WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 173, 9 December 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") LUXURY IN FURS Great luxury in furs is one of the many .characteristics of the autumn fashions (says the London Daily Mail). Day and evening dresses, as well'as coats both largo and. small, scarves, and shawls, are generally trimmed with fur. Finger-width border'ings of sable enhance the value and splendor, of the most costly gowns, while skunk, chinchilla, ermine and squirrel are used for the sanie purpose. Tim fur that is the choice of the moment is squirrel, which is used for the very broad scarves, and also for muffs. The new material, velours ratine, is dyed to match the soft grey tints exactly. Its thick and handsome pile is quite as soft as the fur. Many of the hew velvet and wool mixture fabrics arc purposely died to agree with the furs for which they are a background, and that is why skunk brown and squirrel grey are two of the most popular dyes ! of the day. All the small furs, such as sable, squirrel, chinchilla and. ermine, are made up in strands in order that the necessary suppleness may be obtained. Mull's are as large* as ever and very Hat and square. Many skins that would not have been worn in former years are now sought after. The skins of wild beasts, such as the leopard, tiger and'jaguar, are transformed into coats and are used as trimmings in the form of collars, cuffs, and deep mantles and jackets. In the world of fashion furs have been worn throughout the summer, and the peltry makers anticipate a great fur winter.

MUCH-MARRIED ACTOR

HIS ELEVENTH BRIDE,

: Mr. Lester Lawrence,' the American actor, probably the most-married man on either side of the Atlantic, has taken mnto himself an eleventh wife, a Chicago girl, who has been congratulated by the 1 American press for her enterprise. i; _ Mr. Lawrence has a national reputation as an impetuous wooer, and wed!:ded No. 11 after two. weeks' ardent I courtship. He gaily admitted that I.some of his wives are now mere memI iprics, and, while he can' rcchll the Christian names of most, he has completely forgotten his sixth. All his marriages have been according to the laws of the United States. ;Some divorced him, and he divorced others (says the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph). ; On two occasions the actor wedded i within a week of his release from his ;.previous partner. One marriage lasted : twenty months, and the wife got tired 'first, Another lasted three years, but ;in the last case Mrs. Lawrence lived ! two years and six months in England, and her husband remained in America. ; It is eight years since-Mr. Lester |: Lawrence was last' in the married Hstate.

; FEMALE BULGARIA'S DIGNITY ' Englishwomen who complain of dojmestic servant difficulties 'should thank .goodness they are not Bulgarians. Only .[extreme poverty, Mr. William Miller jsays, .will drive a Bulgarian, into do'jmestic service. As a rule widows are : the only servants to : be -got, and; .they jwill-only become-cooks or housemaids if jthey: may bring, all their family .with ihtim. Servants insist upon being introduced to and shaking hands: with all [visitors, and will leave upon .the-.least Jcbukp. The only way to keep them is to let their wages fall into arrears. "So strong is the sentiment against doing anything in the ' nature of menial wOrk; that I know of a case where a girl refused to fetch medicine'from a chemist for her own mother. But the same girl wou!d ; work in a stranger's garden or do needlework, because these occupations' are considered honorable for Bulgarian'. women." ■-,.■- ,

SHOPGIRL NOVELIST'S ROMANCE YEAR'S FREEDOM TO ENABLE: HER i '' TO WRITE. .■., ; ■■ ■

I i It was only recently (says tho'-Lon- . don' Daily News) that a poet and-story : writer of fine attainments 'committed ■ suicide because- he found it impossible ■to secure : the circumstances ii which' r,he could do his work; for he ( was a poor man, and he knew no editor" or ..-publisher who would give him a'retainer icif £l5O a. year-^-all-he-wanted. So lit is worth recording that one courageous firm of publishers, {because-, they .think they have secured a' new writer, hkve taken.her.a.wa7..,irom...the office ..drudgery amid which her first novel was Tpjroduced,'and. have given her leisure, and .'security for future work. '■; i Messrs Milk and Boon recently published a novel, .."Golden .Vanity," by ipisie Bennett. It-was very well received.: indeed; and.then;.;it •wa.s.-iijound, .■that its:author was a young < girl,;works. .sijg:iir.u -w.elldcnowii London- store.' i'Mer<' .bbok. was. so promising in, its. indication .of spontaneous art and sincerity!; that ■jthe publishers have provided her with,av gear's freeddm in,which to write another I nOvel. ■■■.'.■■ '.; s , ~.;.. . .; 'Miss Bennett, when interviewed, islyly , (indicated that she must qualify the-ro-. I ,'m'anee of the shopgirl story.,' '. ~.; ',, .'■ '"I-haven't sufficient knowledge;, and ■ability for that- That- is .work ill ./cduMn'i do—though Ishould have,, taken ijij if ; I could .really: have earned the WsagesJ . L was, in fact, a : librarian eon- j nected -with a big store, though 1 have • ■worked in- an office:: :■ • . ■ ,;: (l iThe young author had some ainiusing, fcimments'. to make on literary:'tastes fof :| ,4{ie-nia,jority of the subscribers., -.f'Some-j.tjmes-'thoi'iuen- knew what sort"of a bbok they wanted to read,' but women: rbely did. They-really-depend on the lijbrariairV ta'ste, which is readily ; formejl by any young person with a good njiemory.: ■, The newspapers have plenty' of reviews." .

i Miss Bennett is but 21 years of age, a^id, actually began, the "Golden Vanity" when she was a scholar at Milton Mount College, 'Gravesend. It was', finished when she was under-20. She went to London to earn her own living, and her first efforts—the designing : of picture 'posters— did not succeed.