WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 277, 13 April 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). SOCIALISM AND MARRIAGE. LOVE-LETTERS OF A MILLIONAIRE. New York, February 22. The breach of promise suit for £20,000 brought by the pretty Russian Jewess Miss Anna Bertha Grunspan against Mr. William 'English Walling, the millionaire Socialist, continues to monopolise public attention by reason of the curous conflict disclosed in the testimony between romantic sentiments and Socialism. The foundations of matrimony have always formed a subject of dispute among leading Socialists, but it remained for Mr. Walling specifically to urge Socialistic doctrines as a barrier to true love. Shaken with sobs, Miss Grunspan tes1' Tied that it was while she was studying in London to fit herself to be the wife ' f a wealthy Socialist that Mr. Walling >' 'serted her and went to America. Some months later lie met her again in Paris. "He left the two ladies with whom he was walking," declared the plaintiff, "and rushed over to me. It was in the Place de TOpcra. He called a cab, pushed me inside, and began telling me that he had married another woman because of her Socialistic ideas, but that he did, riot love her. 'You,' lie protested, 'are the only woman I have ever loved. I'll .take care of you as long as you live.' " After pansing in her evidence to indulge" in another fit .of weeping, the plaintiff, whom Mr. Walling watched with pale face and tightened lips, proceeded to read to the court a series of letters, in which she reproached her "curly wolf" and her "ugly monkey," as she termed him, for allowing his love for her to cool. In the letters she informed him that she realised that she had no claim on him. These declarations, she explained in court, were made to show him that she accepted his protestations that no Socialist ought to regard love otherwise than as a free contract. Finally Mr. Walling wrote as follows: — "You have been more in my heart and mind than any other woman. I think of your character, your tastes, your future. I am happy when you are happy, and sad when you are sad. But I cannot say that without you I cannot live. I love the world with all my heart and soul, as .a Socialist, and I cannot lore any single being in the same sense. According to my interpretation of Socialism it would be criminal to give one's life up to one person." To this the plaintiff replied as lows:"Dear, charming, amiable little animal. I can't agree with you. If a man can't love somebody he is not worthy of the name of Socialist. —Your loving, Anna." The proceedings will be resumed tomorrow. AN EARL AND A NEW ZEALAND GIRL. in connect'in with the announcement lint the E.ui of Hardwicke is to bo married to Miss Nellie Russell, late of Auckland, a London correspondent, writing on February 20, says: "The lady was stated in some paper.-; to be a Miss Neville, "a New Zealand lady said to possess a considerable fortune," but the Daily Express corrects this report, anil announces that the 'Earl is to be married to Miss Nellie Russell, eldest daughter of the late Mr. James Russell and Mrs. Russell, of Auckland. The Earl of Hardwicke, who is at present staying on the Riviera, succeeded to an empty title two years ago, the splendid estates having passed out of the family. The Baron Hardwicke was Philip Yorke, a Dover solicitor, who married a Miss Gibbon, a member of the same family as the famous historian. Their son became Solici-tor-General, and afterwards Lord Chancellor and the Earl of Hardwicke. This famous Chancellor's second son also became Chancellor—probably the only instance on record where both father and son have reached that high office. The present Earl spent several years of his life as a mining engineer in America. He was one of the earliest of young men to take up motoring in real earnest; he has won several prizes with his motorboat; while ballooning and airship flying have also found in him an ardent supporter. In his wanderings abroad the Earl is said to have gone by the name of Yorke, without any "handles." UNCONVENTIONAL. The Free Lance remarks as follows: Lady Islington believes in rational costumes when in the country. So say tne Wairarapa people, who used to see her making her way about in very sensible rig. And the report goes that when she was out shooting in the neighborhood of Featherston not so very long ago, .she was so neatly and suitably attired that a passing farmer took her for a boy, and wanted to know who the "sporting kid" was!

taincd the height by being the author of one of the Biblical books accepted by the canon. This is no other than the Epistle to the Hebrews, long attributed to St. Paul. For years scholars have known that St. Paul never wrote anything so exquisite in style; but they have failed to find the writer. Hamack now says that it was written by Priscilla, the wife of Aquila, and the fact «f the author being a woman accounts for the suppression of her name. Many scholars agree with him, including DV. Rendel Harris, Dr. J. H. Moulton and Dr. Adeney; also Professor Peake, who adds, moreover: "As the earlier freedom with- which the Gospel had emancipated women and set them at liberty to use their special talents for the edification of the Church gave wav to a stiffer and narrower ecclesiasticism which defrauded them of their rights, there was every temptation to suppress the unwelcome reminder that a woman had so far ventured out of her sphere as fro write such an Epistle, so quickly did the Church forget that in Christ Jesus there can be neither male nor female. ROUND-SHOULDERED GIRLS. If the young girl is to keep her shoulders square she must avoid stooping habit?. Growing girls must be taught not to stoop much even while eating, and they need not do so at all while reading. On the one band, bending too much will hurt the spine; on the other, sitting too erect gives an appearance of stillness and want of grace. Certain games, notably tennis, in which the body is rapidly moved in almost every conceivable position, are good for givifig grace of attitude to the whole body. I do not believe in the use of braces for retaining the back or spine in good form, and, indeed, they are generally used only after the mischief is done. A girl should assume correct attitudes of body of her own free will. I do believe, however, that many a graceful girl is spoilt in figure by sleeping in a bed which has not been properly made. The feather bed gets too much into the shape of a nest, and the spine and hips suffer accordingly. Then if the pillows are high, which tliov should never be while one is young, the mischief is completed, and women get round shoulders, which are positively all but incurable. Those round shoulders come on so imperceptibly that neither the girl herself nor her relatives are aware of the evil until it is done,