WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 162, 26 November 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") A GIRL'S REVENGE CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER. At tlie criminal Court, London, on ■September 12, Daisy Williams, aged 17, was indicted for the murder of Annie Miller, otherwise Dorothy Steer, at Islington. The grand jury reduced the chfirge to i-unishiughtor. Mr, Curtis Bennett. ■ who defended, said the accused would plead guilty to manslaughter if the prosecution would accept that plea. Mr. Muir, on behalf of the prosecution, said the ease could not be regarded a*, one of slight guilt. Williams possessed herself of a dagger and some corrosive fluid, ami it was clear she intended to use them upon a man named Andrews, violinist at an Islington theatre, who hud thrown the prisoner up aiid gone, back to the murdered girl. Andrews' conduct in accepting presents and money from the prisoner was despicable. Mr. Curtis Bennett described Daisy Williams' career. She was, he said, for two years in a confectioner's establishment, but was dismissed through no fault of her own, and got into bad company. She bought the dagger before she knew Dollv Steer.

The Judge, in sentencing the prisoner to 18 months' hard labori said Andrews' conduct was such that lie could not help expressing the wish that the man could he made in some way answerable for the consequences. He made allowance for prisoner's youth and the painful circumstances of the case.

NURSE'S THRILLING EXPERIENCES A district nurse and midwife for several villages in Norfolk (England) tells an interesting story in connection with the floods in that county in September last:—

"During the flood I was called on to attend a poor woman in her confinement. The husband came for me at 4 in the afternoon. We reached the house, which was flooded, as it stood in a hollow. I ha"d to climb a ladder and get in at the bedroom window, ay. every place downstairs was flooded. The water reached the fifth stair, and as there were but ten it was not very far from the bedroom. I was wet through, and so was the clean dress I had brought with me. I had therefore to get- out of my wet things and put on a clean white shirt belonging to the man to deliver my patient in. I had taken a flask with mc full of hot cocoa for the poor woman. She was so grateful, and a plucky little soul in spite of all her troubles. A puny little chap arrived 20 minutes after I was robed in my strange garment. There were no clothes for him, as they were all downstairs in a chest of drawers, and the water was over the top of the chest; so I had to dress him in pillow cases, which were the only things that were dry. As there was no fireplace or paraffin stove in the bedroom, poor baby had to do without a warm bath, us the house was a long way from any other,, and most other i people were in the silme plight. I did the best I could with cold water and vaseline. lam glad to say that the infant suffered no harm. The next day, when the water had gone down, we were able to get hot water from the neigh bors; but it was five days before we could get into the downstairs room of j that cottage. 1 was never more thankful to arrive home and have a hot bath and get into the blankets, and I have not ■taken cold. , I wpndcr if any other nurse had had a like experience." DANCING IN ENGLAND. Speaking of the dancing season in London, a contributor to a Home paper writes:—"Only a little determination and simple firmness are wanted to prevent what looks at the present moment like a tendency in the direction of hopeless confusion in the ballroom. It really seems unnecessary to conceal the fact; that the 'waltz' no longer exists. Yetl experts prefer to say that it is 'Bostoned,' and that during the coming winter the double and the treble Boston may still be a 'waltz' on dance programmes. If it may be said, the twicing and the 'one-step' appears an equally needless complication when the one-step has become a two-step. Yet this is the inevitable way with ballroom distinctions, for it took years' to -waltz the polka out of existence and 'kitchen' the lancers beyond recognition."

NEW AUTUMN FASHIONS

More independence and originality are l;hc characteristics, according to Mme. Rcjane, of the new autumn fashions. In an interview with a representative of the New York Herald the famous comedienne pointed out that the general trend of the modes was towards greater simplicity. "We have done," she declared, "with the Turkish, Chinese and Persian ideas; also with the helmets, buckets, lampshades and other queer objects which women have allowed to be placed on their heads in the name of hats. Largo hats are, of course, still being worn, and it will not be easy to dethrone headgear which beautifies the wearer while enriching the milliner. But large hats are reducing their dimensions —they are becoming more human and they no longer borrow their form from household utensils." The super-elab-orate and encumbcrinsr evening coiffures have also had their dn\ ?n;vs Mme. Rejane, but, as for tV : ;mall hat known as the toque, it appears that it is about to enter upon a most flourishing period, and the correct style is to wear it right over one eye. Paniers are discarded, and they arc replaced by draped skirts, which leave more scope for individual taste and grace. Soft, rich cloths will be worn, and under these the soft, billowy frills of the long neglected muslin underskirts wiil make their re-appear-aiic'. Woman is emerging from her hobble skirts; her figure remains slender, but it is more graceful, and, abore all, more original.