WOMENS' WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 170, 5 December 1912, Page 6

WOMENS' WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") A UNIVERSITY OF LOVE. AUSTRIAN PROFESSOR'S SCHEME TO SAVE THE RACE. LECTURES ON POPPING THE QUESTION. Dr. Wolfgang Hawaii, of Munich, wants to start a University of love. It is to teach ante-iuptial not post-nuptial love. He lias begun by appealing to many distinguished Germans for their backing in counsel and gold; and if he gets it an alma mater of amativeness will arise in Munich two years hence. Dr Hassall's motives are pure. Tie wants to outwit eugenists who abjure love; and lie wants to correct romanticists who extol love unworthily; and he condemns modern mankind's hanal. ineffective love-making. lie says that Hermans and Anst'.'ians in particular are bad, lovers, '"because it is part of our feudal-particularist spirit to be narrow and inexpansive. Real lovers are bold. Germans however, bravely amorous, have not the courage to avow love bravely. That is wo,"se with women than with men. The German girl is a prey to subjective dubitations which make Ikv at the critical instant do the wrong tiling instead of the right"—-which mean's that the German woman sits awkwardly on her lover's hat when she ought to hv sitting on his knee.

NO FLAPPERS NEED APPLY. The High School of Marriagc-Scienee will end all that. It will be a serious institution. No boys or flappers need apply; only graduates of universities or of other high schools, will be allowed to matricidate. "The High School will be in the nature of a teachers' seminary; that is, it will train teachers and not train pupils .These teachers will, after- . wards teach in Germany a proper attitude- towards courting and towards the pre-marital relations of the sexes." The High School graduates will then :be let loose throughout Germany. "If they become school teachers, so much [ the better; they will have a moralising J influence upon youth, and teach our ] hoys and girls that love is no sin. Gen- ; crally they will act as State love-offi-j cials. settle quarrels, and give advice. : The University of Love will teach : many things: "Coquetry," "Psychology i and Attraction." "Love and Opposites," 1 " ; The Inspiration of Love." The "Subj jeet Dangers of love" are the perils which , arise from thinking too much of one's • flame: while "The Induction of M«rij riage" is what the unscientific call "planning to make him pop." ' Those who attend these lectures and i take careful notes are promised a "pcrI petual honeymoon." , Br Hassall uses the wordi, "psyehothical," "positive-conformatory," * and | "hyperplatonic" several times, and that ; is enough to clear him of the charge of ; levitv. •

MISTAKEN FOR BURGLAR. Deep interest lias been excited bv a tragedy which ignited in the shooting. in the early hour* of the morning, of Mrs Geonrc S. Vanpelt, the wife of a wealthy New York, commercial 'traveler, by her husband. Awakened by a shower, she rose to close, the. window. G'oin<r through the sitting room she stumbled over a chili: The noise awoke her huffband, who. thinking a burglar was in the ho'.ifie, grasped the revolver under his pillow. The footfalls came nearer and soon a shadowy figure appeared in the doorway. Mr Vanpelt fired. The first shot splintered the door. A second penetrated his wife's neck . When the hueband rose and lighted the gas he found his wife senseless on the floor. She regained consciousness Into in the afternoon and wnispered to the doctor: "If I die do not prosecute mv husband. He is innocent. We were happy and never had a qunnvl since we were married."

A WO lAN POLICE-SERGEANT. The city of Des Moines, lowa, enfovs the distinction of havincr'the only woman police-eergoant in the world. She is Miss May Mankinn, and is only 19 years of age . For several months she has been acting as desk sergeant at police headquarters, with the entire direction of the day force. If there is a murder the first notice of the police comes to her ears, and she promptly sets the machinery of the law in motion. If there is a robbery she starts the motor-cycle corps on the wing; while if some housewife is annoyed by her neighbor's chicken's scratching up ber fiorer beds or .kitchen garden". Miss Mankinn mails a sharp warning U the offender. All the custodians of tf>» peace in the Des Moines force have ii, report to their feminine ■ commander ever|y half-hour. She knows at all times_ where each man i fi or should be. and if any member be found lacking in any particular something is likely to ! happen which he will not speedily' forget. ■•■..■•'

FAMOUS TWINS DEAD. Millie, one of the celebrated MillieChristine twins, known all over the world, died recently at her home near Wh.iteville, Ohio, and Christine, although the two were joined together, lived for several hours later. The twins were about sixty years old. Born in slavery times, the women, who were colored were sold for £BOOO to be used for exhibition purposes. While beinsr shown in Philadelphia a few -ears 'after their sale they were stolen, and nothing was heard of them bv their owner for years. Finely, he located them in London, and regained possession of them. He again placed them on exhibition in J'.uropc and America, Millie and Christine had two heads and two sets of lower extremities, but one body. What one disliked, the other disliked, the same things made each ill, but they had their differences and sometimes quarried with themselves. Thev were the wonder of physicians, anatomists, and biologists everywhere. On the stage thev sai£ in chorus and danced. One head carried on a conversation with one person while the obher carried on a different conversation with someone else.

THE LAW AND THE KISS. _ An interesting Judgment on the subject of a stolen kiss lias just been deivered at Inns,\-nick Police-court. A barbers assistant kissed tbe of a carpcntjr in tbe liter's presence Jl«« kiss was stolen at an inn. and tbe carpenter, when lie saw wbat bad taken place boxed tbe gallant barber's ears Inc. barber took action againsf (lie car pouter for assault, and tbe girl hi turn summoned tbe barber for defamation of character. After bearing the case tbe Court sentenced the carpenter to two days imprisonment, and ordered him to pay 16s 8d damages. For stealing Hie kiss against tbe girl's will the barber was sentenced to six davs' imprisonment and ordered to pav l(ss 8d damages The judgment set forth that when a girl was kissed against her will the impression might be. eonvm-ed that she was a frivolous pomn. Tbe law made 't clear that the kks in miostion was an offence against ';!„■ ..IrfV. honor. It made, no difference if the accused contend that he bad stolen Hie kiss in a joke. I