The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 22, 1904, Page 17

» ENGLIS Pages 17t020 > L CALL I Pages 171020 H WOMEN ADOPT MAY 29 22, 1904. YACHTING AS A PASTIME AND A NEW FORM OF RIVALRY HAS BEEN INTRODUCED TO THE LONDON SPORTSMEN the at the Till er. ON, May 21L—Although American women generally are just as s of fresh air pastimes as their British ioor sport, and that as invigorating and exciting as any, woman stiil Il sisters, there is one in far behind her British rival. That many American women who can handle a yacht nd more particulariy yacht racing. re are, of course put to it their sweethearts v themselves. both owns and sa in England who as it lags lass in 1 the MISS ©OX AN EXPERT eded that Miss Cox is t ays more th she had ca r the gun start is the he f n pre enor Cres e has been a H. G. Allen wa < the winr ak est r the ws She ent ve: r i by a the of wo her ardor for the sport. rer t ter wit ng she ame very g 3 out g boat I squ lasted bee: the d gles hu sters, t s now, are al € ppe AIR AND SALT WAT a London dra ost . ra Hug “is the fresh 1 a by rac cons y victim ea equ the best antidote to seasick- we tutes Yac boat, not as a led that Justified eshoff owed his daug oture the th the order for 7 €he 4 s cup contest w rreshoff an A herself WOMEN are OF THE distingul contenting of cruising. NOBILITY d women in Among them Princess Victoria, 1 “ountess v present on the Solent during the f. Duchess of Sutherland has sailtd many s ania. Constange, Lady de la W daughters and has written charming merset and the Duche te for deep-es ss of Leeds are expe! adventures. In her fine ste »ck has visited many foreign pa ng regattas, when the members intrust the wives and sisters, But no Ameriean woman has the on atively st amateur line within th credit for the skill, hair’s breadth ALLEN WINS NUMEROUS h more ts of spray S Cros for vi equally cths. superiority from rs ago abandoned ya-ht LOVE themselves with who is often seen flitting ¢ Princess Ormond and Lady Marga: of Annesley and the Baroness On rare occasions Transatlantic yacht clubs tillers of the doing whatever ls a racing yacht, meeting neither asking nor recelving any odds on account do this and have done it omes, blow high or blow low, sailing and often winning more of m. Hardly a year has g that one of them has r yacht at the end of a men were able to the same year women have more creditable to them that small boats. The big for the most part decorating their sideboards th owners SAILOR GIRL. he most expert yachtswomaa n X more ed out of a han willing{to make a match is concerned she is wedded back in 1887. With ick Cox, is commodore of ago admitted that his than he had ever been ty-four-foot linear rater d came up top of the prizes to her credit. Prior to rried aff premier honors in ell. must be borne in mind that achtsmen in Eng- actually sails it, being ts being allowed from customary in America, period being recorded rule here. By this method nerve and g the coveted place. Whe rying for it, their skipp: e, is a very ticklish game, ympt decision. At this species r and can shave t another Miss Cox has ent, but when the yachting and London knows her no but as TROPHIES. the most successful yachts- six in all. among her sex is just as clever with a ered the racing lists in 1889 r she went into a bigger class, did not prove a success, an faced the starting line s feet on the water line— class at the of the others. Since then she has The harder it blows the n a thrash to windward in smother of foam and the calculated to impress the ality of the sexes than any agitators. experiences while yacht In one race was struck by lightning. he has given of the inci- board feeling the shook. d happened. At this time up to the elge of the ving in one’s face, so and if it had not ot we should have stood some only a few moments. On lintered and burned by ng the line a triumphant ng thirty 1 in yacht close m n oat gerous d a member of the aristo- mes to yacltt racing he pre- k of his comfortable steam When there are no 1 Mrs. Schenley betake them- nt deer and chamois in the fisses Hughes, though they expert sailors and are ‘R ARE SEDUCTIVE. ng-room’s close atmosphere,” air, and the delightful free- ipped craft, with the addi- it under ordinary -circum- emselves on a winning yacht. hed marine painter, h: When some Austral ht Club, Mrs. Wylie w compliment to her sex, but she could do it better than any man the faith in her by winning all of the five troduction to British yachtsmen to a woman, he late Sir Richard Sutton, who made with the Genesta. Impressed of Yankce designers, half-rater, which she felici- everything in her class, ~th one man to attend the racing for THE SPORT. England who sail yachts, but the der form of enjoy- m be mentioned Princess er the Solent in her pretty Charles f Denmark, Orr Ewing. The Coun- de Baretto are ‘Yachting Week.” her steam yacht, the , frequently takes long cruises with of her travels. The Duchess of enced chtswomen, with a m yacht, the Santa Maria, rts. Lady Margaret Crichton-Stuart, daughter of the late Lord Bute, has g s te get realm en fond of a life on the ocean wave, h: ght punish severely, m and being a woman who ing her own way, she came to the conclusion that the only way was to have herself invested with such authority as would make disobedience to her orderg while at sea rank mutiny, which the laws of the So, being already proficient in sear inship, he studied navigation, passed a Board of Trade examination, obtained a Ladies of High Station Who Love Duchess of Marlborough Will Pre- Sea and Are Masters sent Vanderbilts to the Upper Set. LONDON, May 2L—When the Duchess of Marlborough commences to entertain at her new London house this year, society will witness func- tions the brilliance of which is expected to eclipse anything hitherto seen in Mayfair. Several members of the Vanderbilt family are coming to Lon- don specially to adorn the scene, and they expect to bring with them sev- eral of the leading folk in American society. The Duchess’ first effort will be to get together the best in England to meet the Vanderbilts, in whose honor she intends to give some of her most brilllant entertainments during the season. The Prince and Princess of Wales will be asked to grace some of the functions. As the Princess and the young Duchess are fast friends it is anticipated that there will be no hesi- tation on the part of the future King and Queen to do honor to the occa- sion. The Duchess has a double object in inviting her relations to London. She is yearly becoming more interested in charitable institutions in England and knowing that the family dispense charity rather liberally in Parls, she is anxious to divert some portion of it into English channels. Her own do- nations to certain institutions have been the means of bringing down on her such an avalanche of applications from other places all over the country that she finds the strain of responding favorably to them all too severe for her purse. “Poor thing,” said a sympathetic matron of a children’s hospi- tal, “she cannot bear to refuse any application. Something always comes.” LADY CURZON WE\RIED OF INDIA. It is a matter of general talk in society circles that Lady Curzon is en- tirely responsible for the sudden determination of her husband to return to England. Her ladyship was glad to accept the honor of the Indian viceroyalty, but she rebelled against staying in India beyond the three years which the appointment imposes. She found native servants and officials by no means agreeable to her tastes, besides she was losing all the glamor of English society, and she insisted that three years was long enough to spend among the Rajahs and other formidably titled persons in Calcutta and other places. When his lordship agreed to stay in India, her ladyship, after a pro- test, set about packing her trunks and as soon as she had put her domestic affairs in order she took the next steamer for England. She was anxious, too, that her baby should be born in Engl: 4 and she much annoyed because her h and allowed her to take the journey alone in her condition. was His lordshi - will, on his arrival in England, get his first look at the daughter who has just been added to the Curzon household. Within a few months Lady Merrick Burrill, who before her marriage was Miss Wilhelmina Winans of Baltimore, once more will be able to use Knepp Castle, her favorite home in S ex, from which she was driven by fire about two months ago. As the flames left nothing but the outside walls of the old building, it has been necessary to prepare plans for an entirely new structure. These have just been finished, and workmen will begin clearing the ruins at once, preparatory to rebuilding. When does a gift remain the property of the giver? When it consists 3 Sfers8 <L A0Y _MIEY MYTIGT vom oo Vascooyr ANFVLE oF < AANCHESTER)| [ | | | | | | | | | | = CRILOEES OF THE pDUCHESS | | B of jewelry given by a husband to his wife to enable her to shine in society. Such is one of the seeming paradoxes of English law as just laid down by that high and learned judicial body, the Court of Appeal, in the case of Lord vs. Lady Howard of Glossup. It goes farther than this. The husband may not only claim as his own property the articles of adornment which he has glven his wife, even though bestowed upon her prior to their marriage; he may actually sell them and devote the money to his own use. This is what brought about the decision. Before Lord Howard of Glos- sop married his second wife in 1891, as proof both of his generosity and un- dying devotion, he presented her with a costly diamond tiara. As the years rolled by, however, his love cooled. The marriage proved an unhappy one. Lady Howard commenced proceedings t year for a judicial separation, but the outcome was a separation, under a private agreement, which pro- vided that all jewejry, ornaments, etc., belonging to Lady Howard should “remain under her exclusive control. She did not, however, get the diamond tiara and brought suit to re- cover it. Lord Howard asserted that he had sold it for $4000 three months prior to the agreement. The decision of the lower courts, adverse to Lady Howard’s claim, was sustained by the Court of Appeal. In concurring in ®the opinion of the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Romer stated that any gifts made by a husband to a wife, “sultable for her position in society,” were not “gifts to her separate use,” but constituted ‘“paraphernalia which the husband had a right to sell.” And it follows that hereafter the woman who regards such gifts as her own property will merely discover that she has been 1d.” But the law does not work both ways. What the wife gives the husband remains his for ‘“keeps,” from embroidered slippers to a watch and chain or a house and lot. THE QUEEN A LOVER OF CHILDREN. Queen Alexandra acts the fond grandmother to perfection and is hap- piest when she gets an hour to herself in which to play with the little ones of the royal family. Her face wears its most contented expression when she drives in the park with little Prince Edward of Wales at her side, and many a time does a royal carriage bear the Queen to an ordinary London house in an ordinary London square where the lackeys who open to her are greeted by the first lady in the land with a pleasant smile and word, and whence a few moments later she emerges with two happy little girls plainly attired and each affectionately grasping a doll with one hand and the Queen’s arm with- the other. The little girls are the daughters of the Duke of Fife, the Ladies Duff. and are the oldest grandchildren of the Queen, to whom they are devoted. — — master mariner’s certificate, and is now captain as well as owner of her steam yacht, the Helliwake. Of course when she goes on a cruise she has a competent sailing master and crew on board, but there can be no longer any question of divided authority. On her own yacht, Lady Chrichton- Stuart is at all times “She Who Must Be Obeyed.” There can be no race for the America’s cup this year, but if some American woman would take the initiative and issue a challenge for a series of races in small yachis, it undoubtedly would be promptly accepted by English yachtswomen. = EY 4 A C, 7 OKIIZ— HZP/ZJTZ//Z": - D ODOS \ ENGLISH YACHTSWO- | MEN AND TWO CHIL- DREN OF NOBILITY. s —t ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY IS RIVAL TO KUBELIK Child Prodigy Startles London Musi- cal World by Marvelous Playing. LONDON, May 21.—The 11-year- old Franz von Vecsey has taken the musical world of London by storm by his marvelous violin playing. He came here with a great reputa- tion from the Continent, but it is freely admitted that he has surpassed every expectation. He is undersized for his age and dresses in white, with knickerbockers and bare legs. His first essay was Wienawski's con- certo in D minor, executing all the ex- cessively difficult technique of the work with finished mastery. The per- formance aroused a tempest of ap- plause, as did his subsequent achieve- ments, It is declared that he has the possi- bilities of another Kubelik. 2 M S Miss STTTON S s A ETERUTHING A M f}"EE/,efJ/VcW ~ 70 Zd SHEE ZQNG LELZ TR CZA3S — T, Z2masEs) <2 RIERETTO onN HEE ISACHT 1 } | <o LATE QUEEN ISABELLA A GENEROUS GIVER Many Kindly Traits Are Revealed When Property Is Offered “ For Sale. PARIS, May 21.—Many of the effects of the late Queen Isabella of Spain, who died recently in Paris, will be of- fered for sale. Among them is a paint- ing that has a romantic history reveal- ing some of the good traits of this most reckless Queen. Before her exile, when as Dowager Queen she was causing all manner of political and social troubles in royal circles, she received a visit from the painter Antonio Gisbert, who had been ruined financially by some political upheaval in Spain. Isabella lent him $160,000, taking no security. Gisbert afterward achieved fame as a painter of historical subjects and some por- traits. - Among the latter is a portrait of the late William Astor of New York, which is well known. Gisbert mever acquired wealth enough to repay his debt to the gen- erous Queen, but after his death some years ago his children found among his papers a memorandum of the loan and promptly offered her several of his best works. The Queen selected only one and returned the remainder, saying that the debt was canceled. This painting is a striking one, representing the Emperor Francis I meeting his be- trothed. It is now valued at $10,000. TRAVELING HOSPITAL FOR EYE TREATMENT Interesting Experiment Proves Successful Among Natives of Egypt. CAIRO, May 21.—A remarkably inter- esting experiment in surgery is being carried out in Egypt under the direc- tion of A. F. MacCallan, who was for- merly connected with the Royal Lon- don Opthalmic hospital. About a year ago $200,000 was placed at the disposal of the Egyptian Gov- ernment for the benefit of sufferers from diseases of the eye. The Egypt- ian sanitary department decided to es- tablish a traveling ophthalmic h ital or dispensary to obviate the necessity of patients making long journey to obtain treatment. The hospital consists ¢~ eight Indian tents and a kitchen of sun dried bricks. On an average six operations are per- formed daily in the largest tent. Two tents are set ar for the accommoda- tion of in-patients, but oniy the more severe cases are admitted. In another tent out-patients are treated by Mr. MacCallan's Arab assistant, who has been trained in Cairo. Besides this as- sistant there are attached to the hos- pital about ten nurses and servants. Great numters of patients seek treat- ment and the large proportion of fe- males who present themselves shows that the hospital has secured the cor fidence of the Mohammedan pepula- tion. in Surgery