WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 261, 14 March 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). POLICEMAN'S ROMANCE. MARRIED TO AN HELRESS. Miss Giulio Morosini, daughter of a millionaire, was recently married to Arthur Werner, a New York policeman. This event attracted much attention, because the wedding was the climax to a romance which began when Werner, who belongs to the mounted constabulary, rescued the lady, who is young, beautiful and wealthy, from a runaway horse. The incident took place live years ago. Werner was on his usual beat, and saw Miss Morosini trying to stop the bolting pair she had been driving. He spurred iiis horse, and after a hard chase, managed to grip the heads of the animals and bring them to a halt. Miss Morosini had no chance to thank him then in the excitement, but was so impressed by his courage and so grateful for his gallantry, that she went to the station and thanked him personally. Again and again the young lady called to renew her thanks, and finally Werner was engaged by Mr. Morosini as manager of his estate. He has served in this capacity ever since, and has shown marked ability. It is said that practically the 1 entire financial management of the great Morosini possessions have been in liisj hand?. This is Werner's second marriage. He made a separation agreement >vitli his first wife eight years ago, and about five months since she obtained a divorce on grounds of abandonment. Miss Morosini is her father's favorite daughter, and was known for a long time as the best-dressed woman in New York. She was a fancier of fine horses and a prominent figure at the horse show. Werner is the third mounted fconstable in New York to marry an heiress lately, and naturally the competition to enter the mounted force, which is used in America chiefly for the regulation of street traffic, has become increasingly keen. All the horsed police of New York are young, handsome and chivalrous fellows, who look as smart as British troopers in their uniforms, which are fashioned after those of the Royal Irish Constabulary. It requires political influence and a cash payment to enter the force, but once enrolled it is rather a "soft" job, because the foot police do most of the work, and the mounted men arc reserved chiefly for ornamental and rescue purposes. This view was recently expressed to the late Commissioner of Police (Mr. McAdoo), who introduced mounted police into America for traffic regulation. In London, the traffic is regulated in the Strand without mounted men, and why not in Broadway, New York? Mr. McAdoo smilingly refused to accept the argument, but agreed that mounted constables looked smarter than foot. WHY ACTRESSES MARRY WELL. By Miss Zena Dare, in M.A.P. (The announcement of Miss Zena Dare's engagement to the Hon. Maurice Brett, Lord Esher's son, has caused a ! great deal' of interest in Society and theatrical circles. In the following article Miss Dare gives some i;easons as to why actresses make good matches. J In the first place, do they? i | A few of us, no <foubt, marry into | wealthy families, or become the posses- | sors of great names, but how many? Thinks of the thousands of girls who [ arc dependent for their very bread and | butter upon their weekly "earnings as I "actresses," and then count on your fingers the few who are fortunate enough to marry into a position which will enable them to be financially independent. There are not a great number of us, I can assure you. But to turn more explicitly to the question, I think I can answer for it in a very few words. Owing to the fact that convention allows more freedom to the girl on the stage than to her sister in the drawing-room, it is possiblo for a man to get to know the former very much better than he can ever know the society girl, relations excepted. And I would add that, in my humble opinion, a happy marriage is dependent upon the bride and groom thoroughly knowing and understanding each other before taking the plunge. ° Comradeship, friendship, trust and confidence are all necessary ingredients for continued matrimonial happiness, and I suppose that the average man is vaguely aware of this. He knows instinctively, in fact, that whereas he can "learn" the actress before marriage, he can only "learn" the society girl" after—and when it is too late.

In addition, my profession necessitates certain qualities which, if properly developed, must mean character, and after all character is the keynote of life. For instance, the young girl is dumped down into a large theatre with all its temptations, its worries, its sorrows—and they (ire plenty—and its cares. She soon learns, if she has any backbone, how the land lies, and, so to speak, from then 011 experiences what it is to be continually on the defensive. That gives her a keener perception of the world, and a more intimate knowledge of human nature than she could otherwise ever obtain, and what, after all, inspire love, but sympathetic comprehension? It's so very easy to look on and smile, but men want something more than that. They want active encouragement proceeding from an acute realisation of the difficulties they have to encounter, no matter how they may be situated, and this, I think, we actresses, having been through the mill ourselves, can

Again, what chance has a man of ever knowing the ordinary society girl? lie meets her at a dance, and their conversation chiefly consists of "Nice floor, isn't it?" or "Are you going on to the So-and-So's?" They may sit out, and then ''.Mamma," or a watchful chapcronc, looms up on the horizon and "closes the session," or else, from a distance, surveys the young couple through tortoiseshell lorgnettes with grim disapproval. I know if my mother were staring at me all the time, F couldn't say "Boo" to a goose, and that's a fact.

Wo actresses can motor or lunch or do anything in reason with friends and we have not committed any terrible faux pas. Hence we very easily grow to know the true worth of our men friends, and when we decide to link our lives with any one of them, well, we know what we lire

doing, and we are perfectly happy and secure in the knowledge. There are two other points I would like to touch on before I finish, and one is to say a word against hasty marriages. "Marry in haste and repent at leisure" is as true on the stage as off but I don't think, as a rule, we actresset are prone to act on the spur of the moment and involve ourselves in a catastrophe. For that, of course, is what jt spells, doesn't it? An unhappy marriage is an awful thing to contemplate, and it nearly always arises from "not knowing" each other. In fact, that is really the sum total of my answer to the question why actresses many well, because men get to know and appreciate them, whereas hundreds of charming society girls, much nicer than we can ever be, are never known till too late. But if "to marry well" is "to marry happily," as I am going to do, then my recipe is simple in the, extreme: "Don't marry till you know the man, or vice versa, whom you wish to marry." NURSERY DISCIPLINE. In the February number of the Baby'; World, E. E. ttolton says: Briefly, my theory on the training of children's characters amounts to this— Let your little ones train themselves. Spare me your abuse, 0 ye sterner mothers, until you have heard "my plea. For the first year or two, of course, the "tinies" must be taught obedience simply on principle. Mummy says a tiling must be done, therefore it must. There can be absolutely no question about it, and woe unto that weak mummy who cannot stick to her word of command. Obedience thus taught will no doubt become, in most children, second nature, but there are a hundred-and-one little faults which must crop up daily in the best-trained child, the correction of which in the old style meant endless serious j "talkings-to," nagging, or punishing according to the temperament of Mummy. Directly my little ones had grown to an age when the "thinkers" began to work I had recourse to that which appeals more strongly to every child-mind, namely, allegory. I told them that their faults were their cruel enemies, against whom they must go forth immediately j to do deadly battle.