WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 52, 23 August 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). HUSBAND REFUSES TO WORK. SHOT DEAD BY IDS WIFE. San Francisco, August 12. A pathetic story of real life is going tin* rounds of the newspapers here, and the principal participant bids fair to become a local heroine. Unable to make a man of her husband, Anna Langley, a fragile little woman, shot and killed him. Fifteen months ago she eloped with handsome Jack Langley, and they were married. But hor husband refused to work. He stayed at home all day, and trusted to his wife to keep things going. Mrs. Langley toiled as a stenographer, and tried to instil ambition into her better half. She coached him for the civil service, and did all she could to make him take up his responsibilities. But he refused, and one day ho left her, taking the marriage license, and] saying that he would never return. She; followed him up, and found him in a saloon, but he spurned her, asking her if she did not remember the times he stayed in bed. He said: "These hands were never made for work. Hurry up *nd earn something." Mrs. Langley went to a pawnshop, where she exchanged her watch for a revolver. "Will this kill men or dogs ?'' she asked the shopmai. Returning to where she had found her husband, she fired four shots, and one of these took effect. The police ljeard the story with moistened eyes, and after she was arrested Mrs. Langley s' cell was filled with flowers by admirers. The inquest wag rushed through in record time, and the unfortunate woman was released on nominal bail. RUSSIAN PRINCES RIVALS FOR FAMOUS BEAUTY'S HAND. Berlin, August 1 L. Prince Paul Fuergang, an oflicer of the Russian Imperial Guard, has been married to Mme. Jarkowsko, the wellknown actress. The famous Russian beauty's hand was sought also by another nobleman, •rince Liebtzky. The rejected suitor, who was deeply infatuated with madame, followed her from Warsaw, and put up at the same hotel at which she stayed. At one of his friends remarked, however, Prince Liebetzkv "hadn't the ghost of a show" against his rival, and after the weddinp <•<".•!■ moi-.y he left Canlsbad a most disconsolate man. FRANCHISE WON IN PORTUGAL It is now established that women have the right to vote for parliamentary elections iu Portugal. When a vague state- i ment to Hiis effect was first made in England doubt was raised as to the faet.l and it was suggested —(1) that the legal decision on which it was based really referred to municipal elections; ('2) that the decision would be upset by a higher court. Neither of these surmises has proved correct. The voting right related | to parliamentary elections, and includes, I in addition, the .right to be elected, j Though the judge who lias interpreted the law in favor of women is described as a "judge of the first instance," at the same time the judgment is not subject to appeal. The judgment was based on I the wording of the decree conferring | voting rights, which was as follows: "The right to vote and be eligible for elect-ion belongs to those Portuguese who liavo attained their majority (21 years), and who reside in the national territory, and who know how to read and write, and are heads of families." The word "Portuguese" could not be interpreted, said the judge, to mean only the Portuguese men, any more than the word "inhabitants" in the phrase "Portugal has six million inhabitants" could only refer to males. Portuguese women were citizens, and therefore those of them who were heads of families had the right to vote. Only one woman (Dr. Caroline Ben friz Angelo) actually obtained the rij/lit to vote by this decision, because it wilt. too lato for any others to be put on the register, but at the next electmn ;;il women heads of families will be entitled to vote unless in the meantime a definite disfranchising law is passed. In view of the fact that a large proportion of the Republican Government are known to be friendly to women, it is thought unlikely that this retrogressive step will be taken. The name of the judge who gave the friendly decision is Dr. Joao Baptiste de Castro. NOTES. To prove her assertion that a society j woman may be capable of intelligent I business effort, Mrs. James C. Bishop, a society leader in New York, has gone into trade. The sale of bottled spring wa<ter is the idea that she choose for demonstrating the faith that iras in her, and her friends say that hor success has proved the soundness of her contention. Mrs. Bishop undertook to give a practical demonstration of the falsity of tht argument that a woman is physically unfitted for 'business, and she has shown that she possesses selling ability by getting customers among her wealthy friends and the leading clubs, hotels, etc. "Bishop ami Company" are flourishing. A subject much talked about in political circles in Berlin is th# impending engagement of the Kaiser's only daughter,. Princess Victoria Louise, to the Grand i Duke Adolf Friedrich of MecMenburgStrelitz, who is 23 years old, is persona I grata ait the Kaiser's Court, and has always been attracted by the princess, tho Kaiser is reported to have said that he does not want his "little one" to make a political marriage, but one of true affection, like his own. Airmen and conductors of aviation schools in France advocate the wearing , of the harem skirt by airwomen, and that their advice has not fallen on doal ears, says "Popular Mechanics," is demonstrated daily at Maurice Farnian's aviation field at Buc. The rule is intended to apply to women passengers as | well as aviators. Mme. Maurice Farrnan, who often makes aerial trips, has order-1 ed one of these skirts. j

In Russia, the Minister of Ways and Communications proposes to replace the guards of mail and passenger trains by women, because he considers the latter more trustworthy and conscientious in the performance of th#ir duties, and less open to bribes and other irregularities than men. In the Minister's opinion wonen are also more reliable on account, of their general sobriety. Mrs. Charles Calvert, the famous English octogenarian actress, is about to publish a volume of. her recollections of the Victorian stage. And most interesting reading it ought to make. "Plon-Plon's" widow died quite recently. She was the Princess Clothilde, of Savoy, a daughter of Victor Emmanuel I. Her marriage, at the age of 10, to Jerome Napoleon, a cousin of Napoleon IK, was arranged by the crafty Cavaur at the time when she was in love with the Due de Chartres. Her father dismissed her objections to ttic marriage in a summary manner, sayitg: "I have told you that you are to mairry Napoleon and here he is; kiss one another, and let there be an end of the matter!" Jerome, who was known as Prince Napoleoen, has been described as a "libertine of the worsit description." and his nickname, "Plon-Plon," was given him owing to his absence from the Crimean campaign. | The princess had been for many years an j exile from Prance, and her son, Prince J Victor Napoleon, who married the Princess Clementine of Bclguim, in November, 11D10, is regarded as the indisputable successor to the Napoleonic claims. Lecturing before the Royal Institution of London, Dr. VV. L. Courtney said that from the fresco paintings of women in the old Cretan palaces of the period (2000 years 8.C.) it was shown that the women of that day pinched their waists, wore flounced or accordion-pleat-ed skirts, as well as an elaborate coiffure on their heads, dainty shoes with high heels, and hats that might well haVe come from a Parisian modiste;' while one lady in a fresco might be described as wearing a jupe culotte. One of the 1 chief amusements of these dames was watching bull-fights, aesthetic refinement being conjoined with almost barbaric ferocity. Mrs. Frances Somes, widow of Mr. Joseph Somes, at one time M.P. for Hull, who died recently and left an estate valued at £101,140, made substantial bequests to her nephews and grandnephews conditional on their having been abstainers and non-smokers for more than 12 months.

Sweden has prohibited the employment of women at night in any industrial establishment in that country. The regulation provides that "in industrial establishments in which more than 10 workpeople urn employed, women must be allowed 11 consecutive hours of rest in anv 24 hours: such period of rest to Comprise Hie hours between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m." In seasonal trades, and in trades liable to periods of pressure, the- statutory interval of rest can lx: reduced by one hour for 60 days (but no more) in any one year; and in very special circumstances the statutory period of rest may bo reduced with the consent of the factory inspector, but in no case must this permit have more than one week's currency.

The war against the hatpin is being waged vigorously in Germany. The railway administration of Saarbrueken lias given orders to its officials that all ladies whose headgear is fixed by long hatpins must remove them before they enter the carriage, and if they refuse they are to be prevented from travelling by trains, and will be called on to leave the station premises. 'lf they refuse to obey thesH orders then - render themselves liable to a fine.