WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 159, 4 January 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") ■ WEDDING BELLS. j MORINE—MILLS. A very pretty wedding was solemnised at the residence of the bride's parents, Denbigh road, Midhirst. on Wednesday, 37th December, the contracting parties being Mr. Albert Morine, of Apiti, Feilding, and Miss Ivy Muriel aiais, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Mills. The bride was gracefully gowned in a beautiful cream silk empire frock, trimmed with duchesse embroidery, and wore a pretty veil, decorated with orange blossoms. She also carried a pretty bouquet of white Canterbury bells and roses, artistically arranged by Miss Olanscn. Misses Violet Mills, sister of the bride, and Miss Eliza Graham, of Feilding, were charming bridesmaids, and were beautifully dressed in blue silk taffeta, suitably trimmed. Mr. Bert Morine, brother to the bridegroom, acted as best man, and Mt. Lestet Mills, brother of the bride, was groomsman. After the conclusion of the ceremony, which was performed by the Rev. B. Metson, Mr. McAllister photographed the bridal pair at a picturesque spot in the bush. The party then adjourned to the Denbigh road school, where a sumptuous breakfast was spread among many decorations. The toasts were enthusiastically honored, being spoken to as follows:—"The Bride and Bridegroom," Mr. ."Stanley Mills; "The Bridesmaids," Mr. V. Morine; "The Parents of the Bride and Bridegroom," Rev. B. Metson; "Absent Friends," Miss Olausen; "The Bachelors," Miss Violet Mill*. Speeches were made by Mr. B. Morine, Mr. VV. T. Mills, and Mr. Olausen. The bridegroom's presents to the bride and bridesmaids were pretty gold brooches, set with pearls and rubies. The bride | and bridegroom were the recipients of many beautiful and valuable presents,! presented by their friends. Mrs. Morine j travelled in a beautiful navy bine tailor- j made costume, with a. saxe blue hat, trimmed with cream roses. The happy ] couple left in the evening en route to' their new home in 'Feilding, where they were followed with many hearty wishi for their future happiness.

LADIES' ESCAPADES STRANGE SOCIETY SCANDALS. Society in Berlin and Munich is at. present discussing the escapades of a couple of daughters of the aristocracy. A few weeks ago a priest, entering one of the Catholic churches in Berlin to officiate an early mass, found a young woman prostrate before the main altar. As she seemed to be overcome with grief he spoke to her, and she told- him that she had escaped from her mother, who kept an improper house at Nice, and had compelled her to lead a life of shame. Eventually she was lodged in a convent, where it was discovered that she was a countess, belonging to one of the oldest and most influential families in the Prussian nobility. She had disappeared from her parents' house, only a few miles from Berlin, not long before. The girl, who is 20, is very highly cultivated, and lent some color to her fantastic story by insisting on speaking in French and English, rather than in her own language. She had the reputation of being somewhat adventurous in disposition, but her friends are very surprised that she should have assumed the role of penitent Magdalen. Munich is simultaneously much concerned with the love affairs of a baroness of 17. A young man, who had just left school, blew out his brains for the sake of this damsel when she was only 14, and since then she has captured the hearts and turned the heads of so many youths that several fathers have requested the papers to take up the matter, and urge the authorities to shut her up in an asylum. It is said that she has brought unhappiness on quite a number of families. After her last disappearance from home she was found in a barn in the middle of a forest, with a young merchant and the 15-year-old daughter of a laundress. All three were weak with starvation, and declared that they had resolved to die together.

A STRANGE MARRIAGE. Nearly forty years have elapsed since Miss Emily Keene, the daughter ol a Surrey gaol official, married the Sherif Abd-es-Selam of Wazan, a descendant' of the prophet Mohammed, The marriage created a considerable sensation at the time, since the sherif was not only the most holy personage in Morocco in the estimation of his own countrymen, but was already married quite extensively. Miss Keene was not dismayed, however, and the memoirs that she has just published show that her experiences as Sherifa have not been at all unpleasant. She was married according to British and Mohammedan law, after her dusky suitor had divorced all his other wives, and in 1873 she reached her new home in Fez. She found that certain disadvantages attached to extreme holiness. The Sherif had to support crowds of beggars, who were always dirty and often unhealthy. Her house was a sanctuary for \ the persecuted and a goal of persistent pilgrims. Her journeys were made embarrassing by the homage of the devout, who thronged around his caravan in their desire to touch his garments and those of his wife. But the white Sherifa had dignity and patience, and her husband seems to have been a really good fellow, witli a hearty laugh and a nice taste in music. The divorced wives had been provided with establishments of their own, and the Sherifa, realising that she had incurred their hatred, went to see | them and managed to mnke them her friends. She was secretly pleased to find that they were elderly ladies possessed of few personal attractions, and she does not appear to have had any qualms of conscience regarding the sad fate of their children, who had been summarily disinherited. Since that time the Sherifa has been a power for good among the Moors and Algerians. There was consternation when she refused to have her first baby sewn into rigid bandages in the Moorish fashion, but she had her own way and converted many of the native mothers. She introduced vaccination into territories that were scourged with smallpox and she has had her own sous carefully trained for the duties that will fall to them. The strange marriage ua doiibtedly lias proved a success. WOMAN WITH FIVE HUSBANDS. CONFESSIONS AT HER TRIAL. A lady whom the newspapers describe as "the champion woman bigamist of America. 1 ' has been captured in the person of Mrs. Clara Roach, of Baltimore, a comely woman of 45. She admits ■larrying five husbands, and is suspected •f having many more. "I should like to see them- all again before I go," she remarked to the public prosecutor, and when two of the five husbands responded to this invitation, she took them by both hands and expressed the hope that neither would be ] jealous of the other, as she did not love eithsr of them. "I have always beliejved," she exclaimed, "that somewhere in the wprld there is a man with whose Spirit my spirit would harmonise, I determined to find him, and I suppose, Jas I

J must now go to gaol, that my search I will be interrupted." S "You knew then," cried Mr. Roach, j her last husband, bitterly, "that you were committing the crime of bigamy when you married me?" "No, I wasn't," retorted the prisoner, "because at every one of my marriages, when the preacher asked mo if I took the man at my side as my husband, I did not say the words, 'I will.'"

Mrs. Eoach informed the prosecutor that she found all her five husbands "much of a muchness," with the single exception of a man named Myers. She said, "They were all nice to me for a little while, and then I grew tired of them. Myers was always devoted, but even then he did not satisfy the longings of my heart."

TIPS TO WIVES There is a lot in knowing just how to be occupied when hubby comes home in the evening. Some wives upset the masculine temper for the whole dinnertime by being discovered doing the wrong thing. One husband likes one thing, another the very reverse. A Mr. Grump I know can't bear to see his wife sitting cool and neat in the drawing-room reading a novel when ha comes home. If he does he thinks that she has been doing that all day. Mrs. Grump ought to be hard at work darning his socks or patching his pyjamas, and he would be beamingly content. Another husband is exasperated if his wife ia busy when lie gets back at night. "Haven't you had all day to do this?" he asks crossly, when he finds her attention concentrated on any kind of work.

There is the man who is quite jealous if his wife is upstairs with the children when he comes home, and there is the father who thinks his little ones are /neglected if anybody but mother puts them to bed. Some husbands like to see their wives dressed prettily at night. Others rejoice when they garb themselves in big aprons, and dash out of the kitchen hot and dishevelled when they hear his key in the door. Experience will teach you which sort your husband is. Humor him, at all costs. It is everyiking to start the evening well.

THE FEMININE KISS Mrs. Humphry ("Madge," of London Truth), has taken up the question of the feminine kiss and what it means, or, rather, what it very often does not mean. The salute between women is, as a rule, a perfunctory happening, more habit than anything else, and "Madge" considers the demands of modernity call for a halt of a practice which is as useless as it is unhygienic. Writing in the Daily Express, she says: "Women .would more easily he cured of the habit of the kiss conventional if they were aware that the custom arose in the. pre-Darwinian days, when animals licked one another as a token of affection. Europeans and Americans appear to be almost the only nations who practise osculation. In Japan it is unknown. The Chinese keep it rigidly and exclusively for lovers, and regard our kisses of friendship as odious, and suggestive of cannibalistic tendencies. The Chinese child is threatened with a white man's kiss in the same circumstances where the English nurse would suggest a bogey man. The Japanese prefer to express affection by 'acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.' Why should we not give it oip entirely, so far as its conventionality is concerned? It would then mean something. Why not Teserve it for moments of affection, when the deeps are stirred; when we, part for a time and feel the grief of it; when we meet again and know the joy of it?"

CIGARETTE SMOKING AMONGST . WOMEN United States newspapers recently gave sensational prominence to an item of "news" which will (says the New York correspondent of a London paper) particularly interest Englishwomen who, while visiting America, have innocently indulged their passion for a cigarette in hotels or restaurants. No matter how distinguished their lineage might be the chief waiters have invariably approached them before they had time to enjoy more than half a dozen whiffs and sternly announced that cigarette smoking by women in public was absolutely prohibited. For the first time in the history of the Republic a distinguished American woman, Mrs. Craig Biddle, defied the National Convention and calmly lit a, cigarette in tlhe restaurant of the Be'llevue Stratford Hotel at Philadelphia. Mrs. Biddle, who, we are informed, is " a Biddle of the Biddies," was accompanied by her millionaire husband when she inaugurated the revolt against the hitherto inviolate law against feminine smoking in fashionable resorts. The hotel employees gazed at her aghast, but none ventured to protest. She acquired the habit, she alleged, in London society, and was determined to transplant it to the United States.