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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 290, 20 November 1884, Page 3

The Thomas Russell arrived at Auckland at 9.30 this morning. The Waihora sailed for Gisborne at 12.30, with the English mail. Book keeping may be taught in a lesson of of three words—never lend them. A woman may always judge of the estimation in which she is held by the conversation that is addressed to her. Romping Girls.—Most women have a dread of them; mothers would rather have their children called anything else than little romps, yet children, girls as well as boys, need movement and exercise, and must have it, to be kept in a healthy condition. They need to expand their chests, strengthen their muscles, tone their nerves, and develop themselves gradually. Romping is the natural assertion of this necessity. They need to b? out in the sunshine, out in the wind, out on the grass, in the woods, somewhere, if it only ba in the common, or the park. Suppose they do tan their little faces—better be brown as a berry and have the pulse quick and strong, than white as a lily, complaining of cold feet or headache. Supposejthey wear out their clothes; better to have them to mend than to watch day and night by a£little„ sick child; better buy shoes than pay doctors bills.