WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 93, 5 September 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

'(Conducted by "Eileen.") JILTED SOCIETY GIRL LIVES AS HERMIT j Peculiarly romantic is the life-story of Mis* AlniA Pitlin/.er, a (handsome youn;' woman, who, wearing male attire, is living the life of a recluse apart from all relations ami friend* in the beautiful Topanza Canyon, eight miles north of Santa .Monica. California. Some time ago a friend of the young i woman's father, who was a visitor at one of the mountain resorts, recognised her. and urged her to return home, but without avail. Miss L'illinc.er declared she had left all her old life behind, and did not wish to return. '"I am living contentedly here next to Nature," she said, ,T free from everyone, and I do not care to go back to the, sham social life, where there is no real happiness. "All f desire is to be left alone. Tell my people that I am happy and contented here in the mountains, with my dogs and ranch." Eight years ago the young woman, who was then nineteen, had just graduated from a high school, was living in a beautiful home at Walnut Hill, a fashionable suburb in Cincinnati. She was one of the belles in the younger social set. and a short .time after her graduation was betrothed to a young lawyer of that city, the marriage to take place the following .year. She had just begun to prepare her wuldiug gown when her fiancee became infatuated with her chum and eloped with her to Louisville, where they were married. When Miss Pitlinzer received the news of the wedding she fell ill. The shock caused her to have brain fever, and for three months she hovered ~between life and death. After partly recovering from her illness she bade her parents good-bye and left home, saying she was going on a trip to California to recuperate.

She wont to Santa Monica seven years ago, and. after spending five weeks at the beach, purchased a small rancli in Topanga Canyon, three miles from the ocean shore, where, she built a two-room-ed cottage, being-assisted, in the work of construction bv an eldi-rl- Mcxi'-an. who owns a ranch adjoining .MLss Pitlinzer's property. Immediately on starting work on ker ranch she donned male attire, consisting of a khaki shirt, coat and trousers. Except when it is cold or foggy she does not wear her coat, and also usually goes barefoot. Miss Pitlinzer has not worn woman's clothing since she built the home. Except for the assistance given by her Mexican neighbor she has cleared and cultivated the entire ranch alone. Sh« receives no callers, has no friends, and lives- a* 'a hermit. Her only companions arc two large deer-hounds, which are with ner almost constantly. The animals act as a bodyguard, and whenever a curious person attempts to reach the cottage the onrush of the hounds soon causes the intruder to make a hasty retreat.

A WEALTHY CLASS An interesting analysis of the m»ny sources of income enjoyed by hotel clerks, the most condescending and scornful class of Xew York officials, was furnished in the Xew York law courts by the wife of one of them, who is suing her husband for alimony (writes the Xew York correspondent of a London paper). The plaintiff stated that her husband was a clerk in one of the largest and most fashionable of Xew York hotels, and that he received large sum* for "boosting" (i.e.. advertising) different enterprises. ' She stated that her husband received yearly from the hotel a salary of £300; from a certain winehouse for "boosting" he received £120; from four European hotels—which she named—'"for boosting," £480; and from German steamship lines, "for boosting," £240. The wife's analysis of her husband's income totalled £I2OO, but did not include "tips" which he received from motor-car manufacturers, jewellers, tailors and others, whose profits largely depend upon the number of patrons sent them by the hotels. On the basis of these disclosures the New York newspapers have decided that in future hotel clerks must be classed with the emermously wealthy class of cloak-room boys, head waiters, and taxicab drivers. A WOMAN'S DISAPPOINTMENT Mr. Champ Clark, the Speaker of the House of Representatives (U.S.A.), who by reason of his defeat by Dr. Woodrow Wilson at the Democratic Convention in Baltimore lost the parly's nomination for the Presidency, was the most disappointed man in the United States. "1 lost the nomination," he said, in a public statement issued to the Press, "solely through the vile and malicious slanders of Colonel William Jennings Bryan." None the less, Mr. Clark declares he will support Dr. Woodrow Wilson as the party's candidate. Xot so his wife. When the nomination of Dr. Wilson was announced, Mrs. Clark summoned the reporters to her home and formally announced her resignation from the Democratic Party, which had deprived her of the honor of acting as the "first lady of the land" at the White House. "J have shared my husband," she said, "with the Democratic. Party for many years. The party has been my only rival in my husband's affection. Now i am through with it. The younger member of the firm of Clark and Clark ii out of it. "I have known all these years that Mr. Bryan was a false friend, and have warned my husband against him over and over again. Mr. Bryan is too selfish and self-centred to be anyone's friend. Well, Mr. Bryan has his own candidate, and now let him elect him." Mr. Bryan is enduring philosophically the abuse of friends whom, as he says, "his light for Progressive, principles forced liim to alienate." Just before the nomination of Dr. Wilson became an accomplished fact Mr. Kermit Roosevelt, the ex-President's sou, caused considerable amusement by informing his friends: "Pop's just praying for Clark's nomination."

MOTHER'S FURNITURE SOLD. REMARKABLE TjIEFT BY A CTRL. At the Richmond (Victoria) Court last week, Edith Hutchin, aged 17, was charged witli stealing furniture valued at Cll. Tin- fiiniitiire was the property of her mother. Mrs. Hutcliin said she worked as a washerwoman, ami on .July 20 was away from home during the day time. When she returned she found the furniture had lieen remove:!. Annie Hales, furniture-dealer. Si ,id the girl assured her that the articles were her own property, and she purchased them from her for Ills (id. Accused told a constable that she gold the furniture to buy clothes for herself. She had hought a" pair of shoes, two blouses, and a new hat. \fHUscd was sentenced to a month's imprisonment, hut the sentence was suspended upon accused entering into recognisances to be of good behaviour for 12 months. The Bench directed that the furniture, should be returned to the girl's mother. The chairman expressed the opinion that the second-hand dealer had not exercised sufficient caution in trading with such a young girl.