Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 95, 17 September 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

MR. WILSON'S BEREAVEMENT HIS WIFE'S DEATH. San Francisco, August 18. In tho death of his wife, President Woodrow Wilson loses a real helpmate. Mrs. Wilson came to tiie White House a year and a-half ago a strong, robust woman. Her health was undermined by her conscientious conception of the duties devolving upon the "first lady of tho land." Daily she assisted the President in the conduct of official affairs, consulting and advising with him when important decisions had to be made, and it was no uncommon tiling for Mrs. Wilson to receive delegations calling on hci husband when he was too busy with other matters. This was all in addition to the arduous social duties of a President's wife. President Wilson is a sorely stricken man, but is not nursing his grief in retirement. Returning from the funeral last Tuesday lie plunged immediately into the mass of work involved in the European war. His closest friends, 'however, doubt whether he will ever again have the same ambition and zest for work that have animated him in the jitt*ti and it would surprise no one if lie were not a candidate for re-election in 1910, Pi'cniduiit Wilson is not a sliong man physically, and til? burden of his office has already told on him. That .Mrs. Wilscn was in danger of death was kept from the Knowledge of the nation until about three days before she entered h?r last sleep, and until practically all hope bad been abandoned. She had been ill since last February, when she fell on a rug in White lions? and strained her spine. She virtually recovered from that injury, but in the meantime kidney trouble set in, and she gradually grew weaker. About two j months ago her condition began to grow serious, and trained nursgs and special- | uta were in constant attendance for the, last three weeks.

Mrs. Wilson was 50 years old. Amongst the public matters in which she displayed the most keen interest was a scheme for the improvement of the alleyways in the City of Washington. Some of these alleys, adjacent to fashionable streets, are occupied by people living in abject poverty. At her request a measure had been introduced in Cgngress providing .for their improvement. On the last day of her life Mrs. Wilson had the satisfaction of learning that the Bill had been passed by the Senate. A w6rd to the leaders of the Senate by the President's secretary had effected this result, and the measure I was adopted in silence by the Senate, as a tribute to the dying woman. Mrs. Wilson was possessed of clear judgment on political affairs, and broad views on educational questions. With her Mr. Wilson wrote his books, and on 'her judgment be relied constantly. Her anxiety for the President's welfare was such that during her illness she frequently cautioned the physician not to tell her husband if she had passed an uncomfortable hour. The body was interred at Rome, Georgia, the birthplace of her parents. The President was at the graveside. Heavy rain fell during the last rites, and as Mr. Wilson stood in the storm, tears coursing down his cheeks, byslanders saw the scene was of the deepest jiathos,

LADY, WOMAN, AND PERSON. THREE DEFINITION'S BY SIR E. BADEX-I'OYVEI.L. Sir Tiobcrt Baden-l'owell, speaking at St. Paul's <!irls' S<)iool. Brook Green, School, Brook Green, ( recently, defined ''lady," "woman" and "person" as follows: A ''lad;," at present is one who wears silk and kid gloves and minds her p's and q's. If she wears cotton gloves and bombazine, or whatever it is called, and all the p's she knows of are those she eats with a knife, she is a "woman." If she does not wear gloves, uses had language, or at least drops her li's, and wears calico, she is a "person.'' Sir Robert added that when he learned tracking he discovered that women Were in (piite a ililfcrcnt way from men. He olfered to tell a kuh's character from her shoes. "Tin' lu-els of a lady's shoes," he said, "used to be worn on the outside of one foot and tii" inside of another, which meant that they were weak-kneed with one leg and ovi r-strong with the other. Ladies' shoes are beginning to be worn much more evenly nowadays, which means that they are getting more evenminded. I hope that will continue."

TRUTH ABOUT THE TANGO I'.K.U'TIITI, DANTK Sl'lllLT BY" ( .II'MKIiKKIT. .Mr. fi-i 1 H. Tin lor, of Leeds, the IHcsiili'iit nl tlir I in ]>"ii;i 1 Society of Dance Teacher-. >pcakiu;,' at tile annual lu-]il lu-]il at thi' Ilolliui'ii Uc.-daurant, denied that the.' -ocicty had killed the tan.u'o. "What tli" society lias done," he said, ''ha- lii-rii to kill a countci'leit tan<;o. whit It o\l'l if it did not actually i'i-ii|w. the twelve beautiful niuvemcuts which constitute the leal tan<;o.'' l!riti>h dance fachers assembled at tile )i-taiiianl to yivc exhibitions of thi' new dances licfore the Internatioil'il Dancing' < ninniittee, with Mr. C. D'Aibert acting as chief judire. The liV* new dances were named as follows; - La lleve. the Boston Pause. "1'.V.." the lioston Vraneaiso, La Ku.w. All live were deplorably lacking in taste, movement and time. "I.a lteve" was a bail blend of steps filched whole-

the one-step—a thoroughly intricate and ungraceful movement that would take months to learn, and prove a nuisance in any ballroom. The rest of the dances were void of all rhythm, swing o- time, were, badly executed and created little impression. The performers (lid not even move with, that gracefulness which generally distinguishes a master of the art. They minced, crept, hopped, crawled and squirmed, bat they die' not dance.

The most favored dances were- the Boston Pause and the Uoston Francaise. MOKE SCHOLARSHIPS FOE GIRLS. WHAT ETO.V TIIIXIvS OF CAREERS FOR WOMEN. "By making it more possible for women to pursue the career for which they are adapted, we shall not only be rendering them a service, hut we shall be rendering a service to the nation at large'.' Thus tile Eton College Chronicle, in an article on "Careers for Women," wherein it urges the necessity of more scholarships for girls. "Looking at the matter from the girl's point of view," says the Chronicle, "wi find she desires a career—something definite to do with her life—and therefore feels that some preparation is necessary. She is no longer satisfied to tread a formal social round while waiting for the sphere of home life, which; after all, ,;t dyes not fall to the lot of cve r y woman to fill. Since a degree qualification is required for most of the better paid employments, ths best preparation ii to go to college or to take a thorough course of sound technical training after a good general education at school. All this, however, is costly. The family resources are often small, and it is expedient to let the boys have the first e'aim on what there is. Owing to all these facts there is to-day excessive competition for the few scholarships there are, especially at the older women s colleges. This injures not only tii,>. girls who succeed and go up to colic;;: weakened in health by the strain of hard work, but also a larger number who never get there at all. The whole movement for modifying and reforming tlio curriculum in girls' schools is checked by Hhe inlluence of competitive scholarship examinations, while only too often there is real overwork of the ablest girl,--. Vet the colleges say they cannot lower their standard—and the girls must go to college. What are schools and parents to do? The only way is to find more scholarships." KNITTING REVIVAL The up-to-date girl's latest fad h knitting. She iia-i taken to the wellnigh obsolete art with zest, and at the seaside, instead of silting with !ui' hands idle, she is busy with her needles. She, apparently, finds that the occupation is not only restful but extreme'.v useful, and although she does not revert to her grandmother's practice of knitting hose, she produces some marvellous specimens of handiwork in the shape of mufflers and sports jackets. The artistic girl is very particular about the color of her knitting. Whether it is woollen or worsted, she lakes care that the color matches her toilette, o: at any rate sets off her frock to the best advantage. She shows a special predilection for pinks, blues and reds, which correspond to tl'.e silk scarf of her liat,

FIVE BRIDES AS BAIT. Five girls as wives were offered as bait for harvesters by Ambrose Huntingdon, who owns a farm near tiiltner, Nebraska. Huntington had the following signboard posted on the highway in front of his house: '•I need five harvest hands for more than a month. Wages, 12s a day; chicken once a day; washing, mending, and a bed in the hay mow. Every worthy man hired will have a chance to marry one of my live pretty daughters. IE he wins one .of them, he gets 100 acres of land thrown in. But he's got to make good in moiv ways than one." Kiity-three candidates for employment and prospective matrimony applied within a week. The lire chosen ones were set to work in the wheat fields. The girls range in age from eighteen to twentv-six.

NOTES. A handy possession to carry about with one is a silver-coated carli'idgcshaped case, two ainl n-!iiilf inches lon,', holding three colors in thread, a thimble and noodles. The threads arc wnuvl about a throe-sectioned roe!, whose hollow interim- holds needles, ami on its to]) is iitt-'d a thimble. "With this e(|iiil)meiit gloves .an be mended and rents sewn up in dresses at a sec on 1 s notice.

So powerful are the Mormons that it is estimated that their missionaries in Kurope. exclusive of Kngland. send across the Atlantic to Utah between SoO and !!IM) girls annual!;.. -An animated countenance is plea-ant enough to see. but.", said a beauty specialist, ■'women should take care not to produce the animation by incessant extortions of the fare. Jt is this habit which produces the premature wrinkle* and erow's feet. Now there are faces so naturally mobile that they receive no harm fioin a constant play of exprcs-i.-n. I!ut this is not suitable for ail countenances. Some are designed for unlet and reposeful explosions, and the dl'ort to counterfeit animation in these ca.-"s results only in wrinkles." '■When." said an observant woman. ".\ number of spinsters assemble in a convent no one thinks of them as 'old maids,' partly, I suppose, because they have voluntarily renounced marriage,

of 'sister' and 'mother.' Yet the 'old maids' of the world are often as trnl\ nuns as though they had taken vo\w, but, being scattered over the earth, the;, are the subject of many jibes. In many cases these women have work to do in the world which they can only do by retaining their freedom, Each has a niche to dill which she must fill alone. Indeed, spinsterhood is often a matter of choice, and it has many pompensations."