HOBBIES FOR WOMEN

Shannon News, 21 February 1928, Page 1

HOBBIES FOR WOMEN

"I have no hobbies/' I heard a woman say not long ago in a satisfied voice as if she were proclaiming to the world that she had no vices.

The pity of it is that so many women have no hobby, lor the possession of one w T ould prevent them from frittering away their time. ‘Hobbies are so expensive, ” said a friend, writes Lady Kitty Vincent. But there she is wrong. A hobby should either cost next to nothing, or else it should pay its own way and even nj,ake a little pocket-money for, its owner. Incidentally “owner” is the wi-ong term, for a really good hobby ■owns the person who started it. It is no use setting out to look for hobby as if you were going to buy a cow, because if you do the result will be disastrous. You may think that you are not interested in any particular subject, but I assure you that you a:e wrong. We all have a bias toward one thing or another, and if we sit down quietly and let Fancy have her way wo shall find ourselves not only paddling in the wavelets of enthusiasm, swimming about in a vast sea.

Do not bo deluded into thinking that because your best friend adores gardening it will be sure to amuse you. Quite possible you would be bored to tears: The most unlikely and weird subjects may prove to be of the most absorbing interest to you, while to someone else they convey nothing at all. I know one woman who had a passion for machinery. In her spare time she read about nothing else. Finally she took a course of instruction, and now is an authority on aeroplane engines. Once a woman has started a hobby she will find that she becomes interested in everything which has any bearing on the subject, and she jvill have a variety of new interests.