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Show mm. Now comes Stanley Bowdle, member of Congress from Ohio, who defeated Nicholas Longworth for that office two years ago. and writer out a lengthy document de-jrnanciing de-jrnanciing th3t American girls who marry members of the foreign nobility no-bility to pay a hca y income tax on all their Incomes Irom property withtn the United States. He sets the Income tax at 2' per cent. Bowdle arranged his Ideas In the1 form of a bill, and being a lawyer, aas ho has fixed it so there is no loophole through which the tax can be dodged. It is alleged that Bowdle Bow-dle drew up the measure to harass i the Ixmpworths. a sister of Lon;;- worth, namely tho wife of Due de Chamhrun, haing married a foreign for-eign man with a title The tax would hit her. It also would eausi much of the Income from the ast properties of Lady Decies. who was Vivien Gould, to remain in Amenta Amen-ta and go to pay the expenses of carrying on war against England, should such a conflict ever become possible one-fourth of the American money Count Bzechneyi. as husband of the erstwhile Gladys Vanderbilt, spends every ear would go to pay the salary of the President of tho I United .States Rich American girls who marry titled foreigners will probably look with scorn upon Representative Stanley Bowdle after this. The rush for the ducal counter Li terrific," said Mr. Bowdle. My bill will cause some of the para- tsitlcal titled idlers at Newport and Bar Harbor and other resorts to ml. view the situation with alarm " Mr. Bowdle bobs up to bite- ll fame about eer three months. Il became famous when he beat Representative Rep-resentative "Nick" LongW.orth it the polls. He became B little more famous when he wrote a monograph on The Great Sob Era." He became famous again when he made his first speech In the House, which bean: "1 h;wc sai here until I feel like a hen " Then f he wrote a description of the United States under the present tariff 00 n - 0 dttloni i o k bins his language In 1 Imitation of Eg 1 ii n phras I and recited It In the House. m He was the onl man who had the nerve to oppose woman's suffrage- at a recent Ohio conentlon, and Is n great believer In a little Honor for father" Mr. Bowdle think that father," who pays the b::is and takes the hard knocks, ought to get some consideration while mother and the girls are be-tng be-tng lauded also. But to resume ih- titled heiress ta Under the Bowdle meal ir Whenever the internal revenue collector col-lector picks up a paper and see $:.o ooo.ooo in American money I 1 1 1 a r i inn a p'nn p-ion In an an-ftL an-ftL tbiue In r.tace with a town and a 5 ink to wiiui-i to court and Bet i At the same time all corporations, real estate concerns, trustees and corpoiatlon officials of all sorts must buckle down and withhold 2.i per cent of the Income of the titled American woman, find must hand it oer to the tax collector, w ho will call for it with a wheelbarrow. "Don't you think it will make lot of hard feeling?" Mr. Bowdle wns asked. ' Yes, 1 suppose we will have the maddest lot of narrow - chested counts you ever saw. I can imagine them all now, running down to the water's edge and shaking shak-ing their little fists at me across tho Atlantic." LURE OF ROl ILTY DRAW 6 THE W 1 I THY. The lure of royalty draws the wealthy daughters of America. 'I hey wish to live near where king-and king-and ejueens live. Their mothers, ambitious for social advancement, sacrifice their daughters. If an American womim of wealth can marry her daughter cdf to a duke, it means another feather in her hat. Tin- daughter is taught to believe European title is a great catch. She doesn't marry for loe. Sho marries as a rule to make a catch and the European title usually -. . ks money to recoup his shattered finances A notable exception to that rulo Is Sir Wilfrid Peek, who married Edwine Thornburgh, He had plenty plen-ty of money of his own. So had the bride. ll was a mutual loe affair. If the American girls marry Englishmen they have the displeasure displeas-ure of the Queen to fight. She does not like mericans and they know little about her. Though royalties practically live in the limelight, less Is heard and known of Queen Mary, oWlng to her dislike of publicity, than of most lueens. and the writer considers himself fortunate to have come across one who could tell of the Intimate In-timate life led at Buckingham Pal-ace, Pal-ace, Windsor and at Sandrlngham. A very special interest attaches to the private home life of those exalted ex-alted personages who dwell in palaces pal-aces That sldo of their lives torches the common bond of human feeling. feel-ing. The Queen pouring out tea with her husband and children around her appeals more to th average mind than the Queen glittering glit-tering in jewels at a court function. Queen Mary Is well known to btt intensely British in h-r sentiments, and In nothing is her majesty more thoroughly national than In her home life. In each of the royal pal-,.res pal-,.res is a suite Of rooms designated the private apartments,'' which form th" inner nhrine of famiic life. There are nltuutcd the private sitting rooms of tho King and Queen, the dining and drawing room lor family use the sleeping apartments apart-ments and the nurseries an:! schoolrooms. The royal family hive outgrown i he nurseries now, and Prince John reigns alone In the schoolroom, the four elder princes being away from home, the Prin' e of Wales at Ox- 5TP2AU5S PCCTTRAIT sT UPPER left Count Sze-chenyi Sze-chenyi and the Countess, Count-ess, who was Miss Gladys Vanderbill Upper right Lord Decies and Lady Decies, De-cies, who was Miss Vivien Gould. Below Sir Willi Wil-li ed Peek and Lady Peek, who was Ed wine Thornburgh. Thorn-burgh. ford. Albert with his ship. Henry at Hon and George at Broadstali .-. Princess Mary, too. Is only engaged now uilh her finishing" studies. Probably the Queen would take exception ex-ception to the word "finishing " for she teaches her children that their education goes on through life It is never finished " Whether the court Is at Royal W indsor or at Buckingham Paluce. th Queen's home life specially centers cen-ters in the private apartments. There her individual tastes ar i hi. fly seen Tho furniture Is almost al-most exclusively of British manufacture. manu-facture. Artistic things rosy haw been copied from foreign designs, but the workmanship is British When the Queen left Marlborough House for But kingliam Palace aha took with her the furnlure which had been specially made m this country for her rooms. QUEK N FOND OF Kit HIM' M VI l.KIAI'S. The Queen Is fond of rich materials mate-rials in upholstery a ln her gOWns. and loveh silk brocades and velvets woven on the Spltallield or Braintroe looms are used in her rooms and In the State anartments nlo. Carpets, curtains, hint7.es all como from home manufacturers. Hor majesty has a fine collection tt water color In her rooms, largely large-ly of English landscapes, garden scenes and groups, of flowers. These have been Chosen by herself when visiting picture exhibitions In London. Lon-don. The Queen Is really a Judge of pictures and rarely misses a goo.l exhibition. As a girl, when in Florence, she made some pretty skete hes of landscape ' cnery. and at on- time was a" enthusiastic photographer, but these ac.com-.Dbshmrnt ac.com-.Dbshmrnt and music and singing w . also, have occupied but little of th3 QueSn'S time during her busy married mar-ried life. Bhe Is very fond of reading, and. Strange as it may seem, she often COVets In aln a little leisure in her home life for this recreation. Her I ookshelves show her taste to be chiefly for historical works, books of travel and those dealing with so ial anrt economic question1' Bhe is not a great reader of either novels nov-els or poetry. Needlework, for philanthropic purposes and for presents pres-ents to humble friends, occupies much of her hard-won leisure. A characteristic scene !n tho Queen's homo life occurs on those i aie occasions when she and tho King have a lelsnro evening. After dinner tho Queen busies horself With some charitable needlework while the King roads aloud. His majesty, it may be said, is as good a reader as he Is a speaker. On other occasions, If the young princes ar at home, the leisure evening Is pass. (I with music Princess Mary plays nicely and the Prince ol Wales sings well. Prince Albert probably adds a pallor's yarn and the King lives his middy days over again. The Queen is an excellent mother. moth-er. Her children do Indeed rise up to -call her blessed I" She was ln and OUt of the nursery at all hours during their Infant days, made careful choice of their nurses nnd maids, and, as their opening minds began to grasp the facts and things around them, she delighted to so? them taught by kindergarten methods, meth-ods, but never allowed their minds to bo forced. She superintended their Studies while young, and even after they had passed to the charge Of governors gov-ernors and tutors the young princes and princeSi learned their first les- sons in art and antiquities from visits with their mother to art galleries gal-leries museums and historic buildings. build-ings. She was their best guide on such occasions, an. I sometimes the despair of the otllclal guides, she asked st many unexpected questions. ques-tions. On one occasion the guide of a public institution was driven to ask leave to put down the Queen's questions ques-tions and send the, answers next day. A few years back 5 o'clock tea was known as the 'children's hour " The King never missed tea with his family If he could help t and all the children were there with "mother." even to the baby. After tea games were played and new-toys new-toys shown and discussed, and the day's lessons talked over with thi elder children. The Prince of Wales was fond of relating history stories; they were his favorite studies One day his grandfather. King Edward, had Joined the children'M houi at Marlborough House and asked the eldest grandson what he had been reading. The story of Perkln Wnrbeck," was the reply. "who pretended to be of royal descent, de-scent, but really was born of respectable re-spectable parents.' The answer was very diverting to King Edward. The "children's hour" Is still a feature of the Queen's home life, though different In character, now that the eldest Prince Is 20 and the youngest J. Those home from school and travel still find 5 o'clock tea. as of yore, one of the most di llghtful times of reunion with their parents, but now it is talk of cricket matches, sporting episodes and voyages and travels abroad, and an occasional public function, which snlivens the family tea tatde Instead of nursery games. Queen Mary Is extremely fond f laming, and takes part with delightful de-lightful enjoyment at the court balls. One must not forget that thj Queen adds to her other virtues and accomplishments that of being an excellent housekeeper She is methodical and punctual In all her arrangements and rarely avail herself of the lady's privilege "to change her mind " She breikfasM punctually at 9 30 m. and her first duty is the passing of the menu for dinner, in conjunction with tho King. Her mornings are generally taken up with correspondence corre-spondence and the examination of the household accounts. Her secretary secre-tary receives Instruction for replies re-plies to th number of letters which come In by every post. Lastly, the Queen Is a model mistress, mis-tress, and makes it her business 10 know personally every servant employed em-ployed In her various homes. Sho is particular that they have hours of rulsurc und recreation and pleasant, airy rooms for sleeping and sitting In. In many ways Queeu Mary uses her great Influence to promote the duties of home life, and she is herself the best exemplar. Sa cd l s Bab I KlSf "Ker hear how a kid saveil A'.cx La y's life?" asked Thomas Jobson. a retired coal operator, now living at : Macon. "That's Just what happened, k-and k-and if the' had been giving Carnegie , medals out ln those days tnat small chap would surely have been en- i titled to one, Be "Lacy was a railway postal mes- 11 senger on the Hannibal & St. Joseph i Rallwaj His rescue from a band of j' guerrillas was fifty years ago this i summer. Lacy told me he was t looking for trouble that day because r he had a dream the night before ( that he had been hacked to pieces s J by uush whackers whlie out on his K run. "A little east of Hunnewell fhe ! train stopped with a jolt A huge ' II pile of ties was lying on the track, , ij The swashbucklers of his dreams F JM swarmed about the train, shooting Ja and cutting. Lacy recognized in the j H gang the brother of a man he had P. helped tc trace when he was in the 'fc: secret service of the government. ) He knew the man he recognized was aware thai tlv man who had helped ill to land his brother was in the rail- ttl way mail service. So he hiked out of fD that department of the train as quick HI as his legs would carry him. In one ! of the chair cars was a woman, a t fil baby in her lap Lacj sauj there ll was a surprised look on her face VI when he requested permission to MB play ner husband for fifteen min- ffl utcs, but after a whispered explana- tion, she grasped the idea. Lacy tH took the seat beside her. She leaned Hl over toward him. her hand resting lightly on his shoulder Then she passed the baby over to him The little dry.ma had scarcely fflH been arranged when the guerillas (swarmed in. Lacy saw at tho head of the gang the fellow who had R sworn to have the life of the man b M who had caused his brother to be H sent to prison. 1 "On he came, both revolvers out, 0 his heavy boots knocking against i the seats At Lacy'S scat he stopped. jV w " That your man?' he asked the J : I woman. cjj 'She 'lied like a gentleman ' FiO "The outlaw turned to Lacy: 'Stand up and let's see how you hold the baby,' he commanded, b H "Iacy had no children, but his S sister had. He stood up. and the JR baby put Its little arm around Laey's neck. I-jH ' Then came the critical test. fl " 'Kiss m if the kid had balked I nele Sam JM would have been shy a mail messen- V ger within the next two minutes. 'Lacy murmured a prayer as he turned to the little one The baby 1 seemed to be expecting the caress, H for It held up Its mouth and Lecy H did !he ics' When tho guerillas passed out of the car the mother grabbed her little ch.ip and kissed It. Only sho and Lacy had appreciated the ter- rlble situation. The gang cot $50,000 In sold M dust out of the express safe, and the engineers gold watch. From iome negroes in the .smoker they ISSS stole a wheezy accordion, and some one who thought he could play IH performing on it as th-y rode away " WM |
