WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 172, 13 August 1909, Page 1

WOMAN'S WORLD.

WEALTH AXI) TITLE. It is reported by some of file Viennese papers that the betrothal of Prince inims Josef »f Braganza to Miss M. Vahdcrbilt will take place very shortly. At the Austrian Court, with winch the .prince is connected bv family ties, the project is approved. Mr. Vaiiilerbilt is at prevent in Vienna in order to bring the afiair, whicli has long been ( ni abeyance, to a conclusion. He motors | every day to the Prince's scat at Seebcn- | stem, where he pays lengthy visits'. The i Prince, who ig a godchild of the Emperor, is 27 years old, and is a son of the Duke of Braganza, who recently abandoned his pretensions' to the Portuguese throne. The Archduchess .Maria Theresa widow of the Archduke Karl Ludwi"' and stepmother of the Archduke Franz j Ferdinand, is the Prince's aunt. It is rumored that Miss Vanderbilt's dowrv will be £10.000,000.

A REMARKABLE WEDDING. A remarkable wedding has just taken Place at a village in Hungary The bridegroom, Elijah Leb, was ninetyeight years of age, and appeared for the Sixth time in that capacity while the bride, TCedite Vogel, who is"ninetytwo, has buried four husbands.

500 PROPOSALS. Miss Anna Rowe, of Duluth (U.S.A.), lately received her 500 th marriage proposal. Miss Rowe. suspects that her popularity is due to her luck in drawing No. 1 in" the choice of farms into which the Fond-duc-Lac Indian reservation was divided on January 15th. It will be worth many thousands of pounds.

A WOMAN OF BUSINESS. One of the clever young business women in Germany, well known in Berlin society, has just procured, on behalf of the company of which she is chairwoman, a contract from the Belgian Mate Railways, whicli marks the last thing in railway economy effected-by a foreign government. Miss Ktocte's' syndicate has received permission to collect all newspapers and paper of every description left in carriages on the Belgian railways, and in return contracts to manufacture and supply free of cliar»e from the pnper thus obtained as many cardboard tickets as the railways' mav ".pure. It is ctsimated ((.at liie company will make a prulit of from )i to 15 per cent, a year. HIE COLLAPSHjLK |]AT. ''Man has a. collapsible dress-lial. Why shoudn't- woman, whose need is equally urgent!" asks a London writer A man takes his dresshat in both hands, taps it gently against his iminaeulate shirt front, anil behold i hj,. has. in his hand a ' porringer.' This may not he the usual method of cnj«liin'r his hat," the writer adds, •■but 1 haiv seen a man do it so, and envied th" man." There is a menace in this which will not escape the observant. And the masculine breast is filled with apprehension lest another privilege is about to be wrested from his sex."

A GENEROUS ■ WOMAN Mrs Margaret Bell llch-llutehinson, of o Belvedere-terrace, Brighton, widow of Major-General Edward Uely-Hutehin-son, by her will left £1 l„ even- mem ber of''hre r Tuesday Bible-class' for women and her Sunday Bible class for girls, £3OO and her harmonium to Mai'V Ann Brown in recognition of her special services, £3OO to John Hawe, formerly her butler, "in remembrance of his devotion to my dear husband in hj g ].,«{ illness"; £IOO to Edward J. Fletcher.llv proprietor, of Brighton, in memory of his brother Henry Bonfiace. 'my '.rood friend ami .servant for over ' thirty years"; and £2OOO to charities. Tintotal value of .the estate is £2-> 813 reports the Daily Mail. A JiOGOISU INNOVATION. That peculiar society set in' New York that tries to be 'original Ims hit upon the expedient of giving dinners without knives and forks, r-'ingcrs, of t-oui-M', had the priority in creation, but it is hard to see the fun of dabblin" in greasy dishes, although most of the parvenus' who' tin this kind of thing were doubtless accustomed to a paucity ot table utensils in their unornamentcd youth. These dinners are said to have become quite popular. Soup is nerved ill cups, oysters and clams can he poured into the mouth from the shells, and chops can be gnwped by the bone and eaten in that way, although this lattel operation seems better suited to the mat outside the door than to a civilised dinner table inside.