WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 42, 11 August 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). FORECAST OF FASHION. Tin' forecast of fashion, when pronounced by women occupying high places ill the dressmaking world, makes pleasant hearing (says a writer in the Melbourne Age). Within the next few weeks every workroom will be handling light materials, and carrying out the designs which experts are at present making. Whatever the season may hold for us in the matter of surprises; one thing is certain. The lingerie frock will be popular to a degree hitherto undreamed of. At Ascot some of the best successes were achieved with filmy embroidered lawns mounted over such delicate colors as sevres blue, water-melon green, and various shades of pale pink. Many of the smartest lingerie gowns were worn over black satin slips, while bright green and bright blue satin underdresses were much in evidence. All these slips are finished with a tiny black ruche—an idea that, even in these days of shorter frocks, will assuredly appeal lo the practical woman. The lingerie gown itself is by no means invariably white. At Chantilly, in its most fashionable day, grey and white, blue, blue and white, and periwinkle blue muslin and lawn frocks were much in evidence. Here the combining of black velvet with colored lingerie frocks was as noticeable as it was effective. Another thing on which we may safely reckon this spring is the llounced dress, and very charming il is. When the flounces are of lace, as is frequently the case, they are very slightly gathered. Very fine materials arc nearly always pleated in such a way as to apparently lie fiat. A very beautiful llounced gown of Indian muslin, the border, of each flounce embroidered in dots the size of a sixpence in rose color, outlined with black, is typical of many Indian muslin gowns likely to be seen this season.

A MOTHER RUN OVER.

SAYKD UI'K UK IIEK CHILD. A pathetic story of how a mother gave her life for her son was told by a sobbing lad in the casualty ward of the Melbourne Hospital last week. Kneeling by the crushed, unconscious body of his mother, the boy, who was barely la years of age, bravely faced the constablo standing over him with note-book in hand. His mother, hi! said, was Mrs. Amelia Hook, and lived alone with him in Fitzroy. At a few minutes to seven p.m. he stood with his mother at the intersection of Brunswick street with King William street. They were nearly home, and his mother was waiting to cross. She bold him by the hand, but he saw a m.»t:»r car coming, and cried a warning to hi,s mother, who was looking at a tram that had stopped to let down some passengers. The car came down on them, and his mother jumped back 1 screaming, but was too late. As the car came near her, she swung him out of the way with all her strength, while she liers'-'f went dow» beneath it. The mot' r si ruck her with great force, and passed over her chest. The boy escaped unhurt.

The injured woman was driven wlti all despatch to the hospital in the car. Two hours later she had succumbed. During the night, her husband, from whom she was parted, called at the hospital and identified his wife. JEWEL ROBBERY AND ITS AFTERMATH. A New York jewel robbery has just proved very expensive to a prominent American millionaire, for, in addition to losing the jewels, he has been compelled to pay practically their full value OY»r again to the Customs authorities to escape prosecution for smuggling. Indeed, according to the newspapers, it is j not at all certain yet that he will escape prosecution. The millionaire, whose name is not mentioned, bought some years ago in Paris some very valuable jewels, said to be worth over ,€50,000, and presented them to an American lady friend. At the beginning of last week the jewels were stolen, and the fair owner placed the matter in the hands of the police. In describing them she explained how she got them, and how long she had had them, and following the new system of espionage introduced by Mr. Loeb, the chief collector of Customs, some genius in the Customs Department went over the list of importations during the period when they were said to have been brought into the United States. No record of their entry or payment of duty could be found, and the millionaire donor was invited to explain matters. He could not prove payment of duty, and was immediately threatened with prosecution. Mr. Loeb's recent exploits in Customs prosecutions have proved that he is not disposed to trifle on such matters, and the lady promptly informed the police that she had made a mistake, and that the jewels had been mislaid and not stolen. She asked the police to drop the matter to save her friend from the "Customs blackmailers." Collector Loeb stated that the full duty had been collected, and the Federal Prosecutor is now considering whether to institute criminal proceedings or not. The millionaire is said to be connected with the Leather Trust, though the Cujtoins" authorities have not divulged his name.

MILLIONAIRE'S DIVORCE CASE i:\(; LIS H MEN ARRESTED. New York, Juno 22. A divorce suit brought against his English wife by Mr. A. W. Mellon, the Pittsburg hanker, who financed Mr. Carnegie's early ventures in steel, lias, allm.st become an international incident, owing to a remarkable prosecution arising out of it. Mr. Mellon has named as co-respond-ent in the suit Mr. George Albert Curphey, of London. A few days ago Mr. Crtrphey, accompanied by Captain T. W. Kirkbride, a friend of his and of Mrs. Mellon, appeared at Pittsburg to defend hipiself in the suit, in regard to which ho warmly asserted his innocence. Mr. Curphey's first act was to call at Mr. Mellon's office for the purpose of demanding an apology for what he declares to be his unwarrantable inclusion

in the millionaire's domestic difficulties. Mr. Mellon declined to see Mr. Curphey, hut the next day the latter was sub- , pocncd to appear at the offices of Mr. Mellon's lawyers to undergo examination before the trial began. , Such a procedure is common enough ! here, although incomprehensible to an i Englishman. Mr. Curphey telephoned . to his lawyers, an eminent New York firm, for advice, and they directed him to ignore the summons and to come to New York for a consultation. A few hours after their arrival at New York yesterday Messrs Curphey and Kirkbride were arrested at the door of the Ritz Carlton Hotel on the telegraphed request of the Pittsburg police for their extradition to Pennsylvania, to answer a charge of ignoring the subpoena and "obstructing police justice." The misdemeanor is punishable in Pennsylvania by two years' imprisonment. The Englishmen protested that they were here to consult their lawyers, and were not running away; in fact, they had notified their New York address to Mr. Mellon. The prisoners were 'in danger of passing the night 111 cells, when the case came to the knowledge, of Judge Mulqueen, who convened an extraordinary session of his court at the Democratic Club, and ordered the prisoners before him. Bitter personalities were exchanged between counsel on both sides. It was stated at the hearing that "Mr. Blakeley, the District Attorney of Pittsburg, who procured the indictment, is also counsel for Mr. Mellon, although other lawyers are ostensibly representing the millionaire in his divorce suit. The Englishmen's New York attorney warmly denounced the procedure, and said, "My clients voluntarily came to America to appear in one of the most outrageous divorce proceedings ever instituted. They are gentlemen who, do not run away, and this action is merely intended to humiliate them." Finally the accused were released on £3OO bail each. To-day they have decided to contest extradition, and theii whole case will now be heard by Go- ' vernor Dix, of New York.