WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 125, 5 September 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

SEEN IN THE SHOPS. • _ "Seen in the Shops." Under this heading a London correspondent writes: ■Satin-striped Shantung is an attractive dress material; it is self-colored. Onesided effects are liked both by dressmakers and tailors, and trimmings are arranged at one side rather than on both sides. The brocade and band-painted shoe is making a brave show, and there are shoes made of gold and silver, veiled with black Chantilly, to be worn with dark dresses, or covered with white lace of the same description if they are to accompany light gowns. These are quite the newest things in evening shoes. At this season of the year, when people re- ' quire dress for the Highlands, a good deal of leather trimming makes an appearance. This year the tailored leather beltings are very narrow, marking out the waist in front in a ci ve which rises rather high at each sidq. Waist , (belts of dresses are generally, deep and shapely, nearing something of the rounded corselet outline at the top; new is the model which has a high folded ibelt in front only; it disappears under each arm beneath a silver or gold motif; the back, with' crossed draperies, does not need a belt. Trains of evening dresses are going to be cut square and narrow, hanging in long and simple lines. Many evening bodices are still more decollete ' at the back than in front. The all-white dance frock seems popular worn with colored tunic and shoes and stockings to match. Even if the colored tunic is not liked, there seems no objection to cerise-hued shoes and stockings being worn with a white dress, a bunch of , cherries tucked into the belt as an accompaniment, or to lilac shoes and hose being worn with a dress all white. Many of the tunics are turned up at the edge in fishwife style, with a Iband of satin. The most persistent model of the moment seems to be the gown fashioned on Kate Greenaway lines. The upper tunic is cut all in one—sleeves, corsage and skirt —and beneath it is worn a straight closes lip finished with a deep hem or with flounces at the edge; a transparent yoke and transparent undersleeves complete the dress for the daytime. Milliners are devoted to a magpie alliance—■many black iiats have a lining of white beneath the brim; the straw of dead ■white has a ibrim lined with 'black velvet. The all-black hat often has its crown and brim veiled with fine cream lace, basted smoothly over the surface, the straw showing through the meshes; the lace falls about half an inch below the brim, forming a miniature curtain all round. A cluster of black feathers is the trimming for such a hat. Veils now j are selected to match the eyes, so the variety includes a greenish-blue, s)crt h t brown, grey and violet. The net is now Jof coarse-meshed Greek foundation, I whose holes are often so greatly exag- ! gerated that care has to be taken in placing the veil in position to prevent the tip of the nose escaping the confining bars. Lace veils are still seen, but as a rule the unbecoming patterned nets have been discarded.

BEAUTIFUL LADY ISLINGTON. Lady Islington is (says the Wellington Post) much more strikingly beautiful than any pictures that have reached us, with a very bright, kind expression. The Hon. Joan Poynder-Dickson, her daughter, is a charming child, with fine, clearly-cut features, and seems very much a child, and not a young ladyish little person. On landing she appeared to be greatly interested and amused at all she'saw about her. Lady Islington's cabin and state-rooms were pictures of comfort and prettiness—white enamelled walls, and furniture, with pale Iblue upholster v and carpets; but they were very little different except as to room from many of the beautifully furnished cabins many of the new boats have. It would appear that her Excellency will have a very warm place in the public's affection.

ETTJ CATION OF GIRLS IN NEW ZEALAND.

Dr. Platts-Bills, one of Wellington's women doctors of medicine, delivered a notable, speech at the annual meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Health of Women and Children (Wellington branch), held last week. After remarking on the splendid work of the society in savin. n : infant life, this lady said: "Bui whii" actively caring for the b'tbics, -,vi' n-'ist not forget that just above the baby stage we have an army of little girls —clay for the potter's ■hands. At the present time the potter is the State, and badly has he gone about his task. Yet we must not complain so lone; as we are willing to allow men to arrange the syllabus for our girls according to their own ideas of wnat is good for boys. Our little girls are sent to school at about Ave years of age. They are girls then, full of beautiful imaginings; with budding intellect, ready to unfold, petal by petal, to the full beaut}' of mature 'blossom —asking only a congenial atmosphere. These little creatures are sent into overcrowded . schools, and there forced through the mill of a dry-as-dust scheme of education, a scheme which is admittedly a failure even for iboys, for whom it was planned. But what must it be for <rirls? They are crammed for examinations; spoon-fed with peptonised facts; and finally turned out, after passing the last standard, trained! to no good purposes whatever. Their intellects are not cultivated; their imaginations are stifled out of existence. Very few leave school nowadays with a love of literature; they have no idea what to read or how to read it. The key of knowledge is not theirs. They axe machines, ready to take their places with other machines at the typewriter or the office desk. Educationally—nothing more.

"And yet there are our future mothers, and all the time they have been growing into women, with the attributes of womanhood developing somehow, in spite of stern repression. Subjects that appeal peculiarly t'o women have no place ii

a man's scheme for women. Those that would cultivate her higher gifts — her artistic, her spiritual powers—are ignored. "Why not take the matter into our own hands? It has been pointed out before, many times, that we women of New Zealand have more power than any women on earth. Why not let us realise this, and determine to give our daughters the benefit of that power by securing for them a rational scheme of education. If we were to have a conference of women from all parts of Xew Zealand —women of intellectual attainments, of artistic and spiritual development—and get their ideas of what girls ought to learn, we would have a very different syllabus from that at present taught to girls under the name of 'higher education.' Let us have the highest education possible for women; but let it be such as leads naturally on to full development, physical, mental and spiritual, for only in flic unity of this trinity is perfect womanhood to be found."

RETURNS TO THE STAGE I A romance of the footlights, wnieh, incidentally, provided a text for a re-cord-breaking summer newspaper correspondence in the columns of the Xew York press, has bee" shattered. It is only five months since Miss Illington, one of America's most beautiful and accomplished actresses, married a wealthy Californian, Edward Bowes, and announced that the footlights were a snare and a delusion, that she had aibandoned her stage career for good, that woman's place was in the home, and that hence-] forth she would never again appear in, the limelight. Now, however, she has re-. pented of her views, and, says the Tele-, graph's New York correspondent, will re-. turn to the stage. Looking ruddier, healthier and handsomer than ever, ever: tasting the joys of the simple life, she 1 has indeed resolved to leave off darning sooks, and will soon don her stage hose once again in a play by a popular author.' Miss Illington, when' she retired from stageland, declared publicly: "I shall never appear on the stage again under any conditions whatever. One hears so much about the lure of it, and the fascination of the applause. To me, personally, it is unsatisfactory and distasteful, now that I have discovered that the real joy of life are not found in the theatre." She wanted, she said, to be at home, to darn socks and rear children. S'he added: "I want to sit at home in the evenings, to be quiet, to sew, to read, and go to bed when the chickens do, and have a feeling, of absolute rest." This statement is contrasted to-day with Miss lllington's evident elation at the prospect of returning to the stage next autumn. Her good-natured millionaire husband shares completely in the re-birth of her artistic aspirations. After all, he says, it is a woman's privilege to change her mind, "and as to those socks," he adds laughingly, "she can take them along with us in our touring motor car, and darn them to her heart's content."

SUCCESSFUL POULTRY FARMER Miss N. Edwards, a poulry farmer in Gloucestershire, told the Women's Congress in London, reports the Times, that fifteen years ago she started with twenty fowls and half an acre of land. Her capital was limited, but to-day she had twenty-ei|ght acres in use, and in addition to producing thousands of eggs and chicks each year, she sold about 1000 birds annually. Women, she found, did better work on her farm than men. They were particularly well-adapted to the lighter part of the work, and did extremely well on exhibition farms.

STOP THAT BACKACHE. If you have a .pain in your back, if you have a lame back, or an aching back, stop it now. For remember that backache is indicative of kidney disorders. It is a sipy placed there by nature to warn you that your kidneys need help. Doa't neglect the warning; •top it now, for it may be too late if you put u off. You ask how to stop it? We'll let this man tell you. Mr. Donald Robertson, Manaia, late toll-keeper, Junction road, New Plymouth, says: "For twenty years I suffered with my kidneys. At "times backache nearly crippled me. If I stooped I could scarcely rise again, and work was out of the question. I swallowed enough medicine to cure a dozen men, if they had been the rii-V. medicines. I then got Doan's Backache Kidney Pills and these seemed to do me good from the start, and a short course completely cured me. Everybody around knows what I suffered with my back, and I tell them all I have no backache now, thanks to Doan's Backache Kidney Pills." The golden rule in all health troubles is: "'Keep your kidneys well, and they will keep you well." Doan's Backache Kidney Pills keep the kidneys well. A word to the wise is enough. Doan's backache Kidney Pills arc sold by all chemists and storekeepers at 3s per bottle (six bottles 16s 6d), or will be posted on receipt of nrlce bv FostcrMcClellan Co., 76 Pitt Street, Sydney. But, be »ure you get DOAiN'eJ.