I FROHMAN ON | . YALUE OF BEAUTY i R&S MAN oan hare ahi ind of | | o foc and ecrerd, But a ac oman 'must here a parfect ira, Wr, ®t Geant, one that iz not scarred or mated, i "fh for atthe value of gerd concerned, "akile iia wa fog daont 'for am acirety, T would nol | elt it altogether easential to her | ! Hiatt, but T do wetwes thet man's buginess is to be brauti- fob Thing. Akin i do not wéan on atdpe" dome, but srerywheve, Physical beauty goer' a long way toward the sveoess of any woman. On {he alage, of course, ability | | must be coupled with heauty to | | make Aer success complete, That i ia why I insist that jt ix such @ valyable adjunct." MBRICAN. coltrts of law hare we held the right of-woman to be bean! tiful, - The recent verdict in the Case of Mrs. Bertha Westhronk | Reid establishes © a precedent. Henceforth women may. rést as. sured that the courts will consider suy daitage to their pulchrituds and award] them whatever of compensation a mongy award may give, i { Mra. Reid was riding in her watomobile| at Deal Beach when her car was struck by another owned by ir. Albert Plant' but driven by his chauffenr, wfio was alone, According to the a Mrs. Reid, | the chauffeur found the prospect of ihe sea 30 engaging that he was looking ont: aver it instead of attending to the busi! ness of driving bis car, and was on the! wrong side of the road: disastrous. especially tor the good loska' The results wero of Mrs. Reid, who was thrown from the, Car LN (they imd the aversge 'of the valtie of beantr (and it is expected of her. he mar be a contractor or managé a lin _THE DAILY" BRITISH WEG; THURSDAY, JANUARY 2 101+ Jan's 'appreciation 0 Aroma. The defendant. regarding the iwerdict ay uhjust, appealed to the Appellate Division iof the Supreme Court, and there five digni- [ried Judges. in black robes gravely consid- lered. the right of a wdman to be beautiful. The result waa the confirmation by this! 'eanrt of the verdict of the Tower one. The} interesting featnte of this verdict is that | it wits rendered aot hecanse of a broken | | {leg or ofan "direct physical disabili ts, i "bt Because of the contention made by Mrs! 'Reid Rnd TieF const! that beanty: iu! woman's inalienable right, and that sny- thing which intérferes with it detracts! [from Wer stiedess and happiness. As the victim of the accidefit stated it =| "Woman is expected to be attrac ee] {and when hier beauty is marred itis a very "derions matter. At Teast, I beliaved it to} be %o in my case, and my belief hag heen | |#uStalwed Ly the courts. 1 do not think | woman's vights sfitors into this at all. 1} [met by What that Lecavse o woman is ast capable in business or in the professions | a8 8 mae ber right to le beantifnl ie irot | {altered Waman hae a right 10 he baguti-! ful, she always strives to look Attractive, ! OF conrse, 1 am| greatly pleased over ofy courts, hecaus victory in the; it maintains egaetly what | I claim--woman's right te be attractive} And, afterall. money isa small compen sa-§ tion in & matter dike this." Mr. John M. ( Mrs: Reid, emphasized the same point sgrdper, the attorney for! | "To-day conditions are that n| such Woman' may put on rubber boots wud zo out apd sureriv nd the building of a sea! [van as succes ally as a 'man can. Shel | ay practisn medicine, dentistry or law: ! 3 \J Mrs. H if Reid <3 Photo ny White, a business, professional or commercial line TT W-- of tughoats 'or do practically anything in! a railway accident and was urging lclaims for adequate damages without {much hope of relief when it ocelrsed to {her to have her picture taken showing her marred and scarred face and to exhibit fin comparison one that she had had made {just before the accident. was so frightful that the milroad company The contrast 'settled out of conrt for a generans amount. {It did sot dare to lot 'those two pictures jJaowing therwoman's loss of beauty go to a {urs : | This is one advantage that a woman has iover 8 man when it comes to suing for {damages in a conrt of law. Should a {man receive injuries that marred his good! {looks he would at once become a laughing | [stock if be were to bring suit in the courts; | her | uot for painful physical injuries, but fox damage to his Beauty, 4 Who ever heard a captain of industry, seeking the services of a competent maw, ask, "Is he good looking?" Tis questions are, "What bas he done?" and "What can he do?" But if this same captain'of fa- dustry is told that an old college chum married nine times out of ten be will snk, "Did he get a good looker?" And ifthe wife of this captain of industry, ki her husband's friend, hears of the riage, she promptly asks, referring to the new wife, "Is she pretty?" made the legal one. {beautiful, and if {precious gift of the gods the person or persons responsible should be made w {for it TN AW : Mothers, Teach Your. ® Children Good Manners NE of the hardest tasks for the young mother to assume is the disciplining of her children. Before the baby be- | gine to talk or speak she spoils it te her heart's content, and it is almost impos. | sible to break the habit ae the child grows ulder. When the little one has learned the ube of his legs and tengue he has alse learned to use nis lttie brain, and all impressions made at that time are bound to remain. | It'is never too early to teach your child good jmanners, obediemces to those in au- thority, and deference to elders. Many j mothers have laughed" at and even en- a {couraged their children's naughtiness, and {then when the little ones have passed the age where their little pranks have seemed {imny they have been sewerely punished for the same things which formerly only table contributions. contended that as dent the muscles of one! eres Wwe o stiffened that she could | ger express by means of facial con- and other emotions tha "Isn't that too cunning?' , equired « he Pe 3 that was} required on the stag But at was| The injustice of such methods rankles lI was quite as strong To my! un for damages on the grounds that this little one sullen and indifferent, brought farth laughter and murmurs of in the child's brain and often makes the| where How many mothers have been heard to exclaim, "I really don't kiiow what to dé with Harold; he is becoming so naughty lately." In nine cases out of tem Harold has deem fust naughty all along, only he has ceased té be amusing. No wotider that our grandmothers shake their heads over children of to-day and murmur thet it was not like this in their days! Mothers, keep 8 firm hand on your children when they are 80 Young that obe- dience becomes a habit. If you let thelr shortcomings pass now, you will surely pay for it as well as they. Neo amount of punishment at eleven or twelve will give You that absolute control which might have been yours had you exerted it through all the previous years. And not only will you pay for your laxity when the children are young, but heartaches and sighs will be your lot when your little ones | become adolescent. The boy who has béen allowed to rum wild the first ten years of hia life will not be whipped into obedience the next three {Yet it does not follow becaise of this prac She brought sult, and the sight of the tial ability that she should not he beanti scars on her face so appealed to the sym. {fal 7 4N ident has caused Mrs. Reid the loss of kinder treatment would have brightened | or four, and will certainly go his own way her beauty as I was about the the young heart wonderfully. There are|in his young manhood, unmindfui of any As to the many children between ten and thirteen control his parents may endeavor to exert. {who seem to have naturally sulky dis-| When the child is very young teach him | positions, but outsiders can never judge to obey his parents as involuntarily as he In Tact, there is an mneh necossit y amatic ability. pathies of the twelve jorvmen that they [for the woman in business to be beaut; ¢ to her dr I ean only say that both the lower awarded her compensation to the amount as for the woman in the home, of $7.250. These men were not beauty #3 pects woman to perts in the narrow sense of the term. but! woman be beantiful. EE Blows, and every honest man wij! N American princess who than in his native Rervia. may some diy shave rhs BR throne of a European State hav rHuined to the United Stale, "ys that her Iinbat But before Settling down to this belief permanently FOBRR'™ i" 10 nee a little af the coun: in Paris last summer was Mrs. Huger! { Pratt, of Cleveland, Ohio. Prince Kara. Georgeviteh paid a previous visit to this; country about fourteen vears ago. bat at that tile be saw very little of the west- ern parts of the United States, as his} entire {ime in the country. was only thes, few Alexis may become acquainted w°° Yew ok The Prince, who & prididgititure gov: erne' sélection of ve HERSIAN ruler, Man ex! Daniel Frohman. admit, that the attractive woman can got ether it be in connec a quicker hearing thay an unattractive or and sea walls or in mal erican Princess M ay Share the Throne of Servia try of his bride, who before het marriag: | | : wir' * at this moment be odin npon 'the throne of Servia, is of the dpihion that rowlere in the world hak Ihde Nature !avished Ler gifls of . More freely O be ehapcroned or not' te be chap. eroned? This ia the quektion whioh confronts every unmarried Woman and puzeles nod a few Who are aRious to do the tight thing, but are not quite sure jist what the right thing is as regards chap. prone, There is a great diversity of othion upon this subject and it. is not strahfie that any one fhould become onfu; For instanes many np to date womsn at 'the fiesd of 4 chaperon and insist that (he modern Anférfean #frl '1 quite' capable aFYakti| card' BE Werself And ¥ROWIA HOT We wabject the OI World ideas of cofrvention. Now, this is an entirely wrong attitufie to take in the majority of cases, 1t Is true that twenty or thirty years ago chaperons were not nearly so much in vogue 'is they "ate today. Add tHAt our sranduio thins 'went abbuit Ti 8° tess re "rte tenon than the averdke gir) off the present age. But thers was a reason for this. Society was not as complicated In that day as in this: people lived in smaller communities, knew each other uctfef than they d§ to-day, voihg gin reteived the vaumg men nht only he tandiy ana #11 bis sn krawh to the puients of fhe 3 Tony at a dinher or Bante Lwe yodt# people meet. They know little if anything nf Ach other beyond the fact that they ave mutual friends of the hostess. He is "attracted (o her, she is drawn to him, they decide to continue the acquajntance after that particular party fe Jver. Is it proper for der to' accept the man 'on hi fave|such they conld be cdlled; nor have I. Vane? It ix nel only improper; but seme. {ines it proves to be dangerous. 5 ARK the man (6 call at 'Four house? Yes, | 4 te bints he would like to' 40 so, Tntro- dues mm to your family; accept hia Invi tations, but only If they iAclude & chaperon, 'or as society Is constituted to-day it is impossible to know much of the men fou meet, and it is better to bow tu conventions thas to run the danger of sting your friendship taken Sgatly. [Mus che always by p her an favitation MNO Toaswm why she ABSA ater waa ton young 16 wey { months. On this trip the Prince bo Princess will travel through the Wes: and stop in "alifornia. Those who have read some of the many) romances based on the dramatic happen- ings in which royalties figure might be surprised to.see a prince of so wictureygpe] a country and one who has taken a per-| sonal prt in some of its most demitie} #vents so conventional in appearance and manher ag is Prince Kara-Georgevitch Theee is nothing of the hero of romance! at first glance about the slender, active, bright ey#d man dressed in the most sub- died 'add correct attire, who greels whe] cheerfully. and declares that he isa demo-| erat of democrats. Nevertheless, Mrs. Pratt in marrying Prince Alexis not only put herself in liseis for a kingdom but stepped into a region ¢° romance. Not the most snceessful speci [ee 'allithe G ra ustark school could snr foal career of the Prince in in terest und excitement. 4' "Don't aay that [ am a pretender tothe] throne of begged the Prince when asked ahont his place in the roral| Jinesaf Saryia. "1 do not wish any one to] think that Lam an unhappy man going | inte about the world restlassly from ome plac 0 to. abiother lamenting that T have been defrauded of a kingdom. 1 do not wish 4 to talk of my dousis Peter, whe is now! or Kms, Pere upon the. throne of Servia nor to say any- the death of King thing abont politics at all. It is only that] Wy father did pot abandon his rights, if Servia, . his grandfy the eldest 'sot of the that reason Alexander, his the second som, {In the son of A was chosen to succes this way the present Peter, Alexander and Queen Draga and the end of (he Obrero {vitch dynasty. Prinee 'Ale from of Servia, atid his Servia, When the Kara-Gaorgeviteh "X18 mather I {line was restored to the throne previously) were exiled Will meteay Ah T mever expect to take stops toward gaining the throme for my- aed; either will I SAY the contramy. It is baat. not. to say anything about it at all, although: of course, T am a free, modern man and may say. what I will withou: being reproached by any one. i" "It was because my father wou too young that 'his. Uncle Alexander was gon. the theone. My great-grand- so that my father was ouly fourteen years old] Prinée is in many ways more of a Pan and it would have been necessary to have Sian than a Servian a regency. This the people of if his fife were mot willing to do, si already Seryia e they had all of his education in that eity, spite of his but in! lad unfortunate experiences acclimatization' the Prince | with such a method of government finds that there are Lo "The wffair ut the palace which ended he fikes better the career of King Alexander dna Quest i Draga hanpensd suddenly. over in a minute. i © ihe American women," It was allithe Prinee I had been interested [they have such very pretty complexions." to see my own line restored to the throne At this moment of the interview the! ax it 'was right that I-showid be; was best for the people of Servia. that the Kara-Georgevitchi line should be stored. But {we I bayei "Aexis™ . ja. (ceased to be active in pri 1h ye © Of the Prides the P Weld a brief Before the reign of 'hw Frese £ With Ber he veins the re- ine od softly :-- ) yolen sa since that : Lhe Yale nmver sation tor viewey "Where were we?" he asked. the talked of the American woman. Yes, they af are very pretty these American women: He has spent most {they bave beautiful complexions and they re very healthy "looking. "Also," |""they do mot paint. again, "they have very beautiful com {plexions, which look much more natural in American M¢ than in| {than the complexions of the women ot] 20 i Paris. | said | ful." "they are £0 very pretty and} in Paris and received almost] some things 'which i "Alexis," ithe doorway. The Prince again made a flying trip to "ior ta the «itting room of the Prince andthe sitting room of the Prifcess 1 Princess' suits at the Rite-Carlton opened| When he came out he had other things and from an imer dressing room a fem-|to® confide to the interviewer. "How they Paris!" he commented. After; He bent over and placed a fingsr tip the Supreme Court, sustained! of what is upsetting the little mind--what | acts of apparent injustice have made them yme time ago a teacher was injured in| jose their brightness. "Slash to here," he added, "above the knee." Then with & quick, all comprehensive #* ha A ( (Be, | outlive of a chic and dashing bit of up-to- ¥ NC date headgear, placed. very much on one >, B [side on the fetching coiffure of a dashing 4 \ Parisienne, "Little hat, so," he described. his arm very far, he indicated the ex- treme tip and then drew a swift line to the shoulder, "the feather so," he com- cluded. "Ridiculous! was the final comment. "My wife could not get any clothes in Paris, none that she liked. She went to the usual places, nt she said, 'There is nothing that I can wear; strange." : Although he is not above takingran in j1erest in 1 j observer even of the heauty that is only {skin deep, the Prince has proved that he is & hrave soldier as well as a most dem- octatic man, for Mis country as a private soldier. {off his mustache in order that do so. "I wanted to men and fight the Tor £0 out , who had been! many hundreds of] vears," said "I was a green {soldiet and had no place among the of {ficers; so I went ax a private. We fought e battle of Monastir. and the Turks at {first thought we were the Cossacks. | "The peasants of Servia are fine fight- !ors, and very fine fellows generally. The {country is prosperous in times of peice, | for while there is a population of 3,000,000 there are 2,000,000 land owners. Each one with his little patch of land is in- dependent and able to take care of him- self and his family. Servia is not only a very 'beautiful country --much more beau- Itiful than Switzerland, which seems very {toy-like in comparison--vat it is full of {undeveloped riches, I feel sure that when | peace returns and it is pessible to develop {the land all manner of wealth will be fonnd below the soil of Servia. "Then, too, when Americans and other persons who travel a great deal come to know more of the beauties of Servia I am sure that it will attract many of the tourists who now go to Switzeriand and to the better known places." Although the Prince only became a sol} er last year, at the age of fifty-three--| which he doesn't look by abont fifteen years--he is full of valor. * "Our officers, who are trained in the Prince paused judiciously, France, are splendid," he said enthus- At least," he paused; "There aré no better anywhere om- iy th world. Bat all the people of Servia are patriotic. There is nothing that they {our enemy for so the Prince Prince Alexis Kara-Georgeviliy Through Whom American Wome an Comes Within the Shadow of a Throne, "Oh, we There the painting is really Eright- came the beautiful voice trom] sweep of the hand he drew in the wir the "And then," the Prince stretched out | it is all too very feminine frippery and is a keen | he entered the army of shaving | he might | with my conntry- dissatistied, a little envious of the would eat when hungry. Teach him (he natural little courtesies of life so that they become a part of his nature, early exile--fas mot returned to Serria during the reign of King Peter, but still lives in Paris, wheres her house (x thie headquarters for all the young Servians who have 'come there to study military science. It was just a year from the time that the Prince took part in the battle af Monastir when he disembarked in Now York. "It was rather a contrast to tome (a this hotel instead of going back ta ane camp," he commented. "I do not want rn talk politics, bnt I will onir say that | am afraid we have not yet settled troubles in the Balkans." many The Ideal Home. VERY once tn a while one of the partment stores gives an sxhibitian of how tha {deal hee should he ti {nished. R ix de. oms sot a ¥ pus jare decorated artisticalls and the public a Invited to come and see Low home can be made, With mind filled with the this exhibition, each visitor, we ma: {agine, will return to his own home # 1iti1a beautiful a wonders of ing he has seen but may not posses The ves homie will seam somewhat lack ng for a while, perhaps--somewhat in omplete and lunfinished, The exhibition will {eave vivid Impressions in the brain: many a h 1shand and wife will discuss a new scheme of oration, a new metnod of lighting, then, realizing that these things must wait will store up the new ideas in the mire against the time when that whip 'ames home and the ideal home which both ave long conceived may become the seas une ay last, It you go to an exhib ron of this Kipd and look carefully at the faces of many of those you will see there, you ma: netics the ideal home look. It Is no &f Uiv pia those people ate thinking, not eves of ing wonders and treasures which 'Hui: etna them. They are far, far Away, in tie géeea country under the hillside, or Nigh us 8a the cliffs, gazing AHrough wiridoxs thet look straight across the wea. And there they are plating the furaftire : in the ideal hope The ehintzes and ale tains are being hung. the lights are being arranged, the little labor saving deviges are being installed into dream kitchens. They may never get there, these people whom you Watch. Tn a few Hours they will be back again in Lit real hotae. where Tent and taxes fight a wining bath against ideals. They will talk & little; 3 perhaps a picture will be moved, a taken away, a pew lamp shade cotmid but nothing shuich of the ideal home ors be spoken, for that is a subject that is betfer not 160 often Ai¥BGeied. They Nike to Zo on believing that the dréam § tom Ing true; 100 much deal is apt to con: \ fuse the picture. But 'it does somatimes tome rib, dee 10d in J54 40 18 he pits, Whee who dress, tliose women of X below his Knee Arie to here," you may find lots of ideal h will séem very dull to you "he retaarked.