WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 160, 6 January 1914, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

Conducted by "Eileen."

i'.llow them to beal time to their own singing. Still better results were ob- . tained when he composed various "ges- 1 tare Bongs'' fur tlii-ni. so tli«t they Is--- ' came sensitive to rhythiuW insjt'.ii.-^.i < within the;ii.-elves, ami so that lMr 1 'bodies were in harmony -villi their 1 minds. It was this oxperirmv which 1 led to (lie \vhole method of eurythmics, which, by iiii elaborate eode of arm, body and leg movements, iuteprels the ryhthm of music in all its thousands of varieties. At first the training is j on simple lines. The first elementary j exercises consist in marking the time of ] ; a bar with the arms and the number of notes in a bar with the feet. Then ;there are exercises to develop independcnee of movement, the arms each Ik-[U-ing' a different time simultaneously. Jjater, three different rhythms are realised simultaneously, the right' arm beating one rhythm, the left arm another, ij vvliilo the feet move to a third. Gradually freedom ami spontaneity are ticquired, and the student having mastered every variety of rhythm, so that 'his movements instantly obey the dictates of bis brain under the stimulus ot musical emotion, expresses his own subconsciousness by what are culled "plastic exercisi's." Professor Pacques-Dai-croze claims that his method is far more than a system of physical training. It is essentially a mental training. WOMEN OF THE FUTURE ' j The Rev. Douglas Kruce, preaching on ■ "'A Christian View of the Feminist Movement" in the Presbyterian Church ' at Whittlvsea, Victoria, recently, said it was hypocrisy to say that home was the proper sphere for all women.. Thousands of women had no home, and were nener likely to have one. Women were 'in all professions to-day. and in fifty years' time they would be in all Australian Parliaments, sitting side by side with men as law-makers. This, lie maintained, was no fancy dream. Politics and the State would he all the purer for women's inlluence. The present state of Parliament was deplorable! in the extreme, and the language of honorable members was a grave insult to the people's intelligence. Women, if in power, would not tolerate such conduct. A feature, of the service waa , the part taken by Miss Arnold, of ,Scotland, and Miss Cornel), of Melbourne, » members of the Women's Political Assoi ciation, who assisted in the service. ! This innovation in a Presbyterian ivli- ' gious service, countenanced by a Presbyi >twian clergyman, excited much com. i tueat. | ONE OF THE HAPPIEST WOMEN- , i Queen Mary, writes Ijuly Kittv, in ■ the Adelaide Observer, must be one Of i the happiest women in the world. Of ■ course you ask, "Why ?" Because slie ! stands serenely aside J'roni the nervous ; rush after the most up-to-date fashions. - I use the word "after" with definite i meaning, for no matter bow progressive i one's dress-builder, fashion is always r just a little ahead of us, each day in--7 vitingly dangling before our. eyes somci tiling newer than t'he fashion we bought i the day before. Queen Mary's dvessf builder goes on year after year cutting . out the close-fitting pointed bodice and ■ joining the innumerable gores in her I Majesty's abundant skirls—styles she : lias not) changed for ten years. There i is a picture of perfect sartorial peace • that the modern fashionable woman i knows not. Dame Fashion is a tyi rant, and frowns down everything that i is not an individual success, whatever ■ the smallest details (hat emphasise her moods, she noiv writes upon her heralds' anil broiders upon their sleeves the ■ forceful motto, ".Move on." (That sentence- is not quite ;ny own. But I read 1 something like it somewhere, and eiitireIv agreed willi- the idea). It is not in dress alone that this fever to move on rages. Toilette details in 'every department are* rushing eagerly forward. At the Caulfield races one lady made less adventurous dames tremble as to how far things are to go. Several times during the afternoon she was seen to poise gracefully on one leg while she did an acrobatic feaj: with the oilier — bent it at the knee, and .turn-ad her foot .towards the back, at the same' lime turning her head sideways, she anxiously gazed at her left ankle, and oiilook-' ers saw that she was merely consulting (her watch, which was attached by a leather band to her ankle. Now, where is this kind of tiling going to stop? ' Does it mean that some day women will appear in ballrooms with uncovered feet, and toes covered with diamond rings! Why not? Parisians did so, not before but after that terrible lieign 1 iof Terror which caused the dressily extravagant Marie Antoinette to lose, her ■beautiful bead.

DAVIS-CLAUSSEN ROMANCE

A LOVK AFi'AIU BItOKEX o*T.' i LEADS TO TiII!EAT TO MUEDEIi. V liv the arrest in New Yoi'k of the i Countess Ida von C'laiisscu, a beautiful, j ,but eccentric, young lady, on a charge 1 'of ■threatening to kill her lawyer, an ■ story 'lias been brought -1 'to light. The countess was, it appears, ; .arrested at tlra Hotel Ansonia on .1 com- i iplaint lodged by Mr. Charles Strauss, , ;a lawyer acting for the heirs of the i f'lato .Mr. Matthew JJynea, of whom the countess herself is one. Nine years ago ■ j she divorced her husband, .Dr. Erancis ; Monan, in South Dakota, but in September, 11)11, a fresh suit was commenced on the, allegation that the previous decree was invalid. On this occasion ,tho presiding judge received a letter from the countess to the following ef- | God help you," and as a result of this an enquiry into her mental condition was instituted, which led to her 'being confined for six mont'hs in the lunatic ;asylum at .liloomingdale. The present '.trouble was initiated J>y another extraordinary letter of the same kind. According to 31 r. Strauss' complaint, the countess wrote to him from Borne accusing him of being responsible for the supposed invalidity of the first divorce, which, she declared, had resulted in the breaking ofi' of a match between 'herself j,aml a son of a wealthy Welsh coalI owner, to whom she had become cngagI ed during one of her periodical visits jto London. She wrote: "If the man 1 | (.love, and who has adored me for live '.years, slips out of my life through your ) fault, I'll kill you as sure as there is [fa Cod in heaven. I'll come to Ne\y York and shoot yon like any dog-, and j I shall shoot to kill." The young gen- | tlement whose engagement to the counf tess was recently broken off is fully der scribed in the following announcement, ) which appeared in the Times of April ','3o: —''A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place, between Mr. ■L. Fivd Davis, junr., eldest sou of Mr. and Mrs. L. Fred Davis, of.Nort'haw -■; House, Potters' Bar, and the Countess J Ida von Claussen, of New York." Mr. Davis, sem\. is, as stated, not only a jwealthy Welsh coal-oiviier, but also a (well-known racing owner. Mr. Fred, 1 (Davis, junr., the son, who is about 22, met the Countess Ma von Claussen on the Riviera two rears ago, and became much attached to her. llis parents "strongly objected to»the match owing (among other reasons) to the disparity j of age. . The countess is 10 or 12 years older than 'her lover. They sent the young man on a (our round the world, i but on his return he still protested his -attachment to the countess. He caused ■to be inserted in the Times the notice of his engagement just given. His mother, who was in \walc health, felt this acutely. The result was that a few days later the following statement was published:—"Wc are requested to state •that the announcement sent to Uhe „ Times, and published on April 30, that a marriage has been arranged between Mr. L. Fred Davis and Countess Ida von Claussen, is incorrect." Subsequently i the Davis family gwve up Northaw (House, alid went to live at a fashionable • hotel in Kensington. The countess is Iwell known in London, Mr. Cohen, of j Finsbury Circus, being her solicitor, Mr. I Cohen expressed 'himself as greatly surprised to hear that the countess 'had been arrested on an allegation of '.threats. "She is the last person on i'earth to threaten anyone," said .Mr. Codicil. "She would not hurt a fly. She is ,a great philanthropist, and has been coming to Europe for the last ten years for a few months ah a time on philanthropic business. In Paris she has personally made tours among the poor, and has spent great sums amongst them as 'her personal investigations and views directed." Mr. C'olren added that the previous marriage and the Dakota divorce were the reasons for the breaking oil' of her engagement to Mr. Davis. Some further extracts from the countess' letter, which 'has provoked the present trouble, are given by the Daily .Telegraph, as follows:—"I warn you, . 'Mr. Strauss, to take some steps to re- ■ place the dainago you have done, or I tell you, with malice and premeditation, that, unless you acknowledge the way ,you have swindled me and broken the law, l will come to New York and disgrace you publicly first, and then shoot you like t'ho dog you are. Shoot to ■ kill. Do you understand? If the situ--dition lasts another month, and the man T love slips out of my life for ever through your fault, then I will kill you as sure as there is a.Cod in heaven. Rejnember, when they bear my story they'll exonerate me for the deed that I am forced into. Now, if you will quietly secure for me a proper divorce at once, with money to justify the wrongs that the Court and jurors of justice settle upon me, then I will pardon your fault and let you live, and even try to forgive and pray for you. The subject ■may lie a personal one, but the motive to kill you i.s born of patriotism; for millions are suffering by (lie fraud of ■men in this legal business, and I have the world on this score to back me.—lda van Claussen. A NEW METHOD OF TRAINING ASTONISH INO S L'CCESS. The new method of physical, mental and spiritual training, called by the ; Hame of elirythmie, has hail an astonishing success in (iernniiiy and Switzerland, and a school .established in London recently already numbers ;300 pupils. The inventor and professor of this "joy-dancing," as it may be calbd, is Emile Jacques-Dalcroze, who gave a ■demonstration at Jung's Hall, Covcnt Harden. His ideas are not easy to explain, because, his method is jiliychological as well as physical. But, to use his own words, the object of eurythmics is to realise the rhythmic melody of life, and to enable a man or .woman, girl or boy, to express his, or her, individuality by means of rhythm. When, for instance, a child 'jumps for joy,' •the action is a natural expression of' a mental and spiritual condition. The dunces of savages express in the same natural rhythmic way the primitive emotions of _ the dancers. The science of ourythmics ,is based upon those natural instincts by which tint body expresses : the inteWigi.ince and spirit of a human 'being, but it educates body and spirit to interpret themselves through rhythmic movement so perfectly, and so in ■ harmony with each other, and with such swiftness and ease that the highest and •most subtle and most spiritual emotions such as one finds in the greatest music j may be interpreted spontaneously by r -this means. It was as Professor of Earat ilre Geneva Conservatoire that Mr, kTftCques-Del?roze first became aware that to develop the musical instincts ftf;lii3 students it was a pood plan to