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lS3iE 16 THE WASHINGTON POST SUNDAY APRIL 26 1914 A mericans Throng Capita a Mr 4 amous Case on i nav GAYSEASONIHLONDON Weddings Amen the Nobility Keep Clergy Overworked AMERICANS THRONG HOTELS Dinners and Receptions in British Capital Made Last Week Most Brilliant in Years Despite Absence of King and Queen at Paris Two Notable Silver Weddings 1a Cabe Tm Washington P6L ondon April 25 While society In large 7 iirners followed the king and queen to Isns Lordon has been by no means dull be jrason In fact ma be said to ha hiI nil brlHiance Dinners for the opera are given by leading hostesses every night and every da and everv night there have been receptions an 1 dinners for brides of noble fam les it has been the greatest week London pehaps ever has seen in this respect and ire oergv of the West End churches delpre tney never have been so overworked The climax came on St Georges day the number of brides of high station led to lie altar on that day constituting a record The churches were a blaze of ury with roses the emblem the great English feast day Opera Season Opening It was certainly a happy idea to open the opera season with Mme Melba In La Boheme arrd It is questionable If excepting for the decorations even a gala night ever saw a more distinguished audience Ever the king on the even of his Paris Journey was there with the royal box full QUEEN BUYS GOWNS AT PAEIS Persuades Zing George to Purchase Seven New Uniforms Special Cable to The Washington Post London April 25 Queen Mary accomplished a shrewd stroke of business during her recent visit to Paris She purchased a large number of new gowns and persuaded King George to buy seven I new uniforms which are by far the most expensive part of his attire and the cost of both gowns and uniforms has been included In the special allowanoe which the king and queen received from the treasury to cover the cost of the Paris visit The queens dress bill was 2500 and the kings uniforms cost 2000 A dispute which has long been smouldering between the dowager queen King George and Queen Mary concerning the absolute ownership of some gobelin tapestries was finally settled by the queen mother selling them to the Prince of Wales conditionally She Is to retain possession of the tapestries during her lifetime It is understood that the prince paid his grandmother 50 000 for the tapestries and some gold and silver plate now at Marlborough House ENTERTAINS IN ROME Perry Belmoat Host Party at Elaborate Diiner MANY AMEEICANS IN ITALY Party of Tourists From Pennsylvania Is Received in Private Audience by the Pope Mr and Mrs James Haien Hyde Arrive From Naples on Automobile Tour Other Dinner Parties KILLS TO SAVE HONOR Italian Countess Defense for Shooting Counts Orderly SAYS HE BROKE INTO BOOM Interest in Rome in Trial of Wife of Army Officer for Murder Victim Is Said to Have Boasted of His Conquest and to Have Had Prisoners Portrait Speell Cable to The Washington Post Rome April 25 Before departing for Venice and Pans Mr and Mrs Perry Belmont gave a dinner at the Grand for a large number of friends Among those who sat around the exquisitely decorated tables were Lady Sarah Wilson Princess di Teano Marquis and Marchioness Delia GaAdara Mrs Leeds and Count Elie de Talleyrand The present of Count de Talleyrand and Mrs Leeds started once more the report they soon would many Friends of Mrs Leeds however deny it Francis Hine president of the First National Bank of New York and Mrs Hlne arrived for a two weeks stay On Friday they were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Vernon Brown Countess Mary Sennl formerly Miss Gaily of Pittsburgh gave a dinner in her sumptuous apartment in the historical Borghesa palace A large number of guests were present A musicale followed the dinner Mrs Wurtz Gives Brilliant Aftair Another dinner followed by a reception was given by Mr and Mrs George Wurti It was a brilliant affair About 150 guests MANS MOST FAITHFUL FRIEND THE DOG IN TRAINING FOR NEW UNES OF SERVICE r8ozaMfia0aMxzKz ZezzrpijSxsrf Specta Cabl to Th Washington Post Rome April 25 Italian popular interest now centers on the aDDroachlne trial of the Countess Tepolo Ogglonl for the mur 1 thronged the spacious salons of the Mat der of her husbands orderly Mysterj tei palace Queen Mary was not present as she I still surrounds the relations between this Prof Robert Maclean Cummock dean was preparing to leave for Paris but there was the gracious presence of Queen Alexandra who had with her two of her Danish guests Prince and Princess Aage the princess being an exeeptional 1 hanisorre woman In the front row of the royal box were the Princess Roal woman of noble birth and the soldier she of the schooi of oiatory Northwestern I killed University gave a reading before 50 As the countess tells the story the guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Wald tragedy has the simpliclay of an ancient ing Cldik Prof Cummock who is com Greek tragedy The countess husband pleting a worn torn will lea in a few a captain in the army had an orderly aldavs for Pars tall handsome lad of about 22 named Mrs Clarence Postlev a well known Quintilio Polimente who considered him Catholic benefactiess is staving at the Frlncess Maud of Fife and Princess I self an attraction to woman kind and Excelsior for a few days On Frldaj she Victoria The king sat most of the time I was forever boasting of his conquests gave a dinner for her son iwid daughter in the omnibus box talking at Inter Polimente thought he had made a deep in law Mr and Mrs Stirling Postley vals with the Marquis De Several impression on his mistress and presumed and Mr and Mrs Gurnsey Curran ri tit on the counts favor to be familiar withi Dazzling Costumes Worn the C0LntePS I Other Dinner Parties For Die Walkure and Rhelngold tjm a Mr and Mrs Harry Cumner and i Mr and Mrs Charles Cutler of Bos One afternoon as the countess wa ton gave a dinner at the Continental for I packing In her room in her husbands flat ir and Mrs Henry Reuter and Mr I it San Remo to go to Parma he burst and Mrs Harry Clausen also of Bus in ne enaeavorea to emorace ner sne tue audiences were as brilliant as the royal box always Is occupied There were wonderful audiences of women evening dress roremost In the nobility was Princess Victoria of Schleswlg Ho stein wearing biack charmeuse with repulsed him and managed to get him out touches of pale blue embroidery and a shady hat massed with ribbon bows led the distinguished audience which ln i uded the American Ambassador and Mrs Page to Grosvenor House which was lent by the Duke of Westminister for a concert for the benefit of the funds Leading opera artistes and the theatrical profession were eager to contribute to the program Two Silver Weddings mong other events of the week wers two notable silver weddings the Duke ny Duchess of Newcastle celebrating tners at Clumber where there were great rejoicings among the tenantry by whom thrv are greatlv loved The Duke and Duchess of Portland for their silver wedding got a uruque gift of a slver model of the engine which the fourth Duke brought from Stevenson In 1S1T and placed on the railway line which he constructed between Kilmarnock and Troon Haibor It was the first locomotive ever seen In Scotland Dublin too has been unexpectedly gay There were enormous attendances at the Punche6town races The Lord Lieutenant and Lady Aberdeen attended In state Lord and Lady Denes entertained most hospitably in the hut placed at their disposal by Lord and Lady Iveagh Many American Visitors Count and Countess Ladlslas Srechenyi the countess formerly being Miss Vander bilt are In London for a couple of months Mrs George Jay Gould is coming with her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Anthony Drexel Jr Mrs Leeds has taken Florence Lady Nunburnholmes house in Grosvenor square Mr and Mrs Plerpont Morgan go back to their house in the same square Mr and Mrs Ogden Reid Bon and daughter in law of the late American Ambassador are to be In London for some time Crewe house will be tenanted by Mr ard Mrs James Duke Mr and Mrs Marsh have taken Warwick castle Mr and Mrs Isaac Rlee of New York arrived in London this week for the summer season Mr and Mrs John LIcFadden of Philadelphia have arrived on the Impera tor Mr McFadden came to London to attend to his cotton Interests while Mrs McFadden proceeded to the continent Misa De Wolfe Arrives Mies Elsie De Wolfe who has many friends here arrived from New York this week and intends staying in London for Borne time Moncure Robinson also is among the latest arrivals having crossed from Paris John Patterson of Dayton Ohio again Is back in London after a long absence in America Mrs Louise Fleischmann has arrived from New York and after motoring through the south of England has located at tjhe Berkeley Hotel for the season mV and Mrs Rufus Patterson have arrived from New York and are staying at the R1U Mrs Albert Lewtsohn Is another recent arrival from New York Montague Glass the author has gone for a short vacation In Italy Martin Beck a Visitor Martin Beck the vaudeville manager has arrived from New York to strengthen ihe already long list of American theatrical managers here Irving Stern of New York has registered at the Carlton Hotel for an Indefinite stay Hammond the New York banker end Mrs Hammond are spending a few days here Mr Hammond expects to return to New York shortly but his wife will lemaln for the season Mr and Mrs Fred Herreshoff and Je ome Travers are making the Savoy Hotel their headquarters during their stav here John A Hennessy the famous graft eposer after ten days spent in London has departed for a tour through the south of England and intends sailing on the Olympic next Wednesday Other Americans expected very soon include Mis Ogden Mills Mr and Mrs Llbridge Gerry Mr and Mrs Charles McVeach Mrs Francis Neal Bacon md net on and Mr and Mrs Robert Livingston of the room and lock the door By a subterfuge he effected an entrance once again and In the struggle that ensued the countess seized her husbands revolver and fired The shot was only intended to ton Mr and Mrs James Ilazen Hjde and a party of friends have arrived automo billng from Naples and are now at the Excelsior Efforts to get Mr Hyde to repeat here the lecture he gave in fJU I AlLcilC Oil I ICIIU 11 IUCU1 1 1 nf i bxutinstead hat lean life and literature have so far failed killed him for the bullet struck him at Frevl0U3 t0 hls derarture for Vienna the base of the nose and went through i here he wU afl debate fn his head rr fl Reichstag on the naval appropriation fmpt5save for tha detd 011 Captain Drace White gave a dinner man ann herself nnn no unnn qo cho oni i a Vw 1 for Rear Admiral uinslow realized what she had done the woman fled to neighbors whom she told Received by the Pope yOSW lit sKiwrtWf 9 faj tt aniz UJUd9o SECT MADE HER RICH Russian Peasant Woman Posed as the Mother of God DISCIPLES GAVE HER 75000 Daria Smirnova Now on Trial in St Petersburg Was Betrayed by Her Hus 1 band When She Made Another Man Her Chief Lieutenant Called Orthodox Church the Incarnation of the Devil Special Cabs to The Washington Post St Petersburg April 25 Dana Smirnova a peasant woman is on trial here for impersonating the mother of God and ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE IN THAT DEAR OLD DORSET Special Cable to The Washington Post London April 25 The notice to the members of the Society of Dorset Men in London of the annual dinner on May 4 has been tanned In the Dorset dialect by Mr William AVntklnn the honorable necrelarj He ai I be martel pleased to tell ee that our sirt yearly veast 11 be held ageln theia year an Tor the tenth time ov axen In th Kings Hall the Holborn Restaurant on th onrth day th merry month May There Is much more In the same pleasing style HER PARTY BRILLIANT Mrs Gerard Entertains Crowd of American Friends I BENEFIT FOR WOMENS CLUB COLD FEET COMMITTEE BUSY Tea Dance Under Patronage of Ambassador to Germany and His Wife One of Most Brilliant Social Events in Annals of American Colony Gay Cabaret Performance Is Given by Artists Sptclal Cibe to The Washington Post Berlin April 25 The tea dance given for the benefit of the American Woman tlub last Monday under the patronage Vf rJUl3 i0UtLlh9e Wh be Will Remove Cause of Chilled Pedal Ex Ambassador and Mrs Gerard proved to lieved In her wild fantasies With her are being tiled two accomplices Peter Swlrnova her son and Denis Shemeteff The proceedings are secret but remarkable details of her operations aie being published It appears that Dana had since 1901 when she settled In a village close to Okhta one of St Petersburgs suburbs been giving heiself out as Gods mother sent down to earth by God to reveal to sinning mankind new truth and bring new salvation Had Many Disciples In SDlte of the proximity of the capital she succeeded in imposing upon a vast multitude of common people and so great became the fame of the Okhta place Flynn chairman of the God mother as she was blasphemously tn the ventilators of the press erallerv be in man respects one of the most tremities in House of Commons brilliant social events In the annals of London April 25 A committee of the American colony five popularly known as the cold feet Mrs Gerard whose popularity and committee Is engaged In devising a genius for organization contributed plan to Improve the ventilation of largely to the success of the undertak Westminster palace According to the ing has been receiving countless con testimony already taken the press gal gratulations As originally planned tie lerv the hansard room and thp ladles I tea was to have been a comparatively gallerj of the house of commons arc modest affair but under the clever man chiefly provocative of cold feet slrk agement of the committee of women hav headaches and pneumonia Ing the matter in hand it developed be Lady Bjles wife of Will am Bvles ond all expectations said she was rot a frequent Nearlv 4fJ persons attended and the visitor to the ladies galler because huge Kaiseisaal of the Hotel Adlon was there was a want of air which made packed so full of tea tables that move the wives of the members avoid the tient was almost impossible and many guests were obliged to stand Gay Little Cabaret Liueu lllrtl Uiaopies WUUIQ UUCh LO lltri 0 tu Tk rf tl tortslrmont fim her husband wa in alliance a ustroll5u thdr backs from the sale of tickets and program ttiiu vwicu me ejiLWitiurs were snut auvti using ainuuiucu iu iicaiij fivv they suffered for the want of air He which goes to the treasury of the Worn declared the press gallery should be ans Club where the money is sorelv entirely reconstructed needed SOME BRITISH CANINES NOT ALL BULLDOGS I have killed my husbands orderly in defense of my honor and my children Received by the Pope I Mr and Mrs Fackenthal of I Rlesrev Ule Pa and Mips Helen dia Letters Tell Different Story Ryan of Dojlestown Fa were among i It Is alleged however that there is an ose hoer4 rPcelved au I other side to the case Investigation It dience by thf Pope Is said has shown that Polimente wasL Amon arrivals at the Hotel Angle in possesion of a portrait medallion of terre are Mlss A A erlapk Mrs i the countess a nd that letters have been Joh logtrMls IVe Mr found which if genuine might prove I and rsJh nF that an Intimacy existed between the I 3Irs vA llliams and Mrs John Don pair It Is said that fearful of her Inti 1 an of JLtcn I macv with Pnllmpnti hsmmin Mr and Mrs Hunk and famly The dog is alwajs the friend of man whether he is well treated or not He is the most faithful of all the four footed animals Thcs pictures show a number of English dogs who have distinguished themselves In various wajs as rescuers detectives or as defenders of their masters The group is submitted Ma Richardson of Harrow on the Hill London who for vears has been an with her but as she liked the company of other men Jealousy gradually drove him away and It was he who really informed the police of her escapades When he was gone she made Shemeteff her most important lieutenant by proclaiming him to be St Peter the Apostle and next to him her own son who she declared was none other than King Solomon With Pt Peter on one hand and King I Solomon on the other he would sit herself on cushions In the midde of a I room sui rounded hv her followers and set out her tenets which were a strange mixture of Lommon life moralitv such a the godliness of sobriety and of personal honesty with thp most equivocal super I stltlons remindful of the rites of As tarte Preached on Celibacy i She would hold forth against the es i tabllshed orthodox church in which she saw the incarnation of the devil and preach In spite of hr own example to I the contrarj tne virtue of celibacv I Many unsav orv details about her rites are set out In the act of indictment but her sway over the superstitious minds of her followers sterns notwithstanding to i have been enurmous The favorite pi nishment which she In i dieted upon the sinners was fasting In a sort of solitary confinement and often the unfortunate victims would hold out I the fast for weeks at a stretch One woman Dunla the prophetess actually died from voluntary starvation ROYAL WEEK IN PARIS While the tea was being served a gav little cabaret performance was given on a platform erected at onf end of i I hall Jean Louis Tisuisse a clever Dut i chanson singer who has lately been mak I ing a hit in Berlin theaters gave a nuni I her of songs in lnglish Fren ami i Dutcn Hubeit CatT of His Mate tys Theater IOndon recited eceipa I from Shakespeaie Iucv Kleseliausen lennese danseuse of the Isidore Du i aa stvle danced in constume and betweeu the tarbaret numbers there was a pa rade of mannequins wearing tne latest tieations of Drecoll the Tails modiste which were rapturouslv applauded al though the display of toilettes at tne spectators tables had nothing to lose comparison Expensive Gown Raffled To add to the exctement of the atr nnn this mnnainir cnmniittfe ratii1 1 eon With the Marquise de Breteuil jio gov contributed bv a dressma 1 firm Tirougn mistake Mrs Gerard wa at Prst declared ne ihf winner bjt turned iut lati mat the Italian MTitjas Sddor Signor Bollntl was the holder of the luckv numbr Besides the leaders of the American colony several prominent Germans and Arrival of Edward and Mary Signal for Festivities i AMERICANS GIVE PARTIES mrs rerainana ciumentnai is nostess at i One of the Biggest Functions of the Season King and Queen Have Lunch Only Woman to Entertain Them Special Table The Wasllrgtoa it Paris April 23 Royal week brought hoEts of Americans living in Europe into members of the different foreign embassies Paris and hostesses from across the At i were present Embassador and Mrs Gerard who occupied a table near platform had as their guests the Count ess Von Moltke Slgnor Bollatl and his lantic had the busiest week of the vear American women llvirg at the Bois de Rnnlnrna and tha Phamnc flvappa P3VA VJ I a uwDv vi couse tue uuJfu dS my 6e roof tea partles on Tuesday afternoon for ueen Engl oarnpst frieni nf rn2s anfl a student of thoir rCrr fr thi atmar tr ne grounus o4 tne most magmncent iu 6 mansions ln tne worlds finest thoro igh rsooo money Every one would give Daria of his or her last money cothes and ever Marv of England provisions ana in tnis way me act oi secretarv Ghcraidi Roland Harvey and ap GETS SURGERY RELICS SEEKS TO RAISE MORE COTTON POPE HUSHES SCANDAL her husband the countess tried to break off her relattjsns with the orderly that his vanity and self esteem wounded by her action Polimente threatened either a I disclosure or blackmail and hence the tragedy of Chicago are staying at the Bristol Lee Borden is at the Regina ONLY 25 AT AST0R WEDDING Johns Hopkins Is Given Knives Used by Ancient Greeks TREPHINING DRILL INCLUDED MUST RETIRE IF THEY WED Women Doctors Get Blow in Decision of Lindon County Council Same Policy Folio wed With Charwomen One Man Argues Two Feminine Members of Board Oppose Rule I Simple Ceremony Will Take Place at i I Huntington Home Thursday Staatsburg April 25 Vincent Hellenes if First or Second Century Ac Astor for the first time since he was taken 111 two weeks ago in the home of his future father in law Robert Huntington was ible tn be dovwisiairs today But Mr Huntineton said that all idea of an elaborate wedding had been abandoned by his daughter Miss Helen i Dlnsmore Huntington and Mr Astor The marriage of the young mastei of the greatest fortune in the world will be i tK ft roo Tk Special Cable to The Washington Post of two families distinguished in society London April 2o John Hopkins Lmvcr will be witnessed by not more than twen sity at Baltimore will soon have a re Spelal able to The Hi i Fo St Petersburg Apr 2i Russia row pavs annual tribute nf rt TO OiK to Egpt ard the Tjiited Slates principally the latter for raw cotton One half the sup JfansferS MaDUdS AnHUl nlv hniETht nitt dp the emm I A bill has been introduced in tl duraa providing for the association of the state and private enterprise in carrving out1 irrigation works to cost 535 COO 000 to in crease the home product The duma de I ided in favor of exclidng from colonlza 1 GRANTS uon privilege all Kussiar sojects or non 1 Christian faith ment Case to Private Court APPEAL OF KAISER quainted With Art of Raising Depressed Bone in Skull Blades of Old Instruments Consumed by Rust No Antiseptics in Those Days MILLIONAIRE LOSES TEETH ORGANIZING SUNDAY SCHOOLS ty five guests relatives and most inti mate friends The ceremony will take place on April CO as has been reported Mr Huntington confirmed this today The ceremony will be performed ln the Huntington home Instead of St Mar garets Episcopal Church The Pev WANTS AMERICAN HORSES Special Cbl to The Washington Post London April 26 The London count council has decided that women doctors must retire from Its service if they marry The question arose on the ap nVntmOTI rf fVirA nmmar Anntrwn uwu i Mr ii uuncan will officiate public health service Mr Smith said that the best women worksrs were married The census returns showed that there were large numbers of married women teachers and nurses who were rendering signal public service and against whom no fault could be found It was wrong and improper he declared for the London county council to attempt to impose a restrictive condition Mr Gordon pointed out the council insisted charwomen should resign on being married and the same policy he said should apply to women doctors The en couragement of the wife working system resulted ln lowering wages he thought Mr Baston expressed the opinion that when a woman married her place was at home and she should stay there to loo after her family Miss Adler and Miss Wallas both progressive members held a contrary view Miss Wallas urged that the council needed women of experience and Miss Adler said it would not only be wise to have married women doctors but also maikable set of surgical instruments used ln the flist or second century A by a Greek surgeon Among other things these instruments show the ancients knew the operation of Uephlnlng or taking a piece out of the skdll They probably did this to let out an evil spirit The set was discovered near the site of Kolophon in Ionia With two exceptions all the instruments are of bronze The blades of the knives were ongmally of stet 1 but in each case this metal has been almost completely destrojed by rust In ancient times knives were made either British War Office Plans to Start an of stone or bronze tws custom was fol lowed not Because nun o3 uhamuui Army Remount Service English Farmers Let Automobile Supersede Horse and Army Suffers Despite Offer of Kings Premium but because that metal was held in super ititiou fear a fear which lingered into the Christian era Used Steel Only in Surgery According to Plutarch it was actually unlawful to Introduce any iron Implement Into a Gretk temple and no Roman priest might be shaved bv an iron razor or iron I stissors Surgical knives however naa steel blades Nevertheless even these bore i ci the opposite side from the actual Specia1 Cable to Tne Washington Pot blade a leaflike projection of bronze with i onaon April i iif diiumi uar oirceitwo edges a survival oi uifeaum is considering the advisability of apply blade preserved apparently for cere ing to America for the solution of a se I monlal reasons Each of the six knives rious problem now facing it or rather knife handles in the collection The department has a scheme before it shows a groove for the steel blade which married nurses Women ronlrl nrpant if dispatching a delegation of expert it originally possessed nowadavs so there was no great fear I remount officers to the United States to An elevator for raising depressed bone that wages would be reduced she de sludv anii purchase a squad of thorough js another interesting exhibit Its pres clared i breci American trotting stallions as a nu fence in the collection would seem to prove Lady St Heller the onlv woman mem I cleus for an establishment here of an that after battle efforts must have been ber of the municipal reform party took I efflcient supply system of airay remounts made to treat surgically even the most a view directly opposite to that of her I ontisn war uuitt uas ai msi awa i 9eri0us wounds ot tne skuh vioaern sur two progressive colleagues The council ened t0 the fact of a tremendous scarcitv I geons are apt to Imagine that brain surg allowed women teachers to marry she i of horses fn EnSland that can fae used ery is a recent discovery and that opera pointed out but she was convinced that for Bxltsh arm PurPses and experts tlons for the elevation pf pieces of de no woman could do her duty to her home I have advised the adoption of American pressed bone were invented within living and familv if she had to go out to work i trotters as a basis for breedinS farms memory The elevator has unfortunately The voting was 30 for the amendment hlre A i been broken and only one end of it re that women should not be asked to ra Since he advent otXi automobile mains in nnni rorses nave ueen aupemtuou aau larm i sign and 2 against vnQ tn Mtn Drill Bow fbr TrephimnK I a alia uniti icit 1 Hai nvanj iiu attention to horse breeding at all As a Another and still more remarkable brain PENFIELD TO GET DEGREE Count de Hedervar Dead Budapest Hungary Apill 25 Count Charles Khuen Hedervary de Hedervar former Hungarian premier died today aged 63 He was prominent in th organization of the political parties of Hun garv and did Important work in the reform of the educational system Hobart College Will Confer an LL on American Ambassador Special Cabe to The Washington Post Vienna April 25 United States Ambassador Frederic Penrleld was informed this week that Hobart College Geneva has decided to confer on him the honorary degree of LL Morris Gest of the David Belasco company and Mr Amberg of New York arrived here this week They plan to produce several American plavs here United States Judge and Mrs Kohlsaat and daughter of Chicago are passing a few days here They will leave shortly for Budapest and Munich en route to Hamburg whence they will sail for home consequence the war office is now faced with the problem of the nations stable being empty instrument is the drill tow for operating a skull trephine This instrument proved a verv great puzzle at first and was Almost the only encouragement the gov simDosed to represent some sort of meas ernment gives horse breeders here Is what I uring appliance Research however has is known as Kings premium This is shown that it is a bow which when fitted a early allowance granted to owners of in a string was used to rotate a bone thoroughbred stalliors on condition theyi rju or skull trephine very much as be placed at the service of tenant farmers amis and trephines are still occaslonally who have good mares ne war office rotated HKBlElsk sllilssitllll Sll3llkv a rfj vjl iPSMi13SWg i WSSSSmMM German Ruler Feared Publicity That Would Follow Hearing Before Tribunal of the Rota Only Medical Experts Will Be Witnesses at Trial Before Congregation of the Sacrament in Rome fares were packed with a feminine throng gowned in the latest fashions Mrs Ferdinand Blumenthal had one of the biggest parties only being surpassed bv that of the Marquise de Breteuil formerly Miss Garner Af Npt Orleans The marquise had tne distinction of being the only woman in Pans to entertain the British king and queen The De Bre teuils are famous hosts of rovalty Kne Edward frequentiv enjoyed luncheon at Among Those Present Anion otners present were Maj La ff hornc Mme Quesada wife of the Cuban Minister Count Guido von Henkeldon nersmarck Countess Montgelas Wife th chief of tne American department Geiman foreign office apt Berens Councilor Basuroff of the Russian embassy Guatemalan Minister Oroaj Consul General Skinner Vice Consul Gereral De Witt Poole jr i anl Mrs von Bulow Dr and Mrs A Davis Mrs Aln Kraenzleln wife the athletic trainer the MIsBes Rose anl their Bois de Boulogne mansion and the Pegg Hfrsh of Philadelphia Mrs lame rriree oi vvaies stopped mere several xBUmann of New York Mr and Mis months a couple of vears ago Kuepemann of Chicago Mrs No Americans Present Frank Cavalh and the Misses Cavaill New York Schultz of San an Thursdavs luncheon was a very quiet clCOi Lamer Wlnslow Mme Pierre affalr with no American guests as the mert 0f ew York DrJ res marquise rarely se American souety pastor of the American Cn unh Mis here Agnes Kerr Mrs Dr Clevesymmes Mr Edward Tuck the retired New York i Stephen McFadden Miss Leila ht banker also gave a large tea party on i man Mr aid Mrs WilliamfC 1 Tfher Tuesday tne guests navmg a nne view i Jlrs Marv McEIwee and Mrt A 1 Alof the royal procession from his Champs Eljsees residence Mrs Rutherford tuvvesant who returned from New York recentlv has be brecht Notable Musicians There Mr and Mrs George Hamlin of rhl Speelal Cabl The Washington Pos Roma April 25 It Is reported that next week the sacred congregation of the sacrament wll he given the hearing of the case In which former King Manuel of Portugal and his wife have mutuallj applied to the Vatican for the annulment of the marriage The application has been kept ex i tremely quiet at the special wishes of I the kaisei vvfn as head of the house of I Hohenzolle Insisted that there be no I rMiMlo cranrlal Kaiser Appeals to Vatican At the kaisers special request the Vatican arranged for the granting of a decree by the congregation of the sacrament Instead of the tribunal of the rota as it Is Impossible for the details to be kept secret in tne rota where the evidence I and findings of the court have to be published Also there must be three hear lngs ln the rota before the final verdict 1 can be found while in the congregation I of the sacrament a decision is possible of one hearing It is understood that the only witnesses will be two medical experts Married Last Year i Manuel of Portugal who is 25 vears old succeeded to th throne on the assasslna tion of his father and elder brother in 1 1908 and was exiled In 1910 On September 4 last year at Slgmarin gen he married Princess Augustine of Hohenrollern who was born in 1890 VICTOR HERBERT VERY ELL has a lien on the progeny The reason the gov erring authorities here selected American trotters to the exclusion of the English hunter is that variety of tasks It is also pointed out that the German Austrian French Roumanian and Russian governments are all encouraging the trotting breed for military purposes In classic times this was not under taken as at present to lelieve the pressure from an abscess or an effusion of blood but to allow exit to the evil spirit the former are more suitable than the I supposed to be troubling an insane or epi latter Thev are fast sprinters last long 1 leptic patient That the Greek and Ro er work harder and perioral a greater man surgeons achieved good results Is certnin Probablv the purity of the at mospheie in which they worked made them to some extent independent of antiseptics They used mandragora juice or a tropin as anesthetics SjwrM Cabs Tbr Washington Post London April 25 Victor Herbert the I composer who was operated on this I morning for atiperdlcltis was reported tonight to be in a critical condition Mr Herberts wife and daughter are here Mr Herbert suddenly became very ill i while being shown through Buckingham palace on Wednesday The physicians who were called in to attend Mr Her bert decided that an operation was not necessary but on Friday he became so much worse that after a consultation of four doctors an operation was deemed imperative Mr Herbert is In a nursing home PAGE LAUDS SHAXESPEARE Anthony Drexel Tony Biddle Special Cable to Tbe Washlnon Prwt London April 25 United States Ambassador and Mrs Walter Hines Page went to Stratford on Avon on Thursday where the American envoy made the chief speech at the Shakespeare festivities Tho Am assador had booked the pn The Philadelphia millionaire amateur gagement long ago otherwise he probably boxer and organizer of Bible classes is would not have gone owing to the Mexi home from a trip through the Canadian can situation which demands his atten wilds where he organized six Bible tion and presence ln London classes One of the innovations intro It was noticeable that Ambassador duced by Biddle In all thee classes Is Page read his speech which proposed a friendly boxing Irf the course of his toast to the immortal memory of Shake bouts with the Canadian lumberjacks he I speare from printed manuscript in type Had three of his teeth knocked out of exceptionally large size gun entertaining for the season with a cago sat at a table made up of notable tea dance for a host of guest3 Including musicians including Tntz Kreisler the Prince Antoine of Orleans Princess Pog violinist and Mr Kreisler Joref the gio Suaza nee Curtissi who Is one of vmne Rudolph Ganz Mr and Mrs Theo the American Ruspoli princesses Mar dore Spiering Mr and Mrs Frank King quise de Talleyrand Perlgord formerly Clark and Paul Tietjens the Anient an Miss Elizabeth CurtHs Mrs Marcellin composer Singer and Mr Frederic Bell During the dancing following the tea Another prominent royal week hos 1 several selectiors from Tietjens new op tess has been the Duchess de Talley era The False Rajah were played here rand formerlv Anna Gould who returned for the first time One of the numbers with the Duke from Monte arlo for the a catchy swinging waltz had to be re occasion Duchess in New Home The Duchess de la Rochefoucald this i wf ek has taken a new apartment in the Champs de Mars quarter which is vearlj growing more popular with Americans Mrs Paul Morton arrived at her Versailles villa from New York today and Intends to do a lot of entertaining this season The Countess de Sommyevre nee Fitzgerald of New York who has also returned to Paris has announced an extensive program of receptions for May Ambassador and Mrs Myron Her rii have returned to the embassy after a brief vacation at Cannes Arthur Hugh Frazler has taken up the post of second secretarv of the embassy replacing Sheldon Whitehouse who was appointed first secretarv to the legation in Nicaragua peated Despite the official German taboo on modern dances the program was made up ln American fashion and consisted almost exclusively of one steps with an occasional waltz tango PAGE MAKES POPULAR GERMANS PLAN BIG EXHIBIT Characteristic Booths Will House Displays at San Francisco Leading Cities of Empire Arranging to Send Distinctly Municipal Expositions to Worlds Fair Here Next Year Americans Welcomed to Italy Since He Became Ambassador King Bestows Honor on Chatfield Taylor in Recognition of His Services to Italian Literature in Sial Cible to The Washington Pot Rome April 25 While the poit Lenten season goes on at a pace faster than the gayest debutante ever dreamed of the social chronicler of the Trtbuna and others writers frankly admit ia this vear besides contributing to tn seasons gayety in gorgeous and at tn same time a highly refined fashion Americans also have taken a promlne part in cultural events which up i a few years ago they rarely particiiated ln Whether or not the merit of this departure is to be wholly attributed to Ambassador Page they refrain fiom Special Cat to Tne Washington Pest saying What they openly recognize Berlin April 25 Officials of the German i that this year the number of gifted and Panama exposition committee are at work cultured Americans who visited Itav i on a plan which It is believed will ma 1 greatly increased and that during their tenaily add to the importance and inter 1 stay they have not kept to themseh est of Germanys exhibit at the San Ftan but have shown a lively Interest in the Cisco fair It provides for the construe 1 Qolngs or modern Italy tion ln each of the greater exposition buildings of special exhibition booths of uniform style wherein Germanys exhibits in various departments can be assembled and seen as a whole It Is the intention to give them a distinctive characteristically German style Another project upon which the committee is working contemplates special municipal expositions from leading German cities The interest which the general public here takes In the San Francisco enterprise is shown fcy the size of the audience which turned out a few evenings ago to hear an illustrated lecture on the exposition by former Consul Iohan who for fifteen jears represented Germany as head of the San Francisco consulate Besides former Ambassador Mar jui whose reception by local society and savants has been most enthusiastn Chatfield Taylor has attracted a dei of attention as witness the decoratnm unexpectedly bestowed upon him by km Victor in recognition of his servicer Italian literature ln the United State The news that Mr Taylor was to made a commander of the order of Saints Maurizio and Lazzaro caught the writer wholly unprepared And he spent several hour3 trying to find out who called the attention of Public Education Minister Daneo to hla work on GodonL Mr Taylor said the decoration was a pleasant surprise arranged bv his friend the Marquia Cohfalonlerl Italian Ambassador to Washington fc.