WOMAN S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 348, 26 March 1910, Page 9

WOMAN S WORLD.

most jikautiful woman ix ENGLAND. LADY I'oLE-CAREW. Tiie beautiful woman in ail En-flu ml! Such is the title bestowe.i on Lady Pole-Carew by King Edward VII. and confirmed almost universally by his subjects. It means something for a king to pay this tribute to beauty. It means more when the nation agrees with him. It means something to be pronounced a national beauty. It means far more to be called the most beautiful woman. And the rarest feature of Lady PoleCarew's beauty (says the New Y'ork World) is its intense humann-iss. Classic features are hers, softened by wonderful Irish temperament— and all this ■has been brought out with wonderful fidelity and sympathy in a portrait by Ellis Roberts* the English artist, who •law painted most of the smart and .titled women of the British Empire. It .is quite natural that, before the camera, Lady Pole-Carew should fall ir.to classic •poses, to be more the beauty and ftss the woman than in real life.

Mr. Ellis Roberta, the artist, has caught the intangible, indefinable charm of the woman, her temperament, which has always been lacking in her photographs. Here, gazing from this page, you meet a beauty of temperament, not a poseuse. You realise that she is distinctly human —she might sneeze, or trip, or indulge in a bit of drawing-room -slang, tricks of which the Venus de Mil* would never have been guilty were she reincarnated to dazzle modern beauty lovers.

Truly Dame Fortune was in happy mood the day, she was born, for the ■golden spoon was not lacking in her nursery outfit, and -when Prince Charming came her way he came in the person of one of the biroes of the Boer War.

Lady Pole-Carew is the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Ormonde, Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, «nd (hereditary Chief Butler to the Crown of Ireland. Through her mother she is a granddaughter of the late Duke of Westminster. As Lady Beatrice Butler her girlhood was spent largely in -her father's castle in Kilkenny, one of the loveliest spots in Ireland, which fortunately was owned and maintained by a family of frugality and ever-in-creasing wealth. Lady Beatrice herself lad "an independent income of about one hundred thousand pounds per annum.

After turning the heads of Irish admirers and representatives of the Crown in Dublin, Lady Beatrice Bufler was •duly presented at the Court of St. James, from which event her history as a court beauty is easily traced. To rare beauty she had added the culture which comes largely with travel. She was a linguist of no small ability, and travelled all over the civilised world with iher father, who, having no eons, made much of his eldest daughter. On one of her journeys she met the Shah of Persia, and brought home as a token of his admiration one of the most superb uncut rubies now to be found in the British Empire. Into her life, which had been one roiind of brilliant social successes, in 1900 came Brigadier-General Reginald Pole-Carew, aged 40, who had won first *he title of "Polly-Oarew. the handsomest subaltern in the Guards," but latterly, and far more importantly, that of the hero of Modder River. The two were married with great eclat at the Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London, on February 19, 1901. Gifts were sent by King Edward, Queen Alexandra, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the Duke and Duchess of Connaught. Several children have been born to •this match, and one of the loveliest wghts to be seen by those who pass through one or the other of Lady PoleCarew's Irish estates is the national beauty sitting or walking among her children.

Photographers have tried in vain te catch the indefinable, vague, but deep charm of Lady Pole-Carew's beauty. HINTS ON CHILDREN. Eating slowly should be taught to children from their earliest days. Often during their schooldays they" get into the way of hurrying over their meals. This lays seeds of much illness in later Me. Earache in children may generally be relieved by dropping a little warm olive oil into the ear. An old-fashioned but excellent remedy is to bake an onion till perfectly soft, and then put the v email centrepiece into the car. The juice of the onion is most soothing. A child's toothbrush is 100 often neglected, when it should be used twice daily. The night cleaning should never l>e neglected, otherwise particles of food remain round the teeth all night and set op decay. Socks should not r oe allowed in winter. It is essential to the health of children that their legs be kept warm. Even with gaiters for outdoor wear, socks are not warm enough. Wine ia quite unnecessary for children, and they should not have it as a treat, thus creating a love of it. Lemonade is the best drink for them, when they want anything more than water. Growing Boys and girls between the ages oi' ten and sixteen should be eneouraged to take part in all outdoor gomes. Hockey is capital exercise for boys and girls alike. Parties are often blamed for much illness prevalent in the holidays. Still, it is hard to keep children out of the fun. Give them pretty light frocks, not too thin. Children's woollen sock* are apt to ■brink very much. A good plan is to ■have .' trees" for drying them on. Out out shape of a sock in wood a quarter or an inch thick with a rretww. Stretch the wet rooks on this, and it will dry and keep its original eize.

HINTS FOR THE HOME. Wine stai:m on linen m-' y lie removed byholding the affected nart in milk soiling on the fire. When banging pictures u*e copper wire. Jt is rust-proof and wears for years ■' sufficiently stout. Coo' mixed with "alt ami water and .. A ,-;to good-sized lumps is exclimi '-nk up fires ft the night. Ver. -hould be ear-fully looked Tor or , . -.tel in daih ,se. Directly it app- vs •■ nove by rubbiag with pla.te powder or liquid ammonia. A good washing fluid. —Tu.ke equal parts of household ammonia and turpentine. Shake well, and then when boiling clothes put. two table-poonfuls of the liquid into the copper. Fly catchers are easily made by boiling linseed oil with a litth- resin (i'l i| is a thick stringy paste. Taint with the mixture some strips of calico Iwo inches wide.