WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 236, 3 April 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). THE MYSTERY LADY PUZZLE WHICH IS BAFFLING THE FRENCH POLICE. Paris, February 1-1. The mystery of the beautiful Englishwoman who has lost her memory and is waiting in the Marseilles home until her friends discover her remains as impenetrable as every. Several people have been to the home to sec her, but her name remains a mystery still. She talks readily with all who talk to her, and her conversation is perfectly lucid. She had an umbrella with her when she arrived at the police station, and the umbrella was marked with the name of a firm in Nice. She explained to-day that she did not know how she came to have it. ; 'I gave it to my maid," she said. This afternoon one of the doctors asked her suddenly to write her name down on a piece of paper. She took the pencil, wrote "Teannie de Whitt," and then stopped. "I do not believe that is all," she said. She also stated to-day that she remembers vaguely having been on the water in a boat before she arrived at Marseilles. ■She remembers having gold in her hand and paying for her passage, but she has no idea of the language spoken oil board, or when the boat came. ; It was a large boat, she says, and people ran about on the deck. TRAGIC SEQUEL TO AN ELOPEMENT RICH WOMAN'S SUICIDE. New York February 4. The tragic sequel to the recent elopement of a young millionairess with a plumber was discovered this morning, when Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Noble were found dead in each other's arms in their I New York appartment. All the gas jets were turned on, tliU3 giving evidence of a double suicide. Mrs. Noble was the ex-wife of Mr. W. L. Suydam, junr., a millionaire, residing at Blue Point, Long Island, and prominent in the younger set of New York and Washington society. She eloped in September last with Mr. Noble, a plumber, whom she met wliile he was repairing the pipes at her husband's house. After the elopement Mrs. Suydam, who was only 24 years old, explained that she was married when she was 16, and her home life was always unhappy be-' J cause her husband did not know how to 1 make love and was wholly occupied with J the curious hobby of oyster digging. He , j used to spend the nights raking the Blue | Point beds for oysters while she was / lonely at home. I Mr. Suydam pleaded with her to re- ■ turn, offering to forgive everything, but she refused. Thereupon he secured a divorce and she married Mr. Noble. The cause of their suicide is unknown. • Mrs. Noble was supposed to be wealthy in her own right. Mr. Suydam, who wns deeply affected, took charge of her body to-day. A UNIQUE FAMILY PARTY In connection with the birthday celeJ bration of Mrs. Cornfield, a Lincolnshire • woman, there was a unique family party at a London theatre recently. A row in the circle was almost completely taken up by the old lady and .her 21 sons, eight of whom are or have been in the army. Four of them attended in uniform. For the purpose of the celebration, the »ons came to London from all parts of the country and from Canada. The nature jof the party became known in the . theatre, and attracted so much attenj tion that the family broke up into sepf arate groups in order to avoid the eyes !of a curious audience. A WOMAN DIVINER | Frau Tuekoery, the Hungarian lady J who gained her great reputation as a , wielder of the divining rod by discoveri ing coal on M. Jan. Kubelik's estate in Bohemia, describes in an interview the physical sensations by which the presence of the different minerals makes itself known to her. Thus, when she was en- ■ gaged by Professor Pfahl, of Bonn University, to try to discover a new vein of silver near a worked-out mine, she says she first felt a violent twitching in her right arm, which was a sign to her to turn to the right. Shooting pains in both arms and severe breathlessness told i her that she was above the silver vein, which was afterwards found at the spot t indicated. _ Again, when she discovered petroleum in Hanover she had a feeling as if her head were being bound tightly with a cloth. The presence of coal makes a burning sensation run from one hand right through the body and head : to the other band. WOMAN'S VALUE. The cheapness of women's lives in the Old Land is thus illustrated in a recent issue of the Glasgow Evening News:— At Aberdeen, Francis Anderson (coach-painter, 01) pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for having pulled his wife backwards downstairs, whereby her skull was fractured. She died in the Royal Infirmary. Sheriff Long, after, reading the evidence, said he was satis- ' ft'ed that there wa3 no intent to do serious bodily harm. The sentence, which dated from the time the defendant was first committed for trial (so that he only served two or three weeks more), was the same as that passed on a batch of suffragettes who smashed some windows in the Government Offices at Westminster, London, the other day. GENERAL. An official communication from the Hague eonfirmes the report that the hopes of the birth of an heir to the throne of the Netherlands have been shattered, but at the end of January the health of Qm-cn Willielmina had been restored. Miss Lilian Russell, America's most famous comic opera singer, has decided to enter the matrimonial state for the fourth time. The fortunate swain on this occasion is Mr. A. P. .Moore, proprietor of the Pittsburg Leader. "Something like a record," was the remark made when it was stated at the Flintshire Education Committee that a woman appointed as teacher to St. Asaph Church of England School was one of a family of 2"2, that her father was a head master, and that sixteen of her brothers and sisters were engaged in the, teaching profession. A remarkable, marriage was recently celebrated at Skcllon, Cumberland, England. twins figuring prominently. Robert Mitchell, a local wrestler, led to the altar Miss Sarah Little, the daughter of a local farmer. Both bride and bride- \ groom were twins. The bride was given away by her twin brother, and the bridegroom's twin brother acted as his best man.