ON A WORLD TOUR

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 17

ON A WORLD TOUR

COUNTESS WIELIPOSCHI

"I am bitterly disappointed that I am only getting a glimpse of Auckland,"'said Countess Wieliposchi, who recently arrived with.her husband in !the course of a world tour, states the "Star." "I have heard nothing but praises about the beauty of this country. Indeed, while I was in Sydney I commented on the loveliness of National Park there, and I was told 'Yes, but wait till you get to New Zealand; the scenery there is marvellous.' " Countess Wieliposchi was, before she married the Count, an American from Philadelphia. Her marriage to Count Wieliposchi, made her a Pole by nationality, and during the summer months they live in the Count's home in Poland. For the winter they go to Italy and Spain. Count Wieliposchi was a colonel in the Russian army, and an aide-de-camp to the Tsar. "It was after the war that I married my husband," said the Countess, "and I know nothing at all about Russia. And,l.want to know less," she added

'with a twinkle. "Naturally lam "prejudiced." Countess Wieliposchi said she was not seriously troubled about having to change her nationality. It was not imperative for American women, to accept their husband's nationality, but in her case she would find it awkward when in Poland. "It was amusing," she added, "to be a Pole and yet not speak Polish." Nor,did she think she would learn it. It was a most difficult language, although she could ask for a few things, and with her knowledge of French and German, she could make herself understood;

"But we shall certainly come back to New Zealand if we can manage it," said the Countess. "The weather here is glorious. Is it always like this?" Many New Zealanders would have pleasure in answering Count Wieliposchi's question—especially after the recent floods.