WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 231, 28 March 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). HOBBLE SKIRT'S SUCCESSOR PAXIER DRESS ACAIX IX FAVOR IX PARIS. ! Paris, February 7. After the tight skirt Fashion threatens to lead her devotees to the other ex- ' trerae, and the dressmaking world in Paris is discussing seriously the return to favor of the panicr dress, with its basket-like arrangement bunched about the hips as in the days of Louis XVI. In a few days the musical play, the ''Count of Luxembourg" will be produced at the Apollo Theatre in Paris, and the costumier who made for Mile, Cecil Sorel the early Louis XVI. dresses which she. wore recently at Monte Carlo has made several more to be worn bv the actresses in the play. They are expected to have a great effect on the coming fashions. The new panier dress, to suit modern tastes, has had to be modified. It is narrower round the her.), and is made of supple changeable taffeta instead of heavy brocade and silk anil satin as in former days. It is trimmed with lace artistically draped round the hips, with the front of the skirt free. The paniers are looped back by means of artificial flowers viade of satin.

The panier dresses will make their firstbid for popularity as evening dresses. All the houses- in the Rue de la Paix declare themselves in favor of the new \ style. Worth says he never considered the tight skirt anything but ugly. DOLL REVIVAL IN BELGIUM It is being argued it Belgium that the success "of teddy bears and gollywogs over dolls i> undermining the characters of little girls by inspiring a taste for the. bizarre. The first spark of the maternal instinct which slumbers in every female breast was always supposed to be fanned into life by the present of a doll,) even though the owner might be bui little bigger than the symbol itself; and the care and affection she lavished upon it were always considered part of the 1 education necessary for the woman she would grow to be. In Belgium motherhood is considered very seriously. The substitution of the unnatural toys imported from America (says a writer in '. the Evening Standard) is" not approved by those who study the welfare of future generations. It'may seem absurd to look upon the doll as seriously as this, but when we remember that the doll represents to its little owner, a real baby i or a real girl it is not difficult to recog- ■ nise the great value in educational train- \ ing. Many a girl has learnt much about - the dress and simple management of a baby from playing with her doll, and until Mrs. Pankhurst and party have entirely reversed the position of" the sexes most women must do this sort of work. EDITOR'S ROMANCE. HOW HE EXDED LOVERS' QUARREL BY PRLXTIXf! A STORY. Mr. Reginald Smith, K.C., editor of > the Cornhill Magazine, and principal of Smith, Elder and Co., publishers, speaking at the Authors' Club, recalled an interview with the late Mrs. Oliphant, the well-known authoress. They had agreed on the payment to be made for the book, not one" word of which was written, and then she said, "May I have the money now?" The answer was, "My dear' Mrs. Oliphant, your books are immortal, but you are not." She had not appreciated the risk the publisher would run by paying for a wholly unwritten book. There was a contributor to the Cornhill who, writing several good stories, sent one which Mr. Smith thought not so good, and rejected in kindly fashion. Back came the reply that the contributor was—or, rather," had been—engaged to be married, but there had boon a little difficulty, and the two were not on speaking terms. The contributor however, had put things into the story which he thought would melt his fiancee's heart when she came to read the story. (Laughter).

"What else could I do but print the story? All came right, and ended in marriage bells. I think the editor ought to have been asked to the wedding; even an editor can be human, and maybe useful."

MARRIAGE CLUB CLERGYMAN'S HELr FOR SPINSTERS. New York, February 2. The Rev. Mr. Dalton, pastor of a popular church in Kansas City, has formed a school of matrimony to increase the number of marriages in the parish. Calling the young people of his congregation to a church meeting recently, he announced that it was his opinion that any bachelor aged 24 years, earning £lO a month, and any girl over 18 years of age, ought to marry, and he intended they should. He forthwith formed a matrimonial club for that purpose and enrolled 50-couples.

To the present members the pastor is now delivering weekly lectures on "Courting," "Buying Furniture," "Cooking," "Saving Money" and "Rearing Children." each concluding with an admonition to the effect that the sooner the couples assist themselves to embark on their matrimonial careers the better it will be for them.

The Kiowa County Signal, of the neighboring town of Greens-burg, lias published, as a guide to spinsters desiring to take advantage of Leap Year, a directory of eligible bachelors of the community, setting forth their qualifications. The list includes a tradesman with possessions rated at £40,000, and the Dissident of a Farmers' Dank with £50,000, mid reveals several farmers owning manr thousand acres, and one with £IO.OOO and two motor car-.

GIRL STRIKE LEADER FATAL RIOTIXG IN AMERICA. Boston. February-2. The City of Lawrence. Massachusetti is to-day under martial law after a collision last night between the State Militia and a body of wool strikers led bv Elizabeth Flynn. a girl labor agitator, who two years ago was still at school. In the rioting the troops were stoned and a woman was killed by a stray bullet from a striker's revolver. A policeman was stabbed in the back. The mob. which numbered 1000, was driven back to the point of the bayonet. To-day special trains carried twelve companies of infantry and two troops of cavalry to Lawrence.'with instructions to protect the mills which are attempting to continue their operations. The town, until nightfall, was comparatively quiet. Yestorday the windows of every tramway car entering Lawrence were smashed and the electric wires were cut. Men and women whose appearance indicated that they wore going to work in the mills were assaulted. The Governor is attempting to settle the strike by arbitration. ' i A WONDERFUL DINNER A New York correspondent writes: "All society is talking of a wonderful dinner, followed by a dance, given there 6y Mrs, Thomas Hastings. The ballroom

of a leading hotel was transformed into an Italian garden with growing bay trees and plants of all kinds, with gay cockatoos chattering in the branches. The soft yellowish light of great cathedral candles was in perfect harmony with the mass of yellow Forsythia, in a sunken garden in the centre of the. oval, around which the diners were seated. When the quests entered they heard the constant twitters and trills of canaries, and as the dinner progressed the cage doors were opened, and the yellow warblers fluttered about the trees and bushes in the garden, raising their full voices when not picking up the crumbs tossed to them by the diners. The subdued lights and the beautiful garden produced such an attractive environment that the guests were loth to leave the scene, and the dancing in anotlier room was greatly delayed.