WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 212, 16 December 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). PEERAGE AND STAGE. FASOIXATIOX OF STAGE BEAUTIES. Viscount Torrington, who married Miss Souray recently, is the twentieth British peer to marry an actress since the beginning of the peerage. Eleven of these marriages have taken place within the last 26 years, the •remaining nine having covered a period of 134 years—from 1724 to 1547. Either, therefore, the peerage is less particular than formerly, or the fascinations of the stage beauties are re'?s resistible. The fashion was set in the eighteenth century by the Earl of Peterborough, the Duke of Bolton, and the Earl of Derby, who married, respectively, Anastasia Robinson, Lavinia' Fenton, and Elizabeth Farren. In more recent times an impetus was given to such unions by the late Duke of Cambridge's marriage in 1547 to the actress, Louisa Fairbrother. Then came in comparatively quick succession the marriages of Baron Gardner and Julie Fortescue, the Marquis of Ailesbury and Dolly Tester, the Earl of Claearty and Belle Bilton, the Earl of Orkney and Connie Gilchrist, Baron Haldon and Lavinia Maichle, the Marquis of Headfort and Rosie Boote, the Earl of Rosslyn and Anne Robinson, Baron de Gifford and Eva Carrington, Baron Ashburton and Frances Donnelly, and Earl Poulett and Sylvia Storey. Many of these unions were singularly happy; one of them, that of Lord Francis Hope and May Yohe, ended tragically. Among the actresses who married near relatives of peers'were Miss Kate Vaughan, Miss Marie Tempest, Miss Ellis Jeffreys, and 'Miss Isabel Jay. As a rule, stage-marrying peers have gone to the burlesque or the musical comedy theatres for their wives, while two footlight peeresses—Belle Bilton and May Yohe—were closely associated with the music halls. MR. DOOLEY ON ILL-MATED COUPLES. "'lll-mated couples?' says he, 'lllmated couples ? What ar-re ye talkin' about? Ar-re there any other kinds? Ar-re there anny two people in the wurruld that ar-re perfectly mated?' foe says. 'Was there iver a friendship that was annything more than a kinti iv sus-pension-bridge between quarrels?' he says. 'ln ivry .branch iv life,' says he, Sv© leap fr'm scrap to scrap,' he says. "Fame invites a. man out iv his house to be crowned f'r his gloryous deeds, an' sarves him with, a warrant f'r batin' his wife. 'Tis not in th' nature iv things, that it shudden't be so. We'd all perish iv humilyation if th' gr-reat men iv the wiirruld didn't have nachral lew-down thraits. If they don't happen to possess thim, we make some up f'r thim. We allow no man to tower oror us. Wan way or another, we level th' wurruld to our own height. If we can't reach th' hero's head we cut off his legs. It always makes me feel aisier about mesilf whin I r-read how bad Julius Cayzar ■was.

I"Th' other mornin' I was readin' th' pa-apers about th' panic in Wall sthreet, an' though I've niver seen annything all me life but wan continyal panic, I felt low in me mind ontil I looked up an' see ye go by with ye'er shovel on ye'er shoulder, an' me heart leaped up. I wanted to rush to th' tillygraft office and wire me frind J. Pierpont Morgan—- ' Don't be downcast. It's all right. I just see Hinnissy go by with his shovel. "Who tells time be a clock? Ivry hour is th' same to a clock, an' ivry hour is different to me. Wan long, wan short. There ar-re hours in th' avenin' that pass between two ticks iv th clock; there ar-re hours in th' arly mornin' whin a man can't sleep that Methusaleh's age cud stretch in. Clocks ar-re habiehool liars, an' so ar-re scales. As soon as annything gets good enough to weigh ye can't weigh it. Scales ar-re f'r th' other fellow. I'm perfectly willin' to take ye'er weight or ye'er soul's weight fr'm what th' scales say. Little I care. A pound or two more or less makes no diff'rence. But when it comes to measurin' something that's precious to me, I'll not trust it to a slight improvement on a see-saw."—From "Mr. Dooley Says." MAKING EXCUSES Men are peer things when it comes to excuses to "put off" a friend. But a woman who in a wild bout of generosity has asked someone to partake of her hospitality, and then in calmer moments realised that she doesn't want them, will stop at nothing to put them off. Catch her hesitate to tell her best friend not to come, and not finding excuses by the score to justify her action in the"other woman's sight! For not the least among woman's splendid gifts is her imagination, her grand self-possession and coolness in such circumstances are worthy of all commendation. RECORD PRICE FOR A GUIDE Miss Maria Stoll, of Philadelphia, has just made a record ascent in the Tyrolese Alps, and created a precedent by paying her guide, named Piaz, the huge sum of £IOISO for the climb. She decided, when staying at Innsbruck, to ascend at night with lanterns to the top of the "Tour de Winkler," nearly ftOOO feet, with almost perpendicular slopes. At dawn the couple dimbed two other precipitous peaks be"fore descending to the valley. Miss Stoll insisted on the ascent being made at night, in spite of the danger. This mountain has been rarely climbed, even by the best Alpinists, owing to its great difficulty, and never, it is believed, has such a price been paid to a guide for a single ascent. Both risked their lives during the greater part of the climb in the darkness. THE FASHIONED FIGURE. Nearly every year the fashionable figure is subjected to some subtle change to suit the new models. Rumor has it that the accepted "taille" in Paris boasts very sloping shoulders and effaced hips, with an extremely straight line in front. This is by no means an ideal which the majority of women can hope to attain, but the new corsets can be trusted to give a great deal of help in its achievement, and there are quite as many Englishmen as Frenchwomen who will be successful in following La Mode in this respect.

J BRIDGE - PLAYING MOTHERS. Philanthropy takes quaint forms. One of its latest forms in the Unied States is a politician who is introducing into the Louisiana Legislature "a Bill to suppress bridge for the benefit of children who rarely have an opportunity to know their-bridge playing mothers." Obviously the one thing to help such hapless children would be to suppress not bridge, but the mothers. YOUTHFUL READING. It is a moot point, whether the detective novel, harmless though it may be in many ways, is the best reading for boys and girls. Its morals may be beyond reproach, and an improvement in this way upon the Dick Turpin-Claude Duval style of adventurer, whose crimes, of course, only endeared him the more to his admirers, These were, however, breezy adventurous taels. They galloped along turnpike roads by moonlight and fought masked men at great odds. There was nothing sordid in the plot or its working, and there was no analogy in affairs of the day. The detective story seems, however, to have created an appetite for morbid details concerning the excitements of the moment, which is a new trait in children. It is not only the small errand boy who contaminates his mind by the penny dreadfuls he devours in the intervals of leaving the morning milk. The precocious keenness of the child of cultured parents also gives food for reflection. FASIION BREVITIES. Black satin jackets are wonderfully smart. Chains are superseding leather straps for handbag handles. New guimpc-s are of the most unobtrusive order, fine and shallow. Silk crepon heavily beaded is one of the smartest materials for handsome gowns. Among the new ribbons come numbers that are flowered and figured. Black, velvet ribbons are also seen, many of which are used as piping. "Comet" is the name of the new royal blue shade that is so likely to become popular. Much attention is to be paid to the color chosen for linings of new evening wraps. i Madeira and eyelet embroideries lead in the general favorites. Chintz is employed to make up work aprons, work bags, and many of the little eases for accessories. Bu«kles and tassels of black wooden heads come alike on sashes and millinery. Smoke grey is one of the most approved of colors by the Parisian dressmaker, who with it gets, most wonderful effects over different colors. AN AMUSING STORY. As 20 workgirls'came out of a dressmaker's shop in the Rue Goileau (says t*e Paris correspondent of the Daily Express) at midday, an arm encircled the waist of one of them. The girl protested indignantly. The too-gallant intruder was well dressed in a frock-coat, .grey trousers, top hat, patent leather boots, and wore smart-grey suede gloves. But he was a hideous little person. The girls began making fun of him, when suddenly he caught hold of one and put his face close against her. She iboxed his ears, and he dropped on all fours and bit her leg. There was a panic; The girls rushed off shteking, and two policemen arrested the aggressor. The creature was a chimpanzee—a pet of an explorer living near at hand. He was captured after a struggle, and carried off to the police station, where he had to spend the night. An amusing item of the story is that the police magistrate got very'angry with the monkey when, he was first brought in, because he refused to answer any questions and .turned his back on the official table.