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TIEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN- -AMERICAN'S special foreign news -ATLANTA. SHE FLED LIPTON LAYING CHALLENGER S KEEL OIK THOMAS LIPTON is shown pouring the first ladle of molten metal which goes to form the keel of the Shamrock I\ , the new America Cup challenger. Around him are the work men and designers in the shop at Gosport, Keel of U. S. Defender has been laid. DRAW FIRE OF 1 Says Scandinavian Court Is as “Gloomy as Tomb”—Teeto talers Make Her III. HUSBAND DULL: KING A BIGOT "Tell Your Headers I'm Just a Girl Who Loves Life,” She Pleads. By GEORGES DUFRESNE. Special Cable to The American. PARIS, Dec. 13.—Paris is crowded with Russian Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses at present, and a very gay and democratic set they are. You meet them everywhere in all our fashionable cAfes and places of the lighter forms of amusement. Through Grand Duchess Anastia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, an old resi dent and an enthusiastic admirer of Paris, I received a letter of intro duction to the most beautiful of all Russian Grand Duchesses, Princess Wilhelm of Sweden, who since she left her husband has been staying in a charming villa, overlooking the most beautiful part of the Rois de Boulogne, together with her father, Grand Duke Paul, and her brother, Dimitri. The Grand Duchess received me in the most, cordial manner. “Of course, you are going to in terview me about Stockholm,” she said. “! am the easiest person in the world to interview, and 1 don’t dis like it a bit, for the interviewers have always treated me splendidly. Even the Stockholm papers have been as nice about me as they dared to since 1 ran away.” Looking at her girlish figure and manners, being under the magnetic spell of her bewitching personality and the merry twinkle in her eyes. T found it small wonder that my Swedish confreres had been nice to her. Stories Worry Her. “And now’ you want to know, of course,” she went on, “why I ran away. Naturally you don’t believe any of the nasty stories told about me in i orne papers, that I acted as a spy and that I had a love affair with that poor Ambassador of ours.” [ assured her that nothing was fur ther from my mind. A girl with her eyes could never do anything as mean as spying on her husband’s country. She is full of mischief, but there is not a wicked thought in her soul. “First, let me say then that I have no faYilt to find with my husband. Poor Wilhelm is the best of fellows and he has always been the soul of kindness to me. but like all the rest of his family lije is dreadfully dull. It isn’t possible to imagine two great er contrasts than he and T. and the divorce will surely'be as great a re- . lief to him as to me. Everything that I liked he hated. 1 am fond of pleas ure; I love music and dancing; he cares nothing for the pleasures of life *at all. Swedish Court Like Tomb. “The Swedish court is as gloomy as a tomb, and from the first moment I felt as if I had been buried alive. Look at me and tell me if yofi think 1 lonffc like a woman who would en joy continual fasting and praying. I was surrounded by teetotalers and ascetics the very looks of whom made me ill, and I stood it as long as I could, but I always knew that it could not last. “T simply had to break away and I did it. i might have made a man out of my husband if 1 had had him to myself here or in Russia, for he really loved me, as far as it is pos sible to a man with his temperament, or rather lacking of temperament, to • love a woman, but he was as wax in the hands of the King, and the King—no, l won’t say what I think about him. except that he is the most narrow-minded and bigoted person I ever met. “Everything is a sin in his eyes, but he is a dyspeptic and his views of life are colored by his poor digestion —that is the only excuse I caw find for him. He has my sincere sym pathy, for he will be happy only when death releases him from this miserable and sinful world. Will Miss Her Boy. “I shall miss my little boy. of course, but it is far better that he should be brought up by my sister- in-law. Princess Ingeborg, of whom I am very fond, than that he should grow up to see how miserable his father and mother made each oth er. , “I shall never regret what i have done. I feel as if I had escaped from a prison. Will you tell your readers that I am not a vicious, immoral woman, but just a girl who loves life, and who sees no sin in thinking that we did not come into this world to moan and mope, but to^ get as much as possible out of life?” And l readily promised her. for Princess Wilhelm of Sweden is no / heartless coquette. who enjoyed shocking and torturing her husband, out a woman who tried her best to do her duty and who broke with ev erything when she realized that she was ruining two lives. She is a beautiful flower which must have sun and which would have frozen to death in the frigid' atmosphere of Stockholm. ‘Ghost’ Hound Like Doyle's Haunts Home Special Cable to The American. LONDON. Dec. 13.--A 'hound of the Baskervilles," or something much like it, is reported from Ipstones. on the border of Derbyshire and Staf fordshire. It is a weird ghost dog, which haunts a farmhouse called “Trie Hermitage," a building that has stood more than thr.ee centuries The tenant, a prosperous agricul turist named Bennet Fallows, and nis family tlrmlv believe In the hound, which they have seen frequently, they nay. during their thirteen years’ ten ancy. , . , „ , “One man kicked at the beas <i?- clared the farmer, and the foot nit nothing at all but the ay it wen. right through the animal. Sons of Millionaires ‘Sprung from Gutter,’ Uncouth and Unpre sentable, Says Ralph Nevill. Special Cable to The American. LONDON, Dec. 13.—In his book just published. Ralph Nevill, the son of that brilliant society leader and writ er, Lady Dorothy Nevill, hits some of the newly-created peers pretty straight between the eyes. He doesn’t deliberately lay himself out to hurt their leaders’ feelings, but he points out in a graceful, aristo cratic manner, that the peerage was not made for tradesmen, nor trades men for the peerage. Himself an aristocrat, he says of the parvenu peerage—the gentlemen who buy ti tles by large contributions to the political war chest or brew beer for the millions to pay the debts of roy alty: Hits at Newly Rich. “Peerages were originally never in tended to be conferred upon wealthy manufacturers, who have made their money by getting other people to Photo s jvt gQJrv PRINCIPLES OF FUTURISM DEFINED BT POET MARINETTI Declares Speed lias Regenerated the Earth and Caused Love of Straight Lines. Special Cable to The American. [ etti. “the poetry of to-day must be LONDON, Dec. 13. The mysterious rapid, laconic and not bound by rules principle of Futurism has been de- of meter, or tenses in verbs, or sen- fined at last by F. T. Marinetti, the ; tenues, or punctuation.” Italian poet of that cult. Here is part of Marinetti’s “wire- “The principle of Futurism,” he less poem” describing the siege of writes, “is a complete renewal of hu man sensibility under the action of modern scientific discoveries. “These discoveries are forces which modify our sensibility by cre ating— ”1. An acceleration of daily life which has nearly always a quick rhythm—that man’s physical, in tellectual and sentimental equilibri- sation on the tight rope of speed amid contradictory magnetisms. “2. A horror of all that is old and known. “3. A horror of the peaceful life. ”4. An increase in the value of the individual. “5. An unbounded multiplication of human desires. “6. An exact knowledge of all that was inaccessible. “7. The equality of man and woman. ■“8. Depreciation of love owing to the universal extravagances of femi nine luxury. “9. A modification of patriotism, which is to-day the heroic idealiza tion of a people’s commercial, in dustrial and artistic solidarity. “10. A new’ sensibility which de stroys distances and melancholy soli tudes. “11. The nassion, the art and the idealism of spoirt. “12. A conception of the . whole world ai\d craving to know exactly what everyone else is doing in .ill parts of the globe. “Briefly, speed has regenerated the i earth and created a love of the straight line. “In the sume way.” asserts Marii- Adrfanople: “My ears my eyes open! Atten tion! what joy is yours oh people to see, to hear to scent to drink all all all taratatatoto oxen chariots horses’ hoofs flic flac zang zang chaak chunk flying manes w'. inings i i i i i i tohn- bohn jingling three Bulgarian bat talions marching erovok-craak * * work for them on the cheapest pos sible terms. Personally I prefer peers descended from pretty girls and Stu art Kings. For some reason or other, probably atavism, there is a tendency for the sons of millionaire's, VP run & from the gutter, to be particularly uncouth and unpresentable. Mr. NeviJl next steps down from bis pedestal in the arena of nobility to look at political lions in the <’om- mons. Of course, Lloyd George, the man of the moment, does not escape his scathing criticism. He regards the brilliant Chancellor as an insti tution. “The rise of the Chancellor,” he says, “is very much to his credit on account of the many and great diffi culties which have shadowed his oath.” Rap for Lloyd George. At the same time, the author con gratulates himself that there is only one Lloyd George in Parliament, “for a. House of Commons with several would be unbearable.” SPLIT IS H IN NEW PARIS Sees No Settlement Of Irish Question Private Interchange of Views, Lon don Times Says, Only Shows Difficulties in the Way. TO TAKE FLIGHT DEFIES CUSTINI — Feared It Will Become Neutral Grounds for Merchants and Royalty to Hobnob. Special Cable to The American. PARIS, Dec. 13.—Monday will see the opening of the new St. Cloud Country Club, which, while designed to bring about a rapprochement be tween leaders of American social life here and scions of French nobility, may. it is feared, cause a rupture among the set of prominent Ameri cans in Paris. The complaint is made in American circles here that, while the clubs avowed pur]K>»e is for sport, it is in reality destined to become neutral ground on which American magnates, who are so disposed, will be afforded an opportunity of coming into per sonal contact with the most exclusive members of the French aristocracy. Scent Truckling Scheme. These critics say that instead of furthering the interests of Americans in Europe the promoters wouid use the club to court favor with the-Fau bourg Saint Germain set. and would exclude from the club all American sportsmen who are forced to earn their own livim’ in trkde. They say the promoters would de sire to prevent such a contretemps as a French -duchess trading on the same turf as a picture dealer to whom she might have sold her family paint ings. or a marquis meeting in the tea Pavilion a jeweler from whom she had possibly bought her pearl neck lace. A number of prominent business men, hearing of well-known fellow- countrymen engaged in trade who have been refused admittance, are asking exactly what the membershp qualifications are. As one snubbed applicant is a Jew, the question is asked whether racial prejudice gov erns the committee's actions. The correspondent of the Henrst papers has obtained a list of the chib’s share holders, although everv effort has been made to keep this secret, and this list shows Jews are eligible. The club so far has sold 150 $1,000 shares, or half the number to be disposed of. Shareholders in Club. Eugene Higgins and Henry Cachard head the list with ten shares each; J. P. Morgan and James Gordon Ben nett each have five, and one share apiece is held by Mrs. Post ley. G. Mitchell TVpew, Lorillard Ronalds. James Stillman, Edward Tuck, Dolo- nel Hunsicker Georgr J. Gould. Fer dinand Williams, George Blumenthri! and Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Corey. Other single shareholders are the Due DeOuiche. Prince Pontlatowskt, Baron Knyff. Marquise <’hasseloup Laubat, Vicomte Brailles. Comte Rob ert Vogue, Baron Gunzburg, Bar in Gustav Taube. Another criticism made by memb" s who have joined the club for sporting purposes is that the condition of the around. is unsuitable for golf, whi’e the committee has also made the mis take of soending $35,000 for a tem porary clubhouse that is lacking in the usual comforts and not at all in keeping with the aristocratic aspira tions of a large number of the mem bers. Special Cable to The American. LONDON, Dec. 13. The Times gives prominence this morning to a statementT “on the highest authority," tflat practical effect was given with in the past two days to the project of a private interchange of views on the Irish crisis between the leaders of the various parties concerned, as laid down by Premier Asquith in his speech at Ladybank* “It would be rash in the highest degree,” The Times says, “to assume that the meetings which have taken place this week are certain, or even at present likely, to lead to a settle ment. The first effect of a candid exchange of view’s, probably has been to reveal something of the ob- stables to any conceivable solution.” The Times does not say who par ticipated in the meetings. Its doubts about the result of the conference are apparently shared by Bonar Law. the Unionist leader, who, in a speech at Carnarvon yesterday, said: “It is my belief that the chance of a settle ment is smaller to-day than when Mrs. Asquith spoke at Ladybank.” 250 PERISH AT SEA. Special Cable to The American. FREETOWN, WEST AFRICA, Dec. 13.—More than 250 natives perished yesterday when a tornado blpw 20 canoes, with some 400 natives on board, out to sea. The cable ship Serv- tlnel rescued 136 of them, but no trace of the remainder was found. The tsorm swept the town and port and did much damage. [ Advanced Thinker Meets With Disapproval From Her More Conservative Sisters. Special Cable to The American. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 13.—A Moslem woman, Belkis Shefket, will make an atroplane flight. She be longs to the Ottoman Association for the Defense of Female Rights in Tur key and contributes to the Turkish weekly newspaper the World of Woman. Mme. Shefket has arranged to fly with a pilot from the aerodrome at San Stefano to Adrianople, weather permitting. She declares she is do ing so to encourage Moslem women to take an independent and coura geous view of life. Her spirit and independence are much ahead of existing feeling In Turkey and the orthodox majority of her sisters are said to look upon her as a shameless Imitator of the bar baric West. It is interesting to add that the Sultan recently sent an automobile to the Emir of Mecca. TO SHUT WIFE Caste System Disregarded When Maharonee of Indore Consents to Appendicitis Operation. Special Cable to The American. LONDON, Dec. 13.—The first In dian royal woman to be operated upon for appendicitis Is now on her way back to her home. Her friend* here are awaiting with curiosity and anxiety to know what her reception will he. The religious and caste law* of India forbid such an act as this operation —by men, and foreigners at that. She Is the Maharanee of Indore, anil with her la her husband, the Ma haraja. Tukt Rao Holkar, and their two Children. The Maharaja and his wife are both 23 years old. NEW YORKERS IN GERMANY. Special Cable to The American. FRANKFORT - ON-THE - MAIN. Dec 13. -Among American arrival* at Frankfurter Hof are Mr. and Mrs. Bernstein Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lam- ber, Miss Helen Ellis, Alfred Lrvtn- gor. John Riley, Mr. and Mrs. V. Saks, Mr. and Mrs. Bocrne Young, of New York , o. W. McCormick, of Bos ton- Walter Schmidt, of Los Angeles, and Mr. and Mrs. W. Thomas, of Chi cago. Rembrandt Sold at $8,800, Low Record SDeeial Cable to The American. LONDON, Dec. 13—The cheapest Rem brandt acquired at a public sale in many years was sold at the Aynard auction, when the dealer, Ferral, bought Ecce Homo for $8,800. The painting had been valued at $14,000. Christmas Queen of Holland To Visit the British Special Cable to The American. LONDON, Dec. 13.—The Queen of Holland, for various reasons, has been unable to visit this country since her ascension to the throne. King Ed ward invited her several times, and a state visit has often been discussed, but the young Queen’s ill health has usually stood in the way of what would be a highly popular event. The invitations renewed by King George have at Iasi proved successful, and the young Queen will probably ne the guest of a member of the family—most . kelv the Duchess of Albany—within the next few weeks. London Opera House Closes Doors Again Special Cable to The American. LONDON, Dec. 13.—The opera house built by Oscar Hammerstein shut down recently after various vicissitudes. The krf^.st entertainment there. “The Society Circus,” faield t<> draw good au diences and the vast theater again is tenantless. 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