WOMEN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 255, 18 March 1913, Page 6

WOMEN'S WORLD

A RUSSIAN ROMANCE { i :.l\:;k!a:;k uxdkk threat of DEATH. SI. Pcter.-lmrg, Marcli 2. A, remarkable romance, in which the nsiiiil order of tilings was strangely reversed, is reported from Sari, in the <iovcrnini'iit of Kutais. A pretty Caucasian girl of ili foil madly in love with a handsome boy there. The youth remaincd unresponsive to her advances, line night a. nuniher of friends of the girl earried oil' the object of her affection to the neighboring hills, where the captive was threatened with instant death unless lie took the aid for his wife. A clergyman wa- forcibly abducted. : ami was compelled to marry the yoiuri couple, the hoy's kinsmen, who in the'' meantime had been warned of the plot, arriving too late to prevent th,e ceremony. A stormy seone followed, but finally a reconciliation was effected between the ' bride and bridegroom themselves and their families. GAVE UP A THRONE FOR 10VE Behind a case which came before the London Bankruptcy Court was the story ] of a prince, who sacrificed his right to \ a throne in order to marry an actress. ' The debtor. Count Hermann Charles von Ostheim, who was described as of King street. St. James', was by birth Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar. and heir to the Grand Duchy tip to the time of his morganatic marriage a little more than three years ago to an actress who had been playing in London in "The Merry Widow." He then renounced both his title of prince and his right to the throne of the Herman Duchv. When he married Miss Wanda Lottero his family settled a substantial allowance upou him. but this has not prevented his contracting debts. It was in regard to these deltts that the count should hav<; appeared in court for public examination. It was stated that divorce proceedings had been taken against him in France, and proceedings had been registered in Germany and England. He attributed his position to the divorce proceedings, which compelled him to borro\l money. On its .being reported that nothing had been heard from the count, who was believed to be in Paris, tlje proceedings were adjourned sine die. Before his morganatic marriage the count had run through an immense sum of money, and in 100!) it was reported that he was owing £50.000 to money-lenders.