CONCERNING WOMEN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 77, 24 December 1907, Page 3

CONCERNING WOMEN.

Precisely as in tho case of an "at home" day, what is known; as the ."rest'.day", of the .week of some French women of fashion is. intimated to all their friends.. .'On.-...that day, the lady enjoys complete■ .repose," sleeping as much as possible, and taking a diet of , fruit and vegetables only.. This, is said to bo. the. finest "beauty recipe".and ; nerve tonic that is known. ' The richest woman in Great Britain is Miss Emily Charlotte Talbot, who,owns.two magnificent estates which sho inhcrited-'from her father, ' worth about £1,500,000. An-other-rich woman is Miss Alice db. Rothschild, who is very charitable and has a great hobby for gardening. ■■..■.■.;,,: i , . The custom 1101150 inspectors in New York say that tho only woman who gii'c3 them any trouble is the domurc school teacher, who will insist on bringing goods-over from /Europe, and knows just enough: about tho law to make her knowledge -a dangerous thing. Tho rich woman can bo made, easily to see tho folly of smuggling, ..and tlio nrofossional is easily caught as a general thing, but. the simple-looking, wide-eyed teacher is a constant terror. For over forty years Miss Charlotte Knollys has been the most intimate friend and confidante of bor royal mistress, r, The Queen, liko most of her sox, is .a■■firm believer in" the correctness of her first impress sions. The moment she met Miss Knollys, when she lauded in England as Princess Aloxanclra of Denmark, sho was attracted by her, and from that day tho lady-in-waiting has never slept under, a different roof from that of her royal mistress. Like so many other members, of European I roval familios, the younc Princess Victoria

Margaret of Prussia, who in April celobratetl her 17th birthday, is a really accomplished artist. She paints miniatures on , ivory, and her work has been very highly praised by some of • the greatest portrait painters in Gonnany. Recently, in aid of a Berlin charity bazaar, this gifted young princess oxhibi'tcd a number of her miniatures, including portraits of her parents, her three brothers, tho Kaiser, tho Kaiserin, and of her aunt, tho Duchess of Connaught, who boforo hor marriago was, of courso, Princess Margaret of Prussia.