WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 194, 14 February 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileei.")

SOCIAL NEWS NEW PLYMOUTH. On Saturday Mrs. Winifield and Mrs. Arden held a picnic at the latter'a lovely home, "Ferndell." It was a beautiful day, and the arrangements for the enjoyment of the guests were splendid. Ices and fruit were to be had down at "The Pond," and pinned up on the trees were sketches of where "hidden treasure" was to be found for those who wished to explore, while boating on the laike was much appreciated. Those who wished l played tennis and games on the lawn. Each person wore a badge representing a character from Dickens. Miss Constance won the prize for the most original, her badge being. "Miss Flight." The parishioners of St. Mary's Church met last Friday at the Sunday School under very pleasant conditions to welcome Mr. and Mrs. Colvile. The stage and hall were prettily decorated by the ladies, and during the evening songs were sung by Mr. Johnston and Misses White and Standieh, and Miss Warren played a pianoforte solo. Although the weather wasn't all that could be desired, quite a< number of people were present. Among those present I noticed: Mrs. Colvile, Mrs. Paton, Mrs. Baker, Miss Baker, Miss Percy-Smith, Mrs. W. Webster, Mrs. F. Webster, Mrs. Douglas, Miss. Shaw, Mrs. W. Newman, Mrs. Honeyfield (Sydney), Mrs. Courtenay,.Mrs. Adr denbrooke, Miss Carrington, Mrs. Duncan, Mrs. McKellar, Mrs Leatham, Misses C. and K. Leatham, Mrs. Bewley, Miss Hempton, Miss Joyce Hemp ton, Miss Godfrey, Mrs. Freeth, Mrs. Kyngdon, Mrs. Renaud, Misses Fookes, Mrs. H. H. Ward, Mrs. George Neal, Miss Brewster, Miss Crawford, Miss G. Kyngdon, Miss Blundell, Mrs. Fred Robertson, Miss W. Webster, Miss Devenish, Mrs. Osborne, Misses Randolph Smith, Mrs. Bedford, Miss D. Bedford, Mrs. Home, Miss Muriel -Roy, Mrs. Sykes, (Mrs. Lush, Miss K. I Hammerton, Mrs. Stanley Shaw, Mrs. IW. S. Shaw, Miss Mace, Miss Godfrey, Miss E. Clarke, Mrs. A. B. R. Fookes, i Mrs. Mills, Miss Mills, Mrs. Murray, I Miss I. Lewis (Gisborne), Mrs. Hutchen, I Miss Testar.

On Friday night the J. C. Williamson Co. ptit on "The Speckled Band" at the Theatre Royal. Owing to so many counter attractions there were not as many there as might have been. Amongst those present were: Mrs. A. C. Walker, Mrs. C. H. Weston, Mrs. Paul, Mrs. Rule (Christchurch), Mrs. I. Clark, Mrs. Gilmour, Mrs. S. Teed. Mrs. S. Rennell, Mrs. Hislop (Inglewood), Mrs. Noble (Hamilton), Mrs. C. Webster. Mrs. Cruickshank, lira. Bayly, Mrs. Day, Mrs. Penn, Miss C. Bayly, Miss E. Penn, Mrs. Carthew, Miss Rosina Buckman, Miss Govett, Miss Hanna, Miss Cunningham, Miss Humphries (Wanganui). PERSONAL.

Mrs. Stevens, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. R. Cutfield, of New Plymouth, has returned to Palmerston. - Mr f and Mrs. C. H. Burgess, with Misg Bayly, have motored to the Dawson Falls Mountain House, where they intend staying till the end of the week. The Hon. Oliver and Mrs. Samuel, accompanied by Mrs. Brewster, left for Wellington yesterday morning. Mrs. ißhle, of Christchurch, is visiting Mrs. Paul.

A COLLEGE BOYS' IDOL,

FOURTH MARRIAGE OF MISS RUSSELL.

New York, December 28.

Miss Lillian Russell, the most famous comic singer in America, who was known' as America's most beautiful woman, announces her engagement to Mr. A. P. Moore proprietor of the Pittsburg Leader.

Mr. Moore was divorced recently, and this is Misß Russell's fourth matrimonial venture. Her former husbands were as follows:

Mr. Harry Braham, musical conductor. Mr. Edward Solomon, composer. Signor Perugini, operatic tenor. Miss Russell confesses to fifty years. More than thirty years ago her photograph adorned every American college boy's table, and she has been adored by successive generations of youthful Americans. To-day she is almost as beautiful as ever.

She began by singing in church choirs, and her first stage appearance was in 1879 in "Pinafore." The late "Tony" Pastor "starred" her at his New York music-hall in the early 'eighties as a ballad singer, and for many years she was at the head of her own company. She has also appeared in England.

WOMEN AMD CIGARETTE SMOKING

1 Exactly what is the legal position of a woman who smokes cigarettes is to be determined 'by the Chicago courts, before which Miss Katherine Scott has begun a suit for £SOOO for breach of promise on the part of Colonel Harry Sefton, a theatre-owner, who broke his engagemeat when he learned that his fiancee occasionally soothed her nerves with nicotine. American" womem are divided in opinion whether Miss Scott should win (says the New York .'correspondent of the Standard), and the case brings to a head a question which has been agitating American feminity for several years. The question started when a New York policeman arrested a woman for smoking a cigarette in » motor car as she was driving through the streets. This attempt at discipline on the part of the policeman failed, and then women began to smoke in restaurants, the proprietors of which banded together and agreed not to allow the practice. In only one fashionable restaurant in New York can women enjoy cigarettes with coffee, 'but it is significant that this is always the most crowded.

A LIBEL SUIT

A London Court has just settled a libel suit that should be of some interest to Americans. The plaintiff was Mr. Frederick Casano, a musical conductor of some repute. The defendant was Mr*. Maldwin Drummond, perhaps better known under her former name of Mrs. Marshall Field, junr. Into the lady's ancestry there is no need to enter, but it may be said that "Marsh" Field, senr., was one of the pioneers of American wealth who began life as a cowboy and a clerk, and who ended—well, we all know where he ended. Let us hope that these few lines of reminiscence will not be painful to Mrs. Maldwin Drummond, who has long since severed her connection with the horrid and vulgar people who earn money and who now sheds the light of her social recognition only upon those who spend it. But to return to the libel. Tt seems that Mrs. Drummond gave a ball, and during the course of festivities it was reported to her that Mr. Casano had invited one of the guests to dance with him. It is easy to Relieve that the lady's blue blood boiledin her veins. For just imagine. Mr. Casano was a mere common person, who worked, actually worked, for his living and yet he had the audacity to raise his plebeian eyes to a guest of the house. Mr. Casano may thank his stars that lie lives at a time when an undiscriminating law protects even such base creatures as himself. Otherwise Mrs. Drummond would liave had him boi lo ,<} in on. But she did what she could. She wrote a letter to the musical agency through

whom she had condescended to hire this musical creature. She explained the contamination to which her guest had been. : subjected, and flhe concluded: "Mrs. Drummond will not tolerate behaviour of this kind at her ball, and she would be glad if you would inform Casano cordingly." With awe we note the fine prefix. We would suggest that even the scorn indicated by the omission of the use of the correct name is more than these people had a right to expect. Why not insist upon calling them all Pompey or Jupiter, or require them to wear a number? 'But Mr. Casano brought an action for libel, and then the whole matter was explained. Mr. Casano had not done the thing charged against him. Being a. musician of some fame, he would probably consider it beneath him to dance with any young woman of the kind likely to be found at such a ball or in such company. But one of the male guests, searching in the profundities of his intellect for the material for a joke, had given Mr. Casano's name when asking for a dance. The young woman thus affronted had asked him how he dared to mingle with the guests, and! had hurried away to Mrs. Drummond to report the insult, Mrs. Drummond admitted that the whole affair was an unfortunate misunderstanding, 'but none, the less she was mulcted in damages.— Argonaut.

USEFUL HINTS.

Nails that are inclined to brittlenew should be treated daily with a little pure white vaseline. The vaseline should be rubbed over and into the nails; and also worked into the under-part of the nail just above the finger-tips. The bars of a grate often have a burned and ugly appearance, which prevents their taking a good polish. This difficulty is soon overcome. Before applying the biacklead, rub the bars with a piece of lemon, and they will be quite easy to polish afterwards. When a knife-board is employed in the place of any of the patent machines which represent so much saving of labor, it should always be warmed before the fire before it is used. This has the effect of considerably hastening the operation of polishing the knives. .To wash an eiderdown quilt, shred some good yellow soap and boil it in water until it is quite dissolved, then pour it into a pan of warm water, when ! it will lather well. When luke-warm, put in the quilt, and squeeze it 1 well with the hands until clean; then rinse twice in clean water, ling out, shake well, and hang on the line to dry. While drying, shake well several time, so that the down does not stick together. Choose a nice, windy day, if possible, for then the quilt will dry quickly, and the wind will make, it beautifully soft. - An* excellent method to prevent butter from becoming a greasy mass in hot weather is to plaee it in a saucer and. stand it inside a large dish. Invert a porous flower-pot over the butter, and spread over this a clean cloth wetted with salt water. Pour fresh water into the large dish, and let the ends of the cloth fall into the liquid, and the butter will be preserved fresh and sweet. New nailk may be kept #weet in hot weather by being gently ecalded without boiling, and set in a basin, Never mix old and new milk if you want to keep it.