MAIL NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 7 September 1911, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

£1,000.000 CLAIM AGAINST '■ KAISER. Berlin, June “6. An action against the Kaiser b" a claim of £-1,000,000 will bo shortly tried I>y the special judicial tribunal which deals with all lawsuits in which the Emperor is invoved. The pontiffs are two descendants of General Mnenuich, one of the great men at the Court of the Kaiser’s ancestor, King Frederic the Great of Prussia, a century and a half ago. In 1765 Frederic the Great awarded to General Muennieh a sum of £59,006 and the estates of Bnegen and Wartonburg. General Muennieh entered the service of the Russian Court, and was banished to Siberia for twenty years, with the result that neither the '■aim of money nor the estates were ever made over to him. His two descendants allege that the present value of the property and the original sum, with the accumnhueo. interest, now amount to £4,000,000 and they claim this groat fortune from the Kaiser. If they can prove beyond doubt theii direct descent from General Muennicii, it is expected that the Kaiser will propose an out of Court settlement by the payment of heavy compensation—perhaps half the amount claimed—as there appears to be no doubt that the grant was formally made in 1765, and that General Muchnidi never received a penny. TOMBSTONE “MIRACLE.” Paris, July 9. Great excitement prevails at Oran (Algeria), says the “Petit Parisicn,” owing to an alleged miracle which occurs daily in the cemetery there. A few days ago the rumour spread that, the figure of an angel surmounting one of the tombstones had moved, assuming a different attitude from that designed by the sculptor. Large crowds (locked to the graveyard next day in the hope of seeing the figure move, and since the cemetery has been the scone of daily pilgrimages. Most of the people who visit the cenn?ter\ come away convinced that they have seen the angel actually move. HYSTERIC PEOPLE. New York, July 10. Five hundred men and women, screaming, raving, and writhing on the ground, in' an almost continuous ecstasy of religions hysteria, are holding a fortnight’s convention of the “Gift of Tongues” sect at a homestead near Pittsburg. They are delegates from all parts of the United States, representing a quarter of a million of their fellowcommunicants, who organised a na-j tional church five years ago round the central belief that the curse which followed the building of tjie Tower of Babel 'no longci holds sway. Eighty tents have been erected near the homestead for the accommodation of the delegates.

Thousands of sightseers attend the meetings, which lust continuously from noon till midnight. Worshippers work themselves into a frenzy of excitement hy reciting meaningless gibberish, then fall convulsively, and seeming!' in a state of coma. At one time yesterday evening sixt\ men wore stretched on. the ground, some apparently unconscious, others screaming and writhing as if in agony. Meanwhile others were throwing themselves about, the platform and tearing their outer clothing At another time thirty-nine women wore counted lying on the ground, kicking and screaming. Frenzied exhortations were addressed to the spectators to cast away sin and join the sect. A number of persons, apparently hypnotised hy the exercises, accepted invitation, and were soon in as frenzied a state as the others. When their hysteria was succeeded by complete exhaustion, they were pronounced to be true converts. VIEWS ON KISSING. New York, July 5. How many kisses a wife should receive from her husband is being ab sorbingly discussed by the women o! New York, because of the case of the so-called “un-kissed bride,” Mrs Edith Gamhier, who is suing for a separation from her husband because of his alleged coolness towards her. Mr Gamhier is an elderly, rich man, chief chashicr of the Merchants’ Exchange Bank. His wife, who is young and pretty, wants her marital knot untied because, she says, her husband allotted to her only two kisses a day on their honeymoon, which was spent in Europe. On the return voyage' tiic kissing ceased entirely, and has not been resumed. Prominent Now York women, interviewed on the connection between osculation and married bliss, have shown no reluctance to express their opinions. Among them lire the following:— Mine. Nordiea, the grand opera prima donna : ‘‘Between two people who really care for each other, a kiss is quite the snpremest, sweetest expression of affection. ! don’t see win it should he restricted to the period ■;/ eon: (ship. The kiss after marriage is Bequeath’ not a kiss at all. only a mechanical peck. ! think husbands' and wives need to learn how to kiss each other. There can be no exact •'numeration of the kisses that should pass between husband and wife. The good-night and good-morning kisses make two, then a husband would naturally kiss bis wife lie fore leaving for work, and immediately after he gets homo. That makes four. 'Then his wife appeals charmingly dressed for dinner, another hiss would seem to be in order. That makes five. I should scarcely think any happy coup!" would want to go on v. ith less, and there is fertainlv no law against more.” Mrs Harriette -Johnston-Wood, a prominent woman lawyer: “Kissing

is- purely a matter of temperament. At .iir.t, piicr marriage, there is generally more time for caresses. Aftei the liouoymnnu both hnshand and wife must show their love in a different way. They must begin to woik for each other. They have other tilings to do than cuddling. When a ‘.v.mmn is tlrst married she isn’t going to take too much for granted. She wants to know plainly and emphatically how much her husband cares for her. Their love, that was half shy and half intense, develops into a steady, strong, quiet friendship, they find that time will not allow continuous testacies. But (hey also finds time’s compensations for tlie caresses put aside.” Mrs Sophia M. Locbinger, editor of the “American Suffragette”: “I beli’cve husband and wife should kiss •aeii other very seldom as, the term ;dss is generally understood. I refer, of course, to the kiss on the mouth. ( don’t think it should be allowed. It is distinctly unliygenic, and physically wrong. This does not moan that 1 disbelieve in demonstrative affection between married people. I am heartily in favour of it. But there are other methods just as effective as the kiss on the month. There is the close embrace that conveys a world of meaning and tender sentiment, and it lias all the sanction of tradition. Then there are other ways of kissing. Personally I think that quite the most charming, chivalrous, and affectionate caress a husband can give a wife is to kiss her dnind. As for the wife, she may kiss her husband’s forehead. It is a tender, delicate way of showing her love, particularly when ho is tired and nis head aches. Several times a day is none too often for such kisses.”