The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 12, 1904, Page 17

| Pages 171020 L > CALL Pages 17t020 | Pages * SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 1904. WOMEN OF THE WORLD INVADE DOMAIN OF THE KAISER AS NEVER COUNT WHERE. FEMINI WILL FIX CASTLE TO HER LIKING Duchess of Roxburghe Will Revamp Her New Home. American Girl Says She Wants Plenty of Room. — There is much Duchess of Roxburg to play any s y during the g seas: vere aware a idea of town reside not be completed nr A series en- en take place, and he Duke and north fo the eceive special at- ager Duchess was the modernizing of She did not tashioned s if nternally. RUSSIA'S RED CROS! IN MIDST OF SCANDAL High Officials of the Government Are Accused of Misappropriating War Funds. BURG, June 11.—Great expressed here at the 1= of the Red aristocrats, officers of the in high cir- ntea to sinecures ries, amounting in usand or pounds per state of affairs is all the more re are plenty of com- s willing to do the e as th tional ca: says the ia, is that of Gen- member of the St. who “borrowed” 1 the of the society n order to gambie on the Stock Ex- 4 His speculations being unsuc- deficit became manifest. a, however, herself paid the so as to avoid a public save the general, who is a tee funds ssful, his B E rite at court. General Shwedoff was even retained as a mem- ber of the committee, but precautions ere to prevent further “bor- tions. Is occurred in Moscow, Galitzin end a Count oney collected from the Count Lan- ar scand Prince kept rose for themselves uses to hand over either the the subscription list, while e Prince has paid up $500, but keeps k the list I occurrences have not failed to arouse the suspicions of the public, and many wealthy and charitable people pow refuse to give any money to the where a Lansky Red ( ——— PARISIAN HAT THAT CERTAINLY IS A PEACH ONE Latest Millinery Creation Is Beauti- fully Designed and Is Adorned With Fruit. 11.—A veritable “peach a hat” was seen iIn the drive of the s de Boulogne this week. A milliner note had designed it and a young voman of fame for her beauty wose it. his is the hat Of golden ten-colored straw, with a arge crown and a generous sweeping ve of brin It was trimmed with pale green ribbon, which was wrap- around it and fell gracefully be- PARIE, June Along one side was a solitary pink, wny, blushing, sun-kissel peach, wing on a slender twig, as if it ad been taken fresh from the tree. mh L, ST Calls Poetess “New Sappho.” NAPLES, Italy, June 11.—Gabriel d’Annunzio has discovered a poetess in the person of Mrs. Julia di Sesto, who belongs to the high society of Naples. L’ Annunzio is full of enthusiasm, and has baptized the young poetess “the New Sappho,” because she excels in lyric verse. Ou C27Y¥ - 774 PTUERE THE WIZZ D7D FHE GERMENEY < — .z E A EDPTCLZEL T TEX. CoyrmEas pri ol R BERLIN, June 11.—Germany’s pro- for long fight one gressive women, whose “emancipation” has been story of rebuff and di have just completed what they believe wi ar) angem 1 be the gre: conclave of the fair sex the world has ever known—the third Inter: onal Congress of Women, which will be held in Berlin from June 12 to 18. They hope and inte that the c gress will be so eventful that it constitute an eloquent rebuke to Em- peror William II, whom they regard as the arch-enemy of woman's pro- gress in the German fatherland. The Kaiser, like German men of all ranks, holds fast to the German tradi- tion that woman’s sphere should ' be limited to the activities of the “haus- frau” and that she has no right to mix herself in affairs beyond the realm of he three German K's—kinder, kueche and kirche (children, kitchen and church). o imperial welcome there- fore will await the 4000 women from all parts of the world who will attend the congress as delegates of organized womanhood in all climes. Indeed, it will be a miracle if the congress ad- journs without adopting resolutions strongly savormg of censure of the strenuous monarch for his old-fash- ioned ideas about women's rights. GERMAN WOME ACTIVE. The organization of the congress has been effected by the National Council wi of German Women and the tre- mendous work it has involved has rested largely upon the shoulders of Frau Marie Strit of Dresden, president of the council, and Frau Dr. Eliza Ichenhaeuser, secre general of the congress. The programme of the con- gress covers practically every subject comprehended by the “woman's move- ment,” as will be seen from the fol- lowing daily schedule: EDUCATION. June 13 — Education of Women for Their fession ms Mothers; Home Education; 14 — Elementary Education of Girls; Co-education; June niform Schools Continvation Schools for Girls: cation for Women ollege Education of Girls, Iniversity Training for Women. une 18—Participation of Women in School Management, Both as Teachers and Exec utives, PROFESSIONS, sts. e 14—Women in the Industries Jene 15—Women in Trade and Tratn une v 16—Women in Soclal Work—Factor: and Prison Inspectors, Charity ~Administra- tors, ete. June 17—Women in Scientific Pursuits. June 18 — Women in the Arts — Letters, Painting, Sculpture. Music, Drama, etc. SOCIAL QUESTIONS. lu‘nté 12—Charity Administration and Hos- Servic “are of Children and Youth. Moral Reforms, Prison Reform and Temperance. Women and Tradgs-Unionism and Employment Bureau. June 1% — Philanthropic Movements; Advice Bureaus for Women; Social Settlements LEGAL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS. June 13—Position of Women in the Married State Legal Women's Clubs; June 13 — Property Rights of Married Women, June 14 — Parental Tutelage: Position of Mothers of lilegitimate Children; Guardian- ship, June 15—Women's Right to Organize. June 16—Women In Municipal Government; Women in Charity and Orphan Administra. tion; WQ;nEII a’i School Trustees. June 17 — Woman Suffrage in M School and Church Elections, .. June 18—Universal Suffrage for Women, SPLENDID REPRESENTATION.. About twenty-five countries will be Jzc. GE ZIAY POXRTOL NE PROGRESS W ENANCED Representatives of the Fair Sex Assemblie at Berlin CHAUFFEUR in the Greatest Convention of the represented at the congress. Japanese, Siamese and Indian women are already booked delegates, and China and Korea be represented by native women residents Europe. as will in America will occupy the chief place among the foreign delegations, because it has been the pioneer in woman’s progress and because Susan B. Anthony, the “grand old lady” of the movement all over the warld, has promised to honor the con- with her presence. Mrs. May Sewall of Indiana, in her ca- of president of the International uncil of Women, will wield the*gavel at all general sessions of the congress. Another special honor will be paid to the United States, when the congress devotes an entire evening to the dis- of the theories of Mrs. Char- s Stetson of New York, Dr. Anna Shaw, the famous n woman preacher, has been invited to intreduce to Germany the innovation of a sermon from a woman —the first of its kind that the Father- land will ever have heard. Because the woman's movement has had such an uphill fight In Germany, where man is everything and his bet- ter half almost nothing, few leaders have been developed who enjoy reputa- tions extending beyond the frontiers of their own country. Yet such names as Frau Stritt, Frau Dr. Ichenhaeuser, Frau Hedwig Heyl, Fraulein Alice Salomon, Fraulein Helene Lange, Frau Anna Edinger and Fraulein Olgo von Beschwitz, who will all be active lead- ers of various departments of the com- ing congress, are well known through- out most European countries as vigor- ous and relentless workers in their chosen fleld. That German women have a difficult struggie to gain the headway women have made elsewhere may be comprehended from the fact that only a few years ago were they able to secure the repeal of a law bar- ring “women, children and lunatics from attending meetings where political subjects are under discusston.” Since the smashing of that medieval barrier, the cause has prospered, but very slow- ly. Woman has, of course, no status politically and may not hold public of- fice of any kind. Some municipalities, however, have made the éxperiment of having women factory inspectors and poor law administrators, and they may Kind Ever Held. o, o | g MEELE TIRTTTH i DEESZEN | %t W}a% | Cowntriy GEE 4 i 3 — LEADERS IN BERLI,\" ; CONGRESS AND CITY HALL. # - — # pave the way for wider recognition in higher gpheres of civic usefulness. The fight for suffrage has been altogether futile. Two years ago, however, when the great tariff contest was on, women took the stump in various parts of Ger- many in support of the Social-Demo- cratic and Liberal parties and their battle against agrarian ‘“hunger tariffs.”” The Social Democrats are the women's best political friends, being the only great party in Germany which has pledged itself to help them secure the ballot. EMPEROR WILLIAM HOSTILE. Owing to the opposition of Emperor Willilam, which is fully shared by the Empress Augusta Victoria, no so-call- ed society women have identified them- selves prominently with the woman's movement in Germany. Court leaders and royalties are conspicuously missing from all affairs connected with it. It is possible, however, that the wives of a few Cabinet Ministers, perhaps even Countess von Bulow, the spouse of the Imperial Chancellor, will dare to brook imperial scowls by entertaining the delegates to the Berlin congress at gar- den parties or evening receptions. The most pretentious social function so far planned is a reception at the Berlin City Hall, whieh will be tendered by the municipality as a welcome to the congress. Frau Oberbuergermeister oo Kirschner, Berlin’s “lady mayoress,” and the wives of the city’s aldermen will'do the honors on this occasion. Music will be furnished by a women’s orchestra of seventy-five pieces and a dedicgtory ode, written by Fraulein Isole Kurz, the first German poetess, will be a feature of the programme. Y The sessions of the congress, which will be héld morning, afternoon and evening for six days, will occur in the spacjous halls of the famous Philhar- monic concert building, which has a total seating capacity of more than 10,- 000. The sessions are divided, of course, into sectional programmes, so that dis- cussions upon various topics will pro- ceed simultaneously in various parts of the congress hall. Four hundred ad- dresses are already scheduled for de- livery. English, French and German will be the official languages of the conelave, that language being used upon each occasion which seems most appropriate. The great concluding feature of the congress will be a “peace demonstra- tion,” at which the Countess of Aber- deen will speak in English; Frau Ber- tha von Suttner, the great Austrian peace advocate, in German, and Ma- dame Bogelot of Paris in French. There will also be a final symposium upon “Internationalism,” led by Mrs. May Wright Sewall of Indiana. ————— SERVIA IS ON BRINK OF ANOTHER REVOLT Mutterings of the People Indicate That King Peter’'s Seat Is Not Safe. VIENNA, June 11.—We have been ex- pecting something to happen in Servia for some little time past. The queg tion that people are now asking is: ‘Will the expulsion from Belgrade of the London Daily Mail correspondent pre- cipitate a general crisis? The order of expulsion was issued by the group of officers who took leading parts in the plot to kill King Alexan- der and Queen Draga and who now make a puppet of King Peter. They are getting rather senmsitive of eriti- cism. The other day they forced King Peter to explain that, although some of their number had been removed from court, they were, nevertheless, “men or honor — with unsullied reputatiqes.” Now they have succeeded in getting this corre- sPondent gent away because he dared to comment severely upon their methods of government. With King Peter going melancholy- mad he dreams that he is pursued by the ghost of King Milan calling for venge- ance on the murderers of Alexander, his son, and with the counfry growing more and more disgusted at the present regime] the chances of exciting events increase every day. At present it would be rash to prophesy a long reign for King Peter or a long period of peace for his un- happy country. APRPROACH OF AGE Famous Singer Says She Is Old at Forty and Gets No Sympathy for Her Candor. PARIS, June 11.—Several of the Paris papers, especially those that are de- voted to women and womanly things, have wasted much ink in the last few days in taking to task Mme. Emma Calve, the famous prima donna. In a recent interview that was widely print- ed Mme. Calve said: “You cannot understand how I have struggled during the last ten years. Here I am already an old woman at 40. when others at that age still retain their youthful appearance. In my case it is the penalty of an uphill struggle.” The Paris editors were greatly aston- ished at Mme. Calve's words, and said so with much emphasis. Some of them hint that the prima donna should at least have too much pride to admit that she has become a “nice old lady” at her youthful age. Many wemen writers ffr the Paris papers have taken up the subject and every day they rail at the famous singer. Some of them have gone so far as to assert that “a woman is not a woman until she is 30, and is still young at 40." ——— Sponges Worth $150,000. LONDON, June 11.—Thirty thou- sand pounds’ worth of sponges from the Aegean Sea is on view at the an- nual chemists’ exhibition at the Na- tional Skating Palace, Argyll street. The other exhibits also indicate that the business of a chemist at the pres- ent time is mainly to vend' toilet arti- cles and photographic chemicals. The pharmaceutical side of a chemist's shop Is now considered of quite sec- ondary importance. A wonderful sight is presented by a basin of chloride of gold crystals worth £1395, which glitters in brilliant radi- ance under the electric light. It is used for toning photographs. WINS AN ~ HEIRESS London Is Amazed at Infatuation of a Rich Girl. Love Attracts Young Lord Brooke to America. LONDON, June 11.—It is sald that young Lord Brooke’'s coming visit to the United States is due to a desire to see a pretty American girl whom the heir to the Warwick earldom and cas- tle met and fell in love with in Paris last year. On his return to London he met her again, and in spite of the pr testations of his mother he paid her marked attention. He was a constant visitor at the hotel where she stayed with her mother and brother, and alto- gether entertained the young lady and her family most generously, with boxes at the best thea nd suppers at the most fashionable r ants. His name, in fact, became coupled with that of the young lad daughter of a wealthy man, to such an extent th tess of Warwick had to interfere a s ond time, but in spite of all maternal remonstrances the young lord persisted in keeping up the acquaintance. So he is off to New York, where the heiress has already gone, and the nobleman's friends will not be surprised to ™ theannouncement of his engagement. SOCIETY IS ASTONISHED. London society is curious to see what will be the dramatic denouement of a strange infatuation on the part of one of the richest and most popular girls in Londen society. Her father and mother have a big, beautiful house in Grosvenor place and entertain there on a scale of great magnificence. On the coming of age of this girl a few months since there were great r . On this auspicious occasion the fond father settled on her an allowance of $5000 a year. The first thing the girl did after re- celving her first $5000 was to buy a motor car; the second to fall in love with her chauffeur, and the third to announce her determ marry him. At such a 1 idea her pa- rents were thunderstruck and from storming and arguing have taken to pleading with her. They begged her to wait one month to see if she would still be of the same mind then. To this she consented, but immediately this time had elapsed she declared that she was still determined to con- tract a marriage with her chauffeur. Almost in despair, her parents have implored her to wait three months be- fore taking any f er steps and to this she has unwillingly agreed. Two months of this time has already gone by and with each day the distress of the parents increases. The girl's father has asked the chauffeur to accept $50,000 cash down instead of marrying his daughter, who always has been to him as the apple of his eye, but the chauffeur refuses point blank. In making this decision he may be influenced by the knowl- edge that if the father does not help them during his lifetime the girl will have $5000 a year and must come into at least $75,000 later on when her father dies. FLAT-HUNTING THE RAGE. There has never been such a de- mand for fashionable flats and eligible family mansions in London by Amer- ation to icans as there is this season. Own- ers of such placdg had expected a slump in consequence of the St Louis Exposition, but Mayfair is fair- ly invaded by trans-Atlantic visitors and persons having furnished houses to let there can get almost any price they demand for the The Duchess , of Marlborough and Lady Craven will vie with each other in establishing a record in the fashion- able quarters for brilliant entertalin- season. ing. Their presence there appears to be an attraction for rich Americans, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Field Clapp of St. Louis have taken a house on C zon street for the season. They will be joined there later on by Mr. Clapp's sister, Mrs. Cromwell Webb of Wash- ington, whose daughters will for first time made the acquaintance of English society. There appears to be a great run of country mansions also this season. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Priestley Button of Philadelphia have taken Claybrooke Hall, near Rugby. It has been suf- fering from neglect for a number of years apd it will cost at least $50,000 to put it into decent, habitable repair. It is an old-fashioned country place, but there is plenty of hunting and fish- ing in the immediate neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. Button will have ror near neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Norman Loney of New York, who have recent= ly acquired Willoughby Hall. The Loneys lead a rather retired life, and, although they have every facility for entertaining, they have not shown any disposition to do so. Mr. Loney made his money in Wall street, but since he has settled in England he has given his neighbors the idea that he does not care for the excitement of city life. There is a farm attached to Willough- by Hall, where he.cultivates the vege- tables necessary for the household.