WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 120, 8 October 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.")

JEALOUS MAN FIRES AT GIRL BYSTANDER RECEIVES FULL CHARGE. Melbourne, September 28. No. 53 Farrell street, Port Melbourne, was the scene, a few minutes before midnight, of a shocking tragedy. A young man, Charles Davis, pointed a single-barrelled breech-loading gun at a young woman, Nellie Babbs, who resides at Ascot Vale, and fired. Standing just in the rear of Miss Babbs was a young girl, Annie Horberg, and the latter received practically the full contents of the gun, and was frightfully wounded about the face and body. Several stray pellets struck the girl Babbs, and she received such injuries that it was necessary to have her admitted to the Melbourne Hospital for treatment.

As soon as Davis saw the awful result of his deed, he turned and placed the muzzle of the gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Death was instantaneous.

The motive of the «rime was jealousy. Earlier in the day, Miss Babbs, with whom Davis was known to be madly in love, was heard to say to him, "I am sick of you," and "I have had enough of you. "Yes," raplied Davis, hotly, "but I have not had enough of you." Alexander Horberg, a brother of one of the injured girls, said:—"At about 11.30 I came to the back gate of my father's residence. Miss Babbs and Annie were sitting in the dining-room,hav-ing supper. My mother and father were in bed. We heard a noise in the back bedroom, as if someone were moving about, and thinking it must be a burglar, I went out to see who was there. Standing in his bedroom, just behind me, was young Davis, who lived with us. He had .a gun in his hand, and was loading it. ■ He stood back, lifted the gun, and put; the end. of the barrel against the side of .the door.

"By this time I could see in the distance Miss Babbs and my sister. They also had come to the door of the diningroom to see who. was creating the disturbance. Before I could utter a word the gun had been fired. There was an ear-pierbing scream. He had fired through two windows—tt, distance of about 3)0 yards. ■ ' "I my sister drop, having receiyei the fullj charge in her face. Miss.Babbs fell right across her prostrate body, and tw<j>, as I reached them, lay in a leap o$ the floor. Annie's, face was coyered in blood. I stooped down, and as I did so a shot rang from Davis' room. |He had committed suieide," The girl Horberg has since died.

EAR-RINGS . .. ;i ; . The vogue for ear-rings has'increased very nii: ch of late, and we are "returning to & Victorian belief'iri : their becomingnes&r aVe, ih fact, Worn "With all-t,Q.ilie tes, and are by no mean* considered in bad taste with country dresses, .-as'used to be >&■ few years iigo., in making a selection from the rßumfcers of ornaments which most wo'men;possess nowada} r s,-many considerations, ar i involved, 'and' shape, style, and color, ar 3 clipsen with tregard not- :onhr tQI questions of apprpprMenes9^and ; matters of dress, but -the particular storied and ;j?et ;ings are selected" which agree.'Wiitbo<t}i< appearance",''speeial!'mbdds'sand . -feelings of the wearer. In-fche case of the woiian *ith 'a.!thtaj ;, !(i4rrow face, only stuls should be , wbfn, > long r 'dangling ear ; rings only'serving to''a'c&enttiltiJe' the lenph, of the face, whilst 1 swrtli round'cheeks }ha^ r w/;aj;;'.the f; lat'ter' ; sort'.'with impunifiyV' J: ' Ay :; a' y, ma!ueF of' factV.io'n* jet ear-rings~w!irm'aKe'a'foTffld fafie iopl: more slender, especially in tke case of tfie"fair4airid,%oiiiflji,j c'Tljryj-

pfeair-jlia well'in man ! >vi 'brfghVg ipallof t admirejl mkii, ho for .h/fit* ( deepens most m brilliant setting ating sj

ped peridot ear-rings look very ;he case of—the-darteihairad -wo;h a colorless .cpmpleHon,._the reen of the : StoJie ! ''add'!B^' i a ; 'cTe'a : r : ' ) the skin which is very much T < he/'. l blue-ej'ed ; wb'wever, §bould'cfr6o , s'e'amethysts :ar-rings. the nph'purpfe'c'blor' the df in -the' ir.yelloiis w^}y'''wh'il^t 1: or inlr'bd'niced -intone lends an aMilio'n'al l: ittid '■ fiisbin'artle:. ■".?''. - ; ' ! ' r * : V ; " '■."'

i OtePIECE FROCKS.'. ' ;vr ' The all-ii^on^ ; &:ook isj .style of frock and a perfect t>obn to the' ''.lxonie dressmaker.-.-Jti-is, jnp. thing more "Or'.less han-an joined t)gethei-' at the -waist,,and taking much li ss to.accoinplijsii. than a s'epai:at( tyjouse and skirt..,; Aliipst pany ■materia' caivbe used, and fjjjiantung silk, eitl'ier i atural or ,dyed, ■ froafc ; w. fell pipings or 'trastiuo color. One Very pretty" : g'6wn in old rose crepe, the nesk Kcu'fc and worked in a simple'de--sign' wijth washing silks in deep rose color. ' The frock fastened on the left side with big and these were 'worked also". Covered buttons were' used with a touch of black in the centre. For a smart afternoon dress saxe blue taf- ! fata is useful, the skirt and bodies made very plainly and braided in a bold design, anjl a round yoke of very good laee to finish the neck. '

ORIENTAL EMBROIDERIES. It.is : ' rather wonderful that people do not fuse the lovely. Oriental embroidered table centres, etc., for dress decoration more than they do...They.are really far moiie suitable for that purpose than for..that for which they were designed. There jare any number" of beautiful pieces that can be bought cheaply sparkling and vivid with Eastern coloring. When cjut up they can form bands of embroidery, collar cuffs and belts and make a! very ordinary gown a thing of beauty, j -

DONJT'S FOR STOUT WOMEN. Don't' wear large .flat hats coming down onj your shoulders at the back, and don't ha.vc them built up to an exaggerated height,' Don't wear double skirts or short tunic to your Evening gowns or panniers. Don't jiave the skirts with just one or two seams; remember, every seam takes off at lejist half an inch. Don't ;\vear very short skirts; they may be comfortable, but are not becoming- :

Don't wear trimmings, that go round, long graceful lines. Wear 'well-cut t coats and skirts and rather severely-made gowns. I 4