WOMEN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 2, 3 June 1913, Page 6

WOMEN'S WORLD.

THE IDEAL MAN MET Miss Tilla Gilbert, a New York heiress to £2,000,000, has met her ideal man, and will marry him shortly. He is Howard Price Renshaw, of Troy, in the State of New York. A year ago Miss Gilbert described her id§al: "He must be 6ft tall and fond of athletics," she Baid. "He must be dark, a good rider, fond of animals, clean-shaven, with a firm jaw; an Episcopalian and Republican, and a money-maker. He must have thick hair, curled over his left ear; large and intelligent, but not soulful eyes, because men with soulful eyes are not, as a rule, money-makers; and he must have decided ideas about raising pigs and poultry. He must like lemon in his tea, and must wear his clothes like John Drew, the actor." With a few exceptions Mr. Renshaw fails, to meet his sweetheart's specifications, being neither clean-shaven nor curly-haired over the left ear (writes the New York correspondent of the London Telegraph). Miss Gilbert's father was well known in society. He was successful in the woollen business, and died at Aix-les-Bains in 1911. Since Miss Gilbert "came out" two years ago she has had many admirers, and a nephew of Mr. Taft, the exPresident, was believed to be the accepted suitor. Then Mr. Renshaw appeared. He is 31, the son of Richard Renshaw, a wealthy'' inventor ajnd manufacturer. He is in the ready-made clothes business, afid a gobd The mother of the Duke of Marlborough is Mr. RenShaw's aunt. \ WOMEN'S NOVEL REPUBLIC A woman's movement which is but little known in England, but one that is fast gaining a firmi foothold in the United States, is the American Woman's Republic. Rising out of the ashes of the American Women's League, which, owing to discord within and misrepresentation aftd enmity without, fell from a membership of 50,000 women in 1910 to a few thousand in 1912, the new republic, which numbers yearly 100,000 citizens in the United States and a considerable number in Canada and European countries. The government of the Republic is fasbjoned on that of the United States. A wonderful marble building at University City, Missouri, which, with its basrelief frescoes and sphinxes, looks as though it had been transplanted straight from Egypt, 'houses the feminine Legislature, the Supreme Court of Justice, and the Senate. The present governmental machinery consists of a president (Mrs. Mabel Lewis), three vice-presid-ents, seven Cabinet officers, comprising a Secretary of State, a Secretary of Peace, a Secretary of Education, a Treasurer, a Minister for Commerce and Industry, and a Minister of the Interior, and an Attorney-General, a Supreme Court, seven district judges, 50 governors, 50 senators, two representatives from each. State, providing the numerical strength of the citizens warrants this double representation, and a district committee of seven committeewomen in each Congressional district. These district committees are the real foundation of the Republic's national government; as each committeewomari is directly responsible to the Department of the Republic she represents. The Republic's activities can be roughly divided into three great divisions—the educational and social service division, the industrial and commercial division, and the financial division. The Education Department has. its own university, art academy and schools, whose courses are open to all members of the and their' children at a small' charge. With the admission oi women into the wireless service on the same footing as men, the Republic also took ■ the opportunity to erect a large wireless station in the capitol, and has added free tuition in this subject to the many advantages already enjoyed by its citizens. AN ARISTOCRATIC DANCER Lady Constance Stewart Richardson, who is interesting to Australians from the fact that she married Sir Edward' Austin Stewart Richardson, fifteenth baronet, who was extra A.D.C. to the Governors of Queensland and New South Wales some ten years ago, has now rivalled Harry Lander as an attraction, for she is to dance in a New York music hall, beginning on June 16, at a salary of £IOOO per week. contract stipulates for two performances a day, including Sundays. This aristocratic artist is the second daughter of the late Earl of Cromartie, and younger sister of the present Countess (in her own right), and granddaughter of the late and niece of the present Duke of Sutherland. . Her style and dances are modelled on that of Miss Maud Allen, and after dancing as an amateur she became a professional, and appeared with success at the Palace Theatre, London. Her most recent appearance was at Vienna, where she danced in a drama entitled "Judith," at the People's Opera House. The performance was originally intended for London, but there were objections in high quarters, and to these Lady Constance gave way. In the course of an interview before she left for Vienna, when she was asked why she chose Biblical drama, she replied, "I am very fond of the Bible, and read it very much. The figure of Judith has always fascinated me as one of the most splendid females in the Apocrypha. I happened to pass the Synagogue, heard singing, and went in. The Hebrew melodies I had never heard before thrilled me. Then and there I was seized with the idea of dancing as Judith in a Biblical drama. I saw Scarlisse, and got him to write for me the music to a Judith libretto. If I succeed in Vienna it will help me to overcome the prejudices of society in London. It is in England, and not in America, that women feel the greatest longing for independence, and for liberation from conventional fetters. and it is there that they are giving the loudest expression to it."

BEAUTIFUL GARMENTS Nothing more remarkably beautiful in the way of garments (says the Leader) lias ever been seen in Melbourne than the fifty or sixty gowns, tunics, cloaks and scarfs brought out by Madam Cadorin, best known here as Miss Louie Mueller, the wife of a Venetian sculptor. The garments in question are designed by a famous Italian artist, Signor Fortuni, an intimate friend of the Cadorins. He has a staff of 80 workers, mostly men, who carry out his designs in the most exquisite fabrics, and in colors of the most alluring description. : In the hands, the gowns are little more than a few yards of some light, and often diaphonous material stencilled in dull gold or silver, and finished with just a suggestion of cord and little Venetian beads. Once they are slipped on —and it is the very easiest thing in the world to "slip into" a Fortuni gown —they fall into lines of the most classic and satisfying description. You realise what a truly beautiful thing dress can be, and how much comfort is compatible with the most graceful raiment. Quite astonishing is the packing of the evening gowns. They resemble nothing so much as a head of fine wool. No amount of crushing hurts them in the least. The silk they are made of is so treated that it retains a sort of accordion-pleated appearance no

matter how it is handled, and after the closest scrutiny you are left marvelling at the process by means of which they are produced.