Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 56, 27 July 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

CRAWLING CURE. i iiii' ui the most distinguished of our bachelor novelists lias, 1 hear, proposed t.i Lady Randolph Churchill, whom he met for the first time a few months ago (writes an English correspondent.) They entered into a conversation ou books and promptly became great friends. He is very clever and very cultured, and he writes a little less about sex than other foremost men of letters, Her friends >ay she won't have him, tint he is still on very friendly terms with her, and they have been seen together at concerts and plays. Winston Churchill is particularly anxious that his mother i should not re-marry, but that lady is quite capable of telling him to mind bis own business. Indeed, she is about the only person of whom he is a little nervous. Once she said: "1 wonder where Winston would go to if I were not about to keep him in his place." Lady Randolph has grown ever so much slightc lately, the result, is appears, of "crawling cure." which is said to he the finest thing there is for reducing. It is taken in a crawling attitude in a large room for an hour or more a day, according to the requirements of the inS dividual patient. PRACTICAL JOKERS.

For a long time society has been well rid of practical jokers, but they have cropped up again and one of the principal recent culprits is said to be a young American matron and the other a smart American debutante who is very much in evidence in society (writes an English correspondent.) They play jokes not only on their friends, but their enemies, and the jokes are not always goodnatured. They summoned several people to Sunderland House by telephone to a "little hop" the other night, and when the guests arrived, tJh'ey found the place in darkness and the blinds drawn, the Duchess of Marlborough being away. The two jokers had been badly snubbed by the Marquis de Soveral and in revenge they ordered a bier and a number of mourning carriages for his funeral. In due course, the dismal procession stopped outside his door on Grenvillc street west, much to the vexation of the distinguished Portuguese, who is a somewhat nervous and superstitious man.

To a hostess who was ente.taining a large dinner party to which the jokers were not invited they sent a telegram just when the party was at its height, •stating that a certain man, a platonic friend of hers, was dangerously ill. They fancied he was out of town, but he was really at the table among the guests, so that the squib in this case did not go off.