WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 19 January 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). NEW EVENING GOWN. Velvet or velveteen must figure in the wardrobe of every fashionable woman this season. Seldom before have these handsome dress materials been so much I in vogue. J For outdoor wear the black velveteen' costume is the most popular, as it is both serviceable and smart, and although velvet is frequently used for the same purpose, it is found less practical, as it is more liable to injury in wet weather. Modern velveteen is made so skilfully that it is not easily distinguished from velvet.

"Plush is scarcely worn at all," said a well-known London man, "but a substitute for it is the new 'fur velvet,' which is softer and not so shaggy as plush. It is being used, a good deal for coats and evening wraps. "For dinner and reception gowns a favorite velvet is the 'velours vestal.' It has a peculiar softness that makes it particularly suitable for a frock with a long graceful train.

"On the whole, there appears to be a predilection for black and all the darker shades of velvet—except in the case of shot velvet.

"This, the latest noxwlty from Paris, is extremely effective in a frock, especially when it is trimmed with the elusive color of the material."

WOMEN DEFY HAT EDICT. Boston, December 18. Boston society women who attended the Friday afternoon symphony concert j defied Mayor Fitzgerald's edict, and wore their hats. The Mayor sent word that the symphony management must obey the city ordinance, and have all hats removed or lose its license. No one paid the slightest attention to the Mayor's! orders, and the management became so alarmed that ushers were sent around the great hall with cards. Each woman was presented with one, which was neatly printed, and read:—"Ladies wearing hats in Symphony Hall during a concert are violating the law. Will you kindly remove your hat? You will thereby oblige those seated behind you, and aid in observing the law." Only tw» or three women removed their hats. The others simply whispered their indignation. Symphony enthusiasts contend that they go to the concert to hear and not see, and that the symphony concerts have been the one place in Boston where hats could be displayed. The management may sympathise, but it is helpless, and must cither carry out the Mayor's orders or lose its license. '

KISSED ,TOO ARDENTLY Minneapolis, November 7. Because her husband in kissing her used either too much ardor or too much strength, and because she objects to osculation as a general proposition, Mrs. Amelia Schmidt is suing for divorce on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment. The alleged osculation which is the basis of the suit for divorce is said to have occurred on August 0 last at the home of her mother, from which she refused to remove at the suggestion of her husband. He endeavored to kiss her when taking leave of her, and she lied into an inner room. He followed. Relatives and friends say that he succeeded in implanting a big one on his wife's lips. I

LAW AGAINST NAGGING WIVES. Denying a wife a decree of separation from her husband because she had nagged her spouse, Supreme Court Justice Crane, in Brooklyn, expressed some views on domestic conduct which gave great comfort to Brooklyn men who always find their better halves sitting up and ready to go into action as a reception committee when they return from lodge -meetings. Justice Crane, in denying the wife the relief she had asked for, said:

"When the wife tantalises the husband into a temper the resulting hasty words and violent deeds may not amount to cruel and inhuman conduct, as the Jaw 1 uses these words, although men agree that insults and violence to a wife are inhuman. Otherwise she would be permitted when seeking relief in court to profit by her own acts. I find that the plaintilV's charges are in the main true, and likewise that the provocation alleged by the, defence is substantiated by the evidence. The law does not say that a man is ever justified in losing his temper and swearing at his wife, but it does -ay that when she comes into court asking for a separation, with support, because of such conduct, the husband may showin defence that he was nagged on and 1 provoked by her constant aggravating and exasperating treatment until he lost his temper and said things he never meant or intended. The defendant was extremely jealous. Jealousy often thrives on mere trifles, inflamed by suspicion and imagination. Love, not hatred, is at the base of it, so that it brings an excruciate ing mental suffering equal to, if not surpassing, . ti-a.t of physical pain. If the defendant, through jealous, hasty temper, struck the plaintiff, had she caused him no injury by rousing and goading? Jealousy and suspicion have been the only cause of trouble between this couple. Therefore, I have decided that while the defendant struck the plaintiff and used, offensive language, yet I will refuse her a decree, because of her treatment of him. The complaint Ido not dismiss, but refuse the relief asked, directing, however, that the defendant support his wife and child by proper allowance." |

j GIRLS IN LOTTERIES. j Taeoma, November 10. Miss Lavcnc Livingston, aged 20, late from Petosky, Mic, born in Virginia, today offered herself as tiie capital prize in a lottery. Miss Livingston proposes to sell 10,000 tickets at Idol, eaeli. 'The man getting the lucky number will be entitled to her and 'half the money. If the winner be unwilling to marry him she forfeits her half. "I need the money," she says. Since leaving high school she has bern employed as a bookkeeper, which strains Jier eyes. She has black hair, blue eyes, rosy cheeks and a trim figure.