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Show T 1 -fc i Bwwrtiful Wy John RuweH, one of tha erttral figure in the cdebj Unusual Punishment Recom- X X ""es'iSpSS -S,d2r ments on the divorce tide that is sweeping England mended by Her Majesty for the 'Hf, yaHHHH I Fashionable Society Women I" Who Are Being Divorced M ' ' ' jt$M stern-faced Queen Mary, the relentless foe I I ' a ? Queen Mary's secret ..j -ty.v. 1 fHHB encouragement Countess Cat heart and the Earl of feu Craven, who was named as co-re-apondent in her husband's divorce suit, looking as if they didn't care what Queen Mary thinlcs about them di A HE hussies should be whipped!" Those arc strong words to be issuing from the lips of England's prim, proper and very dignified digni-fied Queen Mary. And yet they are ones she is said to have been uttering frequently fre-quently of late and with a vehemence which leaves no doubt about her meaning I what she says. Who arc the women whom the Queen thus scornfully terms "hussies"? Who are the contemptible creatures whose backs she thinks ought to be bared to the pain and humiliation of the whipping post? ! It seems hardly possible that these ob jects of her majesty's indignant WTath can be women in the highest circles of English fashionable society women of title and wealth, women who have often been the hostesses and guests of royalty, i But, surprisingly enough, that's exact ly who they are. The "hussies" for whom Queen Mary thinks a public whipping none too severe a punishment arc the thousands of fash- ionable society women who figure as plaintiffs, defendants and co-respondents in the plague of divorce that is scandalizing scandal-izing England. Since long before she ascended England's Eng-land's throne with her husband Queen Mary has been noted as one of the j world's sternest, most unyielding foes ! of divorce. Unlike many other royal women, she refused to think that divorce might often be a highly desirable thing. From earliest womanhood she set her face austerely against it as one of the j crying evils of modem times and did all she could to prevent and lessen it. At the time of Princess Mary's wedding it began to be Delieved that the Queen was receding somewhat from her forbid ding attitude on the divorce question. j What gave color to this belief was the fact that the princess's marriage agreement agree-ment took into careful consideration the j possibility of her and Lord Lascellcs some day being divorced and provided for the settlement to be made on her in that event. This led many to think that broader experience with life had brought Queen Mary to the c pinion that divorce is often inevitable sometimes to be welcomed and that in future she would be more forgiving toward divorced persons. I Btit the frequency with which the Queen is declaring her belief that "the hussies should be whipped" shows it was all a mistake to think she had changed her attitude in the slightest. In discussing the ravages the divorc placue is making in English societj Queen Mary is said to have repeatedly made this comment to Lady Ampthill, the royal Lady of the Bedchamber, and other women of the court. Through these confidants of hers the forceful terms of her denunciation have lenked out to the rest of the fashionable world and are furnishing abundant food for gossip. In the case of Lady Ampthill this remark re-mark about the "hussies" must have hit a very tender spot, and perhaps blunt Queen Mary felt pleased that it did. Her ladyship lifts a dauphter-in-law who would, if the Queen's wish became law, be a candidate for the lash. It is hinted that Queen Mary may bo secretly encouraging the young Countess of Craven to persist in refusing to divorce di-vorce her husband. If this is so the royal wrath is inflicting sorry punishment punish-ment indeed on the lively Earl of Craven and his beloved Countess Cnthcart, whose husband divorced her after the discovery of the earl's artificial leg in the countess stateroom on an English Channel steamer. According to the English gentleman's code of honor, it Is the earl's duty to marry the lady whom his cork limb so sadly compromised. Only by so doing, as they say in England, can he make her an "honest woman." This is exactly what the earl is said to be willing yes, eager to do. But bow can he make the countess an "honest "hon-est woman" when the village clerk's daughter, whom he fell in love with and married while training to fight the Germans, Ger-mans, refuses to divorce him? Since old Earl Cathcart angrily divorced di-vorced his guy yuung wife she and the co-respondent Earl of Craven have been roaming about Europe almost as if he were not still the husband of another woman. At last accounts they were reported re-ported in Italy, making a brave show of having a good time and not cur.ne; a rap about the Queen's opinions on divorce, but really, it 16 said, much worried over the Countess of Craven's failure to seek a legal separation. Americans are especially interested in seeing what happens to this extraordinary extraordi-nary love triangle, because the Earl of Craven is the only son of the former fffm- so embarrassing for her husband jflffibw and Countess ('athtart by rc" i fusing to get a divorce. Perhaps, as some of the gossips say, it is because the young woman wom-an who was formerly j only the humblest Maud Muller of a country girl realizes that if Bhe loses the Earl of Craven she will probably never get another noble husband. What ii said to have stirred virtuous Queen Mary to her first denunciation of the "hussies" "hus-sies" and her recommendation of a punishment were the unsavory developments that followed Sir W John Russell's suit for divorce from beautiful Lady Russell. This proved the most sensational and puzzling puz-zling matrimonial problem England ha -yet seen. In demanding a divorce Sir John Rus-sell Rus-sell denied the fatherhood of his wife'-; baby. Lady Russell, on the other hand, maintained that the child was literally a "dream baby" and that her husband'.- fatherhood of it was to be explained by the fact that he had walked in his i ! sp and forgotten the promise he had made to let her be a wife in name only. So puzzling was the directly conflicting conflict-ing testimony of the husband and wife that the courts were unable to decide the case at the first trial and they will tackle its intricate perplexities again soon. If Queen Mary persists in classing all Englishwomen who figure in divorce 6uits as "hussies" she will have to include in-clude in that category Beveral thousand ladies of hip;h degree who have always heretofore been welcome at court. The backs of this army of women bared for the lash, as her majesty recommends, would make a spectacle unparalleled in the history of punishment of enmes and misdemeanors. The Countess of Wilton, the Countess of Lanesboroutrh, Lord Inchcape's pretty and talented daughter, Lady Elsie Mac-kay; Mac-kay; Lady Victor Paget and the Counters Count-ers of Eglinion and Winton these are only a few of the manv titled women who have laiely sued or are now suing their husbands for divorce. Among the distinguished society-women society-women made defendants by their husbands hus-bands in divorce proceedings are the Hon. Mrs. Walter Trefusis, Mrs. Ross-Hume, Ross-Hume, the Countess Cathcart, Mrs. Paget Sinclair and Mrs. Adrian Hethell. The latter is a niece of Margot As i H - ' , " quith, famous for , V her diary - nnd V for other efforts J with her tongue as well a3 her pen. The matrimonial troubles trou-bles of the Paget Sin- ;. j j, clairs took on a par- ' f $f & ticularly unsavory -7 tinge from the fact '''' j$ ' that the co-respondent I ,y :f named by Mr. Sinclair I y was Jean Nouzaret, a ,rY spatting partner of V ' . ...-Georges ...-Georges Carpentier, j the French pugilist. v&i The wreck that over- W v ' i took the marriage of tho V Countess of Wilton and her V husband is one that must have caused conscientious J Queen Mary particularly keen J vo pangs of regret. Tho countess Is v y cu an unusually charming and ac- . . complished woman and has always been . cr a prime favorite in the royal circle. if "s The parting of the Wiltons was the re- "1 f suit of the count's being named as co- respondent in the suit brought by Ross- &" 4 Hume against his wife. For a time it s - 1 f . was thought that the' countess would re- ' ler fuse to seek a divorce because of religious relig-ious scruples and thus put the Count and Mrs. Ross-Hume in as embarrassing a situation as the Earl of Craven and Countess Cathcart find themselves in. Later on, however, the countess decided decid-ed she could never endure remaining legally le-gally bound to the man she believes has proved false to her love, and so she has gone to court with her troubles. The public humiliation the Duke of Marlborouj.h suffered the other day is a striking example of the lengths to which The Countess of Wilton, one of England's thousands of divorced women who rr-ight be whipped if the Queen had her way Church and State are going under Queen Mary's militant leadership in showing their displeasure at divorce. Because he is a divorc?d man and now married again the duke was refused a seat in a diocean convention of the C hurch of England. I t w CO J The duke's first wife, it will be riSM bered, was Consuelo Vandfrbut, M American heiress, Aft m divorced him he rcamti sj other American ffomis-aj J fnr.er Mi - Pescon. of WJ who ha3 i.ecn one of Corr-Jj Vanderbilt's best fne a bridesmaid at her J Even many of Queen Ml most ardent admirers art"! clined to doubt wo"t:fr9J thmg she can do will J to stem the tide ofdifaWj is sweeping England m4"JJ nig the very foundst'.etf "1 fashionable society. has only to glance it t-t0 t-t0 see that she .5 J woman who will struff. on no matter ho 1 j cause seems lost. J majesty has ' powerful weapon W 1 battlin, fur J t0 be the right J drawal of her W ishment most j the public whpp.n f mends for the CA But to j ut s sociBl ben J vorced men and women i P 1 cut matter even A The divorce mills 01 grinding as they never to New courts are being old ones are taxed to thej commodate all the f who want to be freed ..J What makes the ir.at.er t ,em f-m the Queen J fact that the divorce quite is great ravage in 4 circles of society as lower classes- cCh lolj If the plague "lld there will not be msny 1 rf tinction in England'" one divorce notnt i ..iu!( the Queen PJT ci all divo ced "8' i9l f-eto have any tta ,t the royal social circle mm to surprisingly nrro |