Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 236, 2 July 1910 — Page 3
THE RICH3IOXD PALLADIUM A'D SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1910.
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DIVOBCES
III U. S.
ASTOUND ENGLISH One Divorce to Every Fifteen Marriages Is the Record Made jn America. JAPAN OUR ONLY RIVAL
IN AMERICA THERE ARE 73 DIVORCES PER 100,000 POPULATION: IN ENGLAND TWO DIVORCES PER 100,000.
(American STewa Service) London, July 2. Statistics showed that at the present time In the United States one marriage in every fifteen o Blxteen would ultimately be dissolved by divorce. This startling statement was made before the pivorce Commission by Mr JL Newton Crane, a member of the Federal Bar of the United States and of the English Dar. Figures compiled by the United States Government 1k added) showed that divorce wan more prevalent In America than In any other country, Japan alone excepted. In the United States In 1000 seventythree divorces per lH),iO( of the population were granted. In Japan thers were 213 per 1OO.O0O. The average for European countries was about ten, while in England and Wales only two per 100,000. Personally, said Mr. Crane, he waa of opinion that the frequency of dl vorce In the States and the growing indifference to the duty and obligation of marriage, were primarily due to the fact that marriage in America was denned by statute, to be merely a civil contract, and that no form of solemnizing the ceremony was required. In tho Western States the rite of marriage was performed by Justices of the peace, who were often keepers of public houses, and his court frequently adjourned to the bar. Marriage la Too Easy. Persons thus married had no comprehension of the solemnity of their engagement. Marriage which had no better sanctity than attended the making of a promissory note could not he more highly regarded by the majority of thoughtless persons than the obligations of an ordinary commercial transai tlon. Most of the American States had set an example to this country by taking steps to provide against Improvident marriages. Generally the marriage age has been raised from tho common law rule of fourteen and twelve to eighteen and sixteen years. In certain states a medical certificate as to the physical condition of 'those desiring to marrv is reoulred. What was want-
ed was a middle course between the
laxity or American law ann tne aimcnlty which attended the obtaining o! divorce In England. There were too many causes for divorce In America; two few In England. Mr. Crane added that the greater number of divorce cases in the United States as compared with England did rot meart that. there was greater Immorality In the States. It was du? rather to the levity with which people regarded marriage, and legal laxity a to tlie marriage tie. There was undoubtedly a great deal of illusion. Answering the chairman, Mr. Crane said that perhaps the standard of morality was higher In the United States than In England; at any rate it was to ten or twelve years ago. when a peculiar Arcadian simplicity characterized the people, who could never hke been guilty of the conduct which was reported from time to time in this country.
At Local Theaters
At the Murray. A sketch that is entertaining because it it so different is the ventiloqulstlc playlet "On the B. & O." presented by Nan Aken ft Co. To see the figures in the cast talk, the conversation being carried on by the per
formers In the sight of the audience,' makes It seem Impossible. The mysterious sphere is a European sensation that seemed impossible, in fact, it is certainly paradoxical to see a ball roll up an inclined plane and yet this is what Miss Stone accomplishes without the assistance of any mechanical device or human assistance. The Standard Four are a quartet of excellent singers and also introduce some pleasing comedy. The Hall Sisters give the only dancing that is on the bill this week and also add some musical numbers. The motion pictures are the ktnd that every one should see as it la the well known story of "The Leak in the Dike" and clearly depicts the bravery of the young Hollander.
i Net Very Many. ; "Dow many servants have your ftsked the census taker. -WsjUL" replied Mrs, Crosslors. -two fctve threatened to leave, one baa promised to come, and Ifa everybody's afternoon off anyhow. You can figure It out for yourself." Washington Star.
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Paris Congested by A mericans: French Dressmakers A re Slow
BY LA VOYAGUE8E. Paris, July 2. A word of advice to Americans who are thinking of visiting Paris this summer: Bring your bed- with you, for unless you have made hotel or similar reservations well in advance the chances are that on arriving you will find difficulty in discovering a place to sleep. Such a rush of foreign visitors, more particularly Americans, the -French capital has seldom seen. Scores of people, with money galore to spend for hotel accommodations have been compelled to either accept a "bed" formed of mattresses of boards placed over bath tubs in bath rooms of suites in hotels, temporarily used as "rooms' or else walk the streets. The Paris newspapers make frequent mention of what they term the "American invasion," and the "rain of American dollars," which is visiting Peris. They point to this fact as evjdence that the United States has entirely recovered from the effects of the panic of 1907-08 and that prosperity ha rerurnod to the entire country "else how could so many Americans come here and spend such tremendous sums?" they ask. Hotels restaurants, theaters, dressmakers, milliners, jewelers, dealers in paintings and antiquities all are benefiting from the visit of the '"Yankees." as many French people designate all Amerlcms, no matter from what part of the United States they may come. Truly, America - Is Fiance's best friend.
Speaking of dressmakers, hosts of American women who visit Paris in summer intend to replenish their toilete3 while here, and fondly Imagine that orders may be placed for dresses immediately upon their arrival and that a week later the gowns will be completed and ready. Poor, guileless creatures! They are not aware that of all cities in the world, the tradespeople here are the firmest believers in that bromidian observation, "Time was made for slave3." It Is Incredible the low value placed on time-here. It takes an American woman, newly arrived, a long time to get used to it. and that, too, only after a number of encounters with dressmakers and milliners, to whom she, like her predecessor American sisters, has finally to surrender and submit to the inevitable. To try on a gown or waist seven or eight times only to be told to return again and again for a fitting is a common experience. Something is always wrong too tight here, too loose there or the garment does not "hang" properly. French women have the same experience, and after many years residence in Paris I have come to the conclusion that the reason why French women do not object to these disappointments Is because they love the excitement of shopping. It is a distraction, and they enjoy the constant return visits to the dressmaker. In accordance with the custom of the country, they are very sweet about It all, for neither buyer or seller shows the slightest evidence of ill temper
or annoyance, (to do so would be extremely bad form, in France,) and smiles take the place of what, in the United States, would be scowls or sarcastic remarks, until one marvels at the self-control, or, is It Indifferences of the customer. In the shopB, generally, purchases may be returned, exchanged or the purchaser have his or her money refunded if for one reason or another, the article bought is not satisfactory,
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It Would Mollify the Offended Gods of the Ticket Gossip by Phillips of the Metropolis.
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which Is not always the case in the
United States. This condition, how
ever, adds immensely to the work of
clerks, and to a great loss of time, for many French men and women do not know their own minds as well as do Americans, hence where one article is returned to a store in the United States twenty are subjected to that process here.
BY FRANCIS PHILLIPS. (Copyright Nat News Service.) New York. July 2. Wall Street is again burning incense to the gods I would mollify. It does this whenever the wraith, of popular disapproval of its ways looms menacingly on the leg
islative horizon and becomes over assertive. The Street Is never so pitiable as when it offers sacrifice. This week the Board of Governors of the Stock Exchange suspended E. F. Hutton & Company for a year from doing any business on the exchange. The
reason given for the suspension was a
violation of the exchange rules respecting commissions. Oscar L. Richard, president of the State Bank, filed
charges against Hutton & company.
elleging that they had allowed his son.
Walter L. Richard, while he was an employe of another brokerage house, to speculate with them, in disregard of the rules of the exchange which prohibits the acceptance of orders from employes of houses in the financial
district. Hutton & company, while
admitting that young Richard and his
brother lost more than $6,000 with them, claim that their suspension was not due to the Richard charge but to quite another unspecified cause.
that she still loves him, despite the hardships to which, she avers he has subjected her.
With the return from Paris this
week of Andreas Bippel, the musical world of this city took on new Interest. Mr. Dippel, now that the Metropolitan Opera House has absorbed Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera company, looks for the most brilliant, season the Metropolitan organization has ever had. Quite a number of the Italian and French artists with the Metropolitan company last year are booked to return, and while in Paris, Mr. Dippel engaged a number of newcomers, who will make their debut in the late fall and winter. Immediately on his return this week Mr. Bippel began the organization of the orchestras for next season's operas in this city, Chicago and Philadelphia.
The spectacle of William Bourke Cochran, silver-tongued orator, bril
liant wit and master of repartee, de
fending a penniless negro in a laundry last March, was an unusual feature of the week in General Sessions. The appearance in the case of this modern Demosthenes, who, it will be recalled, received $ 1,000 a speech from the Gold Democrats to stump the country for Palmer and Buckner against Bryan in the latter's flnt campaign, caused a stir In the Criminal Courts Building,
where he is a stranger. Cochran was
assigned to defend the negro by the court, which of late has been designating lawyers of the front rank to
defend impecunious prisoners In homicide cases instead of assigning politi
cal shysters to the work as heretofore. It is doubtful if the negro realized the
value to him of the services of the elo
quent pleader assigned to defend him. To have regularly employed Cochran would have cost him. in the neighbor
hood of $25,000 if he could be retained even at that figure. For his trouble the state will give the lawyer $500, the regular fee paid to counsel assigned
; by the courts.
lowing the divorce of Mrs. Peck No. 1
from the pedagogue, Miss Quinn alleges he made violent love to her. lu proof of it she displays more than one hundred . letters, which, ' it is claimed. Peck sent her. In which he avows his affection in the most endearing terms. What disturbs most the eqntpose of the professor's friends is the fact that he has taken unto himself a charming second wife to whom the imputations of Miss Quinn against her husband must be tremendously humiliating. As was reasonable to expect, the suit has caused no end of a hub-bub among the members of the Columbia faculty and in the literary set in which the Latin-
ist has been a moving figure. , Of course, he denies the charges of the fair complainant. What worries his friends most in view of this, is the
bundle of love epistles freely given to the public this week by counsel for
the newspaper woman, who seems d
termined to make the most of them, holding that they prove her case per
se. ...
TOO GREAT A SHOCK
TJTiereVamantecur JLwind w this wecx.
Trisbie Collars
Gladys Unger, daughter of Mrs. Frank Unser. of New York and San Francisco, and a member of many of the best known clubs in those cities, as well as of London, is another American girl who is making her personality felt in Paris and London, too,
where she lives, although she comes here often. She has undertaken the adaptation of French plays for the
American and English stages. Charles Frohman. has great confidence in her judgment, and her frequent visits to Paris are said to be in response to cables from Mr. Frohman, at New York, requesting her to Investigate
some new play brought out in Paris
which it may be thought suitable for
adaptation for the stage in the United
States or England.
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With $10,000 a year salary Mrs. Frederick L. Faldlng, wife of a wellknown chemical engineer, says her husband cast her'off and compelled her in her destitution to seek food and shelter in the Home For The Friendless. Falding was arrested at a fashionable hotel in which he has been liv
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"Nearer My God to Thee" played on a hand organ is a desecration, according to the Rev. Dr. Thomas R. Slicer, an eminent divine, who registered a vehement protest against it this week in addressing an assemblage of women. He said on the subject: "I would rather hear a hand organ play the 'Marseillaise,' the 'Star Spangled Banner' or even 'There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight' than hear it play 'Nearer My God to Thee.' The use of this beautiful song tends to ridicule that which should be held at all times in the deepest reverence by the people." Despite the protest some 500 hand organs in this city are daily supplying street urchins with this and other religious hymns sandwiched in between rag-time melodies and Merry Widow waltzes from the popular Broadway show houses.
Quite a shock was given this week to the friends of Professor Harry Thurston Peck, holder of the chair of Latin at Columbia University, distinguished essayist and critic, when it became known that he had been made a defendant in a breach of promise action brought against him by Esther Quinn, a former newspaper woman, who demands $50,000 damages. Fol-
(Amerlcan News Service)
Paris, July 2. From Toulon cornea an account of a suicide committed for
a "very odd reason by a naval officer, twenty-seven years of age, who, as he had failed to suffocate himself with a couple of pans of charcoal, lodged a bullet in his heart. He had been living six years with a young woman, and he left a letter in which he asked his parents, who reside at Bette, to give her some of the money which he had lying at the savings bank, and the remainder to his sister. The officer's motive for putting an end to his days seems utterly absurd, but it is gravely recorded in the dis
patch from Toulon. According to his
explanation, he paid a visit to a coiffeur two months ago, and his hair was too closely cropped, .that his appear
ance w;as completely changed. This, i:
is said, preyed on his mind, and he felt that he could live no longer. It might be thought that his hair, such
as it was, would have had ample time to grow in two months; but, at any rate, this is the very queer explanation which is volunteered. It is added that the corpse has been taken to the naval hospital, and that seals have been affixed to some secret documents
found in the officer's rooms.
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Referring to the memorial which was recently erected at Zepelin, Die Woche says: "The home of the Zep-
Ipelin family is in south Germany, as
everybody knows, but the little Meek
lenburger town Zeppelin, near Butsow prides itself on having been tho era die of the illustrious family, and furnished the name the great explorer of the air made famous. A massivtt bowlder, resting on one of still greater size, forms the memorial which was unveiled in the' presence of Count Zeppelin. Into the broad side of the
sunk recounting Count Zeppelin's achievements and the pride which the
son."
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