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It is fairly obvious that
She will be QUEEN JERRY
to HER
By
FRIENDS
died young and left behind him two daughters, Geraldine, 10, and; Virginin, 12.
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Two years after the death of
her husband the widow mar-
DR. G. KALDOR ried a French officer and emigrated
"C
name
to France. Soon thereafter tho countess came to her aunt, Coun- tess Adele Apponyi, at Castle OUNTESS Nagy appony, and there in true JERRY." the nick Appony! tradition was given the given to most intense and broad education Countess Geraldine Apponyi which the best teachers could
provide. by the high society of Already as a little girl, Geraldine romance - loving Hungary, had a romantic urge to see some- had just passed her 21st thing of the world. While on a short birthday when King Zog of Albania proposed to her.
Through her marriage to Zog one of the most feted and glam- orous beauties of the Magyar aristocracy will sit on a queenly throne.
visit to her mother in París she re-
solved to satisfy that urge. Sudden-
ly one day she and her sister packed their things and set out to hitch-hike from France to Hungary. This ad- venture was cut short, however, when strangers pleked them up on the road between Paris and Nancy and took them back to their mother.
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"Queen Jerry," as her fellow- EQUALLY at home in Paris, Buda- peat and Nagyappony, the two countryanen plan to call her, is sisters grew up to be beautiful and the younger daughter of the fate cultured women, and both were ex- Count Anton Apponyi and the tremely popular from the day they grand-daughter of Count Jullus were presented to. Budapest society Apponyi, the famous Court Cham- at their Orst ball. berlain of the Emperor Francis For three years before the Buda- Joseph 1. To the Hungarian aris- pest Opern Ball was inaugurated by tocracy the name "Apponyi" is the Hungarian government the aris- synonymous with and symbolical tocratic youth of Budapest presented of the zenith of culture and re- cach year a great series of their finement.
favourite scenes from famous operas, Geraldine took the part of Mimi in Puccini's "La Boheme" and was ac- claimed as the most graceful beauty of the entire ball.
Because of his versatility Count Albert Apponyi, an uncle of Geraldine who made Hungarian statesmanship famous, was called a human cathedral" by tho clever
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She also is a good sportswoman.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
“Shhh, lady—he will not sell a single vegetable till he finishes
the arial"
GILBERT FRANKAU on the
TRAGEDY of the
BIGAMOUS WIFE
the full
«VOU have broken the law,", secures for his offspring said the Recorder of Lon- rights of citizenship.
Why cannot we introduce the same don to a young woman with, a
not
Her favourite sports, inoman child in her arms who stood in tight into Great Britain? It would armaments and social services Countess de Nonvilies in Geneva, given, are riding, swimming, tennis the dock for bigamy this Tues. So some way, I believe, to prevent
bigamous marriages. Though and akling. In this respect she is a day. "But if I send you to pri- all the way. Only the universal true daughter of the Hungarian plains and, therefore, possibly even more son this infant will lose its spread of learning and intelligence popular with the Magyar peasants mother."
with the can ride the wildest of horses without a saddle and often has outridden cowboys of Hungary.
and country gentry than habitues of the Budapest salons. She
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could do that.
The top-root of the evil is fear. There you have the worst tragedy
My mother put her finger on it when of the "semi-wife.”
she used to tell us the falry story: The whole position of decent "Mrs. Jones, who couldn't afford women who knowingly contract them, went out to buy a pair of new
is curtains because she was afraid that cases Mrs. Brown next door, who had just
think her poor."
and above all armaments—- are responsible for the increase in taxation outlined in Sir John ONE of Count Albert's ecom- plishments was his great gift Simon's not-so-popular budget for languages. From him his yesterday. But it is just as daughter inherited this talent to the extent of speaking fluently, obvious that the Labour Op- besides her Magyar tongue, also position criticism of Govern English, French, German and ment policy is unreasonable Italian. Of these languages Eng-
lish is her favourite, and quite nn- OR many years after the World bigamous marriages, however, when everyone is agreed uponi | turally so, because her mother was ufc of Budapest, Geraldine did not out of every 100, they are the vic- hung up a new pair of curtains, would
War poverty darkened the light tragle. Because, in 99 such the necessity for the extra-an American girl, Mary Virginia escape. Of the enormous original tims of their own snobbery. Love ordinary expenditure. Perhaps Stuart, and her maternal grand- Appony estates which had formerly is not enough for them. They must
included more than 100,000 neres of "have their lines." lund only 4,000 acres remained for her and her sister. The size of the ancestral estates was reduced largely through the land reforms of Czecho- Slovakia, where the estates were
it is unfair to say that Labour is critical of the programme which makes necessary an in- crease in revenue, and better to admit that it is the Govern- ment's methods which rankle. However, there is no suggestion
father was the American Consul General in Paris.
It was in Paris, in fact, that her father, Count Anton Apponyi, first met and became enamoured of her mother just before political assan- located. sins nt Sarajevo in 1914 fired the shot that precipitated the World
the Adriatic coast-country the state of which she is to become queen.
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suffer relatively more than his opulent fellow-citizen. The fact is that any sort of legislation which touches the taxpayers' pockets generally is bound to be unpopular. What
is needed at this time of crisis
The Stuarts are descended from an old Trish family, Geraldine's great-grandfather having been in the diplomatic service of Queen Victoria.
The marriage of Geraldine's
ally short duration. Count Anton
In the fall of 1937 Countess Geral- dine decided that her life of sport
shortly before the marriage of her sister, took a position in the Hun- garian National Museum where her knowledge of languages proved of great advantage...
In the front hall of the muscum re-
productions of pictures are exhibit- ed and sold. She was assigned to this position and to that of guide for visiting foreigners during the hours the museum was open. During the
Almost every woman who, know- ingly contracts a bigamous marriage That "the lines" have no validity is the Mrs. Joncs in that fairy story. in law, that the empty ceremony She has forgotten love's first Icason: may lead to prison, are unconsidered That true love cannot afford. to be tries. Worshipping the false god afraid. "respectability," they are satisfied that friends and neighbours should think of them as “married.”
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The Rebels DIVORCE in Great Britain- But do not blame them overmuch
at any rate for those who for this. They have their excuse. It believe marriage to be a civil con- is only in the lax, casual, over-sophis- tract is infinitely easier than it was ticated atmospheres of Mayfair, Chel- even this time last year. Intelligent sea, or Bloomsbury that the un- people no longer think of the bar. married may live together scot-tree, sinister". ns a stigma. Eventually
Pity
AVEN in such circles the M womnti whom love com-
rest of the day she was correspondent pels to share the same roof with a for the librarian and archivist.
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Parliament is bound to concede the father of legitimate children rights similar to those he already possesses in France.
It is too much to hope, neverthe- less, that the problem of the semi- man
not her husband encounters wife and the semi-husband will be social snubs and domestic difficulties, solved by any legal or social device. hard individual cases may be la the Since marriage--however Rightly. only basis of civilised society.
And in all other circles the posi- tion of the girl or woman who can- not take her man's name is hell.
is the philosophical view. How parents was happy but of tragic- much better to spend heavily now and attain security than to plunge into debt in the future will not be reached until next Last autumn the three sisters of when the emergency is ringing year, at the earliest; and, in King Zeg became acquainted with
Geraldine while visiting the museum in the ears of an unprepared fact, there is no guarantee that as guests of honour. She pleased people.
the cost will not soar far beyond them extraordinarily. Without any If, as appears probable, the any anticipated limit of the idea is to their reason for making the request she readily consented to Opposition's criticism is based moment. British tax-payers give them an autographed photo of
At the best, she is an object of pity And who likes to be pilled? At the upon a broad disagreement on will therefore ask whether it is herself as a souvenir.
worst, she is the target of scorn, foreign policy, which goes back to be inferred that on top of The reason for this request, name- ¦ derision, and contempt.
ly that they were seeking a wife for for several years, the present this year's sixpence increase in their brother and a queen for their attack on the budget is more income tax an additional in country, Geraldine learned only later when Zog's first courier arrived with understandable. But even so, crease is to be expected at some an abundance of flowers and an in- in the light of present develop future date. The question is vitation to attend n court festival in
answer, But ments in Europe, and elsewhere difficult to
it Tirana. in the world where British in- would seem that the Chancellor terests are affected, it seems of Exchequer may be forced to pointless to deny the Govern- push the country's credit to the ment's right to spend as much limit at some future date, and as it deems necessary on
a that
with this possibility in "cash" basis. It might be mind he is keeping his accounts argued that by means of loans as free from borrowing as he is the Government could avoid able. piling up current expenditure
loans the
The courier brought also, a person. al message from Zog that led her to bellove that he had arranged the festival chiefly that he could meet her under circumstances favourable to a courtship.
Every code produces Its rebels. Marriage, until we attain Utopia, can never be an exception to this rule.
How, then, is one to advise the rebel lovers"those men or women who, unable to change those they once thought life-partners, cry out for happiness with another partner whatever the cost?
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The task, one feels, is for a friend It takes more courage and more or a priest rather than for a mere strength of character to defy the writer. Even so-love or its illusion wagging tongues of the legitimately being what is Jlable to be disregarded. married couple next door than to charge a machine-gun nest. Better Yet this much, one feels, may be the registrar's office and the risk of set down in public print. gnol.
Conscience
One writes of divorce with dim- dence, realising that many of our sin. cerest citizens hold that marriage is
TRUE love between man and woman is Infinitely more a life-long sacrament. But human frailty will continue as long as we rare than the illusion thereof. No- remain human beings. No religion ture, blindly craving for the repro- dlaregards our weaknesses. Neither duction of species, merely fosters our passions. Unless these are sub- jected to the rule of our intellect and our consciered they inevitably
This first invitation the girl re- fused because the feared that such doca British law. a marriage "for reasons of state"
might be without love. The idea of
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and a determined king. Not a bad
More Humane
THEY
HEY merely return to the pity, the scorn, the con-
It is no use blinking the fact that a very small minority of men and women believe themselves justifled- in living together without marriage. But such couples cannot expect the vast majority to applaud their zubel- lion.
Those who live together outside the, law, therefore, must count the cost. of their action before they take it. They must face up to the pity, the scorn, tid contempt, or the derision of their neighbours and acqumint.. ances, replying solely on their mutual affection.
There is never a month goes by and be enabled to spread the' As for luxury taxes, few per- such a union ran counter to her ideas but some technical bigamist-man or lead us astray.
of romance.
woman--recolves the nominal sen- tence of a daya's imprisonment. Yet coat of armaments over a wider sons will have fault to find with period of time. There is no them. In times of stress they
how is the position of those who re- doubt that by a series of in-are the logical sources of extra give Zog at least a "once over," and proved?
Finally, however, she decided to ceive these merciful sentences im But in most cases the while on a trip to Rome come back ternal
Government revenue. might have avoided the neces- consumer has to pay the piper, to Budapest by way of Tirana, There. sity for increasing taxation at and so, if he cannot afford the much to her delighted surprise, she this time and the psychological extra cost he will curtail his found Zog to be "a prince of a fei- effect might have been beneficial, luxury supplies. Whether this low" as well as a courageous man At the same time, it must be is a satisfactory system is ques- match even for a romance loving tempt, or the derision of their neigh pointed out that Government tlonable, since what the Govern Magyar. She soon discovered also bours. While their children, if they have any, are openly. branded for experts are not generally blind ment gains in tax per pound or that it was not so difficult to fall in to such opportunities and that tax per pint may be lost on the
Because the law only allows child- they probably have them in shrinkage in volume of turn- mind as a final emergency men over. There is unquestionably
the marriage ren born out of wedlock to be sub- sure. As long as a nation has a limit beyond which luxury have proceeded smoothly except in sequently legitimised if their parenta
the time they were born. Cash available, in the form of taxes are not going to produce one respect Zog and the majority were in a legal posillon to marry at and understanding of few tried to make use of it rather than reduce It, And so it becomes Geraldine is Roman Catholle. Con the fathers upon the children, I do than averagely lucky if they possess Limitów: sure:friends. Let them count pile up interest-bearing loans necessary for a Government to sequently, by church law, children not know what Ja
themselves Inordinately lucky--how- finance and most certainly have ties. An increased income tax le with. By Fepal consent, the new any rate, are more kumate than om, if they remain Berndsandy, his an effect upón ita credit.
In therefore not the worst thing Queen will marry the Mahammedanown. In France, for indiahoskonale For Sir John has stated that the that could happen, Graas rulers on the understanding that father declaring before a matra
children will be brought up in the This in my mom for “my datanters peak of armament expenditure Britain.
Catholic faith.
removes the sumAN DE
love with him, and in a few days be life as legitimate. came quite infatuated.
Preparations for
Or maybe helped by the sympathy
friends.
revenue, it seems good business more revenue but may actually of the population of his railwayless
kingdom are Mohammedan while If this be not visiting the sins of Let them count themselves more
which complicate the country's tax the indispensable commodi, born to the union, to have papal apo
proval, must be reared in the Catho Other countries, in this respect at ever 'strong tie-mutuini andetlerin