WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 67, 9 September 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). ■ THE. TALE OF A PRINCESS. During the last eight or nine years the story of the elopement of Princes.-) Lquisa of Saxony has been 'told many times. It was reported in H)O2 that the young Prim-ess. who was the wife of -the Crown Prince of Saxony, had fled to .Switzerland with her children* tutor, and a year or two later a decree of divorce was pronounced against her. The royal, lady has now arranged to . publish her memoirs, and her version of the events that led to her '-'elopement" is said to be causing ;i sensation in European courts. Princess Louisa is a daughter of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Ims Bourbon, blood in her veins. She refused the hand of Prince Per trinand of ISulgaria, and a little later was married to Prince Frederick Augnstc of Saxony, who took her to the rigid and : gloomy court of Dresden. The Princess i says that her husband was kindly and i sympathetic, but that her father-in-law. ■ King (icorgc of Saxony, conceived an un- ' reasoning' dinlike to her. The King is I a man of strange disposition and he was I encouraged by members of his court ill j his acts of cruelty towards the Prim-ens. • 'I iie climax came when he threatened to have her confined in an asylum, and Princess Louisa, in a panic, tied to her father's home. Her story does not seem to have been regarded in o serious light by the Grand Duke, and he demanded ■ tiiat she should return to her husband. She refused to face the King again, and after some quarrelling she fled to Switzerland, accompanied by her brother. It was at this stage of the affair, according to the memoirs, that the tutor appeared upon the scene. He was a tactful and unassuming gentleman, and Princess Louisa, who wanted nothing more than her freedom, raised no protest when her husband took proceedings for divorce. It is only now that she lias decided to vindicate herself -'against all accusations and aspersions." Incidentally the ex-Crown Princess gives a vcrr frank description of life at the court of Saxony, and it is not, surprising to learn that vigorous efforts have been made to prevent the publication of her little book. WOMEN SWIMMERS London, duly 28. English la:!'.' •>wimmeis carried all b.-- i fore them in the hiternational competition at .Toinvillc. Paris, this week. Miss Mary Footman, South of Kngland champion, won the 100 yards scratch race, followed by Miss Kninia | Clist, of P.attersea, second; Miss Prances | Footman, third; Miss Rose L-'ox, Kng- i lish schools champion, fourth. | All are brilliant swimmers. Miss Frances Footman has held London and French championships and has been awarded the lloyal Humane Society's i bronze medal; Miss Rose Fox is the winner of fifty-live prizes; Miss Mary ! Footman is 100 yards junior champion of the southern counties. l!)lli). ami holder of the tleorge White shield; Mis-. s Klinor Clist has won twelve medals and ' over forty prizes; and Miss lunula CIM holds twenty medals and over seventy prizes. The liattei'sea Ladies' Swimming Club, to which the victorious ones belong. was formed as a ladies' section in liKll. ami as a separate club in 10.10. It has si-vera I limes held the champ, iou- " ship of the South of Kngland. HOUSEHOLD ADVISER. r London. .Inly Mrs. 11. 11. SchloesM-r. who holds I lie London Count,'.' Council ceriiiicate for practical building construction, is, it i-* assert-d. the lirst, woman to embark on the calling of household adviser. She gives advice and practical help in the decoration ami redecoration of houses, acts the good fairy in the work of n:ov-

ing frojn house to house, anil superintends the alterations subsequent to spring cleaning. But the catalogue of lier accomplishments does not end here. She is mistress of a hundred and one hints as to what to do with worn carpets. how to make discolored curtains serve duty for another .room, the best way of investing cheerless rooms with the semblance of cosiness that is often lacking, etc. Mrs. Schloesscr allows herself to be "hired."' and in half a day can teach the mistress of a house something far more practical than she would probably Iwini otherwise in a year. In a day it is pos- , sible for her - to remove a season's troubles from -her client's shoulders, accompany her to the shops, and help her to select furnishings that appeal to her taste and will harmonise with the home in the rearrangement of which her expert services Have been requisitioned. The profession is a new one, arid undertaken by women of common-sense and gooil taste there seems no reason why it should not succeed. WOMEN FREEMASONS. London, July 2S. ft will no doubt come as a startling surprise to many people when they learn that women have at last become sharers with ?m»ii of the mysteries of masonry. ; But. perhaps, even more sTipr.ised will liiey be when they learn that a "fraternity" for both sexes has been established these past three years, and that some 150 women are at present members of it. Such, however, is tt.-he case, and the T!ev. Dr. Cobb, rector of St. F.thelburgh's Church, Bishopgate, is the founder of the movement. The rector is himself, a Freemason, and interviewed this week, he explained that, the initiation of women into the order was one on similar lines to that of men. "With but one or two details which really do not count, the ritual is just the same." he added, while as to describing the new body a "fraternity," which sounded somewhat oddly in its including women, there was really no difference between such a term and addressing a congregation as "dearly beloved brethren," when we included women as well as men. The rector is of opinion that men have too long neglected to see the part women were destined to play in the affairs of the world. "But more and more," lie said, "it is becoming woman's day in masonry as in everything else. She can help men as well as herself to the newer and higher life. Already good I work lias been done, and there is a great- future before us." THE CARE OF THE EYES. | When tin- eves ache close them for [ five minutes; when they feel dull and 1 tired after reading or working bathe. | them with hot- water, followed by cold, i Tiiis car, be done quite easily by dipping a rag into very .hot water and thor- • oughly bathing them. When wiping the | face never rub the eves, pat them dry. When the eyes are inclined to be weak I they should be washed out every night ' with a weak solution of boric acid (one pennyworth of boric acid dissolved in a pint of boiling water and placed in a clean bottle). A little of t-liis should be used mixed with one third its quantity of hot. waiter. To darken the eyebrows, take a small bottle of v-ellow vaseline, and with a soft toothbrush -apply it every nighl. to ihe evwhe-hes. This will soon darken them most, successfully. Weak eyebrows and lashes can he streiighlened by the application of cocoa bulier. which should be rubbed on at