WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 253, 25 April 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

i (Conducted by "Eileen"). I ) SPARKS [ I Buttons of enamel and jet are much i admired. J The return of the Louis XIV. coat is welcomed by many. Short jackets and Skirts both show scalloped hems. Scalloped ruffles are found on silk afternoon gowns. Large white quills of suede are edged with sealskin. Yellow in all shades is chosen for evening frocks. Some of the deep dead tones make very artistic gowns. Of black chiffon and white lace arc some big collarettes fashioned. Among the new tailor-mades are skirts I with an inverted pleat at each seam. eßig fur toques are taking trimmings of black lace. Children and youth see all the world in persons. —Emerson. Love may seem to serve blindly, but the service illumines the world. Nobody else on earth knows half so well as women that often and often the jests let loose upon their defenceless hearts by unthoughtful menfolk are mere survivals of the stone, age, and should not be encouraged to make their nests at any twentieth century hearthstone. j MARRIAGE IN MACEDONIA. Getting married in Macedonia is a somewhat more risky affair than in most other countries. When there is any objection to a match, on the part of any relative or friends of either party, these people are ready to go even to the length of pulling down a church to prej vent a ceremony. A young Serb shepi herd, named Elias Yegrenitch, was anxi!ous to marry at the village of Bogdey. The Albanians of the district said the girl he was to marry had jilted an Albanian, and they were going to prevent her marriage with the Serb. They bad already stopped the match twice previI ously, first by demolishing a bridge over which the wedding party would have to. pass, and then by abducting the_priest. I Now they have destroyed the church at Bogdey, and once more have succeeded in at least postponing the happy day. MOST POPULAR ACTRESS. 'Who is the most popular actress with the women of England? Most people j will probably say this or that musical j ■ comedy actress, but the true answer will ] J be found in Miss Julia Neilson (Mrs Fred ! j Terry), says a Home correspondent, i j Touring managers will declare that not L only are the theatres both in London and < out of it almost invariably filled almost J entirely with women whenever Miss Neil-1 son appears, but the stage doors are sur-' rounded by them, anxious to catch a ' glimpse of her before and after the performance. MR CARNEGIE AND A DUCHESS. Mr. Carnegie, who was invited to Mr. ! Whitelaw Reid's to meet the Duke and Duchess of Connaught, failed (says the: New York correspondent of the' Daily Telegraph) to recognise her Royal High- ] ness when, later in the evening, she approached him. "Oh, Mr. Carnegie," said the Duchess. "I want to meet you! I have heard so much about you!" The laird looked at the lady doubtfully. "I don't believe you know really who I am," the latter said, after they had talked for some time. "Oh, yes, I do," protested Mr. Carnegie; "you are Mrs. Lawj rence." Her Royal Highness did not j deny it, but later Mr. Carnegie found i out his mistake, and when he went to j the Duchess to say "Good-night," .he > apologised. "Oh, I'll always be Mrs. Lawrence to you!" laughed her Roval I Highness, j A PLUCKY OIRL | Florence Durrant, the Lowestoft (Eng.) ,' servant girl, who, clad only in her nightdress, climbed down a waterpipe outside her window in order to warn the police of the presence of a burglar in her mistress' house, has been presented by the borough police with a workbox bearing an inscription recording her daring act. The Mayor of Lowestoft, who made the presentation, said that he was very pleased to see by the newspapers that Miss Durrant had had many offers of marriage, aiui as this was leap vear she t was privileged to take her choice, and he hoped that she would make a good one. WOMEN OF CHINA Wherever the spirit of progress and freedom is abroad the women's movement finds expression. In China, for instance, a determined protest was made recently against the contract marriage system, which delivers girls yet in their teens over to absolute strangers. In Kuantung several thousand girls banded together and refused to live continuously with their contract husbands, as the custom of China from time immemorial demands. When parents attempt to force their daughters into submission many of the latter either drowned or poisoned themselves. The result of this unique agitation has been that the girls have now been permitted to continue their employment in the silk factories, and are only compelled to return to their contract husbands on certain holidays What is likely to happen in the. near future, when the republican institutions and Government are consolidated, is that China will adopt a -Factories Act modelled on Western ideal*. A SCHOOL FOR GIRLS In response to the growing clamor against the modern girl who marries' without first acquiring even an elementary acquaintance with housekeeping, a course of instruction for brides has been established at Pittsburg iu connection with the Margaret Morrison School for Women, which U r . Carnegie founded and endowed in memory of his mother. Tn making tl h . announcement the managers of the school stipulate that no student younger than 21 years of age may enter for the course, as otherwise girls, knowing that they could easily become housekeepers, might be subjected in greater numbers than heretofore to the temptation o f_ eloping. Since the announcement of the course more than 50 applications have been received from young housewives for instruction in the science of keeping house. QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S MAID OF HONOR. Miss Ivy Gordon-Lennox, Queen Alexandra's newly-appointed Maid of Honor is a step-niece of the Duchess of Sutherland. She is small, dainty-looking and pretty, and is a clover linguist, a capable musician, and a good sportswoman. Her mother, Lady Algernoa Gordon-Lennox, is about the smartest dresser of all so-' Uiety women. She is the Countess of V\ arwick's younger sister, and, like Lady Warwick, a great lover of the garden I She started a fruit-bottling and preservl ing industry, which proved very success><l. As her health is not good, she winters at her villa on the island of Capri Miss Gordon-Lennox, who with her appointment takes the courtesy title of Honorable for life, is a great favorite

Everyone likes her. Although Queen Alexandra's Court is a very quiet one, and will be so for a lon;,' time yet to come, there is no doubt that her Majesty will have a Court circle of her own, and that it will be brilliant is assured by the fact that she numbers among her devoted personal friends the cleverest, smartest and most brilliant ornaments of London society. A CHEAP WIFE At the village of Uiznaeh, near St. Gall, Switzerland, on January 23, a woman was sold, with her consent, to another man by lier husband. The purchaser, an Italian, and friend of the couple, thought he was ''legalising" the sale by procuring two witnesses and having the contract written on stamped Government paper. The Italian told his Swiss friends that he wanted a wife, and the Swiss promptly offered to sell his own at a bargain price, which was then and there discussed, and fixed at 16s. All the persons concerned with this curious transaction belong to the working class.