IN THE PAPERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, 5 February 1909, Page 1

IN THE PAPERS.

Discussing in the ."Graphic" the cansea of so many, marriages between peers and actresses,? Lady Violet Greville sayaJithle -reai^i.ftSi are — (1) the glamour of tho. footlights and the fact that the actress's beauty is mado this moWt of j' (2- the enormous advertisfement given by photographs and the press nowadays ,to? young actresses;: (3) the faflt~that' the girls are clever, enough to desire and insist on marriage; aad. lastly, the want of attraction of girls' ih "society. The latter do hot la'^ themselves ' out to' please men, as they used; they are too engrossed ih their own amusementa and games to care, and they associate so much ..Von camarade" with their male friends that the glamour, the_ nlyßte^'^the aloofness, which are ca«fuUy?^cherished;?by,t)io stag©, have- dfeapßeared. •• Master Wijiio "Yanderbilt, aged ,-seven, ade^t^^^tC'^o^eia'bet-^s' the saddest -WnSiday of his life, for he received Jnro cheque from hiss father! £for (f inOlion' o:- i dollars (£2oo,oi(ldi>.. . c .. Tho,boy.'is3h« ; jiily son of Mr ■ Alfred G. V{uid«rb*ilt7 whose wife secured a. divorce, scv-jral months ago. "r fpu. e very one of his previouß biith4ay9r "his- father has presented him witb'" , iiS*hillioli dollarsy but this year! Mr 'Yanderbilt waa away motorimg'j;in the West, and did not add a seventh-to the millions that have gone before. .Instead the boy received an infant "a motor-car. Miss Rose Fritz, . the . champion typist of the world, .gave; a demonstration before . morre tfh'aai; a thousand type-writing students, at the Holborn Town-hall, when Bhe created a newrecord Jby typing for. seven minutes at the rate of over ?17 ..words a niiuutc, In slioTter tests of two minute ' she reached a speed of 150 words a minute!, typing from unknown- matter. J Tho Duke of the Abruzzi has decided to undertake a climbing expedition to the Himalayas. His Royal Highness will start from Italy with companions, two guides, and six porters, strong . moutaineers from the Aosta Valley, towards tho end of March and will arrive, therefore,, at the foot of the great range at tho most convenient season for climbing one of the highest? peaks, which may bo Mount JEverest. In any case, there ore in Nepal many virgin peaks, and ■von without' climbing Everest it isi ilwnys' possible to attain- a greater ; ie ; ght than has so far been reached. When President Boosevelt received a delegation from the Southern State* at the White House recently, he made a short speech describing how he was [ hated by the financiers in Wall-street for his opposition to the trusts. Hi-, added: "When I go to Africa Wallstreet expects that uvery lion will do its duty." Nearly all the great railway men in rlio United States have risen from humble beginnings. James H. Hill Parted his career as a stevedore in tho docks at St. Paul. James M'Crea, pTesidejft of the Pennsylvania, began working upon i^ilroadsj.as a rodman. Oscar O. president of tho Baltiiporo~aiid Ohio, was orininally a ticket agemt. '" Charles E. Mellon, pre/ident of tho Now York, New Ha\>-u. and Hartford, began as a clerk iv tho cashier's office. George P. Bacr of the Beading, waa originally a priiitci. Sir' William C. Van Horniv-oau. of tlie creators of the Cauaj^ii PacTSe;- and Marviu Hughi trt . president of the North-Western, both entered the rail. oad business as telegraph operator!?. George B. Harris, of tho- Burlington, was an officeboy; Frederick D. Underwood, of the Erie, was a brakeman; and William H. JNi-r.-mau, president of the New York Central and all the Vanderbilt lines, was' originally a station-agent. Mr George Henry Holt Freeman, -late df Mount-street, Berkeleysquare, explained .in the Bankruptcy Court? how he had spent £250,000 in. a few years. Aniong the losses during the past three years were the following:—Stock Exchange, £33,000; I theatrical ventures, £5150; loss on racehorse?,. £30,0Q0; betting arad gambl'nir, £22,70Q; personal expenses, £21,700; motor-bus concerns, £58,000. Ono of the mofi; successful playß in which he was interested was "When Kiiigh'.-i. Wire Bold, '' in tho London product' ou of which he held a half imterest. In April last the G.F. Kuail?^atiou Trust was formed to take over his affairs. Sir Edward Elgar never received a lesson in orchestration. Indeed, he is almost entirely self-taught, £3 12s 6d being his whole expenditure on instruction — for a fortnight's tuition on the violin. Professor Jolin Garstang, at the rooms of the Asiatic Society, Albe-inarle-street W., London, spoke of the result of excavations which he had carried out in Asia Minor during the last two years'. He referred especially to information which had come to light regarding tho Hittites, who, he said, were no single- nation, but a confederacy of peoples- of different races and, origin .united against- the Pharoahb. One of the sculptures 0 was tnterestiag to Scotsmen, it being 'the' first representation of a man playing the bagpipes, accompanied" "by a-. pet-, son who was obviously playing the banjo. Going amongst tho people at the present day, lie was forced *to realise that he! was in the presence of living? Hit&tesi, owingito itha likejjess between thfr-pjeople-pf to/d.ay.and the, faces pdrtjsyed .by the ancient sculptures. ""'; ' •*?^ r ? ....;,', 'J .O. '-■ The Birmingham Coroner investi; gated a casein which death was duS to the wearing.' of? hS(hJi»led boots; A woman was going_J^owisstairs ' with a lighted lamp itt-h'e'riJiSndj ivßen She stumbled owinj^,to thd f heel' f her boot catching against the "edge of one .of th© stairs. In her f alClhe j lamp. ?was broken, and, he,r clothing, , catching fire, she was, burnt to' death. Ths' boots were produced, (.and the. heel? '?,■> wfer« ; foun-d.to be^jthree inches high. A^yer diet of accidental death waa refara.' cd." / ,-f