Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 36, 2 July 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

INDIA'S LITTLE LADIES.

It is given to few Europeans to see the. real domestic life of high-caste liuii.ni>'. but .Miss Chi'iilic who in giving lectures just now, lias had that privilege by virtue of introductions which her thcosophical cult has given her. She was describing a visit to such a home recently at a bright little afternoon tea presided over by .Mrs E. llastio. of Cashmere, at- Cliris'tcihußh recently. It was listened to with the most rapt attention by the many ladies present, most of whom had probably formed thenideas from tin; missionary society stories of the Zenana .Mission,'and so on.

j Miss Christie .rave a totally dili'erent picture of beautiful artistic oriental houses full of the happiest domestic lif« of wife, mother ami children, with the one restriction they did not in any way resent-rather most of them were proud of it as evidence of their -nnrtity to their husbands—that no man other than their husbands must look into the women's quarters. At one Parsee home she was at. Miss Christie describes both the beauty of the ladies at a reception by the ho.-.tess, and their garb of richest oriental silks draped statucsquelv. The whole atmosphere of , the. place was delightful. They were women of high culture, linguists, thoughtful women, well read, but having read of, and in some cases seen the European systems, they much preferred the sheltered and more refined thoughtful life of their own. Indeed, at they talked of what they had heard of militant feminity, and of women in the ''smart set'' in the social whirl of Europe they very much preferred the older civilisation which had made them mistresses of the Purdah.

WOMAN'S INTERESTING APPOINT- . .MENT.

Miss Catherine Wheatley, au English nurse, is shortly going out to Turkey, at the invitation of the Turkish Government, to organise a system of trained nursing in Turkey. Miss Wiieatley did first-class work during the recent war in nursing the wounded, and her new appointment will include the mtitrunship of a large native hospital, which is to be used for the first time as a training school.

ENGLAND'S RICHEST BACHELOR. Sir Phillip Sassoon is not only the most interesting bachelor in British society of i.ie moment, but also the most wealthv. and if his friends are to be bclicwd.'he is to be greatly to the fore this >eason. writes a correspondent, lie siieiiu- money like an American, and has the same kind of notions of hospitality. T. am told that he asked Sargent'to name ;iis own price to paint a series of panels for his Park Lane maiision,but the famous American painter refused.

The gav young baronet is one of the darlings of society, fussed and run after as much by men as by women. It is said there is an estrangement between the Duke's daughter, with whose name lie wa.-i eouplfd. 'and himself, whiih mn-t he a hit of a trial to his ambition, tor it seems he had rather set his heart on the marriage. Of course, his faith is a stumbling block, and he is one of his race who are proud of his descent, there is no hope of bridging tilings over. The girl who marries him will have to permit the knot, to lie tied in a synagogue, as a registry wedding or one in any temple outside hi* own would not mi it him at all.

EGYPTIAN WOMEN'S EDUCATION

There has been founded in Cairo recent!}' a body Known as tin- Women's Kdit-'ational J'nion iiiidi'v the auspices of tin- Kliedivah-Mother ami several notable European and native women. The object* oi it are to unite in a common bond of women of all nationalities interested in education, and thus promote the cause of female education m Egypt: to assi.-t mothers and teachers to" understand the best principles of education, ami all'ord them opportunities for eo'iMiltiitieii uiid co-operation, so that the wisdom and experience of eaeh mav bo profitable to all; to provide for' this purpose lectures dealing with education in its physical, mental, and moral s|,ect- and to aluud to girls and young women who have been well educated an opportunity of maintaining their interest in intellectual and liter.irv matters, and to publish lor that purpose a magazine dealing with, educational subjects in a language understood by the majority.