WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1922, Page 10

WOMAN’S WORLD.

LADY SCOTT'S MARRIAGE. j TO A HERO OF THE WAR '• ‘ 1. c«. The cablegrams a few days ago recorded the marriage of Lady Scott, widow of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, R.N., C.V.0., the gallant leader of the Antarctic Expedition, which met with disaster in .1912, to Lieutenant-Comman-der E. Hilton Young, D. 5.0., D.S.C., M.P., youngest son of Sir George Young, Bt., of Formosa, Cookham, and Lady Young. Lady Scott received the rank of a K.C.B.'s widow by Royal Warrant in recognition of her husband's work. Lieutenant-Commander Young is Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and is Liberal member for the City of Norwich. He has a splendid war record, for between 1914-1919 he was in the Iron Duke and the Centaur, and he was one of the. officers in the Vindictive when she took part in the Zeebrugge enterprise. During the operations he was severely wounded, and thought himself fortunate to escape with the loss of his right arm only. His reward on this occasion was the D.S.C. He also served with the British Mission in Serbia, where he won the Serbian Medal for gallantry, while for “great initiative, gallantry, and dash when in command of an armoured train during operations at Archangel,” he was awarded the D.S.O.

Lieutenant-Commander Young was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1904, practising in the King’s Bench Division and on the Oxford Circuit. But journalism rather than law was afterwards his vocation. Formerly a financial editor, he is now. at the age of 43-, one of the financial lights serving under Sir Robert Horne at the Treasury. He has a cool head, a lucid manner in replying to question, and is a general favorite with members.

Lady Scott, who is a daughter of the late Canon Lloyd Stewart Bruce, of Stokesley, Yorks, has done much successful work as a sculptor, and has designed several well-known public monuments. One of her principal works is the statue of her late husband in Waterloo-place, and another public monument to the hero of the Antarctic is at Portsmouth. Among her sitters have been Mr. Asquith, Colonel Lawrence, and the late American Ambassador. For eleven months during the war. Lady Scott made munitions in a big factory, and her industry and influence stimulated the output by the girls of her section. During 1916 she was private secretary to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Pensions. With regard to her sculptural talent, this is partly traceable to her descent. Her mother was a Skene, a half-Greek, and her grandmother came from one of the most aristocratic Greek families. From her earliest years the imbibed the love of Greek art, and this has descended to Lady Scott. Lady Scott has travelled extensively in Greece, Turkey, Mexico, Australia, the West Indies, and other parts of the world.

The marriage of Lady Scott recalls the poignant message in which Captain Scott left his wife and child to the care of his fellow countrymen. The boy, Peter Scott, is now quite a sturdy lad of about twelve. His father desired" that he should become a “strenuous man,” and he shows every promise of realising that wish. In the tent where Captain Scott waited eight days for death with Dr. Wilson and Lieutenant Bowers, the search party found the leader’s dairy, in which Captain Scqtt, on March 25, 1912, after detailing the causes of the disaster wrote:—“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale; but surely a great, rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent upon us are properly provided for.” Lady Scott received a Civil Service annuity of £lOO.

CHOOSING A BRIDE. FOR THE PRINCE OF WALES. SPECULATION TN ENGLAND. Writing in January, the London correspondent of Melbourne Age has this to say on a subject which is in the minds of many people: The engagement of Princess Mary to Viscount Lascelles has naturally revived interest in the matrimonial plans for the bride’s eldest brother, the Prince of Wales, who is now in his 28th year. It is taken for granted that the Prince will marry an English girl, as his marriage to a foreign princess would in these changed days be most unpopular, because of the political entanglements in which such a union might involve the British Empire. There was a time when the Queen of Italy and the Queen of Roumania entertained fond hopes of having the Prince of Wales as a son-in-law. The Queen of Roumania, who is a daughter of the late Duke of Edinburgh, and therefore a. cousin of King -George, had her second daughter, Prin cess Marie, educated in England, so as to add to her qualifications for the exalted position of Qqeen of England, but these maternal hopes were discouraged by her Royal relatives in England, and it has recently been announced that Princess Marie is to marry King Alexander of Serbia.

The maternal eagerness with which the Queen of Italy pursued the Prince of Wales on behalf of her daughter, Princess Yolanda, necessitated on several occasions official denials through diplomatic channels of the rumor that the Prince of Wales and the Princess Yolanda were to be betrothed. During the war the Prince visited the Italian front, and subsequently was the guest of the Italian Royal Family at Rome, where he was naturally brought into close association with the Italian princesses. Subsequently, when the Prince of Wales was on a brief visit to Paris ,during -the sitting of the Peace Conference in 1919, he stayed incognito at a Parisian hotel, and a few days after his arrival the Queen of Italy and her-two eldest daughters arrived in Palis on an unexpected visit, and, by a remarkable coincidence, they put up at the same hotel as the. Prince of Wales was staying at. Parisian journalists, with an eye for a Royal romance, proclaimed in their newspapers that a betrothal uniting the Royal houses of England and Italy wbuld shortly be officially announced, but no announcement 'of the kind followed. Instead, the Italian Embassy in Paris had to issue an official denial of the rumored betrothal. And the Queen of Italy and her daughters made a disappointed return home. It is now ru-

mored that Princess Yolanda is to marry Prince Leopold, the heir to the throne of Belgium. Out of the eight bridesmaids at the wedding of Princess Mary to Viscount Lascelles pick the lucky girl who is to be the bride of the Prince of Wales, and therefore the future Queen of England. London society entertains no doubt that the lucky girl is among the eight bridesmaids, and that it is not a difficult task to pick the right one. But for five or six years past London society has been choosing a bride for the Prince of Wales, and each successive choice has been proved to be wrong, for each of the ladies selected has in due course married some less exalted bridegroom. But among the eight bridesmaids, three of whom are cousins of the bride, there are two whose chances of becoming Queen of England are regarded as distinctly good. They are Lady Victoria Mary Cambridge and Lady May Cambridge. The former, who is in her 25th year, is a daughter of the eldest brother of Queen Alary, who during the war abandoned his German title of Duke of Teck for that of Marquis of Cambridge. Lady May Cambridge, who is only sixteen years of age, is the only daughter of another brother of Queen Mary, the Earl of Athlone, who before the war was known as Prince Alexander of Teck. He married a cousin of King George, Princess Alice, daughter of the Duke of Albany, and therefore. Lady May Cambridge is related to the English Royal Family, both on her father’s and her mother’s side. She is somewhat young to marry, but that may explain why there has been some delay in arranging a marriage for the Prince oi Wales. Besides being so closely related to the Royal Family, Lady May Cambridge has the advantage of having no sisters and only one brother, a condition, of affairs which diminishes any likelihood of her becoming related with people outside the select inner circles of the social sphere by the marriage of hen relatives. Her cousin, Lady Victoria Mary Cambridge, is not in such a. fortunate position. Lady Helena Cambridge, a younger sister of Lady Victoria Mary, married three years ago, when she was in her twentieth year, Major Evelyn Gibbs, of the Coldstream Guards. Major Gibbs is a wealthy man, being a-member of a •family which has acquired wealth as bankers, but he and his people are commoners, and his marriage to Lady Helena Cambridge, though carried out with | the approval of the bride’s parents, was not popular in Royal circles. The King and Queen found occasion to leave London a. few days before the ceremony took place, and Queen Alexandra, in order to avoid being present, made a hasty flight to Sandringham. The Court Circular foolishly directed public attention to the absence of the heads of the Royal Family from the marriage of a near relative by explaining that Queen Alexandra regretted the necessity that compelled her to be absent.

INTERESTING ENG AG EMENT. A recent engagement which has a special interest for Australasians is that of Viscount Sandon, eldest son of the Earl and Countess of Harrowby, to the Hon. Helena Coventry, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Deerhurst, and granddaughter of the Earl and Countess of Coventry. Lady Harrowby’s wonderful kindnes.s to overseas officers is still fresh, and they owe her a debt of gratitude for the extraordinarily efficient organisation which she and her daughter, Lady Frances Ryder, managed. It enabled any officer of the Dominion armies. who desired it, to enjoy the hospitality of some of the loveliest and most luxurious of the country houses of England and Scotland. A great many availed themselves of the opportunities, and not only had the pleasure of/ sharing in the country pursuits that are so much more congenial than' town life to most of them, but they were able to form a better and a truer idea of English home life than would have been possible if they had had to spend all their furlough in London. HER STOCKINGS. Few articles of dress please «» woman more than a pair of good silk stockings, but they are generally the worst used items of her wardrobe! The following suggestions are offered for the benefit of /those who desire to get the best wear out of them. It must first be remembered that a silk stocking is made from a fine and delicately-woven silk thread. It is a dainty production made to be beautiful. and it should therefore be handled carefully. A jewelled hand should never be thrust into a silk stocking, for the rings are sure to catch the fine threads and cause trouble. Before putting on new stockings, one should make perfectly sure the size is correct (and it is advisable to buy silk stockings one half-size larger than usual). The leg of the stocking should be turned inside out by rolling outwards towards the heel; insert foot and then pull the stocking carefully up over the leg. r One of the most frequent causes of the sudden appearance of holes in the foot is a too tight-fitting shoe. It is always advisable to put shoes on with a shoe-horn, and so relieve the strain on the stocking. Never wear expensive silk stockings with cheap footwear. By this I mean the smart-looking shoe with inferior insides. The rough linings and- imperfectly finished eyelets will very quickly damage your stockings. It is just as important to take your stockings off in the right way as to put them on correctly. They should not be tugged off with one hand pulling at the heel or toe, the other grip* ping the bedpost! Stand with your feet firmly on the ground and roll them off with both hands.

In washing silk stockings it is best to use luke-warm water and a good lather of ivory or other pure soap. The stockings should not he mangled, and even too vigorous wringing will tend to give a streaked appearance. They should be dried in a warm atmosphere away from strong light; it is inadvisable to dry silk stockings on steam radiators. —By J. Idris-Jones.

KNICKERBOCKERS FOR WOMEN. Sporty knickerbockers for women were advocated by the American- Designers’ Association on the third day of its convention in New York, to ballance the garments it had recommended for men on the preceding day. The men's garments, with high waists, braiding and satin piplings, it was con- | ceded, had a distinctly feminine note, * and the knickers in tweed, given to I woman, dressed her like a little man.

Before the convention brought its mannish kniekerbocker suits into view, it. passed a resolution letting itself out of any appearance of trying to make woman unwomanly. The resolution said that never in the past fifty years had the dress of woman been so convenient and modest or lent itself so entirely to the virtues of hygiene, and

that short, scant skirts, which did not hinder a woman’s motions, might preserve her life in case of accident, when she could not escape swathed in long garments. The convention, in its discussion, said that knickerbockers for women were certain to come into general use ana that it, as a progressive organisation, should be in the vanguard in standing for them. A kniekerbocker suit worn at the evening session by Mrs. Alice L. Becht, daughter of Daniel Edward Ryan, the 83-year-old designer who suggested the latest style, was of rough mixed woollen goods, the knickers ending in a cuff (bottoned over the stockings a little ‘below the knee. There also was a smart mannish coat to go with them.

A WANDERING BRIDE A comedy of conflict with the marriage law has been revealed by the action of a bride, who lias just returned to a London registrar, as useless, a marriage law has been revealed by the acfrom him some weeks earlier (states the London Daily Mail). As her fiance 1 was on service with the Navy in the East and could obtain only Mediterranean leaver it was arranged that the wedding should take place in Madrid, and the necessary license was obtained in London. When the girl reached the Spanish capital she was informed by telegram that her fiance could get only as far as Gibraltar as his leave was expiring. Carefully guarding the treasured license, she hurried to Gibraltar. There she was politely but firmly infori. ed that a license granted for a wedding in Madrid was worthless in Gibraltar. A new license could have been obtained, but it would have meant a delay of some days —and the bride-groom-to-be had to hury back to his ship, which was at Constantinople. Finally he decided that the only solution was for the girl to travel to Constantinople, where a fresh license was obtained from the British Consul and the long-delayed wedding was celebrated nearly 2000 miles from the spot for which it had been arranged, and the original marriage license was sent back to London.

ACTRESS BECOMES DUCHESS. By the. death of the Duke of Leinster, which occurred at Edinburgh, a -former iqusical comedy actress—Miss May Etheridge—now becomes a duchess. In 1913 Miss Etheridge, then of the Gaiety Theatre, married Lord Edwrard FitzGerald, the only child of the marriage, was born in 1914. Lord Edward is a brother of the late duke, who was unmarried. Both Lord and Lady Fitzgerald were 21 when they were married. They spent their honeymoon in Canada, living in a primitive abode near one of the numerous Jakes in the province of Quebec, where they spent much of the time fishing. The new duchess first appeared on the stage in London at the age of 14. She played in “The New Aladdin” at the Gaiety and in “Princess Caprice” at the Shaftesbury Theatre. It was while acting here that she first met her husband. Lord Edward served in the war as a lieutenant in the West Riding Regiment and was wounded. Before that he was in the Irish Guards. The late Duke of Leinster, who was born in 1887 and succeeded to the title at. the age of six. was unmarried and an invalid. He was the premier peer of Ireland.