WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 262, 15 March 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). WOULD - WIDE SEACH FOR A BEAUTIFUL GIRL. CURIOUS MYSTERY. Xew York, January 2G. A world-wide search is being made by the Xew York police for Miss Dorothy Arnold, the twenty-lire-year-old daughter of Mr. F. R. Arnold, a millionaire perfume importer, who disappeared mysteriously on December 12. Miss Arnold, who was pretty and accomplished, left her home to purchase a costume for Christmas, and vanished as completely as though the earth had swallowed her up. The police throughout America are limiting for her, and her distracted father has sent cablegrams abroad in the hope' that she may be . found in some foreign city. When she left her home in Seventy-ninth-street on the morning of December 12, Miss Arnold walked down Fifth-ave-nue. She did some shopping, and was seen by a girl friend at 2 o'clock walking in the direction of Central Park. Miss Arnold told her friend that she intended going to Central Park to read a bookshe had just purchased. The'h all trace of her was lost. The police have tried all conceivable clues, and have even cabled to Miss Arnold's uncle in Munich without any result. The girl's sweetheart is unable to | dispel the mystery. j A CENTENARIAN. WOMAN' CELEBRATES HER 117 th BIRTHDAY. Xew York, January 21. Mrs. Esther Davis, the oldest inmate at the Home of the Daughters of Jacob, at No. 302 East Broadway, has just celebrated her 117 th birthday. It was an exciting day among the old people. For several weeks they had been preparing for a birthday party, given by the board of directors, and when the hour for the festivities arrived every old lady appeared in a simple tan wrapper and white apron. Many of them wore little white lace caps carefully adjusted over their scanty locks. Mrs. Davis herself wore a dull blue wrapper and a cap of black and purple worsted. Mrs. Davis has been in the home for seven years. She was born in Russia, and came til America 32 years ago. Her husband and three children are dead and she has no living relative. At 4 o'clock the celebrations began. The 185 old people in the home gathered in the large lower hall of the building and began a Chanukah hymn. Mrs. Davis sang with them. After the singing, Cantor Abraham Minkofsky, of the congregation of Etzedik, led the old folks in prayer, after which they joined their voices in another hymn in honor of the Feast of Lights. Cake, wine and fruit were served. Then someone started a gay tune on the piano, and several of the aged party took each other round the waist and danced. At 0 o'clock the celebration was over. KILLED WITH JOY. WOMAN DIES DAY BEFORE HER 100 th BIRTHDAY. Paris, January 22. A pathetic -story comes from the little town of Yaux. Mine. Gabrielle Lispartette would have reached her hundredth birthday to-day, and everyone had prepared to take part in celebrating the occasion. The Mayor, two Senators, a Deputy, the Governor of Verdun, and other officials were to call on her and present an address and a handsome gift, towards which every man and woman in the town had subscribed. In the qvening the streets were to have been illuminated and a grand concert was to have taken place. Mine. Lispartette, who was in excellent health, had been looking forward very much to the great day. Her youngest and only living son, Etienne. aged 70, presented her with a handsome black silk dress which she was to have worn on the occasion, and she had taken the greatest pride and delight in trying it on. But while washing her linen in the village stream she caught cold. Influenza supervened, and several times during last week she said that she scarcely dared to hope to see her birthday. Her fears were realised, for she was found dead in her bed yesterday morning ■from heart failure, caused by over excitement in anticipation of the festivities in her honor. THE PANKHURST AUTOCRACY. Tlio militant suffragettes have lost one of their leaders, one of the pioneers of their jjjovement, by the defection of Mrs. Teresa Billington-Greig. She indulges in some very plain speaking about the Pankhursts in the Xew Age. Mrs. Pankhurst and her daughter, she savs, are autocrats. Tliey attack Mr. Asijuith for denying votes to women, but thev themselves deny votes to their followers. " I he V> omen s Social and Political Union now depends upon personal dominance lor its existence. The leaders impose a yoke of emotional control by which the very virtues of the members are exploited: they produce a system of mental and spiritual slavery." The suffragette movement has degenerated, according to Mrs. J'illington-Grcig. "The emancipatiou-in-a-hurry spirit has eaten up the spirit of emancipation. Daring to advertise in an unconventional way, the movement has dared nothing else It has gradually edged the working class element out of the ranks. It has become socially exclusive, punctilliously correct, gracefully fashionable, ultra-respectable, and narrowly religious. It pays for its one breach of decorum with additional circumspection in all other directions."

I boliovc (savs a London corespondent) Mi's. Itillington-f.lreig docs not exaggerate tile dominance exercised over the suffragette camp liv the PankhursU and the wealthy Mi's. I'ethick Lawrence. But if the suffragettes have grown "ultra-re-spectable," it must surely be since their assault on Mr. Asrpiith and Mr. Birrell in November last. It must be since the recent prosecutions for window-smashing, unless, of course, this has become an ultra-respectable pastime.