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PART II SE SOCIETY VE} NTEE AXD Bhould Divorced Women ceived In Society? Re- ELLAWHEELERWILCOX'S ANSWER Pablicity of Our Divorce € cu Claims of Divorces. [Written for the When wel dead go from ity 1 ask, Copyrighted.) rts—Cir- istances Under Which Wo- n Only Seck Divorce— this question was first pro- pounded to me T thought one might “Should the spirits of our to heaven?’ Not that society and heaven are synonymous terms—far it the ranks of the divorced wlmost as many varieties and represen kinds of womer parted. The J word ¢ phin life of prov tune—not error. However sty to the principle in the divoree law, some one innocent retained Without doubt it is the which can befall a sensitive ty given to one's experience woman. rows, them te most carth is of pri 1 our symp Publi whatever fola. i littl the the *may only Publicity @ and sie short of ¢ruc ranks of the de- im woman ¥ opposed we or lack of it) invol spotless Empress to all of us that the misfor- may be ed each of us knows who has passed through its fiery ordeal and yet hy and vespect. most painful nature, intens given to the ed tions on ixion. To have your disappointments dis- fashion of the cussed i daily p pierecd ensers, es commented on by the cup bit The port, or clse she is - conrs who revels 1 by the domestic yoke. n the 88, 10 have by the convse 10 he of earthly who suffer in be one or the other, Woman is by nature and education a somewhat flattering light. pride i noposing frivolous str sorrow rer notion than this, womian through this m noto into bleeding jests of r your most s voluntarily inorder t wounds law dis- passes find her freedom r worthy of our sympathy and our strongest sup- and «d erea- is ‘She must u foolish professional She shrinks from any pub- does not present She muy feel the beauty and admired belle, but she does not cour t th role of the negle Tt is not complimentary to” her of attract The the div creature, of birth, of the s The average wife content by love, and o tion. who, she through some is devoid of the is an powers « T do not believe she enters ¢ court unless she pelled to do =0 by an unrelenting which she findsto cruel too combat. When she does, - te, abnormal aceident finer qualities smade happy and 11" exhibition of of see women giving pounds of gratitude hus- for ounces of attention from their bands women their hy tion for amount fore they resort to such a method of ve- very where and fal divorce. of dress, Indeed, we cases where wives done the worst off dignity and their eve conomizing with ishands throw There awi s 1 helieve that ruelty and_decided s women into an applic The poverty ind \appiness will ne give publicity to their sorrow: I heard u gentleman expr day cents, y dollars, it v be gl can all of us cite scores cover 1ses against of up and con- their ather than an opin- lununlln“nl-y.t not long ago. He said: “If the law p.-rmitlml the inat- tention and impoliteness aud fault-find- ing ways of husbands to he just causes of divor men would — make far better life partners, A man often negleets o woman,” he said, *‘just he- cause sl she linl would be mc the days of _courtship. will 1e belon b e to lo: it, [ asked him if the not apply tohoth s me easily satisfied with their choicein mar- and ringe, themes of public of their her hushand. suggest it would not ine but would speedily ine of good [ ouc that ever h loss mi but no them, Ldo not think this is t nd hful friend, respec of her ¢ Surel y the doors to he said, we domestic nd more wives whe hu e h ird an serable b most v w was ul 1o 1 re on his by unwilling ossip. The 1 whi unusual jo uch an exper the ciety’ to him, and bo knows he knew that he e t opinion no divorced man or afterward, than to whic rule “for \\mm-n are nature, to he 2 Tiev by thit neglect he he is in might truer more become Ninemen tive one woman tires of amended divore u\lluh\l expressed won They mig in bondage, solute happiness ever came to gal cu h The woman who would allow whim or into the who mainta woman w fln\u discovery by 80 pitile No ms © he her a la divor o compelled 1 hier hust her own is L whicl neeu S5t it wid man, How sty her Vs W we could wor man wh chhold t wor tl h. no suee rring we r much and der not 55 passion to bri no wealth truly d o rec Iy circ vio dread wh le. was t be d and heantiful good s adevoted compeiled divorcee in order to preserve tain nu!m become her s H- tody hars its hoa woman isitself the loser, 1 foolish l'\x no NTH YEAR. DIVORCE. Be stone desolated, characters under- mined, gnd general destruction pre- vail Yet it behoove humanc to pass judgment ¢ on any per- son whose priv fe we do not know. We have no t dawoman un- worthy because she is divore Life is too short to be used in wounding one another without just cause. The womnan who has found happiness re hns re 1 offers wringe has sounded the ve of carth’s misery. It is good for | when we hear the word divol to any woman. wehed the highest joy and the woman who 1ot with disappointment and sortow 3 depths all to remember this upplied Remember she has tasted the very hitterest cup fu force to human lips, and that she missed the one blessing which 1 HDIVORCED, They spoke the word in a sn A% shie passed along her way ; They did not pause to question the cause That made her a Divorcee, They did not think of the blighting blast That had rui Of hope Struck dead in their carly drugs in the wine of had been foreed to « wat was dead, and joy They did not stop to think. Oh, better by far if we all rd wi hoand tre st for the Divorcee, Erra Wieerer Wincox, DRAMATIC. e of “Ruth” - MUSICAL AND Cowen's new orator ngland Mrs with her current series of reading Josef Hoffman, the boy pianist, his first concert in New York on t Kate Claxton d Char sceured the rights to Her. ve i1d think her fair dream-bower, and youth and her heart's best truth wer, bled enough worth living 1 that had fled, has won will [ 20th, rvenson hav e World Against Again announcement is made that the stage will not know the sprightly scuson. Lueca is soon to sing in Vienna, is said to be as good as ever, and her seen has always been the best to be operatic stuge Marshal P as besn engaged 1o itertainment of the p music hall on Decembe club Lotta another Her voice acting on. the Wilder, the humorist and mim- ar_at the unnual at Centr: Barton McGuckiu, the Irish tenor now with the National Oper; company, considers the Philadelphia academy of music the tinest hall for singing he has ever seen. Messrs, Booth and Barrett's company con- sists of thirty-five pec of scenery and baggas I'h the commencement of the \mr«n enormous. After her Baltimore James Brown Potter is repc been booked by he mager, Miner, stands.” by Kate § and Touis Harrison g hers with the good title, “A Lillian Norton has ¢ The German journals & performances at appearcd last m “Faust,” eras, This is espec ican singer in Berlin, Bandmann is now He was seen the other attached to farta hold goods_ from Missour to his four miles from town, with on the front seat and a stouter ing the wagon behind. He Probably few persons who ha Connie Jackson play Tillie aware that she is the sister Jefferson, who plays same piece. Such'is th although she doesn't ay fifteen years old, she is n The trus oll's Summer nth in “La rancher day in ot benefit of the fund will take § 1, and Henry Irving and Mrs. P participate, _Henry Arthur Jones, author of ¢ Hea ut in London turned out v living in Al T anothier triumph by his ** recently br Jones is home, London. The first representation of at fhe Fifth avenue theatr ov Bogum'” 15 an American wor suggestive of both the will the part of A sle work in the § o carly future if A superh sterwork w last evening—o which thrill every fever heat and after the performance, tution at the of is ut his best there is_nothing on mu Post. Napoleon Bird i il vith long distance Last w k this thirty ~l\ has lately cc tral director, is th The work of ¢ San 1 or what are techuibally c: has been engagement ed M Mon driving a te gon Toaded with house- Louise } lady is not am it to ) Mrs, have Har, led “one- wsfill in in consid rlin and A I"air Bohem- also a piece of ull Hand. ptured the | full of praise of h dpera. Sk Traviata and won great suceess in both of lly unusual for an Ame; na. m i, about o Slowboy of Mr. Plumme adet Tiss are Joseph in the ar to be more than rer to forty-cight, Fund propose itth avenue, New 1. 1i The Silver red and other sucecssful plays, has s *The Begum' Ny ) Was in “The hd as such is ml (]n ability on Wagner's Metrop those performances o, raise the pulse to ase away sleep for Heorr Miemann pianofort sleepiness to y hours was in one of his best moods, and when Nicmann the stage comparable to him, saysthe New York Even- stonishing the north of > per. singing accompaniment known that Gustay to the front composer of mposition was “rancisco, of ninctee r in this count hroug hea from far Hassa astern an Ar cure anumber of fleet-foot tries for racing pury his quest will ing the suitan to bring W 1st ‘nt nd Pacific oon and began to d v their disch » 1 one, d the ¢ prepariog which ill take has been for next natives part been com- 'wo ex-cond yos cuss the “heea o the and Morocen to se- i horses of those nd, if possi ission from ral of OStULLICS, idea of Apons, the same test in regard to coloy cors 1wy don’t, but my color blindness ¢ thut 1 coulen’t tell the diff- o1 the color of the com- ¢ and my own - “A public SThat'y Well, overy pu 1into has tur vindle. m Gone Wrong. office 0 ie ed out i ad,” trust to NOVEMBER ‘.'.7. 1887~ N. B. FALCONER, Hand Bags, Dress Goods, Blankets, Hosiery, Calico. Cotton Batting N. B. FALCONER, Mondayg? Mondayg? N. B. FALCONER. MONDAY! MONDAY! MONDAY! Hand Satchels, Come early They 2,000 Ladies’ at 28c on the dollar. and get a good selection. are all cheap, HAND BAGS! Hand Bags. Hand Bags. Hand Bags. 2,000 Hand Bags at just one- fourth of what they are worth. 18¢. 18c. 18e. 280 Misses’ and Children’s Hand Bags in Plush, Black and Tan Alligator, worth from 50¢ to $1.00 each; on Monday at i5¢ BOc. BOc. BOe. 890 Ladies’ Leather Hand Sat- chels in Black and Tan Leather Plush, all colors; also a big line of Fancy Leather: all at BOc each. They are worth from $1.28 to $2.00 each. 3 $1.00. $1.00. $1.00. Ladies’ Satchels in Plush, Alli- gator, Seal, all leather lined, handsome frames and shapes worth from $2.80 to $4.50. Our price Monday is only $1.00. $2, $2, $2, At this price we will show the finest goods manufacted. No bet- ter goods made. There no doubt of this lot being all sold. None of these Bags are worth less than $5.00, and the greater portion of them are worth $7.530 to $8.50. NOTICE--Not more than two Bags will be sold to each tomer, and none to other chants. is cus- mer- DRESS GOODS. Our trade in year has been Dress Goods this more than double We are every day, over any previous year. buying new goods and will offer Monday the cheapest lot of medium-priced Dress Goods that has ever been sold, We closed out over 4 cases Forest Mills Striped Dress Goods. They have never been offered at lessthan 78c. Our price Monday will be 8¢, Thesegoods come in all the staple pin stripes, and are very desirable. We will place on sale Monday the last lot of 84-inch All Wool Flannels at 46c, If youwantany ofthem come Monday. You will never get another chance to buy Flannel Dress Goods so cheap. on B4 INCHE:! Mondayg? DRESS FLANNELS, S WIDE AT 46Bc, nels; also solid DRESS At White, 42 inches wide, WORTH 88c. Grey and Brown Mixed Flan- B4-inch Dress Flannels at46c¢; worth 85c. colored Forest Mills Striped GOODS 38ec, WORTH 78c. These come in Navy Blue and Brown and White and Myrtle and White Pin Stripes, is and at the price we offer them--85c-- they are the best value in Dre: all wool, Goods that has ever been shown. DE - BEIGE SERGES, One case 88 inches worth 60c. is only 29¢ per y: P 29c. Grey De Beige Serges, wide, all wool and On Monday our price ard. 8 PRICES 8 B LANKETS! BLANKETS! AN} BLANKETS! 11-4 White Blankets at $2.62} that have never than $4.00. On price. 11-4 White B worth $4.65. Thes for Monday. ever sold. each., They are o cases, alt sp COTTON At 83 8 Rolls WORTH 124 ting at 8 1-3¢ pm 200 dozen Mer Cloth Gloves a | | worth 60¢, been sold at less ly Monday at this lankets at This $3.1 is the best value in White Blankets we have e prices are only GREY BLANKETS AT $2.12}. We offer first 60 pairs of Ger- man Standard Blankets at $2.12 worth $3.2 CALICO, CALICO, CALICO, Best quality of Furniture and Comfort Calico at 4¢ per yard. lendid styles and | worth 8jc; Monday only 4c. BATTING Per Roll 28c, FPER ROLL. for B0 cases fine white Cotton Bat- roll; worth 12je. MEN'S CASHMERE GLOVES 28Bc Per Pair. 1’s Solid Colored t per pair; c AND BLACK GOODS! LORD Tli.\'“Sl)\' AT HOME, Living as a Recluse in an Old Gothic Mansion. HIS LOOKS AT SEVENTY-EIGHT The Poet's Dislike of Strangers and Visitors -} His Ci s Eo e Friends, nric Dress— Intimate Woitten for the Sunday Bee=Copgrighted. LONDON, Nov. I5.—~Tennyson, in own at home, looks the from top to toe, He is even theatric costumed, in dashing felt wide wake Byronic collar, carelessly lolling ars over any-how-wisped-up chief, and the Inverness half-cock, half-cloak, flung grandly over his shoulders, It was only a few weeks ago that [ saw the noble who is England’s poet laurcate. in a busy London thoroughfave and his lovdship looked as ough a fish out of wateras any n rustic who strays into Bre from Castle Garden, As no one se they w dealer in * Iy re his grounds poot his mnous cape. hermit It was widday thor- med took Old The was discarded for him it was evident n Fast End ] whichhe stea clo!™ romantic wike-nwake a dismal, silk tile that proclaimed it was ‘mbles, foot antique, ~and-a-half tall Hjoying holiday for twenty years at least. The Inverness cape was there, of course, but it was closely hugged up to the neck asif to shicld the sensative weather from the contact with its first full dress the vulgar herd the laureate so dreads. His feet shufled and slid barely one foot’s length at o step, and the way those inspired but damp and limp locks clung to the cheeks of the stooping son of genius was cnough to sadden the heart of the sparraws, Yet this man (now elevated above the more genius into patent nobility) for a quarter of a century been most idolized and socially persceut lion of the time. Persecuted by her worshippers of both se S utograplis, has the 1 interviews, even a passing con- temptous nod; they have driven the , lion into his and LADIES’ SILK HOSE, it out of him? Ty a And so Ne s in $1.80. trath, of Tennyson always has been a genuine Briton, which means 10 dozen Ladies’ Black Silk [ that he has got a bitof the bulldog in Hose at $1.80 each; worth $2.50. | him. Carlyle had more of the snarling cur, but Tennyson is one of the un- N couthest old-school giants now left in Ladies’ Black England. The poct’s nature accounts formuch of his exceptional rescrve. Cashmere Hose, | When he isin his most amiable mood 80c. 100 dozen Ladies’ mere Hose at 8Oc; worth 83c. Black Cash- Horse Blankets. Horse Blankets at $2.00. e Blankets at $3.50. Extra large size and fine wool Horse $6.50. Blankets at $4.78 and TAM O’SHANTER AND TOBOG- GAN HOODS, We show an immense line of Tam O’Shanter and Tobogga n Hoods in all the latest colorings and combinations. Tam O'Shanter Hoods at 88c, $1.00 and $1 Toboggan Hoods at B5Oc, $1.28, $1.50 and $1.75. BLACH GOODk In Priestley’s Silk Warp goods we show a full line of everything that is imported to this country. These Black Dress Goods are MostThoroughly reliableGoods in the market.They are made of the FinestSilk and best Aus- tralian wool. You can easily distinguish them by their soft- ness and beauty and regular- ity of finish. They are always the same in quality, weight, width and shade, thus ena- bling you to match any piece, and are dyed in two standard shades of black. None genu- ine unless roii oit & “Varnish- ed Board,” showing the grain of the wood, which is the Priestly Trade Mark. Seal W arps. Standard Henriettas, Ster ling Henriettas,Drap d’Alma, Mel- rose Cloth,Maria Theresa, Ve- netian, Armures (8 patterns) Crepe Cloth, Tamise, Batiste, Alys Cloth, Mourning Cioth, Nun’s Veiling, Diagonal.Clain-| ette, Convent [Cloth, Princella, Imperial Twills,Canton Crepe, Japanese Crepe, ete., We ask our tomers to ex«+ amine these most celeirated fabrics, as nothing moresery- iceable and stylish is made for Black Dresses, N. B. FALCONER, ete, Be, he is absent, and makes you feel doubt- ful whether he isn't Iy talking his thoughts to the solid wall. In~n|.\- 1 was driven from his lovely Isle of Wight the hordes of sight- seers ded his grounds, his and_would have snipped’ his curls and collar by the ineh as relics, if he had stayed there much longer, So he built himself o house out of the princely fortune his hooks have brought him, though he has been the most business-like poet in the mone making line that ever made I forget how often he had ch ||\|M|~h« rs. the last of whom ¢ informad his lordship that even a titled laureat should only effcet a fair marvket profit on his wares. It Tennyson had been fostered, once complained, by Ameri mongers, he did not object to lln' E check sent him by an American period- ical for a short poem. The poct’s new house stands in a charming bit of Sus from the beaten tra should {an“ il crowd » home is » year, but Hazlemore Tennyson ves most of his now fading life. Tt is pitched high, on a vich wooden . whenee t paland avied luxurd ngland, Those of the g of most fumi with his works f nnyson’s later poems are 1n~|vnul by ‘the hills that sur- round his Sussex home, in contrast to the flat where he the earlier ones, influenced by expunses of Lincolnshire, spent his young days. He has buvied his home amid tr They stand all around like a thick phalanx of sentries, keeping grim wateh and ward over the : man who will be heard but will not be seen. Tnside the inner ring there ave gardens trim and pretty, though no espe al pride is taken in anything out- side the walls, The garden” of his Isle of Wight house was more picturesquely red than eleg Since he accepted e (though he will live wdstone’s 1 plain vored soci- il not of for his vote in the ind soon after i \ 'r.»..,._w... gave one L it was firs ,on Gladstone’s side ex- te !ulxw' the franchise, ever since then his utterance and sympathies have been in the opposite dircetion Sinee the death of his favorite son, last year, he has been less in society, nnd after his vecent ill- ne it is unlikely he will return to it, even in the half-hearted way Le did, Tennyson has his cirele, a small one, of intimates, and they ave celebrities like himself. For he i8 a philosopher, @ stu- dent of seience, politics nlli art, and enjoys upl wmatic views with the f He gathe him and wings its way the e} of recording itself for thie de humble world beyon must e more, g old-world s in th 4 gothic whiose gabies and nael ke quills upor fre ] interior is N nishing, the old bl as it suould in of his welcome if e s led along o my hwxu[l‘.v|u( i \l \II IK l("’ ction, thaws m} slowly 1 his own room, but th( magic of a third pipefol sets wagging He that masculine tongue and nether jawy bone, and if the r”" stirs him, he wil pour fourth fine rolling periods in thy sturdy Old-English - accents whie) modern supe cockney sehoolin is polishing out of exis enee, Asthe conversation waams hif putls come thick and fast,and the soun of the pipes waxes more and more wa like. Not the sipes, nor the pipe) of 'an, but the urch-wardens™ as wi call the long clays, for Tennyson has loudly whim never to smoke” tho samq pipe twice. When the charge is ex hausted, he breaks the shank, drops &1 into a cistern-like vase, and fills a cleaf one from the box supplied by his wheler dealer, o reads and writes near a windoy tcommands a view of the fine w iz these odorous trees he taket listloss strolls, sometimes conded seending to give the villagers a glimpsq of his quecr-looking personality, buf not when straugers are likely' to b about, repose. ) j-wu alits best heve, and d oL seem | e costunge s |y Solives the now patriarchial poo whose keenintelleet whets its appetit by probing more decply into the myse teries and movements of the age. Hig later production scems to indicate a half: l. spondent tone, perhaps the ou come of an old man's iliness and m»rlnrd ings over the steates of fate. Richy honored, and courted, envied, as ho s, Tennyson knows, and_keenly 'knows o late the bitter sic of life. His wifd long invalided, his loved son de his own now shattered health wive his thoughts u more soml than when in younger days he sang 80 sweetly the songs of love nnd hope ayd abundant faith, GEOFFREY QUARLES: e ISRAEL'S WEALTHY SONS. The Fortunes Accumulated by New York's Hebrews, New York Star: Of the 400,000 Hé brews computed to be in the whole United States, at least 000 are sets tled in New York. 30,000 Hebrew Two-thirds of the immigrants who landed liere during 1886 remained in this city, The Hebrews have formed o part of the city’s population for over two hundred It d there were two of min theerew of Columbus’ ship on his first voyage in 1492, In 1654 a coly ony cor mu;, of Abram de Lucena, David Tsracl, Moses Ambrasi Abramy de la Simon, dvator D' Andr seph de Costa, David Fiera, Jacob Bard sunson, Jacob C. Henrigue ¢ Mesa and Isaae Levy took up their quarters in New Amsterdum in spite of the pros+ tests of the testy old Duteh Petrus Stuyvesint. They from the port of St Bahia, Brazil. met Ann, near ith much hostility from rnor and the other residents, and of the cole ony removed to other liti Since the rebellion o number of Hee brews cecumulated great wealth and have made theiv mark in the come mercial world in such numbers as to attract attention. Many of them landed on these shores almost penniless, butin spite of the most discouraging surroundings and outlook their fortunes show surprising growth and amazin, proportions. A singular instance o this is found in the great bankers, the seligman brothers. They came from Bavirin with a capital con sisting of brains and pluck, and had to work hard for years, often carvying a peddler’s pack: They were in the clothing business before war and the met with o much suceess that they drifted into banking. Through theip connections in_London, I y, Franks fort, San Francisco and’ New Orleansy they were able to pla ‘e amounts of government bonds: mainly in Gers many, when Uncle Sam needed money most to earry on the war, and were finally m: the government's fiscal uts in Europe., Some others of the Hebrew millions ves of the city are mentioned below and their estimated ratings ave as 4ok lows: Max Well art 8,000,000 David J. |\n.us|<woflo 1,00 W0 Dy id Metzgar 1,000,000 W Tendricks . LO0000 (5. Baliin.. 1,000,000 M Lz 10000 0 n, 1) it Andmda HW% 1,000 Lo, 1,000 n Blum nm.% 1, Wormse B. Nutlinn J.Kin . Roxenb,m * Lisbman, Altman, 1. Rothsehild, Hookniun Ja Jacoh d the produce exs +, the met nge, as well ag the cotton and troleum (~wlmngus, the Hebrews are among the most influ= itinl members, The wrew capital the cotton exchange s estimated at L000,000, 10 banking at $1,000.000 and real estate another §1,000,000, re also prominently identified vilway, steamship and insurance companics. Anywhere where there are big monctary transuctions they are to be found, and their it financial in= fluence in the finane es of this and other leading ¢ itics is well known and recognized. In several important branches of trade they have a complete monopoly. A recent estimate of the innual transactions of Hebrew mens chants in the wholesale trade of New York gave the follow able Johhers of ¥ Whiolesale butehers Wines, spirits und hoor Jobbers of leaf tobuceo Manafacturers of cigars. . . Manufacturers of cloaks. ... Tmporters of diamonds Leather and years of the Browd=- Square, W 1m to the millinery ods, furs, 1 feathers nd tlower an frney goods of all kinds un Kindre y “branches, the predomis nun mes s one of the N wteristics of the forced on pubs. lic there is w greut H festival, The storves the whole neighbore devoid of traftie as on the christian Sunday souie onul holiday, governgge came hepna —-—— e e e e e R 5 / B i