WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 178, 27 January 1914, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

PERSONAL. .Miss Olive Hosworth, of Christchurch, is visiting Now INmhoiil.li. She is tlie guest of iicr aiiiii, Mrs. E. Dockrill. The engagement is announced of Miss Mabel E. C. Lean, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hcan, of Tukapnu, llauk/s l!nv,-lo Mt A. ll.'Gram, of the Lank ol Now South Wales. Wellington, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Grant, New Plymouth.

Xli« engagement is announced of Miss hla Oedd'cs, eldest daughter of Mr. J. M. Gothics (of the Free Lance), to Mr. Louis Bhmdoll, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, seeoml son of the. late Mr. Henry L'lundell (of the Evening Post). Miss" Geddes leaves with .Mrs. Gcddcs on February 14 for Canada, where the marriage will take place. A New York message states that J .lio Duke Arlmo, aged twenty-four, is engaged to Miss frames, aged (ifty-fo'tr, an Ameriean philanthropist.

LEARNING TO KKKI' HOUSE. Mrs. Herbert 1,. Satterlco, daughter of] tho late Mr. ■!. I'ierpont Morgan, is showing young women of the East side ] of New York how to furnish a home ] for Je-s than £2O, also how to eare for it, I eook tin; meals and manage the home ! in general. A model (hil has been erect-j ted in the Memorial House of St.' George's Church. Stiiyvosant Square. The apartments consist of a living room, a bedroom, and a kitchen which Mrs. Satterlee has furnished with just absolute necessities. Girls from seven years of age to women of 40 go daily to the flat to learn how to keep "house." it is conducted like a school. The course lakes twenty-six week", and Instructs in every phase of home life. The first lesson teaches how to uncover a bed and air a bedroom. The next shows how to make a lire, and prepare breakfast. The pupils are taught to cook cereals, lay the table, hake cakes, and stack dishes, besides the care of the living room, bedroom and kitchen. They are shown the right and wrong way to sweep, the right and wrong way to wash; in fact, nothing is left untaught.

I'NTUUTIII'TL WOMAX. "More than half the lies that woman tells are undoubtedly due to her gentleness:, her consideration, her sympathy--in short, to the goodness of lier heart." So fays the author of nn article in Munscy's Magamne on the question, "Why are women less truthful than men?" Women, we learn, do tell more lies than men. "The consciousness of her good intention relieves woman from all feeling of guilt; for her comprehension of right has its roots in conscience, which is independent of laws enacted to support social order. She is exactly the opposite of man. She judges from the motive, not from the deed. 'The motive consecrates the means' is, perhaps unconsciously, the motto of her heart, and upon (his she forms her life. The wife li"s (o her husband in many small things to save him annoyance and troubl". She conceals bad news, because she reads in his face that he lis depressed. She keeps bills until a favorable moment. She accpstoms herself to study his face like a barometer, but he does not know it. If siie has something unpleasant to tell him, she tries first to cheer him, and thus prepare him to receive the unwelcome news. She wears the dresses he likes best; she s'.eaks of things that please or llatter lu.i. This is the merciful little craft ' woman."

SIDE-SADDLE AND STRADDLE. There has been an interesting controversy at Home, in several of the papers, about the increasingly popular fashion of riding astride for women. All the writers appear unanimous upon one point, and that is, if woman lias any appearance at all she looks infinitely better on a side-saddle than a male one, and infinitely more bewitching. One hiinti ig tailor remarked:—-That the rising ge ieration of horsewomen will ride o'osssaddle in increasing numbers i.h>v.. : ,,- very little doubt, but that it will .-u----tirely supersede the side-saddle I do en believe for one moment, for the simple reason that the average woman knows when she looks her best, and that undoubtedly is when she is well tunica out in a smartly cut side-saddle habit. Miss Dorothy Hull, a well-known hiintswonian, say-::—'Tn my humble opinion a woman who rides astride is absolutely devoid of vanity!" Another keen sportswoman declares: "Anyone who wishes to limit over ordinary country and to be with the hounds from start to finish will hold her own better and be more su.cessful in the sidc-sadi.lc."

WOMAN CONTRACTOR. Miss Alice Dnrkin, a young woman just turned thirty, has been attracting some attention iiu New York througii her success in obtaining and carrying out contracts for big building enterprises. The contracts on which she is at present engaged come to a total of £400,0011. When a girl of sixteen she obtained a pint as clerk in the oil'iee of a small contraelor. After about a year she surprised her employer by asking him to be allowed to "figure out" some alterations for a school in the neighborhood. He consented, more as a joke than in earnest, and a little later he was astonished to learn that he had been awarded the contract on the basis of the calculations made by .Miss Durkin. Other e-timates of hers were equally fortunate, and, afler working about "eight years lor others, she thought herself justified in Marling a business on her own account. In a competition against (he leading builders of the city, she missed by only a narrow margin the contract for the ne\y public library of New Vork. which cost over £2,000,000. Miss Durkin i- held .in high respect by the building fialernily, and was recently elected the first woman member of the Master Ladders' Association.

A goLDEX WEDDING It i- iiol uiien to many couples to eelebrale their golden wedding, but Mr. and Mis. .laniee, Warnes, of Greymouth, have just hail such an anniversary. They armed in Auckland by the barque Alfred in ISU4. taking oil days from the Cape. Two years afler. Mr. Warnes joined the schooner Stanley, and later on the schooner E\celsior. for Greymouth. This last was wrecked on the beach, owing to a high sea and a strong gale. Three months later Mrs. Warnes joined her husband in Greymouth, travelling from Onchiiiiga in tho schooner Eairv, which met with ~n.li high that all'the passengers bad to go below while the captain crossed the bar under full sail and without the aid of a tug. '

GIRLS AS FARMERS.

• Two Ameriean college girls, both ' teachers, recently decided they preferred a fanner's life, and have bought a tract of land in Texas. They expect to liul more profit and pleasure in milking co.vs than in demonstrating dih'icuit problem-' :in trigonometry. Instead uf digging ;u Latin and Greek roots tiuy will dig potatoes. They will il u all the work them selves, from feeding the chickens to , ploughing. Uoth young women are athletic. Last summer they paddled a canoe on the Hudson River over 100 miles.

' KAMI'S AT THE PICTURES. The American town-hip Seattle has broken new ground in providing a special section in kinensatograph theatres for mothers or nurses with crying babies. Nurseries where children could be left were added to kinematograph theatres in many cities some time ago, but parents complained that they did not wish either to leave their children or to walk out when they began to cry. To meet the situation Mr. Harold Million, who owns the largest kincmalogvapli theatre in the residential quarter of Seattle, has built along one side oi his theatre a large glass enclosed room, in which mothers and nurses can lake ! noisy babies and still see the picture .

INVISIBLE EYEXIXG DRESS. The latest evening dross is termed the "invisible one." This invisible dress d"' sc-euded upon Paris suddenly, and almost succeeded in shocking that uushoclcable city. From the distance the invisible dress looks as if it were no dress at s.ll. This is supposed to add mystery and charm to it. It is made over a tight foundation of fresh-colored satin, and consists of .soft fold after fold of crepe and chiU'on in an exact llesh-colored shade. The folds must be draped artistically, but must be held close to t!u body. The sleeves are cut above tile .!■ bow, and the neck :i» quite low. \V'.;. this dress is worn a soft draped bt : ; of a contrasting color, black being inmtiv favored.

TELEPHONE GIUL'S COH.'i'URE. A young woman employed as a tele phone operator lias won an acti in ■:: the Herlin courts for damages for summary dismissal against her former i inploy'cr. The case arose out of the style of coill'nre adopted by the girl, which invoked the wearing of a bandeau covering her ears. As she refused to dress her hair 'ill a fashion to permit of the receiver being applied direct to the iar her employer dismissed her on the spot. The girl appeared in Court wearing the Ininrtcau. which only allowed the smallest portion of the lobe of the ear to b:' seen, and the .Judges, after solemn deliberation, found that such a coiffure was not a siill'ieient reason for dismis-. sing an employee without due notice.