GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 397, 5 January 1909, Page 3

GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

<I t'~ r ' THE DUKE "WHO WAS HERE ONCE. - Wβ ehall soon be making heavy wagers on the Abruzzi-Elkins marnago, so conflicting are the rumours concerning it, sajs tho "Lady's Pictorial." As a Queen-Mother on ' one sido and an American millionaire father on the other side have mado up their minds, it is said, to oppose the date of the marriage, it ie obvious that tho course of tho young people's true love cannot bo expected to run very smooth. Such r opposmg forces are not f lightly overcome. All tho world loves a lover, and, naturally, tho Dnko of the Abruzzi ind Miss EUuns have world-wide sympathy, but it is not easy to make up one's mind upon the potentialities of the match. The Queen-Mother and the American'father are doubtless wiser in their generation than the lovers, who cannot be expected to see mote than one Bide of the question. • , j ( ' EDISON'S DAUGHTEK. Miss .Madeline Edison, a 'girl of twentyone, is following in the, tootstepa of her'distingmshed father, Thomas >A Edison, says a writer Jin an American paper. She has for years been his comrade in- tho field of electricity. Now she has invented an ingenious automobile'road map. An enthusiastic 'autoist, she has been a familiar figuio in. l her big forty-five horse-power car. , • , The National Woman Suffrage Association cf/Bulgaria has about 2000 members. The wifo of tho Prime Minister is its president. EUen Key, tho Swedish , writer, whose Century of the Child (Jahrhundert des Kindes) has gone through more Uian twenty editions in Germany, and will be published in-Amenca.by the Putnams, and whoso book on Love and Marriage is soon to appear in France, is one of the most discussed women ol Jiurope. Her seriousness' and sincerity of ethical purpose have won for her a strong following, not only in her own country, but especially in Germany.