WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 155, 26 November 1914, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

NEW IN FASHION'S REALM. Beaded and metallic trimmings are the most fa,vored for the newest evening gowns. A lovely evening gown is of green crystal net over white satin. bark green is firmly settled among the favorite shades for the coming season. ]?lack gloves are more frequently seen "tlian formerly. The military coat has military braiding and barrel buttons. The newest attire, for children are striped skirts with solid color jackets. It looks as though the long coat costume would reign supreme. High pockets are one of the military features now seen.

EMPRESS EUGENIE'S AID. There is not one man among the tons of thousands of soldiers eagerly training at Aldershot for the great task of freeing Europe from German menace who is following the course of the war with keener interest than that of a very aged lady who lives by the side of the great camp. The iEmpresr/ Eugenie's picturesque house within its beautiful grounds upon Farnborough Hill overlooks a wide stretch of Hampshire plain that from dawn to dark is filled with military activity. Aeroplanes belonging to the Royal Flying Army Corps at Farnborough near by circle continuously through the air within sight other windows. The high road that skirts her park echoes with the train]) of marching troops. Daily in a large white saloon of her house large scale maps are spread out before her, and with very minute care, ''just as if slio were a general," she traces out the course of the fighting in France. The Empress receives the English and French newspapers and also personal narrative rof-<>rfa fiti-nfoxctf by her own friends in France.

She is full of grateful affection for tliii people among whom she has lived for so many years. The memorial chapel in which are the tombs of Napoleon 111. find the Prince Imperial is near her house, but the roads are rough, anil she can 110 longer make the journey to it. Still, it enables the Empress to feel with a great sympathy for the thouscan 110 longer make the journey to it. amis of llritish women whose husbands have staked all upon the issue of the war and whose only sons may never return from it.

In gratitude the Empress has given a wing of her home for use as a hospital lor wounded oflicers belonging to the Aldcrshot district. The hospital is entirely supported by the Empress. It has been fitted with a perfectly equipped operating theatre. 10very day she walks through the eight rooms of the hospital and chats with such of the patients as are convalescent to the stage at which they can be taken into the sunshine of the beautiful grounds.

WOMAN" SAVES AIRSHIP. How a French aeroplane was saved from the '.Jermans by a woman is described by wounded soldiers returning from the Arras district. The wife of a French soldier, who with her husband is keenly interested in aviation, was watching for the hitter's/ return from a scouting expedition when she espied a biplane coming from the front. Through her glasses she saw it suddenly swav and descend rapidly. Suspecting that the aviator was in trouble, the oflicer's wife obtained permission to drive out in an automobile to the spot. She found the pilot hnd been wounded in the left arm and had fainted from loss of blood immediately after landing. Knowing that the German patrols were only within a few miles, the plucky woman instructed her chaffeur to 'drive the wounded man back to town. Then she took charge of the aeroplane, living it to the aviation camp, some ten miles distant.

THOSE WHO ARE ALWAYS WRONTi. In tlio waiters' room of a lar2fe restaurant there hangs a sign which reads: Tn any argument with a customer remember that the customer is always right and the; waiter is always wrong. The waiter cannot he right. Do von realise what that means and who makes the sign possible and true? ,Tlie customers of the restaurant, make the restaurant possible; the guests of a hotel make the hotel possible; the shoppers at a store make the store possiljle; the riders on a railroad make the railroad possible. Without these customers, guests, shoppers and riders these institutions would be impossible, .therefore, no matter how wrong may t ' lo customer: how unreasonable the ?uest: how insulting the shopper: how cranky the rider—the customer, the guest, the shopper and the rider are always right: those who serve them are always wrong. Never can the latter be right: the employer cannot allow them to be right. Therefore, when the customers, the guest, the shopper or tlu rider complains, the person complained of must be reprimanded or disC 'S' ; otherwise the customer is not satisaed.' q CUBtomcr DU,st

'Pretty one-sided, isn't it? But isn't, are ?n r c i,Jd n t mbo, ' in " W,,Cn " Cxt , ,nUl "<d to excuse a waiter of slowness (he may be sick); or n chain ber-maid of theft (she may b c as l.on est as your daughter); or a girl behind isS^? ! if 3srsi J actually acknowledged yourself wrong, with the other fellow 7 right