Mow Soldiers’ Wives Live.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, 27 November 1914, Page 3

Mow Soldiers’ Wives Live.

Every lady’s Journal,” the magazine par excellence for tin women of Australia and New Zealand, is catering' magnificently for its readers in these times of war. The Novembei issue, just to hand, is the third of its Special War Numbers, and establishes its claim to he called the best to date. The special war material in “ Everylady’s Journal” begins with a little cluster of interviews with returned Australian girls and articles from London correspondents, which convey a wonderfully vivid impression of the state of excitement into which England was thrown by the outbreak of war. Then a woman writer with a clear grasp of affairs describes the fighting of the past month, and shows what the Allies have gained, Another tells of life in Berlin during peace timer, and quotes n wonderfully stirring poem caller “ The Kaiser Comes.” Of great local interest are the views of a number of notable people on how the wives o: soldiers can maintain their in comes while their husbands ar€ away at the war. The Lnd\ Mayoress advocates silk-culture the Chief Secretary suggest) fishing, and soon. Lady Helen Muuro-Ferguson head of the Red Cross Soeictv explains, in an interview, wha goods are still required ; and W A. Somerset supplies a rlescrfpt i v> sketch of the Australian troop marching through the streetillustrated with a couple of re markable photographs, one o which is perhaps the best march ing picture that has appeared. Military affairs, however, d< not monopolise the space ii November ‘EvervladyV fournal. for the usual fashion and domestl departments are very strongl: maintained, the dominant not being practical economy. Fre patterns, are, as usual, available and. in addition, there is a vor useful department of advice t readers about buying Christina goods that are not made in Gei many, but in Australia. It i worth noting that, whilst th price of all English and foreig magazines has been raised, the of “ Everylady’s Journal ” re mains at sixpence, ard t e siz of the magazine is not c-urtaile hv a single page.