WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 125, 17 November 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

(Conducted by "Eileen.") NOTES FROM LONDON. A LADY LIFE-SAVER. London, September 20. It was reported yesterday from Wales tliat tlic lloylake iishing boat Margaret and Alice, of Liverpool, got on the rocks on the east end of Puffin Island, in the Mensi Strait, and put up signals of distress. The l'enmon lifeboat went to the rescue promtly, and saved the crew of four. Jlrs. Jturlon. wife of the lion, secretary of the Pennton branch of the Lifeboat Institution, acted as coxswain of the lifeboat in her husband's absence. A WOMAN JUDGE. Mrs. Lydia Tague, widow of a judge, has just been appointed Judge of the County Court of Eagle County, Colorado. So impressed were the County Commissioners by Mrs. Tague's exceptional abilities, that on the death of Judge Tague his widow was offered the vacant position. Mrs. Tague's father was a judge, and her earliest memory is that of going into court and hearing her father [ try cases. i DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST. Miss Fanny Cohen, 8.A., 15.5 c., late demonstrator at the Sydney University, is shortly expected in England. She is n brilliant mathematician and geologist. and holds the Marker travelling scholar-s-hip of the University, this being the first occasion on which such a scholarship has been awarded to a woman student. Miss Cohen intends to devote herself to the mathematical side of crystallography. CURLS' COMPULSORY SERVICE. It will be interesting to watch the result of Fraulein Pauline Werner's campaign in Germany, in which she hopes to institute compulsory domestic service for girls, just as the young men do compulsory military service. A Dill which was recently introduced in Congress provides for a domestic science bureau in connection with the Department of Agriculture, and also proposes that domestic science shall be taught in all public schools.

TWO WOMEN' INSPECTORS. Miss Rhea McConnick and Mrs. Eva Walter have been appointed inspectors in tho bureau of weights and measures in New York. I WOMAN'S SWIMMING RECORD. Miss Daisy Curwen, of Liverpool, established a woman's "record by swimming 100 metres in Imin 24 3-ssee. at Westminster road baths,. Liverpool, last night. WANTS TO FLY AT 7,i. A certain- Mine. Doiel, aged 73, has written a letter to Le Matin expressing a desire to go up iii an aeroplane. M. Maurice Farman and M. Bregnet have each offered to give "her a short trip through the air. . " WOMAN'S WORK." The following is. from the Middlesex County Times:—A male worker who "wanted someUjing ,to do" was asked to undertake the scr-ul>bing of a certain staircase twice swwuek;'.; The applicant stared at thei.ffightCof steps rather dubiously for a minute,.; "It's a long 'un. ain't it?"'he romajibed. -"Yes. it is not Short," was the—reply.— "And it's awfui dirty," lie added!. ."No y I can't take on that; that's woman's work!"

. .. A,Mi»:i.: ;i ' i'l,' " " A tragic death has ended the career of the woman for whom Lassalle laid down his life on, the duelling-ground (writes a Berlin correspondent). Helene von Donniges - w-agjjthe daughter of a Bavarian dipJomajt, and was only 18 When she first, met .the fasciniating Socialist leader, pf, \vhpse charms even Bisma.rek felt the force. She was one of thoso women who, without much in the i way of actual physical beauty, cast a spell over innumerable members of the opposite sex. " Perhaps it was the Mona Lisa character of her face, with suggested mysterious profundities of soul; possibly the masses of Titian-red hair, of which she remained very proud up to the lust. At any rate, a mutual infatuation sprang up between her and LassaJle, though she was at the time betrothed to a young Roumanian, .lanco von Racowitza. The apostle of Communism formally applied for her hand, but the result was a scene, and the doors of her father's house were closed against him. He then sent a challenge to the briclegrotmvelcct, who shot him dead at their meeting in Geneva on August 28, 1804. 'The girl ultimately married the survivor, who, however, died five months later. A second union with the actor Siegwart Friedmann was dissolved at the end of five years. She then herself took to the'stage as a profession, and this led her to America, where she -made the acquaintance of her third husband, Baron Schewitz. whose estates in Russia had been confiscated in consequence of his complicity with the Nihilist movement, and who was then editing a labor paper. They eventually returned to Europe and "settled at Munich, where they gained a precarious livelihood by intermittent journalism. Early in October the Baron died, and a few days later his widow poisoned herself.

COURTSHIP BY WIRELESS. A courtship which was conducted by vvirpli'-s telegraphy has been satisfactorily concluded by the marriage of Mr. -Tivt)-. - ! •"■-nrrli. a wealthy manufacturer of Inilianaopoli-. and Mile. Marguerite C'astaign. daughter (if Colonel Oastaigu, or the French Army. Mr. Haugli mot the lady who is now his wife, on a steamer crossing from Xew York to Havre, when she was returning 'home last June with her father after a visit to America. He fell in love with her. and afterwards visited the home of Mile. C.tstijjn in I'Vanee, but when lie left he had not plucked up courage enough to propose to her. Tie finally sailed home from Liverpool without having asked for her hand. At sea, however, he became desperate, and before the ship was out of touch with wireless stations Mr. TTaugh sent a message to Mile. Castaign. con.-isting of the following seven words: "1 love you; will you marry me?'' I'nek came the answer. 'T will." Letters and cables from America did the rest. The young lady sailed on La TSrpfagne. and the happy lover, who met her on the ship's arrisal at Xew York, const ant !y sent love, messages to her by wireless throughout the voyage. The wireless operator on La l'.rctagne on his arrival at \ T ew York said that he -lood in nee,! of a holiday, lie declared that he did not mind regular commercial wireless business, but the glut of love messages had worn him out!

FEMININE FRILLS Leather bells are permissible on silk ami satin frocks. huwicmies with frrcv hair arc wearing dark blue over pre v. Hows of tinv buttons are used on wra|H and frowns. Tlie deep enllnr. either =n.nnre or pointed, often reaches to the hirrh waistline af. the hack. On mnnv hiir'n-crowned small hats a eleverlv-tied how of black velvet ribbon ■ strebcliinj up at the right side is the aole trimming. '