WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 181, 9 January 1915, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

NEW PLYMOUTH. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Mrs Fvod. Hesketh, of Auckland. Is : spending some weeks with her relations . iu New 'Plymouth. | Mr and Mrs A. K. Standish, who spent , tlu?ir Nmas ami New Year holidays in j Auckland, 'have now returned. Mr .1. 0. Nicholson returns from hu J visit to Dunedin and Oauiiiru to-night, i Miss Ruby Clarke, who lias been visiting Auckland, has returned. Mrs \V- ■!• Chancy gave a most enioyaiilo musical evening last Wednesday. It was delightful to hear Mb. j Basham's voice once more, and Miss Constance iLeatham's pianoforte solos. I The Misses Good and Mrs Harry Good j returned to llawera to-day after visiting New Plymouth for the holidays. Miss Bedford is on a visit to AVellington. ■ Miss Brewster, who has been visiting Dunedin to participate in the N.Z. (Lawn Tennis Championships, returns next Monday. Mrs Meßae. and Mrs W .L. Fitzher-l-ert, of Pamerston North, are spending their holidays in New Plymouth. Miss Gros.se (Wellington") is the guest o f Mrs. P.. Bayley. ■ Mrs Ohihveil, who is on a visit to her mother. Mrs Fitzherbert, New Ply-■n-outh, returned to Auckland last 'Monday. Mrs Tvon Standish has come to r* side in New Plymouth, while Captaift Standish is away with the Evpeditionary Force. Mr. Frank lieid, of Mastertoii, has '•ecu tile guest <f Mrs Fitahcrbort, of New Plymouth. • Miss Dorothy Sturtcvatit. who has been spending her liolidays with her parents, has returned to Hawera. Miss Pansy Wliitton has returned from a most enjoyable, visit! to the Thames Mrs E. R. A. Ilowartli, of Inglewood. is camping on the beach with a. party of young folk. Mr and Mrs T. 1!. Kay. of Auckland, have been spending their holidays in New Plymouth. Mrs Frank Wilson has returned after a short visit to Wellington. Mr and Mrs .7. 7!. Roy, with their son Inn, spent a most enjoyable week at Mokau. Miss F.thel Standish is spending her holidays here, before returning to Hastings. Miss Quiekfall has returned to New Plymouth from I'eilding, where she has been the guest of Mrs. Clem Webster. URTJTI NOTES. On December .'list a very pleasant outing was given by Miss Robinson (Mrs. S. A. Campell's sister) and Miss Perry, of Wellington, up the Mangahia road, in the form of a picnic and Christmas tree to the children of Unit!, in aid of the Belgian and British Relief Fund. The children were delighted with the toys, and seemed to regret the time for leave-taking. In the evening a dance was given in the hall, and this proved very successful. Miss Perry supplied som.i very excellent music, and Mr. Johnston gave two songs in his usual niastcrlv manner. A song was also 'well sum: by Mr. Musker. The total sum obtained was £S 10s, in which were included donations from Messrs Gilniour (New Plymouth), King (Christ.chnrch) and Boys' (I'ruti). A fairy doll brought X.2 13s. Altogether the whole affair was a huge success, and the people of I'ruti will not forget the happy time they had.

A .MOTHER'S THOUGHT. j (By Will H. Ogilvie.) A snow-white spirit (lying free Across fiod'.s vast I't'.Tirity, Boasting her little wings'tho best Went circling far beyond lh-< re-t. She left llcav.n's starry gales behind (And down the pathways of the wind Flew on and on, and found no fear, Though Earth itself grew dark and n.ar. Sudden those peerless wings and jirmid Were netted in a mountain eloud, And lay there, hound in silver tether. White plume entwined in -now-white feather, long time forsaken and forlorn She struggl ': frdm her sho'ihlen 1 torn, 'ihe white win.!;, quivered in the el.rid: I Then all the sky with son-- grew loud ! And the child spirit, pure as, pearl, i Came down to Earth—our baby girl. • And now I know, when still she lies With that sweet smile across her eyes, She sees her white wings in the cloud And hears the gold harps harping loud, And when she stretches a pink hand We know —we know and understand! Would we could guard her day and night And keep that new soul pure and

white, • That nought might still that music's stir, And no eloud keep her wings from her. NOTES. ' Cora Patterson, thirteen, is the proudest girl in her neighborhood, ir the State 'of Kansas. Last fall she asked her father for a small plot of his farm on which she could experiment with wlu-at raising. Patterson allotted his daughter four acres. She ploughed tlie ground, harrowed it, and sowed the grain. She cured for it and watched it with an ea-er eve. Recently the wheat was threshed. It average.! 17 bushels to the acre, the best yield in that part of Kansas. There are two naval engagements of interest to announce, the bridegroom--.cl.e'i. in l,„th eases being attached to .11. M.S. Kucoiluler. writes the Sulucv • Mail. The first is that of Commander William liurrnws, 11 A.N., of Civdilon. IJevon-hiiv. England, and Mir* Kim DulImntv, second daughter of Mr. mid Mrs. •f. P.. Dulhunly, of Monteaglc. Bnthiirsl: and the second is between Lieutenant KardlcT-Wilmot, R.X., second son of the kite Colonel .sir William 'As>heton Eard-lev-Wihii..i and l.adv Kardlev Wilmol. SI!. Cromwell flardens. London, and Mi-s Dorothy Little, eldest dam.diter or" Mr. and Mrs. ('. W. Liftle. of P.rookshv. Double Pay. Loth Miss Little and Mi-s Pulhuntv are well known. Although the latter hVils from i'sCin-i -he yereb a good deal of her time in Sydney. "Perhaps the mpst useful of all types of spy is the international courte an. whole achievements \\ill never be known ei;iic i- to-flav er to-.-iorrow. but '.'.ho, in her own twisted way. In Ins to make the history of Europe," says a recent writer on the (jer:::au Army, "i.m'id stories are told of the way iit which these women obtain their inforimil'i'U: but really tiie me;ii> rue i|ni 1 ■ ■ -implc. Ske is permitted to sef. up a liiMirioi'.sly-apporuled establishment, to winch r-Tie. Im.-fcs jli'jble.phlHed irelltlccel!. an! e\-. t- ...liy a little conversation on political of the day by way of eouipensation. The Lriat l-'rederiek i~ reported to have said: 'I have one cook and a hundred pre .' To-day the position is a little broader: for since Lcrniany has a'way seen herself as the future apex of world-power the courtesan is always welcomed in Berlin and other largo towns, and furnished with ample funds for work in other countries. They arc a curious, cosmopolitan company, mostly Parisian, though, they display iig na- ]

tional idiosyncracy and it would be dilUwult for the observer to ascribe to them any particular nationality. Often they assume a title from the old French regime to which they have no right and Comtesse and Dueh'esso appear frequently iu the Secret Register. They will appear 'everywhere' as the phrase goes, expensively gowned and accompanied by squires of regular social position and may perhaps acquire a reputation for dogs, or charity, or movements for Sailors' Homes of Rest, and so forth. In Berlin they have regular meeting-places, one of which is so well known that I may without indiscretion name it—the Blumonsalc." Women and girls in large number* are trying to enter the Russian army in various disguises, and several women have already succeeded iu deceiving the military authorities. The most successful have been the masculine-looking peasant women of the northern provinces. 1 Amongst them is Xadezada Ornasky, a thick-set, well-educated peasant woman from the province of Archangel. She posed as a man through the second pari; cf the Manehurian campaign, and was praised for her courage by General Cripenberg. She. fought in September in South' Poland, and it was not until after the battle of Lublin-Krasnik that her sex was discovered. A girl named Liuba T'glick, a twenty-year-old attractive looking girl, was present at four ongag. -m'ents in Fast Prussia and West Poland, and has been wounded slightly. She says that during the long-range | fighting she had no fear,-but had a terror of crossing bayonets with the enemy. Two daughters of a landed proprietor at Kurck have been arrested on their way to join the colors, one of them posing as '-Prince AdrianofT." and the other as"her servant. A pepsant woman who was killed at Oumbinnen had donned her husband's clothes and impersonated him. as he had shirked the summon.-. j She'did not want the family to be shamed.