PROPHECIES OF MELBA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 322, 13 January 1909, Page 4

PROPHECIES OF MELBA.

• THE WOMAN OF A CENTURY ' HEX(JE. LONDON, Nov. 7. "It is simply fascinating to 1110 to picture the woman of u century hence. My nihil throbs with questions. What will she say and do » Above all, what 'will she wear 1" It was while discussing the woman's suffrage movement, to which she has confessed herself an adherent, that lime, Molba, the famous singer, drew a picture yesterday afternoon of the woman cf the future. She has just returned from a tiring rehearsal at'the Albert Hall, 'where to-night she will make her last appearance in London until 1910. " Instinct," she says, •' seems to tell me one thing about the woman of the future. Her freedom, which she will surely win, will not rob her of her woman's love of home. Man, after he has battled with and been buffeted by the •world, returns with an ever-growing longing for the peace and beauty of his home environment. Woman, when the wider book of life opens before her, will surely lind the bonds of home life drawing more tightly around her. Woman ■will always be woman ; hard, unsympathetic facts of life will make her home seem even more of a haven. "Will w.Milan's beauty grow ? I think it will be more rcliued in the future, Mine, .\lelba prophesied rich color lileiulings, and sweeping graceful effects. ■ '■ I'rcak fashions will die," she said. '• There will be harmony in dress, a daintiness of manner and speech, a shunning of hollowness «ml affectation."