WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 55, 14 June 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

QUEEN AND LADY ARTISTS Queen Alexandra and Queen Mary both show kindly encouragement to lady ar tists. The Queen Mother has given a fresh proof of tins toy commanding thai a picture by Mrs. Latham Greenfield called "The loe Cavern," should be -sem to Buckingham Palace for Royal inspec •tion ibefore being exhibited to tie pub lie. The picture has a special interes in connection with Antarctic discovery for it represents an ice cavern discover ed by Sir •Ernest S'hackleton during hi; recent South Polar expedition. Her Ma jesty requested the artist to make i copy for her of the original .picture, which was to be on view at the nev Dudley Galleries. Of course, the sub ject of the picture-has an attraction fo , Queen Alexandra, who, like the lat< King Edward and many of her kinsfoll in Denmark, takes a lively interest in al that relates to Arctic and Antarcti expeditions. ■ But a sympathetic atti tude to the work of lady artists 'has bee] repeatedly shown by the Queen Mother who will sometimes help materially t( make the reputation and fortune of on< of them by giving a miniaturist or pthe: portrait painter sittings for her own por trait, or .permitting one of 'her many pel animals to be .painted by some lady de voting herself to that branch of portrait lire. HAT THAT ALMOST CAUSED A DUEL The marvellous hat worn by Mine, Liane de Pougy. the Parisian actress, almost brought about a duel in the fashionable suburb of iSt. Germain, and even though this denouement was averted, police court proceedings were to follow. The actress was walking in St. Germain in company with Prince G , when two ladies who .passed her, followed at a short distance by their husbands, began to make audible and not altogether complimentary comments on the size, shape, trimmings and color of Mme. Liane de Pougy's hat, which they judged was "loud," and quite out of place in quiet and respectable St. Germain. -Prince G thereupon intervened, and demanded the apology for their unseemly remarks, and was about to hand his card to one of them when that gentleman without further ado struck him in the face. The Prince and Mme. de : Pougy took out summonses against the ladies and their husbands. TO ESCAPE THE SHAMS OF SOCIETY A curious romance has come to light through the discovery, in a gipsy camp near St. Louis (U.S.A.) of a woman who I 'was formerly Miss Jessie Key Habersham, daughter of Mr. S. W. Habersham, a well-known wealthy Baltimore broker. Brcmght up to a life of luxury and given a first-class education, Miss Habersham disappeared from Baltimore immediately after her debut in society. Her fiance (a naval officer) and her friends supposed her to be lost, and her father, after spending a fortune in vain efforts to find her, finally abandoned the search. "I learned some times ago," Mr'. Habersham informed a reporter lately,- "that my daughter was married to the gipsy king, John Mitchell. She writes to me regularly." The former Miss' Habersham, now r 25 years old, is a beautiful I woman. Seated in a tent near the river Desperes, she told a St. Louis journalist the history of her life. "I hated society," she said, "with its sham* and re- i strictions. As a young girl I met a gipsy band at Saratoga Springs. They ; fascinated me. I read all I coirfd when ■ 1 was a college student on gipsy life and ; language. Seven years ago I ran awav, travelling as a governess to Europe, where I met a Hindu, who tauglre me a great deal about the occult. Latsr 1 ] met King John Mitchell. I married and became queen. I help him to rule ifo ' little kingdom, and I am very happy." LINKS WITH NAPOLEON THE ■ GREAT. Nap»leoa marriages are quite a featußa of the season. Links with Napoleon are • very numerous in spite of the fact that > j the Emperor left' only pne son, who be- •, queathed net direct descendants to bear- \ 1 the immortal mvme. This is due to the 1 ■ * aggrandisement ij the Corsican of his-; * many brother* and sisters, who made ; y noble alliances;. There are to-day about \ a dozen celebrated Bonapartes. First of all there is the ex-Empress Eugenie, widow of Napoleon 111., who was the third ; .. s son of Louis Napoleon, King of Holland, ■" who was Napoleon' the Great's brother. : Then there are the two pretenders to : ' s the throne of France —Prince Victor and Prince Louis Napsleon. .'Prince Victor is . a son of Jerome Bonaparte, who was the \ great-nephew of Napoleon, and Prince * •Louis is Prince Victor's brother. An- '] other of Jerome Bonaparte's descendants is* Prince Charles Joseph Bonaparte, the brilliant American lawyer and secretary to- the United States Navy. A music hall performer now in England, M. Juan Bonaparte, claims descent from the -Emperor, to whom he bears a remarkable \ facial resemblance. Prince Victor Napo- < leon and the American- Bonaparte are i also wonder-fully like their immortal an- r cestor in 'appearance.. A curious Napo- | « leon relic is owned by the American Bo- ! 1 naparte—a small portion of the ship Na- i 1 talie, in which the Emperor made his j <; escape from .Elba to France. ' i WOMEN'S ATTACKS ON BUTCHERS. , s The 'women of the working classes in s Greater New York have taken up arms \ t in a striking manner against the inor- j dinately high price of meat. Ever sinee -. t the collapse of the meat boycott move- a ment some few months ago prices have g been advanced by leaps and bounds, srm i til now they have reached an unpn.-ce- i •dented height. The women attribute the- e famine prices to the "insatiable greed," i first of the Beef Trust and secondly of t the retail butchers. On the "East -Side" i of New York more than a week ag©> the Jewish women started 'attacking the f Kosher meat shops, pouring paraffin) over i

the supplies and assailing the butchers with hatpins. Four hundred shops Ami up in consequence, and now the movement has spread to the Christian communities. Meat riots are such a common occurrence that the police are unable to keep a record of thorn. According to estimates, fully 800.0(H) people in Greater New York have foresworn the eating of meat. Outside almost every butcher's shop along the entire East Side, as well as at Harlem, Williamsburg and other suburbs, crowds of angrily gesticulating women could be seen the other day. All the people they caught buying meat suffered immediate punishment." At Harlem a score of women carrying .paraffin cans swarmed in one shop. The butcher drove them out with a horsewhip, but he tripped, whereon the ■women seized the whip and beat the I shopkeeper.