WOMEN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 1, 2 June 1913, Page 6

WOMEN'S WORLD

THE GREAT PROBLEM. SOLVED IX NEW YOliK. A New York lady has solved the domestic help problem entirely to her own satisiaet'.on, and is anxious that worried housewives should profit by bei' happy experience. She employs twenty-seven maids, and manages to keep ttiem all happy and contented. These are some of the secrets of her success in her own words:— i never cheat a girl out of any pleasure she has planned by asking her to work when she has expected to get oil'. When i entertain L notify the servants at least two days in advance, so that tney won't make any arrangements fo) 1 that day. When 1 give big entertainments i employ extra help. 1 should feel conscience-stricken if I thought persons in my employ slaved all day long. The work in my house is so systematised that they are not compelled to do so. 1 urge them'to go out every afternoon and get the air, it they ony remain out an hour. I do not know who ever started that half-a-day week oil:' rule. 1 do not know why women, supposedly intelligent and sympathetic, should continue to practise it on their servants. One dav a week is not enough to popularise a mistress in the eyes of the maid. lieeky Sharp, Jiving in a less costly .age than the present one, thought it would be easy to be virtuous on live thousand a year, and possibly' there are many mistresses who imagine it wo:dd be easy to keep their maids contented if they could afford to employ twentyseven of them and give the washing oiit. The trouble is that in thi3 country so few. can afford to try the experiment.

WOMEN. AS CHURCHWARDENS. UNUSUAL APPOINTMENTS. Many elections of women as churchwardens have taken place at the recent vestry meetings in England, and among them is that of the Dowager Marchioness of Exeter, who was chosen at Deeping, St James, Lincolnshire. This is the Marchioness' fifteenth'year of office. Countess Cawdor has been appointed churchwarden for the parish church of Shottcrmill, Surrey, and at West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire , Mrs. Eraser (who as Lady Dashwood, of West Wycombe Park, is well known) lias been elected parishioners' churchwarden. A more unusual appointment is that of Miss S. J. Hill, who has been elected sexton of Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire—an appointment which has been in the 1-1 ij 1 family for 153 years. Possibly the most curious arrangement is that in a South M England parish—an exceedingly High Church one—where one churchwarden is the vicar's wife and the other a leading official of a Wesleyan chapel.

MILLIONAIRE'S DYING WIFE. ' DEATH-BED REQUEST FOR DIVORCE TO BE ANNULLED. New York, April 3. An attempt to induce the New York State Supreme Court -to expunge from the records the interlocutory decree of divorce granted to Mrs, F. A. Heinz, the wife of the millionaire copper king, will be made by Mr. Heinz's lawyers, following a death-bed reconciliation yesterday a few hours before Mrs. Heinz died. It is the first time that an attempt lias been made to annul the divorce of a dead 1 person.

Mrs. Heinz secured the interlocutorydecree in- December, and it was to be made absolute on April 17. She was suddenly taken ill yesterday week with neuritis, and the doctors told her ou Tuesday that she was dying . She sent for her husband yesterday, and there was an affecting scene. Mrs. Heinz afterwards sent for her lawyers and made a dying plea that they should seek to nullify the divorce. The reaspn she gave was that she wanted to keep the incident from the ■knowledge of her 18-months-old son, and have the papers destroyed so that the boy may never know what charges his mother brought against his father. The lawyers say that while the case is unprecedented, the court probably lias the power at least to seal all the papers in perpetuity. Mrs. Heinz, who was aged 29, was a well-known actress. She married Mr Heinz in 1910 after divorcing her fin* husband.

PORCELAIN VASE WANTED. Mr. J. Rochell Thomas, a West End dealer m curios and antiques, is advertising in a number of London papers that he is willing to pay £3OOO for an old Uimwe powelam case, to match one which he has now.in his possession. He oilers a reward of £IOO to anyone who will place him in communication with the owner of the vase, providing the owner 1S willing to sell it. As a matter of fact, Mr. Thomas does not know whetiier the vase for which he is advertising mm existence, or whether it was eve? manufactured. He assumes that there was such a vase from the fact that rare vases such as the one now in l,j ß po3 . sesaion were usually made in pairs. The vase in his possession, for which he recently pa ,d £2047 10s at a furniture aHlias a somewhat romantic history it 7^%!n S v nt f hy thc Er "P Cl ' or ° f '«m.a rn.tr \, "? coni »ieinoration of the putting through of the Suez Canal. « passed into the possession of loussoun Pasha, who bequeathed it ;1 h "L SOn ' , Mohamad Said Tous•son The latter, who was an A.D.C .to the Khedive, married an Enfi ad ->'v who was laying in Egypt far he benefit of her health After ti, ret, 'J i° r r Ußb , and ' P '' inceßS Tousaoun >etu ned to Kngland and took »o her residence in Cumberland. Among the articles she brought, with her from C was the old Chinese vase, but she hid no. deao ,ts value. A. her h,Je t£ mi.Ul. and the vase was large, she dc--2 ■ °f ßet^ 1 ° f "' aud eventually she ii he ? ht, and weighs about 701b. P rin . cess loussoun cannot, recall having seen a fe low to the vase among he? bus band's possessions. D s