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The The Honorable Mrs.. Percy Wyndham, the Beautiful Young Daughter of Lord Ribbleadale, Whose Husband Was Killed in the War. Turned the the House EUROPEAN high society has become a community of widows. This fact becomes even more. in-' teresting when it is added that the widows re usually young and frequently good looking. Their sorrows, their doings and their future furnish problems of much general interest. The dreadful slaughter caused by the war has fallen' with especial heaviness on the upper and the wealtny classes. They furnish the officers and these have lost more heavily in battle, in proportion to their numbers, than the men. The loss has been particularly marked in high society in England, for the British officers are always' men of means and members of the upper and wealthy classes. Mora than two thousand British officers have been killed since the beginning of the war. This, of course, is a large num ber of men to remove from, one class of the community, and their absence la sorely felt A French .rev Iov of tha war has esti mated the losses (.l German officers at the enormous number of 30,000. While the French claim that they have lost fewer than the Germans, it Is hardly likely that they have lost less than 20,000 or two thirds of the number they give for their opponents. It is probably accurate to say that every royal, noble and prominent family In the belligerent countries has IoBt soma mem ber. The King of England,' the Czar of RuBsla and the Kaiser have all lost near relatives. The son of a former President of France has been killed. Every Family in the British Peerage Bereaved. It is stated that every family in the British peerage has been thrown Into mourning. This is probably correct if relatives by marriage are included In the list of those lost The Countess Annesley is one of the most prominent of the many high-born English women who have been widowed by the war. Her husband, Earl Annesley, took service as a simple lieutenant in the British Army Flying Corps, in spite of his high rank and wealth. He was one of the richest of Irish landlords and owned 62,000 acres and two splendid old houses in that country, as well a,s much other property. During a flying expedition over the Ger man lines he was lost. It is not certain . whether he fell into the sea or was brought down by a German bullet and burled without identification, but he has been given up for dead. Lady Annesley Is an attractive young widow, who was only married a few years ago. The Hon. Mrs. Henry Lyndhurst Bruce, otherwise Camllle Clifford, is a war widow whose fate is particularly interesting to Americans. She was, of course, the hand some and popular American actress, Ca mllle Clifford, noted particularly for tha statuesque attractiveness of her figure, so different from "the rag and bone" type now commonly cultivated. Miss Clifford made a great hit in "The Prince of Pil sen" and other pieces. She was com monly referred to abroad as the personi fication of the Gibson girl. Young Henry Lyndhurst Bruce, son and heir of the proud Lord Aberdare, fell reck lessly in love with the American beauty and married her in spite of his father and family. Lord Aberdare was furious, and his son and heir had to leave the army and go to work in the automobile business. But Camllle Clifford's charm, beauty and tact won the old lord's forgiveness and af fection and shs gained an excellent so cial position. Then the war came and young Bruce went to the' front as a captain in tha Royal Scots Regiment. After very gal lant conduct he was killed in the terrible fighting along the Yser River. Now poor Camllle Clifford, after her romance and all her social triumphs, must face a harder struggle than ever. Lady Richard Wellesley is one of tha prettiest of the war widows in England. Her husband was the second son of the Duke of Wellington and a descendant of he victor of Waterloo. Ha was killed while serving as a captain of the Grena ' dler Guards, near the scene of his an cestor's famous victory Lady Richard Wellesley became a mother soon after her husband's death was an nounced. Her father-is Sir Maurice Fits Gerald, the twentieth Knight of Kerry and head of one of the most ancient Irish families. Her mother was a Miss Blsch offsheim, a member of the wealthy and noted London famil ' h",mZIZ Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine x it i 11 .. . . Wrt : U In) House of Lords of Mourning Lady Juliet Duff, daughter of the lata Earl of Lonsdale, has lost her husband, Sir Robin Duff, who was killed while fighting with the Life Guards, the premier regi ment of the British Army. Lady Juliet, who is very prominent and popular in English society, is really very handsome, but her very striking figure and strongly marked features lend themselves rather easily to caricature, as may be judged from a well-known artist's sketch of her. Mrs. William Lawrence Breese is an American war widow, whose husband also was an American, which can be said of very few of the American women widowed by the war. Her husband, who belonged to a prominent New York family, strongly sympathized with the allied causa and had many relatives in England. After tha war broke out he obtained a commission In tha Royal Horse Guards and was killed a few days after going to tha front Mrs. Breese was Miss Julia Keaa Fish, daughter ot . Hamilton Fish, and niece of Stuyvesant Fish. The Honorable Mrs. Percy Wyndham is one of tha most - beautiful young English, women widowed by the war. She ia a daughter of Lord Ribbleadale. She waa only married laat year and has become a mother since her husband, who was very young, was killed with the Grenadier Guards. He was a half-brother of the Duke of Westminster, who waa his moth er's son by her first marriage. Lady Levinge, a charming young woman, has lost her young husband, Sir Richard Levinge, who was a great Irish landowner and very prominent sportsman. He was killed while serving as a cavalry officer Lady Levinge was formerly Irene Desmond, of the Gaiety Theatre, and was one of those rather numerous stage beauties who have quite won English society by their good-nature and tact. Madame Slmone La Bargy, one of tha most talented and popular actresses In France, has lost her husband, Caslmir Perler, who was killed near Soissons, re cently. She should more correctly be called Madame Slmone, for she discarded the "Le Bargy" when she obtained a di vorce from M. La Bargy, who was an actor of equal prominence with herself. It was alleged that M. Le Bargy could not en dure the presence of a wife at least at talented and exquisitely dressed as him self. Young Caslmir Perler was a son of former President Caslmir Perler and a member of a very wealthy family. At first society, which is more conservative in France than in England, was shocked at the marriage, but the two lived very happy together and Caslmir Perler had won a distinguished public position before his death. The Social Problem of the Excess of Widows. The existence of such an abnormal num. ber of widows must necessarily create pe culiar problems in society. These are con siderably complicated by tha fact that moat of the widows are young. Army officers themselves are, as a rule, young, and it is especially on the young officers, the com pany and section leaders, that the mor tality in war falls moat heavily. Hence the widows that are left must be, in the great majority of cases, young also. ' There is already considerable pecuniary distress among the war widows, and it will become more and more marked for some time to come. Women even ot the upper classes in England are not very well sup plied with incomea, lor most of the money in the family must go to the man who has the duty of keeping up tha family prop erty. In many cases the woman widowed by the war will see the property aba has enjoyed pass out of her hands, in some cases to a distant relative. The pensions given to the widows of officers are, of course, very small and do not suffice to keep anyone in a ood so cial position. It Is also to be noted that great distress is apparently in prospect for all the noble families of England, whether men or women. It is expected that those who enjoy fixed incomes derived from estates and other property will find them greatly reduced by the enormous taxation needed to pay for the war. Observers believe that there will be more or less of a aoclal revolution and that the places of the pre vious leaders of society will be taken by newly rich families who have made for tunes out of war contracts or who have been enterprising enough in some way to make money during the period of distress. Trie experience of tha past suggests that these people will, in turn, acquire titles and form an aristocracy as distinguished as tha preceding. vvu Sad and Lovely Victims of the Great. Catastrophe That Has Bereaved Every Royal House in Europe and Into -0) ' LJL I I fawvivH' X- ' V.-..- I k VjW Vl The Countess t . A I f'--'. Annesley, Whose - . ilMy.'f ' ' ' , ' ' a N I j V ' f ' '" 1) Husband, Earl '&Aif'S N:. f,-, f, , t ' v ,,', A? W- Annesley, Lost His Z2 . , I I ' "c S OA Life WhUe Serving J . j u' ; yJ Ccs- , .7 -..-Vv- ii:v with the Flying t 1 V v -iJ Corps of the " An Artist's Sketch of Lady Juliet Duff, Daughter of the Earl of Lonsdale, Noted English Society Woman, Who Lost Her Husband, Lieutenant Sir Robin Duff. But what will become of the poor young widows? Will every Englishman want to marry one Of them? Will they be expected to remain in perpetual mourning for the husbands who have given their lives for their country? Will there be enough hus Strange New Diseases Caused by Battle IURGEON3 with the French army de- scribe a peculiar mental condition called "hypnosis of battle," whldh they have noticed in soldiers who have been In action. The hypnotic state lasts from two or three days to a week, and . even longer. Then consciousness sudden ly returns. The victim la Incapable of walking un less pushed or led by the hand, but when placed on his feet stands erect and motion less, with the head bent forward and eye half closed. He cannot be awakened, but la not In a state of coma In some in stances a condition of hallucinatory de lirium appears when verbal inquiry is made of the patient as to his experiences in tha battle. c!oovrii-ht isis. by the Star Company. w6l f (yliisliil bands to go round when this dreadful war is over? Of course we must remember that as widows they possess certain arts of self defence, not to say conquest, which have become proverbial. The hypnosis is met with oftenent in young men from cities. Fatigue and the lack of food incident to long marches, or failure of the provision trains to reach the men, are the chief predlnpoHlng raunes. Fear due to some very trying experlenen in battle or to being held under fire without orders to move usually precipitate the out break ot the disease. ' A great number of new mental and nervous diseases have 'been produced" by what Is known as "shell shock," that U the ef fect of tha pasnage or bursting of a shell near a man without doing him visible physical injury. Among the resulta of shell shock noted have been reduction of vision, loss of bearing, loss of smell, loss of tas'e, Ions of memory and paralysis of various physical functions. Great Britain Hiyhts Reserved yn vt - '. . ' . ...'.i.-;v;-:.;. BntuhArmy r ..T ',.,-V. . K - ' I , t't'A; 'r- 'Hi - V -A M 1 i u - F"' 'I I l 1 II I J . , :, , ... .a .a Mme. Simone LeBargy,- Noted Parisian. Actress, Whose Young Husband, Casimir Perier, Son of a Former French President, Has Been Killed. Pag e Camilla aifforcT, the Former AmfrN can Stage Beauty, Who Has Lost Her Husband, the Son and Heir of Lord Aberdare. Mrs. William Lawrence Breese,' Formerly Miss Julia Kean Fish, Weil-Known in New York Society.' Whose Husband ' Was Killed While Fighting with the British Army, Lady. Levinge,' Formerly Irene Des mond, the Actress, Whose Hus band, Sir Richard Levinge, Lost His Life While Fighting for V 4 . '