WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 324, 10 June 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Uonauctea by "JEileen.") EXCITING HONEYMOON. BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM AMONG PIUATKH. New York. June 2. A four-masted clipper that left this city twelve months ago has just returned. Captain Downes took his bride with' him for the honeymoon, and the ship went many miles up the Shukiang river. | On one occasion they were attacked by j pirates. Over sixty of these swarmed on board while most of the crew were ashore, but thoso who had staved oil the ship got to work with belaying pins and the fire hose. Mrs. Downes showed remarkable pluck. She used a rifle with much precision, killing several of the Chinese. .The boarders were repelled. Afterwards the affair was reported to tho authorities, and Captain and Mrs. Downes were inrited to witness the executions. They saw several of their assailants decapitated, and Mrs. Downes says that the work of the headsman was unerring. With a sword he removed head after head at one stroke.

UNUSUAL WOMEN. It has been well said that every great man must have had a great mother; and, furthermore, it is a safe rule that when a man makes a stir in the world there is usually some unusual woman at, his side. Such a distinction belongs to her who occupied so unique a position as Lady Randolph Churchill, and who has in iater years been so admirable a mother and devoted an adviser to the present Secretary for State for Home Affairs. Mrs. George Cornwallis-West had a host of opportunities as Miss Jerome, of New York. Born and reared amongst all that was best in life of the late 'sixties, she was a witness, as a young girl, of the brilliant society about the Court of the Second Empire during its closing years. At present Mrs. West is one of the most enthusiastic supporters of (the movement for a National Theatre in England as a memorial to Shakespeare, and is organising a great fancy dress ball on beltalf of its funds, to take place in <the Albert Hall, London, during the coming season. She was largely instrumental in fitting up itlie hospital ship by the American women in England to the service of the Army during the Boer War—and went herself as a worker in its wards. She edited, with great brilliancy, the "Anglo-Saxon. Review"—a unique enterprise in the form of four handsome quarterly volumes. TITLED NURSE, Ever since Miss Floreace Nightingale made nursing a profession to whick it) was an honor to belong, ladles of all classes of society have gladly embraced it. Especially has this been so in the cswe of war, where titled ladies and Indies delicately nurtured have given up n life of ease to do vrhat they could to allay the ■ lfleriiigs of those wko have been wounded is the service of their country. The World's News has frequently recorded tho entry into the nursing profession of daughters of the English aristocracy. Tho latest entrant from 1 these ranks is Lady Sybil Grimston, tke youngest but one of the Earl of Veralam's six daughters. She was born in 1887. Her elder sisters are married to Mr. Felix Cassel, K.C., Lieutenant Bernard Buxton, R.N., Mr. Geoffrey Arthur Barnett, and Mr. Hesketh Vernon Res-Iceth-Pritchard. As "Nurse Grimston" she has begun her trailing at the London Hospital Nurses' Training Home, at i Bow, and is said to be showing remark- | able aptitude in her new work. |