WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 91, 3 September 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen,") A ROYAL DIVORCE , SEQUEL TO SECRET WEDDING. Reference was made to a pending nullity suit between ;i Prince and Priiice.ii. who were married secretly in London during an application in the Divorce Division. The suit is by Princess Jeanne Marie Louise DeUipovte de Bourbon against Prince Charles Albert Edgar Serge Cesar de Bourbon. The Princess applied for leave to serve substituted service on respondent in the action. Mr. B°yford (for petitioner) stated that the Prince met the Princess in January, 1910, at the house of a mutual friend in Milan. The Prince then stated that he was related to the Austrian Imperial family, and that his home was at Goetz. On March 29, 1910, a ceremony of marriage was gone through in London, and the Princess was now asking for a declaration that the ceremony was null and void for certain reasons. In September, 1910, the Prince deserted his wife in Paris. Two days later the Princess met lier husband in the streets of Paris. The Prince then had a lady with him, who said she was his wife. The Prince told applicant that he was living at the Hotel Morice, Paris. This turned out to be untrue, but it was discorered that he had stayed one night at the Hotel Continental. From that time he disappeared, but certain communications had been received from liim which showed that he had been travelling on the Continent and in America. The Princess filed her petition for a decree of nullity last September, but had been unable to find the whereabouts of the Prince. It had been discovered that he had relatives in America, and these had been communicated with. The Prince had a brother-iiHaw living at Cleveland, Ohio, and a son living near New York, Mr. Howard, had written stating that the Prince was en route to South America. Counsel asked for leave to serve the Prince by substituted service through his solicitor. His Lordship: Is it a nullity suit on the ground that the ceremony was roid! Mr. Bayford: Yes, a bad ceremony. His Lordship granted leave to servo by substituted service and by advertisement. FROM CELL TO ALTAR WOMAN WHO WAS MARRIED OX DAY SHE LEFT PRISON. Marriages, proverbially "made *in heaven," are sometimes arranged elsewhere, as is shown by the story of a Wolverhampton couple who were married the other

They had lived in illicit union together at Wolverhampton for a number of years, until the woman was committed to the county prison at Stafford. The man set to work, got a new -home j together, which placed their children in l better surroundings, and met the woman i at the gates of the county prison at j Stafford, and went with her to Christ Churgh in that town, where the'pair' were married by the vicar. It appears that the marriage was the result of the good counsel and advice of the Rev. S. G. Caulfield, the prison chaplain, and Mr. W. H. Knight, the Wolverhampton police court misisonary. The chapjain provided the bride's dress, while Mr. Knight acted as best man, gave the bride away, and provided the wedding breakfast at Stafford, after which the newly-married pair re-turned to Wolverhampton. "LOVE" AND "LEAVE." A claim for damages for the alienation - of his fiancee's affection has been lodged by a New York man against one of America's two telegraph companies owing to a remarkable error in the transmission of a telegram a few weeks ago. The man handed in a telegram to his fiancee reading, "I love you for ever." The telegram reached the girl, reading, "I leave you for ever." ' The error was due to a mix-up in the! Morse code, in which the letter "0" is represented by two dot 3, the letter "E" by one dot, and the letter "A" by a dot and a dash. In transmission the dashj was eliminated, and the two dots ran' together, thus causing the tragedy^ The girl returned the man's ring, his presents, and his letters, .and refused to hear a word from him '.vhrn he endeavored to explain. He lrd just k-irnri that the girl has announced her engagement to another man, and on this he bases his claim against the telegraph company for damages. The names of the parties have not been made public, because the case has not yet been taken to court, pending the possibility that the company will settle. If no settlement is made the New York courts will be compelled to decide the degree of the company's culpability. KISS WALTZ BANNED Having already obtained fame by.reason of her original "Kiss Waltz," which created a furore throughout' Germany,' Fraulein von Itavenaburg, its composer, has just received additional advertisement, the police administrator having issued a decree forbidding the dance. ''l learn/ says the document, "that in the course of balls organised in the communes of my district a dance called.the 'Kiss Waltz' is danced. During this dance women and young girls allow themselves to be kissed publicly. This constitutes an offence against good German manners that I cannot tolerate. In the name of morality, I formally prohibit the 'Kiss Walt/..' The police organisations will see that this order is strictly complied with." TRAGEDY OF A GIRL GUEST

An unusual love drama was enacted in an undertaker's shop at Yillejuif, outside Paris, last month. In the middle of the night a Parisian girl of eighteen, named Cecile Duport, rtiio was staying with a married couple named Marchal, commit ted suicide by shooting herself with a gun. Hearing the report. M. Marchal, a man of about fifty, ran downstairs, and found (lie girl's body. Without saying a word, he snatched up his revolver, which was lying on the sideboard, and, before his wife, who was with him, could stop him, had killed himself. Ceeile, who was a very highly-strung girl, had fallen in love with her host. She is said to have asked him to elope with her recently, and his refusal is thought to have been the cause of her suicide. M. .Marchal evidently shot himself on realising that he was the cause of the girls' suicide. •PUSHED HER THROUGH THE WINDOW." A professor of music in l'.udapcst, named Josef Bartba-Hackl, recently had a dispulo wifli his wife, who is just nineteen, at midnight, and to end the discussion, which annoyed him, is alleged to have Hung her out of the window. A few minutes afterwards he was found comfortably asleep. I His wife, who is slowly recoveri:ig I from her injuries, declares that he three flier out of the window without any rial provocation. Hack! lias been arrested.