WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 138, 20 September 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

(Conducted by "Eileen.") HAWEKA LETTER. .St. Mary's second annual spring bulb show was opened by the Mayor (Mr. E. Barton) on Tuesday afternoon last in the Opera House. There was a lovely collection of flowers, being arranged in a most artistic manner, especially the mantelpiece decorations by Mrs. Buckley and Miss Seaton. The decorated tables were also very beautiful, and the ladies who won the prizes are to be congratulated on the really artistic skill shown in the grouping of their floTal beauties. Refreshments were daintily served in a prettily decorated room by Mesdames Bates, Bishop, Larcom and Miss Baker. During tie evening musical items were pleasingly rendered by Miss Baker and ■Messrs Hooker, Cameron, Sargent, Page, and Treweek, Mrs. Raine accompanying. The many friends of Miss Alice Lily Morrissey will ibe sorry to hear that she passed away early on Wednesday morning at her mother's residence in Regent street. The deepest sympathy is felt for Mrs. Morrissey and family. Mr. A. Grieves has left for Australia. He expects to be away six months. A farewell social was tended to Mrs. and the Misses Sutton, who are leaving Hawera, in Mr. Ross' studio. A beautiful silver'tray and hotwater kettle were presented to 'Mrs. Sutton and her daughters as a token of the loving esteem in which they were held. After the presentation progressive euchre was played at 15 tables, after Which a bountiful supper was tastefully served. Mrs. iSutton was gowned in rich black silk; Misses Sutton, pretty grey frocks; Mrs. O'Slillivan, black brocade; Mrs. Roche, black brocade; Mrs. Keohane, black silk; Mrs. Bennett, cream serge and cream silk; Mrs. Wallace, blue pinafore dress; Mrs. Washer, ping ninon; Mrs. Quin, pretty blue gown; Mrs. Cowell, black and white crepe de chine; Mrs..! Tait, iblack crepoline pinafore dress; Miss Ryan, cream taffeta; Miss Reilly, white silk; Mrs. frred Quin, cream silk; Mrs. Culleran, Hack silk; Miss Power, black silk empire; Mrs. McCarthy, pale TTlue. Many other ladies were beautifully gown-1 'ed. There was a delightful social held in the Presbyterian schoolroom on Thursday evening. Instrumental and vocal items were given iby the Misses Boyd, J Black, Moore, Spence, Hunter and Messrs Moore, Question, etc. Supper was daintily served by gentlemen in fancy dress. NOTES FROM LONDON. j A MASCULINE " MAKE-UP." • Anent the Crippen murder case, which ; is engrossing a good deal of our attention just now, Mr. Willie Clarkson, the well-known theatrical disguiser, has given some interesting hints on "how to make up as a man." The scanty news which the papers have so far been able to provide us—while Inspector Dew is on the path of the fugitives, Crippen and Miss Le Neve, now supposed to be on their way to Canada—does at least give us one important clue in that it is ■known that a youth travelling as Master is a girl, and supposed, therefore, to be Miss Le Neve. "A woman J who intends to disguise herself as a man usually thinks that she has attained her object," Mr. Clarkson said, "if she merely puts on male attire, but that is only the very first step. Unless she is correctly instructed her walk always Betrays her. A woman, owing to the high heels she wears, develops a mincing gait, and progresses on the balls of her leet, with her knees and ankles close together. Then, again, she would wear boots to fit her, with the result that her feet, when she is trying to pass as a man, would.j seem absurdly small. Also,. she would use a powder-puff as spontaneously as a man washes his face, and ..so her complexion, perfectly natural seeming to herself, would betray her as toeing not a youth's but a girl's. Now, I made up a woman as a youth. She desired to penetrate into a part of London's very mixed society where the police were chary of entering, her reason being a literary one. | First I fitted her with a man's wig, and ' cut her hair short at the sides. Then I "padded her waist so that it seemed to 1 fall straight down to her hips as does a | man's, and bronzed her complexion. Her • shoulders I padded, too, so that they had . the sturdy, masculine outline, and not the gentle slope of a woman's. After i that I lent her a pair of my boots, which I stuffed with cotton wool at the toes, ' and I instructed her how to walk, using the whole of her feet, instead of just the balls and toes. She looked so like a [ youth when I had finished that she was aible to pass as one for several hours, completely attaining her object. To suggest that a razor has been recently used, the best thing to do is to put a little grey pigment on the upper lip and then ; rub it off. That leaves a suggestion of a shadow, and makes it appear that the face has been necessarily shaved," DESCENDANT OF' NAPOLEON. ; There died on Saturday night in a ; nursing home in Paris, at the age of forty-nine, Princess Jeanne Bonaparte, a grandniece of Napoleon. The Princess, who married the Marquis de Villeneuve : in 1882, at one time was a distinguished , figure in Paris, and her receptions at her ; residence in the Rue de Prony were famous. | "DIVINO SARAH" A GREATGRANDMOTHER. ' Madame Sarah Bernhardt has become a great-grandmother. Her son Maurice's daughter, who is Mrs. Edgar Gross, of Porchester terrace, has just given birth to a daughter. ! THE OLDEST WOMAN. The claim of Frau Dutkiewitz, of Posen, born on 21st February, 1785, to be the oldest woman in the world is, says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Express, now contested by Mme. Baba Vasilka, who was iborn in May, 1784, in the little Bulgarian village of Bavales'ko,

where she has lived ever siiice. The record of her birth is preserved in a neighboring monastery of the Orthodox Greek faith. She is the daughter of a peasant, and has worked herself as a peasant up till a comparatively recent date. For more than 100 years she regularly worked in the fields, according to the customs of her country, where' women are employed in all sorts of manual labor. The events of her life up to the time when she the age of eighty are far more distinctly impressed on her mind than ,the happenings of the last forty-six years. Her son Todor, following the family tradition, has also worked in the fields as a peasant nearly all his life, but he has also taken part in various war 9 and rebellions in the Balkan Peninsula. H<s is not quite so fresh and vigorous and his mother, although he is still capable of doing a good day's work, and enjoying such small luxuries of life as a pipe and the strong spirits drunk iby the Bulgarian populace. The oldest woman in the world is said to enjoy fairly j good eyesight and good hearing, and she !is able to walk without support. She lives on a pension paid to her by njany of her descendants, who number more than 100. "REPOSE" OF MODES. Ii asked for a terse term to characterise the modes of the moment, the word "repose" might be taken as fairly accurate. The quiet, restful effect is the: one' most desired, and quite extraordinary efforts are made to produce it. To begin with, there are the subdued colorings, which certainly predominate. Then in many cases, the result is gained by veiling, soy, brilliant rose charmeuse foundation by several layers of black and grey ninon, or a vivid : blue is toned by misty grey or green. Then, again, in .the case of a rather voyant Paisley pattern it is .beautifully subdued by two or three thicknesses of some seflii-trans-parent texture, until the brighter note of color is blurred. This indefinite- idea becomes more and more pronounced in a ballroom, where almost dingy-colored toilettes are the dernier cri even for young girls. The lustre and sparkle of the ideal iball frock is hidden behind diaphanous clouds, and the "glit, glit, glitter" of sequins and pailettes are screened until their presence is suspected, more than - realised. The effect; of all these han-colored gowns is decidedly soothing. One may miss the expensive appearance of the plain satin and silk frocks, but those who have to pay the dressmakers' bill quite understand that apparent simplicity and cheapness do not, of a necessity, go hand in hand.