WOMAN'S WORLD.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXIX, Issue 12111, 4 July 1903, Page 3 (Supplement)

WOMAN'S WORLD.

At Norwegian State balls the ladies who intend to dance wear white dresses; those who do not are expected to appear in black.

"No eong., no. supper," says the "Daily Graphic," figures on the invitation cards of a new kind of party. Everyone must,wear a badge which' illustrates the name of a song, and prizes are given to those who guess the /greatest number of the living riddles.

Baron Kenaut de Baccarat and Mdme Marie Duchon-Fauvel were married on March 28 at the- Church of Saiht-Metard, Paris, each for | the fourth time. Baron Kenaut de Baccarat is seventy years of age.\ His bride has just celebrated her fifty-eighth- birthday. During the Franco-German, war (1870) she directed the . ambulance service organised by ths French Press, and distinguished! herself on several occasions during the campaign.

The alleged marrying, under a brilliant and improbable foreign title, of a. footman with a conspicuous lady in England has a, curiously precise parallel in the true history of Angelica Kauffman, who was captured by the servant of the Count de Horn wearing his master's name, title and clothes. Bather happily than unhappily for the poor little Academician, the man in her case had a previous wife, and she was set free. Nor did she consent to drive the bigamist to Tyburn, which was the goal of offenders of his kind in the eighteenth century.

According to " Truth," a curious method of dealing summarily with female kleptomaniacs of gentle birth prevails in certain West End shops.' Every lady detected in the act is given the option of 'being prosecuted in a conrt of law or birched by th 6 manageress, a person specially selected for her biceps. The birch is a. formidable one. In one shop alone, it is said, twenty ladies have accepted l the ordeal of the birch, in , addition to two young girls of foreign nationality, who, in consideration of their tender years, were treated to a milder form of chastisement.

A London society paper declares that babies are becoming fashionable once more, and that the infant son and heir is now usurping the place in the carriage lately occupied by the pug. In Sydney the two pets seem to reign together. Some excitement waß felt in a Mosman Bay steamer when a well-dressed mother, after fondling dog and boy alternately, ended by pushing their two faces together, saying to the child, "Kiss your little brother 1" It was maybe the same little boy who, hearing his mother call, " Darling, are you there?" responded with unintentional sarcssm, " No, it's not the pug, mamma;'it's only me!"

. The New York correspondent of the " Daily Express " reports that when recently one of a band of six daring robbers who terrorised Western Nebraska was captured, it was discovered that the bronzed hard-visaged outlaw was a woman. When taken she wore the dress of "a cowboy. Her hair was cropped short, and she had a broad-rimmed sombrero pulled well down over her eyes. A knotted handkerchief was round her throat, and she wore the leather breeches and jack-boots of the Western plains. She chews tobacco and drinks freely. She confessed that four members of the band to which ehe belongs are also women.

In yearß gone by her Majesty rode a great deal, and often appeared at meets of the Norfolk pack, attended by her two sons. But until her appearance the other day she had not attended a meet for years. Sometimes she would occasionally follow the hounds for a short distance, but never hunted in the usual acceptance of the word. Owing to a stiff knee, she always sat on the wrong aide. Since those days Queen Alexandra has taken to driving, and at one time was frequently to be seen driving her pony-cart about the Norfolk lanes. Now she patronises an electric Victoria, but generally leaves the management of it to the chauffeur, though she is herself a skilful driver.

The King tnd Queen now receive, nut standing—as was the case last year—but seated, and their Majesties alone are now saluted, which, from the nervous debutante's point of view, is a, great improvement. Ali other Royalties stand much more in the background than was tho case in the Victorian days. The Courts aro held in the beautiful ballroom »\ Buckingham Palace, and ,whcn the function is at an end the Royalties go in procession to the Royal supper-room, the general company being, served in the State dining-room, the Gaiter Room, and the Green Drawing-room. For the first Court of the season supper for between nine hundred and a thousand was prepared.

A high compliment was paid to Sister Bartley at the last meeting of tho Melbourne Hospital committee, when it waß unanimously resolved to make her a. life governor of that institution in recognition of her long and faithful services. "This is a precedent," said the chairman of tiro staff committee, " which it is a pleasure to establish. During her fifteen years' service to the hospital Miss Bartley's name has never been mentioned but in terms of the highest praisei, and it will be as gratifying to us to offer her the position as it will bo to the matron, her sister workers and the numerous patients, who have benefited by her kind and skilled nursing to know that her worth is recognised."