known that the artist De-
taille. the sale of whose treasures
hast just been held at a Paris auc
tion room, died of a broken heart.
His death took place suddenly of
heart failure as H was officially stat
ed. but the immediate cause that
worked upon the weakened heart was
distress at his failure in regard to
the uniform designed for the French
army.
It pleased no one, was ridiculed on
every side, and Detaille’s pride was
as deeply wounded for this ill suc
cess as some other great artists have
been in regard to lack of appreciation
in work of a higher order. In fact,
the affair preyed up"n his mind and
killed him.
It is quite t.ru" that the uniform is
hideous. This year the few soldier.,
who were forced to -how themselves
in it were jeered at. The mignon
ette-colored garments have now been
definitely and officially given up. The
experiment has cost the nation
$60,000.
Finds Sole Recreation in Society of Her Ameri
can Chums and Arranging Collection
of Uncut Gems.
BY CHESTER OVERTON.
Special Correspondent of the Ameri
can.
Special Cable to The American.
London, April 26.—The socially
vivid welcome which the friends of
Princess Patricia of Connaught had
planned to give her as a welcome
home has been unavoidably post
poned on account of her mother’s ill
ness. Preceding and following the
operation for appendicitis on the
Duchess of Connaught her pretty and
popular daughter has been in con
stant attendance.
The Duchess remains very de
pressed, and Princess Patricia has
played the devoted nurse, reading the
papers to her and cheering her up
with what verbal news of the day
she has learned.
But Princes Patricia's retirement
has not extended to her American
chums, and she has received almost
daily visits from Mis. Montagu Eliot,
who was Miss Nellie Post, and Lady
Maidstone, formerly Miss Drexel.
The Princess has for a long time
been an enthusiastic collector of
pearls, and her ropes of the lustrous
gems an among the finest In the
world. She has now turned her en
thusiasm to gathering uncut gems
and is employing her seclusion in ar
ranging these treasures.
Princess Pat is still unattached,
and this despite the fact that proba
bly no charming young person of her
rank has been the subject of so much
romantic gossip.^
First it was Alfonso of Spain, who,
it Is generally known, was moat at
tracted by her, and it is also an open
secret that she would not even con
sider the match. Since then her name
has been associated with Prince
William of Sweden and with Prince
Eitel Fritz, a'son of the German Em
peror.
But Princess Pat and her brother
Arthur are still strongly disinclined
to marry for political reasons, and in
the case cf Prince Arthur it is a real
stumbling block to his obtaining an
important post in the British over
seas dominions.
BYWARMINISTER
Approves Scheme of Mme. Jaul
Dieulafoy, the Dr. Mary
Walker of France.
NOT TROUSERED AMAZONS
Sponsor’s Idea Is to Have Fem
inine Battalion Do Necessary
Clerical Work.
Special Cable lo The American.
By LA RACONTEUSE.
PARIS, April 26.—Our new Minister
of War, who Is as polite towards the
fair sex ae he is patriotic, hu;? ap
proved the plan of organizing a femi
nine battalion proposed by Mme.
Jane Dieulafoy, to whom, of all
French women, the Government lias
accorded, in consideration of her serv
ices to archaeology by her brilliant
excavations in Persia, the right to
wear masculine clothing
The proposal is not so far advanced
as it sounds at first gasp, for Madame
Dieulafoy, in spite of the fact that
“elle porte le pantalon,” is anything
but a ferocious feminist. The new
suffragists receive little sympathy
from this mild old lady. It is not
of any band of trousered a masons
that one dreams. But her own ex
perience in the war of J.870. in which
she “served”, dressed as a man. by
her husband’s side, has convinced
her that the service of women in time
of war can be utilized far more ex
tensively than they have been.
There is an infinite deal of clerical
and administrative work at present
performed by men,-which might, with
eqvai efficiency, be done’ by Women.
In this way a considerable body of
“effectives” would be set free for ac
tive service. The organization of this
“battalion of women” Madame Dieul
afoy intends to model on that of the
Red Cross, which she considers per
fect.
Sold Girl's Hsir for Drinks.
Mile. Glrot, the “belle amie” of a
certain Cheignon, a journeyman car
penter. was a coquettish young per
son, whose crowning glory was her
magnificent hair. Cheignon was a
jealous master. One night, in fear
of her life. Mile, Girot. clad in little
else than her luxuriant “ohevelure,”
took refuge with kindly neighbors.
Cheignon one night managed to enter
her bed-room, armed with an ax. a
pair of shears, and several pints of
Dutch courage.
“Your head or your hair!” was the
alternative he proposed.
Judging that her golden tresses
would avail her little without her
head, Mile. Girot pointed to the
shears. In a few minutes her head
wap as bare as a Prussian cavalry
officer’s. With a genial promise to
return and cut off her nose, Cheignon
went out, brandishing his trophy, and
stumbled into the nearest, bar where
he bartered it for a round of drinks.
The other day, accused by Mille.
Girot, Cheignon was condemned to
thirteen months’ Imprisonment. As
verdicts go nowadays, he would prob
ably have been wis^r to u«e. not
shears, but the ax.
Pajama Parties Too Chilly.
Paris has considered freak parties
a. aign of brainlessness. But just now
we are crazy about night gown and
pajama parties which are the dernier
cri in social entertainment?. I was
present at two such last week, but I
prophecy this craze will not last many
weeks and will never be taken up
again, at least not until we have
learned to heat our houses in modern
American fashion.
When we were not dancing madly
about 1n order to keep warm we sat
shivering around the fireplaces and
when we Anally put on our evening
cloaks and drove home in the first
gray dawn we all felt thoroughly dip.
gusted with our own silliness. The
men felt the cold much more than the
ladies, who are used to appearing
partly undressed, and judging from
their audible comments they will not
be very likely to attend any freak
entertainments this side midsummer.
“Manor?*' No More Fable.
Most of my American readers prob
ably have been shocked by Abbe Per-
vopt’s famous book, “Manon Les-
caut,” but I am sure very few are
aware that this dreadfully frivolous
and much loved young damsel really
existed outside the reverend writer’s
brain.
Still, exist she undoubtedly did, and
to-day I may still, though oply for a
brief time, show you one of the houses
to which she was a frequent visitor.
Clo?e to the prjson of St. Lazare,
now' doomed, there stands a little
house which is to share the fate of
the famous prison. In this house the
last of the public letter-writers in
Paris plied his trade at a time when
few were able to read and write, and
to one of his predecessor." came pret
ty IItie Manon Lescaut to whisper
into his ears messages of love to her
lover, des Grieux.
Personal Notes of
Americans Abroad
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News of Our Traveling Folk, Cabled From
European Capitals and Resorts.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, April 26.—London is fast
filling up and the presence of an un
usual number of Americans this
early in the season is notable. The
postponed ball which is* to be given
by Lady Parget, nee Paran Stevens, at
the Royal Hospital in Dublin on Mon
day next promises to be a very bril
liant affair. There are to be about
400 guests. Lady Paget has been giv
ing a house party which included
Lord and Lady Barrymore, Lord Grey,
the Marchioness of Ormond and Gen
eral Pultney.
Lady Naylor Leyland, who was to
have entertained largely at her Hyde
Park house, has been unexpectedly
placed in mourning by the sudden
death of her nephew* Ronald, 14 years
old, who died of one day’s illness. The
Duehes? of Marlborough will have a
number of relatives staying with her
at Cumberland house during the sum
mer. and her mother, Mrs. Belmont,
will remain for at least two months in
this country.
Dr. and Mrs. Derby (Ethel Roose
velt) arc expected for a few weeks’
visit to London in June, and. accord
ing to their present arrangements, will
visit the international horse show.
Mrs. Sam Newhouse is gown hunt
ing in Paris and will return in a week
to London. Mrs. Lewis Harcourt is in
Paris.
Miss Frances Scovell, who is en
gaged to Baron I)eMunrim, is at the
Ritz Hotel and sails next week for
New York. Mrs. Helen G. Wynne
Mrs. Vanderbilt’s niece, h?s left the
Berkley Hotel for Paris, w'here her
children are at school.
Lord and Lady Granard are at
Forbes House. Halkin Street, for the
season. Mrs. Peter Kersmiley has re
turned from three months’ visiting
abroad and is in London for the sea
son.
Mrs. K. H. Harrlman, widow of the
famous financier, with her daughter,
has arrived at the Ritz Hotel from
Parif. They will sail shortly for New
York. Their arrival in London cre
ated something of a sensation by rea
son of the big retinue of servants ac
companying them.
Mrs. Watts Sherman is still at the
Ritz Hotel, but spends rno?t of her
time w ith her daughter, Lady Camoifc.
who is expecting an interesting event
shortly. Mrs. James Henry Smltn,
with the Duchess DeVizeu, has gone
to Paris. She expects to return to
London In a few days. Mrs. Joseph
Stickney is going to the continent for
a ehort visit.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt
are staying at the Ritz Hotel, leading
a quiet life, in which Mrs. Vanderbilt
is undergoing a rest cure.
Nose Trouble Cause
of Headache, He Says
Paris Doctor Finds Malformations
Responsible for Suffering.
Simple Remedy.
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, April 26.—Those suffering
from violent headaches will be Inter
ested to hoar that, according to a
communication just made to the
Academy of Medicine by Dr. Guisez,
the well known Paris physician, a
cure has now been found for a large
number of the cases of this disor
der, hitherto declared to be incurable.
Dr. Guisez finds that the frequent
and annoying variety of migraine,
which starts from above the eyes and
spreads, often accompanied by nausea
and vomiting, is really due to a mal
formation of the upper part of the
nose known as hypertrophy of the
middle horn, which under the least
provocation causes congestion and a
disturbance of circulation at the base
of the brain. Up to the present, owing
to this cause being overlooked, ill
medical treatment, even the cutting
of the nerves, has failed.
Dr. Guisez, however, by a slight
operation, the details of which he
gave to the Academy, has found an
easy remedy by which he has cured
over seventy cases already. He rec
ommends all persons suffering from
frequent headaches to have a thor
ough examination made of the in
terior of the nose.
This communication iff considered
by the Academy to be of great im
portance.
Nelson Room Oak
Paneling for Sale
Beautiful Woodwork Taken Out of
Historic Chamber and Placed
on Market.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, April 26.—“Nelson's
room,” at the Sta:’ Hotel, one of Eng
land’s most interesting historical
treasures, is to be dismantled of Its
oak panelings and ceiling.
The decorations have been bought
by a dealer, who is now looking for
an American purchaser. The price
required runs into many thousands
of pounds.
The work is of the finest Eliza
bethan i-tyle. The house was built
about 1590 by William Crowe, a mer
chant adventurer, and the arm* of his
company are placed prominently over
the fireplace.
After ] asking from one wealthy
burgess to another, the house was
transformed into a hotel about the
middle of the eighteenth century.
The principal apartment acquired
the name “Nelson’s room,” owing to
the great admiral’s frequent visits to
the hotel.
Unlike Ancestry He Is Content to
Let Others Decide and Plan (
Future for Him. ^
BY HERBERT TEMPLE,
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, April 26.—The abaci*
Prince of Wales seems to be a far
more interesting person than thr
bashful “Pragger-Wagger” at Oxford,
for never have we heard so muttfi
about him as since he went awaf,
though nothing of what we hear
shows nis character is developing.
We should like to hear of all kind*
of youthful pranks, something liltt*
those that made his paternal gran^l-
father when Prince of Wales popi»»
lar in all the countries he visited.
We should like to hear of him puV
ting down his foot and telling hts
masterful mother that he wanted X*
have something to say about hia owf
future. But instead of that he meeke
ly consents to be handed over from
one tutor to another, always eatia*-
fled to have other's decide everything
for him.
Many of the rumors, of course, ai*
untrue. No one seriously believes far
instance, that the Prince of Wale*
will shortly take his seat In the house
of Lords, though, of course, he is en
titled to do so as Duke of Cornwall
That he will in course of time If thr
present government leaves any tract
of it when they have finished reforra**-
ing it nt one doubts, but it is cer
tain he w'ill not do so until he fa
twenty-one and shall have finished
his university education.
So far one thing at least has been
gained by his Garman excursion; ht
has discovered that the bagpipe
an abomination and has nothing t©
do with music, wriiich he never knew
the meaning of until he came to the
native country of Beethoven and
Wagner. He is now said to have fal
len In love with music and wants to
learn not only to play the violin, but
also to sing.
ANIVERSITY OF FASIONS.
BERLIN, April 26.—Professor Dr.
Doege, .in eminent German expert on
the history of costumes, proposes to
found a University of Women’s Fash
ions in Berlin. He says this is the
only possible way of delivering Ger
many from the nomination of Paris
fashions.
LADY SC0U SENDS HER
THANKS TO WHOLE WORLD
LONDON April 26.—I,ady Scott
has sent the following letter to The
Daily Mall:
“Would you be kind enough to con*
vey to the public my very grateful
thanks for the remarkable sympathy*
j and generosity shown me?
“1 would like it to be known tha<
my husband’s Journals will be pub-*
fished in full as soon as practicable*
Their every word goes to enhance tba
glory of the Antarctic expedition and
the work of every officer and man.
concerned in it.
“May I also take the opportunity of*
tendering my very real thanks to the
press for its consideration on my re
turn to England, that it refrained
from asking for information or inter
view's with a courtesy that has not
lacked appreciation?”
YACHT TRANSFORMED
INTO GAMBLING PLACE
Special Cable to The American.
OSTEND, April 26—M. Marquet,
the casino proprietor, has made ar
rangements to have a. luxurious
gambling room fitted up in a larise
steam yacht which Is to ply between
Ostend and other watering places.
Gambling will only take place when
the yacht Is outside the three-mile
limit.
GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
TO HEAR SCOTT PARTY
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, April 26.—The Council
of the Royal Geographical Society has
decided tc hold a special meeting for
the reception of the members of the
late Captain Scott’s Antarctic expedi
tion at Albert Hall, on May 21, wher.
Commander Elvans will give an ac
count of the results.
"THE CAR WITH A CONSCIENCE"
“Eating” Power
S OME Motor Cars “eat” up power before it
reaches the place where it is needed—the
rear wheels. Rated horsepower and actual
horsepower are two separate things. A motor
might develop forty horsepower and deliver
about thirty-three to the driving wheels
because of poor construction and plan of
design employed.
In Oakland construction we deliver the maxi
mum horsepower to the rear wheels because
we have eliminated friction and the use of
extra universal joints by the adoption of the
unit power plant. When you transmit power
from one unit to another you waste a little of
it through every reduction. In the Oakland,
the motor, clutch and transmission shaft bea-
ings are perfectly aligned on one shaft and the
power waste is very slight, if there is any at all-
OAKLAND MOTOR COMPANY
Direct Factory Branch, Atlanta, Ga.
Sales Room, 26 James Street. Phone Ivy 2102
Sub Branches, Nashville. Birmingham, New Orleans
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