Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 91, 12 September 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

% NEW PLYMOUTH SOCIAL NEWS. -, I'KIWSONAL ITEMS. Mrs Moyes is on a short visit to her relatives in (ftristehurch Miss I). Tripe, who has been the gmisl of Mrs. Hoy, has returned to Wan 'ganui. Mrs Thompson (Awakino) is on a 'short visit to New Plymouth. ' Miss J. li*£ii, Juglewtod, is the guest of Misi s 0. Palmer, Fitzroy. f Miss Cruicks'h.ank, ■ bead m'slress oJ the Wanganui (ibis' Collegiate, lias '(. been the guest of Mrs Kockci, b.it Jia. f now returned. . Mrs Fred. Web ter left yesterday fo. I• Hsiwera, where she will he the guest 01 i' her won, Mr Af. Webster, manager o. 'the Bank of New South. Wales.

' Mr Le-\ Kii'kUy, who is visiting hi* 1 sister, .Mrs W. l'eun, leaves on Monday 1 for Masterlon. Mrs Chancy was hostess at a giaxa'phone evening last Tue.-xlay. Amoiigii. those present wire Archdeacon oil 'Mrs divans, l)r and Miss Brewster, .\,r----1 J. 8., Hoy, Mr and' Mrs Burgess, Min- ' Douglas. ' Invitations have been :i«u»d by M. 'G'lenn, lLawera, on the occasion of tn 'marriage of her daughter, Miss Qiiccim 'tileim, which is to lake plate a, 'llawe.ra on Uteucr 1. ,

Ust Tha.rs.iay .Mrs ltoikcl gave ';. 'most enviable afternoon tea, in bono., of her guest, CruxkiihaiiU. 'thee ■were two con.petitions, wiuch were won Tjy Misses K<n and Bluster, liur n. 'the afternoon musical items were ren dered h. M.»*;■* Armstrong and llnsi ■' Mrs Ro.kel receivcu her gmstb in a "dark brown clulVon taffetas, deltly |'trimmed with cream lace. '' Mi** Kockcl wore a tussore silk, tut-K----fed and inset with lace. Miss Koy, navy l>:ue costume, bkic.i. I 'velvet hat. I' ttfiss lliumlell, irenx rose canvas cloth .costume, faced with black satin, black ' hat, with ireux rose feathers.

Miss Trcpe (Uaiiganui) wore a n.iv, coat au.i skirt, mi.erald grem am black hat.

•AUsn was robed in a sax. blue vc'.v... li.il In correjponu* Miss Brewster, a navy blue costume, scarlet ha. e..gi-d wita brown lur. Miss 1). Bradbury, dark brown costume, brown felt hat, lightened with i,axe .blue velvet.

Miss tlr.aibach, navy bluo cer.se colored hat.

Miss K. llreatbach, navy coat anu skirt, blutik velvet hat, with pale pink rose.

Miss (.'oi'kill, navy costume, while felt hat.

Miss At. I ultdl wore a .pale grey to. tunic, with black velvet hat. ~

Miss lliis., iuvv costume, black Velvet hat with scarlet ruses.

.Miss .\ihii.. navy costume, white hat Mim llu laid wore a navy continue black ha I wall red mount.

Miss, A. IJuilanl, n.ivy costume, hat l<> corresp-und. .Miss itjilv-r was iolh'il iu a btv.vn intuitu', h;it on suite.

Miss C. I'.-.m, saxe blue cosium.', ■!i;i: to .ivatch. .Miss D. lady was attired in a i.av, coat and bkirl, win to felt hat, will, rililion bovf.

Lust \\'.:ii -.lay evening Mi'- .\ion tenth «-iiti riaiiiid a number of y<>-.:::-people at cm-lin-. which Ti'Miltc:! in Mis.< •I. -K-i! I Injilowood) tlic ladies prize, and -Mr 11. Hill the jjem.eun'il'.-, while Miss Hollo received ille consul:! lion prize. Amouir.-t those prc-ent wire: Miss-:-,, Montejth (.'I), 11, r.-,. liradbarr. <!realbaeli (-!>, Corkill (1). Hunavd.'l'aimer, Ks : ,c, Hullo (•/-), reach C-i). Mi-s-rs 11. Kirkbv, K.-se, (.'rant. 11. lihmdell, Kviu;don,'it. Hill. Montea'tli, -McMiirray,' Alexander, T. t'orkril, den kin-en, N. Kelly, •;,-. Guild. Mi.-.-, I'rilt entertained a liuuiurr o; friend- at bridge last Wednesday afternoon, at her sister's residence, -Mrs lloby oi' Smart road, which vaulted in MrJHrst winning the first prize and .Mr.-. Chancy the uiystei'v.

A DEVOTED MOTHER. TRAGEDY OF AUVKUsfI'V. 'A path, tie story of a devoted molh-r who. while bravely suppol iin»- her cliildren after lier husband had left her, wa-. overtaken by misfortune and committ",! suicide 11 \- drowning herself in the Thames, was told at a Lambeth impus'.. recently on Mrs Alice Sh-ar-on. acred ■lli vea'r.s, the wife of a butler, hitch oi Acacia mad. St. .loan's Wood. Mrs Clara Shaliar.i, of Westmoreland street, l'imlico, .aid that Mrs Shearsuii,

.-.bo wis a friend of hers, separated from !n.- In-hand some years a ;.".>, and had since been working to support her three children.

"Site was a cool-housekeeper," conlinned Mrs. Shuilard, "and was in her la-t -ituation in Acacia, read for three years. Six weeks ae,o she lost her situation oMiitfj to the family licinsr sold up, and -die wa- not paid her la-t wattes.

'Her eldest son. a '.oiith of 10. Miii-t----ed for Australia a fortnight auo. 1 had the .-are of (he other two-a boy of 14, sin.-e he was a fortnight old. and the id;!, a.'.-ed :-:ven and a-'half, for live year-. She paid me ;Ms a month for tilt ir - ;pj-..rt. lint -he had been nimble to ]iav 'aiivthing :-iin e she left her place." lieorue r.ric Shcaison. the 11-yenr-o'd son, -aid he last saw hi, mother on S'nn day. v, h"u he found her waiting for him outside st. .Michael's (.hurch, t'hesterSoiiare. She was broken-liearted about his biolhei- having l'.iiio to Au-walia. and. handing hi:n a brooch, -aid, "Jm cp that, and never part with it.'' -I walked with her to Hyde I'aik cor--11-1-." -aid the boy, -and when we puled -he was crviii'.-. She said .-he cnii'.d not con-..- and'see Mr-. Sriallard b'-eau.-e 'she had no mon-v for her."

iln Monday nioniin;.' the boy tv-cived the following 1-tter finm hi- mother: - -

"\iv I hope liv the time von r',,-.-h,. Ibi- i-ti-r 1 s! i: ,|l'l„. al vest for ever from this -ad and lom-ly lit". ■l!.i not h t tiiis upset yon. d.'.ir. but ti-v and work for voiir-elf and your, poor lil'tle -i-ter Mollv. and I inM. iwi will 1„. rewarded -ocio ,lav. If vour hrot'.ie-,-vets on. and seu.U for von boi'.i. I hope. i,„, «i!l ■■„ to '.im. and all b- to-ether. cmitciii'-l if i cou'll hive' been' with Mm aluai-. hut it could not be. I have den.- mi' M-.-v bet for miu all nfi to ie.u. bit I feel unable to hejit l"f a

-I lone no heart to do anylhiu- I hale done many foolish thin-- in my life, but 1 have al-o done some e,0.,.| and kind tiling for other p.-ouie. With love from M-ur broken-heatteii mother."

TliiKl) <!(•' LI IK. I'oli,-,. evidence showed that 'Mrs. S'n,.iii-soii's purse wiis found on Van,bait Ilri.l",- on Sunday evoiiimt. It contain,..l twopence and a slip of paper, on which was written: ••Tired of this lonely life. Jb'st to end it." . The coroner said it was a very pain'ftii case. ."Till,-, poor woman was left by her husband some years ago and saddled

with the children, to whom she was devotedly attached," hj; stated, "and she set to work to bring them up as she wished them brought up. She finally found herself stranded without wage's owing to some financial crisis in tin; •house where she was employed. ■ "Then she had to say good-bye to her eldest son, who went to Australia, and the two calamities preyed on her miiel, and she became broken-hearted. For tile past six weeks she had probably been wandering about. "I am very sorry for her and her children, and.l do earnestly hope that some kind-hearted philanthropist will take an interest in the boy and gill. and give them a start in life. it would be hard on Mrs. Shalhird to have thciri left on her hands, as she lias no duty towards them except that of friendship, and I do not know what will become ol them. Their photographs show how well they have been cared for by their devoted mother and Mrs. K!ia!lard." The jury returned a verdict of»"Sui cide during temporary insanity." The coroner elicited from Mrs. Nii;(llard that the only money she had to rely on was her husband's wages, au.l he handed her £.l from the poor-box.

TWO MURDRESSES. OXE GAOutCI), THE OTHER iILULLUTiXEO. By a curious coincidence the suax day that saw a female prisoner guiljo fined in Germany haw a female prison- • er's sentence to death commuted b\ President Poiiware to lifelong pena servitude, says the Paris special correspondent of a Xew lorlt journal Issi month. ' The French woman was a peasmi. who had abandoned two iilcg.iumcts children and poisoned her father with arsenic because he refused to give her money to continue her di-.solute life. Her brother tried to reclaim her ami died of the same poison a week laler. At her trial her lawyer pleaded thai she was mentally unbalance.!, lj.it (Injury, knowing well that she would not be put to death,, found her guilty o. murder, without any extenuating circumstances. Ttie German wwinan, Mulicleine Wendel, .aged 41, had been, married to a munhroo'.n grower for many years, .when ■she met a laborer named Wirtb, two years younger than he;self. fclm nc came his mistress and brought him to live in her house. 'Soon the lovers*' chief idea was how to get rid of the husband. 'Three times they put poiscn in his food, but .prompt medical intervention s:ivei 'him. The fourth time an enormous dose of arsenic (the "saint' poison as the French woman used) placed in cheoc proved fatal. The woman and her accomplice were condemned to death at Strussburg. Al-HUcc.-Lorraine. Both firmly believed that sentence weuld be commuted, the woman basing her hope on -the fact that she was a cripple, having a wooden leg. But the Ivai:.cr refused to interfere. and, in accordance with German law, the Public Prosecutor informed them that their request had been refused anil that the death penally would be inflicted in twenty-four 'hours. DEATH FOR TWO.

Wirth bun- the news with calmness, asked permission to kks liis .mother, begged for pard.m for Juv.iig b.ro.ne ;l murderer through love, and a.,ke,l hello forget him. ll c took a -bottle -1 wine with each of his. las', meals, ate will, and >:<« it quic.'ly. U lien .Madeleine Wondel iearmd tiut .she lnu-i die. she .burst imo tca,>, threw herself at the. Public Prosecutor's feet and begged mm to nave her life. She swore, tluf.lie regretted 'her erinito and Ion;; after I| K . official left her sha continued to cry ''Pardon! Pardon!'

Wirth was seated on his bed when the chaplains reached his cell. Keeping his'eyes fixed on the ground, he iv-fu.-ed to answer their salutation, but agreed to take the .-.acrament at their insistence.

His accomplice fdept heavily, and on opening her eyes saw the two >is!er>\ who had watched her through the night. A hoarse civ burst from her, but she all.wcd h:>r- : ell" pasdvclv to be ii, the clothes hhe had worn the dav of her arrest.

The little court in which (he guillo tine wa.i erected was about ten ' card r-quare, .-iirrouiided by iliie], W; .Jk „■ icpri'sentative of the Public Fro-ccutni and judges wearing rou-s, were present 'J he guillotine, vci'\ like a French on. but made of clcel iiisliad of. wood, ha' lieui put ii]i the evening In f.re. (In ; small table, covered 'with a bine! cloth, two candle-, 'burned, a cni-.-iii; be! ween them. The i xeciitioiier. Silli i A horse slaughterer, was <tri.--cd in ; frock coat and wore a big.i hat. J! was a stout, cheerful looking .man, ii no way disturbed ..y the rob' he wa about to play. His two a-i-tant.. num simply dres>ed. with s',f> hats, wer ineu of great strength.

Till: WO.M.W MUST. As the clock strode si* Madeline Wendol appeared, as she was to he exeeiitecl. lir-t. She was borne bv two chaplain*, as she was in.l. allov.oili'to m> the wooden leg, without whirl! she cniil.l tint walk alone. Jv.-ervbodv bared his ' he.id. The chiphiiu brought the piiMini r before the reiire-entaiive of the I'ubli- IVo-e-eutoi-. who hastilv read (be -ontcliee ~f death. The condemned v.:>mau had not as yet seen the. guillotine, but she began to moan. As soon as the sentence, was read the chaplains turned' h.-r toward (he table where the eandlos burned, and placed (he ciu-ilix in le-r hands. They were beginning to recite eraver--, when the Magi-trate -uddenlv or.bruil:-- ' . • ' ■■Centleiinn. do -.oar duC '." ' The two a-sKuinis. who wrr- behind Ihe chaplains, -cir.o ! tile woman, who placed bee K-ain-t the swinging hoard .„■' the guillotine, and quickly fa-ioned two >tra;is. one round the calf and one near tie. Vlhows. The leather eiMlnig into her flcli seemed (o -waken lier lo ron->ciou-uoss of what was being done. She -cMucd for the I'-rst lime to see die guillotine, and shrieked, "Oh. Cod! Protect me I" The nwingin.',' plauk turned, bringing !l;e head iat': po-ition, the knife fell, and all was over. Ten minutes later Wirth was broiie'it into the little conr!. lie vs-. pale, but, wleo'ilie had'hoard id ; scaleme read, lie' rei'u-.eil the cruchk and stood calmly to be fastened to the swinging plank. .\n hoar later t ieeapitaled bodies of the lover* left tie' prk-on in the same eai'V.