WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 156, 27 July 1909, Page 1

WOMAN'S WORLD.

HISS HELE.Y CIOULD.

HOW THE WEALTHIEST WOMAN IN AMERICA DRESSES.

ihc wealthiest young woman in America attended a public function in New York not lorn- ago. and this is the account of her appearance: 'There was nothing of what women call 'style' in Miss Helen Could's appearance. .She wore a small black hat which eould have been hidden completely in the crown ol a -Merry Widow' hat, and which was trimmed only with a 'bow of black velvet and a modest buckle. Her white shirt waist with ,a neck-ribbon was of tha simplest order j and a black cloth skirt and a short black coat were alike simple, quiet, and ladylike. Not a piece of jewellery was visible anywhere." And then the report adds these significant words: "So simple was Miss Gould's attire that she was an unconscious rebuke to lire lover - dressed girls and women (■round her who eould ill afford the clothes that they wore. And it must be eonfessed that the quietly-dressed millionairess looked the woman that she is, while of the women around her—'the less said the better.'" How true it is, remarks the Ladies' Home Journal, that the women who "dross," ns we use the word, are the women who find it necessary to do so—generally to covc r up some mental or social deficiency. A woman who feels sure of Uerseif doesn't have to "dress."

AN EXACTING BRIDE. A new fashion has been set to American brides by the daughter of a well-to-do broker in the fashionable suburb of Montelair. Before consenting to .marry her sweetheart she escorted him before a Justice of the Peace, and required him to swear elaborate pledges as to his conduct after the knot was tied. ( 'You sec," she explained to the Justice, 'lie says that be is just the sort of husband I want him to be. He means well, but I insist upon getting liim down in black and white as subscribing to a few simple rules of married life.' The bridegroom, outwardly submissive, then made an affidavit: To give his wife his salary intact upon receiving it. To be home at fl o'clock nightly, unless accompanied by his wife. . Not to dance with anyone except by permission of his wife. To abstain from intoxicants and cigarettes. To be kind to his wife's relatives, To share the care of the children of -lie marriage. Not to join any lodge except, one accepting women n s members, and only then with his wife. To smoke not more than three cigars daily, except on Saturday, and Then five. Never to keep a dog. "That's all," said the bride, when th" recital was finished. The bridegroom pleaded for a softening of the dog rule, but the bride was unrelenting. He then signed the affidavit, whereupon the Justice issued the marriage license. Then the couiple were married.

WHAT GIRLS SHOULD TELL A

"If f dared, I would tell the average man that, though a girl likes to be told when she is looking specially nice, she ■Joes not like to be deluged with flattery," is the answer of one girl. "She likes a man to talk to her on cveryJay subjects. a s lie would talk toother men. and to be chuminv and sensible with her. She doesn't like him to take it for granted that, because a woman's sphere is her home, she cannot have a hhil beyond darning socks, or that because she likes to look pretty that she cannot have an idea outside frocks and frills. She hates to be talked down to, to have things explained to her to a ridiculous degree, as if she were a child of ten. I would tell him to take a girl seriously, treat her as a reasoning being, make him understand that it hurts ':er to he regarded as a butterfly—if T dared." "I would tell him that sir;, should cultivate appreciation." another j,| r | writes. "The average man takes everything in the home as n mutter of course. He i« ready enmiirli to complain and make fuss enough if things go wrong; but he will accent a well-cooked dinner, over which his wife lias taken an infinity of liains and care, as if it grew like gooseberries, or dro/>ued ready prepared from the clouds."