WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 278, 15 April 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by " Eileen "). SOCIETY NEWS. NEW PLYMOUTH. Golf.—The opening of the season of the Xgamotu Golf Club eventuated last Saturday in beautifully bright weather, and the usual mixed foursome match was played, Mr. H. Stow and Miss Stephenson finally winning the prize. Amongst those present were: Mrs. Matthews dressed in pretty heliotrope costume, I with toque en suite; Mrs. Brewster, white linen coat and skirt, faced with black, navy blue and white hat; Mrs. Bayley, grey tweed costume, black hat; Miss Bayley, moss green linen coat and fekirt, faced with black, green chip straw hat; Miss Bedford, white embroidered muslin, black and pale blue hat; Miss D. Bedford, cream costume, rose pink silk hat; Mrs.. Pcnn, rose pink linen, ecru! (clored hat, swathed with tiny pink pink roses and lined with pale pink silk; Mrs. Stow, saxe blue costume, trimmed with velvet and cream lace, green chip straw hat, lined with brown; Mrs. Kebbell, white muslin, black feathered hat; Miss G. Shaw, cream costume, saxe blue hat, wreathed with forget-me-nots; Miss Skinner,' white muslin, vieux rose hat; Miss Skinner, white linen costume; burnt straw hat, finished with black silk bows; 1 Miss Blundell, brown costume, hat relieved with pink rases; Mrs. B. Gray, .navy blue costume, hat [ to correspond; ["Mrs. Deacon, cream; Mrs. Steeds, sage green costume, relieved with cream sifk hat en suite; her sister wore brown; Mrs. H. Stocker, white muslin, hat trimmed with black cherries. PERSONAL ITEMS. Mrs. Paul has gone for a trip to Auclc-' land. Mr. Armitagee, of the National Bank, Waiuku, Auckland, and Mr. J. Easther, of the Auckland branch of the National Bank, are spending the Easter holidays in New Plymouth. Mr. Clement Govett left last Wednesday for a trip to the Old Country, Mrs. Whetter is visiting her son, Dr. Les. Whetter, of Milford, Dunedin. Mr. Hugh Fraser, of the Auckland Herald staff, is on a short visit to his parents in New Plymouth. Messrs. Nicholson and C. Webster and Misses Thomson and Brewster left yes-J terday morning by the mad train to take part in the Wanganui tennis tournament. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Webster, Mrs. Clem Webster, and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Webster are spending the Easter holidays in Wanganui. Mr. 11. Stocker has gone for a three weeks' trip to Wellington. ] Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Corkill have returned, after spending a very pleasant time in Wellington. Mrs. Skinner .and Miss Devenish, who have been on a visit to Rotorua and Auckland, returned yesterday morning by the =.s. Karnwa. Mr. and Mrs. 11. Burgess have gone for a trip to Wellington. The former, with a partv, intends journeying to Mount I!uan '".i. Mi=s T). Bedford is the guest of Mrs. Glenn. Hawera. Mr, HI. Crombie, late of Inglewood. but. now of Wellington, is visiting New Plymouth on account of the golf tournament. c A PERSECUTED BRIDE. FLEES FROM RUSSIAN HUSBAND. Separated from her wealthy Russian husband bv the scheming of his family; kept by force from the side of her baby boy; risking her life to regain him, and finally escaping across the Austrian border of Poland by the aid of an American friend who had hurried to her from Norway, Mrs. Lillian Richter de Malinowski is bsrek in New York after three years of distressful life. With his girlish mother is Leonard George de Malinowski, eighteen months old and heir to a vast estate not far from Gitmir, Russian Poland. In Ithaca is Edward G. WyckofT, a member of the typewriter family and rich in his own right, who thinks modestly but -with real satisfaction of the part he had to play in the drama of Mrs. de Malinowski's life. Four years ago Caesar de Malinowski went to America from Russia. He was the son of Casimir de Malinowski, a rich Polish landowner, whose home, Mlynysezce, was one of the oldest and largest estates in all that part of the Empire. Caesar, then 24, had come to the United States because his father insisted upon his marriage to the daughter of the owner of the adjoining castle, "if I must marry I want to marry the girl of my choice," de Malinowski said, and bade his family farewell. A very few months in America brought him both the desire to marry and the girl of his choice. She was Lillian Ricli- ) tor, the .17-year-old daughter of Mrs. ) Caroline Richter, of Tea Neck, N.J. Five times he proposed to her, and finally they were married in New York. For a long time the young husband's family refused to recognise his marriage, but finally the father came to see his new daughter for himself, and in July, 1 [>oß, they sailed together for Europe and Mlyny.szce. On the steamer with them was Mr. WyckolT, and his family, bound for a two years' visit to the Continent, and in the course of the journey Mrs. de Malinowski became intimate with them. That fall the WykolTs visited Mlynyszce, and were cordially welcomed by the | entire family. They spent a week on the estate and then started again on their travels. A year and a-half later, 1 leaving his family in London, Mr. WyckofT went to Iceland, intending to come home by way of Spitsbergen and Nor- | way. He had not much more than got I' on his way before this telegram to his address in London: ' "Please come to rescue. Homeless, childless, penniless.—Lillian." . Alarmed by this word, Mrs. WyckofT • replied with a request for more informal tion. This answer came without delay: "Please wire money. Beg dad to come." After much search these messages were relayed to Mr. WykofT at a village on the coast of Norway, and at once fie | started for Russia. ' Reaching Gitimir, Mr. WyckolT only I | succeeded in finding Mrs. de Malinowski I | at the home of her physician after a '

friendly German had come to his aid as an interpreter. He was shadowed everywhere he went, and when lie finally found the little mother his passport had but three days to run. Mrs. de Malinowski was almost a wreck, physically as well as nervously. Her own passport was good over a limit- I ed territory only, but Mr. Wyckoff, by the cunning use of soft words and persuasive roubles £ot her and the baby safely to Warsaw. The next night the little party was on its way to Ivalisz, on the Austrian border. "My sorrow began immediately after ] i the baby was horn," Mrs. do Malinowski ! told a reporter. "My mother-in-law and Imy sisters-in-law turned openly against me, and before Leonard was a month old he had been taken from me, and even Caesar had taken apartments in another wing of the manor and refused to see me. "The most absurd reasons were given for all this. Mme. de Malinowski accused me once of taking some linen while she was away, as though I could make any use of it, supposing I had wanted it, in a house where we all lived together. There was nothing too trivial to be used against me, and finally, after all my jewellerv and most of,my clothing had. been taken away from me, I was taken . by servants to Gitimir, and ordered never I to return. | "I took refuge with a priest I had got to know, and began to plan to get Leonard. I really didn't care for anything else, but I did want my baby. The first time I tried to get him I lay hidden behind a clump of bushes for two hours and a-half waiting for a nurse who had promised to bring him to me. She got so near to me that I could see her"eyes. when -some otlyjr servants caught up; with her and took her back to the house. "That night orders were given to shoot anyone found on the place without permission, but the following midnight I tried again, another servant having pro- | mised to bring Leonard to me at a specified time on the banks of Volynia. ' "The Volynia is very wide and swift there, but it lias shallow places where reeds and grosses grow to the surface. Although the priest tried to dissuade me. I hired two men to row me across the river. Half-way across the boat began to leak. I grew frightened, and the boat capsized. Fortunately it was at one of the shallows, .and although I went into j water up to my shoulders, the priest, who had been following in another boat, dragged me quickly in beside him and j took me back to his house. "Even then I had not failed to see that lights were moving through the manor house, and I made up my mind that they were netting ready to take the baby away, as I had heard they meant to. I was so sure that I went to the station at Kolvmi. wl"--> Mme. de Malinowski would have to t:tVp thp train wherever she w;i* hound. The --fntimimaster hid me in the upper part of the building, and from a btlcony 1 soon =•"<■ Mme de Malinow-ki arrive with five servants and the baby. "I was dressed as a peasant, and when my mother-in-law got into her compartment I was put into one adjoining. She had the train searched to make sure I wasn't aboard, but my disguise saved me, and we strfrted for Berdeschcv. The con- | ductor proved to be my salvation. Six- | teen years before, when he was a porter. I he told me, Mme de . Malinowski had , given him 25 kopecks—five cents in our I money—for handling 25 trunks, and he I had never forgiven her! "He telegraphed ahead to Berdechev, and when the train arrived the police i Wire waiting. I told them that a rich woman was trying to kidnap my baby, and when they had satisfied themselves that I was the baby's mother, and when they discovered Mme. de Malinowski In the next compartment with the baby, they took him from her and gave him to me. It was my first victory." "I hurried hack to Gitimar, and paid board for a week, which left mc only enough money to send the telegrams to London. But within a very short time Mr. WyckofT had come to me and it was all over. When we reached Charin" Cross and I saw Mrs. WyekhofT waiting there for me I came nearer to fainting for joy than I ever shall again, I know."