THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2535, 23 June 1909, Page 7

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

FORECASTS FOR SPRING

This is how “The Queen” says washing' gowns are likely to be made: The skirts are narrow, the waists slightly lower, but do not quite reach the normal waist. The blouse dress, viz.', the gown in one piece, is so convenient for wearing .and washing that it is sure to have the majority of patrons. These mostly have a seam down the front, and v are of circular shape. They are often If, J cut rather low at the throat, and some Df • people, liking a touch of color, wear <4. a soft blouse of silk or muslin to fill the interstices. There is an attempt to introduce borders in many of the new stuffs, and these form admirable / trimmings, in harmony with the revived fashions of long ago, which now predominate ; they border tunics .wed. When, as is likely to happen a good deal this year, they form a part of the dress, this border is often carried down the entire lengtn of the arm. Foulards and kindred stuffs in soft silk are to have a great vogue, and many of these soft silks wash 'as well as cotten and linen. ’ FASHIONS FOR THE STOUT. Is thero an Englishwoman who will own to obesity? At all events, there are some whose friends credit them therewith, and though for the nonce fashion does . not lend much kindly help to her. blessed with a good deal of flesh, still comely grace has not lost its charm altogether. She . certainly looks younger than her sisters of the same -age, who are of Pharoah s lean kind. Of course, the comely matron must not adopt tight-fitting raiment, nor look with favorable eyes on the princess cut, and 1 it is folly, with a view to compressing the too solid flesh, to wear tight dresses, for flesh will assert itself somewhere. On the contrary, her gowns should be loose. This does away with the hard lines, adopting as long ones as possible. No very distinctive large or florid pattern which attracts the eye should bo. chosen m the fabrics; uo stuff that chines is suited to plump figures, and nothing too light. Y-shaped openings to tho bodice are best, and the sleeves should not hold the arms os in a vice. ( . NEWS NOTES. \ The working man’s wife in Sweden ¥ *?’ } )as an advantage over her sisters in N most other countries. It is the law there that on Saturday, which is payday, the publichouses are closed, while the savings banks are kept open till midnight. This is a double boon; it encourages trade, and makes for home comfort in a marked degree. The Board of Trinity College, Dublin, has appointed Miss Constantine Maxwell to be assistant to the Professor of Modern History in the University of Dublin. Miss Maxwell, who had a brilliant career in Trinity College outdistancing all competitors, is the first woman who has been a member of the teaching staff of the Dublin University since its foundation. „ ■ ~ Soma forty#- strife nts of Mu 1 wall Central Higher Elementary School, who were paying a visit of an ediicationaJ character to Breconshire with their headmaster-, were entertained recently at Crag-y-Nos Castle by the Baroness Ocderstrom (Madame Patti). lhe baroness sang “Home Sweet Home, nresented each student with a rose, and kissed all the girls before they left for Brecon. , . . Father Damien’s sacrifice has just been repeated by a woman, Mrs W. it. Brunkorhoff, who, like him has given her life for the lepers or Molokai. She was a wealthy heiress who renounced aT the pomp and pleasure that tlie world- could offer to accompany her husband to the Sandwich Islands and share his life-work among the outcast iC M’Vien the late Marquis of Bute died, he left a written communication to his wife expressing the wish that his heart should be buried at the Mount of Olives and this wish she thought it a sacred duty to fulfil. Accordingly, the heart -was removed and.embalmed, the Marquis’s body was buned in Scotland and; carrying his heai-t m a casket r 7 Lady Bute journeyed to the Holy Land V to lay it away in the sacred ground. . The Australian Plumage League is steadily forging ahead, and there are now the names of over five hundred women on the membership roll. Uie Countess of Dudley has expressed hei empathy with the movement. Mr itothery, the organiser of the League, lias received a letter stating that the suhieci of the protection of Australian buds is one on which Lady Dudley feels veiy sympathetic, and she agrees with him in thinking that much more can dm done in this direction by influencing -public opinion where women are concerned, than.-by legislation. Madame Marie Home, who is rapidly coming to the front as a composer, Avas horn at Nice, her father, 1. Charles Des Angus; being a composer of ore at promise, who unfortunately died" at the early age of thirty-two .when budding into fame. Madame Horne ay as educated m France, and subsequently spent many years travelling in America and on the Contmen , where she sang a great deal ao an all}ateur but unfortunately lost her voice through a serious accident being nearly burnt to death. The talented musician received her musical training entirely under foreign masters, aiiu studied composition Avith a :i-pi of Greig. Although Madame Horne only took"up composition .seriously jour or five years ago. she has already given to the world some charming music, notably a most successful concert cyoo, “Songs of the Wind,”. “The Anvil, “Flowerland,” and quite recently a sacred song, “Salva.” She was also responsible for many of the attractive songs in “The Belle of Brittany,’ and has composed some beautiful numbers for “A Persian Princess.” Lady Ernestine Hunt, the head of the corps of Lady Yeomen, who m thensmart uniform have recently made so o-reat a sensation, has had an adventurous career. She owns a ranch in America, and can boast of the fact that fihe is the only Avoman that has ever brought live stock across the ocean by herself. She has a wonderful influence h over the wildest horses, so much so that ehe astonished the cattlemen yon her ranch, who declare that she is ablo.t-o accomplish by mere gentle suasion what ranchmen can only attaini by the havd : est' rough riding. Lady Ernestine is a practical hospital nurse, having been trained at a Liverpool hospital, . and she had the almost unique experience f or :l woman of taking part in tho Jameson raid- in "connection with its ambulance department. She .is-an - thusiastic yachtswoman, and « qiialifted to receive a master;.s certificate, foi the studied at a nautical school m j ; • pool, where, under romantic encum stances, she.met her husband, win > af ter his marriage was appointed skipper ofUSdhng vessel: being accompanied on his first voyage liy his \ulo. .