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How the War Has
Robbed uueens.
Duchesses and Princesses
Husbands, Brothers
and Children, While
Others Are Nursing
W ounded and
Crippled Men
of Their Families
T
Princes Cantacuzene Grand
daughter of General U. S. Grant,
Whose Husband, a Colonel of
Russian Cavalry and Aide-de-Camp
to the Czar, Was Seriously
Wounded
IT IS a common remark that the horrors
of war press hardest of! all upon the
laboring classes.
Is this true? In view of the news that
has come from the battlefields of Europe, It
may be doubted. Actually, of course, more
common soldiers must be killed than offi
cers, but it appears that In proportion to
their numbers, the titled and upper classes,
who supply the officers, lose more.
It is astonishing how many Queens,
princesses, duchesses and other women of
the nobility have beeen thrown into mourn--ing
by the death of husbands, children,
brothers and near relatives, while many
more of them are nursing wounded men of
their families.
Conspicuous among the women affected
are the many American heiresses who have
married into the European aristocracy.
So great has been the loss among the
British nobility that some of the leading
women of the aristocracy, including the
Duchess of Devonshire and the March
ioness of Lansdowne, issued an appeal to
English women not to wear regular mourn
ing, on account of thn depression it would
cause, but Just to wear a white ribbon.
Queen Victoria of Spain has lost her
favorite younger brother, Prince Maurice
of Battenberg, a captain in the British
amy, who was killed while leading his
Lady
Constance
Richardson
the
Interesting
Barefoot
Dancer, Whose Husband, Sir
Edward Stewart Richardson,
Is Wounded.
company. The poor Queen received the
. sad news within .six days of the birth of
her last son.
Probably there Is not one family In the
British peerage that has not lost some
relation. The Duke of Wellington, who Ib
a grandson of the victor of Waterloo, has
lost his second son, Lord Richard Welles
ley, captain in the Grenadier Guards.
The Duke of Devonshire, one of the most
influential noblemen in England, has re
ceived news of the death of his brother,
Lord John Cavendish, a major in the First
Life Guards. Captain John Jacob Astor, ot
the same regiment, a -son of the former
New Vorker, William Waldorf Astor, has
returned to London wounded. ' ,
The Duke of Rozburghe, a captain In the
Scots Guards, has returned o - London,
seriously wounded. The Duke married
Miss May Goelet, daughter of the enor
mously rich New York real estate owner, :
Ogden Goelet. The Duchess has been
noted as the most magnificently dressed
woman in England.
The Duke had two other brothers In the
war. One of them, Lord Robert Innes-Ker.
has beeen wounded. .The other is Lord
Alastair Innes-Ker, who married Miss Anne
Breese, a strikingly handsome New York
girl
Viscount Acheson, ot the Coldstream
Guards, son and heir of the Earl ot Gos
tord, has jeen wounded. His wife was
Keeping Down Fever by Keeping Ducks
M
I VLARIA and yellow fever are
both spread by mosquitoes. The
only problem betpre humanity
In getting rid of the two fevers is to get
rid of the insects that carry the fever
germs. Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, State
Health Commissioner of Pennsylvania,
writing for the Journal of the American
Medical Association, advocates keeping
ducks to keep down the two diseases.
It used to be thought, and it is slill a
common delusion, that malaria especial
ly was "caught" by inhaling bad air. It
Jias been proven beyond doubt that the
only way the germ either of it or yellow
fever can ba communicated is through
the bite of the mosquito. When the
mosquito takes up the fever germs in
marshes and low-lying places, the germ
itself has no eiTect upon the Insect, but
when it inserts its cutting and sucking
apparatus into man, the bacilli make
their way into the human blood in prac
tically the same way as though injected
by a hypodermic needle.
Dr. Dixon points out that the duck has
It he widest geographical range of any
tird. It is an omnivorous eater of the
toaqulto's young. Besides its appetite
its movement through the water creates
water motions which drown the mosquito
young which. Just before they hatch into
the full fledged pests, turn from wrig
glers into pupee, which are air breathers.
These pupae float upon the surface of
the water during the brief period of
metamorphosis Into the winged insect.
They need to breatne. Any medium
which submerges them, drowns them.
Describing his experiments on ducks
as mosquito destroyers, Dr. Dixon savs:
"After trying the abilUy of fish to de
vour larvae and pupae of mosquitoes,
with varied success, I built two dams
near together on the same stream, so
that each would have the same environ
ment for the breeding of mosquitoes.
Each covered nearly 1,400 square feet.
In one, twenty mallard ducks were per
mitted to feed, while the other was en
tirely protected from water fowl, but
well stocked with gold fish.
"The pool in which the ducks fed was
for several months entirely free from
mosquitoes, while the pond protected
from ducks and stocked with fish was
swarming Jth young insects in different
cycles ot life.
"In the infested pond the one that had
been stocked with gold fish ten well-fed
mallard ducks were then admitted, and
as they entered the pond they were first
attracted by the tadpoles. They, how
ever, soon recognized the presence ot the
young of the mosquito, both in the wrig
gler and larvae stage, and immedlataely
turned their attention to these, raven
ously devouring them in preference to
any other foodstuff present. At the end
)f twenty-tour hours no pupae survived.
The motion of the water, made by the
ducks, of course drowned some of the
insects what proportion cannot be es
timated. "rr some years I have been using
ducks to keep down mosquitoes in
swamps that would have been very ex
pensive to drain, but I never fully ap
preciated the high degree of efficiency of
the duck as a destroyer of mosquito life
until the foregoing test was made.
"Mr. William Lock wood, of Boston, an
artist who made a hobby of raising
aquatic fowl, also expresses an opinion
that the spoon-billed duck is particularly
adapted to the destruction of mosquito
larvae resting on the surface.
"Ducks can be used in ponds, swamps,
both open and In Jungles, and can be
driven from place to place. Not only
can they be generally used to keep down
mosquito life, but they also furnish a
delicious and valuable foodstuff."
the charming Miss Mildred Carter, daugh
ter of J. Rldgely Carter, of Maryland.
Lady Constance Stewart Richardson,
whoso graceful flguro and dances have
been widely admired In the United States,
is a sufferer by the war. Her husband. Sir
Edward Stewart Richardson, a captain in
the Black Watch Regiment of Highlanders,
has been wounded.
Lady Constance Is noted for the courage
with which she has bared her feet and
limbs to the public. She believes that it is
a crime for a woman to distort her body
with corsets, tight shoes and other un
healthy clothes. Her interpretative
Greek and other dances, which she
performs with bare feet, bave given
much pleasure. Her feet are as per
fect as the famous Trilby's.
Ladv Constance is a grand
daughter of a former Duke of
Sutherland. ThU lsiportant noble
family has lost several members.
Lieutenant David Bingham, of the Cold
stream Guards, a grandson of the Earl of
Luean. was killed In action. He was mar
ried Just before the war to a niece of the
Duchess of Sutherland. This young offi
cer was a stepRon of Mrs. Cecil Bingham,
formerly Mrs. S. S. Chauncey, the noted
American beauty. -
A strikingly tragic death was that of the
Hon. F. G. Pearson, youngest son ot Lord
Cowdray, one of the richest mem in Eng
land, and a central figure in the recent
disturbances in Mexico. Young Pearson
was only twenty years old, and leaves a
bride of nineteen years.
Captain Allan Cameron, brother ot
Cameron of Lochiel, whose position means
as much to Scotchmen as a dukedom, le
among the killed.
The Scotch Duke of Atholl has two sons
wounded, Major Lord George Murray and
Captain Lord James Murray.
Among the many British noblemen killed
have been Captain Lord Guernsey, of the
Irish Guards, the Earl of Leven and Mel
ville, of the Scots Greys, the Earl of Nalrne
and Captain Lord Arthur Hay, son ot the
Marquis of Tweeddale.
The picturesque Duke of Westminster,
patron of sport and connoisseur ot beauty,
has been in the thick ot the lighting. His
half-brother, Lieutenant Percy Wyndham,
who was serving with him in the same
regiment, was killed,
It is remarkable to find how deeply
American women are concerned in this
war. Winston Churchill, head of the Brit
ish Admiralty, Is the son of an American
woman, the former Jennie Jerome, of New
York. Admiral Beatty, who commands
one of the British squadrons in the North
Sea, is married to an American woman,
daughter ot the late Marshall Field, of
Chicago.
General Sir John Maxwell, who com
mands the British troops in Egypt, which
have Just been attacked by the Turks, has
an American wife, formerly Miss Virginia
Bonynge.
A host of titled husbands of American
women are now fighting at the front. Lord
Declea, who married Miss Vivien Gould,
had a distinguished career in the army be
fore his marriage, and has gone on active
service again. The Earl of Granard, son-in-law
of Ogden Mills, has become colonel
of an Irish regiment.
Lord Ashburton, who married the Amer
ican Gaiety girl, Frances Donnelly, has
gone as a captain in the Hampshire Cara
blneeers. Lord Cheylesmore, who married Miss
Elizabeth French, of New York, Lord
Craven, son-in-law ot Bradley Martin, the
Earl of Suffolk, Daisy Letter's husband, the
Earl of Ancaster, wiio married Miss Elolse
Breeese, of New York, and the Hon. John
Ward, brother of the Earl of Dudley, and
husband of WhiteUw Reid's daughter, are
all serving in the array.
The American Duchess of Marlborough
is directing In London the Committee of
Mercy, the most efficient organization for
the relief ot sufferers from the war. Her
husband Is serving at the front.
Mrs. Lewis Harcourt, who is a niece ot
the late Plerpont Morgan, and wife of a
British Cabinet Minister, is a prominent
member of Queen Mary's Needlework
Guild, which Is turning out socks and
bandages for the soldiers.
Owing to the great prominence of Amer
ican women in English society, they are
suffering from the war almost as much as
English women.
uor a long time there will be none ot the
brilliant entertainments which American
girls love so much, but they will do their
work :n helping the sufferers with as
much energy as they formerly put Into
amusins themselves.
The Russian court and aristocracy have
suffered at least as much as the English.
Prince Oleg, the young nephew of the
Grand Duke Nicholas, the Russian commander-in-chief,
was killed early in the
war. The Prince was, of course, a cousin
of the Czar.
Prince Cantacusene, a Russian cavalry
officer, who is a great favorite at the
Czar' Court, has come back from the
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Viscountess
Acheson,
Daughter of Rldge
ly Carter, of Mary,
la'nd, Whe Is Nurs
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The Duchess of Roxburghe, Formerly Miss Goelet, of
New York, Whose Husband Has Been Wounded
front seriously wounded. He married Miss
Julia Dent Grant, a granddaughter of our
American General Grant.
The French aristocracy bave lost even
more than the English, because so many
more of their countrymen are concerned,
but we cannot say that their court has
been plunged Into mourning, for they have
none. Many of the French noblemen killed
were well known at the other courts, and
related to the foreign nobility.
The young Comte de Breteuil. who was
chosen as a companion of the Prince ot
Wales during his stay in Paris, was one of
the earliest victims of the war.
Practically every French nobleman who
could carry a gun has gone into the army,
without troubling whether he could become
an officer or was legally required to go.
The Due do la Rochefoucauld, who Is
fifty-three years old, and head of one of the
most historic families in France, Is serv
Ing as a common soldier. He married an
American wife.
The Due ue Talleyrand, Anna
Gould's second husband, has been
working as an ordinary chauffeur,
running between Paris and the
front with disnatches. That wan
the only military employment he
could obtain. He Is well advanced
in middle life. He was known in
his youth as a "scorcher."
It Is perhaps a cheering thought
that as a result of the many deaths
In the European aristocracy, there
will within a few years be an un
usually large crop of young noble
men looking for American brides.
Many of the titles of thoso killed
will pass to boys too young at
present to take part in the war.
Great Britain Klehtr iA
Queen
Victoria of
Spain,
Whose
Favorite
Brother,
Prince
Maurice of
Battenberg,
Has Been
Killed with
the Brit
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