Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 282, 1 May 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

I NOTES. 5 Mrs Katherine S. Macquoid, who has just celebrated her 'JOtli birthday, is at present working ou a new noVel. "it you want to live to my age," she said to an interviewer, "when people te;l you to sit in an easy chair or to lie on a sota — don't. Go on just as you did when you were young."

Whether it becomes tire wives and daughters of Austro-iiungurian officers to wear slit sicirts is a question which has led to the- retirement of the Commander of the liudapest garrison, General Feketc. This officer, noticing at a recent concert that the slit skirts ivom by a number of the officers' wives and daughters and lady friends displeased the Commander of the Army Corps, issued an order to the officers declaring that these iVkirts did not become their wives ami daughters. Thereupon the Hilda Press sutauked Iwlli generals. Apparently this pained tile Corps Commander so much that he -found fault General Fekete asked for leave, from which lie will 1101 return, to the great satisfaction of the ladies who wear slit skirts.

A tiny house, consisting of two rooms and a kitchen, in a working-class district of Glasgow, has been found litteredwith money and notes to the value of £13,000, which at lour per cent would have yielded the owner £520 a year. In the house lived until her death recently a woman of 75 whose neighbors had no idea that she possessed so much wealth. The discovery was made by the trustees when they went to make an inventory of the scanty furniture. »o particular effort seemed to have been made to hide the treasure. It was scattered about anywhera and everywhere. Much of the gold was found in an old-fashioned elas-tic-bound purse. It was known tnat the woman feared to invest her money, and distrusted banks.

Greater security will be felt by mere man in Cardiff, the City Council having, ■by 20 votes to 0, adopted a by-law requiring any "female person" wearing a hatpin in any. street or public meeting house to cause tne point to be properly protected by a blunt guard of metallic or other material.

His* Eva Doug'as has been attracting i much attention in t ' iilv in New York, | but throughout the I'niou, because she i has undertaken t-„ roam 'through the woods of Maim.' for two months nomi'-1 time this year. will take neither | provisions nor i-lui".;ug, but will trust to | her woodcraft and her knowledge of gitme to enable 11 r to live and come forth fully chid and in line lighting trim. She is a fearless r.::ig<v of forests, and her intimates says th.it she will acconi-1 plish this difficult tn-k. Miss Douglas declares that s,n: w.l! enter -the forests of her native country as scantily clad as when she was born, and will come forth at tile end of two months fully clothed ins such garb as she can obtain. Since • childhood she: has lived in the woods and knows every kind of tree, j plant, bird, animal, ami 1:: li that is to be found. She propose to demonstrate] to her friends thai the .ilr.ipY.-u life in] the woods is still poss/ule and attended with the greatest benefit to health. Her father, one of the best known forest guides and sportsmen in Maine, is confident that his daughter will succeed. She will write a series of articles describing her experiences, and will try to show that it is good for everybody) for a season at least, to reuim to the primeval life. The fear ol ivo modern Actaeon seems to enter her mind. Aiiss Douglas greatly prefers the woods, fields, and streams, with their hunting, freedom and lishing to a love romance. "'ln fact," she said, "I am just dying to start my tramp. It will probably lie in July, but the conditions of the spring will determine my final choice of the time."

The Berlin correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph is responsible for the following:—"An amusing story is going the rounds in Brunswick. It is to hi that a soldier on sentry duty outside a subordinate wing of the palace, weary of the monotony of his task, and hoping for the relief of a few minutes' conversation, .tried to attract the 'attention of a comely young woman who chanced to pass down the deserted street. By a shrill whistle and a nodding of the head, and finally by beckoning with his rifle, he sought to arrest her steps, ami so obtain the opportunity of entering into conversation with iier. But she was oblivious to all his signals, and continuing on her way disappeared into one of the entrances to the palace. Twenty minutes later, the sentry was commanded to the presence of the Duke of Brunswick, who sternly charged him with his indiscretion. The soldier frankly admitted the full measure of his guilt, wherupon lie was absolved', but was dumbfounded with the words: 'This time I will overlook it, for it was only my wife, but if it luul been any other lady in Brunswick •' The sentry had tried to scrape acquaintance with tho Enij'Vor's daughter."