HEBE & THERE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2071, 27 January 1898, Page 3

HEBE & THERE.

It is gravely proposed in Ohio to send prisoners in steel cages J per express to jail. Thus warders’ travelling expenses will be saved.

Sarah Bernhardt says that the wearing of diamonds destroys the- best expression of the face, dims the fire of the eyes, and makes the teeth look like chalk.

• * * * . • p : , Whenever you find, a man, wnom -you know little about, oddly dressed, cr talfcing absurdly, or exhibiting any eccentricity of manner, you may be sure he is not a married man ; for the corners > are rounded off, the little jshou.ts are ;pruhed; away, in married men. Wiyes generally have more sense than their husbands, especially when their husbands are clever men. .The wife’s advices are like the ballast ’ that keeps the ship steady. * a

The Queen has five maids to assist her toilet- -namely, three dressers,, and two wardrobe women. The senior dresser, who has been many years with Her Majesty, is especially charged with the task of conveying orders-to different tradesmen —such asjewellers, drapers, and dressmakers. One dresser and one wardrobe woman are in constant attendance on the Queen, taking, alternate days.

It is a str jct rule with the big Transatlantic.steamship companies that the wife of the captain shall not travel in his ship. The companies strongly prohibit their captains from taking their wives abroad with them. Tfie supposition is that if anything should happen to the ship the captain, instead of attending to his public duty/ would devote his attention mainly to the safety of his wife.

* & * A London correspondent writes The quiet life in the rooms of Sir George and Lady Grey at the Norfolk Hotel, South Kensington, flows oh ■uneventfully. The great pro-consul is seldom well enough to see r anyone. Occasionally mind and memory flicker up astonishing for a brief moment, almost paralysing his nurses, but as a rule he appears to' think of little but daily - needs; A little' bit' of meat,. $ little drop of drinks'a;; chapter reafd aloud from tho Bible, a,hd lots of sleep. That is what even the best and est ofhs must come to if we reach the eighties... . , ' .

How can a man excite interest in a girl’s mind ? Easily enough, if he will only Set to work in the right way; First of alii ho must begin by. showing; her that he takes an interest in her. Nothing so certain as this to excite a reciprocal interest. , The mind of woman is eo constituted that often falls in love with the, idea of being: loved than with anything else Then he must begin to pay Jier little attentions. Nothing more calculated to raise a girl’s opinion of a man than those trifling attentions which seem so much to her, and so little to him. Confide in a girl, and she will at onoe tajce an interest in you, a deep .and burning interest. It doaoa’t much matter what you confide in! her,' th® .confidence itself is enough, and the feeling that you come. id her for sympathy.

. “A mirror,” says a Well-known actress, “is the best thing: that a woman can have to aid her in cqring awkwardness. With careful study the most ungainly movements can be made, graceful, and the g&wkish motions that one is apt to become used to arp easily dispelled.” This lady' avers that she has acquired her own gracefulness from the practice. She, studied, the course of motion as one might study drawing, and in the end became one of the most graceful women on the stage, i