WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 252, 24 April 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

: (Conducted by " Eileen"). | 75 MARRIES 19 j EAGER MILLIONAIRE WOOER. ! \ romance of December and June cul- ; minated at Trinity Church, New York, ; when Mr. J. ®. Alsop. a millionaire . Pittsburg steel merchant, seventy-five yoars old, married Miss Effie Hill, nineteen years old, the daughter ol the late Dr. J* J. Hill, of Atlanta. Georgia. Mrs. Alsop is one of the most beautiful girls in America. She becomes the stepmother of two of Mr. J. B. Alsop's sons, one of whom is eighteen and the other twenty-two years of age. Both are students'at Harvard University. Mr. Alsop met Miss Hill two years ago, and fell in love at first sight. He proposed at once, but Mrs. Hill thought lwr j daughter too young to marry then. It was arranged, however, to have the marriage the next month. Mr. Alsop, with his two sons and Miss Hill and her mother, happened to be visiting New York. Mr. Alsop and Miss ? Hill were shopping together, when the elderly wooer suggested an immediate marriage. Miss Hill agreed, and they went to the City Hall and secured a license, and then, with the two sons, hastened to Trinity Church, where the ceremony was performed immediately. The bride was suffering from a bad J cold, so Mr. Alsop, with parental solicitude, took her to the. Hotel Latham, where Mrs. Will was stopping. The bride and bridegroom and his two sons burst into Mrs. Hill's presence and announced the marriage. The bridegroom delivered his Jjride inK to her mother's care to cure her cold, while he and his sons returned to their j apartments at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Mr. Alsop notified his friends of the wedding, and they gathered at the Waldorf Astoria and held an all-night celebration, drinking to the toast that "the absent bribe's cold may soon be better." When the reporters became aware of the wedding some went to the Waldorf Astoria to interview the bridegroom, and others to the Latham to interview the bride. "A man is as old as he feels," said Mr. Alsop. "-I feel forty. We are going to make the grandest little team that ever came down the matrimonial homestretch. My sons agree with mo on this momentous occasion for their dad." The younger son, Edward, interrupt-: ed his father. I > "She is a poacherino," he said. "If you ] 1 don't look out, Pop, mother and I will ! J elope." j J "I don't think there is any danger," ! I, retorted the -old gentleman, "for I am I still able to lick you." J Meanwhile Mrs. Alsop was receiving reporters herself. "I call Mr. Alsop the Ragtime Kid," she said. "He is the liveliest man I have met in New York. I think my two sons are just darlings. I could love them to death." AMAZING EFFECT OF AN OLD s LADY'S ACCIDENT. Leicester, March 9. An old lady at Leicester, who had been blind for seven years, recovered her sight in a miraculous manner. The lady, Mrs. Koll, who is 90 years old, was attacked with giddiness when getting out of bed, and fell. In falling she struck her face on the dressing table, and a doctor was called in. 'Looking at her daughter afterwards, she said: "How long have you had that 4" blue blouse?" " j "How do you know it is hiue ?" asked !the daughter. "Why," answered Mrs. Kell joyfully, } "because I can see it quite well." j Dr. Henry, an ophthalmic surgeon, was I called in to examine Mrs. Kell. He 1 found that the blow on the head had j ruptured a cataract in the right eye, j and thus restored the sight. I Various spectacles were tried, and « when at length a suitable lens was found, Mrs. Kell exclaimed, "Oh, howbeautiful! I can see quite clearly again!" A SINGULAR WEDDING Several years ago a young couple wfcre married in a certain West of England town in costumes the like of which had probably never been seen at a wedding before, are likely to be seen at a wedding again. Both bride and bride- — groom were arrayed in sackcloth—the material of which sacks are made. They presented a somewhat odd appearance, notwithstanding that the dressmaker and the tailor did the best they could. The reason for the singular spectacle was this. The "happy pair" were cousins and an eccentric aunt, who disapproved of their engagement, had left each of them £IOOO, with the proviso that in the case of their marrying each other the money was not to be paid over unless they presented themselves at the altar in sackcloth garb. Eager to get the money, they complied with the condition, but before sitting down to the wedding feast they changed their raij ment to apparel more suited to the occasion. HARD TRUTHS FOR WOMEN. Said Ella Wheeler Wilcox in an article under the above title:— "One thing is sure, mere goodness, meie loyalty, mere worth of character in a wife do not serve to keep husbands from straying into forbidden paths." "Marriage is a fine art—one that requires constant study and care to make perfect." '•'Mothers must be the guides and teachers of their sons, and young men must grow into manhood understanding and respecting women. And woman must be broadened, and her point of view enlarged so that she mav understand what real companionship means to a man." FASHION POINTS Oil many collars of 1 wraps appear broad bands of cerise mousselinc de soie. Enamel buttons showing plaid mark- „ ings are new and smart. Coral and steel beads mingle 011 some of the newest embroidery on evenin® j frocks. 0 j | Dark velvet trimmings come on nearly all the large hats of white satin. The long sleeves to afternoon gowns are reminiscent of the old leg-of-mutton shapes. Camel-hair cloth in the brightest of colorings forms the crowns of up-to-date hats. White satin and white pearl buttons decorate smart tailor-made costumes of dark blue serge. Plaids now figure as the favorite linings of rich evening wraps. Many of the pretty dance frocks are built on Kate Greenaway lines. =====