WOMAN'S WORLD.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12021, 21 March 1903, Page 3 (Supplement)

WOMAN'S WORLD.

It should be the ambition of every woman lo live up to her best photograph. Miss Estelle Keed is Federal Superintendent of Indian Schools, and has probably the most important and the highest salaried office of any woman in the Government employ. The Shah of Persia is said to have told the late Duchess of Westminster that the fame of her beauty had reached Teheran. " Ah," said she to someone who stood by, "he takes me for Westminster Abbey!" A Chicago girl, Miss Elinor C. Clapp has won reputation as a designer of odd' jewellery. An apt student pf arts and crafts, she creates distinctive effects with medals and the semiprecious stones for material. Her work is so much admired that many have sought to imitate it, but with indifferent success. Miss Mabel Hay Barrows is a Greek scholar who not only writes the' Greek plays which are performed by the students in various women's colleges, but coaches the actors in ■the parts and is an all-round stage manager and scene suggester. Her work is praised by lifelong students of Greek life and movement. A certain Japanese railway company is going to staff all its refreshment -cars with girls, who have been chosen for appearance, education, health, conduct and a blameless past. They must wear their hair" in a certain style, must wear uniform, and are enjoined to behave with military discipline, to take no tips, and to refrain from chatting with i the passengers. Mrs Clara L. Kellogg, a New England woman, has become noted for unique designs in embroidery. She furnishes the display rooms in fine shops and many private homes with embroidered textiles and decorations. Her designs are adapted from tapestries, paintings] and quaint furnishings of the Old World, which she looks up during her extended trips abroad. Mrs Campbell Praed, ths well-known Australian authoress, who now lives at Kensington, England, hopes to publish two new books this season, entitled "My Australian Girlhood" and "Fugitive Ann." The sad note in the announcement of Mrs Praed's forthcoming books is that she is almost a. confirmed invalid. Spite of her illness, however, she remains bright and cheery. Mr Wiiliani Bradley, the lumber king, died at Milwaukee on Jan. 9, leaving a fortune estimated at £8,000,001). Mt Bradley had been ill for some time, and when the doctors pronounced his recovery impossible he immediately sent for Miss Mary Hannemeyer, his pretty private secretary, to whom he was recently engaged, and a death-bed marriage followed. His only heirs are his wife and adopted son. No will has been found. Miss Sybil Carter provided American Indian women with a new means of profit and entertainment. She taught them lace making and then found a market for the output among rich New York women. Interested in the Indian women for their own sake, Miss Carter's project was entirely philanthropic. But she devoted as much energy to it as though money-making was the objeot. And now she has secured other teachers to spread the good work.

A Mrs Theodore Brown claims the right to be called the busiest woman in New Jersey. She owns and manages Brown's Inn, an old and famous resort of rich New Yorkers. She owns and directs the working details of two big farms. She manages a large feed and flour store, an extensive coal and lumber yard, and one of the biggest general stores in this part of New Jersey. She is likewise postmistress at Newfoundland, and personally supervises the business of the office. Miss Clarke, daughter, of the Victorian State Governor, Sir George Sydenham Clarke, intends to leave for Europe early this'year, to resume -her musical studies. Miss Clarke, who was formerly a pupil of Madame Marchesi, has a rich contralto voice, with which she has delighted many a visitor to " Stouingion. Mis! Hilda Mulligan, a rising young Sydney soprano, has been strongly advised by Madanin Melba to take a course of European training, and will go to Paris shortly, bearing a letter of introduction from Melba to Madame Maiohesi. Miss Mulligan has done a good deal of concert and some operatic singing in Sydney since she made her first .public appearance, twelve months ago. The Queen takes great interest in pet bantams, of which she has n great variety; some of these, the white-tail Japanese bantams, require their tails specially combed before they are sent to be exhibited. The King owns 1 sixty racing pigeon 3, and the Prince of Wales forty. The two Derby winners, Diamond Jubilee and Persimmon, are expected to earn £200,000 before they die. In the kennels there are from sixty to seventy dogs of widely different breeds, but there never seems to be one of a surly'or dangerous disposition. At the back of the kennels are neat little tombstones to the rtemory of departed dogs. Of dogs not kept in the house the King prides himself most on the smooth-haired bassets and the liver-and-white spaniels. The notion that Lord Kitchener, of Kliartouni, and also of Pretoria, is a woman-hater, has been pretty well disposed of by the doings of the hero himself since he returned from South Africa-, but there can be no doubt of his opinion of the " womanish " man. On his return from Egypt a young social fop asked the General for his autograph, which he intended to have worked in silk on a flimsy lace handkerchief he took out of his pocket. Kitchener took up the scented handerchief with the remark: "Your sister's, I presume?" "No, sir; my own. A very pretty pattern, isn't it?" replied the young lord. "Very," answered Kitchener; "what is vour taste" in hairpins?"