WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 222, 13 January 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). WEDDING AT IXGLEWOOD. GRANT-NICHOLLS. Yesterday, at the residence of Mr. IS. 11. Nicholls, Ingiewood, a very happy family re-union took place, the occasion being the marriage of -Miss Mabel Ruth Nicholls, third daughter of Mr. Nicholls, to Mr. Jack Valentine Grant, of the telegraph staff at Wanganui, and formerly of Inglewood and New Plymouth. The bride, who was given away by her father, was charmingly attired in a striped voile with gold bead ornamental trimming, and wore the orthodox wedding veil of embroidered silk, and carried a lovely shower bouquet. She was attended by her little niece, Miss Madge Hopson, daintily dressed in cream voile with real lace trimmings and silk hat. Mr. George Nicholls, brother of the bride was best man, and the nuptial tie was fixed by the Rev. Mr. Alberts. After the wedding breakfast, at which the time-honored toast of the health of the newly-married couple was enthusiastically drunk, Mr. and Mrs. Grant left by the afternoon train for Wanganui, which will be their future-home. The bride's travelling dress was a prettyj vieux rose costume, and she wore a reseda green coat and hat to match. The young couple were highly esteemed J in the community, and the presents they! received were numerous and handsome. '

LONDON FASHION NOTES. THE NEW SOUTANE HABIT. London, November 25. The new soutane habit, which is a; dress and coat combined, must be strictly j confined to the fortunate wearer who' possesses a lady's maid, or at least soniej kind person who will always put her in and take her out of the soldierly gar-; nient, since it buttons down .the" back! towards the right side in a way that! makes it quite impossible to "button one-j self up.'| For the fall, slim person, the: fashion is a very becoming one. A model I saw this week was of smooth cloth I trimmed with danker velvet and fur. Emoutlined a V-shaped yoke of jewelled lace and trimmed the hem of the. skirt, and a fairly wide velvet belt swathed the waist, the bodice being slightly pouched in front. The back of the gown had a fold of material, envelope-wise, from the centre of the back to the right, and this buttoned all the way down with velvet buttons the size of a sixpence. A high toque of velvet and fur to match the trimming of the dress, and with a velvet cabochon on the left side holding a wing in place, completed the toilette. .Shoulder scarves of fur lined with fur are worn of such enormous size that they I can be swathed 1 round the wearer like ; Shetland shawls. ' Coats of fur are,mostly fashioned oi the loose seamless description, many of them with wide sailor collars of white coney. In front the square collar often merges into soft shawl folds brought right down to the waist, where the coat is fastened across with one or two huttuns. This method of fastening the coat in .wrap-over style is decidedly the note of the season. Sometime.s it is accentuated with a single and very large rever, into which a touch of embroidery is introduced, while in other cases there arc a couple of revers falling in deep folds, and cut into sharp handkerchief points on either side. Dainty Hoods—The charming .evening hoods of white lambswool, lined with light silk, have sprung into the forefront of fashion as they deserve, and now can bo bought in more than one variety. A delightful novelty oll'ered among things suitable for Christmas presents is a hood and scarf to match, all edged with dully swaiisdown and 'warmly interlined. Velvet is also employed for the same article, and, lined witli a contrasting or harmonising shade of silk, makes a fascinating outfit for cold evenings such as we are getting now.

The tea coat is decidedly a dainty addition to a woman's afternoon toilet, and need not be at all out of the reach of the home dressmaker of artistic bent, ft is a garment of lighter eil' t ct, rather, than the better-known matinee coat, and can be fashioned of beaded net, ninon, soft silk, or, indeed, anything soft and graceful. Hand embroidery, or, belkr still, hand-painted trimming, makes the little conceit <i'll the prettier. The neck is usually V-shaped and the .sleeves wide, elbow-length, with an underfrill of laee. West End shops have tlie.se tea coats made like tiny kimonas also, in Oriental coloring. Tunics are as "safe" as ever, and are only altering as regards trimming, and the newest fashion in this direction is very pretty. The tunic is bordered all round with rosebuds or other flower heads, worked out in satin, and, marking the; line of the waist, as •well' as outlining the deeollotage just below the little tucker, while the same flowers are repeated as a border to the sleeves, and sometimes round the foot of the tunic. J Ciirdles of silver cord caught at the left side of the waist with a posy of flowers,! and then utilised to loop up the tunic a little more at the left side than the right of the skirt, are being added to frocks \ for debutantes, and give a dainty puritanical -air to a white gown. Very large curl's are to be noticed on the tailor-made costumes from Vienna. Xcw Shape Shirt Mouse—ln spite of the cry last year that the days of the blouse were numbered on account of the popularity of the one-pieco dress, a new and serviceable manner of making up shirt blouses is to be noted in the many displayed in London's shop windows. There! is still a suggestion of the Magyar style in the plain front of the new fash-l ion, but a flat box pleat is added to the centre of the front, and a neat little side pocket «lso. It is prophesied that a belt of the blouse material will be part of the new scheme. There is a slight touch of fulness at the waist. The sleeves are tight. The remarkable popularity of bead trimmings becomes firmer every day, and now even tailor-made costumes' are" sharing in the vogue, serge ami doth bodices underneath coats being lavishly embroidered with heads in various colorings. 1 do not know whether any readers know what fig dust is, or how i't is to be procured, but it may be useful to them! to know that lig dust, made hot, a smallj quantity at a tune, and rubbed tlior-i

oughly into any light material, acts as a capital cleaning agent.

A white feather boa should have the dust well rubbed in, and when thoroughly cleaned, should be rubbed with a dry cloth. Any white fur, light coats, dresses, and so forth, may be so renovated also without unpicking. To set green, blue, lavender and pink colorings for washing purposes, soak them in alum' Water before washing them, using the alum in the proportion of two ounces to a basin of ,waler. Jilack, dark blue and grey sMould be soaked in strong salted water.

NOTES FROM LONDON. QUEEN' MARY. London, November 2,i. Queen Mary shows a catholic spirit in the many and various bazaars, guilds, etc., she supports. This week her Majesty contributed the entire contents of one stall to the grand bazaar organised by the Women's League of the London Congregational Union, and held, at the Memorial Hall, in Farringd'on-street. The object of tile bazaar was to raise money for the assistance of twenty-live ministers and churches in the working-class and poor districts of London, and also for two central missions, Claremont and Cross-way.

TRIUMPH FOR OPERA. Of ''Der Talisman," the opera, the work of .Mrs. .-Ulela Madfiison, an Englishwoman, the critics speak jn high praise. Thus the Times' correspondent, in Leipzig, where the opera was performed, the morning after its performance: ''There was a remarkable first performance at the Neu; s Theatre here last night of a new opera by an English composer, who,lues taken as her text a famous German play founded upon an old 'German story. Mrs. Adela Maddison, who, after studying in Paris, has worked in Berlin for four ytars, is not quite the first English composer to obtain acceptance of an opera by an. important German theatre, but she is, I believe, the first who can claim a real success. 'Der Talisman' was a. success—qualified in some respects, but real—and the first impression of German critics, who are held in peculiar awe, indicates that the composer has contributed to win esteem for English music, which is at present by no means high." Mr. William •!. Locke, the popular novelist and playwright, who is at present in America, gave some interesting information to aw interviewer about his methods of work. "I couldn't write two novels a year if I were paid two million pounds for doing it!" he said. The interviewer was under the impression that the novelist wrote spontaneously and easily. To use his own words, Mr. Locke's stories read as if the words "simply flowed from him." 'Anything but. that," Mr. Locke protested. "Anything but that. Every sentence is thought over and balanced and polished in my head before it goes on paper.. Often I write it out on ii scrap of paper two or three times before I put it in my manuscript. lam glad the machinery does not show; but my books are certainly not easily written. Sometimes I have to drive myself to work. I sit down, and perhaps by good luck I see one of my dogs running over a flower-bed. I put down my pen and go out and drive him off, profoundly grateful to him for having given me another ten minutes' respite. That's the way 1 work."

11 ME. CUR IK. Mmc. Curie, the eminent scientist, Ims decided to oiler herself as ;i candidate for election to the Institute of France. The. chair at the Academy of Sciences in the section of general physics has been rendered vacant by the death of M. Gernez, and if lime. Curie, whose celebrated husband formerly occupied tin* chair, should be ehusen, she will be the first -woman admitted to the Institute of France. WOMEN AS ARCHITECTS. It is interesting to note that the remarks made at the Women's Congress concerning the remarkably small number of women who take up the profession of architecture in England do not apply to our sisters on the Continent. At an examination in architecture held recently in Paris three ladies gained diplomas— Mdll-c. Genevieve Trelat, a young Parisieniie, and Mdllcs. Bernstein and Issnkovitch, both Russian girls. Mdlle. Trelat was classed first 'with two men out of a total of twenty-three candidates. One woman in London, a Miss El-pctli McCellaml, is practising as an architect, and achieving much success in the profession.

BRILLIANT WOMEN. The death occurred recently at Nasik, (in India, of Mrs. Fnincina Sorabji, whose late husband was one of the best-known l'arsee Christians and a clergyman. .Mrs. .Sorabji was one of the leading educationists iu India, -ami .lias done, remarkably line work in establishing village, high and training schools, etc,, in various parts of the country. All of her seven children have attained some sort of distinction, one of them, Cornelia, being one of the first to take advantage of the opening of .the Honors School of Law at Oxford ■to women. She is now counsel to the Court of Wards in Bengal and East Bengal. Lady Desart has been elected to the Freedom of the City of Kilkenny. This is said to be the first time tltt distinction has been conferred by an Irish city .on any woman. GENERAL. Three women have been successful this year in the ploughing matches held annually 411 'Briglitlingsea. It is a somewhat remarkable fact that more t)han a century has elapsed since there was a female K.A. .Mrs. Fountain, wife of Mr., Joshua Fountain, a veteran Yorkshire naturalist and authority on sea-birds, died suddenly this week tit Filey, Yorkshire. She has j been ..nown to succor and clothe scores I of seamiui wrecked upon the Yorkshire coast, and received the thanks of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society and of the lifeboat Institution for her good work.