NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 141, 13 June 1912, Page 8

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

(From Our London Lady Correspondent). ' CARNEGIE -USD FOR HEROINES. A little Liverpool girl named Jessie Chalk, aged twelve, was presented with a watch by the Carnegie Hero Trust Fund this week fox saving two children from being run over by a runaway horse. Mrs Annie Davidson, of Hurworth, Darlin<*ton, was awarded at the same time £5 and 15/ weekly for eight weeks for bravely rescuing a little child from drowning.

A DUKES TRIBUTE TO LADY GUARDIANS. On being re-elected chairman of the Bakewell Guardians last week, the Duke of Devonshire paid a tribute to the excellent work done .by lady guardians and heartily welcomed Mrs Sharpe, of Dade. Dale, the first lady member oi 'board. Miss S. M. Smee, of Bedford Park, who was the first lady member of Acton District Council has been elected chairman of its Public Health and Isolation Hospital Committee.

L _______vT FOR THE 'AMBASSADRESS, -toe. Bakhmetieff, wife of the Russian Ambassador to America, and. Mine. Vassilie_f, wife of the Russian Naval Attache, had an unpleasant experience the other day. They went from Washington to Baltimore to attend the Easter service in the orthodox Russian Church there, and afterwards dined in the public restaurant of the Hotel Belvedere. Of course all Russian ladies smoke, but when they lighted up and began to smoke with their coffee there was a sensation in the room, and the manager was fetched, who courteously explained to them that it was not the custom for ladies to smoke in the restaurant, and offered them a private room. The ladies accepted the situation gracefully, and after bowing coldly to the manager, left immediately, refusing the offer of a private, room. The manager of the Belvedere lias explained that no other cour_c iwas open to him as the ifeeling in America is so strongly .against women smoking in public.

(From Our Paris Lady Correspondent.) CHA.NGE IX CORSET _IN_S. , Corsets may undergo quite a change. For some time the tendency has been to leave to the figure its natural dimensions, giving more suppleness to tbe bearing. Women anxious to follow the •fashion seek more and more to find the lines of the antique statue. The breast is quite low, and there, is no objection to a certain thickness across the waist, ■provided tbe hips are absolutely flat. To obtain this '"silhouette," it is necessary to wear a very moderately-boned silk jersey corset. But certainly a strict diet and close attention to weight are the mediums through which the modern woman, wiser and more "coquette" than her sisters in the piast, can triumph over age and embonpoint.

THE INEVITABLE EX. ?E That completes every costume we wear nowadays, has gone through many transformations. We see her in every shade of the rainhow, in every sort of material, from velvet to tulle. Sometimes she sparkles with gold or gems, or modestly hides under a veiling of chiffon. Somej times she is large as a cabbage, at other times as small as a field daisy. Someone has been inspired to make her jin fine white lace, and I pictured her adding just the right touch to' a black velvet or ninon dress. Or, again, in black, gold, or silver lace, she might complete a dress of diaphanous materia.! on which a silk or velvet lose would be too heavy.

A GOOD IDEA If you should possess a fine bead chain, one of the flat woven ones, about half-an-inch wide, here is a new way of using it. Twist it Tound your bead, once rather close to the forehead, and behind the ears, then cross it, and bring it over the crown of the bead, and if it should finish with tassels let the tassels dangle on your neck, or wherever they are most becoming to your beauty. Broad dog-collars are often laid on a black foundation. A collar I saw recently was composed of a narrow diamond circle, placed very high on the neck, from which hung uneven festoons of pearls. A pretty novelty is a narrow velvet ribbon, the edge outlined with diamonds, and pretty designs set in the centre.