COLUMN FOR WOMEN

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 151, 1 March 1915, Page 3

COLUMN FOR WOMEN

CHATTY PARAGRAPHS. There arte eight rules absolutely necessary to be followed for those of small means who want to dress a~ul look well. The first is to avoid extremes of fashion; secondly, to avoid any style that is especially striking and unusual; thirdly, to avoid buying any prow&unced article ci' apparel; fourthly, to select colours and stylos that will harmonise; fifthly, to keep clothes scrupulously neat, clean, and whole; sixthly, to buy a few things every season if possible; seventhly, to choose tasteful, strong', and durable garments, that are expected tc wear long; and eighthly, to avoid extras. The object of the sixth rule is not tc let the stock of clothes run too low, so that one is not tc bh obliged to spend too much money in any onr year. As to rule seven, cheap and shoddy clothes never Jock nor hang well, evten when new, whereas a gown of gocd stuff, well made, makes a gocd appearance perhaps for several seasons.

English people often hava the idea that feminine France is all frills, feathers, and furbelows. Nothing could be further from the reality. The Frenchwomen certainly has the clothes sense, but that merely means that she is able to dress well on a third

cf a dowdy Englishwoman's allowance, and that she is scrupulously careful abcut de.ta.il>.. Sb'a lias also a sense of values, and that of the value cf money is strongly developed. Under a becoming coiffure she hides a very shibwd, practical brain. A Frenchman rarely embarks on a speculation without

consulting his wife, or his mothr, and iCrankjly flilrncw.led %cfi feminine faculty for finance.

Kate Douglas Wiggin's choicest possession, she says, is a letter which she ones received from the superintendent of a home for the feeble-minded. He spoke in plowing terms of the pleasure with which the "inma'iss" had read her little book, "Mann Lisa," and ehdarl thus superbly: "In fact, mndame, T think T may safely say that you are the favourite anther cf the feebleminded!"

George Arie, the American author, was entertaining a Lond.cn.litterateur •\t his club. "And is it true," the Englishman asked, "that the miners and cowboys of the west are as sentimental as the Bret Harte bocks make them appear?" Oh, quite trvte, quite true," said Mr Ade, with his solemn, matter-of-fact air. "Why, one Christmas Eve in Tin Can I saw seme of the hardest nuts of the Mad Dag saloon hangup a poor man's stockings; only they forgot to take this man out of them."