WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 189, 8 February 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") LOVE AND DEATH A GERMAN'S INFATUATION. Comparing his love for a married woman with that of Napoleon Bonaparte for Josephine, Henry Kohler, 34, killed himself at Melbourne by swallowing phosphorus, leaving some remarkable letters. The inquest was held on Saturday. Lois Emily §lade, a married woman, residing at Maroona road, Glen Huntly, said that she was introduced under the name of Miss Wilson to the deceased. Witness was walking with a Mrs. Lila Dorrington. You received certain letters from him?— Yes.

Do you produce those letters?—No; I destroyed them after his death.

When did he learn that you were married?— About a week after we were introduced.

Did you send any telegrams to him, some of which are* produced ?—I never sent any telegrams, to him. Did anyone send the telegram endorsed Annie Wilson, which is produced, for you?— No. Did you know of anyone else who did send it?— No.

The Coroner: I disbelieve your evidence altogether. To Sub-Inspector Crowe: Kohler followed her about for nearly the whole of one evening' until she threatened to give liim in charge. He then said, "I think I had better shoot the pair of use." He seemed to hesitate, and then walked away, saying, "It is too late to-night." Lila Dorrington, a married woman, said she last saw Kohler alive about Christmas week. Witness could not identify the writing of the name "Annie Wilson" on the telegram produced as that of Mrs. Slade. Witness would not say whether she sent any of the telegrams produced or not. She did not remember. Constable Rose said that he showed Mrs. Slade the telegram signed "Lila," and she admitted having sent it.

Mrs. Sla.de: I did not. Fredrich Willielm Sickerdick said that the pocket-book found on deceased was written in German. He had made translations from it. These were letters Bupposed to have been sent to Mrs. Slade. One translation was:—"My Darling Kiddie,—You know I have no friends out here. I consider you my only, yes, my only friend. You have no idea of

, ( mjr- feelings. I cry day and night, and ~ as if I could tear my heart ; out.' It make's; me feel like Napoleon , Bonaparte wheri he was lying on his .deathbed. He said, 'Take my aching , heart, preserve it in spirits, and give it . fio in'y love, Josephine.' . . . Don't j, fT>Q ;hard on me, but fulfil my wishes. I !, 'mil' say good-night to you, with 1000 I (kisses.—Your loving boy, Harry." I '• The Coroner, in summing up the case, j qaid thai deceased died from phosphorous u poisoning. Deceased, who had taken I' methylated spirits before, said in one of his many letters to Mrs. Slade: "If you do mot hear from me'you will find me lying ill in the hospital." It was not his province as Coroner to make any comment on the. conduct, of. Mrs. Slade. This court had nothing to do with that. He was of the opinion tliat f the disco very,, that she was a marrie'd » woman unhinged him. He seemed to have bee)* infatuated with her." Dr. Cole returned a verdict that Kohler died fro* phosphorus poisoning, probably sell-administered with suicidal inI tent.

GIRL GOLF CADDIES. The girl caddies at Dinard are very musing (writes James Douglas in Lon!on Opinion). They are aido good cad.lies. Their strength is extraordinary. Some of these sturdy little Breton maids can do three rounds a day without a sign of fatigue. Their names are like one of Rosetti's poems—Rosalie, Cesarine, Julie, Emmeline, and so forth. And their wit is full of salt. They are not clad in rags, like so many of the child caddies in England, but are comfortably garbed and neatly shod. Onfe little girl told me that she earned fifteen or twenty francs a week, and that it all went towards her dot. The French boys are not quite so clever as the' girls. They are not so quick of eye and brain. What struck me most about these French youngsters was their physical strength. Our English lads and lassies are not so well fed. Nor are they so well educated. The French girl of fourteen or fifteen is a little woman of the world. She is more than the equal of an English girl of seventeen or eighteen in shrewdness- or motherliness.

A WOMAN ARMY OFFICER. Miss Sallie Tompkins, just elected a member of Lee Camp (Virginia) Confederate Veterans, enjoys the distinction of having been the only woman commissioned as an officer in the Confederate army. Miss Tompkins established and maintained at her own expense the Robertson Hospital, where 1300 wounded and sick Confederate soldiers were treated between July 1, 1861, and June 1, 1865. When the Confederate Secretary of War required all military hospitals to be in charge of an army or naval officer, President Davis commissioned Miss Tompkins a captain of infantry.

A NOVEL ENQUIRY. . With the object of improving the conditions of domestic service, the Women's Industrial Council, England, propose to hold an enquiry on a novel scale. Five thousand mistresses will shortly receive letters, asking if they will fill up a form containing questions as to how they think domestic service may be improved, and at the same time 5000 domestic servants will be the recipients of similar enquiries.

NURSERY NURSES. A movement for the training of nurscry nurses lias recently been initiated in Scotland. At the instance of the committee of the Stockbridge Creche, which belongs to the Edinburgh Day Nurseries Association, arrangements have been made with the Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy for a year's course in the training of lady nurses. Instruction is to be given in the school in nursery, cookery, laundry, needlework, hygiene and other cognate subjects; while the students will obtain practical experience in the care of infants and young children in the nursery. For the purpose indicated the committee of the creche have engaged the services of a certiti'catnd nurse, who resides in the nursery and helps the matron with the management of the children. The students, who either live at home or in the boardinghouse attached to the School of Cookery, have to undergo an examination at the end of their course, and Princess Louise has consented to present the diploma which will be granted to successful students, to be known as "The Princess Louise Lady Nurses for Children." This (says the Nursing Mirror) is the first training of the kind to be attempted in Scotland, and marks a great advance in the principles of child nurture.