WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 257, 9 March 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). A RINKING ROMANCE. | GLASGOW HEIRESS ELOPES WITII' SKATING INSTRUCTOR. London, January 10. The elopement of tho daughter of one of Glasgow's wealthiest merchants with a smart young skating-rink instructor lias startled the fashionable dovecotes of the northern city. The pair fled to Edinburgh to be mar-1 ried, and next day took train to London, the element of romance being completed by the hot pursuit of the irate parent. The girl, who has just come of age, is the only daughter of the principal in a Glasgow firm which has one of the most extensive soft goods businesses in the Kingdom. Some time ago she went on a visit to a distinguished Ayrshire family, and first met her lover at a skating rink at Ayr, where he was employed as an instructor. The attraction was mutual, and during the remainder of her stay she was a constant visitor at the rink. In due course she returned to her home in the west end of Glasgow, and shortly afterwards the young man secured a situation' as instructor at the Victoria-road rink, the first skating pavilion opened in Glasgow. Although the rink is at the other' end of the city the girl became a regular visitor, and, according to the attendants, she wa3 seen almost daily on the floor skating, with her lover as escort.

At last they made up their minds tb elope, and a few weeks ago, in Edinburgh, the couple, duly accompanied by two witnesses, weie united in matrimony by a sheriff. On the following day they set off for London to spend their honeymoon. While in the metropolis they are said to have stayed at an hotel in West Kensington, but their period of bliss was short-lived, for the bride's father, who had heard of the marriage wtih feelings of consternation, appeared on the scene, accompanied by a solicitor. After a stormy interview, the young wife returned to Glasgow with her father. The husband followed later, and the next chapter of the romance has yet to be written.

Before becoming a skating instructor the husband was employed in an insurance office. He is said to be a son of the proprietor of an hotel in Paisley, and is of the same age as the bride. Besides being an heiress, the young wife is understood to possess already a small fortune, which rumor puts at £BOOO.

Not so long ago a flutter was causod in the West of Scotland by a similar Dunoon romance. The bride in that case was the daughter of a prominent Hardware merchant, and the bridegroom a violinist who had been playing at the Castle Gardens concerts at the Clyde holiday resort. ' '^i.«: CZAR'S BRILLIANT COURT COSTUMES OF FABULOUS VALUE. St. .Petersburg, January 14. The traditional brilliancy of the Russian Court was revived here to-day at the Czar's New Year (old style) reception at the Winter Palace. The Czarina was unable to be present owin>» to illhealth. ° The Court procession, led by the Czar and the Dowager Empress, went first to the chapel, where a service was held at which Mgr. Antonius, the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg, and other ecclesiastical dignities, officiated. After the service a procession was formed to the hall, where the Diplomatic Corps was assembled and presented their congratulations. The Czar wore the uniform of the Cuirassiers of the Dowager Empress, who was present, and wore a magnificent Russian bejewelled Court costume. A double line was formed—one one side by the military, naval and court officers in gorgeous uniforms, and on the other by the ladies, whose costumes could probably not be equalled in any capital o! Europe for their gorgeousness, including as they did head-dresses of fabulous value. I

It was characteristic that all classes, including th» commercial, both Russian and foreign, were represented. One of the most picturesque features was provided by a file of veterans of the Crimean and Turkish wars.

Next week, for the first time for many years, the Czar will attend the blessing of the waters of the Neva.

The last occasion when the Czar attended the blessing of the Neva was on January 19, 1905, and was marked by an amazing attempt to assassinate him by ease shot from a cannon. An artillery salute of 101 guns was fired, according to custom, at the moment when the Metropolitan had blessed the river and was sprinkling the Czar with water from it. The second round was followed by the sound of breaking glass, and several windows of the pavilion in which the Czar was were smashed by case shot. A policeman was fatally wounded. A committee which investigated the occurrence reported .that the affair was an accident. The artillery was at firing practice on January 4, "and, said the rc° port, "it is quite probable that a round of grape-shot had remained in one of the guns." "MR. PUNCH'S MEDICAL NOTES. A correspondent of the Lancet savs: "Smoking just before meals is to be deprecated, because the pungency of the pyroligneous products contained in tobacco smoke renders the buccal mucosa insensitive to alimentary stimulation—in fact, their effect is to dull or abolish the olfacto-gustatory reflex, thus deprivisg us of what Pawlaw calls Appetite." Mr. Punch also offers a few similar homely lips on domestic hygiene: Chocolate creams before meals are ant to produce ante-post-prandial bursitis, collateral with sub-acute lesions of meticulous patronymics. The potency of the sacchotherapeutics cause definite lolypoposis, and renders the sufferer (particularly in advanced infanced infancv or supra-nipperhood) unamenable, to'tho patho-digesto-epicurean excitement of cold mutton.

The .strictures do not apply to Turkish delight (Golnmptious Orientalis), which, in carefully graduated minims, as prescribed by a physician, lias considerable

I valuable as an anti-squallutic. Pawlaw | also commends its forcible administration ! to patients of advancing years in case or choleric exacarbation. THE BOND OF UNION. DIVORCE COURT ROMANCE. The vestibule of the Supreme Court in Sydney was the other morning the scene of an incident which does not often occur within those somewhat forbidding precincts. A husband and wife came to be divorced. But they went away reconciled. The man was in the custody of a warder from Darlinghurst Gaol. The wife, a neat little woman, appeared with her son, who wus dressed in a tidy sailor suit, and was smiling in his innocent unconsciousness of the purport of what was going on around him. When husband and wife met there were very few people about. The woman was the petitioner in the divorce case, but when she saw the man whom she had taken for better or for worse old associations and the dictates of a wifely heart must have overcome the desire for a separation. She greeted her husband affectionately, and a moment later the solicitor who was to have conducted her ease was applyin.' lo Mr. Justice Gordon to have tilt petition dismissed, a course which his Honor permitted. The man went back to finish his sentence, and the wife to her home to await his return.

BONUS ON INDIAN BABIES UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT'S OFFER. "Indian girls oh the reservation in Washington are attractive in the eyes of young ranchmen, and many of them are joining in matrimony and in the fight against race suicide," said Captain John McA. Webster, Superintendent of Indian Reservations in Washington, while in Spokane on official business. He added: "Uncle Sam has placed a premium on Indian babies, and the result is a large increase in the population on the reservations in Washington during the last few years. The largest number of births is reported on the Colville reservation, north of the city, which contains 1,400,000 acres of land.

"Every Indian baby is entitled to eighty acres of agricultral land, or, if the land in the reservation is not agricultural, he or she is entitled to 100 acres. This right cannot be alienated after the child is registered, and in case of its death, even though only a few days old, the land which would be allotted to the child goes to the parents as the heirs.

"One hundred and sixty acres is a substantial and attractive bounty for bringing a child into the world, and the Indians on the allotted reservations are not slow in taking advantage of it." The Government of the United States did not intend primarily to encourage the rearing of children," but the situation has developed as the result of the general Indian question. The Indians are to receive their final allotments of land. In most reservations in the country these allotments have been made but the work still has to be done on the Colville reservation.