Woman's World GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 52, 22 July 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

GENERAL NEWS.

.'■.nglish women are taking up swimming seriously. The Batli Club and St. George's Club are among the favorite rendezvous. Priness Patricia is appealing to the girls of Canada to found a home where girls arriving in a strange land to earn a living can stay in comfort and under proper care. Three thousand pounds wd provide shelter for 50 workers, and it is hoped to lay the foundation stone on October 14. IMie whole idea is to tie a mission of giriij (o girls.

I'ady Grace Mackenzie (remarks the Pictorial) is undertaking a sporting expedition in every sense of the word, l'or not only is she going big game shooting into the interior of East Africa without any woman in her party, but she is taking with, Jier various "phones" to secure records of the various jungle sounds. Having tried extreme heat, the next venture will be the 1 Arctic regions. A mere man suggests that since pretty frocks arc meant to please men, and are paid for by men, couhl not the other sex magnanimously condescend to simplify fhe language of fashion, and give material and color less complex names. But as "the glamour of romance haunts nearly all women, it is doubtful if they will, for instance, ever agree to call a moonlight faille bolero a short blue bodice of comparatively inexpensive silk.

Sarah Bernhardt—genius as she is—lias appeared in a new play, "Tout a Coup." She draped her figure, now inclining to stoutness, first of all in a confection of yellow niousselline over taffeta, and later in black chiffon and grey taffeta, showing a eotte de inailles front and jet black in each case. She manages to .hide the ravages of age. and produce an atmosphere of youth and charm that astonishes oven her oldest admirers.

Under the name of Woman's Kingdom, the National Bank of Women's Suffrage Societies, with Mrs. Fawcett as president, have organised <1 self-con-tained exhibition in the gallery of Olyinpia, London. It has been the purpose of those in authority to demonstrate that women have enough common sense and education to enaWle them to help in the control of "the country. Their contention is that women are the hom> makers, they wed the family together, bring up the ue.vtgeneration.-and smooth over the rough places for the men.

. "No sugar, tihank you," should cease to be a formula, for a French beauty expert that we lessen our chances of fJimpled cheeks by cutting down our supplies of sugar (writes a corn -' indent to the Ladiis" Field). Surely, after this, it ought to be regarded the bounden duty of every mother v. -e that her girls are supplied with a certain amount of sugar each day. It seems to me as necessary for their ji'i—o;i:>! appearance as face creams and correct corsets. The 'beauty expert who has made the disovery that sugar feeds dimples declares that saccharine is also a preserver of youth. That'the cup is a thing of the past, seems a foregone conclusion.