Show SEAS OF TROUBLE 1 i They Do Not Daunt the Modern I American Woman I j SHE CAN FIGHT IF NEEDS BE Ii I I I i IIow Mme Hoeuet Triumphed Over a Eestan rant KeeperAn Affray Followed by a Reconciliation II i I If his chief historian Mr William Shakespeare is to be believed Hamlet Prince of Denmark stalked about the suburbs of Elsinore debating as to whether he should meet his troubles and by opposing oppos-ing end them or commit suicide In this regard Hamlet although a man a prince and a scholar displayed less pluck than that which characterizes the American woman of today The latter when I 1 MDSTEVENS 11 sNi ne STEVENS = QI Q t e Y I MME HOGUETS DEFENSIVE WALL Pronged aggrieved or aggressive has no use for introspective communings or unavailing un-availing tears She believes in action and in the assertion of her rights or at least what she considers to be her rights She meets man on the legal ground of equality equali-ty and when it comes to a contest generally gener-ally gets the better of it no matter whether the trouble originated in love or in business busi-ness A shining example of the truth of this I proposition is the case of Mme Hortense Hoguet the widow of a New York city bank president whose aristocratic mansion man-sion adjoins a restaurant Mme Hoguets residence sets somewhat back from the street while the contiguous restaurant building advances six feet nearer to the sidewalk On this six feet margin of wall space the tradesman recently caused to be painted certain glaring advertisements ol the viands to be obtained within his doors To this Mme Hoguet objected but her neighbor stood upon his rights and refused re-fused to remove the obnoxious announcements announce-ments The wealthy widow thereupon caused the erection along the line of her own property of a high brick wall which completely shuts the display from view The restaurant keeper complained to the building department with but small sue 1 1 111 I t I > I i I MISS LILLIE WILLETT I cess and it may be accepted as an established estab-lished fact that in this controversy at least woman has scored a triumph over mane man-e Hoguets victory however is not so great as the one recently gained by hiss Emma Willett of Brooklyn This handsome hand-some young woman is the daughter of Joseph G Willett and the friend of Mr Dolphin M Cobb The latter is a grass widower and the girls father regarded him with such great animosity that the other day he attempted to take his life with a revolver He succeeded in sending a bullet through Mr Cobbs leg but immediately im-mediately thereafter the wounded man wrested the pistol from Mr Willetts hand and struck him over the head with the weapon fracturing his skull While the I combatants were under the doctors care Miss Willett exerted herself as a peacemaker I peace-maker It is said that the trouble arose j j through the fathers unfounded suspicions I that the attentions of Cobb to his daughter were not of an honorable nature But whatever grounds there may have been for Mr Willetts rash conduct it is probable that owing to the daughters plucky attempt at-tempt at effecting a reconciliation little i more will be heard by the general public I of the affair j rr r 7 r J i no1 1 t k rXlJJ r ff 1 V1c 1 f1 lJY MRS AXXA DROWN Another woman who has refused to succumb suc-cumb to temporary disaster is Mrs Anna Brown a native of Switzerland who now lives in Xew York city Mrs Brown who is but 22 years of age came to America and began work as a music teacher less than two years ago Her father Herr Rode had given her a splendid education which after his death she found of value while attempting to earn a living Among her New York pupils she numbered a gentleman gentle-man who gave his name as John Brown and who under her instruction acquired some proficiency as a player of the mandolin mando-lin In the intervals of practice the well dressed pupil told tales of his wealth for these later on he substituted a tale of love Miss Rode thought him a millionaire and married him Before the honeymoon was over she learned that his real name was not Brown but Edward Eliason and that he had wedded wed-ded her in order to secure a living from which the disagreeable feature of work should be eliminated This was a decidedly decided-ly unpleasant sort of disillusionment but the bride proved equal to the occasion At first she decided to make the best of the affair her only condition being that her deceitful husband should obtain some employment em-ployment so he might contribute toward their mutual support Mr Brown or Eliason bad no fancy for that sort of thing and thirteen days after the wedding disappeared His wife hunted him up and had him arrested for desertion Upon promise of amendment he was discharged He took advantage of his liberty to threaten to kill Mrs Brown and she promptly swore out another warrant He fled and is now in hiding to evade the service of the document 1 I u Two years ago something of a sensation was created in New York city by the elope Vfim ment and marriage of Mabel Glore a girl 15 years of age and Charles Seaman a boy of 17 They deceivedthe preacher who made them man and wife as to their minority I and thus secured his services The husband hus-band was employed as a clerk by a jewelry firm and soon after the wedding got into trouble which threatened to result seriously I serious-ly The young couple were spending their I honeymoon with Mr Seamans parents I and it was from their house that the boy aidi disappeared leaving his pretty Mabel uncertain un-certain as to his whereabouts or fate She came to the conclusion that under the circumstances cir-cumstances the best place for her was the home which she had abandoned and she therefore sought her fathers residence The boy bridegrooms troubles were satisfactorily satis-factorily adjusted after a time and upon hire is return to the city he asked Mabel to hi-re him This she refused to da and he reto thereupon invoked the courts toal He sued out a writ of habeas corpus alleging that the girl wife was kept from him because of restraint exercised by her immediate relatives When brought before be-fore the judge however the spirited little matron told an entirely different story She not only said that she was subject to I no restraint but Tracked up this assertion niw with a written affidavit in which she set forth her husbands misdeeds at length and stated that she would not go back because 1 she feared that living ith him longer might entail upon her more trouble and in the end conclude in disgrace and wtl r r rl t a J i fi U 1 h j I r 1 1 w 7 MRS MABEL SEAMAN I worse crime Mrs Seaman made some very startling averments regarding her youthful husbands peccadilloes before the court but she underwent the ordeal of cross examination with great self possession I posses-sion and in fact rather seemed to enjoy i the opportunity of getting even with 1 the man whose questionable business conduct I con-duct had come near wrecking her young lifeIn In each of the cases cited above the heroine hero-ine had serious annoyance or grave trouble 1 to meet and conquer and in each case I she was equal to the emergency thus justifying 1 jus-tifying the statement made at the beginning 1 begin-ning of this article that the average everyday I every-day American woman has more sand than did the much admired but bilious and 1 vacillating Prince of Denmark CEPHAS DE WERDE I |