WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 391, 17 May 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

IN LOVE WITH THE HEROINE. MEN WHO HAVE LOVED NOVELISTS' FANCIES. "I have made tove to a gin, to And it was fal.se, ami I cannot make false love any more; out- I could not tell the girl 1 must jro," 'wrote a young mail, residing near Chichester (England),, previews to committing suicide. Hopeless love that -he entertained for a heroine, with whom lie luad become acquainted through the .pages of a novel, ■hail prompted. 'Him to the desperate deed.

A young clerk, named Binet, some five years since, took is own life at Brussels. He lvad .become engaged to ia girl on the sole ground that, to him, she was the exact counterpart of his favorite novelists feminine ideal. All went well for & time, until he discovered in iliis fiance some trivial faults that her .prototype of -romance could not -have supposed. This so .preyed- upon 'his mind 'that he neglected his work, lost his situation, and flnallv sought oblivion in death. To such extremities, however, lovers .■similarly situated 'have not always gone. The very unconventional heroine o.f Tlieophile Gautier's 'Mile, de Maupin" inspired a young Parisian with so violent a passion that 'he resolved to devote 'his life to seeking the living counterpart of his idol. A sufficiency of wealth enabled him to gratify his wihim, and success seemed at k»t to crown his zeal when, in the daughter of a Marseilles doctor, lie thought to .have discovered the object of his long search. Doubtless the lady had previously got wind of 'her lover's strange infatuation, and but acted a pa.rt. At all events, no sooner were the couple married than disillusionment set in, and .shattered the husband's joy. His wife, instead of exhibiting the captivating 'waywardness of the novelist's creation, showed herself to be a most severe observer of every iprc.pWety. Thereupon he deserted 'his (home for America, where, broken in health and spirit, lie soon afterwards died.

■On the appearance of Dickens' "David Copperfield," a middle-aged bachelor-was :so enamored of .the domestic charms of Agnes Wickfield that lie resolved to obtain a wife endowed with all her virtues. He sought far land wide, even advertising in the London papers. Many applicants came forward, but none possessed the necessary qualifications, and he remained unmarried till 'his death, in the eai'ly sixties, when among his -papers •were .found several letters, breathing the deepest affection, -written to an imaginary Agnes Wickfield. A month previous to the time fixed for his marriage, a Herefordshire farmer chanced to read one of Thomas Hardy's novels, and was greatly taken with the character of the heroine, with 'whom he began to compare his own fiancee, much to the latter's disadvantage. Indeed, he grew so frigid in his behaviour that the lady 'taxed him with his coldness, and demanded the cause. Confession followed, and his fiancee, sarcastically remarking that he had oetter espouse his visionary ideal, gave him his liberty. At Westminster, many years since, a certain John Butler was charged with assaulting, on apparently no provocation, a man reimed Lovelace. During the hearing of ■ the case it transpired that the prisoner tad been reading Ri<?hamson'is novel, '''Clarissa HnrJowe," and so smitten was he with the heroine that he had determined to revenge her wrongs upon any .person whom he encountered bearing the name of the villain. The exemplary, sentence, however, that me received on this occasion, would appear to qooled his quixotic resolution, for he never seems to have again, on the same charge, fallen into the hands of the police.

BURGLARED FOR LOVE. Geneva, March 2. A' woman burglar was arrested here last night after an exciting chase over tile roofs of houses. Two gendarmes who followed .her, believing that t'hev had to do with a desperate man, carried loaded revolvers in their hands, tat hastily concealed tilieir weapons when they found the tmrgrar was a young woman, ratiher good-looking and neatly dressed.

She said that she had broken into the apartment of her lover, a local chemist, who was absent from Geneva,, because she believed the was receiving letters from another woman, and she wished to find them, but (had not been successful. She Ifoad used a jemmy to force the door, and was 'turning out the drawers of iher lover when she .heard the gendarmes approaching, and climbed through the windows ana ran along a narrow ledge for 'fifty yards before entering another room, where she was found raider the table.

" TAILOR-MADES." The London correspondent of the Wellington Post writes:—"Nowadays there is hardly a material that is sacred .to the dressmaker —the tailor seems to make free use of the whole range. In addition to ihopsac,, silk, linen, canvas, heavy makes of Shantung, cashmere de soie, crepon, serge, cloth and tweed, he is going to voile to his list, voile of a silk and wool texture. It seems much too flimsy a fabric ror the tailor to use, but the modern tailor likes to turn out fanciful costumes a,s well as the more severe and plain styles'. In all likelihood 'the tailored voile costume will be made over a contrasting color, and thus the ■all-desired effect will result. The skirts of these will Ihaive to be made with a certain amount of fulness, but most of it will be confined about the knees or ankles. There is. a. popular new skirt whose front panel is br-oad and plain, ■with a piping at eacth miter edge; the sides and back aire generously treated in the matter of material, tot i>y tiie ■time the ankle is reached it has all been

tightly .bandaged beneath the continuation of the front .{motel strip which encircles the .skirt all round. Generally ■speaking, however, there are only two varieties of the tailor-made skirt—that ■set in generous pleats which are allowed to have rail their own way in the region of the feet, and that which is plain and tight and contains just enough material to cover the wearer. All these skirts are shout, 'and there are many indications that tilie isidrt of the walking dress is going to he short as well. Skirts of dresses are in immense variety—tabliers, tunics, panniers, pianiel - arrangements, deep llounees, wide "hems," plenteous drapings, ail being given immense scope; no fashionable model uress is seen 'with a .plain skirt, but as a rule long lines are encouraged rather than a trimming which cnits .title skirt in half and dwarfs even the tallest figure. Very great attention is devoted to the back of the skirts, whose elaboration equals that of the front." I

CURIOUS HONEYMOON TRIP. A curious 'honeymoon trip was made recently by tihe aeronaut M. Emery Tierlynek and his bride, Mile. Angele Quesnoist, daughter of in manufacturer of Rouhaix. After the wedding ceremony was over they left Rouhaix in a balloon for a short aerial journey. It was the 130 th ascent of the aeronaut, who 'had just returned from Morocco, 'where he did military service as a military ae.ronauit at Casa Blanca. As for the bride, she had never been in a balloon before. After leaving the church the wedding party .proceeded to the vei'Hli ome, where the .balloon Neptune was in waiting. The balloon and the car were gaily -decorated with flowers and ilagis. The young couple entered the car and the balloon was sent oil' amidst the cheers of a large crowd of people who had gathered round. Two hours after it came down ia,t a little country place near Arras, in tihe Pas de Calais Department, about thirty -miles from the start, and there the young couple received an ovation from the peasants. M. and Mme. Tierlynch returned in a motor car to Roubaix in the. evening for a wedding banquet. The bride declared herself -delighted with t'lie aerial honeymoon trip.

SIGNOR CARUSO'S DESIRE. "Xo human voice has yet equalled the nightingale, but the formation of the Ji'iimiiin throat is such that it should be capable of .producing music beside which the notes of the most delightful bird would seem hansh land, discordant. The world ha® given me fame and fortune, and part of this debt I propose to repay by giving the world a tenor greater than myself." . So Signor Garuso is said to have announced in iliis best Italian. He is trying to discover some lad who, with judicious training, will develop a 'voice that will enthrall tihe world. Wihen. he is found, the boy must agree to a ten years' legal guardianship by a commission., and he must obey his guardians to the letter. An that Caruso proposes to do is to supply t'ne funds. "One thing only shall I insist upon," says Caruso, "everything else shall be decided by the masters of music. My own experience has led me to oelieve that there are two places in the world where the untrained voice can best develop: ' the Swiias Alps in summer, and Naples in winter. The candidate must not be over "20 years old, and must possess the greatest .passion for music besides the natural gift of a fine voice. He will not for ■ten years be .permitted to marry. Ido not want to be misunderstood as being opposed to marriage, but the great tenor of the future will have no time for anything but his art. When he has mastered that as no one else has yet mastered it, it will then be time enough for him to take a .wife. I have already communicated with the uireetor-General at Milan, and have received this assent, for one of the greatest musicians to .be a member of the commission. One other commissioner will be an American, and the third either French or German."

BEQUEST FOR CATS. In the Chancery Division, Dublin, on 24th March, Mr. Justice Barton delivered judgment on the question whether a bequest in the will of the late Miss Alice Mary Swifte, of Dublin, of £4OOO New Consols, to the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests, for the benefit of the Cats' Home at the Grand Canal-quay, Dublin, was a valid charitable bequest. An English journal reports that the judge held that the bequest was a perfectly good charitable bequest, and decided that the administration of the schemes should be undertaken by the Dublin branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. His lordship remarked that this home, which was for starving and forsaken cats, was established by the lady, and it 'was impossible not to admire her tender devotion to what was evidently the absorbing interest of an unselfish life.

ENGLISH LADIES MOBBED. A telegram from the 'American Legation at Bogota, Colombia, states that the anti-American feeling is still so high there that two young English ladies who were mistaken for Americans were mobbed in the streets of the capital on 21st March. A Washington message says that the two ladies were shopping, and as they came out of one of the shops in the principal streets of the town a large crowd of men and 'boys gathered round 'them shouting and uttering objectionable epithets, and called them "Yankees." The ladies tried to ■make their way and go about their business, but the mob prevented them und •used them rougihly, some of the men striking them and pushing them about, while others threw stones at them, and one was rather badly hurt. They finally made , their escape into a shop, and were afterwards taken charge of by their friends, who were sent for. The British Consul at Bogota has taken the matter up, land made strong representations to the Colombian Government.