LADIES’ GOSSIP

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4978, 30 May 1903, Page 4 (Supplement)

LADIES’ GOSSIP

The Countoss Koloman Csaky, who 15 engaged to be married to Kubelik, is the daughter of Herr Woltang von Szell, tho IT-eaident of Senate at Debreezin. the Countess, who is now 23 years of ago is tall, slight and remarkably beautitul. She’was married at the age of 13 to the Count Koloman Csaky, a lieutenant in tho Hungarian Hussars: hut after six months of married life tho young couple were divorced by mutual consent, ns they could not agree about money matters. Kubelik first met the Countess at a concert lie was giving at Debreezin about three years ago, and fell in love with her at once. His professional engagements however, took him abroad for three years, but a week or two ago he again met the Countess at Vienna, and so the engagement was announced. The wedding will not take another year.

An interesting wedding was quietly celebrated at Willingdon, near Eastbourne. in March, between Mr _ r rankfort Moore the well known novelist, and Miss Doris Hatton, a girl of some twentytwo summers. The author of The Jessnrav .Bride” and scores of other stories has been a ■ widower for two years now. his first wife being, like himself, of Irish extraction, a daughter of the late Colonel Balcombe. On this occasion, the knot was tied by the Eev. ,T* Hatton, Mr Frankfort Mooro’s new father-in-law.

There is no soldier still alive who fought at Waterloo for England, hut they wore celebrating at Hainault. in Belgium last year the hundredth birthday of Madame Givron. an old lady who ran away from her home on the morning of the battle to see what was going on. and was in hiding near Hougomont when the French troops attacked the place. -The ground, sho remembers, was like red mud." Running through the woods horror stricken she fell exhausted, and at dusk she was awakened by the noise of horses. Looking up, she saw a troop of cavalry advancing, headed by a man of short stature mounted on a grey horse. "He was riding slowly on as if in a dream, looking straight ahead and paying no heed to what went on about him. It was, Madame Givron learned afterwards, Napoleon. #

Lady Granville Gordon, the divorced wife of Mr Frederic Gordon, who fled from England with her little daughter when the Divorce Court gave to Mr Gordon the legal custody of the child, has arrived at Now York, and announces her intention of settling in the Western States.

The Bishop of London. Dr Ingram, in addressing the Diocesan Conference, condemned the clergyman who in his (the Bishop's) diocese performed the marriage ceremony between Mr William K. Vanderbilt. "the New York millionaire, and Mrs Eutherford. The action of the clergyman in officiating. at the service was stigmatised by the Bishop as a grave scandal, by which tho diocese was dis. honoured.

Admirers of the late Sir Walter Besant will be interested to learn that his daughter. Miss Celia Besant. has consented to act as organising secretary to the Atlantic Union, which was founded by her father a few years since, with the object of drawing together tho various English speaking peoples, and strengthen, ing the bond of union by the formation of ties of personal correspondence.

A -wealthy Genevese lady lest a hand bag a few weeks ago containing notes and securities to the amount of .£IO,OOO. A lamplighter named Buchs found the bag the same day on the road. Without opening it. however, he took it home, and forgot the incident. A little while ago he came across the hag. and on opening it was .astonished to find it full of bank notes. Having read the advertisement concerning its loss, he immediately took the small fortune to the proprietor, and was rewarded with .£IOO for his honesty. * * ♦

•The marriage arranged between Lynden Livingstone, son of Mr L. Livingstone Maeassey, of Dunmurry House. County Antrim, and Jeanne, daughter of the late Mr Robert McFarland, of Melbourne, was to take place at St. Clement's Church, Bournemouth, on 15th April. • * •

Madame Barnes, who is the wife of Mr Julian Story, the sculptor and painter, was bom at Shanghai, though she has her home in Paris, where she is almost as popular as in London. She has a delightful villa in Italy, to which she flies when the season is over, and where she delights to go about, as she confided to an interviewer once, in a man's slouch hat, a man’s coat, and hobnailed boots —but to imagine one who is famous beyond all her rivals for the statuesque perfection of jter beauty and the exquisite taste of her costumes (which are usually designed for her by her husband) in that get>np. Like moat opera’ singers who achieve anything, Madame Bames is an absolute slave to her art —denying herself to her friends and giving up what most people regard as the commonest necessaries of existence in order that she may appear before the public in the evening at her best. On the days she is singing she dines at four, and ns a rule takes nothing further before midnight.

Paper gloves and stockings are now being manufactured. The stockings have been carefqlly examined by experts, and they are lojid in their praise of them. The stockings are said to last almost as long as ordinary stockings.

An article of interest to -women is contributed by Miss Charlotte O’Conor Kcolos in the hew review, “The World’s Work,” on tho subject’ of domestic training. Miss Ecclcs discourses on tho “Dieustmadscheu Schulp” in Vienna, where a most efficient training is obtained. Hero sho says:—The pupils •are taught the work of high-class cooks, of parlourmaids, of ladies’ maids, and of children’s nurses. For each department of domestic work there is some special course of training; but all are taught enough of general duties to bo able to help their fellow servants on occasion—a point which will appeal to housewives who suffer inconvenience from “evenings out.” The pupils supply a restaurant with cooked food—and tho dishes appear to bo the reverse of failures —and what with the goodness of tho teaching, the fact that wealthy pupils at adequate fees also avail themselves of it, and the generally practical lines on which the whole affair is conducted, wo are not surprised to learn that “the school is entirely self-supporting.”