WOMEN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 7, 9 June 1913, Page 6

WOMEN'S WORLD

Conducted by "Eileen")

WHITE SLAVE TRADE lIU&BAXD AND WIFE SENTENCED^ Melbourne, May 30. Agnes Wood anod her husband, Cyril Wood, were sentenced to six months aiid one month respectively for having insufiicient lawful means of support. The police.said that the woman was a trafficker in white girls. The woman screamed, "My God, Cyril, my God!" and threw her arms around her husband's Wood responded by kissing and embracing his wife. Screaming at the top of her voice, she was hurried out to the cells, her husband kissing her passionately all the way. Her hysteria did not subside until some time afterwards, and her piercing cries attracted a number of persons in the street.

LOVE AND REVENGE A terrible tragedy of infidelity and revenge was revealed when the charred bodies of Leo Whartan, his wife and .their baby girl, and also thjit of Johnson Hemphill, a neighboring farm hand, were found in the ruins of Wharton's farmhouse, near. Williamstown, New Jersey, on March 23. It was at first thought that the four were the victims of an accidental fire, Vfliih burned the house on the ground . on, Saturday.night, but w;hen 'Ted' corpse of Hemphill wits discovered it was found that his left breast had been torn open by a full charge from a'shotgun- , The details of the tragedy must be left party to speculation, as all the participants are dead and there are no outside eye-witnesses, but it was notorious that Hemphill was Mrs. Wharton's paramour, and the couple were last seen 'together in a moving picture show at Williamstown vn Saturday night. Wharton was supposed to be away oil business in another part of the State, and the theory is that he returned home unexpectedly on Saturday night and surprised his wife, who was young and pretty, in Hemphill's company. _ What dmmatic and tragic incidents preceded the firing of the house will probably be never known, but the position and condition of the charred remains indicate thah Hemphill, in trying to avoid Wharton, locked himself up in a temporary kitchen adjoining,the farmhouse, and that Wharton broke down the door and shot and killed! the intruder at close range. . Mrs. Wharton, it is believed, ran upstairs to her bedroom and locked herself in with the baby girl. After shooting Hemphill, Wharton apparently decided to end all by firing the house. He locked and bolted every door and window, and, proceeding 'to the cellar, applied a match to a heap of oil-soaked rubbish. Apparently he died in the cellar, and the intertwined bodies of Mrs. Wharton and her child were found close by, enmeshed in the remains of some bed springs. As against the theory 'that Wharton did the killing, there is advanced the possibility that Hemphill vainly tried to induce Mrs. WJharton to elope,'and, .that he came in the night, and out of revenge flred the'"house and 'then turned the shotgun on himself.

CARDIFF CASTLE More than 40 years have elapsed since the late Marquis of Bute commenced upon a scale of great magnificence the restoration of Cardiff Castle, and from that day to the present the work has proceeded steadily. The late Mr. William Burgess, A.R.A., who was a former pupil of Viollet-de-Duc, and who, under the great French architect, had made a: special study of adapting mediaeval architecture to modern uses, was the architect, and he had the advantage of constant intercourse with the late marquis, who also had a profound knowledge of mediaeval art. The result was the erection along the western side of the castle enclosure of a magnificent pile of "manytowered" buildings, and the erection on the other sides of the quadrangle of great curtain walls on the old Koman foundations, after being buried for centuries "under the earthen mounds of subsequent possessors, were only unearthed within the last; couple of decades. It is gratifying to know that, though the late marquis and the late Mr. Burgess have both gone to their rest, ' the'work of restoration is being continued in thorough keeping with the desires of those who began the work during the late seventies .

CHINESE WOMEN One is so accustomed to think and read of -Chinese women in their picturesque dress that it is with feelings almost of regret that we hear that it is to .be discarded for, what certninly can never be anything so quaint anil artistic or so comfortable. It seems a Government edict has recently been issued at Pekin ordering changes in dress for both sexes, both in their own country and abroad. Tailor-mades are to take the place of the loose trousers and jackets usually worn by the womenfolk of that country, but anything "hobbley" is not to be apprqved. Any kind of footwear, it seems, is to be allowed, so long as it is cut high. National costumes are generally so very becoming to the people of different countries, each with their distinctly national surroundings, that it is somewhat surprising that Oriental peoples should so often don the garb of the westerners, despite the fact thnt thev are usually far less picturesque and pretty, as well as less becoming to Oriental types.