THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3121, 18 January 1911, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Ball Idea From Vienna. Vienna is recognised as the home of the waltz, it is. at the same time, a city where society people know how to enjoy themselves in an original way. Ladies and gentlemen of the first- families in the land combine with artists and musicians to make merry durim- the winter months. An ulterior motive lies behind all their joyous dancing ami arranging of tableaux. The functions are organised for the purpose of circulating money, and for gathering donations for charitable purposes. This winter a couple of delightful balls are on the tapis. First will he the "Made in Austria,” or Home Industries ball, with the Archduchess Maria Joseplia, patron of the association, as patron of the hall. Every lady will he dressed in the products of the country. A coiffure and fan ball is to bo the'sccoml great event of this merry, season. The president of the committee for arranging this function is Princess Esp-erance zu Sol ms-lira 11 n fels. A number of ladies and -gentlemen have undertaken to arrange a little ‘‘Fan IT-'-” and a ‘‘History of the Coiffure” to be done by a scries of tableaux. It is not difficult to imagine that a charming seen' 1 will result when, in a beau-WJ-llv decorated hall, groups of ladies, with hair dressed in Italian. Dutch, or mediaeval modes copied from rare matures, and carrying old fans, parade in prettv gowns. Husbands.

Husbands are the natuial product of most civilised countries, says a wellknown English writer. Those owning no more than a morbid interest in a husband are called old maids. Although the best husbands in this country arc acknowledged by experts to be indigenous to the soil, those commanding the h.ghest market prices are the imported vaiietii-es, because of their expensive labels. The Crown brand bring the largest figure. 'The husband is a wary and elusive animal, fleeing for safety at the first noise- like a skirt to his lair in clubs, offices and other remote caves of his habitat; but he may lie cajoled forth by an. appearance of indifference on the part of the trapper, a.s his curiosity can always be aroused by a strange creature who could remain immune from his charms; alter which lie mav he easily caught anywhere in hr-oacl daylight (though a white nightlight or moon-calcium is preferable), in a trap composed of frou-frou, talcum, •golden locks, and flattery. College Woman Has Not "Made Cood.” Prof. Leslie Tompkins of the New York University, president of the National Conference of College Graduates, is responsible for the statement that the college woman “has not made good.” He had the courage, too, to make the statement in a lecture before the National League for. the Civic Education of Women. He said:—“The college woman has not made good. There are, I think, about, 12,000 or 15,000 college women in the United States. Threefourths of. these arc so nice that they are married already and the remainder are freaks. The married woman does not take so much interest in outside -affairs, and freaks cannot accomplish anything anyway.” Discussing the question of woman suffrage, he said:—"Some women do not, realise how very powerful is their influence without- the ballot. Isn’t this indirect influence worth more to you women than the very uncertain power that would come, with the ballot that you arc ill-prepared for? “I mean ill-prepared in the sense that the vast majority of women have small comprehension of the functions of government. I’ll admit that about 40 per cent, of men who vote are not fitted to exercise t)ie franchise. I’ll ad r mit. also, that they have no special objection to the votes of women when women, as a bodv. are as well qualified to vote as are the 60 per cent, of the men. But the time has not yet co'me.”