WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 259, 2 May 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). | A PRIZE BEAUX*. THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD. Miss Virginia Lee , of Pittsl wh Mr. Andrew Carnegie proclaimed the tempting flight in order to escape from a host of admirers who follow her wherever she goes. Miss Lee is a twenty-year-old typist who recently finished her studies at a littsburg school, which is one of Mr Carneg.o'g philanthropic enterprises. Her father met Mr. Carnegie at Hot Sprint Arkansas, recently, and showed him her portrait. Mr. Carnegie took the picture and proclaimed throughout Hot Springs that Miss Lee was the prettiest girl he had ever found . He gave the photograph to a reporter for reproduction. Now I her picture is appearing in the newspapers everywhere. Every time Miss Lee appears in the streets she is pursued by crowds. They, follow her when she goes to work in the morning, escort her to lunch and escort her home again after the day's work is over. Photographers dog her footsteps music-hall managers are deluging her with offers to appear on the stage, artists want to paint her portrait. Every j post brings numerous proposals of marriage. If she attends the theatre she overshadows the performance. No matter where she goes the crowd cries: "Here j comes Carnegie's prize beauty!" Miss Lee was at first amused, but her | amusement soon turned to anger and i she now declares that her present life jis intolerable. She is a modest, retiring business-like- girl, and she insists that | nobody else will endorse Mr. Carnegie's I opinion.

Mr. Carnegie, on the other hand, declares that he is willing to leave the matter to anybody's judgment whether he is not right. "If I were not happily married," he said to an interviewer, "I would return to Pittsburg and see this young lady, but I guess some enterprising young Pittsburg man has already seen in Miss Lee what I have seen—that she is a pearl beyond price."

WOMEN IN NORWAY.

It is well known that, with the possible exception of Finland, Norway is the country where the woman suffrage movement has gone furthest. It is now many years since women became entitled to seats on the county councils. At last ! Parliamentary elections they had not l only the vote, but also the right .to stand as Parliamentary candidates, and *ru Rognerud, the first elected woman member of the Storthing, took her seat m the Norwegian Parliament about a year ago.

Recently a further step was taken, when a Bill was passed by the Norwegian Parliament admitting women to all public positions except those of being—1. Members of the Government. 2. Members of the State Church. 3. Diplomatic and consular representatives.

4. In military command. 5. Positions which may hereafter be opened, and which at the time Parliament should consider suitable for men only.

It was passed by a large majority—a majority composed of all sections of the House, irrespective of party divisions. In Norway, therefore (says the London Daily News) we may shortly see women judges, women heads of departments, and women chiefs of police. The day may not be far distant when a Norwegian barrister addressing the judges in, the Court of Appeal, will open with the words: "May it please your ladyships!" We understand that a still wider proposal to throw open all Government appointments to women was defeated by 60 votes to 28.

A BRIDE'S COMMANDMENTS A pretty scenario writer, who is about to be married, has set down the following commandments for her future husband to observe:— Thou shalt love no woman but me, and have no other affinity or soul-mate. Thou shalt not be indifferent. Neglect is often more heart-breaking than positive disloyalty. Thou shalt not deceive me, but shall confide in me implicitly as to the state of thy mind, morals and finances. Thou shalt not be addicted 'to strong drink or gambling. Thou shalt not be jealous or hypercritical. (It is understood that I shall give thee no occasion to be either). i Thou shalt be on time at thy meals, I and not remain out at unreasonable hours without good cause. Thou shalt take notice when I have "bediked" myself, done up my hair differently, or done any other little thing for thy delectation. Thou shalt not diminish the little courtesies and attentions of our sweetheart days. A BRIDAL REGISTER A register of willing brides, with a statement of the minimum' income the man who approaches thorn with a view to marriage must possess, is the latest development in the relations of the sexes. The new scheme has been inaugurated at Brockley (England) by the vicar (the Rev. C. H. Grundy), in an address to a large meeting of parishioners, and despite the vigorous controversy which the proposal aroused it succeeded to the extent that More the evening was over at least one young lady's name was down on the list with a definite statement of the amount for which she was prepared to marry,£lso a year being her figure, provided that she loved the man and he loved her. The scheme developed out of the following proposition advanced by Mr. Grundy before his parishioners:— That it is better for the State, society, the home and the man that he shall marry as soon as he is able to afford a wife.

A SOUDANESE JOAN OF ARC. A Soudanese Joan of Are led the Arabs in a recently successful attack on Italian infantry entrenched at Gargaresh. At the head of the attackers (says the Express correspondent) was a figure, cloaked and hooded in russet brown, who carried no weapon but a staff of olive wood, and whoso voice rang high and shrill above the shouts and. rattling rifle fire. With a voice like the scream of a stallion, she alternately menaced and exhorted the Arabs and shrieked curses against the Italians. The desert men swept up and over the earthworks, and their fearless leader, leaping into the trenches, stooped, plunged an arm elbowdeep in blood, and then stood, with a dripping right hand flung upwards, a statue of the Goddess of African Battle. She was struck by a fragment of shell ■ before the charge began, but she went I forward, shaking her bleeding hand in | the faces of the men, and bidding them earn glorious wounds like hers.

A WOMAN ARCHITECT,

Miss Fay Kcllogg, New York's first successful woman architect, earns about £ 1500 a year as a designer of comfortable bouses for women to live in. She studied her profession in Paris and New York, and not only can design a house, but is a capable carpenter and steam-fitter for heating purposes. Moreover, she lias done all the work of building a Rouse, just to prove that she is herself capable of doing the job thoroughly.