WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 230, 27 March 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") ROMANCE OF A MAR WHO MARRIED ' FOR LOVE. New York, February 8. An interesting romance attaches to an inheritance of £1,000,000 which has fallen to Mr. Frederick Crandell, who for two years past has been earning £6 a week as a bookkeeper in New Yerk. Mr. Crandell is a nephew of Mr. Edwin Hawley, the successor of the late Mr. Harriman, as the Western Railway King. Mr. Hawley died a week ago, and it is now announced that he died intestate, leaving £1,000,000, but no will.

Mr. Hawley made a will in 1903, but destroyed it in 1900, his intention being to disinherit his nephew, who, up till then, had been a great favorite with him. He made another will, but for some reason never signed it. His lawyers declare that the oversight was due to the fact that he was not informed that his last illness might terminate fatally. The estate will, in consequence, be divided into five equal parts. Four parts go to Mr. Hawley's two brothers and two sisters, while the fifth part goes to the two children of his third sister, who is dead. One of these is Mr. Frederick Crandell. He formerly occupied a high important post on the Southern Pacific Railway under his uncle. He was in the line for rapid promotion when he fell in love with a young telegraph operator, Miss; McManus. Mr. Hawley opposed the match, and caused the girl to be discharged. When the news of this arbitrary action reached young Crandell he beeame violently angry, and, forcing his way into his uncle's office, gave Mr. Hawley such a tongue-lashing as no single Wall street magnate would dare have done. "If a rattlesnake bit you," shouted the young man at his uncle, "the bite would kill the snake. That's how mean you are." With this final word he left the office, and soon afterwards he married Miss McMaius. Mr. Hawley forced Crandell to leave the railway, and his uncle used his influence with the young man's family to prevent them helping him. Mr. Crandell succeeded in getting a six-pound-a-week job as a bookkeeper, however, and on this the young couple have been living happy and contented.

TRAINING FOR MATRIMONY WHAT A GIRL SHOULD KNOW. A great deal of money, time and trouble is expended nowadays on a girl's education. She is taught languages which she is too shy to speak, and music which .she "gives up" directly after she is married. "She comes out" into society with the unavowed intention of securing the most eligible husband she can fimd. As most likely she is a fine, fresh specimen of English girlhood, she has plenty of admirers, and finally she becomes engaged; but the course of.true love does not always run smooth, and it often happens that quite suddenly the engagement is broken off, no one knows why. Men are much influenced by the professions they are engaged in, and for which they have been trained. A doctor, for instance, will hold wido views of life. He may appear to be lacking in feeling at times because he discerns "nerves" or "hysteria" where others read sensitiveness* and a gentle melancholy. He has to be strong if he is to heal the "weaker vessels," who suffer from a lack of harmony between their minds • and their bodies. The artist is a mass of nerves—he is affected by the merest trifle. Clashing colors or an incorrect hue will cause him acute suffering—he broods over imaginary slights, and his work suffers when his life is out of tune. The engineer is intensely neat, correct, even metidulous. s He sees most things through the particular mechanical bent of his own mind. The business man is quite another i type. He will come home harassed after a heavy day in the city with big responsibilities resting upon his shoulders; trifles worry him at times, perhaps more than they should. So on through every walk of life where man, the natural bread-winner, has to toil. Not only should girls, if they mean to be happy wives, train for matrimony by learning every detail of cooking, domestic economy, and housework, but they should learn a little more of the ways of men. There are times when a man, even the most companionable, must be alone, to think, to elaborate a plan or a scheme. Some girls resent this, and imagine they are being neglected. Then, again, the lover merges into the husband, and it takes a great amount of tact not to allow love to lapse into indifference.

In small matters man is a helpless creature who as often as not lacks moral courage. It is here that the true womanly spirit can help him. The wife becomes the comforting angel. She never says, "You should have done this," or "You should not have given In," or the odious phrase which is" the last shaft of womanly spite, "I told you so." vShe comforts her husband for the errors he has committed. She turns his face to a brighter future, where hand-in-hand they will fight for the good—fight together as one. She soothes, she encourages, she raises the man to believe in himself once more, and when she has helped to rebuild his fortunes she smiles at herself at her own part in it all and keeps that silence which is said to be golden. When a girl becomes engaged, she should spend three months studying the duties of her husband's profession. ° The doctor's wife has not the same duties to perform as a parson's wife, and so on; but if a girl really loves the man she has chosen for her life partner she will long to help him in his career. A WOMAN'S PLUCK A remarkable example of a woman's pluck and resource was related to a King Country journal the other dav. The woman is a resident of the Taumarunui district. Some few years ago she became alarmed at noticing the absence of a young child of hers, and ran out to a well in the yard to find the covering thrown back and her child lying motionless at the bottom of nearly five feet of water, face upwards, and with eyes and mouth open. The bottom of the well was fourteen feet from the surface of the ground. Without a moment's hesitation she .jumped down, fished up the child and hold him at arm's length above her head to drain the water from his mouth, at the same time chafing him to restore animation. She shouted for help, but her cries at first only attracted another child of hers, one between two and three years of age, who actually shut down the cover of the well. Finally a neighbor heard the stifled cries, and, summoning other help, rescued mother and child. They both rapidly recovered from/ their terrible experience. V