WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 137, 5 December 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

i (Conducted by "Eileen.") WOMAN EXPLORER. PROPOSES TO CROSS MONGOLIAN ' DIVERT. ? Miss Elizabeth Kendall, professor of : history at Wellesley College, Boston, is about to complete the most dangerous journey ever undertaken by u white woman alone. One 'whole year without friends and with only a stray dog as an associate, Miss Kendall will have travelled through countries as iyi it unexplored by :iny but the most intrepiil men. ■Forbidden passports, she has nevertheless penetrated into forbidden lands. Miss Kendall started about a year ago to undertake a journey into the "birthplace of history"—the cradle of the ancient Sanskrit language. Jler search has led her into countries where'many a man would fear to venture, where even the touch of an unbeliever's foot is a pollution. Turkey, India, China, are only incidents in Miss Kendall's explorations. Up to the present time those who have visited Thibet arc so few that doubt has actually been cast on the assertions of some explorers. Yet Thibet, the "forbidden land," with its mysterious city of | Lhassa, its Dalai Lama, and its hatred of the whites, is one of the countries which Miss Kendall has penetrated with her faithful Irish terrier Then into Burma h—the land of elephants and temples —she has penetrated in her search for data. Also 'she made the I Yangtse Rising trip, which few white men have , ever travelled and no white w oman hi-fore licr. Miss Kendall is now preparing to cross the great Mongolian desert, the Gobi desert. one of the world's dreariest wastes. The journey, begun in Dalmatia, will end at Lake Baikal, where there is station of the Trans-Siberian railway. The Irish terrier, which has been Miss Kendall's companion through all her exploits, was picked up in a wild portion of the Chine.se interior. She was walking along one day, hc ,r stick in hand, when she came upon a familiar sound—the whine of a dk>g. To her amazement, there emerged from behind a native house a starved specimen of the Irish terrier. He had probably been brought to China by some American or European. Miss Kendall gave him a bath. The dog would not leave her. In the midst of danger he was by Mis Kendall's side, and nothing would induce hiin to leave. He will travel far across the great desert with her, through the Balkans, across steppes, and will then wind up in Wellesley, where he will become the. pet of the college it is promised. Miss Kendall undertook the year of travel in these wild lands on the advice 'of friends who knew her interest in historical research.

NEARLY A CENTEARIAN. There died at Holl>cacli, St. John's, South Lincolnshire, Mis Maria Rose, who though she had completed her 90th'year,, had a remarkable memory to the last, and was aide to read without glasses. The •wonderful- degree to which her health was preserved was shown by the fact that shortly before her death she worked 011 a Lincolnshire flower farm. Mrs Rose had resided on the farm where she died for over CO years. When very Young she went out to work into the fields potato-setting at 3d a day, and afterwards entered son-ice at 14, being paid (id per week. One of the most remarkable facts of her life was that she took music lessons at 70 years of age. ■She went to a Spalding lady for lessons, and, describing her visit, said: "They laughed at me because they thought it ridiculous and no good my trying to learn. But 1 did learn, in my 70th year." Mrs Rose was twice married, and celebrated- the jubilee of her second wedding in 1892.

HOBBLE SKIRTS. The introduction of the hobble and hartm skirts lias resulted in a loss to Trench dress material manufacturers of 73,811,000 francs. One of the textile journals, while not going so far as to adVnire the symmetrical .beauty of the Dutch ladies in days past, when they were said to wear seven petticoats of wool, laments, for tlie sake of trade, that some such fashion is not now in vogue, and then in a menacing manner asserts that it is the hobble and harem skirt and such fashions that are largely responsible for strikes. The same journal observes that, while the appearance of some of the Parisian Kphebes of to-day is nothing other than indecent, much can be said for the hobble skirt in reason. The loss in English money is £2,92.},440.

FEMININE FRILLS White tlaee veils continue to be extremely popular. Indoor wear favors mohairfi tussore, virile, crepe, etc. New black patent leather shoes have snow-white tups of calfskin. P.o!!i cream white and dead white arc fashionable for evening hats. As far as Paris is concerned, the large hat is the one in fashion now. For coat, sleeves the sit-into-the-arm-holes style is generally accepted. Soutache braiding, as well as with' braid-,, will be seen on gowns and suits. ISows trim everything from cap on pretty heads to the slippers on slender toes. i' <•'! Iringe is much employed on eve""•'2 i : i s-es. and head 'fringes are also seen. l!ou:id woven beads dyed in color are novel and attractive in embroidered trimmings. tailored suits and costumes are showing fringe on the tunics and under petticoats. Suede anil suede finish sheepskin are to lie used for hats, plumes, and trimmings. A large, soft woollen cord, white and dully, is much used in trimming simple lints. A * I vet also bids fair to become exceedingly popular, both for street and evening wear. -Never was there such a rage for bordered skirls—ami never were bordered <sill<- more glorious. \ elvi t, it is conceded, will be more in I evidence than any other fabric used for entire hats and trimmings. < ord girdles in silk and wool will atill lie worn for evening and dav costumes m empire and tunic modes. ' i Purple is to have a reign among the favoritis. and clear emerald green will al>o he within the royal circle.