WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 137, 1 December 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

(Conducted by "Eileen.") MISSED MARRIAGE THREE TIMES YOUNG WIDOW SUES FOR BREACH OF PROMISE. Melbourne, November 20. In the County Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Johnson and a jury, an action was brought bv Charlotte Flavelle Ewen, a young widow, of Malvern, against Wm. Peak Tembv, of Bunyip Village Settlement, claiming £l'ooo for breach of promise of marriage. The defendant denied the promise, and said that if it were made it was broken off by mutual consent.

Mr. Duffy, K.C., and Mr Lewis appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Meagher for the defendant. The plaintiff stated that she became acquainted with the defendant, and subsequently became engaged to be married. , Regarding the. circumstances in connection with the breaking-off, she stated that she went to visit him, and he seemed off color and blurted out, "Look here, I'm not going to marry you, Lottie." She said, "Good gracious! What for?" and he replied, "My mother and sister have been worrying the life out of me, and I don't feel well." She cried and told her father, who advised the defendant to think it over, and go and see her. He promised to do so, but failed to keep his promise. She then wrote him a long letter in red ink; in which she upbraided him very severely, advising him -at the same time to end his miserable life. She thanked God for the escape she had had, and alluded to his relatives as a "miserable crew."

In cross-examination the plaintiff said she was engaged to a Mr. Chick beforo she married her last husband, and that after her husband's death she was engaged to a Mr. Cooper. She admitted that she broke off those two engagements, and did not think it mattered.

Mr. Meagher: What is the real object of your suing Temby? Is it not to get money out of him?

Witness: > T 0; I think he should be punished for the way ke treated me. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Don't you think you should be punished for the way you treated these two men?—Xo; I don't think it mattered. Plaintiff admitted that she had received a ring and a watch from the defendant. and intended keeping them. Mr. Meagher asked her if she did not think that in view of the statement that she thanked God that he had saved her from such a life, that she should recompense him for having saved her. Witness smiled, and answered in the negative. She admitted that after the present rejection she had sung two love letters at a concert, and was heartily applauded.

MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE DESERTS IfUSBAXD FOR PLUMBER'S SOX. , Mrs. Walter Lispenard Suvdam, junr., the beautiful wife of a New York millionaire's son, whose chief interest is fishing, disappeared recently from their summer home at Bluepoint, Long Island, coincidently with the disappearance of Edward Xolile, the youthful son of a prosperous master plumber. The lady's husband voiced his suspicions, and for a week reporters have been hunting for the missing couple. The excitement of the chase was interrupted one day by Mrs. Suydam and her young friend visiting a newspaper office and calmly announcing that to avoid further espionage they wished to state that they had eloped and were living together until a divorce could be properly arranged. In the meantime they desired to be left alone.

, "Please understand," said the lady, "I've nothing against my husband. In all the eight v«irs of our married life we have not had a single quarrel. He gavo me everything I wanted. He tried to please me, and was really good to me. We had a family conference, | and our people tried to induce me to renounce him."

She explained that she would presently seek divorce on the ground of incompatibility: In the meantime her husband has packed her trunks and forwarded them.

WOMEN CHEATS. PRIEST AS DETECTIVE. New York, October 13. Eleven women were refused admission on Wednesday evening to a charity card party organised by St. Francis of Assissi Church, Brooklyn, because tliey were believed to be card-sharpers. An investigation has unearthed the fact that a number of women make a business of attending such affairs to win the valuable prizes offered by practices similar, to those of the gamblers who haunt the Transatlantic liners. The women are not professional gamblers, but members of respectable families, who are unable to resist the temptation to cheat at cards. It is a common practice for Xew York women to give large whist, bridge and euchre parties throughout the winter to raise funds for charity. The tickets cost 4s. and occasionally 1500 are sold at one parly, many of which are held in the Ijail-roc:us of fashionable hotels. The prizes are always of considerable value, worth frequently .£lO and ,£2O each, and sometimes more. It has become known that women band themselves together for concerted work by lip signals, by marking cards with tiny pin-pricks, and otherwise, and, according to Father Kelleher, of St. Francis of Assissi, who discovered Wednesday evening's conspiracy, even know how to "stack" cards.

Father Kellcher's discovery was due to an extraordinary accident. He was riding in a tramear on y when lie overheard two women sealed next to liim say tliey intended to capture the prizes by cheating. Father Kelleher detected the two women with nine others as they were endeavoring to enter, and told them they could not set in. Xo explanation was olVered, and the women did not demand any. but hastily disappeared.

The churches and charily organisations generally are beinjf lotified of the discovery, with the suggestion that concerted effort should be made this winter to break the practice. It is a disputed point whether the women are liable to arrest for their cheating.