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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPHTCH SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER IS, 1903. ST. LOUIS POST-D1SPHTCH FOREIGN NEWS GATHERED FOR THE SUNDAY POST-DISPATCH IS LOVELY BRIDES, GIFTED PA RISIENNE, BUDDING DIVA, NOTABLE WOMEN OF TITLE TO APPLY FOR A amer; is 11 10 KING EDWARD'S SISTER LEAIIIIIG TOCATHOLICISM GOULD MISS HAYWOOD. DVORC LOUVRE GU DE Jtesss i London Society Believes the Conducts Her Compatriots Through the Art Galleries.

Boni's Former Wife Said to Be Estranged From His Kinsman, Prince de Sagan. Iter" Mth mfi D. r4 v1WASVrlV WfPJ. -1 I mil tr JrA 111 AT -t vC 1 I vftifc- JH ik i Wt The portrait above Is that of Con- Avf rt Mil vy. Akt5- I Spanish Queen's Mother WMJoin Church.

ENDANGERS PENSION Future of Her Sons Would Be Destroyed by Prejudice. LONDON. Nor. 14. Princess Henry of Battenburg.

when at home on the Isl of Wight, pays daily visits to the con- vents of French nuns of several order who settled on the Isle after they wer expelled from France. The constant association of the King's aister with the nuns haa given rise to tbe report that she Is being Instructed In the Roman Catholic faith to which, of course. her daughter, the Queen of Spain, was converted before she married King Al fonso. Many things strengthens the rumor that the Princess leans toward Roma Catholicism. When she realded at Kensington Palace here she received fre quent visits from the Carmelite whose monastery is within a few hundred yards of the palace.

The other hen Brindl. formerly a woi iV luncneon lijo x'aiace, me I rmcoBS. to the amazement of her suite, knelt n4 kissed his ring as any good Catholla would do. Preaeat at Eaeharlatte Coaatias. It Is said, further, that the Prlncca was the veiled lady who occupied a seat in the Duke of Norfolk's private gal lery In Westminster Cathedral during the splendid religious ceremonies con nected with the recent Eucharistic Con gress.

The Princess recently visited a friend who resides on Belgrave Square, and drank tea with several other ladles. Openly she expressed her disapproval of the great Protestant petition she had seen carted through the streets; a petition urging Parliament to pass a hill ordering an lnspeclon of convents. The company was surprised by tbe fervor with which the Princess declared the Nuns should be free from such unwar rantable Intrusion. The Princess proclivity toward Cath olicism Is being discussed by King Ed ward's Intimate friends, It Is needless to say. But so far the King haa been too wise to approach her on the sub ject.

He knows of old her fiery temper. It has scorched him many times, often- est during Queen Victoria's later years. when the Princess comineered over th6 royal family. EsnbarraaaaieBt to Klaar. Should the Princes espouse Catholi cism, she will embarrass her brother and her family, for not a century has English Protestant feeling against Rome been so strong as sine the Eucharistic Congress.

Should she be converted openly. It Is certain that the future of her three sons In England would be ruined and Parliament would be aaked to stop the pension the Stabs The Princess Is about to leave Londosi for Cair0t ther, of her sons, who Is la delicate health. Then she Is going to for her Majesty of Spain ox peels to bless her husband with another baby early In the spring) SUCCESS SEEMS SURE FOR STUDENT IN GRAND OPERA Boston Girl's Voice Shows RemarV able Development in Quality and Volume. Special Carre poasenco Front Part Bureau of tne Faut-Dlapatca, PARIS, Nov. 4.

Miss L. Prendergast of Boston become known In Paris cn K1'1 ln th, 8b tudy- Ior a "oerx a stuwo. Sh lr years old. but Is already aisunguisnea no omy ior tne quaiuy. but for tho splendid volume of her voice.

As she haa besides a remarkably fine figure and a very attractive pearance, her success seems assured. thought only of cultivating ber voice for concert work, but tbe remarkabl development of her voice opened greater fields to her. 8he lives very quietly. studies hard and occasionally sines receptions when people fiock to hear ner, MAHARAJAH'S SPAMSH VIFE BECOMES A STf.MX3 EEAUTT narvinc Girl He Found in' Street! CU Mm Lit I. I m-tuna i iio i nifcu Position.

Special CorrMpoaaVne From Paris Bureau oi is i "irn, PARIS, Nov. 4. t.eo the Maharajas of Kapurthalia fell In love with the dancing girl ln the streets of Madrid, I Anita Delgado was not only exceeding- ly graceful, but very prttty. lie brought her to Paris to be trained for the posV tlon she was to occupy, aad she deruW A um. arf He took ner to his homo In India hstl winter and mado ber his wife with Oriental ceremony amid great rpl'ndor.

cently he returned to Palis sn4 brotC Ma brida, now a woman of ofpaf loveliness Copies of ber latest I graph are acrjfV tczt. NOW IN RETIREMENT Secretly Married Four Months Ago After an Ardent Courtship. Special Cable From the Pari. Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. PARIS.

Nov. 14. The Princess Hell3 Sagan, who as Anna Gould, married Count Boni de Castellane. and divorced him only to marry his, kinsman of tua same fine blood, is taking steps now to rid herself by divorce from Prince Helle de Sagan. So, at least, whispers Dime Rumor of Paris and rustling her busy skirts, she is whisking reports here and there that the Princess is infuriated at the man who pursued her across the Atlantic, then followed her, willingly, to Europe, and wed her scarcely more than four months ago, first in the London Register's ofiice.

again in the little French Protestant Church in dingy Soho Square. Prince Kretuzeulesco, a friend of both Prince and Princess, told the Post-Dispatch correspondent today he had heard the reports that the Princess intends to divorce her husband. "Unhappily, I believe the reports," added Prince Kretuzeulesco. "But I can give no particulars about their estrangement, for I know none." So Count de Castellane may have revenge far sweeter than he took when he attacked Prince Helie outside the Church of St. Pierre du Challiot.

on that day, last January, knocked down the Prince and trod on his aristocratic features. Whether or not there will be a divorce, the Prince and Princes de Sa-gan have fled from Paris and are residing at Chateau Mareu's, where they need never even see each other. They have not succeeded in selling lier splendid residence on the corner of Avenue de Malakoff and Avenue du Bols de Boulogne. The mansion has become a show place. Guides shouting the family scandals lead parties of tourists through the main gates; gaping sightseers wait in the hope of catching a glimpse of the Princess or Prince entering or leaving the mansion.

TO MR RillKF.FI rertalrLL llllll IIUUUUI LL I actlvi rneass esurayssinian Monarch Cannot Under- tho held stand Why President Gives Up Without a Battle. nouc uf Special table From be I.dou Bureau of the Post-Dlspateh. LONDON, Nov. 14. "The Negus of Abyssinia is one of severa( African potentates who nows of Mr.

Roosevelt's Intended hunting trip and who earnestly wishes the American President to visit him." So aays Lady Harrington, daughter of the late Senator James McMillan of Michigan, who a year ago married Sir John Harrington. British envoy at Ne-gbus, Menelik's court. Lady Harrington adds: "It was Impossible to make the Abyssinian monarch believe that Mr. Roosevelt Is not the permanent ruler of the United States, or that Tie will voluntarily retire from an exalted and powerful position which he might continue to hold with his army's support." WOMAN WINS MAYORALTY, THE FIRST IN ENGLAND Head of School Wins Office by Her Good Work as Member of the Municipal Council." Special Correspondence to the Post-Dispatch. LONDON, Nov.

6. England's first lady Mayor "in her own right" Is Miss M. J. Dove, and the town over which she rules la High Wycombe. Miss Dove was chosen Mayor-elect at a meeting of the Town Council, which sat until almost midnight.

She has accepted the office. The Mayor-elect took a seat on the Town Couucil last November, when she was returned at the bead of the poll. She is the head mistress of Wycombe Abbey Schools. She was the first student to enter Glrton College, where she had a most successful career. Since her residence in High Wycombe Miss Dove has been devoted to the serv lee of the poor, sfvlng energetically on the local Relief Committee.

She has been less energetic since he entered the Town Council as Wy. combe's first lady member. Napoleon's Bible Funaa. PARIS, Nor. Bible used by Na poleon ha been discovered In tbe sane tuary of the Madonna del Monte, over ViUfr-g the Island of Elba, near which tho Emperor stayed for 17 -lays at the Ik sinning of his exile.

Among the pas ages underlined by Napoleon is "Learn to be meek and bumble la spirit NEGUS YEARRS SPEAKS Another's Essay in French Wins Prize Over 2oo Competitors. Special Correapondenee From Paris Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. PARIS, Nov. 4. The latest American woman to "invade," to conquer Paris and to win universal admiration for her courage and learning is Miss Florence Haywood of Indianapolis.

She has installed herself as a guide to the Louvre; she conducts through tbe galleries and museum parties, which vary in number from 16 to 60, and which usually are made up of her compatriots. She is as original and animated as learned and critical. She lectures on the Louvre's artistic treasures to her personally conducted and Insists that her illuminating remarks are delivered In "the American tongue," refusing persistently to speak of the "English" language. Miss Haywood's lectures are wholly unlike the usual dry, stereotyped, "guide-booky" remarks which guides to the Louvre have emitted for scores of years. Americans who know of Miss Haywood refuse to engage any other guide; so she is making much money in her unique venture.

She has written a book describing and explaining the pictures In the Louvre and dedicated it to Miss Flora Wilson, daughter of the American Secretary of Agriculture, who Is studying singing here. The curator of the Louvre is lost equally in admiration of Miss Haywood's knowledge of his treasures and in surprise at her Yankee progressiveness. "There is no sanctuary sacred from the Invasion of American women," said the curator to the Post-Dispatch correspondent. "They do not stand ike perls at the gates of Paradise they walk in." American Girl Wlna. Miss Yvonne Stemmler, daughter of William Stemmler of New York, has the proud distinction of winning from 200 competitors a large prize for the best essay In French on the subject, "How Should Marguerite in 'Faust be Dressed for the Stager The judges expressed surprise that an American should win so brilliantly In a literary competition through the vehicle of the French language.

In her essay Miss Stemmler took the bold but perfectly natural stand that as Marguerite was a peasant girl she should be dressed as a peasant girl and nor. tne riowlng drapery, the aristocratic robes in which she usually ap pears on the stage. Miss Stemmler wrote an Ironical criticism of the costumes of lne marguerites she had ever seen. Miss Geraldine Farrar had already rmed a new conception of Mamw. rite's character and of what she should wear, it is almost certain that man agers of opera, following Miss Stemm ler's indisputable logic, will revolutionize Marguerite so far as dressing her is concerned.

Miss Stemmler. who Is tremendously tall for a woman. Is good looking, highly educated, witty. She has a country home at Madison, N. J.

I Mrs. George M. Pullman, widow of the famous car builder of Chicago, who has left Paris, promises to return to Europe In 1910, but says very frankly that' the only-attraction th will bring her hack Is the performance" of the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Ba varia, which she Is very anxious to see. Mrs. Pullman traveled over Europe In a magnificent automobile, but she advises her friends who have due regard for their health to find ether means of transportation.

"America" $eaka Xo TEnzIlnh. Mrs. A- Whltcomb, who does not speak a word of English, although she is an American citizen, is a second Mrs. Hetty Green In wealth and business ability. Forty years ago Mrs.

Whit- comb married a lawyer of San Francisco who came to Paris for a brief hol iday. He fell In love with a young French woman, wed her and never returned to America. Here he amassed an enormous fortune in real estate. through tips which Emperor Napoleon III gave him of approaching Improve ments under Baron Haussman's direc tion. Since she has been a widow, Mrs.

Whltcomb has managed the great estate, which now ts worth $30,000,000. She follows Mrs. Hetty Green's financial policy and Invests her money almost solely In real estate and bank stocks. Mrs. Whitcomb is at her business office downtown at 7 o'clock every morn ing.

She haa a splendid house at 7 Avenue Hoche, and owns two magnificent country houses, the Chauteau De-bures. near Orgeval, and the Chateau Lacase, near Gabarret, in the Department of Landes. Her daughter married a French noble man two years ago; they made a honer. moon voyage to California, the bride seeking to learn something of her Amer ican kin. Mrs.

wmtcomb la extreme ly generous to her daughter, but she does not permit her son-in-law to med dle in the management of the estate, She despises the frivolities, the fash-Ions which delight so many women. Re cently she began to appear occusionally In the American set here, whose mem bera only then discovered the tie blnd- ln her te America, "American" T.F tesa of YarborooBh, to the left la Duebeas of Hamilton and children. MISS LO'IE FULLER AS A TRANSLATOR Acted for Dramatist Who Could Not Understand Her From Another Similarly Situated. Soeelal C'orrfpoBdf From Paris Bureau of tne rot-Dinpat cn. PARIS, Nov.

i. Miss Loie Fuller has just published her memoirs in French, and in them she tells a most amusing story about Sada Yacco's husband, Kawakaml. and the French Society of Authors. It was Miss Loie Fuller who brought Sada Yacco and her husband to Paris eight years ago, and they im mediately became the fashion. One day Miss Fuller mentioned that Kawakaml was the author of most of the plays in which his wife acted, and M.

Sardou id: "Then we should be glad to ad mit him to the French. Society of Dra matic Authors." He was received in state by the com mittee la full session, and Sardou made a long an eloquent speech congratulat ing him. He sat down, and all eyes turned to Kawakaml. that Kawakaml was expected to reply, but he did not. He had not.

of course. understood a word of Sardou's speech, and sat in his place smiling contentedly everybody present. "Tell him what I said Sardou to me.Nind if you haTS ever attempted to translate a long speech into signs, you will know how I felt. "I had not th courage to remain si lent, so I gave Kawakaml a translation in rapid English of what I remembered of Sardou's speech. -nd Sardou punc tuated it with tYes, yes, yes' the only English word he knew.

Kawakaml knew no English at all, but I made blm understand by signs that he was ex pected to get up and speak. He did. He spoke for nearly three-quarters of an nnnr iin jananese. or course, ana ev-ervbodv eaoed in admiration. Then Sardou asked me.

What did he and I made the first and last sneech of mv life, and only hone I did not undermine poor Kawakaml's reputa tion. For as I speaa no word and un derstand no word of Japanese, 1 doubt whether I did his long speech justice. RUSSIAN GIRL WINS FAME; WANTS TO VISIT AMERICA Vera Sergine Is Heroine in Nihilistic T-k- nay witn tJomD scene, "A Great Special Correspondence From Parts Hurra or the l-oat-uiapatrh. PARIS, Nov. 4.

Vera Sergine, young actress of Russian origin, by sneer lores avuo iw me front rank achieving fame by a remark- able Interpretation at the Theater des Arts of the heroine's part in "A Great Night," a play adapted from the Rus sian, so Nihilistic that one wsnders it has been permitted to run so long In Paris. The heroine, tbe niece of a high Rus- sian official. Is In love with a Nihilist and gives the sign'" for the throwing! of a bomb which blows up the Governor of Moscow. The climax of her acting comes as she screams: "The tocsin sounds! Tho tocsin sound:" Miss Sergine speaks English and is ambitious to appear la America. She is tali and lias eyes which at times blase the passion of the Slavic race.

I I I I I i I I MATCH MADE BY CADDY CUPID PARIS BAN ON THE DIRECTOIRE GOWN BIRTHDAY DINNER Duchess of Marlborough Gives Party on Natal Day of Spouse She Discarded. Special Cable From the Ixndon Bo reau of tbe Pont-Dlapatcn. LONDON, Nov. 14. While the Duke of Marlborough passed his thirty-sev enth birthday In solitary grandeur at Blenheim Palace, the Duchess entertained a very smart party at dinner that at Sunderlin House, her London residence.

Among her guests were Mrs William Tiffany, the Countess of Crewe. Lady Lady Deckson-Poynder, Lord and Lady Alastaer Innes-Ker and Craig Wadsworth. Presumably the dinner was not given to celebrate the Duke natal day. He did not think so. certainly.

Lady Bland ford, his mother (whose newest humor is to revert to her maiden name and style herself Lady Georglna Hamilton) told him of the oinner. ine Duke re sented bitterly that it was given on that nartlcular day, It is said. It is plain to everybody that the Duchess (who was Consuelo Vanderbllt) Is far ahead In the race for social success in which th Duke has tried to compete since their seiaratiou. Indeed. If the Duchess really exerted herself In society she might become the leader of her But does only enough entertaining to show she has no Intention of dropping out of society and that she must still be reckoned with as a power socially.

Her great wealth, of course, gives her a tremendous advan tace. for however charming I her per sonality, tho td iety world scarcely takes a view so sympathetic of her position a lady living apart from her husband as If she were poor. OAT MILK DIET DUKE'S HEIRS Special Correspondence of the Poat-Dlapatch. LANARK, Scotland. Nov.

4. Goat's milk and no vaccination is the doctrine of the Duchess of Hamilton, premier Duchess of Scotland, but shyest and most retiring of women In private life. In bringing up her four children. She is president of the British Goat So ciety, and a goat Is always a valued member of the ducal retinue. The family never goes anywhere without, one.

The Duchess is always preaching the value of goat's milk and goat's flesh, averring that the virtues of the goat have not been appreciated. The Duke, an Invalid, passes most of the time at bis Scottish home here, Hamilton Palace. AMERICAN SHOWING LONDON HOW TO ENTERTAIN LAVISHLY pedal Correspondence From l.oado Bureau of the Poat-DUpateb. LONDON. Nov.

5. H. Gordon Self-ridge, merchant prince of Chicago, graduate of Marshall Field famous establishment, who came to London to show Londoners how to run an up-to-date American-style department store, has now begun also to show Londoners how to entertain. He, his wife and their four children are now in the Earl of Yarborough's sumptuous residence at 17 Arlington street, which they have leased for a year, and they have started out "to do things" on an even grander scale of magnificence than did the owner and Special Cable From the ParlH Bureau of the Poat-DUpatch. PARIS, Nov.

14. Too much of the di- rectoire style In gowns has offended certain leaders of fashion In Paris and they have called halt. The condoned modified expressions of the dlrectoire for a time, but when the robe Andro gyne, witn its aiviuea skirt, came forth and flaunted itself unsparingly, the present revolt started. The young Duchess d'Uzes leads the women who are demanding a new fash ion. They have not agreed upon a substitute for the directolre, further than suggesting that the sleeves of the gown-to-be must be tight fitting.

The directolre really was Introduced by dressmakers who are not classed In the first rank. They were shrewd enough at the start to display the new fashion on beautiful models, and customers took the bait. The reform dress party, led by the Duchess, is carrying Its campaign to the Rue Ue la Paix. where are the shops of the best modistes. The latter are asked to originate a new style in opposition to the directolre and Introduce It.

Paris la by no means absolute as a leader of fashions nowadays. It la the arbiter. Fashionable dressmakers launch new styles, but their success depends upon the manner In which they are received by the public. The knell for wide hats has been sounded also. In their place a mode de scribed as the "inverted flower pot" Is meeting with faver.

Miss Marguerite Baxter, Mrs. Hart McKee's Sister, "Loses To" Young Gordon at Golf. Special Cable From the Parts Bureau of the Pout-Dispatch. PARIS, Nov. 14.

Young Miss Mar guerite Baxter of KnoxviUe, sistr of Mrs. McKee, who divorced Hart McKee of Pittsburg, is engaged to marry the Hon.E.'G. S. Gordon, her friends say. The happy man belongs to a famous Scotch clan and Is a nephew of MaJ.

Marjoribanks, who ran a ranch In Texas a quarter of a century ago, and mar ried Miss Brown, niece of Gov. Brown of Tennessee. Young Gordon and Miss Baxter met on the golf links at Laboulle. It was love at first sight. Now, Mr.

Gordon comes over from London twice a week regularly, and, as both are devoted to golf, they pass most of the time on the links, where Cupid, as caddy, makes many a life match. The engagement has' not been announced, perhaps because disputes in the courts are still pending between Mr. and Mrs. McKee. Mis Baxter Is an extremely pretty girl, much better educated than most young women of her age, either American or French, who dwell In Parts.

She is bright and wit; and has most fascinating manners, jshe Inherited a IStUe fortune from hfer grandfather. Cel. Magee of Tennessee. fels distinguished wtls..