WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 157, 20 November 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") BARONESS' FIGHT FOR LIBERTY DRAMATIC ESCAPE FROM PRISON. The young Danish Baroness van Ooehorn, who is heiress to a considerable fortune, and-who eloped last summer with a former coachman to the family, has provided another sensation (says a Paris message). When she left her native land the Baroness and her coachman lover went to Ostend, where a number of Dutch and Belgian detectives arrested the young lady on a complaint from her family. The young lady declared that her family—more or less distant relationshad tried to have her shut up in an asylum to ' prevent her from marrying Henri Bezener and to enable them to get possession of her fortune. Public sympathy was with her, but the detectives were obliged to hand her over to her relations, and for over a month she completely disappeared. The family had succeeded in their design; they had had the young Baroness examined by doctors, who had pronounced her of unsound mind, and she had, therefore, been shut up in the Fort-Jaco Asylum, not tar from Brussels. After a month of imprisonment, she succeeded in letting her solicitor know of her predicament. The latter immediately informed the magistrates of Brussels and Ostend, and they went immediately to investigate the matter at the asylum. A second medical examination, however, confirmed the first, that she was subject to fits of insanity, and the young Baroness was kept in the asylum by legal authority. Shortly afterwards came the new sensation, for it was discovered that the young lady had succeeded in escaping. from the asylum. In spite of the strict watch kept over her. she had managed to make a number of friends among the staff, who, among other things, had helped her to get into communication with her solicitor.

The place was hurriedly searched, and the. door of her rmom as well as a number of other doors in tlio establishment were found open, evidently through the connivance of some attendant. Once ia the garden, the Baroness had only to climb a fenee and she was free. "Probably a motor car waiting outside had helped her in her flight.

The police were informed, and searched the countryside, but without result. All the police stations of Brussels and the surrounding neighborhood have been in- . formed of the escape, and provided with a photograph and a description of the young lady. M. Dejardin, the Baroness' advocate in Brussels, is evidently not ignorant of the manner in which her escape was accomplished. "What! Do I know about ; it?" he exclaimed to an interviewer. "I [ have always been convinced that my client was not mad. I wished her to be set at liberty. I asked to see her.' They refused. ,Only one thing remained —escape. I can assure you that it was j prepared a long time beforehand." DIVORCE PREVENTER I POLICEMAN'S MAXIMS FOR MARITAL BLISS. A quaint decision has heen given by Judge Kimmel, of the Supreme Court at St. Louis, in an application for divorce by Mrs. Quan. The judge directed Patrick E. Egan, a policeman, to supervise the domestic affairs of the couple and to visit'their home daily for thirty days. After questioning the wife closely on her attitude towards her husband and his treatment of her, Egan wrote down for the wife's guidance a long array of | precepts. Among these were the following:—■ "Don't remonstrate with your husband ! when he has been drinking.' Wait until next morning. Then give him a cup of coffee for his headache. Afterwards lead him into the parlor, put your arms about him, and give him a lecture. It will have more weight with him than any number of quarrels. "If he has to drink let him have it at home. "Avoid mothers-in-law. Don't let them live with you or interfere in your affairs. "If you must have your own way do not let your husband know you are trying to boss him. Have your own way by letting him I .think he'is having' his. "Dress to suit your husband's taste and income. Husband's usually don't like their wives to wear tight dresses. • Consult him on these matters. "Don't be jealous or give your husband cause for jealousy. "When your husband is in a bad hu7nor be in a good humor. It may be difficult, but it will pay." Egan admitted that some of these precepts were not original with him. "You sec, I have taken this matter very seriously," he said. T had a long talk with my wife. She and I have been married sixteen years, and we have never had a quarrel. This one qualification I have brought to this job of peacemaker." The policeman-philosopher's precepts were duly printed, framed, and placed against the wall of the family, sittingroom. So far he has only paid fifteen of his thirty visits to the house, but the results could not have been more gratifying. Mr. and Mrs. Quan are delighted, and hav presented the saviour of their marital bliss with a handsome token of their gratitude in the form of a gold watch. A RARE COLLECTION In recognition of the loyalty of Canada in turning down the reciprocity pact with the United States, Mrs. E. M. Masfin, of Stratford-on-Avon, presented to the Dominion archives a collection of rare objects given to h - by Queen Victoria and other membei of the Royal Family. Her fallir .-'.id served as a page in the households of the Duchess of Kent and Queen Vi-toria. The collection includes a life of the Prince Consort in Ave volumes; an album with photographs of the Queen and family, including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the present Queen as a child • an album with Hi" hist photo of Queen Victoria inscribed by herself; a lock of Queen Victoria's hair and an Indian Bhawl given by the late Queen to Mrs, Mas! in's mother-iu-buv; Royal playbilla of a performance ~:, Windsor.; photos of t' I'nmv in' .ii Highland and private dress; photos of the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Albany and Princess Alice; a blue Worcester dessert service; three pieces of Royal blue china and a ring once the property of the Duchess of Kent: a footstool worked in Galoon and Chenille; a pair of blue and gold sleeve links, a gift by the German Empress Augusta; a box' containing a silver medal of the Princess Christian and two portraits framed in oak, of King Edward and his Consort.