WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 172, 20 January 1914, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

WHILE TIE BRIBE SMIIID AN" INTiOI'RTPT'OI) WIODDLNC I'Rll'Ki.!'' cU. l-'ii.in'H TWO !"!!■:■ .M:-!l:.;urno, .laiiiiary ... A p-uai.clive we ■Mill;; was interrupted o:i .-:;i'iir,l,i ■.' night by Paled ivos lJiiu-. iiell mid Mcrn'r. as on-.- i»f (In- coutr.-.cl-iiig parlies was .'(il:n Clinic, vi-hu escaped from (]:;■ c-ii-lnilv of tin- police a l'"i'l-nig-hl ago. Clarke aiid a. young woman Mill !i:'iii arrested 0:1 n. charge of Mealing <■■■■•> ha!--- in' wool, ami whiU the tiiv Court v.,i- fill'.ii,' Clarke walked out o'' Hi.- prisoners' i-i-11, arros-i (III! ir.iirl. and Mil tin- opposite door. Tiuwimiaii iv:i- n.-iiiaiiili'il on iuil. ■ Information was leu ived that the nnii.li- wi-ri- iu la- married, ami ll:i- detectives si-!-n.-lc!l 1 ln-iii.-.i Ivi-s ill tinc'crgyiuun's house. Clarke must have been su.-picio'.is. because, mi arriving at (hi! place of (in- ceremony, lit- waited outside while aiiollii-v man i-iiti-nu!. The latter was pounced upon liy the detectives. I>a' lln-y realised tl'u-ir mistake ii;ir,H'iliati-ly, and. running oiitsiili:, found Clarice ia a n-.-'.v suit of clothes and a,

Panama hat. ready for the wedding. prospective pailm-i- in lift- was liy Ms

Tlii'v seized li'im. Mil. Clarke, who is an aiMetic \ouii;; man, hurled (he detectives against tin- wall, and then fall with chem into ihe gull-r. lie fought like ,-i IMrvi-M whilst til- bride-elect smile.'.

,'ier iipproval. mid liiiullv i:e eM-aped, .le.iviu;; his i-oa: and hat in their hand-. Tliev run after iiir.i fur a few hundred Mir,)-, hut el! to no avail. *

DOCTOR'S BILL TO A QU2EN On unpaid doelor's bill fi.-r allendanee ■on a foriuer (,>uecu of Hew in eanie before tin- Paris lourts reeiutly. In I'.Hll Dr. ( anbet. of Var's, was summoned to attuiil (J'.U'rn who was aflerwiird- a.-:d:issiii:iii-d, together with Kin- Alexander of Hcrvin. Tile (liieen's ■hopes wi-re disappointed, and t,lio doetor, retuniiii:-; lo Paris, sent in a hill for' itlila), at (he. rile of CH) a day, for the lime he was in altendance. The. .Kin;; of Si-rviii refused to pay, on (he yrouiid that the fee. \v:is too high. ! Iloth he and the doctor have s'n'ce died, and now ihe doctor's heirs are suin.L;- (,lneen Nutillie of Si-win. the mother and heiies- of Kini; Alexander, for the amount.

WOHAH SUFFRAGE IN THE UKITKD STATES ■ Vifty-iive suli'r.igisls. headed bv ])r. Ann:'. 'Howard Shiivv, president of the Nationali.-l Su(l*ragist, Association, called on President Wilson hist month. Dr. Shaw demanded that President Wi'-on should semi a. special message to Con-.gre-s, urging the cnai-dnent of provisions for the iinii-nilmciit of ihe (.'ousti--1 n(ion. graiuing the sull'r.ige to women. The Pr.-sideiit.'refused this.

Dr. Wilson said, in answer lo the demands, that he had not yt:t presented to the Legislature his private views on any subject, and that he never would he the spokc-aiian for somebody not himself. When speaking' for himself In: is an individual; when spokesman for an organic body he is a representative, l'or that rt-i'i-on. he said, lie was shut out. lie added liiai he had to confine, himself to those thing's which have been em.bodied as promises l,> te. people at 1111 election. This is the strict rule he hud set himself.

BLIND GIRL'S NEW JOY VISIT TO PII.TTKK THIOA'I'KIO. Miss .Mabel Oreen, a blind girl, of llegeut's Park. NAY., went to a kineiiiatograph -how for the (ir.-l time lately, and discovered a new joy. Her wonderful ■memory which enables hc.i to write Verbatim reports of sermons has been described ill the Daily .Mail. She heard of the letter en blind boys and the kine. niatograph in the Daily Mail by Mr. 1;. ('. ISrown, headmaster of the Worcester College for (he Higher lOdueation of the Pdind, and decided to le-l the experience, for herself. Ily a coiueideuce the lirst pie!lire shown represented a blind girl who recovers her sight. As every incident was described to her she became ■intensely interested. "I can picture itall," she said, "the. room, (he girl in ■the chair, (he doctor and (he nurse removing (he bandages. It is fascinating. I. shall go often to picture shows when I can have a companion."

MR. SHAW'S 1/6 MARRIAGE ''lt seems to me that permanent marriage is a -ign of want of intelligence," s-iid ilr. I'ernard Shaw, discussing the report of the Divorce Commission at the l-'abiiin Society in Loudon. His was ;• civil marriage, lie said, and according to the Church he was not married at all. What would happen if he went and married .someone else- 1 (Laughler). Was it the ease the ecchsiaslical marriages were cheaper than civil marriages'; ■ .Mrs. Sidney Webb: When niv husband and I. were married al a registry olliee we paid -is. Mr. Shaw: I paid Is lid: thai is a saving of i't per cent. [Laughter). The ideal stability of marriage, said Mr. Shaw, was a sign of want of intelligence. (Laughter.) Most per feclly faithful people were humdrum couples, and not only did not change .(heir wives and husbands, but did not ■even find relief in the Divorce Court. ■(Laughter).