WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 258, 1 May 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen").

| THE LADY AND THE WOMAN. There is a difference between a lady and a woman, though both are females. The former is ornamental but useless, the latter is useful but not ornamental. No female who works is a lady. A true lady is one who is nursed and'tended by others from the cradle to the grave. To wait on others or to perform useful labor is infra dig. It stamps any female who does it as a . . . person. A true lady is sometimes called a "gentlewoman. This means that her pretensions are large and her resources limited. A lady who has condescended to bear children may nurse them in private. But it is bad taste to overdo that. She may not, however, without shocking opinion, carry a child in her arms in public; nor may she wheel the perambulator containing it. For that purpose an inferior organism, called a nurse, must be employed. A female carrying a child in public stamps herself as a mere woman. A female, however, carrying a dog in public thereby entitles herself to be called a lady. Babies for women, dogs for ladies; that is the rule. Any infraction of this leads inevitably to loss of caste.—Westminster Gazette. WOMEN AND CHURCH GOING. I remark the disposition of contemporary American families to regulate their church-going by the inclination of the ladies. I suppose it will soon happen that Cordelia and I, will go to church when Cordelia feels it to be desirable, and that when she stays at home it will look more profitable to me to stay at ' home with her. Although that means that we will go pretty regularly, it is j not quite as it should be, any more than | that I should go without my dinner when she has a failure of the appetite. But it seems apt to be so with contemporary Protestant people who get married. Even j if the male has a previous' habit of church-going, and convictions or preferences in favor of it, the woman is apt It3slime""command'" of the' family conscience. That is an item in the contemporary slump of the male in the business of directing the course of life. He tries to keep a hand of his own on politics. but in the concerns of religion easily falls into the practice of looking to the woman to make his decisions and remind him of his practices. Whfch is feeble [ of him. for, as between religion and 1 politics religion is decidedly the more j important, for it shapes and inspires and l regulates the whole of life, politics included, whereas politics are no more than ! a detail.—E. S. Martin in Harper's Maga-' zine. , 1 MATCH OF THE YEAR

The future Marchioness of Stafford is an Irish girl, Lady Eileen Butler. She is a very pretty girl, and was one of the belles of last season—the one, perhaps, who was most spoken of and written about. Unlike her mother, the Countess 1 of Lanesborough, she is tall and fair, carries herself well, and has beautiful j eyes. Her father is a distinguished soldier, and was military secretary to the Duke of Connaught when he had the command at Malta, and to Earl Grey when he was Governor-General of Canada. He is a clever man and a most thorough soldier. Lady Lanesborough is handsome, much shorter and darker than her daughter. Her father was a I Victoria Gross hero. She - goes out- a J great deal in society, and chaperoned her daughter everywhere last season. They j are by no means wealthy. The Marquis !of Stafford is tall and slim, and fair to the extent of looking almost like an al-' bino. He has the small features of his ■ : mother, and is a good all-round sportsman. He was in the Scots Greys and in j Lovatt's Scouts, and is now in a militia } battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders.■He is by no means rich, nor is he likely] ever to be. The Duke of Sutherland,! great landowner as he is, is a poor man for his position. The late Duke left everything lie legally could, including all money, away from the title. Sutherlandsliire, in spite of its vast acreage, is mostly mountain, moor and bog—in other words, deer forest. The principal revenue, is from shooting tenants, who rent thousands of_acres for a comparatively small sum. The'crofters pay nominal rents, and are well helped in bad seasons by the Duke, while they have sheep-grazing rights over the mountains from the shooting tenants. The system I of feuing land in (Scotland is less ad- ! vantageous to the landlord than that of leasing it in Ireland. The feuer pays £6 an acre for building land, which is his so long as lie pays the rent. There is no periodical falling in of leases and consequent great benefit to the owner. Therefore Dornoch, now a great golfln" centre, and Brora, likely to become one. are not very great sources of revenue The present Duke and Duchess lived quietly for several years after the Duke's accession to the family honors. Had the Death Duty Act been in force when the late Duke died, his son would have been in a very bad way. As it was, Trentham proved far too expensive, and had to be abandoned. The young people will not, therefore, be wealthy, but will doubtless be very happy. The Mar-» quis has been appointed commissioner to the Sutherlandshire estates, and is greatly interested in the work.

SIMPLE LIFE AT THE ITALIAN COURT An interesting article on "Queen Elena and Her Children" appears in the January number of the Girls' Own Paper and Woman's Magazine. The Queen of Italy is described as one of the most devoted Royal mothers in Europe. "She often declares that her happiest, hours are spent with her children; and it is pleasant to read that, amidst the multifarious duties of State, she contrives time to visit the nurseries every morning. Queen Elena is a daughter of the King of Montenegro, and she has inherited some of the traditions of that wild and splendid country. From her earliest girlhood she was inured to riding and mountaineering, and something of the almost Spartan-like simpli, city which characterised hercliildhood she has passed on to her own children. Queen Elena has earned the. title of the 'Babies' Queen' in Italy through her love of all children. Since her marriage she has established many children's hospitals, and creches, and hardly a day passes when she is in Rome that she does not visit one of these institutions. She has also caused a revival of the lace-making industry by establishing schools where Italian girls are taught, many of the fine old patterns which were in danger of being lost having been ■resuscitated through her interest. Her courageous devotion during the Messina earthquake and the eruption of Vesuvius is of too world-wide knowledge to need more than mention here." Simplicity is the characteristic note of the Italian Court, and except on ceremonial occasions, pomp and circumstances are sedulously eschewed—both King Victor and his consort being whole-hearted believers in the simple life.