Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 35, 1 July 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

CHA.ItJI —WOMAN'S MOST DBSIK iisLE GIFT.

In one of our most intimate .mil ton-! lidential talk-, u dear girl asked me to tell her what 1 t-iiiik the most de-;irab!e gift for a woman. Jslie spoke oi several friends—one of them as having grate of movement; another us rarely beautiful, with brilliant eyes and lovely toiur pluxion; a third as accomplished, piaying and singing and speaking two or three languages be-,. Jo her own; smU a fourth as very clews?. Wc may multiply the lis", ami as we look over our circle of friends we easily mm' that nearly everyone has something bright and invididual which commends her ti. us; but the .-;um of the matter is that t't:c lirat of all gift* for a girl is expressed in one little word of live letters—tlliann.

If you insist on my delining clianm, I am afraid 1 wiil disappoint you, for it is as difficult as a perfume. TJhe better way, if I could manage it, .would 'be to show you soniebi-dy who has it, jus 1 would show you a painting on the wall or a (lower in the garden. Very pl'ain gi '!<> and women are sometimes endowed with this grace. 1 remember one who was not pretty at a!!—a little, dumpy ibrown tiling, 'who had not the art of j dressing wry well, and wllio slipped in j and out of a room as softCy and s'hylv {as a mouse, bless her heart! But this ! sweet Elizabeth was popular beyond all the girls of her clal-s; she was constantly in demand, and nothing could be done without 'her.

In her case cliarm had several elements. 'Hit voice was low, yet clear. She never made an effect of insisting, as girls with f3'irill voices do; her tones were soft and distinct. She was gentl.', 'but siie wag not overlooked in consequence. She always knew where to I'inil thing**. At home her father and brothers appealed to 'lier for the book; and papers which were out of sight, but whklh it was important to have on the instant. Elizabeth could l explhin away little vexations. She remembered people's names ;nd faces—a very great talent, and one worth everybody's cultivating. I'.lizabet'h was considerate and full of tact. I never saw iier dt> a rude thing or iiearj her sjay anything unkind.

A BROKEN ROMANCE. Clft'i DAMAGES Al-'TER SEVEN VEARS' EXGAnE.MEX.fr.-

T.i'tty r.- fvoin all over Europe were 'mid in tli London Sheriff's Court recently iliii'mnr tin" hearing of a breach of promise >uit. brought liy a pretty young Oxfordshire lady against an accountant employed by Messrs Cook and Son, Mr •f. Thomas I'cw.

■ The,_ plaintitr was Miss Lucy White, of Witney, and she, was eventually awarded damages. . Mr Edgar Rain, for the plaintiff, said the parties had been engaged for seven years. Tliey met each other as hoy and girl fourteen years ago, and corresponded. hater on the friendship decp,en>:d, and in November, I!XH>, the defendant wrote to "My Dearest Cissie," savling:—

...''l am quite satisfied. AH I have to say as rjie mine always.' .' . Send me the size ; of your finger, and' I will tr, and fit it by Christmas." In 101)7. defendant went In Lucerne .on business, where the lady vis-ted him. The appointment he hoped for. however, did not materialise, and she returned to .England. About the end of l!Jl->, (he letters of affection from the defendant iioramn fewer. Plaintiff suggested "another jgirl,'' but this was indignantly denied. In April. lOlli, however, defendant wrote froip Montreaux:— This letter will. 110 doubt, be veryj painful to you, but it should liave been written long ago. . . . One cannot learn to love. If you think I have an affliction for someone else you would not be exactly wrong, but don't think it is solely on that account I write to > you, because that person is ignorant ! of your, existence, f feel T must at least say what I think, and have done ' with mockery. . . . t shiver when 1 ' ' think" of entering an unhappy marriage, which J firmly lndieve our union wo'rild be. . . One cannot buy or cultivate happiness, but misery is easily found. MY friendship with the girl | 'mentioned makes me write to you as

I do, because I fool tliat it is only riplit to do so. Do not think I writo 'borauso I intend to make lior my fiancee. Such a thinp; is unfortunate]v impossible on I>otb our sides, and very soon silo will most probably pass from my life, whirli has boon much liHtoi'

and enlightened by lior acquaintance. . Counsel added that defendant married very gliort.lv afterwards.

Plaintiff, pivin# evidence. paid thi; only reason why they did not ,u<>t married during her visit to Lueorne was thiijj defendant did iiwt the appointment he expected to from Cook's. Th>/oudfiut was now in Rome.