WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 280, 19 April 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). DUCHESSES WHO CARRY HER MAJESTY'S CANOPY. The four duchesses who iire to carry the Queen's canopy at the Coronation are their Graces of Sutherland, Portland, Montrose and Hamilton. They are more or less of the same height. They will wear their ordinary Coronation robes with coronets, and each duchess will have her train supported by a page. The four "Carter" peers who will carry the King's canopy are the four senior earls of the Order, according to date of creation. They are the Earls Cadogaii. Roscbery. Elgin and Roberts. They will wear the full Garter dress with jewelled "Georges" and blue velvet mantles. The four duchesses, if the precedent be] followed of the last Coronation, will rec"ive a special decoration in addition to the Coronation medal. Queen Alexandra! gave her duchesses a Danish Order in the] form of a cross, which was sent to them the night before the Coronation. | IMPERIAL SWEETS FOR BALLET .... GIRLS. | The Czar appeared at a matinee at the Imperial Opera of Tchaikovsky's fascinating ballet, "The Sleeping Beauty," bringing with him all his four daughters. « The Imperial Family occupied a side box, almost unseen by the public. I During the third entr'acte the young pupils of the Imperial Theatrical School, who were taking part in the ballet, entered the Emperor's apartment and received boxes of chocolate. Among them came some impersonating! the mice that drew the maleficent fairy, and much amusement was created among the girls of the Imperial Family when these rodents arrived curtseying and holding their long tails behind them. THE HATPIN. The New York aldermen have refused to interfere with the women's hatpin. Aever before in the history of the city have the aldermc-n refused to interfere with something. Interference is their long suit. But those frivolous aldermen had a good time before they got down to a vote (reports the Argonaut). The room was filled with women, and, curiousy enough, they all wanted the hatpin abolished or curtailed. There is a point in feminine psychology here that needs investigation, but time presses. Moreover, it is not a question of time but of eternity, where the feminine psychology is concerned. Nearly nil of these women were prepared to prove—and simultaneously; too—that the hatpin is unnecessary, or at least that it can be denatured, like alcohol.- The hat cculd be stuck on with glue, or fastened on with screw?, or the point of the pin could be protected; with decorative buttons or even with th" unassuming potato. Why there was one girl there with dreamy brown eyes, a b '"He, with the most filching lit'le dimple just where n dimn'e ought ta.be, and a figure that would have made the Venus de Milo hurry for her underclothing. She was the third girl from the right on the front row, and that girl had four hatpins on the port bow and three more to starboard, and not one of them visible. She proved it to Aldeman Downing, who is unmarried—or was last week—and howcvor closely he looked he could not sec those hatpins, and Alderman Downing is not the man to take up a job like that and drop it half-wav., He tried all right, did the alderman, bijt it was no good. And then there was Alderman Campbell. You can't deceive Alderman Campbell. He has to be shown. Knowing that pretty girls are apt to be deceitful, he singled them out, and he just would see for himself. A perfect bulldog for tenacity is Alderman Campbell. Before the meeting was over the air was full of effervescence and hairpins, and of course Alderman Johnny White had to put on one of the exhibition hats and waltz about the room with Alderman Hannan. The girls were gone by that time, or there would have .heen no ,such unholy combination as this. Fancy dancing with an alderman. As a result the hat fell off, and although there wore 432 patent point-protected hatpins right there on the table, there was not one that would fit Alderman Johnny White. He had not the wherewithal. It was a smooth bottom and the anchors would have to be dragged. And so woman will pursue her devasting career and man may Console himself with the thougnt that his head is "bloody but unbowed." PARLORMAIDS SUPERSEDING BUTLERS. After the outcry that is made about the dearth of the domestic servant in England, it is surprising; to read that ) parlormaids are quite superseding but--1 lers, and that "Jeames" is about to be relegated to the things of the past. A London writer deplore? this new development, which, she says, has many drawbacks. "Is it fair," she asks, "to men's work to invade the territory where the man-servant has always made an honest lilting hitherto? Butlers are beginning to search for work as hopelessly as coachmen and stablemen, and their affluence is quite a thing of the past." Tt is rather amusing to hear parlormaids accused of encroaching upon men's snecial sphere, and rather bewildering to learn that "the home" is the rightful place for anv man, even a butler, and that, woman has no right there. I BLIND BRIDEGROOM Trooper Milloy, a famous member of the Canadian Mounted Rillcs. who was blinded by a Boer bullet at the Wilfoort engagement in the South African war, was married at Montreal recently to Miss .lean Munroc. daughter of a capitalist at Seattle, Washington. Although the blind soldier has never seen his wife, it was a case of love at first sight. Milloy displayed great gallantry in South Africa, even after a bullet had destroyed the siffht of both bis eyes. He was given a great reoeptjon on his return to Canada, and the Governments and the public made a big purse to reward his bravery. During a lecture tour be met the girl who is now his wife. Tie was also honored in England, and King George, when

Prince of Wales, presented him with the service medal on his way back to Canada. After spending his honeymoon in the United States, Mr. Milloy will (says an American paper) proceed to England, where it is expected he will enter political life. THEFT OF JEWELLERY. Great excitement was created in New York last month when the liner Amcriku arrived by the report of the loss of £•25,000 worth of jewels belonging to Mrs. MaUlwin Drummond, who was visiting the United States for the first time since her second marriage two and la-half years ago. Among the passengers on the liner the magnificent jewellery of Mrs. Drummond was the subject of comment throughout the voyage (writes a correspondent). Every evening she appeared in the Ritz-Carlton restaurant on the Amerika wearing an almost priceless three-strand black pearl necklace made of 273 or 283 perfectly-matched pearls. "The necklace," to quote Mrs. Drummond, "was so long that it reached to my waist." On the Saturday evening before retiring, Mrs. Drummond removed the necklace and threw it into a drawer of a dpek in her state-room, together with a V-shaped diamond brooch with a black pearl pendant larger than a sixpence, and valued at £1000; a pair of black pearl earrings set/with diamonds; and a large black pearl ring purchased recently in. Paris for £1440. She unlocked the desk, over which was a placard warning passengers to deposit their valuables in the ship's safety vaults. The desk was only a foot away from the door of the state-room which Mrs. Drummond kept "open, fearing, as she explained, "if an accident happeneed to the vessel that it would lock and jamb." On the following morning sho instructed her maid to get the jewellery. "There is . no jewellery here, madam," replied the maid, after searching the drawer. Mrs. Drummond reported the loss, and the captain, Herr Kruth, ordered the crew to be searched. Mr. and Mrs. Drummond offered £IOOO reward for the recovery of the jewellery. Mrs. Drummond inherited £-200,000 from her first husband, the late Mr. Marshall Field, junr.