WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 117, 3 October 1912, Page 1

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted, by "Eileen.") SOCIETY'S LATEST COLOR FAD,

A strange shade, never before seen in fashionable society, lias flared up like a (lame-colored exotic among the whites and blacks and greys that have so far been the.fashion of this English summer. It is neither brick red nor vermilion, nor any conceivable pink, and the London ■ dressmakers have reluctantly agreed to call it "carrots." Whether the homely quaintness of the name attracted seekers after novelty, or whether the sullen, gloomy greyness of the weather during July has so affected people's spirits that at any price they must have some splash of color, "carrots" has flamed into notoriety as the fashionable shade. At Greenwood there were stockings of "carroty" hue flashing under the inevitable blue coat and skirt. "Carrots" parasols bloomed in the intervals of sunshine, and here and there an entire costume of the striking* if somewhat bizarre, shade grew considerable notice. Half its charm may be in the fact that 1 only one woman in ten can wear it with effect. Fair women dare not wear it; pale women must leave it alone; only i the dark beauty with a really perfect complexion can be absolutely safe with - "carrots." Such a craze i 3 "carrots" that up-to-date 'drapers are turning out "carroty" bathing-dresses by the hundred, so that the seaside maiden ca» leayt off the gaudy colored print dress in which she has strolled up the parade for a bathing one of the same hue. The effect of this startling shade on the temper is so cheering, according to one health expert, that many people before going on their summer holidays left orders to have their dining-rooms re-papered in the fashionable "carrots."

OF FASHION,

In a recent consular report on the trade of Swatow reference is made to the effect, of the Chinese revolution in setting a fashion in foreign clothes.

j "At the commencement of the revolu-.'tion-the Chinese reaped pigtails and a ,1 rich harvest, while, the local tailors could | not cope with..their expectant clients." I The wearing of strange garments causes not a little mental difficulty to the novice. "I have seen," says Consul B. G. Tours, "one? gentleman with a gaudily- \ embroidered pair of braces worn outside ] his coat (he. evidently judged they were too pretty to 1 hide), while another innocent pioneer of fashion had fastened his collar round ,his neck' with a piece of string, and found it uncomfortable." ] Short hair and foreign clothes have been I adopted by some as being consistent with their modern republican sentiment, while others have adopted them as a safeguard iof their persons and property, a pigtail and Chinese garments' representing Imperialistic tendencies. Nevertheless, the craze will find .its level, says the repoit, as republic ardor, simmers down, and the long queue.and: the long gown will not ' be extinct in China for many a long year.

GIRL'S SUPER-NORMAL SENSES

SEEING THROUGH WALLS.

Psychologists in Missouri are greatly puzzled over/'an .extraordinary case of super-normal powers of vision, hearing, and other senses possessed'by a girl of 22 named Bessie Stewart, the daughter of a farmer of Wellsville.

The girl spends much of her time in a peculiar state of semi-trance, when she seems oblivious' df all that is going on, and yet "senses" scenes which are being enacted miles away. On one typical day, according to the doctor's report, she began with-'ordinary .girlish acts, such as singing and dancing to some two-steps played by a friend. When, however, the friend played "Home, Sweet Home," Bessie, instead of singing, acted the meaning of the song in graceful pantomime. She sat down with the family to a meal, and then rose suddenly, dashing off in long strides to obtain a man's pipe, which she smoked. After a while, however, the fit wore off, and- she returned to do some more charming recitations. When in the evening she picked up a bunch of pictures to look at the doctor determined to test her alleged! powers. The light was turned out until the pictures were, to the normal eye, quite invisible, but the girl continued to describe them accurately and she al.*o read a letter through in the dark. On another occasion described to the doctor the girl declared that an old woman living ten miles off was neglecting her chickens. She described even the woman's dress, and enquiry proved that the woman had been wearing such a dress, and at the time had been doing just as the girl said.

Instances were also mentioned when the girl, though in bed, had named various people who had visited the 'house and were talking in the rooms below, and had accurately recounted their conversation.

TURKISH SAYINGS ABOUT WOMEN

Here are a few Turkish sayings with regard to women, which will come as a surprise to many, especially to those who have the idea that women count for little or nothing in the Ottoman Empire:—

1. Under a mother's sole heaven itself springs into life. 2. Whoever is good to a sorrowing mother will he rewarded tenfold. 3. A woman's words are a witness to her work. 4. Woman can make heaven or hell for a man in his home. 5. The brain of a quarrelsome woman is night without a moon. 0. A stupid wife will harm a man more than his deadliest foe.

7. A happy love must be held with both hands, with the eyes, the ears, and with erery thought. 8. Who wishes to marry must have money in his safe and credit in his pocket. !). Whoever wants to know his own worth let him go a-courting without ■money or possessions. 10. Love makes man rich, woman poor; it make man .strong, woman weak.

PRETTY PROPOSALS In remote Alpine hamlet- and villages, especially in the Bernese Obevland, there still exist ancient and pretty customs of proposing marriage by the language of flowers. If a maid accepts a bouquet of Edelweiss from a man she at the time accepts him as her fiance, the idea being that the man has risked his life to obtain the flowers for the woman he loves. Another method which exists in the. Canton of Ularus is for the young iiiai> to place a flower-pot containing a single rose ami a note on the windowsill of the girl's room when she is absent from home, and wait —perhaps days—for a reply. If the maid takes the rose the vii ting man boldly enters t!i > house to arrange matters with her p.irents, but if the rose is allowed to.fade away the proposal is rejected without a single word having been exchanged between the couple. Sometimes a fickle girl will keep a young man waiting a day or two for an answer, but. whatever it may be, it is considered final.