WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 165, 12 January 1914, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

Conducted Ly "Eileen."

THE COUNT OF LUXEMBOURG Mis-; -Elorence Young wears socio charming frocks. In the lirst act she ■makes her entry in a pastel blue gown with an overdress ilounced with crystal and silver fringe caught with roseliuda. With this she wears a pencil pink triiiiimiiifi and edged with skunk, caught mi the left side with a brjlliant ornament. In tiie second act she wears a pale eau de nil coat with a deep collar of old rose point la.ee., over an elegant white gown of charmouse draped with with old lace and diamante trimming. Miss Dorothy I'runton wears in the second net a striking gown of the palest maize-tinted eliarmeu.se draped from the corsage with lace, and linished with touches of nattier blue. Most of the gowns show touches of fur, and a great lumber are open at the foot to show a pleated ehillon underskirt. A BABY'S NOVEL HERITAGE

There in nothing unusual in a person being ••horn with a silver spoon iu the mouth," but to be ushered into the world with a sewing needle in one's leg ■is an experience both, new and novel. Such was. however, the lot of a child born to Mr. and Mrs. Hall, of Young (N'.tf.W.) only a few days ago. When •the nurse was washing the child she. ■found .something sharp protruding slightly from the thick part of the baby's leg, and on making a closer examination she found a sewing needle, which was extracted. How the needle came to be iu such an unusual lodging i place is somewhat of a mystery. The I mother distinctly remembers that some I years ago she lost a needle while sewing, I and could not find it, though u thorough ■search was made for it. She had been in the habit of putting her needle into her clothing when not using it. This .child is the third born to the mother since the needle disappeared .

WAR ROMANCE A romance of the Haikun War was brought to a happy termination* t'he other day by the marriage of Lieutenant Rophelia Pantieholl, of the Bulgarian Army, to Miss Elliot Ramsbotbam. whose late father was a doctor residing at Leeds (England). The bride was one of the many Englishwomen who went out to the lialkans during the war to help to nurse the sick and wounded, and there in a Held hospital a badly-wounded officer was among her patients-. Miss ! Ramsbotbam nursed him back to life, and during his convalescence the officer fell in love with his nurse, the sequel being the recent ceremonies. The marriage was first solemnised in the line nil chapel of the Charterhouse, where the bride's brother, the, Rev. A. Ramsbotbam, wlho officiated, is preacher, and then at I the Greek Church, Bayswater, according to -the rites of tlie'dreek Orthodox faith. This ceremony was performed by the Great Archimandrite.

AN APPEAL TO BIRD LOVERS An appeal is I>eing made by tbe Gould League of Tlinl Lovers to the women of Australia to refrain from the wearing of bird plumage (says a Sydney correspondent). In making this appeal the members of ilie League find it necessary to explain that they are not narrowminded, and that nothing is said against the wearing of ostrich feathers. Nor is there any objection to the wearing of the plumage of roosters who bave ccas,;cd to worry about anything before they •are called upon to part with their feathers, which, by the way, are often unrecognisable in the hues and names that grace them when the milliner deals with i them. In its striving to prevent cruelly I being done to birds or the wanton •slaughter of pretty feathered creatures, the League is meeting with such encouragement as satisfies it that little ■more is needed than to make women understand what is done to procure the feathers which are sold to them for their adornment and comfort. In connection with the aspect of preservation of our own birds excellent work is being done •by the League, with the hearty co-opera-tion of the education authorities, in giving Australian hoys and girls a sympathetic knowledge of bird life. The results amongst the youngsters are admirable, and since so much depends on their doings and their watchfulness in regard to the doings of others we may count upon it (hat wo have already reached the end of a lot of the thoughtless destruction which has threatened the e.v•tinction of some of the prettiest and most desirable of Australian birds.

3000 YEARS' HENCE A freaky pku-e I his world will lie in some 3000 years, if the predictions of scientists come near to being fullilled. .Statistics show (hut girls ore putting on weight and growing taller with a rapidity which has never been observed before. Therefore, according to all indications, it seems that in the distant future the female will bo much taller than the male. Careful' investigation by the British Association shows that the most striking development of girls lakes place bctwen their eleventh and thirteenth years. Before that period the boys and girls are about equal. According to Dr. Clement Lucas, the big toe has undergone such an extraordinary development that we are in danger of becoming a one-toed race, while another eminent specialist fears we will rje » mad one in :!00 years or so, though it was possible that the mad world might give way in time to a race of geniuses—a slate of all'airs which in some people's minds would be as bad as the preceding, mad era. Amid so inanv gloom v predictions, it is a relief to iind that there is a good time coining, at least for husbands and fathers, in the near future, in regard to their womenfolk. Jr. Jean Timol, :> modern prophet, cheerfully declares that the women of to-morrow will ■wear no jewellery, and will not bother ■ther heads about fashions. They will be more elegant than they are, nowadays, but will have renounced the arts and graces which they owe to men and to the favors of fate. The woman of to-morrow will be a perfect woman, instead of an incomplete man. Unfortunately he oilers no explanation as to ■how this very marvellous change will be brought about. THE ROOM A MAM LIKES .Man's taste in the fitting up of his room is not usually consulted or respected. It is hardly putting it too strong to say that there are millions •of men to-day who occupy rooms in their own homes with the decorating, furnishing and arrangement of which ;■ they have, never had, and, in all proj.bability, never will have, anything to do.

But let that go. Tiie main ipicstion at present is: -What would they have?"

Jn the lirst place lie would have it I large. The larger a room, as a man views it, the greater the probability that he can avoid disagreeable contact with the furniture if he gets up at night. lie would carpet it all over with three-ply of a ncutr.ii color. lie would not 'have a rug within its four walls. Rugs are. for ever tangling his feet, sliding with his chair, -.lipping from ■under him. lie would have a small, plain iron or brass bedstead in the far corner; he would have chairs distributed in all parts of the room so that he would liud one always wherever he eared to sit; for the rest, the furniture should consist'of tables and dressing cases, and other things having drawers in them. The principal tiling would he to have plenty of space on which to lay things, plenty of drawer space into which to put thing's. His wife might select the wall-paper, but he would not have her introduce any curtains or other hangings. There should not be a scarf or a' doyley in the apartment, and nothing which could by any means fall oil' or be pulled oil'. There might be a few pictures and photographs, of course, but no fancy work or mottoes or calendars should ho pinned to the wall.

'The furniture need not match. All the better if it does not. it is wanted for utility, not for ornament. Having gained these points—if it is imaginable that he ever will gain them -he would establish it as an invariable rule that everything he lays down be unmolested. The room would lose more than half its charm for him if it were regularly cleared up. Possessed of such a chamber, and having the assurance that it would remain as nearly undisturbed as the necessities of housekeeping might permit, the average man would begin to feel that some of his ideals were at length about to bo realised.

AN EMBARRASSED HERO Hera worship has evidently reached Turkey,, where that famous soldier, Kn■ver Bey, is suffering acutely from a plethora of embarrassing attentions from too many would-be brides, hi order to honor the national hero the Sultan lias declared that he will give him his niece, Nadjieh Sultan, as a, wife. The princess is willing, though her mother objects to a self-made man as a son-in-law, hut Knver Bey himself does not want to marry an illiterate although pretty princess, as his heart is given i to another woman, who docs not like ! the idea of sharing her love with a princess. Yet if he refuses the offer of Princess Xadjieh's hand he will, according to Turkish ideas, disgrace the girl ■and incur the Sultan's displeasure. To add to tlio troubles of this over-loved, fighter, he, has received two oilers of marriage from two unconventional and hero-worshipping Egyptian princesses. Hence the unfortunate soldier pretends to he indisposed, and is in retirement in his simple dwelling in the suburb of Bcschiktascli. Hero he ipiietly lies during the heat of the day surrounded by roses, but the llowcrs are not to him a symbol of love; they suggest only the thorns with which even the path of :i national hero can be strewn.

WHAT ATTRACTS A MAN What attracts a man is one thing; what will hold him, and command his respect, is another. A woman's smile, for example, attracts a man; but an even temper retains him. A pretty gown attracts a man; the knowledge that it was inexpensive delights him. A pleasant manner attracts a man; ■brightness of intellect holds him. < A knowledge of how, when and where •to be a little stately attracts a man; <in appreciation of the folly of frivolity wins his respect. A respect for the religious belief of every human being attracts a man; irreverence in woman is to him abominable. A consideration for his comfort attracts a man; a continuation of this /makes him your most humble slave.

■ A dnil in which there is no malice at"traels a man; neither scandal nor evilspeaking makes a woman seem sweet find love!} to him. A great deal of love, a great deal of sympathy, and a knowledge of how to •do tlu) right thing in the right place ■will more than attract a man, for they make him feel that he has at la*l met a woman to whom he may give his heart unreservedly; to whom he may tell his hopes and ambitions,- and in whom he may find the perfect rest which conies in the union of two souls intended from the beginning for each other.