WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 191, 21 January 1915, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

SOCIETY STUDIES CHEMISTRY. j An English lady writes: —Several rich people have developed a perfect luiiniil for invention anil chemistry, hoping they may evolve something that will "do" for the enemy. They lmve set up laboratories and workshops in private houses at tremendous expense. Indeed, not a few people wl o live in the immediate vicinity of these amateur inventors and chemists an; in more terror of an explosion through their experiments than of actual Zeppelins. One Salisbury's sons has been allowed to l'e-open his late famous grandfather's laboratory at Hatfield. Tile late peer made, a hobby of chemistry, and it appears this grandson of his :'j following in his father's footsteps, only he means to do something great. Paris Singer is another exceedingly clever amateur chemist, and lias rigged up for himself a fine laboratory at Oldway, his scat near Paignton, now n military hospital. Fe has a wonderful explosive they say, which he hopes soon to perfect. lam told Jack Churchill, Lady Randolph's second son, has invented a bullet which is to penetrate and explode the gas container of the Zeppelin. Wherever you \tirn you are told of amateur inventions for war purposes by which their sponsors swear. Society women, too, are fascinated by the new craze, and Lady Evelyn Guiness, a remarkably clever woman with money t,o burn, is one of those who has a laboratory of her own.

Till'. AFFLICTION OF BIG FEET. There is a terrible stir in army circles at Dunkirk. The wife of a French general was arrested be cause she had feet, it has been learned, and, furious at, the publicity which resulted, accompanied by the heralding of facts concerning the size of her feet, life lias been made uncomfortable for mure than one oflicer. This is how it happened. A German spy was recently captured in Dunkirk. He was dressed as a woman, but thi> size of his feet betiaycd him and he was captured. Then everyone in Dunkirk began watching feet The wife of the French general sallied forth and lier feet attracted the attention of a soldier. She was arrested, and now even those who had not looked before the spy scare struck Dunkirk know she has big feet.

' BLACK OPALS AS CHARMS. The same day poor Lady Acheson was in Bond street looking very weary, for she is still anxious about Lord Acheson, who was more seriously wounded than was at first supposed. She was buying the black opal charms, which are among the new ones that'people-swear by. Every week some fresh charm comes out and gets thousands of votaries. The black opal charm comes from Australia, and has plenty of fire in it. Another of the new luck-bringers is a Japanese god made of ivory and stained Hack. It is a weird little thing with eyes that haunt you, and the story go?s that not one of the men who have eavfied it in tattle lias been killed. Sir John French swears by the fourleaved shamrock Ethel Levey sent liim some weeks ago, writes a Xondon correspondent.