WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 70, 13 September 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted "by " iiileen "). SOCIAL NEWS NEW PLYMOUTH. BRIDGE. Last Friday evening Mr. Walter Bayly gave a most enjoya'ble bridge party in May's now tea rooms. There were thirteen t«>blos, and the prizes were won by Mrs. (J. T. .Mills (first), and Mrs. Atkinson (second). Mrs. Bayly received her guests in a handsome black lace robe, over a white silk foundation. Mrs. Burgess, white lace blouse, white satin skirt, ipurple velvet opera coat; Mrs. H. Russell, ,bl»ck satin, white net tucker; Mrs. Lysons, cream flowered silk; airs. Bradbury, black chiffon taffetas; Miss Hempton, moss green silk, relieved i with gold embroidery trimming; Miss A. 'Hempton, grey colored silk; Mrs. Carthew, dainty oyster grey satin charmeuse, prettily trimmed with cream lace and satin button?; Mrs. McKellau', black silk; Miss McKellar, black lace roibe; Miss Wade, white net over chiffon taffetas, lightened with periwinkle Iblue silk; Mrs. Clianey, white >»ilk; Mrs. Mtzher-

Bert, Mack satin, cream iace berthe; Miss Fitzher.bert, black chiffon taffetas;. Miss Teskr, black satin; Miss Read, cream embroidered silk; Mrs. Leslie Webster, black silk; Mrs. Home, oyster grey silk, with touches of black; Mrs. Atkinson. black lace rol*>. corsage lightened with pale blue; Miss Pr.idhnm, white silk bodice, deftly finished with pale blue; Mrs. F. Webster, black; Mrs. A. Pookes, black and white silk, cream lace .sleeves, appliqued with black; Mrs. Percv Wri>«ter, black silk, corsage prettily finished ■with lace; Mrs. Alec. MacDiarmid, pale hlue brocade, cream lace berthe-; Mrs. Addenbrooke, biscuit colored silk, trimmed with bands of l)rowii velvet; Miss Tidy, black silk sequinned berthe; Mrs. It. George, cream embroidered silk, prettily finished with silk lace; Mrs. Stoeker, black silk, cream chiffon fichu; Mrs. G. Kebbell, cream lace blouse, cream silk skirt; 'Mi's. Paul, pale pink silk blouse, satin skirt, dainty shoulder scarf; Miss Stan dish, vieux rose crew, lightened with cream insertion; -Mrs. Johns, pale heliotrope taffetas, trimmed with -a darker shade of velvet; Mrs. Collins, black silk; Mrs. E. Gilmour, dainty pale blue taffetas, finished with cream lace; Miss Miinro. white satin eharmeu.se, prettily trimmed with oxodised silver; Miss Mills, white taffetas, tuic of ninon relieved with silver; Miss Curtis, rale blue silk blouse, ibla-ck silk skirt; Mrs. Rollo. vieux rose cream, cream lace vest; Mi's. Hare. blue silk, pale blue coat; Miss Bayly, black net over pal-'.; blue silk; Miss C. Ba-vlv. white ninon over satin tunic, caught up with pale blue forget-me-nots: Mr.s. Mills, black silk: Miss G. Fookcs. Mack silk, sequinned berthe. seerlct flowers in coiffure; Mr.s. Jones, black silk: 'Mrs. Newman, pale mauve taffetas, bodice trimmed with *ilk Cinbvoiderv; Mr*. Heard, blacke taffetas, cream lace berthe: Mr-. Newman, black silk;' Mrs. II a worth, peacock /Teen silk; Mrs. Hirst, cream voile; Mrs. S. Teed, cream lace robe.

I'KiisoxAi. Tmrr.. .Miss Godfrey ami Miss Phillis Ardon. who have been on a visit to Christchuroh and Wellington, returned home last Saturday. Mrs. Claude Wilson loft on Tuesday morning for a trip to Wanganui. Mrs. Williams, who h:\s been ''keeping house/' for her mother, Mrs. 11. Cook, for some weeks past, returned to Mnrton on -Monday inorninti. accompanied by Miss Mamie Snowball. WOMAN'S GAMBLING MANIA. £OOOO LOST IN ONE YEAR BY SPECULATING. London. July 20. The story of a woman's mania for gambling was told at Scarborough Bankniptev Court yesterday, when Miss Mabel Eden Wilson, of Knowle House, Esplanade Hardens, Scarborough, admitted having got through £IO,OOO since 1000. Her assets, she stated, were £2 and her .liabilities £OOO. She said that last year she lost £(1000 by speculating on the Stock Exchange in options on shares, and she also lost £IOO on the St. Leger, and other money in a Continental lottery. When Miss Wilson stated that she had no record of her transactions. Mr. Poland said: ''You seriously say that you burnt the records of the transactions?" "Yes," she replied, ''everything. If F won, I got it. If I lost I did not want to hear of it again." Miss Wilson confessed that she had a mania for gambling. Her business methods were primitive. She never had a brink account, but kept several thousand pounds of notes in a tin box. and carried it with her when travelling about the country. Lately she had resorted to moneylenders, but did not know she had borrowed at 200 per cent. The examination was adjourned.

A CANADIAN ROMANCE. DAUGHTER OP A PRIXCE? ECHO OF A ROYAL TRAGEDY. Great interest has boon aroused in Montreal by an cxtraodinarv story involved a habeas corpus suit over a woman who claims to be a natural daughter of the late Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria. The woman, who is of distinguished manners and great beauty, declares that the Archduke was killed, that her mother committed suicide, and that she was sent out of Austria by the Government in care of a priest, who was provided with ample funds. Rut the priest disappeared with the money. She was cared for in various convents, anil eventually married a man named Ilayne, a broker of Toronto. The girl was travelling under the name of Alma Vctsera. Mr. and Mrs. TTayne claimed to have visited Austria and tried to get recognition, which was refused. After thev returned to Canada there was much trouble between the two. Subsequently a child was born, when the trouble was intensified. Then a young Montrealer, ,]. 15. MeDougald. met Hie woman, and fell in love with her. this causing many difficulties. Divorce proceedings were begun in Xew York by Ilayne, MeDougald being cited as corespondent. This led to counter divorce proceedings, in the midst of which McDougald's father appeared, and the whole party returned to Montreal. Then young .McDougalil was placed irt :ir asylum at Montreal at the instance of his father. Thi- led to an unsuccessful attempt at forcible rescue by the friends of the young man. in which one of them had part of bis ear blown off bv a gunshot. The matter culminated in the habeas corpus proceedings to free MeDougald at the instance of Mrs. Ilayne, while divorce and habeas corpus proceedings to secure her daughter are going on at Xew York. The whole affair is arousing extraordinary interest owing to the unusual connections of the case. Nothing is known of the real antecedents of Alma Vctsera. There was a. sudden end to the habeas proceedings. When 'the case was called, McDongnld consented to obey his father's demands, and return to the asylum. The case recalls the famous Royal tragedy enacted '22 years ago in

Austria, moulding the lives of the 30-, year-old Crown Prince and the beautiful young Countess Vetsera. The heir to the throne, despite his marriage ties with Princess Stephanie of Belgium, fell desperately in love with the countess, then 18, and the scalidal, after enduring a year, was on the point of being closed by the intervention of the aged Emperor, who sent a sort of ultimatum to his son. The latter, with the countess, was on a shooting expedition, and one morning was found dead in his bedroom beside the poisoned body of his mistress. At first the affair was hushed up. The prince was announced as having died in a fit—a situation hardly borne out by a supposed bullet-hole in his head. The woman's body had been carefully placed in bed, and d'ecoratcd with flowers. The Emperor insisted on the public knowing all. His son had died a violent death, whether by his own hand, the hand of his mistress, or by that of a third party, he did not know, ancf so could not enlighten his subjects. There are those who told that the prince was murdered by a friend or relative of the woman whom he was about to leave for ever. Others say that it was a case of murder jind suicide by the prince. Be that as it may, the tragedy remains the greatest mystery of history.

LACE AND BLACKMAIL? PROSECUTION FOR ANNOYING A ROYAL DUCHESS. Berlin, July 2G. A charge of attempting to blackmail the widowed Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (the Duchess of Edinburgh) has been. brought against a Jena advocate, named Dr. Julius Wernsdorf in curious circumstances. Three or four years ago the Duchess commissioned a certain Baroness von der Brinken to buy some Russian lace for her. The Baroness procured the lace, but the Duchess refused to take it on the ground that a muph. simpler article had been ordered. Litigation ensued, and the court held that the Duchess must take the lace and pay £172, the actual value of the lace to be ascertained.

During the proceedings before the appeal court counsel or the parties came to an agreement that the Baroness should take back the lace, the Duchess to pay the coats of the litigation. The Baroness, however, refused to recognise the agreement, but the court held that it was binding.

The Baroness then entrusted her case to Dr. Wernsdorf, who is well-known for his attacks on the administration of justice in Germany and has been imprisoned for libelling judges. Dr. Wernsdorf wrote to the Duchess declaring that his client was desirous of avoiding an otherwise inevitable public, sensation. Tie therefore proposed a peaceful settlement.

The Public Prosecutor regarded the letter as an attempt at blackmail, and the trial of Dr. Wernsdorf on that charge began to-day at Weimar. He is further charged with libelling the courts of Jena and Gotha.

LADY COLONELS. EMPRESS AND QUEEX TO LEAD KEG IMEN'TS. Berlin, July 25. The three "Kaiser Parades" of the l:lth and 2nd Corps of Guards, which will take place in August and September this year, will be remarkable for the large number of "lady" colonels who will appear in full uniform at the head of their regiments. The Empress will ride at the head of her regiment of Fusiliers before her husband and Commander-in-Chief at Altona, and at Stettin she will again lead the 82nd Cuirassiers, of which regiments she is honorary colonel. Queen Victoria of Sweden will probably appear in her uniform as colonel of the 34th Fusiliers, and at the same parade Princess Eitel Friedrich will ride at the head of the 12th Dragoons before her imperial father-in-law. The firand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin will also appear in uniform as chief of the Frankfurt Grenadier Regiment. It is hardly to be expected that the Queen of Holland will appear at the head of her Hussars, but an interchange of despatches between the imperial Conj-monder-in-Chief and the honorary colonel of his loth Iluw-ars is almost sure to take place. Other royal and dtieal ladies who will probably be seen in uniform during the parades are the Grand Duchess Louise of Baden, the Crown Princess of Greece, and Princess August Wilhelm of Prussia.

MAKING AN OPTIMIST. At the annual meeting of the Optimists' Club of Xew South Wales, Mr. W. if. Hamlet, the Government analyst, gave tlio following recipe for the making of an optimist:—Take a full measure of the flour of human strength, a cupful of the milk of human kindness, some of the sweetness of human delights, some of the butter of gladness, some salt and ■spice of adventure, a little of the leaven of righteousness. Take also of the water of life, mix in musical melody, and place the whole into the fiery oven of human experience. Then serve! serve! ! and serve! ! !

TWELVE AXIOMS. The following twelve axioms appear in an American woman's paper in relation to the suffrage question, but we might all apply them to ourselves with advantage: —(l) Let people do their own work in their own wav, even though you are .-ure you could do it better. Perhaps Shouldn't. (2) Take everyAdvice is harmless, and of toil helpful, Follow it if you deem it wise.-; (3) X.ever be afraid to give other of credit. Everyone needs appreciation. (4) Remember the "Cause" is much bigger than any individual, even yourself. This is true, though at times it may seem painful. (,>) Don't bristle up at the sight, of press representatives, for they are our best and most valuable friends, They educate thousands, while we reach only a few. (0) Don't worry about other people's mistakes. It doesn't change the situation, and it's wearing on the nerves. (') Watch yourself carefully. [t will save unhappmess and indigestion later on. (S) Don't weep on the world s shoulder. It makes a damp spol. and does no good, (!)) Xever be afraid to use the words "equal sufViv.ge." People no longer fear them, but take" to them kindly. (10) Remember that nearly everybody wants to do about right, appearances to the contrary nothwithslandiiig. (Mi) Active sull'ragisls do not rest, nn a bed of roses; but who wants to? Roses have, thorns. (12) Do the best, you can. a add on't lie awake at night* over results. Results will take care of themselves.—Once Wilbur Trout, president of Chicago P.E.L.