WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 128, 8 September 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

GENERAL NOT3S Women's names figured largely in the last English Pensions List. Among them were Mrs. Alice Pox, £75, in recognition of the distinguished public services of her husband, -the late ,Mr. A. W. Pox, Comptroller-General; .Mrs. Mary Louisa Gamgee, £7O, in consideration of the contributions to physiological .science by the late Professor Gamgee; Mrs. Eleanor Jane Seeley, £7'o, in consideration of the writings of the late Professor Seeley; Miss Helena Stormont Murphy, £SO, in consideration of the services of her late father in furthering the use of chloroform; Lady Lleanor ' Monson, .£IOO, in consideration of the services of the late Sir E. J. Monson; Mrs. Constance Garrett, £7O, in ,yiew. of ' her translations from the Russian; Mrs. Joanna Fraser, £7O, in eoiteidem+ion of i the investigations in ana tor/.,. and emibryology of the late Professor Alex. ' Eraser; Mrs. Ellen' Beardsley, £55, in | recognition of the merits of Iher son, the ' late Mr. Aubrey Beardsley, as an artist in black and white; and Miss Julia Dob- ' sqn, £ls, in recognition of the services j of her late brother,-Surgeon-major Dobson, in zoological science (in addition to 1 her existing pension). I _ The Grey Sisters Is an Anglican oi'gail ; ■ isation that works among .the poor of I South London, and is a mixtures of 'settle-. i ment and sisterhood. T.hey take- no vows and are free to leave at. any time, 'but obey the rules of the college -while they remain' members. Their work is varied arid includes visiting the sick, teaching needlework and .singing, teaching in Sunday schools, lecturing, or giving readings at church entertainments. i In New Mexico there is a lady game warden—the only one in America, if not in the world. She is Mrs. B. R. Buffham, arid she was formerly a school teacher. After .she had become a citizen of New Mexico her indignation was aroused by the wanton and cruel slaughter of wild biixte carried on in that State. She remonstrated, but without effect, 'till she was appointed a deputy game warden, after which she backed her official admonitions by an appeal t.o her trusty rifle. As isihe ds a dead .shot, and a featless hunter of big game, she is not trifled in these days by bird fiends. , _ Miss Elizabeth Hyde (eighteen years) is the winner of the Parepa-Rosa scholarship for singing at the Royal Academy of Music, London. There tfere twentyseven other competitors. The scholar- , ship is \open to all British-born girls between the ages of eighteen and twenty- , two, is worth £3O a year, and entitles the to two years' instruction in singing, and piano (or some equivalent subject) at the Academy. The sister of the Britie.li War Minister possesses her famous brother's sense of humor. Her best stories (according to a writer in M.A.P.) are about her own countrymen, and smack of the * soil, Speaking once to an audience o.f ladies, she told an amusing story of a Perthshire farmer, who, on .his way home from market one day, suddenly remembered that he had forgotten something, but what he could not recall. As he nearer! home the conviction increased, and three tiiries he stopped his . horse and went Carefully through his pocket-book in the vain endeavor to discover what he had missed. In due course he reached home and was met by his daughter, who looked at him in surprise and asked! "Winfather, what have you done with mother?" % South Africa's gift to Queen Mary was six splendid diamonds mounted as nHi ornament, cut out of the wellknown stone, which was discovered in 1005 in the Premier diamond iirV. ""f t Pretoria. The two largest of thtwp diamonds, which are consirlern 1 ! by evperfV to b° of nmteh'es? mnliH-. weighing 92 and the othei (!•? Mve been rtioiinted as a pendant. Three, averaging about I<l carats each, have b"en mounted as a small pendant, and the sixth diamond p.= a ring. It will be remembered the original Cullinan diamond, weHiing about 3000 carats, was cut by Messrs Aseher and Company. of Amsterdam, with whom an was made, and after carrving it- o'it» there remained ps tV' p Tfinp-ti- -snvp'-al. pieces of uncut ston" f"'-'- : -i" vpsWue of the oriental. These n> r ' ,r s of iincrt' stone were cut Iby them into six beautiful diamonds, the subject of the presentation to Her Ma- ' jesty, and purchased bv the Transvaal Government some months-ago. so as to prevent their sale bv Aseher and Co. to any chance purchaser, forming a portion, as they did, of an historical diamond. i ——— At the recent annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association in Toronto Dr. H. C. Coe, of New York, speaking on the subject of marriage, said he believed the day would come when State control of marriage would be recognised as wwe. "there must be a survival of the fittest, and it remained for them to take every precaution which -would enhance the chances of new arrivals in the world being fit. This, he said, was not a fanciful scheme, and in some of -its details was being worked out' even now. It was a shame that so much attention was paid to cattle in this respect and so little to human beings. The Bishop of Stepnev, presiding at the annual conference of branch secre- • taries of the English Girls' Friendly Society, said they could not bear that their girls should be spending their lives and sacrificing, their 'health for miserable starvation pay. They admired more than they could say the extraordinary pluck, energy and) keenness of those girls —many of whom were the principal wageearners in the family circle—but they could not bear to see girls and women crushed down in what really had'come to be genuine competition, but competi-

tion on most .brutal and unequal terms. True union rested on single devotion to a single task, and in that spirit of union they were operating. What is described as one of the worst scenes ever witnessed in Bathurst took place at the School of Arts recently, when the annual hospital ball was held. Lord and Lady Chelmsford were due to arrive at the function at 9 p.m., but long before the doors opened the crowd outside, which had begun to assemble early in the afternoon, numbered about 300. Just before seven o'clock rain commenced to fall, but notwithstanding this the people would not leave the p.ositions they had secured on the footpath and roadway. Immediately the doors opened there was a wild scalable to get up to the dress circle to secure the best seats. Four policemen tried to maintain order, but their efforts were fruitless. Men, wompn and children fought like wild animals, with the result that women had their clothing torn, their hair pulled down, and jewellery torn off their wrists and clothing. So great was the scramble that it is remarkable a number of persona were not seriously injured. Fire minutes after the doors were opened the hall was packed. , A prison for wonr n, where there is a remarkable amount of freedom, where Avery woman lias a lookin.g-?la?§ aTKI where the prisoners are t'aifglit by £ | calasthenic instructor to walk gracefully ami tp regain their self-respect is one of Scotland's latest efforts at prison reform. According to Charlotte Smith-Rossie, who has written an article on the subject, the new gaol for women in Glasgow is ft model prison. The cells are not kejit fast locked like the English prison cells, ,yet the discipine is strict. Every kind of industry is taught that is possibleincluding first-class laundry work, and the "getting-up" of fine linen—contracts Ibeing taken from the chief hotels. We are hearing a lot about Java just now, observes a writer in the Sydney Morning Herald, and an ever-increasing stream of Sydney tourists is going and coining to the Dutch Island. Most people go to the same towns, and come home with the same expressions; ' but those travellers who have been off the beater track, and lived in the smaller villages tell us tales that impressed the worried housekeepers with the belief that Java is a domestic paradise—at least for people with small incomes. House renl is merely nominal, labor is plentiful, and the price of food is ridiculously low Threepence is the usual price for a nice young chicken, while for twopence you can buy forty fish. When one thinks oi out prices—three and sixpence for a chicken and sixpence for one whitingit is enough to .cause a whole stamped* of housekeepers to the East Indies. The Woman Suffrage Club of Balti more intends to put an end to al street flirtations, to keep many of th< young people who swarm the streets a night at home, anrl to, prevent .any be haviour that, is not decorous and man nerly Jbv older men and Women. J committee from the club will, call upoi .the State Attorney and ask his advici , and co-operation. The State Attorne; will be appealed to particularly to dis i cover if it is possible to appoint womei : "assistants to the police officers at thi ; suburban, reports and on the downtowi [ streets, whose duty will be to look afte: ! street moral?.' When the suffragists ap ; pealed to the Police Board recently t< > secure the appointment of women police I men at the resort?, the Board declare* • such action not within its power, as thi . resorts were outside of the city limits , Now State Attorney Owens will be ask - ed for aid, and if he declares that thi appointments are impossible the womei will wait upon the next legislative ses j sion, when a Bill will be framed pro ; vidiiigr for the appointment of the wo . men assistants to the police. Meanwhili inanv of the, suffragists will appoin ; ' themselves unofficial policemen, and wil . look out for the conduct of the peopl . on the streets. Mrs. Emma Maddo; , F-'Tiic. the president of the club, says r "We are not planning this campaign be I I r>ause we feel that the policpmen ar ) lax in their duty, but we think tha , there is much to be done for moralit l , that the police have not time to bothe 3 about. If we succeed in getting womei r assistants to the police to do duty oi 3 the downtown streets and at the resorts them we will feel that we have accom , plished something worth while." i One of the nKwt extvaordinary murde; trials even known, ev»n in France, endei [, on 13th Juh- in a sentence of'penal servi B | tude for life upon a woman namfd Marii " E Bourette. She was convicted of poison in? M. Go'Tard. a well-known tenor, .< ® perfectly innocent victim of a drama o | which he knew nothing. Marie Bouretti j , wa« for some years the friend of M Doudieux, who asked her to marry him She refused, and M. Doudieux not low afterwards became the husband of an e , woman; Marie Bourette then re 3 pented her . refusal, and conceived a ploi 1 , of poisoning Mme. Doudieux and regaii | the affections of her rejected lover, Shi ' left a packet of an appareint.lv harmlesi medicine—which she had impregnate* '< with arsenic—upon Mme. Doudieux'i v doorstep. It, so happened that M. Godar< e visited the Doudieux at the time, an< ' after dinner suffered from an attack o: ' indigestion. His .hosts gave him a dost s of the medicine found upon the doorstep J and he died in agony. For some tim* ' there was no clue fto the sender of thi 0 poisoned medicine, and it was only th< fact that Marie Bourette avoided M Doudieux when he chanced to meet hei t in the street and even denied acquaint - anee with him that caused suspicion t< full on her. She was arrested, and hei r examination in court revealed the in 1 I trisue related above. The prisoner wepl e | ( opiously throughout the last day's pro e | 'eedin,?s, whereas previously she. mad* * r sarcastic remarks to the witnesses fron a Hie dock, and l frequently burst out laujh 1 rns. She denied all the charges mad< v against her and practically secured hei n' own conviction 'by her insensate denials e A chemical expert declared that 10 gram i- mes of arsenic were found in her room

wjiereas a fifth of a gramme is sufficient to cause death. The public prosecutor pleaded for the death sentence. He .said M. Godard before his death was earning £2OOO a year, and had a £4OOO engagement in America. His widow and orphan were now left destitute. The defence sought unavailing!)' to establish that there was no motive for the crime, and that the prisoner was not responsible for her acts.