WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 151, 2 December 1914, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

GERMAN CROWN PRINCESS. The London correspondent of the Observes writes: —There is one person in Germany that I feel sorry for, and she is the wife of the German Crown Prince. The Crown Princess Cecile is of Russian descent, you know, with no great love for the Germans. She is the daughter of the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. Such a pretty, smart woman, too, who upset the pink flannelettewearing German fraus by insisting on getting all her trousseau (of the cobwebiest and wose lovely description) in Paris. Her mother, the Duchess Anastasia, who married the grand Duke Frederic of Mecklenburg, is a lady of so lively and spirited disposition that she shocked the stodgy traditions of the Prussian Court to such a degree that the Kaiser gave her to understand that her presence at the Court was not desired. From that moment relations between the Crown Prince and the domineering father grew strained, and he and his daring Princess openly flouted the authority of their august papa to such an extent that the world-wide known banishment to Danzig followed. There the young people, aided and abetted by the sprightly mother-in-law Anastasia, had a perfectly lovely time, and their gay doings being duly reported to the Kaiier often moved him to helpless rage. 'When lie heard that the boys—r.ot only tangoed'incessantly, but had made the dreadful tango the rage in Danzig, which threatened to spread to Berlin, in a perfect earthquake of temper, he issued an edict forbidding all military officers to dance the tago.~ Old tyrant! One can just imagine the nasty I expression on his face as he signed this . act of petty tyrany, congratulating himself on having "put the pot on." , (Yes, "that's slang, pure slang. Rut "it does describe it, doesn't it?) the young people's happiness. The daringly impertinent reply to this miserable act wa3 a royal ball given soon after by this Highnesses in Danzig, at which the ballroom was decorated with huge bunches of ''touch-me-nots," with a card dangling from each, on which was written in Latin, Noli tangere!—do not tango! She is full of spirit, the pretty princess, but she must be a very sad woman at present. A NOTABLE HORSEWOMAN. In eleven years, from November, 1003,) Miss Jessie Campbell, the well-known) Wanganm hor.-eweman, has taken part j in i!S)7 competitions at agricultural j shows, winning no fewer that 290, being j second on !)7 occasions, third on 40, j fourth, on 4, and only being 54 times ! 'among the "also starteds." She won 37 j driving and 41' riding competitions, and j annexed 43 oat of 70 leaping competi- j tions in which she took part. 'ln hack > classes she has taken 71 firsts, and 30 j seconds, and she has .won eighteen championships, three, reserve championships, and three' points prizes, and her winnings during the period mentioned amounted to the handsome sum of £llOO. In addition to the above, at this year's Wanganui show, she won five first-;, two seconds, and one reserve a record that would take some

—a beating.