WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 216, 31 January 1913, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by " Eileen.") LOVE. ELOPEMENT AND DEATH Two soldiers passing on Monday, lie-I eember !i. through the Forest pt l<ontaincbleau discovered Die dead body: of | Mile .leannc Eude. the beautiful young Iwi-diter of a retired army doctor, ihc Kry provcUo be the awful end ot a love storv. " , ~. , Two months ago Mile. Eude left her h(im , iu Versailles to pass a few days vith « relative at St. Quentn, In he evening she telegraphed to he fathei on Paris that she had missed the train ami would not start for St. Quent.n unt.l the next day. ,', I \fler that nothing move was heaid ot her, and. on being notified of her disappearance, the police *J'»l Mile. Eude's telegram to her fathei had been handed in at the telegraph office bv'a voung man whose description correB j onded to that of a lieutenant who had I,U stationed at Veirsailles. and uho bad recently resigned. J It was also'ascertained that a couple . • -bliiv Mile. Eude and tie lieutenant .' "."11 seen at La Kochelle. The ol»-vic-"/conclusion was that the doctor's «],-' .l,ter had eloped with the military i)o:- Juan, and the police investigations 'consequently ended. But on Moadav. December 9. two soldiers belonging to the Eontainebleau garrison found the young womans body lvin" between two huge boulders near a deserted quarry. Gendarmes were summoned, and conveyed the body to the town, where a doctor found that the voiin* woman had died of hunger. She had been dead live or six days before the bodv was discovered. It is not known how Mile. Eude reached the lonely spot where she died, but the police believe that after eloping with the officer Mile. Eude was abandoned by him, and. not daring to return home and face her parents, and having no money left, wandered about aimlessly ui.til 'death ended her sufferings.

MISER MILLIONAIRESS In a squalid, bare room in Xew York, surrounded by fifteen eats. Miss Octam Friedrieh, 72 years old, recluse, reputed to be worth £1,000,000, was found on Friday. November 27. dead from suffocation. ' Although it would at first appear that. Miss Friedrieh. who was a paralytic, died as a result of a small fire in the room in which she had lived for half a century, the police suspect that she may have met with foul play. The aged woman had the reputation of being possessed of many millions of dollars, but it was not until the firemen broke down the door of her room that the fact was realised that she was a miser. The firemen found the room scarcely habitable. The bed consisted of a mattress propped on wooden boxes, and the only other furniture was a chair and table. Empty boxes, tin cans, and bundles of rags were everywhere. In a wooden box on a shelf above the stove were the charred remnant of £IOO in bills of small denominations. The doors of the house which the dead woman owned were not only locked but barricaded, and the police declared that her clothes were sprinkled with oil. A few hours after Miss Friedrich's death a barber, who rented a shop on the ground lloor. came forward with a claim to all her estate. The barber 6aid the aged recluse had made him her sold beneficiary, and produced the copy of a will to prove his claim, although he could not give the name of the lawyer by whom the document was drawn up.

ALMOST REGAL WEDDINGS At the Central Synagogue, London, on November -J.O, the marriage took place of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, of Vienna, and Miss Alice Sebag-Montefiore. Th*. wedding was notable for the splendid jewels included amongst the presents. Miss Sebag-Montefiore is the daughter of Mr. Edmund Sebag-Montefiore. The bridegroom showered diamonds and pearls upon the bride. Her gifts to her include: Diamond riviere necklace, diamond drop corsage brooch, diamond bracelet, pink pearl and diamond corsage ornament and pendant, pearl necklace with diamond clasp, diamond festoon necklace with large pearl drop, pearl ear-rings, black pearl and large white pearl ring. Other members of the house of Rothschild also sent the bride most beautiful jewels. Lord and Lady Rothschild giving a flexible bracelet studded with diamonds, Baron Louis and Baron Eugene von Rothschild a rope of pearls with diamond clasp. Baron Louis von Rothschild a diamond pendant with two large drops, Baron Eugenie de Rothschild a diamond chain, and Baroness Willie von Rothschild a diamond tiara.

Probably the most regal individual present ever given to a bride was the £BOO,OOO (four million dollars) which was received by Miss Schwab, not long ago, from her brother, the president of the great American Steel Trust, on her marriage to a prosperous townsman of Johnstown, Pennsylvania; but even such a colossal bridal-gift caused little astonishment in the States, where presents such as Queens might well envy are too common to excite surprise. When Miss Louisa Pierpont Morgan, the daughter of the multi-millionaire financier, was wedded to Mr, Satterlee, a young lawyer, her father's gift consisted of bonds valued at a million dollars, a mansion on the bank of the Hudson river, an almost priceless collar of diamonds, and a corsage ornament of pearl-shaped brilliants, which in itself was worth a King's ransom. As for her other presents, which numbered 400, they included chests of gold and silver plate, tapestries, paintings, fabulously-priced furniture, and costly jewellery, sufficient to equip half-a-dozen Royal brides. No less fortunate was Miss Helen McLaughlin when she wore a bridal veil for Dr. Alexander F. .Carroll; for the presents showered on her were valued at half a million dollars, and four large furniture vans, with a strong police escort, were required to remove them from her fathers' house, j Among these almost endless gifts werij a dinner service of solid gold; a diamond luckless of brilliants, each stone weighing 18 carats: 400 vases of Royal Worcester. SaUuma, Limoges and Dresden; vases of gold and silver: cheques whose total amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars: and jewellery "sufficient"—to quote a reporter—"to stock half-a-dozen ships." Helen's sister. Mary McLaughlin, who preceded her to the altar, received gifts valued at from £200.000 to £-2r,0.000.