WOMENS WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 248, 10 March 1913, Page 6

WOMENS WORLD

(Conducted by ''Eileen'"). CONTEMPTIBLE CONDUCT Hl'SP.AXirs TKKAT.UEXT (.)]•■ "WIFE. Sydney, February ->2. At the Adelaide J'oiice Court the o;in.']' da\ l',ri;.'-t ftlwin Urokenshaw was sued by liis wile for a sum of money that sjie had lent l:i::i prior to their li:a li-iaiic. ]n summing up, the presiding magistrate said that the plaintiff had sued ioi X..11) lent to her husband prior to marriage. Defendant had generously .i;iid to his wife: ".Buy an engagement ring: please yourself, and you will please J' l! had not repaid the money. A more eonlemptible defence than the one that hail been made had never come before the Court. Tlie circumstanees were simply shocking. The husband had failed to appreciate -what was due to his wife. She had assisted him in his work,"and while she was in hisfactory .she sustained an injury. The following day she was picked up in the street in an unconscious condition, and taken to the hospital. Tlie wretched man—he had nearly used a stronger expression—had shown a strange want of feeling for his wife when she was ill, and had allowed her to go into the street with a blanket around her when she was leaving for Melbourne. The conI temptible man allowed her to go away with very little money. She had bought a cushion for use iirthe train, and her husband regarded that as a grievance. It transpired, however, that the cushion had cost the stupendous sum of Is. Anything more contemptible than tlie'conduct of the husband he had never heard. Eis wife had assisted him in every possible way. She appeared to be a respectable woman, and had a happy home in her girlhood. The defendant had endeavored. to besmirch, her character. There would be .judgment for the plaintiff for £3O. THE NEW HATS " : If one may trust the freshly garnished shop windows, purple, tail and lime (a sort of seasick yellowish-green) are to be popular colors (writes a Wellington correspondent). Indeed, purple bids fair to be quite the rage, although it is on the whole trying to most women. The new hats are rather more trimmed than were the summer hats, and are on that account not quite so smart. Of course, the black hat—of velvet, and later on of fur—still reigns supreme in the wardrobe of the •Well-dressed yyn- | man. t\iul tlie little posies or garlands of satin and velvet flowers are still to he seen on many of the higher-priced models. Feathers are of wonderful kinds and colors, many-shaded, and the lancer plumes of the ruche are worn largely. For hard, wear there are very chic hats, with cockade or simple feather ; mount. But it is to be hoped as yet . the days are not past for summer hats ] and frocks. The most charming headgear for girls -that has been seen for i years is the tuscan wide-brimmed hat, » with its simple band and bow of broad ] velvet. I

THE TURKISH CROWN JEWELS . A writer in the Sydney Daily Telegraph. apropos of the proposed sale of the Turkish Crown Jewels, writes thus of a vi.-it to the Treasury at Constantinople:—lnside the place was a confusing wonder of "old and precious stones. The first thing that met my eye was a liuge dais and throne of gold, all encrusted with turquoise. Every scrap of the gold had precious stones beaten into it, and hanging from a canopy at the top was an emerald, the size of a man's shut fist. It was penetrated by a hole from top to bottom, through-which a string of pearls hml been run, terminating in a massive pear-shaped pearl. It hung down as though to do duty for a pullbell in case the Royal occupant of the seat below might desire someone's head chopped off in a hurry. One dinner service of gold had seed pearls set around the rim of ever ything-and in a cup of jade there -work so many pearls that one could have run one's hand through them like so much sugar. A bedspread in ruby satin, wionderfulh; designed and embroidered, had every flower and leaf outlined in pearls of all shapes and sizes, though this is no novelty, as in the shops they will show you praying mats decorated in a similar manner. One. about three feet long, the shopman told me. was priced at. £BOO. The pashas use them to kneel on at prayer-time, but we heathens use them merely as decorative tapestries, that is, when we can ait'ord them. One room looked to me like the chamber of horrors. ' Wax figures of sultans were ranged round the walls, from the' earliest Mohammedan to the last man who died. Each was dressed in his most royal robes, gaudy, and rich of color, and each wove jewels too won: dcrful for word-.. The fingers wel'e cn*crusted with massive blazing diamonds, the royal coat of arms in diamonds and rubies (two fingers and the palm of the hand) glittered from' every coat, but the turbans were the most wonderful of all. Each turban was decorated with enormous aigrettes or ospreys. and in every ea s (' the selling of this decoration was of enormous precious stones, none smaller than one's hand. Emeralds, rubies, diamonds—one indwd-r-ea-lised what was meant by the gems of the East. Strangely enough,.all this wealth and grandeur was utterly without "any attempt at arrangement. A woman would call it higgledy-piggledy, and niy fingers itched to tidy tilings up,, or at least give things some semblance of order, and to show' tilings.oft' to their full decorative powers: in the room where thousands of pounds worth of hire ehina was toppling. one piece on top of another. I yielded to the temptation to straighten one plaque of Rhodes blue china that dealers would perjure their souls for,, but one .glance form our impertnrablc fezzed guide completely annihilated me., and for the rest, of the morning he kept his eve seveielv upon me, even in the llaremlik. where there was nothing to tidy except glorious soft divans, that asked you to comer and drertm-on them.