WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 147, 8 November 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen*') j TIGHT SKIRTS. SEVERE EFFECTS IN NEW FASHIONS. London, September 21. "Skirts will be tighter than ever this season." This was the pronouncement made by Worth to a press representative yesterday. ''And the color will bo brown." These are the two outstanding features which will mark the new autumn fashions, while a glimpse of the salons also indicates a good innings for velvet and moire, especially for the afternoon gown. For morning wear there will be nothing new to oust the tailor-made coat and skirt from its time-honored position of favor. It is in again, in every kind of material—tweed, French cloth and serge—and Messrs .Selfridgc are* showing a charming "suede, velor," which in green looks as sleek and well-groomed as the surface of a billiard-table. The Robespierre collar may have to give way to the more fussy Stuart frill, and for the narrow skirt the straight line will be more popular than the curving sweep, but in the 'main the successful shapes of the summer season wiltt still be adopted. The eoatee and the tunic are also well to the fore in the shop windows. The arrival of the panier hat has created a sensation in the annals of millinery. It has a little side showroom all to itself at Messrs Selfridge's, where visitors tiptoe in awe round its black velvet swathings and puffs, longing, but not daring, to purchase. It is a picturesque affair, though, and should really be generally considered. Small shapes in musquash or velor, with showering paradise plumes, will make a piquant finish to the tailor-made eos-' tume, but for more "dressy" wear there is a new line in broad-brimmed sailors, finished off with a brush osprey and under-gauging of satin. All trimmings are to be made to lie down. The decree has gone forth that Ino lightning conductor plan of dccoraJ tion is to be seen in our streets this autumn season. Feathers and flowers are to be flat—or not at all. In color a certain crushed mulberry hue is threatening the übiquitous black, and "tilloull," a sort of compromise in yellow and green, bids fair to spring into favor. "Fur is to bo worn more than ever," says Messrs Selfridge's expert. Without a tight-skirted, straight-backed, long coat of seal cone)' no woman's wardrobe will be complete this winter. Moreover, black fur is superseding the sable, and the ordinary stole and muff are mostly to be seen in black wolf and black fox. THE CAGED DAUGHTERS OF THE WELL-TO-DO. At the recent congress of the British Association at Dundee, Professor Leonard Hill, of the London Hospital, discussed before the physiological section the "caged daughters of the well-to-do." "Many of the educated daughters of the well-to-do," he observed, "are the flotsam and jetsam cast up from the tide in which all others struggle for existence —their lives are no less monotonous than the sweated sempstress or clerk. They become filled with 'vapors,' and some seek excitement, not at the cannon's mouth, but in breaking windows, playing with fire, and hunger strikes. The dull monotony of idle social func- ', tions, shopping and amusement no less than that of sedentary work and a i sexual life, theatrical performance, the ] parts of which are studied from the historical romances of revolution. | "It seems to me," continued the professor, "that the world is conducted as if ten men were on an island—a microcosm—and five sought for the necessaries of life, hunted for food, built shelters and fires, made clothes of skins, while the other five strung necklaces of shells, made loin-cloths of butterfly wings, gambled with knuckle-bones, drew comic pictures in the sand, or carved out of clay frightening demons, and so beguiled from the first five the larger share of their wealth. "In this land of factories, while the many are confined to mean streets anrt wretched houses, possessing not sufficiency of baths and clean clothing, and \ are ill-fed, they work all day long, not to fashion for themselves better houses and clothing, but to make those unneces-' saries such as 'the fluff' of women's apparel, and a thousand trifles which relieve the monotony of the idle and be- i muse their own minds." ] NOTES. Mrs. Florence Ridel, the daughter of an undertaker in London, who died 10 weeks after her marriage, was buried in her bridal dress of white satin. In her hands was laid a bunch of orange blossoms. The progress of the hearse and < carriages to St. John's Church, Hoxton,' was watched by thousands of people, and the choir that sang at the wedding chanted the burial service. ' The Milwaukee Medical Association, who recently adopted a resolution to inaugurate a movement to make the. exchange of kisses a crime, have lost their fight before the real battle of kisses began. "Laughed to death" may bo the diagnosis of the physicians of the malady which caused the unseemly demise of their campaign against the bacillus osculatiorious. The crisis came when the superintendent of visiting nurses recommended that the State Board of Health be permitted to issue kissing certificates to those unafflicted with disease. All without sueh certificate, it was proposed, should be forbidden the delight of the oscillatory evidence of affection. Then there arose. a clamor from those who i have not forgotten the said delights of ! kissing, and the jeers aimed at the proposed commission proved fatal to the plan. An interesting appointment has been made in Uruguay, where Mile. Clothildo Luisi, who is a Doctor of Laws of the tlniveristy of Monte Video, has been appointed Minister to the Court of Brussels. Mile. Clothilde having been recognised by the King of the Belgians, will now rank at Court with other foreign Ministers. Queen Alexandra recently gave a garden party at Marlborough House, London, in honor of the British" Red Cross Society, of which she is president, and invited upwards of a thousand members of the council and committees, presidents, honorary secretaries and county directors of branches in the United Kingdom and dominions to meet her. It was intended that only a few of those specially distinguished in the promotion of the society's aims should be separately present, and that the general company should file past. But her Majesty vivaciously insisted on personally greeting and shaking hands with every guest, and she went through the physical ordeal without showing a trace of weariness. She not only shook hands with all, but also chatted with a few specially indicated to her by Sir Frederick Treves as having rendered signal service to the Red Cross movement.