WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 137, 19 September 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

INGLEWOOD NOTES. The 'Catholic social takes place on October sbh, and promises to be a big success. It is the intention of the committee to hold one more before closing for this season. Mr. George Cork has taken up his residence - in Inglewood, being chief clerk at Mr. Thomson's, solicitor. Mrs. Cork is expected early in the week. The weather is simply perfect just now. Already the ladies are to be seen out in their dainty summer raiment. The luglewood Coffee Palace changes hands next week. NOVEL WEDDING JOURNEY. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jabote, a young Kansas couple, have come to grief on a novel wedding journey, which they undertook on a challenge by their friends (says a New York message to the Daily Mail). At first it was discussed as a joke, but as soon as the wedding was over husband and wife, dressed a's tramps, started on their honeymoon as non-paying passengers in a goods train. After being ejected f:'om several trains they finally succeeded in reaching Denver without paying a cent. Continuing their masquerade, they obtained situations as "bell boys" at an hotel. Next they travelled to' Chicago in the same inexpensive !way. After several days there they started back for Kansas City. When they reached Joliet, however, a train employee, more observant than his fellows, discovered that one of the "tramps" was a woman. The Jarbotes were arrested, and the bride dispelled all doubt of her sex by "having a good cry." After telling their story they were allowed to go. They then returned home as first-class passengers. BRITISH PRIME MINISTER AND HIS WIFE. | When Mr. Asquith and Miss Margot Tennant were married he was a Cabinet,' ■Minister, Secretary of State for Home! Affairs, under the leadership of the Earl of Rosebery, whose right-hand man hej was then considered to be. It is now! j sixteen years since that wedding took! , place at St. George's Church, Hanoversquare. It was a remarkable political l and social occasion. Not only was the t bridegroom a man of present and future • promise, but the bride had many friends in social, literary, artistic and dramatic circles, and was quite a personage owing largely to her own cleverness and strength of individuality. In 1905 Mr. Asquith became Chancellor of the Ex chequer, and in 1908, on the retirement of the then Prime Minister, Sir Henry Campbell-bannerman, he became Premier. Everyone wondered how so original and; many-sided a lady as Mrs. Asquith would fill so conventional a posi-j tion. Up to now it can only be said that she has filled it unconventionally. That she has filled it with brilliance is also conceded, lor brilliance is her chief attribute. That she has gone the way of Mrs. Asquith rather than that of the Prime 'Minister's wife may also be ad-| mitted, for individuality such as hers| cannot be sunk in office. The kindness i she has done, .the consideration she has shown for others, the gentleness and I patience with the poor and suffering, are things not .generally known;- they never could be from the lady herself, because she would absolutely refuse to discuss such things with anybody. That she formed a society for helping the poor, and was joined by many kind-hearted ladies on both sides in politics, was public knowledge because it had to be. Mrs. Asquith's own personal share in the work was undertaken and is now carried on with the energy and enthusiasm for which she is famous. Also it is attended with characteristic kind-heartedness and gentleness. So small and so slender is the wife of the Prime Minister that one wonders whence is the spring of her vast energy and great sprightliness. her unfailing cheeriness and her great originality. Doubtless it is in the abundance of vitality shown in the sparkle of her large dark eyes. She is a first-rate sportswoman. Her performances across country are well known in the neighbor- , hood of Melton Mowbray. Mrs. Asquith | loves literature, music and drama; everyI one who has done well in any of these ! ways interests her immensely. She cani not Ibe descrihed as a faultless hostess, i Here again her strong individuality in • terferes with her desire to fulfil her ; duties scrupulously.' If =hr> is engrossed : in talk with a specially absorbing guest, I the others are received almost uncon-l . sciouslv. So far her receptions have j taken the form of garden parties, at which she is always most anxious for her guests to enjoy themselves. Here she feels at home. Her husband's den is near iby, and he comes in often for some chat and some banter, dear to both of them, for they are good comrades, and their somewhat opposite natures meet in a common love of humor. Such from the point of view of one who has often met her and been her guest seems the woman of 'this motnent of whom we are all wondering if she will be the woman of the next.—Ladies' Pictorial. QUEEN MARY'S FURS. ! Queen Mary possesses one of the most' wonderful collection of furs in the world,! and she is very partial to these. Includ-i ed in her Majesty's collection is a magni-i ficent set of Russian sables, which were presented to her a few years ago upon the occasion of her birthday by the Czar and Czarina, She is often chaffed (says M.A.P.) by members of her family regarding her preference for furs and fur-1 trimmed garments, and a short time ao-o i his present Majesty was asked what he' thought she would wear upon the occan° f a tri P in the Solent. Well, I am not quite sure," re replied, with a humorous twinkle in his 'tat I rather imagine it will be something with fur on it." Strangely enough, despite this partiality for fur, her Majesty does not care for ermine, and some time ago she suggested that the'robes

of peers and peeresses would look far mor6 imposing if they were trimmed with dark fur. The motoring coat that the Queen usually wears is a marvellous specimen of the furriers' art, and is made up of some thousands of tails, each - so perfectly matched and joined that it - looks like one large piece of fur even - when subjected to the closest scrutiny. y Queen Mary's furs are all carefully stored at Marlborough House in such fash--3 ion that she can obtain any set she rec quires at a moment's notice. They are c also subjected to very careful scrutiny from time to time by specially selected t experts. Another Royal lover of furs is i the Princess Royal, who has a very valuable collection, as has Queen Alexandra. 3 KAISER'S PROPOSED MARRIAGE SCHEME Interesting rumors are in circulation y in military and society quarters at PotsJ dam to the effect that the Kaiser and . Kaiserin are thinking of a matrimonial 3 alliance between their only daughter, ■r Princess Victoria Luise, of Prussia, and t the Prince of Wales. The princess, who 3 is eighteen, is a year and nine months 3 older than the Prince of Wales, but that 5 would not be regarded as a handicap from her parents' point of view. The Kaiser's wife is several months older than the Emperor, and their second son, , Prince Eitel iFriedrich, of Prussia, is mar- ' ried to a princess nearly three years his l_ senior. It is hoped in Potsdam Court a circles that when King George and Queen <Marv make their first official visit to . Germany they will be accompanied by the Prince of Wales, and that the latter „ may then have the agreeable opportunity I of forming an acquaintance with his fair- " haired third cousin which may some day j ripen into affection. The number of , European princes the Kaiser and 3 Kaiserin consider eligible for their only 1 daughter's hand is rather limited. Those J who are generally looked upon as most eligible are Roman Catholics, like the , young King of Portugal and one of the > young Austrian archdukes. The Kaiserin, who is very deeply attached to her (daughter, has in accordance with her t own principles brought her up as an untcompromising Protestant, and would 2 j rather see her married to one of the 1 most obscure princes than share a throne ; j with a Roman Catholic king. n : Little was known in England of the ' Kaiserin's youngest sister, Princess Feo- ' | dora of iSchleswig-Holsteinj who has just ! l died. Her short life (she was only 36) ! I was Iblighted iby a love tragedy. Some ', years ago her fiance, Duke Frederick of : Mecklenburg-Schwerin, perished in th« ' Baltic while in command of a torpedo I boat, the entire crew of which went • down with him. This terrible event left I a permanent impression on the Princess' ; mind and character. She never really recovered from the shock, and although' ' she afterwards received many splendid ' offers of marriage, they were all unhesi•|tatingly refused. Even the throne of ■' Italy was open to her if she had consent- ' ed* to change her religion from Lutheran- • ism to Roman Catholicism. I Lord Onslow's daughter (Lady Dor- : ©thy Wood), who was married last year, gave birth to twin daughters on August > 3rd.