WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 150, 12 November 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.")

"MAKING IT UP" IN THE CLOUDS

Many are the -uses to which the aeroplane .has been put including -honeymoon flights for newly-married couples, and

messenger to bring medical relief to sufferers, but it has been reserved'for Jir. G. W. Beatty, the well-known American aviator, to find a new use for it.

Recent marital disagreements were followed by the advice from friends that Mr. Beatty and his wife should try a month's separation from each other, in the hope of solving their differences. Mr. Beatty, however, said that their troubles were due to the interference of outsiders, and that if he could persuade his wife to make a flight with him on his aeroplane and discuss their differences in the seclusion of the clouds, out of reach of any interference, he thought all would be well.

His wife agreed to the proposition, and accompanied her husband in a flight from Mineola, Long Island. They spent most of the afternoon in an excursion in the air, and on their return declared that they had effected a complete reconciliation. It was Mrs. Beattv's first flight, and she stated that admiration of her husband's control of the machine brought out all her love for him, and that her experience in the solitudes of the great heights they attained absolutely made all petty earth differences impossible. She recommended the experience to others. Mr. Beatty is supremely content at the success of the experiment. STOPPING FREAK SHOES

Retail shoe dealers of New York State have done a'sensible thing in adopting I a resolution asking manufacturers to! standardise styles and to stop making freak shoes. By all odds the freakiest shoe for men which has been put on, sale in recent years was the extreme pattern offered to the public this year. Why any designer should heap upon the toe of a shoe us extremely ugly hump, knob, top-knot, t whatever outlandish name may describe it, is difficult to comprehend. But there it is, and not even a stump-speaker would "point with pride" to his pedal extremities when so encased. Possibly the designer was afflicted •with bunions and the thought to lessen the hideousness of his own feet by distorting the appearance of the feet of his fellow-men. Argument is advanced by the shoe merchants, that the fvc-, quent change in styles of footwear is one of the causes of the advancing prices of shoes. Stock soon becomes antiquated and is sacrificed at a loss, which requires abnormal profits upon newer goods to compensate dealers for sales below cost. A few standard styles would satisfy the demands of the most exacting Beau Brummel. Of course, the purpose of frequent changes of styles is to stimulate trade, but it must be observed that the complaint arises from the shoe dealers. The state of the trade is, apparently, not satisfactory under the conditions enforced by the manufacturers. Let the makers of shoes follow the sensible methods recommended by the merchants, and *we doubt very much if the manufacturers will lose in the end, while the dealers and the public will profit. ■ All this pertains to men's shoes, for who would be so audacious as to criticise even the dangerously high heels of her ladyship's footwear?

She may (wist, she may reel, She may limp, she may squeal, She may wobble as long as she will; For woe to the man "Who thinks that he can Induce her to wear a low heel. —Philadelphia Preis. HONORS TO A WOMAN Mile. Eaisoii; a Paris student, only 22 years of age, recently won the coveted Grammar Congregation First, a prize offered to students at French normal schools for thorough knowledge in Greek and Latin, which has never before been won by a woman. The humor of the situation is that winners of all places in this congregation are eligible to teach in boys' lyceums, where the studies are much more difficult and specialised than thope in girls' lyceums. Mile. Eaison has been Appointed to a girls' lyceum, however, as the ruling authorities seemed still to regard it as inconceivable that even a brilliant woman teacher could do •'a man's work" in France. A RESPONSIBLE POSITION President Taft (states the Daily Telegraph) has selected Miss Julia C. Lathrop as chief of the new Bureau of the Department of Commerce and Labor at a salary of £IOO a year, and the appointment was ratified the other day by the United -States Senate. This opens up a new field- for women's activity, particularly as the work that fall 3 to the lot of the new chief deals largely with a sphere that closely concerns feminine interests. It has also the Special feature that Miss Lathrop is said to be middleaged. This is a contradiction to the prevailing belief that no women, except those who arc quite in their first youth, _ need hope for good positions in America. The first woman to be placed at the head of a Federal bureau. Miss Lathrop is a woman of wide and possesses the qualities that pertain to the individual who is large-minded, sympathetic and ready to profit by obsercation. Many honors have already fallen to her lot in Illinois and in Chicago. She will go to reside on familiar ground when she takes up her position in Washington. Her father was a member of Senate when she was a girl, so 20 years a fro she breathed the atmosphere of the White House. The post is a newlycreated one, hence it is not possible to say exactly what the duties will be. That they are onerous and responsible, however, the chief of the bureau has already stated. To this she has added her determination that she will make her department one that will be valuable to the Federal Government. She is of opinion, too, that everything concerning the welfare of children ought to be carefully thought out and studied. Amongst lu:r duties will be that of investigating on all matters pertaining to children and child life, and she will have to send in her reports from the bureau to the Government. Questions of infant mortality, birth rate,_ orphanage, juvenile courts, child desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of children, -Mnplovment and legislation affecting them in the several States and Legislatures, come under «her jurisdiction Consequently the appointment eertainly does not suggest a sinecure. Miss Lathrop's qualifications arc those ot a woman who has worked hard and has earned a decided position for herself as an authority on the subjects with which she will have to deal.