MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 128, 10 June 1901, Page 1

MAIL NEWS.

Paris, April 20. A tiny baby was unexpectedly added to the Bradley Martin family this week. Mrs Bradley Martin, her daughter, lady Craven ; her son-in-law, Lord Craven, and her grandchild, the three-year-old Viscount Uffington, have been in Paris for the last three weeks, and will remain until the London season in June. Wednesday the little Lord Uffington was -busy making mud cakes in the park, when his nurse sent him to give some pennies to a famished-looking woman with a baby in her arms and four others hanging to her skirts.

The three-year-old English lord immediately took a great fancy to tho suckling baby, because “ sho smiled with him and chewed his finger.” The mother was compelled to sit on a bench so that tho Viscount could admire the baby all he wanted.

When his nurse tried to take the boy home Lord Uflington kicked, bit and rolled himself in the mud rather than part from his new friend. “ I want that baby ! ” he cried.

Fearing the Viscount would go into convulsions, his nurse asked the pauper mother to accompany her as far as the Elysees Palace Hptel. But there the youngster again made such a scene that hundreds of passers-by gathered. Finally Grandma Bradley Martin came down and immediately decided that Lord Uflington sh.ould have the playmate he wanted.

Inquiry proved the mother to be worthy of interest. The husband and father was killed in a quarry and his numerous family was left in absolute want. The pretty pauper baby is now dressed in the costliest finery and is the little lord’s most precious toy. She will be adopted by the Cravens and will be reared with the Viscount. The baby’s mother, looking trim in new clothes, will have a place in the nursery. Her other children have been placed at school by the Bradley Martins. The mother said to-day: “We all bless the sweet and smiling little angel who brought this good fortune to us.” V

All Paris is laughing at Mile. Marie Anne deßovet, apostle o£ free, love and opponent of matrimony. She has just surrendered to Cupid, and her husband is a boy of nineteen. The bride is thirty-four years old. “ Well,” she says to her protesting friends with a shrug of her shoulders, “It was love at first sight, that is all, and my husband is manly enough to be the mate of any woman, no matter how strong-minded.” The bride is perhaps the most daring woman novelist in Prance. Into all her books she has woven a protest against marriage and a plea for free love. Nevertheless she always has been a great favorite in the American colony because she speaks English and adores Americans. Her family is one of the most aristocratic in Franoe. They entertain lavishly and Americans are always present. . , . When but twenty-six years old this daring young Frenchwoman attained the distinction seldom offered to women of an election to the Societe do Gens de Lettres. She began her literary career with translations from the English. Her taste was far from frivolous. She translated “Le Journal de Gordon Pasha a Khartoum,” "La Politique.Europene” and “ La Coeur de George H. et Guillaume IV.” Then she branched out into original efforts with great success. , . She contributed to Figaro, Gaulois, Illustration and La Revue Bleu under the nom de plume of “ Mab.” She showed ready wit and a keen desire to upset conventions Philadelphia, May 1. The women of Germantown and .Chestnut Hill, where wealth and society reside, have formed the “ Housewives’ Association of Germantown and. Chestnut Sill.” The association has issued a touching appeal for “united effort to improve con-d*lt'-aays in the communication: “ The servant—or help—question has reached such a state as to cause serious uneasiness ana anxiety to everyone interested in it, and above all, to the housekeeper. The conditions are almost incredible. We have arrived at a point where we pay to poor help the same wages as to good help; where a servant working for two or three persons is paid as much as one who is employed by a, family of six eight or more members. What is still worse, servants often change their places without the slightest provocation. “ In no other business do we find such unnatural conditions. , , , . “ Oar purpose is to call upon the head oi every household of Germantown and Chestnut Hill to oombine in action for the preservation of their interests, the protection of their homes and the suppression of. all excrescences in this field which make it more and more difficult to keep house and make this heavy burden heavier still. . " What we want is to get good help for our good money. To proteot the good serI vants against the competition of the bad ones. To reward the faithful and to force the others to mend their ways or to turn to other occupations by making it impossible for them to secure employment in our homes. An office has been: .opened and m it the secretary, ReinnoldW. Myer, adjusts matters between madam and maid. A yearly contribution fee of 8j is paid by each member. Alter that seivice is free for the year.