WOMAN'S WORLD.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12027, 28 March 1903, Page 3 (Supplement)

WOMAN'S WORLD.

A woman is the chief orohardist in the whole territory of North.Dakota. She grows nothing hut apples, aid -whem she started operations her neighbours prophesied failure. She persevered, and now her apples have a reputation of their own.

The only -woman in America who makes maps for historical ; books, and also waill charts for schools audi offices, is a, Mirs Eugenia Wheeler GoS. She is -a native of Minneapolis, and is am onlthusiast at her work, Sparing neither time nor effort when employed in it.

It is said thai) the Queen will not handle money that, has not 'been scru'bbed in a lather of spirits of wine, soap and! water. It is even declared thai, Queen. Alexandra will not finger •change received when making a purchase, but leaves the lady-in-waiting to pick up tihe coins, which do Tcdt enter the Royal purse until they have 'been cleaned and brightened. The Empress of Russia was once presented •witlb, a shawl of a remarkable kind. It is contained in 'a 'box only a few inches square, in' which, it fits easily, yet -where it is Shaken out it is ten yards square. This notable gift was the work of some women weavers in Orenherg, Southern Russia, 'by whom it was presented. The hex containing it is of wood, with hinges, hoops and fastenings of beaten silver. Cactus-growing does not sound- as if it would lead to a competence, but a Michigan woman, has proved otherwise, and does a very profitable trade in it. She now owns one of the finest collections of cacti in the United States. By judicious grafting, -she has produced novel varieties which sell to American and foreign growers. She employs collectors in regions where itlhe cactus grows wild to secure Tare specimens for propagation. The Egyptians were amongst the first to adopt the wearing of necklaces, and, curiously enough, the ancient dwellers !by the Nile wore necklaces of the seedaof leguminous plants, 'berries and shells in the same form as worn today by ttfrxe Batagonians and the natives of the Pacific Islands. Gradually a. change came over the first primitive form of 'the necklace; art began to be employed in its composition, and it was used 'sometimes as a sacred amulet as well as for ornament. \

A Jewess from Frankfortron-the-Oder, living ini Berlin;, (having read the story of Mdme Bernhardt's ibiith as xeJait-ed in. tine " Staats'berger Zeitung," believed' that she was related to the great actress, and -wrote to the latter claiming relationship. She received the following telegram from Hamburg: " Madame, —You' have Ibeen deceived 'by >& scandalmongering .paj>er. I -was born in Paris, in the Rue St Honore. My mother, Julie Bernhardt, was Dutch, and my father 'a Frenchman. Tou ere a child of a. great country, Germany; lam the child of a great country, France."

Things are done quickly in- America. Mr Peter Martin', a rich New York ■business man, thought 'he would get married the other day. He wrote to the proprietor of a boot factory: *'l Slave supplied you for some ten years; now I will give you an order. Just look me out a pretty brunette from your staff whom I can marry. "Will call to-morrow. There was great excitement' in the factory when .the letter was read. True to his word, Mr Martin did call, spent five minutes in looking over the dark-haired factory girls, selected one, took 'her out in his cab, «nd maTried her a quarter of an hour later.

Writing in the " Graphic," Lady Violet Greville rems-rks that in u (return to greater simplicity of life alone will 'be found the solution of the servant question. Formerly, ladies of small means assisted their maids in their household duties, dusted the china in the drawing-room, and arranged the flowers and other little knick-knacks. Now, this has become 'the parlourmaid's business, and a whole morning might easily be spent <by her in dusting and cleaning the frippery of the drawing-room. All this meams labour, and it is no wonder that haid-worked domestics .lib at it. "Women seem to gTOw daily more helpless and more luxurious in their homes.

It is said that.■tie German Crown Prince, •who -will' he twenty-one oa May 6. is about to 'be engaged to Princess Alice of Albany, who will foe 'twenty next February. It is well known' that the Emperor and the Empress are very fond of the Duchess of Albany and hoth her children, and i'jhat the Empress has taken ai great deal of notice of Princess Alice during her several years' stay at the Villa Ingerheim, close to the new Palace of Potsdam. The fact that ihe Crown Prince danced exceptionally often with Princess Alice at the recent court 'bail given by their Majesties for the young Princes and Princesses has evidently revived the rumour, which, 'however, has been more or less emphatically circulated for,*, considerable time past.