Social Moods.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 388, 15 October 1903, Page 2

Social Moods.

I I "-',, WOMEN MEN DISLIKE. SJSfHE woman who txcavu herself §jg% when telling an unpleasant thing fj?%3 by stating it is her duty. The woman who can talk of nothing but men and dress, The woman who intimates that b.6r baby is much superior to any other. Tne woman who Bponds the best part of her life in following the latest fashions. • The woman who likes dogs better than children. The woman in the train or omnibus who boaßts about her private affiirs so that everybody can hear. The woman who flatters herself that she is standing up for her rights when sae is really only showing her bad manners* AN IDEAL* SISTER. What constitutes an ideal sister ? Well, I should say she is a sister whose sympathy is ever, ready. She shares her brother's interests, and eaters into his joys and sorrows. " Si She does not eay: «Oh, I can't be bothered!' when he wants to ask hor help, or declares that all brothsra ara torments when he tries to tell her something that concerns himself. She lets him feel Bhe is his friend; she stands by him in his troubles, and gives him a hand to help him out. She does not snub him and laugh at him if he is younge? than herself, and she does not bccS. at his brotherly advica andadmonitions if he happens to be older. An ideal sister knows that a man's sister generally forms his standard of womanhood. If she is womanly, and sweet, and gen tip, full of high impulses and efforts towards good; then he will expect other girls to be the same, aud look for just that sort of tfaiag in his wife. If she is silly ard frivelous, why, then, ho will suppose all w jmankind incapable of being anything better, and will be

satisfied with a wife f who has no tetter ;2oalites*tban theie. . |§|< . f MlklNGf HATIDXi v Watch the temperature of baby's room. Alwajß 'have a thermometer in every room where you carry the baby. Normal temperature, as we all know, is 68 or'7o. degrees, bat experience has proved that all babiec cansot at once be brought down to this degree, particularly a winter baby. | It is well to begin with 72 degreee, cr even 71 degrees, and slowly drop to 70 degrees, and later G8 degrees. A healthy baby is always "a fat baby. Bibies do not take after father or mother or grandfather or grandmother in being thin. Children may, and certainly do, follow in the footßtepß of their forefathers. But all healthy babies are fat babies. Therefore they all feel the heat.. Do not weaken them by keeping them in a constant perspiration. This of itself will give them a coli. When bathing baby, from the very day of his birth, aouse cold water on his chest and head after his bath. This will strengthen his chest, close the pores and prevent colds. These remarks presuppose the healthy, properly fed baby. The baby that is not well fed can never be toughened. He will not be a ball of fat that you can roll about with more or less unconcern, but a sickly, puny little thing that must be watched at every turn. But the well fed —that is to Bay the properly fed—baby will be fat and healthy, other thints being fq.mal, and can, therefore, be easily hardened. Toughen, then, the exterior of baby all you cm. Tend him with the greatest care. Have him always exquisite in his rosy loveliness, but see to it that loveliness is firm, hard flesh that can endure all sudden climatic changes. But the interior—never, never try to harden that Guard his stomach against any change. Do not experiment with foods and sweetmeats and this and-that change of diet.

BBEATHING CUBE ? An enterprising woman, with an eye to novelty as well as business, has inaugurated a new fad which is fast developing into a fashionable ladies' craze. It is a new form of physical culture. Last year it was ping-pong which took all the spare time for ladies. This winter the ' breathing cure' seems so be destined to monopolise their attention. The inventor says we breathe all wrong, we sit all wrong, we stand all wrong, and that the most simple actions of our daily life are utterly misguided. Hiving dispensed with your Btays, you attire ycurself in black satin knickerbockers and a loose skirt, and, either alone or in company with several other ladles of varying ages and degrees of physical degeneration, you place your bands on your hips, throwing ycur shoulders well back, and you draw a deep breath, which expands your lungs and imparts strength to the muscles of your body. Of course the exercise you perform depends QU the muscles or trgans you wish to develop. There are no weight liftings, no dumbbells, no gymnastic fittings. All that is necessary is a floor to lie on, and the full complement of arms and legs to mova and kick. You feel and look supremely ridicuieus, but those who have been cured of tutward physical disfigurement and internal weakness testify to the effect of the treatment.