WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 140, 31 October 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileeu") ] SOCIETY GOES MARKETING Society's latest fad is marketing, and unusual scenes are being'witnessed at Newport and Providence, Rhode Island, New York, where the leaders of the "Four Hundred" and their imitators are buying their own groceries, meat, vegetables and wther commodities. The leader of the movement is Mrs. 0. J. H, 13elmont, the famous woman suffrage advocate and millionaire social reformer. She declares that dishonest tradesmen and "grafting" servants have made the cost of living prohibitive, even to millionaires. so that mistresses of largo establishments are compelled to do their own shopping like their less fortunate siste.rs. Society entered into the idea with great gusto, and the market places | of Providence have been thronged every morning with fashionably-dressed women, most of them pretending to a knowledge of housekeeping which they do not possess. Special "marketing costumes" < were ordered, and the morning's shopping became quite a formal function. One New York society leader improved on Mrs. Belmont's original idea, and caused a sensation by driving home in her motor car, which was stacked high with provisions, like a greengrocer's cart. Now 1000-guinea motor cars, loaded with the morning's purchases, are quite common. So far there have been few from housekeepers and servants, and it is rumored that tradespeople are making bigger profits that ever.

A STARTLING PRONOUNCEMENT. THE WEAKER SEX.

"Woman is no longer the weaker, but I tlie stronger sex." That is the startling assertion which a French professor. M. ,'Carvallo. made, at the Congress of the Society for the Advancement of Science iat Nimes. .'Tar-seeing Nature," he said, 'is" seeking to re-establish a sex equilibrium. and that is why the percentage 1

of female births is increasing." ■Dr. Jane Walker, of llarley street, London, thus discussed Professor C?i'- i vallo's announcement:—"ln one way the I professor is right, though lie should not

have adduced the oyster theory in respect to his assertion. When one considers the amount of clothing that a woman wears and compares it with that a man about town, it is impossible not to conclude that she is the stronger of the two. Again, take the sportswoman, and we find her playing tennis, golf, hockey and even cricket without putting her stays aside. What sportsman could play any of these games with anything on but light llanuels!"

. GENERAL / ; Mine. K3.lmaliQ.vieh, a pioneer leader of: the women's rights movements in Russia, Slays tiie' moveriie'nt has a. very solid 'support •fiV-flieideAlleal circles. The great majority of university and gymnastic '1 p'rofossolis, a'r,<f: strongly in favor 'of ,im- J proving tl)e ; civil status. of. women;, andv tjie movement is enlisting a considerable } lteasure of support among politicians J a|nd political publicists. : What is perhaps; number cjf baptisms at one church in one day — 404—was Jlpv.plight . to, -light by, an oldage pension applicant at Shoreditch (England). The old lady asked the yicar to trace her age, of which She was not sure, simply mentioning that she was informed that she., had. been baptised ,at lil ,o ? clook at-night.-. The vicar turnei lip.the old. register of. the parish church - for Jtine §0,"18i57, anil there, amid 404' 'that of the ; old 'lafljri ' Ott this .particiilar : day two clergyineii were engaged,-foe some :14. ,li.oi).rs baptising people at the church in batches of 12. j : In tceiand tfie problem of woman suf'fyftgi' "fs settled. -'Only it technicality-appears to'stand in tfife way of.women's enfranchisement there.,. The Measure has been passed through the 'SAlthinga." but it has not been passed a sufficient numbof—of—times. There s(eems to<;be/,axQ ; opposition.- .tpvthe: Bill, the Icelandic women, not compelled ijo struggle for their liberty <ts in England", ' ai'e.Wfreie to.'occupy, the tim-6. :of yaiting in educative methods. The woftinn suftrage leaders from the capital, Reykjavik; -aire therefore ' travelling' all horseback,'taking the message of wojnan Suffrage' to the scattered population of farms and c'otfage.' • . "Lectures'for brides"-is the. name of the latest course 1 started by the Viennese' institution for popular instruction known p tjit; Tlrania,-' and . now advertised' all over t j l;.'' ' The lectures will cover J juicli, slibjects as' housekeeping; Cooking','' WgleieJ'eTfe&ei'far.'i'. phy.jiology!' , a'n'(f l the tare pf' children.' : Thotigh mainly intehd 1 - fedV.'M-,'those >vho;' ! aß" about• to.' "fiV ''of' hayt :: jiist : 'beeiv married, all :girls ovtfr ! lf wilij.W Mtfi'i tt'ed;'' The coilf-sis TvilMait tqtV^iglfif; moii'tlis, theife' : .being,'l6ctur4s'KA; a week- ' A small fee is jiMj'ge(l ; s>r the course, but.tlie.popr-can.. pbi;ain'tiiiic^ts'free. ' 1 ' ' 1 ' 1 { fiiere'' wsis a .gii'l bride in Chicagtr t'he bthe'r - day whos'e unique wedding 'lj'otfc'fe jwent the f'ptajiils of the American press; Palmer 'took' A,lbertus Bo'de ; ks iier'.'husbaiid ; stie was the first wonian jtO' Ije'iharried according to the new. di?pensatijph of'.aii;,Episcopalian Church ;in wllfeh, is going to see to it 'iii fjiat' blie b'onfts'-of ri'atriiuony un»; flervv.ntten liy tlpt church ark truly h6ly. (The, ve<in pi 'tti'e Calhedrot of it. Peter jui'Vi 'T. T'.-j''' "• "( oii - ('the Rey.'.W. T. Sumner,), announced at the njiptiafe-'-of JM.r„ ai\'d', f Mrs. Bode that no plurgynian-'ln his parish will be allowed to offal theuntil a health 'certificate' hy- f reputable physician 3,s ;e4 ~-aipng . witii.' the civil licence:;- 1 Tliw' .miist deelate that clpfctbr fchfe prospective;'bridfc" , ii^« i finds both free from 1 M'- ,: ffeetiofis disease,'a'iid physically, 'qualified jfor , t " '7 ■ .Tha-jWo.ii,iari "suffrage party 'of 'Nekv lyiwrk bfls. called upoi't 1 Police isionei; Waldo to investigate conditions'iii'

Chinatown, New York City, which section, tliey declare, is a hotbed of vice and a centre of detestable traffic. Mrs. Rose Livingstone, a well-known social reformer, has for the last three years worked single-handed in Chinatown, and has rescued nearly '2OO young girls and children. She has been stabbed andbeaten, her bones broken, and other indignities inflicted upon her. Although she has again and again asked for police protection none has been a Horded her. This neglect, on the part of the police was •brought to light by a. member of the party in the public Press, and an investigation into the working of the police department of New York City i:< now I pending.

At Seattle (U.S.A.) a directory is being compiled that will give for the first time the maiden name of every married woman ill that city.

Silk stockings, said to have been worn by Queen Victoria on her wedding day, with a piece of orange blossom from her bridal bouquet, were among a number ol Royal relics, mr.ny of them authenticated, on sale at the Manor House, Knaresborough, near Harrogate. The articles named were in a bijou table, which sold for £77, and which also contained pieces of the bridal cakes of King Edward and King George, . Lord Nelson's garter, and shoes worn by Pauline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon.