WOMEN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 232, 19 February 1913, Page 6

WOMEN'S WORLD

(Conducted by '-Eileen*'). A QUEEN AMONG THE MONKS MUST WOMAN VJSITnii FOR UuO YE.UbS. Vienna, December 20. The Xeues Wiener Tagblatt publishes a telegram from Alliens which states that Queen Olga of (irecce intends to visit the-21 monasteries on Mount Atlios, thus breaking tlie rule forbidding a woman to set foot on the holy mountain —a rule which has been observed without a single breach for 1500 years. Through the chances of war the peninsula of Chaleidiee (which lies to the south-east <>f Salonika) has come into the po-se-Mon of the Creek troops, and the inhabitants are now ('reek subjects. The republic of monks who live on Mount Atlios have already distinguished themselves !>.}' their want of courtesy to crowned heads, excusing their micoull'incss by their statutes and by the legend that the Virgin Mary came bearing the Tnfiint Jesus in her arms to indicate the site of the monasteries—since when no other woman has been permitfed to set foot where she bad trodden. These arguments were put forward when the late Empress Elizabeth of Austria wished to visit the monasteries and she was not allowed to land, while a German prince, accompanied by his wife, was refused permission to visit the monasteries unlpss he left his wife behind him. The announcement that the King and Queen of the Hellenes proposed to visit the mountain caused a great flutter among the monks., who hurriedly summoned a council and decided that there was no course open to them but to alter their statutes and welcome their Queen. By a constitution drawn up in the year 1045 female animal*, as well as women, were excluded from the mountain.

IMPERIAL ROMANCE i ARCHDUCHESS AND OFFICER. The Vienna corre.-jpoiv.lont of the London Daily Telegraph writes as follows on December 15: For a single clay political cares and troubles dropped yesterday from public attention, and ceased to form the subject of conversation in Vienna. The whole population of the capital was occupied with a romance in the Imperial family. The Archduchess Eleonora. eldest daughter of Admiral the Archduke Karl Stefan, has become betrothed to Lieutenant Alfons von Kloss, a member < of the nobility. This gentleman is a } oung naval officer, who has had a rapid and successful career, and belongs to a j Silcsian family. He is at present a member of the Marine Technical Committee j at Pola. ! Lieutenant von Kloss is 32 years of j age. and is verv popular with his fellow- j officers. It is stated that lie fell in love with the Archduchess—who is six ] years younger than himself—several > years ago. The lieutenant has acted as ] commander of the yacht Ravenska, be- , longing to the Archduke Karl Stefan. The Archduke frequently went for pleasure cruises, which lasted for several days, and the Archduchess frequently joined in these excursions. Thus the two young people came into contact with each'other, and an a fleet ion sprang up between them, but the attachment was kept secret from the world at large until the present time. The parents of the Archduchess only discovered the secret when the voting ladv wrote to a cousin in Vienna telling her of the romantic attachment, '•! shall never give my hand , to another." the Archduchess wrote to her cousin. "I hope to spend a happy life at the side of the only man I love. As soon as tbev learned their daughters' secret, the parents of the Archduchess gave their consent to her betrothal with Lieutenant von Kloss. The j storv also came to the ears of the Em- . pcror. who caused en M i.iries to be made Uardiii" the lieutenant. The result of these enquiries proved to be satisfactory, and the young lieutenant was summoned to an audience at wlucli the Emperor graciously gave his consent to the marriage, whereupon the betrothal was celebrated at the Castle in Saylntsch. Silesia, where the arebdneal family reside- The wedding of the young couple will take place at Saybusch at the end of .Tanuarv, and on the same day theyounger si>ter, Princess Mechtilde, will marry Prince Czartoryski. . : \sa consequence of the marriage, the \vchduchess Kleonora will leave the lm- , ■pnri.il family, and has renounced all her ri „Ms as a member of the bouse. Hoi ! (Vuoe is the son of a simple citwen; his f.'iltr was a naval oilier «t. Trieste Harbor, and on leaving the service some three years ago was raised to the nobility.

MARRIAGE AND A THOUSAND A YEAR TYn voiin" women of Chicago, under the leadership of Mi- Catherine Florence ialkcJ.^»rpa n Oiub" Their membership, says U)c Standard's New York correspondent is I>p ,„ (r, a ,,y woman who will subscr.be to the following vrovision: N„ member shall marry unless, a lei a''full consultation of the Fxecu ivc 15o!1T „. it shall have been estabhs bed Miai the familv income will not he i,,a„ tIOOD a year. •unUbat there >s „o undue restriction upon the wife in the dispensation of family resources. "One thousand pounds." said M»s Falke in an interview, "is the dividing between a career and a living. A.ne U.. sirls want careers. All can go a livin" There are thousands of ,-tinno men In Chicago. Our Club is a sacril.ee club Kverv jjirl in it oujilit to lune a C 9(Mlfi hushand. One thousand pounds a vear will set « real social end for the ~,,m,h-. ,' real girl who knows what is ~v,„..-t..d orhev. and a real wife who will ~;!.,' if (1,,"- -an', tr-es wrong. There ,s ,-o sens,, in Hie i.crpctuntion of anU.|iiat- ,,',; ideas about matrimony. Of course, we all fall in love, and equally, of course. we all fall out again. •Time and tide wait for no man." and a woman has to nm who overstay, the tide. We all know that. But no woman should 1II!tm . ,„sl l,„a,i-e she is uniro.rne.l- no woman should buy a home with a lifetime of tears: no woman owes to humanity the sacrifice of her life, her soul, and l,rr hodv for mere bread and butter, and „o woman should be driven into matri„.o„ial fellers because it was respectable for women to be married at IS when her nrandinotiier was :l girl."