WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 334, 22 June 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

(Conducted by "Eileen"). | THE QUEEN'S ijAILY DAY. HOW SHE MA K ICS TILE MOST OF HEK MOMENTS. IJneeii Mary spends as Dusy a day as most of her subjects. The actual day's work begins when the Queen comes into her writing-room after breakfast. This is usually from 9.15 to 9.30. Carrying with her the large correspondence of the morning's post she goes through it witn two secretaries. The Queen herself ha# usually opened the letters and glanced through them before breakfast. She dictates her replies to such letters a.s need answering, and soon clears oil the lot.

Then follow regularly interviews with the governess of the children, with the chief nurse, tho housekeeper, and tne heads of various departments at Buckingham Palace. Probably her -Majesty is finished with these by noon, and if so sho next sees .the various tradespeople, and other folk of that kind whom she must see herself now and then, until I.XO, when luncheon is taken.

Almost every afternoon when in town, after lunch is over, Queen Mary visits some .picture-gallery, or some hospital or charitable institution, or a citv church of note, or some old halls of the great London companies, or some interesting spot in London.

After five o'clock tea, sho usually again summons her secretaries, and so gets through the correspondence which lias arrived since morning. Then, if she has arranged private and special interviews with any persons, apart from officials or trades-folk, she takes these interviews before dinner-time.

After dinner, her Majesty's chief relaxation and delight is rending, which | she keeps up, as a rule, till about half- ■ past ten. Occasionally music .forms a! part of Her pleasure between nine and! ton, bu she does not play or sing as] much a.- sho used to do when yountror,' and rea ing or sewing seems to intc.-.vt! her mot* at night. As a rule, you may take it that 11 p.m. always sees the! Queen ) tiring to sleep; and only State! function are allowed to interfere with that exi llent time for retiring. Her J ajesty seldom pays a visit to any im itution without making it a "surpris ' one. She likes to drop in quite in expectedly and see for herself how th ii :;s are done, and how the work is heing carried out each day. She is most pa ticular in getting the right sort of peopi on any committee with which she is ( mcerned; she often asks them herself In serve on it as a personal favor. She takt.3 a firm stand against any charitable movement being used so as to pauperise the people for whom it is meant; she is always trying to help folk to help themselves.

The Queen is a great believer in character, as against sentimental talk and feeling, and she will never pander to any popular fad of the day—however enthusiasticUy it may be taken up—unless the fad be eminently sound and sensible.

NOTES FROM LONDON. A WOMAN'S PLUCK. London, May a. A touching incident of bravery on the part of a lady at Barry has just come to light. The district, it should be said, has formed four ladies' voluntary aid detachments of the Red Cross Society, and the lady members are displaying great zeal in their work. Recently a seven-year-old child was severely scalded. First aid was rendered with great efficiency by two lady members of the local Red Cross Society. A few weeks afterwards, however, it was found necessary that skin from a living person should be grafted on the child's back Another Red Cross lady-a teachervolunteered to supply the skin, and underwent the operation. No fewer than nine strips were taken, and the grafting was so successful that the child's life was saved.

THE THREE ARTS CLUB. Yet another woman's club is, it is hoped, to come into existence shortly under the above title. It will be for students o/ m , u . sie > painting, or the drama, and its object is to provide a girl with a home in London at a reasonable cost a place whero she may meet her friends all of which would, undoubtedly be a great boon to young girls unused to London life. Headed by Princess Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, a committee of eminent men and women has been formed, and a site for the club has already been obtained. An endowment fund is necessary, and as a first step towards obtaining this a special "all-star" mat-! mee will be held in the St. James' Theatre, generously lent by Mr. GeorV Alexander, on May 10. p I OBITUARY. Two noted women have died within the last few days, in the persons of Viscountess Harbcrton and Miss C. C. ITonley. The latter, who had reached j the great age of !)3, had so distinguished , herself in natural history that she be- | came a Fellow of the Botanical and | Zoological Societies. She was believed to be the oldest living authority' 011 ophidians, on which she published a large volume nearly thirty years ago. Duriri" the American Civil War, while seeking information for a volume on birds, Miss Hopley was arrested as a British spy, and was detained for a couple of months' the Globe referred this week to Mks Hopley as its oldest contributor. Ladv| Harberton was a pioneer of the rational! dress movement; indeed, she was the leader of it in a very daring campaign ' about fifteen years ago—against what she considered tho unhygienic trailin" garments of the Victorian styles and with such earnestness and conviction did she conduct her attack that it evoked much sympathy among many members ot her own sex and amongst medical men, of whom several supported her propaganda in the Press. She proved heistuf capable of practising what she preached by appearing in public in, bifurcated garments, which paid no such homage to old-fashioned ideas as the .lupes-cutofctes which are tentatively dis! played at the present day. indeed, she weined to believe-perhaps prophetical-

ly—that the ridicule of which she was a victim would ultimately givo way to remorse, if not to reason. In another direction, however, lay Lady Harberton's best work, and this, aj;am, was in ad-

vance of her day. She pointed out, many years ago. several reforms thai might be accomplished for the prevention of consumption—reforms which have since been begun, if not actually completed. When the movement in favor of woman's suffrage made headway a few years ago, she naturally became a keen advocate of the extension of the franchise to her own sex.