WOMEN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 280, 18 April 1913, Page 6

WOMEN'S WORLD

MRS. CORNWALL I S WEST.

A MATRIMONIAL SUIT.

London, Marcli 5.

Mrs. George Cornwallis West, the brilliant woman who is perhaps better known as Lady Randolph Churchill, and the mother of the First Lord of the Admiralty, has taken the first step towards a separation from her "husband, the young officer of the Guards who is about the same age as her son. Mr. Cornwallis West is one of a well-known society family, brother of the Duch.ess of Westminster and Frincess Henry ol Pless.

They were married at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, in 1000. According to the statement by Lord Tiverton (Mr*. West's counsel) Mr. West deserted h : .3 ,wife on 23rd December. On 20th January last the petition was filed, and on 30th January an appearance was entered by the respondent. The President (Sir Samuel F.wns): What was the nature of the desertion? — The respondent left the house in Norfolk Street. Lord Tiverton, continuing, stated that certain correspondence took place, but the respondent had refused his wife's request to come back. The petitioner, speaking with 9 bad cold, stated that she married the respondent on 28th July, 1900, and after: wards lived with liim at various places and latterly at Norfolk Street. Her husband left t'hejr house on 23rd December last, nnd : on 29tli : December she received a letter from liim which, counsel said, was exhibited to the affidavit before his lordship. The President: Yes, I see.

In that letter the respondent refused to return. "I replied on 31st December," continued the petitioner, "and he further replied 011 3rd January." Counsel: Has he come back to you since?— No. The President: Is he in this country? Mr. J. H. Murphy: I appear for the respondent, who has been duly served. The' President: There will be a decree for the restitution of conjugal rights, ■with costs, to be obeyed within fourteen days.

Mrs. Cornwallis West is a very wellknown figure in English society. The daughter of Leonard Jerome, of America, she was educated in Paris, where Lori) Randolph Churchill, meeting her at a luncheon, exclaimed, "That is £he brightest woman I have ever met," He soon proposed to her. and the brilliant couple took London by storm. Their house was a sort of salon, where the leading intellects of London foregathered. Mrs. West is a poet and authoress (she published her memoirs ia 1908), and a capable organiser. She had of the hospital shin Maine it South Africa,- and she was the organiser of the rpcent Shakespeare Exhibition at Earls Court. FEMINISE FASHIONS. Fashion probabilities for the coming reason seem to indicate tighter hobble skirts, but looser and yet more clinging gowns in other respects,. A riot of colour will be one >of the mo'st v 'popular;pianlianbus and clihgihg'the two ad-' iectives that can most aptly be used to describe the latest creations of the modiste. and never before have women's clothes been made" of such transparent stuffs. New blouses of rielTwill surjfafls what has been known asi the "peek-a-boo,". and, in spite of the censure of; the leading ladies at Washington; many- will imdonbtedly go to extreme?-. The papt winter has indeed been notable, enotighi' in- society in this and Americans who went to Bermuda have shocked the proprieties of the natives there by their, appearance at the hotel balls in such gowns as to bring for,th severe editorials in tlie Bermuda newspapers. How Jong it will kst or what. b6 tSe climax, remains to he .seeni but there is * grain of comfort in the statement that the hats to go with the slinky, almost snaky, street robes will, be very-small' and close fitting. The only trimming .of elabqrate style is in the hats with ostrich plumes, and some of these feathers are shown in wonderful richness and colouring at prices as high'_as £2O, -Another-comfort is the growing regard for other people's comfort and safety by the use of less dangerous hatpins than have often been in use. A State law will go into effect in Massachusetts on April 7 that women who do not cover the points of their hatpins with some device that will protect the public from injury will' be liable to a fine of not more than £2O.

A NEW WAIST.

RETURN TO CURVES,

T'ir new feminin* modes and the Vipnvily-drapeil skirts shown it* Autewil! necessitate a radical change.

A fashion expert savs tlmt the days of the corset with \ straight line have gone.. This ye*r it will present a graceful curve. The waist, high ' in front, will slopp down at the back below its present position. To jensure the supple lines now fashionable corsets will be made largely of soft elastic tissue, and whalebone will be very little used.

TRUE LOVE.

WAITRESS AND DANISH LORD.

COURTSHIP IN A CAFE.

New York, April 5. The marriage of a young nobleman with a waitress in a Masaa-, chusetts restaurant is the big romance' of'the : week which has .all American so-, cietv. talking. The "bride is' Lena Roy, a French-Can adian of Saskatchewan, and the bridegroom Hunt von Holstein Rathsbon, eld est son and heir of Lord Frederick Kmile von Holstein Rathbon, a noble of the Court of Denmark.

Lena was working as a waitress in a hotel at Wilthurn, Pall River, Massaehusette, and it was there that the young Dane met her. He came into the dining-room for food, but before lie had .finished his dinner he was asking for thp lo.ve of the beautiful Canadian. The girl refused to take him seriously, ■hut he came hack day after day, asking her to marry him. ' Still she' refused, not beqause sjbe .failed to .return his love, but because she thought his parents would not allow the match. Munt then went off to Denmark and persuaded his father to use his influence at Court tn obtain a decree enobImsr the girl. The father at last succeeded. the decree was obtained, and the young man came back to America nam to claim his willing bride. Tho marriage ceremony took plate quietly this week.