Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 87, 8 September 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

IK TE3 UHIiVE P3OVINC23. ()£ great interest id a .slorv a Sydney woman lias to tell loucerning a recent tour, accompanied by her (laughter, in the liliine provinces of Germany, ami i:i i-lio country in whiili the Oruian

croups are now ii is hard indeed to believe that the In autifiil places which we then saw are

io-day in a state of war and misery," she said. '"After travelling through Belgium and Holland, we went up the I'hine, tile famous trip which is 100 well known to need describing, visiting Cologne and lionn. and travelling a'togcther '2OO miles up the river. We liked the people; they were very <■: vll. th<m;:h not excessively friendly. It was to their own interests to lie polite to the English, for the great majority of the tourist.* to that part are English and American. Or.e can imagine that tile Rhenish people hate the war. In cause so many of (hem make a living out of the tourist, traffic, which now is non existent. One day. on a liver steamer, the hand, ill playing a selection of national airs, came to "(lod Pave the King." A'l the British on board naturally stood up. and I noticed that more than half the passengers were standing. The Germans did not look contemptuous, nor did they ixam approval. They merely endured the tune until it was over, and when the collector came round with a hag at the end of :i long pole, they looked the other way. "Thriftiness was the most noticeable i]ua!ity about tile town-;, and the women. Till' girls and older women, too, were ne\' r idle as far as we could see. It v.:' , market day in lionn. and we saw 11 ■ ■ Ihe women did everything in connection with making tin market ready. The gnat square was one minute empty, ami the next minute it was filled with a:i eieTgetic feminine army, who swept the fiagg. sot out the stalls, and then sal by their wares waiting for custom, steadily knitting all the time at the soc;;s, without which no German soldier goes to war.''

THE PROFESSIONAL PLAYMATE

A new and not unpleasant- method ot" making money, with the added .satisfaction oi knowing Unit she is iilling a very genuine want, lias ln-ca discovered by a vosinu fi nth-woman who lives in one of

the seaside towns ot Kngland, who does :iot ait as lioliday governess, since -he dees not J/ive lessons, but as a grownup playmate to families of children wl>o;n she umbrtakes to look after and ann'sc ail day. As she knows every current in the bay that attracts visitors, all the prettiest walks, every dangerous spot, for bathing or cliff climbing, and all the loeal customs and legends, she is able t'i make herself cxinmelv Useful, and finds, after having tried t'.le experiment last summer. that this year until the autumn she will not know a free week.

MIXED BATHIXC- IN PUBLIC BATHS,

More Hum half the London boroughs which possess public baths allow mixed bathing to take place, an innovation tllat, from greatly increased receipts, i. s extremely popular. The rule adopted when facilities are given 'or mixed bathing is that no one may enter the baths miles accompanied by a member of the opposite sex. The practice is vcvv popular in public baths all over the couutrw

PAWNING MONEY A curious custom of persons about to enter the workhouse was reported to the Liverpool Select Vestry recently. It seems that if a man has money shout him lie realises that'this or part of it Will he taken from him for maintenance, and so he pawns it, and redeems it v.lnn lie eoivr.s out for a holiday. A yovereu;n nmv 11 ills be looked alter for sixpence. It is proposed that representations be made to the Pawnbrokers' Association and to magistrates to discourage the practice.

WOMEN POLICE COUP.T MISSIONARIES. A branch of public work in which Y.'uiticu have specially di.-itiuguitd'ed tl)cuu'e]cm during tile p:t.<t twelve yuirs in Lon.ii.!! i< that of mission worker ir. public police courts. These deal with boys us weil os with girls and wonnn, tiro'.rji g'-'iieraly their work lies with tli.- latter. The woman missionary sees each pri.-enev before and utter her appearance in Court, and makes every possibl • enquiry to enable her to help them r.fter remand, tuking them lo a "remand home." if neec.--.ary. or \isiting them m prison, and communicating with their relatives concerning them.

RED-CF.033 KuKSES. Widi-spn :>.! indignation is rif.s unions wom-11 enthusiasts ill Knglaml (writes a con.'i]ioii'li!iit) nt tke report Hint u committee has bt-t ri appointed to ononis into tin- worki'ijr mid or? uii«at:mi «>( VulnnUry Ail! l.VLuvmeu: >. the per.,f uni 1 „f this showing not 11 single wointi'. In til' 1 r-port issued !:i-t year by -,!»• Kriti-h II;il fr.m Society it was sl'iovm that 110 fiv.vr than l:ii7 women wi ;v renter; d nuiM'iers oi tile \ oiim'.arv Aid J)etarhim'n! s in the county London alone. t!i-se working under M r,lii;-h:iients, willi a total membership -jll. jt is pointed out that th" ivorkin;.' of Voluntary Aid Detachments, court ruin# as it do-.'s the eare ol the tick and woaaded. is primarily wom-n's well;.' so tliat a properly constituted committee should certainly include qualified women doctors, women nurses unit tlio.-e who have had practical experiences as organisers or commandantsin voluntary aid work.

! TEA TABLE TALK

The Princess Hoyitl lias a fine collection of photographs 0 T her daughter, the Duchess of I-'ife, mostly taken in the joiuigci- daughter, lVin.ess Maud. The majority of the photographs show the Duchess in a simple cotton dress unrelieved even by a brood. The Princess Royal was very fond of dressing (lie. two alike, and in their photographs they are .seen wearing identical white dresses, while blouses and cloth skirts, or similar golfing costumes. They are photographed in similar position, and in the same poses. The most charming of all the pictures ftTken of them shows th; :n with tlu-ir brads lovingly in.-lined to one another, the Duchess' arm being round her sister's shoi'.l-

The tbraian Empress bilieves in early rising, and sits down to breakfast with the i'.mperor, winter end summer alike, punctually at eight o'clock. At one o'clock the Imperial couple usually dir.: with tlleir family; guests are seldom invited to this meal, and when they ar ~ they are treated quite informally. Her •Majesty is exceedingly fond of all young people, and w hen sta;. ing in the country slie often stops her carrin<ie near a group of childrru, and presents thenv with sune of the bonbons which she usually ■larriis for this purpose.

Called after Sarah Jennings, wife of the first Duke of Marlborough, Lady

•arali Wilson seems to have inherited some of that ancestress' lack of conventionality, love of adventure and Reuse of humor (says the Lady's I'ietorial). Slle acted as war correspondent in South Africa, was captured and exchanged, acted as n'irse, and has the Royal Red Cross, and is a Lady of (trace of the Order of St. .lohn of Jerusalem, alul has been on a wonderful yachting enlist! and tour in l;id : a with Mrs. Leeds, the American widow, who dispenses delightful liospitalities to a limited number of friends. Lady Sarah is always extremely smart, whether riding- across the veldl, playing ■coif iii half a gale of wind 0:1 an East Const course in Scotland, in oilskins during a pile 011 a yacht, at Ascot or n Royal ball, or smoking a cigarette with her after-dinner coll'rc. She is always 011 c of the best turned-out of lier sex, and wears the air of an aristocrat almost

as conspicuously as does a stags noblewoman, but ill her case quite unconsciously. Iler husband. Colonel (lordon Wilson, is a very distinguished and good ffcldier. They are great favorites with a very large circle of friends.

Prinee Albert, who is now a midshipman attached to 11.M.5. t'ollingwood, is very keen on nearly evrry branch of s.pcrt. taking a special interest in cricket. and, at the same time, if any sort of mischief happens to be brewing, TriiKc Albert is sure to know more about, it than anybody else. Though he is not yet, eighteen, he had Mrcadv seen a good deal of the world. During a si;; months' trip in the cruiser Cuni'bcrland he visited a number of ports in the West Atlantic, and also saw something of Hie great towns of Canada.

Prince Albert had a rather embarrassing, if amusing. experience when he accompanied his father and mother on one of their provincial tours. The manager of one of the factories visited by the Koyal party, having been coached beforehand as to how lie should receive the Kin;; and Queen, can::' forward to grcit. them wit!) all due res;)i'ct and ceremony. lie was terribly nervous, however, and after he hud .safely got througi the business with their llajcsties. he found himself face to face with Prince Albert. Xebody had told him what sort of salutation the Prince should receive, and when the bov held out his hand to be shaken, the ilustere-l man, anxious to do the rijilit thing, bent down and kissed it. I'rinec Albert started as though he hail been shot, and the Queen, who I.ad seen the incident out of the corner of her eye, could scarcely restrain her laughter at the expression of blank astonishment on her sou's lace.

Sir -lohn French, now ill command of the r.ritish Army on the Continent, went over a tract of country where soirie thirty years ago he went hunting and court!!'};'. lie married n Miss SelbyLowndes, one of the eight sisters who wcr.' known as the "eiyht belles ot Bletrhley"—where, by the way, there is an inn called 'The Might Hells" to-day. The •Selby-l.owwles family is still prominent in thi' locality, one of its members being the Master of the Whaddon t'iiase Hounds.

There arc not many fdatniM to women in l.unilon, lint there are ii few o; .ureatct teroiit. There is now tho fine <lllO to Queen Victoria in iront of Jsuc!:iKijliiiiu l'alaee. one of Alexandra in tile London Hospital grounds, ami of (imen Amie in (,hu".'ii Anne's Hate— but of memorials to women other than querns there are hut few. Queen Victoria has had more memorials ami statue■; put up to lier than any queen ever has lia<l before, ami they are not c.nly in treat l'ritain, but in tin: colonies ami in Kuropean countries.

At present Ihere are Duchesses, those of Abercorn. Koxburghe ami Sutherland. For some reason, the dignified and honorable prefix which pe'Tcsses (except those ladies who are step-mothers and si/'p-jiraiidmothers to their husband-.' successors) should asill- widowhood is not liked, and man." have preferred to lis 1 their i(.nr:s----t iiin name instead. I'ossilily one objection to Dowager is that it seems to savor of unwelcome old Society has been indulgent to ladies who do not desire to use their proper prefix, still, if they wish to <|o to (Joint, they mint appear in the presence of UOynlty only a - dowaycrs.