WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 176, 4 November 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") MESSAGE TO SOCIETY WOMEN. I Mrs George Cornwallis West (formerly Lady Randolph Churchill) has written a play which contains what she intends shall lie a message to women of society in the United States, and particularly in New York, and she has sent by cable from London a request that Charles I'rohman become its producer. An exchange states that if it is produced she expects to go on tour with it and lecture on the subject which it illustrates. Her first play, '"His Borrowed Plumes," was produced by Mr. Frohman in the Hicks Theatre, in London. Mrs. West, who was Miss Jennie Jerome, of New York, and is the mother of Winston Churchill, the English politician an! novelist, has taken up a domestic problem. The story of the play is that of a husband and; wife in New York who go out into the world to help humanity and n "fleet their own fireside. As a result, life for every one in the home is made miserable, and when they arrive tli re they spend their time in wrangling. Mrs. West believes it will be a warning to American women who devote their attention to interests outside of home. LOVE OF DISPLAY.

"A love of grand society" was attributed as the cause of the appearance recently in the Ryde Police Court (England) of a fashionably-dressed young woman named Madeline Lloyd, aged 26, who was charged with stealing jewellery and other articles belonging to local tradesmen. The young woman was arrested, after paying visits to several shops and asking to look at various articles with a view to purchasing them for presents. It was stated that the goods were found in a leather case which she had taken from another shop, and also jewellery of the value of £l6O, which she subsequently admitted belonged to well-known houses in London. The young woman had been staying at Cowes during the yacht week, associating with titled people' and others, and had obtained admission to the Royal Yacht Squadron grounds. Previous convictions were recorded against her, the first being nine years ago afc Greenwich, for stealing a purse of money. The solicitor who represented the accused asked that she might be dealt with summarily, saying that for the past two years she had acted as companion to a family who were prepared to testify to her honesty while in their service. He attributed her position to a mania to associate with high-class societ3', and making presents which she could not afford. AIDS TO IMMIGRATION. I

Pretty girls in American cafes, restaurants, florists, and other business establishments invariably marry well in this democratic country (writes the New York correspondent of a contemporary) and sometimes in such feverish haste that they leave without giving notice. A firm of florists in St. Louis, Missouri, complain that they have endured endless inconvenience because they could not keep a cashier, and so in despera- | tion recently they advertised for an '"ugly cashier." According to a despatch from St. Louis 250 answers were received. "Some of the applicants were positive frights, others were beautiful, and nearly all declared that they had overlooked the word "ugly" in the advertisement. A large proportion of the applicants were exceedingly fat, several weighed over lo stone, some were absolutely destitute of teeth, and the physiognomy of others is picturesquely described as having been trampled on by hob-nailed boots." Only 50 per cent, of the applicants were positively ugly, and it was from the betterlooking girls that the choice was finally made. "My idea in advertising for an ugly cashier," said the senior partner of the firm, "was to get one who did not have such great personal charms that she would be proposed to by the first unmarried customer who happened to spy her. How did I escape the possible ones'? That was easy. One must have weighed 17 stone. I asked her if she was sure she could qualify for the ugly class. She declared she had not noticed the word 'ugly' in the advertisement, and I assured her that she was entirely too goodlooking. That was why she went out with a smile on her face. Finding it worked in one case, I used it right along." Within the last year this "St. Louis firm had five pretty cashiers, all of whom left to marry. THE INFANT IN ARMS

The infant in arms presents many problems difficult of solution. One of these is that it cries in church and disturbs the devotions of others. The puzzle is what to do with it, and an answer was given by the Rev. Mac Donald, of Palmerston Xortli, at the Baptist Conference recently, says the Otago Daily Times. He said the disturbance of young children was often annoying, and in many cases mothers would not bring their children, so the church sometimes lost mother and child, and even a whole family. Certainly the crying of a baby in church was annoying, but surely they' could get over it. He at one time could not preac-h with the least disturbance going on, but seeing that closing the church to the child meant closing it to the mother, he made up his mind to preach on undisturbed, and he managed it without the least difficulty. In this matter they must change their point of view, and instead of grumbling rejoice that child life was coming into the temple. Let them, when it became possible, make some alterations in their stifl'-baeked pews, and let them make some provision in their stifl'-baeked churches for child life. SEDUCING INFANT MORTALITY.

Mr. Xathan Straus, the welt-known American philanthropist, has .probablyspent £200.000 in mincing infantile mortality by means of pasteurised milk. It. is about twenty years ago since he began to devote himself to the task of sav-

ing the lives of children. He was led to take up the work by the death of one of his own children while crossing from New York to England. He formed the opinion that impure milk was everywhere working «reat destruction among the young, and he determined to start pasteurisation plants in some of the principal American cities. At. the present time he has seventeen stations in New York. Every day, all the year round, about 10,000* bottles of milk for young children are disposed of; they are sold at much below cost price, while to those who cannot afford even a nominal sum they are given aw-iv. During the sum|mer about 25,00'j glasses of milk are sold daily in the parks at a halfpenny each. "Since I started mv work in New York," ' said Mr. Straus, in a recent interview, "the death-rate has come down in a most remarkable way. It has been the same everywhere—in Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago, and St. Louis. In every city where a plant has been installed good results have been almost immediately apparent." Mr. Straus has just presented a pasteurising plant to the Countess of Aberdeen for use in the city of Dublin. MATLEN LACE.

There is a golden chance for women who are luckv enough to possess any store of silk Matlen lace. It has been put out of fashion by the beautiful loop productions of late years. Now it is stated that in Pariseit is being sought out from any old shops, as it is the lace of the season. Its creamy silkiness is so soft and pn ,J v that it is small wonder that the fashion depots have gladly decided to bring it into vogue again. The new soft moire antiques that are the tip-top of fashion demand a silk lace for their garniture and the Matlen for pre-ferr-'-e.

long skirt and a short one is frequ nlly supplied with a moire jacket, as long skirts are a la mode for calling; or dress occasions. The long jackets of moire are quite untrimmed, except for handsome frogging in front and a jabot of silk lace and sleeve fiills of the same. Embroideries are on the wane. At the Royal Horticultural Rose Show in London, a New Zealand girl writ's of the wondrous beauty of these plain drese-i of such exquisite material. Afterwards, being enamored of them, she priced one at a good establishment and was asked £2O for coat and short skirt. Comparatively few girls' pocket money will run to such a price.