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THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1038,

BUDGET OR BORROW

It is fairly obvious

She will be

QUEEN JERRY

to HER FRIENDS

By

died young and left behind him two daughters, Geraldine, 10, and Virginia, 12.

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TWO years after the death of

her husband the widow mar-

DR. G. KALDOR ried a French, oficer and emigrated

name

to France. Soon thereafter the countess came to her aunt, Coun-

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

| Cape) 1438 by Catted Feature Kjudicaža

“Shhh, lady-he will not sell a single vegetable till he finishes

the-aria!"

66OUNTESS teas Adele Apponyl, at Castlo Nagyappony, and thero in true JERRY," the nick- Apponyi 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- A short had just passed her 21st thing of the world. While on birthday when King Zog of visit to her mother in Paris she re- solved to satisfy that urge. Sudden- Albania proposed to her. ly one day she and her sister packed

their

eir things and set out to hitch-hike ad- Through her marriage to Zog from France to Hungary. This

venture, was cut short, however, one of the most feted and glam- when strangers picked them up on orous beauties of the Magyar the road between Paris and Nancy aristocracy will sit on a qucenly and took them back to their mother. throne.

"Queen Jerry, ne her fellow-QUALLY at home in Paris, Budn- pest and Nagyappony, the two countrymen plan to call her, a sisters grew up to be beautiful and the younger daughter of the Tate cultured women, and both were ex- Count Anton Apponyi and the tremely popular from the day they grand-daughter of Count Julius were presented to Budapest society Apponyi, the famous Court Cham- at their first ball. berlain of the Emperor Francis For three years before the Budo- Josefih I. To the Hungarian aris- pest Opera, 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 each year a great series

of their finement.

favourite scenes from famous operus. Geraldine took the part of Mini In: Puccini's "La Boheme" and was ac-VOU have broken the law," secures for his offspring the full claimed as the most graceful beauty of the entire ball.

Because of his versatility Count Albert Apponyi, an uncle of Geraldine who made Hungarian that statesmanship famous, was called "a human cathedral" by the clever

k

She also

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the order

GILBERT FRANKAU on the TRAGEDY

of the BIGAMOUS WIFE

said the Recorder of Lon--rights of clizenship. don to a young woman with a Why cannot we introduce the Same good Her favourite sport sportswoman child in her arms who stood in right into Great Britain? It would bigamous marriages. Though nat [armaments and social services Countess de Noavilles in Geneva. given, are riding, swimming, tennis/ the dock for bigamy this Tues. go some way, I believe, to prevent and skiing. In this respect sho is a day. "But if I send you to pri- all the way. Only the universal daughter of the Hungarian plains on this infant will lose its spread of learning and intelligence

possibly even more popular with the Magyar masants mother." und country gentry than habitues of the Budapest salons. She can ride the wildest of horses without cowboys of Hungary. u saddle and often has outridden

ONE of Count Albert'a tecom- plishments was his great gift for languages. From him his daughter inherited this talent to besides her Magyar tongue, also the extent of speaking fluently,

English, French, Gorman and Italian. Of these languages Eng- lish is her favourite, and quito na an American girl, Mary Virginia turally so, because her mother was Stuart, and her maternal grand- father was the American Consul General in Paris.

true

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with the

There you have the worst tragedy of the “semi-wife,”

could do that.

The tap-root of the evil is fear. My mother put her ånger on it whent she used to tell us the fairy 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 marriages, however, is curtains because she was afraid that cases Mrs. Brown next door, who had just

OR many years after the World bigamous

think her poor."..... hung up a new pair of curtains, would

and above all armaments- are responsible for the increase in taxation outlined in Sir John Simon's not-so-popular budget yesterday. But it is just as obvious that the Labour Op position criticism of Govern- ment policy is unreasonable when everyone is agreed upon

War poverty darkened the light tragic. Because, in 00 such the necessity for the extra-

escape. Of the enormous original tims of their own snobbery. Love fe of Budapest, Geraldine did not out of every 100, they are the vic ordinary expenditure. Perhaps

Appony! estates which had formerly is not enough for them. They must

Almost every woman who know- it is unfair to say that Labour

included more than 100,000 acres of "have their lines." land only 4,000 acres remained

ingly contracts a bigamous marriage for is critical of the programme

her and her sister. The size of the That "the lines" have no validity is the Mrs. Jones in that fairy story. which makes necessary an in-

It was in Paris, in fact, that her ancestral estates was reduced largely in law, that the empty ceremony She has forgotten love's first lesson: crease in revenue, and better to father, Count Anton Apponyi, first through the land reforms of Czecho- may lead to prison, are unconsidered That true love cannot afford to be admit that it is the Governmet and became enamoured of her Slovakia, where the estates

trifics. Worshipping the false god afraid. mother just before politics assas- located.

"respectability," they are satisfled ment's methods which rankle. sins at Sarajevo in 1914 fired the .In the fall of 1937 Countess Geral- that friends and neighbours should However, there is no suggestion shot that precipitated the World dine decided that her life of sport think of them us “married.” that the poor man is going to War which, in turn, carved out of and society was not satisfactory, and the Adriatic coast-country the state shortly before the marriage of her auffer relatively more than his of which she is to become queen.

sister, took a position in the Hun- opulent fellow-citizen.

garian National Museum where her The Stuarts are descended from knowledge of languages proved of The fact is that any sort of | an old Irish family, Geraldine's great advantage. legislation which touches the great-grandfather having been in taxpayers' pockets generally is the diplomatic service of Queen

What bound to be unpopular.

more

is needed at this time of crisis

Victoria.

The marriage of Geraldine's

were

In the front hall of the museum 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. Durlug the

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 ton- is only in the lax, casual, over-sophis- tract-is infinitely easier than it was ticated atmospheres of Mayfair, Chel- even this time. Inst year.......Intelligent. sca, or Bloomsbury that the un- people no longer think of the "bar married may live together scot-free. sinister" as a stigma. Eventually Parliament is bound to concede the father of illegitimate children rights similar to those he already possesses in France.

EV

Pity

JVEN in such circles the woman whom love com-

It is too much to hope, neverthe-

is the philosophical view. How parents was happy but of tragic much better to spend heavily ally short duration. Count Anton. rest of the day she was correspondent pels to share the same roof with a less, that the problem of the semi- now and attain security than to

for the librarian and archivist.

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man not her husband encounters wife and the semi-husband will be social snubs and domestic difficulties. solved by any legal or social device. Rightly. Since marriage-however, hard individual cases may be is the only basis of civilised society.

And in all other circles the post- tion of the girl or woman who can-

Every code produces its rebels.. Marriage, until we attain Utopia, can never be un exception to this rule.

How, then, is one to advise the rebel lovers"-those men or women not take her man's name is hell.

who, unable to change those they At the best, she is an object of pity, once thought life-partners, cry out And who likes to be pilled? At the for happiness with another partner worst, she is the target of scorn, whatever the cost?

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 Zog became acquainted with Geräiding 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 as to their reason for making the request she readily consented to Opposition's criticism is based moment. British tax-payers give them on autographed photo of upon a broad disagreement on will therefore ask whether it is herself as a souvenir. foreign policy, which goes back to be inferred that on top of The reason for this request, name- | derision, and contempt. for several years, the present this year's sixpence increase in their brother and a queen for their ly that they were seeking a wife for attack on the budget is more income tax an additional in-country, Geraldine learned only later understandable. But even so, crease is to be expected at some when Zog's first courler arrived with an abundance of flowers and an in- in the light of present develop-future date., The question is vitation to attend a court festival in ments in Europe, and elsewhere difficult to answer. But it Tirana. In the world where British in- would seem that the Chancellor The courier brought also a person- terests are affected, it seems of Exchequer may be forced to a message from Zog that led her to believe that he had arranged the pointless to deny the Govern- push the country's credit to the festival chiefly that he could meet ment's right to spend as much limit at some future date, and her under circumstances favourable

to a courtship. as it deems necessary on

a that with this possibility in "cash"

basis. It might be mind he is keeping his accounts This frat Invitation the girl re- argued that by means of loans as free from borrowing as he is fused because she feared that such does British law.

a marriage "for reasons of state" the Government could avoid | able. piling up current expenditure:

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 liable 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 get 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 frailty will continue as long as we rate than the illusion thereof. Na a life-long sucrament. But human

woman is infinitely more

remain human beings. No religion fure, blindly craving for the repro- disregards our weaknesses. Neither duction of species, merely fosters our passions. Unless these are sub- jected to the rule' of our 'intetlest and our conscience they inevitably

might be without love. The idea of There is never a month goes by such a union ron counter to her ideas but some technical bigamist man or lead us astray. of romance.

woman--receives the nominal sen- tence of a days's imprisonment. Yet how Is the position of those who re- colve these merciful sentences im- proved?

low

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as well as a courageous man and a determined king. Not a bad

It is no use blinking the tact that a very small minority of men' and Women believe themselves justified In living together without marriage. But such couples cannot, expect the vast majority to applaud their rebel- Lion.

and be enabled to spread the As for luxury taxes, few per- cost of armaments over a wider sons will have fault to find with period of time. There is no them. In times of stress they

Finally, however, she decided to doubt that by a series of in-are the logical sources of extra give Zog at least a "once over," and ternal loans the Government révenue. But in most cases the while on a trip to Rome came backs might have avoided the neces- consumer has to pay the piper, to Budapest by way of Tirana. There;

More Humane 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 Zeg to be "a prince of a fel-

THEY merely return to the

pity, the

scorn, the con- effect might have been beneficial. luxury supplies. Whether this 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 tionable, 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 auch opportunities and that tax per pint may be lost on the love with him, and in a few days be life as lifeglimate

Because the law only allows child they probably have them In shrinkage in volume of turn-

Preparations for the marriage ren born out of wedlock to be subs

Or maybe helped by the sympathy mind as a final emergency mca- over. There is unquestionably

As long as a nation has a limit beyond which luxury have proceeded smoothly except in sequently legitimised if their parents

Zoʻmi tried. friends. cash available, in the form of taxes are not going to produce one respect. Zog and the majority were in a legal position to marry at and understanding of a

of the population of his railwayless the time they were born. : 0975 revenue, it seems good business more revenue but may actually kingdom ara Mohammedan while if this be not visiting the sins of Let then count them

Buro,

came quite infatuated.

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 the contempt, or the derision of their neighbours, and acquaint- ancos, replying solely on their mutual affection. We

to make use of it rather than reduce it. And so it becomes Geraldine le Roman Catholle.

Dequently by Roman Catholic con- the fathers upon the children. I do than average use them pile up interest-bearing loans necessary for ler amantel-borri to the union, to have papal ap- not know what the which complicate the country's tax the indispensable commodi proval, must be reared in the Catho- Other countries, in this respect at evnt finance and most certainly have ties. An Increased income tax ile faith. By Papal consent, the new any rate, are more humane than our l

will an effect upon ita credit in therefore not the worst thing Queen MRITY

the Mohammedan: own in Eranew, for instance, kader Sir John has stated that the that could happen to Great ruler on the understanding that father declaring, before immitenter

children will be brought up in the This is my kin's (de “my daughters) peak of armament "expenditure Britain.

Catholic faith, w

Termover the stigma

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