COLUMN FOR WOMEN

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 158, 9 March 1915, Page 2

COLUMN FOR WOMEN

EVERY GIRL'S AMBITION. 1 I A HOME OF HER OWN. Hidden deep down in every girl's heart is the ambition to have a happy home of her own, states a writer in an exchange. Perhaps this ambition is concealed under a very thick crust of apparent un fi oncern, or by the assertion that she is going to make a career for herself. She may even delude herself into thinking that marriage is very far from her thoughts and intentions. The very idea that marriage was the end and aim of all women has died a natural death long ago. Girls are no longer taught this creed, or that tfidir accomplishments pretty ways are but a prelude to the attraction of some man. Marriage is now looked at in this lifelit, and its commercial aspect has altered during the last thirty years. Still every girl loves to think that, some day, she will have a home and a little place that will be all her own.

The longing for home life is very strongly implanted in every girl's nature. You will see echoes of the thought in many careless words. "I shall have my sitting-room decorated," in such and such a way, she says, adding a vivid description of the room of her dreams. Another {girl will .give her view s on the subject, and it is wonderful what a variety cf ideas even quite a young girl will have on the creating of a home. I have been astonished) when (accidentally; overhearing young girls' conversations, at 'finding what an important affair the ordering of that imaginary home was. It is, however, difficult to get the girl who has outgrown twenty to chat on the subje e t. She may be just as enthusiastic at heart, but she has learned the art of silence; the ambition is there all the same, and probably now it surrounds seme ideal man who will share with her the ideal home. Every woman, in spite of what

people say, it at heart a home maker, and a home lover. The strenuous life may have caught her in its grip; the fashionable world of society may have taught her that emotion,' :except the particular emotion of the day, is out of place. Yet, all the same, ii is there, and this is why so many women, at the touch of love, turn from everything that makes for fashionable ease, and go forth to help some man to build the ideal home in the backwoods of Canada, among the sandy

plains of Central Australia, or on the wide yeldt in Africa. It is called love, and love makes it possible, but it is

really the home-making instinct that has called to the woman, and she has answered and followed the trend of her ambition. The lack of the home in the fashkmable life of the present is responsible for much of the restlessnss and "nerviness" of the women of the day. The ambitions of their happy girlhood have been crushed cut of sifeht, and in trying to forget they take up some craze, some fad of the moment, and grow wildly enthusiastic about it, fondly imagining that the v.ill-of-the-wisp that they chase will lead to happiness, and in doing this they miss the real thing. Our grandmothers were homemakers and home-lovers, but though we have inherited the instinct, and, in

spite of our ambitions, we have lost our grip upon the heme. Perhaps the teaching of the past few months, in which ovary woman has found that life holds more th.;a excitement and amusement, with darkened streets and slim purser, the hem? sense has found its

way cut from its hiding-place and women are once more thinking of their amibticn —the home life that i s their heritage and joy.

BEAUTY SLEEP. When you go to bed —if you are looking- for beauty sleep—you should fall asbep right away. ' The beauty sleeper, the one who wakes up looking refreshed, will'fall asleep the minute i-sr head touches the pillow.' She will fall into a slumber heavy and dreamless, and she will awake in the morning cf her own accord-. • , The cld-fashioned idea of the beauty sleep wa g the sleep that comes before 1 o'clock. Every hour pass'ed in sleep before midnight made a woman younger, according to the old-fashioned idea of the beauty sleep. After 12 the sleep is heavy and not so good for the nerves, being less invigorating. According to a noted specialist, "sle-ap after 12 is the sleep of exhaustion."

JAPANESE WOMEN. A Japanese woman's lot is summed up/in what are "called '-'the three obediences" —obedience while yet unmarried, to a father; obedience, when rnarrid, to a husband, and that husband's parents; obedience, when widowed, to a son. The only qualities that befit a woman are gentle obedience, chastity, miarcy, and quietness. A woman igoing abroad at night must in all cases carry a lighted lamp, and she must observe a certain distance in her relations with her husband and With her brethren.

If £¥£r her husband should inquire of Uiefl, she? wfcould! answer /to 'the point—to answer in a fashion would be a mark of rudeness. When the husband issues his instructions, the WH§ BJJJst never disobey them,