WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 57, 29 August 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen").

BEAUTY SPECIALIST

C.M'SKS TWO DEATHS. Ocklands (U.S.A.), August 13. Thi' tragic Heath of Miss Mary Ug, wlui eommittcd suicide recently when her looks were utterly destroyed by a '"beauty" specialist, has been followed by the death of another victim to quack nostrums. A lady, Mrs. Jardin, has now died of degeneration of the heart, induced by the shock produced by the application of carbolic acid lotion, intended to smooth away wrinkles by removing the cuticle. The authorities have now instituted an investigation into the methods of Mine. Goldzier, in whose consulting room the tragedies occurred. After the second death, Mme. Goldzier fled, after having telephoned for a doctor, but has since been arrested.

FIVE TWINS IN EIGHT YEARS.

Oulport (U.S.A.. June 16. Mrs. J. D. Pigario has given birth to five pairs of twins within eight years. and if the record has ever been equalled it is not known. Mrs. Pigario's first twins were girls, the next pair boys, the next two pairs girls, and the last boys. All are hale and hearty, even the youngest twins, who are only six weeks old.

A FAMILY OF TWENTY-FOUR

Pittsburg, .lime 10. August Clondcaux, aged 42, an expert glass worker, of Ford City, near here, left for New York to-dav. en route to Belgium, his native land, accompanied by his wife and 24 children. Incidentally he also takes with him a comfortable fortune, made in the glass industry in the Allegheny Valley. Clondcaux and bis wife came to this country -21 years ago, a short time after their marriage. Clondcaux is a great admirer of baseball, and described his family ami departure as follows:—"The score is 24 to 0" (he meant none of the children had died); "13 singles, 4 two-baggers, and a triple. Now we make a home run."

MAN GIVES BLOOD TO WIFE.

Washington, June 20. Luke Lea, of Tennessee, the youngest United States senator, gave a quart of his life fluid to save the life of his wife, gravely ill at Georgetown University Hospital. An operation of a serious character was performed upon Mrs. Lea. She is frail, and the drain on her strength thrroicm-d her life. Senator Lea insisted that a transfusion be made from his arteries. This was done with apparently success. There is now hope of Mrs. Lea's recovery. Senator Lea was able to walk to his wife's bedside late to-day, leaning upon the arm of a friend. When Mrs. Lea became weaker her physician decided that only transfusion of blood could keep her alive. Senator Lea, six feet tall, and strong; determined the question speedily as Mrs. Lea showed signs of still further weakness. An artery was opened in Senator Lea's left arm, and his blood allowed to' flow into the arm of his wife. When Senator Lea began showing the effects of his loss physicians suggested that it be stopped, but he insisted that the transfer be continued until there was no question about the improvement of his wife. Senator Lea withstood the operation well, though it left him so weakened that for hours he could not stand alone. Surgeons assured him that without the sacrifice which he made Mrs. Lea could have lived but a few hours. Both patients subsequently recovered.

CHICAGO'S RICHEST WOMEN

Chicago, June 28. The names of the three richest women in Chicago, as made public to-day, on the completion of the personal property tax lists are Mrs. Nettie F. McCormick, 2,595,000d01.; Mrs. Emmons Blaine, £l,950,000dol.; Virginia McCormack, 1,350,000d01. The sums named represent the value of their personal property, re-p. ctively, but only include stocks, bon.H, Mortgages and jewels. Mrs. BldMie, although listed as one ol the city's most wealthy women, believet that wealth is unjustly distributed. In contrast to these figures are the assessments oh two of Chicago's mosl distinguished women. Jane Addams ha; no taxable personal property, and Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of schools only SOOdol.

WORK AND WOMEN.

What mean has the word ''work" to us, and what ties has the married woman? Naturally the woman with a large family.and' small means could not accomplish the same kind and amount of work as the woman with no family, but fortunately there are many different ways of working (says ,a writer in the Sydney Morning Herald). Home, the' ; foundation of so much, must necessarily [ come first, but as a woman has a private [ I work in her own home, ha" she not also [ a public one outside it? She must not [ only be housewife; as she loves order, [ comfort and beauty in her own home, r ought she not to love order, comfort and [ beauty outside it; and to work for these [ wherever and whenever she can? House- [ hold <!»':--, id's good, and every woman j is the bettor "for having some, however r few; but no woman should allow them t to absorb all her time, and to go on r just living within four walls. There . are those' who, believe that the whole j duty of women consists in devoting » themselves exclusively to husband and children: but is not this both selfish and wrong? They not only lose so much themselves, but also deprive their family of much. Rather should it not be part of a woman's duty to go outside the home, mind and heart, in working order, giving out and taking in that she may have something worth passing on. Then. is not woman's work to see to it that her children are enabled to enter the best society, and how can this be done unless she goes outside the home? It! seems to me that this responsibility is too seldom realised by us mothers. ' To keep in touch with the outside world with a view to drawing around us a cultured, intellectual and altogether desirable circle of friends, ready for our children to step into when' the right time comes, might save us many an . after heartache, besides bestowing'upon them something worth holding fast all their lives. If women's work is to heal, to redeem, to serve, direct, influence and to give out sympathy, surely all these can and should be done outside the home as well as in it, and the woman who neglects this twofold work, however large her family or manifold her duties leaves her mission unfulfilled. The woman who takes an interest in the welfare of her fellow-beings and of her country, and has the desire to assuage the "inarticulate sorrows of the world " is working both with brain and heartfor the,wider her horizon the broader her sympathies, and the larger her heart the more will her family first, and then the community, be the gainers. The love of home and family should be • sweeter for her work, and' the work be al (the richer for her love. •

MR. ASQUITH'S DOMESTIC AFFAIRS I

London, August 13. -. It ha 9 become known that Mrs. As- I. quith's patronage of the Russian ballet :. dancers, performing at the Palace The- I. atre, has come perilously near creating • ■ a breach in the Prime Minister's well- i 1 regulated marital relations. Mrs. Asqnith attends the performances almost every night, and several times has entertained the dancers at her own home. Persistent criticism by the Prime Minister's Nonconformist supporters during the present trving political situation M has resulted in Mr. Asquith forbidding these entertainments.

MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER AS A MISSIONARY

Miss Constance Mather, daughter and heiress of Samuel Mather, a multi-mil-lionaire capitalist of Cleveland, Ohio, has started for Labrador as a missionary. Miss Mather has abandoned the social life of a millionaire's daughter to teach Arctic children, to which work she will devote most of her missionary labors. Miss Mather made her social debut two years ago (says the New York correspondent of the London Standard), but she showed stronger interest in the charitable work of her father, who is one of America's foremost philanthropists, than in the rounds of social gaiety. She became interested in work in Labrador last winter during a visit to her father's home of Sir Wilfrid and Lady Grenfell, who have accomplished such splendid missionary results in the Labrador regions. Miss Mather, after hearing the stories of I.abiador related by Sir Wilfred and Lady Grenfell, who is herself an American, decided to spend her life in ameliorating the conditions of the Arctic children.