WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 296, 11 June 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen"). SMOKING BY WOMEN ■ INCREASE OP THE HABIT IN AMERICA. New York, April 12. The increasing prevalence of cigarette —and even pipe—smoking among American women of nearly all classes is causing deep concern among doctors and clergymen of all denominations in this country. 'lt is estimated that the number of women smokers in New York City alone is nearly 100,000, and that they consume no fewer than 35,000,000 cigarettes a year. Certain tobacco shops in the shopping and residential districts have as many as 200 women customers every day. At the lowest estimate the 10.000 retail tobacconists in New York City and suburbs each supply tobacco in some form to two women customers daily, and more than 80 per cent, of the purchases are cigarettes. I _ The heaviest trade is not done either in the foreign or the poorer quarters, but [ in the Fifth Avenue and other fashionj able districts. The cigarettes purchased | are made of ordinary Turkish tobacco, | and the prices paid are dictated by the buyer's means. Little or no attempt at concealment is now made, and several of the more fashionable hotels and restaurants permit women to enjoy their smoke after meals. The women of San Francisco have gone still further, some of the smartest of the smart set there, it is said, being devotees of the pipe. These pipes are delicate and almost fairylike, with a steam of chased silver and a bowl no bigger than an acorn. Dr. Martin Friederich, health officer of Cleveland, lias declared that cigarJ ettes, so far from being injurious to women, constitute one of the most effective antidotes to the poison of theine, an active poison absorbed by consumers of tea. Dr. Charles G. Pease, of New York, on the other hand, foresees such terrible consequences from the habit that he has organised a Non-Smokers' Protective League. "Injurious as tobacco is for both sexes," Dr. Pease is quoted as sayin» it is especially harmful to women. Woman is much more sensitively constructed, her system responds so much more readily to such poisons, that she is directly liable to transmit to her offspring disabilities on all three planes of ■existence—the mental, the moral and the physical."

FRAGRANT BROOCHES 'FLORAL INNOVATION. T London, April 12. in the old-fashioned novel the heroine often 'fastened a rose at her throat," but in real life this mode of personal adornment has not hitherto been seen. Flowers were worn at the waist or pinned to the bodice in front, but their actual substitution for brooches is an innovation of this season. A tiny bunch of violets or any other flpwer is pinned to the collar with a golden safety pin in such a manner as in no wise to hamper the movements 01 tae neck. One of the leading West End florists told a press representative that for this purpose the tiniest nosegays and buttonholes are m demand, and although lar»e sprays continue to he worn in the customary way on evening dresses, even for these the "fragrant brooch" is greatly in favor. 'ln general the real flower, which had tor some time been superseded by the artificial bloom, is coming into its own once more as regards personal wear " he said. 3 Real flowers are again worn in the hair, and they are also used to pm inside the brim of a hat, resting against the front of the coiffure."

intensified living ■urn. i : ! ,SUn writ es ' thus of the Tabloid House:—lt is said to represent the quintessence of intensified living—a house of relatively four rooms and a bathroom confined within the space of one room of ordinary, size. Each room is completely equipped and furnished With everything necessary for a living room dining-room, kitc he„ and bedroom. But the house is only one room in space and includes the whole four. This form of house is said to have solved the servant girl problem, and also the trouble with regard to excessive buliding costs—to say nothing about the difficulty' of getting houses. It reduces housework to the smallest possible amount of space and is an advance on the paper house with regard to excessive building costsJapan. There is only one large-sized room. It has hollow walls. The walls aie provided with sliding partitions with a deep space between them and the actual walls of the building or house partitions. Each of the four partitions represents a ro< ,ml behind each is the quipment for tu e room it represents. In the morning a button is touched, and a few doors sliding back reveal a gas tove meat safe, a folding table, which hot room ' a sink with hot and cold water, and all other things necessary for a kitchen. When breaklast is cooked the partitions are pushed back and another button L, pressed anu doors slip back revealing a sectional modat e r 7 m i table krge eil ° Ugh to accommodate twelve persons. There is also nr C^ n % ® cl, airs, and a sideboard, behind '(W v '"g-room furniture ftf p inotl ""*°fon of the partitions Inn! a CO , UC . l '' llbl ' ai 'y Ulb,c > reading r?7 I?'?' etc ' As each room is finished with for the moment, its xurnishings are put back in place again to make way for the next room. A bed dressing-table and washstand, YTith running water, with the bathroom, are concealed behind the fourth partition in the wuiie manner as the other equipment. Ihe owner and designer of the concentiated home resents the imputation that - has turned out a freak house. He says that with a house of this kind only a fourth ot tlu; housework has to be' done, and that it is a thing devoutly to S fin WOmcn " T W «ew form of tabloid house is also commended to those who desire, a week-end home on he mountems. During the owner's abnn li„f +1 ® ° an " 0t be up, but the rooms can be stowed away and their contents made secure.

WOMEN'S RIGHTS Karm Michaelis, author of "The DanU nf' m'' r.r h °, in private life is the , U / r A " Charles Strangeland, Secretly of I,he American Legation in Bolivia, >«. now staymg i„ Nevr Y ork. Interviewed 011 the subject of the women's ESVfS T u ' » he belief .hat the future generations of women will not wait for , hu-S,' Wi " " eek ° Ut thßir ™ n husbands, proposing themselves. Evowill teaoh them there is nothing immodest mso doing. Prudery, she deClares is the cam,. Of much 'ill-health and discomfort to the present-day woman, who pretends a modesty which is action™' CaUS6B an jil j llriou = re-