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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: .1UXE 2S, 190?. ALFRED YANDERB1LT CUT Young Multi-Millionaire's Recent Divorce Suit the Cause. JEAN EEID'S WIDDISG PRESENTS I lit to Eiarnoni She Hires !erretarr to Bend Afknowldihriil Mrt. Bradley-Martin Drromd Sarrastic, LONDON, June r7.-(PpeclaI.)-Alfrd Vandtrhlila divorce came upon us here a it surprlte. Moat periple were under the pnpresnlon that the French woman who no constantly otcuple? tre tox aeat of his loach was hi wife. When It was discov ( red who she really m there waa a gen. eial ftampede. The French woman knowa how to dreaa. The laat time I saw her ahe waa wearing a drab linen gown with Inlets cf Irian crochet of the aime coh.r. Her wrap waa a dlrectolre coat of drab cloth faultlessly cut and adorned with dull goM buttons. She wore a golden brown hat with llg fawn and brown wlnga and a bis cuit colored veil, fine never cease to talk even when VanderMlt Is leading hla tranc ing grcya through the densest traffic. He atlll weara a picture of Ma former wife In a locket on hla watch charm, the r vcrmi aide of which Is filled by a likeness of hla child. Btmilar photographs aro all over hla flat. Miss Iaelln, daughter of C. Oliver lselln of New York, earned almost ea n u. h cltement at the tlerby na the win of the outsider. She la certainly auinnlng an I ttruck the king "all of a heap." Hla maj ety atlll considers himself the b li Judge of women and horses In England. It waa Mra. Anthony I'rexel who preoented Miss Ipelin to Edward. Tne faor f a presenta tion to hla majesty In thla unconventional manner la nearly unique. 1 lelleve Miss Ji'lln Is the first American girl to iereive It. She never turned a loir as she boned tj the sovereign. The conversation turnel o:i horses and yachts and tho New York belle's Information on both subjects ei.ai'd the king. His ra ting r-maik to Itt was, "I hope we shall meet svn nam," and her reply was, "I am sure I fcl all do ny best to make It soon," at which Ms majesty laughed heartily. Vast umlirr of Presents. So enormously large Is the number of wedding presents already received by Jean Reid that she looka positively bar raased over her attempts to cope with the correspondence entailed In acknowl dglng them. Her parents, fearing ths wou'd b quite worn out by the time her wtdd.ng day arrived engaged a secretary for her la t nek hnd now things are going smocther. Jean Is made to spend most we li-ends out ef London, for, although ti e R' Ids Indignantly deny that lh"lr I'auihter is not strong, her friends are thtroughly aware che Is fur from robust r.nd that I.ondcn In the season literally "doer." for her. The brlde-elert and the queen of Spain uf d to be great chums before her majesty's marriage and they have kept up the friend ship. Some of MIps Field's most recent gifts are those sent by Victoria Eugenie. One Is an antique gold tea trny most beaut fully Jeweled. Another is mln'ature of the little prince of the Austurlan ret In dl.im r.d. S'.ir.e time ago Jean Held asked the queen for a picture of the baby prince and this ia the anr.wer. Alfonso baa forwarded to John Ward a ralr of gold Fputfi of historic interest. At a "ate r.ot 't fixed, the prospective bride and brl.legiorm will visit their Spanish TK3j riles at Madrid. Thirteen" Too Morh for Her. Vie number "thirteen" has at last provej too murh for Mra. John Jacob Astor. Al thnufrh she Is by no means superstitious the remarkable series of disasters that followed here from the time she moved into 13. Ttrock street, has unnerved her and she has moved to Mrs. Adair's house In Cur in street. The American matron had to pay hand somely for the h.-mso she has deserted. The agents who let It would not let her off one farthing, and she lo hid t.i be responsible for no end of breakages committed by tho servants. "Never In my life was I so th.inltful to get out of a srot, and to the day of my death," she was telling her friends. "I will never again be Induced to have anything to do with anything which is marked with this number. I boileve lnpltc Itly, If I were to have stayed in the house another week some dire calamity would hove overtaken me and I may never have got out of it alive." Mr. Martin Dislikes Society. It Is only as a bird of passage that Mrs. Bradley Martin has been in London in the last flvo months. She la due at Chester field gardens next week from abroad, but ahe has been telling her friends that sho means to do no big entertaining this Feuson. They say she has tuken a strong dislike to society In general, which she declares la ungrateful, unappreelattve and superficial. To her own Immediate circle she will give a few psrtleb and aft. r that she will retire to Bafmaacan for the autumn and winter. "I have given up u'l ambition to shin- as a hostess in l.iricn." she has been ex plaining. "The mcfi lon'lsh person In tho world Is the one who sivndu money lavishly cn society. You may beggar yourself for English people and when they meet you on the continent or elsewhere. If the spirit moves them, they will actually forget to bow to you." There is a certain sat In Lon don who accept hospitality right and left, but never dream of returning It. These pen Pie consider that In giving the halo of their presence they are doing all that can be expected of them. Against this particular clique Mrs. Bradley Martin Intends to wage war. Many admire her determination, though few of them have the courage to take up her attitude. altars for Mrs. Smith. No woman la arousing more Interest here at the moment than Mrs. James Henry Smith. She has discarded her widow's weeds and Is looking festive and comely. If her own words are to be believed she never Intends to remsrry. Nevertheless people who know her best say when the right msn comes she will accept him so quickly that It will take his breath away. 8ultors by the doien are hanging around her. Lord Herbert Van Tempest, a brother of Lord Londonderry and a great friend of the Drexels, Is one of the foremost In the running. It used to be ssld that he wss In love with Msrgaretta Drexel, Mrs. Smith's niece, but that young woman's father told him in polite language "not to make a fool of himself," whereupon he transferred his affections to her aunt. Mrs. Smith's young daughter. Miss Stewart, Is a veritable little mouse of a girl, very pretty and retiring. She Is to have a Jolly time for the rest of the sea son with her beloved cousin, Msrgsretta Drexel, to whom she is greatly devoted. Mrs. Smith has lately expressed It that she has no wish that Anita should msrry Into the British aristocracy and that she does not care a straw whom the girl se lects provided she is genuinely In love. ' Tarla arbiters of fsshlon have discovered that there Is such a thing as a dlrectolre face. In other words, the face must be In keeping with this latest of revivals of dress. All the smart women on the other side of the channel are now. therefore, cul tivating the special cast of countenance supposed to be correct for the slit skirt. To add to my lady's difficulties she must also cultivate a new walk. The worst of the whole matter Is that she must have one gait for her tailor-made from 10 to 1 In the morning and a totally different strut for her dlrectolre gown from 1 to 6:30. LADY MARY. BOY IS FAMOUS AT FOURTEEN Young Violinist Has Most Remarkable Life Story. VISITS AMERICA IN AUTUMN Each New Chapter of Hla Career Opens with srrtn Escape Wonders What Is .Next. MOB ECLIPSES INDIVIDUAL John Burns Complains of Modern Tendency to Exploit Athletics. LONDON". June 27. (Speclal.)-John Burns, who has a knack not shared by most other members of the British cabinet of really saying something every time he speaks In public, made an address at Eal ing this week that contained several ob servations worthy of notice, and about as pointed for the I'nlted States as for Eng land. He was talking about the tendency In sport toward the gathering of great crowds to see other people play. "The ef fect is," he said, "that the tendency was In all, modern movements for great crowds to be brought together to other people play; to witness gladiatorial spectacles. The effect of this upon our people was that we now cried In companies, smiled In battalions, sported In divisions, holidayed In armies, and married In mobs. The spirit of the horde was being developed, and whether It be in exhibitions meetings, sports, games or legislation, the Individual waa becoming less and less, and the mass. tha mob, was becoming more and more. This was a dangerous tendency, and one that we had got to do our best to resist, divert and checl and I hope some day to finally demolish. The best antldota for that mania was a good home, and the best counter-attraction to It a good gar den. The final diversion of over-sthletic-lsed games was the good old-fashioned English games, such as tennis, bowls, cricket and quoits. The great city, the large factory, the newspapers with the largest circulation and the worst news all these megalomaniac tendencies were affecting the English people. These ten dencies should be hastened by rational re creation. We wanted to take the people back to the Individual happiness and the Joyous pleasures of the old English games, when It was less to win a prize, when there was no betting or gambling, but more to play the game for the game's Bake. "I do not like to see 120.000 men, with out a woman amongst them watching twenty-two players developing the wrong end of their anatomy. Such was the scene at the Crystal palace, and the occasion was a great football match. And these were able-bodied men, who should have bx-c-!. " h fighting line at that moment when Erlton and Boer were locked in deadly conflict. We have got to arrest that, because those great games am acted men alone, and where the woman and the child were not, there the beast was. I ivant to see the husband and wife on op posite sides of the tennis court and the boy taking it out of hla father at quoits, while the old grandfather sat in tha pavilion and looked on, thinking and reflecting with truth that the working classes of to-day had a better time than he himself had In the hungry forties or fifties or sixties. Tennis a'd"d sweethearting, and led to matrimony." THE UsHMssmJ C3 OF SUCCESS J. T S LONDON, June 27. (Special.) When some nice American college girl comes over to England for a post-graduate course as the guest of the Society of Am erican Women in London, on funds raised by the recent benefit concert under the American Ambassador's auspices. she ought to send a wreath to Mlscha Elman, whose fres servlcea chiefly contributed to make the concert a success. Probably, however, the young man doesn't much care about wreaths. Al though at the age of seventeen he Is per haps the greatest living violinist, he looks as little like the traditional musician he of long hair and poetic pallor as he does like an Infant prodigy. He has a Jol ly, big, round face; comfortable hands quite free from any reproach of being taper-fingered; short, wavy, thick brown hair of the stand-c.p-on-end kind; broad shoulders, deep chest, and a pair of legs evidently made to stand on and not mere ly for the support of trousers. He abominated knickerbockers and Eton collars, and went into long trousers at ths first possible moment, refusing utterly to be an infant phenomenon, and wishing to be looked on ar a grown-up man who had no use for pretty ways and delicate health, but wanted three big meals a day and lots of hearty out-door fun, Just as if he were not a genius. Karly Signs of Genlna. As Elman makes his first trip to Ameri ca this autumn, and as he Is so different from the ordinary run of "wunderklnder," It seemed likely that It would be of In terest to American readers to get some stories of the boy's earliest manifestations of genius, and to this end Daniel Mayer, who Is to musicians In England pretty much what Charles Frohman Is to actors In America, was persuaded to produce Elman's father, for purposes of catechism. The senior Elman is not yet fully inured to drawing-rooms, and has only lately be gun to realize that London's conventions of dress are worth bothering with, but no one can talk with him long without realiz ing that he Is a good, sound father, who doesn't propose to be a hanger-on, and who would be qtile capable of administer ing a spanking If he thought duty demand ed It. Although ao much has been written about Mlscha Elman, It has been mostly In the way of comment and praise, and al most nothing has been known of the boy's beginnings as a musician. The story as extricated from the senior Elman with some help from an Interpreter, proves un commonly Interesting. When Mlscha waa born the father was a Jewish village schoolmaster In the little Russian town of Talnoje down near Odes sa. He had some fame In the village as a violinist, and Mme. Elman was the daughter of a violinist. "We us'd to notice," said M. Elman, ''that when Mlscha was 18 months old I could al ways stop him from crying by playing to blm on my fiddle. He used to sit up mo tlonless and seemed to be fascinated by the music. When he was 4 he wanted to have my violin. Of course I was afraid he would break It, but he got his mother to let him have It one dav whtn I was away, and wha did he do but begin to move his fingers up and down the strings, grlnn'ng whenever he got the right notes of the scale. I caught him at it one day and decided to get him a quarter lolln. I thought he would be happy, hut he only looked at It and said It was not a fiddle at all, and as soon as my back was turned he tore off the strings and smashed the wood Into little bits. We were very poor and I was angry. He said he wanted a real fiddle and would not have anything else. Gets a Mew Instrument. "He seemed to have such an extraordi nary ear for nuisic that I at laat decided to save money and buy him another instru ment, bigger than the one he hud de stroyed. The second day he rad It he ruslvd out Into the street to meet me as I was coming home and said, 'I can plav your "Walts Clicquot." ' That was the name of a little waltx I used to play. Of course I would not believe It, but he seized me by the hand and dragged me into the house and sure enough he played the waltz al most without a mistake and in surprising rhythm. I could not bellee my tars, for It seemed Incredible that a boy of 1, with out instruction, chould be able to play a waltz on the violin after having had It only two days. We had a village orchestra of six and I took him around to play with them. Instead of being frightened he not only played this waltz much better than before, but also another little waltz that he had heard me play. The trouble was that thereafter he always wanted to play with the orchestra. Of course after that I began to teach him as well as I could. Princes Aids Him. "When he was four and a half Princess I'rusoff, who was the great lady of the neighborhood and owned moat of the land about us, heard about Mlscha. and one day a swell violinist csrne to oar house and fa d he had been sent by tha princess to g.ve lessons to Mischa. When he found that his pupil was to be a 4-year-old taby who could scarcely speak he was very sngiy and went away as fast as ever he could. But a few days later the princess asked Mlscha to come and play for her and I took our little orchestra along. But the result was much grief to me. for she at last arranged for an empty compartment and hurried back to get the boy. But the little fellow was so sourxl asleep that he could not be awakened and It scorned best to leave him where he was. Almost Imme diately afterward there was a collision and tho compartment that was to hae been taken was smashed to bits. The next step was when Mlscha left St. Petersburg to make his debut In Berlin. The night before the concert, the gas In his hotel bedroom was only partially turned off. arxl the boy was si nearly suffocated that the doctors had to work on him till 11:30 the next morning to bring him round. He was due to play before the critics at noon, and Insisted on going, although he was sesreely able to stand. He arrived only twenty minutes late, played four pieces and then fatr.ted, but woke next day to find himself famous. The next event was his London debut, and on the way hither, he cut a great gash in hla hand with glass. He Insisted on playing, however, although his hand was much stitched and patched, and al though causing him much pain. Now his father wonders what will happen to him on the way to America. Aside from his strange gift of being able to interpret the great masters of music by a kind of Instinct, Elman is a normal, hearty, healthy boy. of good habits, fond of bicycling and with a keen taste for chess. Although he has never studied the piano, he Is a more than ordinarily good pianist, playir apparently by Instinct. He has written a good deal of music, too, and Wants to be known as a composer some day. CVRT1S BROWN. DAILY LIFE OF THE POPE IMns X. No I.oiiater Dines Alone After the Old Vatican Practice, ROME, June lS.-An anonymous writer has recently published a book entitled Pu X and ti e Pontifical Court" and dea'. Ing mainly with tha private life of the Pope. Plus X Is an early riser. He is generally nn with the sun and when hia servant goes into his bedroom at S a. m. he la already j awake and reading his breviary. Alter saying mass and taking breakfast he goes into the garden for an hour's walk and Is afterward ready for the morning audiences. lie receives everybody who asks for an audience. Generally he has luncheon and dinner with one of his secretaries. This la an Innovation, as according to an ancient custom of the papal court the Pope should sit at meals In solitary grandeur. Leo XIII used occasionally to invite hla secretary, Mgr. Angeli. to dinner, but he never broke the custom of sitting at tablo by himself. In fact the secretary stood while the Pope had his dinner and when this was over he sat down at a separate table and had his. Plus X abolished the custom soon after his election and Insisted that his guests should sit at the same table and eat while he did. Tho master of ceremonies remon strated mildly and hinted that Urban VIII had established the custom which had been j ftllowed ever since, but Plus X curtly in formed him that he intended to abolish it, and from that day hia secretary has regu larly sat at meals with him. The Pone la very frugal. His favorite d'ahes ore simple ones, such as ras e and bean.", po'enta, boiled meat and broth. H? eats In haste and it is said that his guests are ins'ructed to distract blm with conver sation and thus try to correct this habit. One day the Pope was not well and or dered a bottle of old Tokay which had been s?nt aa a present by the emperor of Austria to Leo XII to be opened. He drank a glassful and f "It better. Later at lunch the Pope wanted his secretary to taste the wine and he told one of the servants to serve It. A fresh bottle was brought and the Pope asked the man why he did not use the other battle already opened. The servant stam mered .blushed and fa'.d that It was not the custom to serve opened bottles at hla holi ness' table. "Very well," replied the Pope, "give me that bottle and I shall serve it myself." So saying he helped himself and his sec retary and then took the bottle and locked it and usd what was left on the following two days. riiia X does not want to be waited on at table. The ervant8 place ti e dishes on the table and he serves himself and helps his guests. After meals he used to smoVe a c'gar or a pipe, tut the doctors have for bidden this, ao now Instead of smoking he takes a short nap. Another innovat'on introduced by the present Pope Is that he prefers to walk Instead of elrlvlng Into the gardens and he hates to b? attended by members of his court or Noble Guards. i high noon) or to support one of the cor- once wanted to adopt my little boy and ners of a portable platform carrying FISHERMEN BLESS THE SEA f ...... ... II m. M t, ,1 a t lim- 1 --- -" " ..... - - terld Pay by Fashionable Assemblage, BRI'SSEL8. June rf. Special.) One of the "attractions" of the fashionable season at Europe's "queen of watering places," Ostend, Is the annual ceremony of blebsing the sea. Taking place early in July, It forms a fitting overture to I the grand performance pra Ided by the j European aristocracy that frequent thi t famous Belgian resort during the succeed ing summer months. The ceremony Is one of the many pop- j ulnr manifestations of the church of , Rome, arranged to suit local conditions. , After high mass at the principal local church dignified by the name of came- dral a procession Is formed outside. This ; procession Is composed of the most con- glomerate elements; besides 'he usual i choristers and priest there die nuauredt : of flnherfolk and their children, lne oi-; ganlzers apfear to gather up every fam ily In the poorer quarters of town. Then, ; by way of making them realize their great good fortune, the youngsters are tither ! dressed as some saint or else they are al- lowed to carry a banner or a candle (at 1 Confidence will give you large financial returns if you make a con tract to sell insurance for the lest company The Equitable Life Assurance Society oi the United States HAUL MOKTON, Pres. We will teach you, and ASSURE you an INCOME while learning. Selling insurance for THE EQUITABLE will bring you larger returns than any learned profession woud yield after years of study. ASK HOW! NOW! pay for his musical education and l rlrg him up us a gentleman. Her only condi tion was that he shou'd leave the faith of his fathers and become a Christian. To hlghly-palnted and g!ldd statue of the j Virgin or one of the numerous saint of j the sea. A party of fikhermen in every- day clothes is perhaps the most original ' H. D. IV E ELY, Mar. EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUKANCt SOCIETY Omaha, Neb. this I felt I could not consent. Fortuna elv ' T-nt ot the whole cortege, except that though, the rrlnress was not altogeth r , there are too few r f the in. After passing angry and assisted us somewhut In tsklng the boy to Odessa when he was five and a half. He was taken to M'ynarskl, who was at the head of the conservatoire th-re. Mlscha was so excited that the first thin he did wa to fall flat over the rlano rtool. He also Informed Mlyr.arski that he was 7 months old and that l e hed played ths violin for five and a half years. He did not know at all what he was doing or saying." 8oon afterward Prof. Auer became In terested in the boy, and as no Jews were permitted to come to live in St. Peters burg except such as were born there, the professor had to get special permission I from the czar in order that his protege I mislil , V,A i ... I . . . ,. . the finishing of his musical education a point that was reached at the mature age I of 14. After that, the boy set forth into the world; and tha rest Is history. Una Charmed Life. The Elmsr.s have a superstition that Mlscha is bound to have some narrow es cape on his wsy to America, for every big new chapter In his career has been thus opened. On his wsy to St. Petersburg from Odessa, the third class compartnment was desperately crowded, and Elman pere set 1 forth at tha first stopping place to see if i ha could not find another carriage. Us at Artistically Beautiful F 17? Pl 'w Tunefully Sweet A. rid is a very good description of the "Art Styk'Tiaitos now on sale in our warerooms. These pianos were specially made for the critic cism of the National Piano Dealers Ass'n. Just the thing for the economical We have had returned to us a number of tlifjlr flradc pianos from different schools, colleges, conservatories and music teacher on account of the closing of the school year. We need the room they occupy and are Qoing to close tlrem out ot so low a price that the most saving will be tempted to purchase when they see the wonderful hiQll quality and mar' velously low prices we arc offering. Below you will find a few of the many great bargains we are offering. Remember every one of these pianos has been then ougly overhauled and is now in first" class condition. One Emerson Upright $85.00 One Erbc Upright $100.00 One Sohmer Upright $125.00 One Schai'f Bros. Upright . . . .$145.00 One Royal Upright $135.00 One Lester Upright $150.00 One Franklin Upright $155.00 One Wins Upright $175.00 One Stegor Upright $185.00 One Krnkauer Upright $195.00 One Iver & Pond Upright. . . .$215.00 One Er-toy, used Upright $225.00 One Jlnrdinan (irand $250.00 One Chiokoring Boston Grand $260.00 Write for catalogue, prices and terms A may: n BH0S. Omaha's Reliable Rlano Mouse. Avoid tax and assessment troubles, by investing your funds, in the 7 per cent preferred stock of The Up dike Grain Co, It will pay you seven per cent net. We pay the tax. ASK YOUR BANKER. For full information, write, or call Hie Updike Grain Company Bee Building, Omaha, Nob. through the town t ! le whole parage. Willi the Mshcip and other li-i1lrg clergy at Its head, I'looeeds beicl'.wsrds. If one has the luck to keep abreast of j the head of the procession and to emerge at the uea front with it, the sight will not j readily be forgotten. On the cejca sie , thousands of people In fashlonalile oilcts , and In rough f'.istlan, the count mingling i with the sailor, the marchioness Mth the fishwife. In the offing ore bees hundreds . cf sailing craft and ctcam yachts, lth a big mail boat, outward Lound, In thu I far background. On a bright day and I with the whole place bef'.agsed and deco- rated the sight is a striking one. When the clergy reach the platform j hearing a communion table and tne pro- cession fornvi up In an irregular stiua.'v ; around it, there Is little service, fhe cen- i tral point of which Is the bit-ii-ln uf the j four cardinal points of the compass by the' bishop. Then this dignitary turns seawuds and spreu'lir.g out his hands, chart's a I prayer of thanksgiving, then one of sup plication on behalf of all those that go down to the sa In ships. As he ceuiKS. the cannon on the opposite side of the harbor the fog gur.s that axe used as harbor guides In bad weather thunlcr forth a confirming reply to the benedkVion. Tha bands and cholrtstars then lead off a hymn ot lhaniisftvlcf aod tha proceeding i termlnitt. I This hleftcng of the sea datos from prob- j B'-ly the tevf riteenth, century; at i.r.y rate. local records show that i arpcnt. rj' nd Jointers' accounts wt re rendered at Ilia' time for the erection of siaginsa and plat form and barriers on the s.;a-frtint ear'y In July, and there !nJ:cailina uie sjop.: nl by certain other evideiue. Thla ceremo.v. comes at the time of the local fair, iuid while most of the other fe.i'ures of the fair las the fis!-.erfolk uned to know it tr fore Oeter.d rosor to the rank of a in:.'i lonable resort) have dlsapoeai ed, this r. l as remained. Efforts are being ma h- in have the ceremony per,' n:vr.-d i.fl at and tj render it. in its essential Viuil4. of a mote distinctly maritime crarater; for it ! felt that, at present, the i.ieuiiiy dne i.ot fully warrant Its spei-tf'r ti. li. Ti.e gei. : teellng la tint all the really marine lea tuns, such as the parties of t.eher boys carrying model boats and r.e'.s ani Imaset of the sain's of the s.-a should be pre served, while the foreign or purely social element might be eliminated. In short It is desired to make the blesaing of tho sea man's festival, rather than a society function. P. .v,t v: -v--'5w .;V '. ' -.v 3V