WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 April 1918, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

"T PERSONAr Miss S. Thomson, who has been on a visit to Napier, has returned. * « * * Miss Stephenson (Havelock) is the guest of Miss Percy-Smith. * * * * Miss Marshall, who lias been on a lengthy visit to Wellington and Wanganui, has returned. * * * * Mrs. J.' C. Nicholson is the guest of her mother, Mrs. A. H. Glasgow, Wanganui. # » • • Mrs. V. Elliott is on a visit to Auckland. « t » * Mrs. Birch-Johnston (Wellington) is the guest of Miss Johnston, Maketawa, Inglewood. * * • « Miss E. Clifford, Lepperton, is on a visit to Wellington. # * » * Mrs. J. Stevenson (Tariki) spent a few days in town this week. Mrs. Hobday has returned to Eltliam after visiting New Plyjnouth, where she was the guest of Miss Percy-Smith. * ♦ * « Miss Howarth, who has been the guest of her aunt, Miss F. Wood, has returned to Auckland. * * * * Miss F. Carthew, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. J. L. Perry, has returned to Hamilton. * * * * Miss Dorothy Moore, who has been visiting New Plymouth, has returned to Palmerston North. * * * * Mrs. Dennis Hursthouse is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Kirk, Petone. * * * ■ * Mrs. A. Alexander, who has been on a short visit to Wanganui, has returned. * * * * Mrs. C. Bayley, who has been 011 a short visit to New Plymouth, has returned to Hawera. * * . * * Mrs. and Miss Riddle, who have been the guests of Mrs. A. Alexander, return to Normanby to-day. Mrs. Courtney loft on Tuesday for Hastings, where she will be the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Preston Thomas. / * Miss Gill, sub-matron of the New Plymouth Hospital, who has been on a visit to Wellington, has returned. s * » * Mrs-. W. Churchward, who is at present visiting her relative in New Plymouth, returns to Blenheim on Tuesday, accompanied bv Miss B. Matthews, s ' ♦ » * Miss Koch (Hawera) is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Alfred Webster. # * * * Visitors at Chatsworth House include: Mesdames Caplen and Hamblin (Hawera), Miss Cape (Patea), Mrs. Coles (Palmerston), Miss Prentis (Stratford) Mrs. Page (Hawera), Misses Johnston and Hancock (Otahuhu), Mrs. Jamison (Wanganui). * * * * Visitors at the Mountain House for this week include: Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Moyes (New Plymouth), Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Allen (Auckland), Mr. and Mrs. Lerou (Napier), Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Skeates (Auckland), Messrs. B. and G. Purdie (Featherston), F. G. and G. 11. White (Wellington), J. Auld (New Plymouth. WOMAN'S PLACE IN THE WORLD. In opening the Women Painters' Exhibition in Sydney, the Minister far Education (Mr. Augustus James, M.L.A.) successfully touched the outer fringe of a mighty big subject when he began to discyss woman's place in the world from ancient times to the present day, and the possible effects of the war thereon. It looked "all Lombard street to a China oranee" that the speaker, with the added embarrassment of an almost entirely feminine audience, would be tangled up in a maze of historical references and up-to-date deductions, but in the result he displayed a good deal of strategy, and successfully "joined on" to the subject before the House. His main point was that woman, since the war, appeared to be resuming her dominance of almost prehistoric times, when she tilled the fields, controlled the house, and annexed man as a more or less useful creature to go a-hunting and chop wood. —(Laughter). There was a recorded case of a tribe of Indians in which any man who refused to mend his wife's skirt was promptly divorced. —(Laughter). AVoman eventually lost first place in society by becoming too fond of man. This led to submission as embodied in the course of centuries in the now disputed word "obey"—(Laughter). Now, again, the whirligig of time had enabled crowds of women from the humblest to the highest classes to prove their capacity, and to show that they could take the man's place in a score of different spheres with credit. In this way the question was raised whether, after showing talents which justified equal remuneration with tlie opposite sex, they would ever step down again to shelter within a purely domestic, circle. However, after all, woman fortunately remained woman, struggle as she might against it, and Nature had definitely assigned her place as wife and mother. He had mentioned the disastrous upheaval caused by the war, and, no doubt, the patriotic calls upon the womenpainters' leisure had somewhat diminished the admirable exhibition of paint!?,®! he saw around him: In this connection he deprecated at any time caustic or destructive criticism. Local artists required all the encouragement that could be given them, and such an exhibition as he now declared open to the puHie deserved the most cordial public support. —(Applause). FIGHT WITH BURGLARS. ONE MAN SHOT. Fremantle, March 22. Fremantle was yesterday the scene of robbery, the circumstances surrounding which were sensational in a high degree. Mrs Stewart White, who lives in Vic' toria avenue, North Fremantle, heard a noise, which apparently came from one of the upstairs rooms. Mrs White's only companion in the house at the time was her mother, an elderly lady. Going upstairs, to investigate, she discovered two men in her bedroom, one of them being engaged at a small safe. Mrs White was promptly knocked down by one of the robbers, flung on a bed, and throttled, whilst the other man continued his work of ransacking the safe. Mrt WUti'i aethir ruihtd in to

help her daughter, whereupon the second man seized her and subjected her 1.0 the same treatmnt as Mrs White. She exhibited admirable nerve and pluck, and managed to grasp a loaded revolver that lay under the pillow of her bed, and shot and wounded one of tlie men. She fired at the other, but missed. Both men then decamped, but took with them about £25 in money, ladies' and gentlemen's gold watches, and from 15 to 20 gold rings set with diamonds, emeralds, and other precious stones. Mrs While at once notified the Fremantle detectives of what had occurred, and tliev quickly got to work. De-tective-Sergeants Mullcr and Purdue left for Fremantle, and picked up the threads of the case. Purdue was near the Fremantle railway station about 5 o'clock, when he noticed a man he recognised. Accosting liim, he told him lie was wanted. The man at once drew a revolver and levelled it at the officer. Purdue, who is an athlete, closed with him, and held him till Petty-Officer Lucas, who witnessed the affair, rushed up and wrenched the revolver away. ft was found that, the detective had had n marvellous escape, as the trigger had been pulled, but had jammed. Purdue's prisoner was John Feldman, a Russian who escaped from Fremantle Gaol on January 27 last while undergoing a term of hard labor for breaking and entering at Kalgoorlic. The whole of the missing money and jewellery was found in his possession. The search for the second man has so far been resnltless. Blood stains on the gate of t!ie house and on the ground leading out to the street confirmed the fact of his being wounded, but whether seriously or otherwise is not known.