The World's Press.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7734, 9 February 1905, Page 4

The World's Press.

RACIAL DIFFERENCES. A British employer will buy new clothes and use the old machines while an American will wear patches if necessary, to get the newest lab our saving machines in his factor} after he has sold the old ones 101 scrap.—Vanity Fair. TUITION AT WINDSOR CASTLE. Miss IVlfragc (Sillierlson, a tilas gow lady, is at present being in structed at Windsor Castle in tin ait of arranging and sale kceiHnj regal letters and State papers. Thi: is in view of her approaching depar ture for Canada, where she will ac as private secretary to Earl (!rey.LncHes' Field. OUR IXSVLAU HAUGHTINESS. It is to shyness, not to pride, tha the stiffness of our manners is due and whenever we break into loud la went for our insular haughtiness and penitentially cut I ourselves wit the knives of sarcasm and flugellat our backs with whips of scorn, yo may be sure that we are on th point of borrowing some retinemen from our gracious neighbours.—lllus trated London News. INFERENCES ABOUT ENGLANI The financial power which Russr has gained over Persia and the ra[ 'hlity with which her railroads hav been pushed into this region have fc some titno been a source of distuni to England, and probably some i\< tivc measures to counteract this ir Iflucnce arc in contemplation, a though the despatch of a harmlw deputation to i"ersia is all that s far appears. —Inde|>endent, New'Yor LATEST " BEAUTY " IXVENTIOi It is not pleasant to imagine oni self t*ing found asleep with one' mouth open and engaging involunti rily in making thei music cominonl called "snoring." To euro hot these habits, anyone wh sus[>ects she is subject to thoi should wear the new " Anti-Snoi Strap." This is one of the mos useful inventions of the day, and conducive to health and beauty.Hearth and Home. lirXTIXO 'MANNERS. The huntiflK rule which is most o ten broken is that which demam that all should wait their propi turn at a gate or gap. Some pe< , ! plc seem to have no conscience at a ,j in this matter. I have noticed tht [ those who are in such a despcra | 'and unmannerly hurry at a gate i gap arc by no means so pressir I when a hole has to lie bored in (thick bullfinch, or the top ra ' knocked off a high bit of timber. • \ Major Arthur Hughes-Onslow, Badminton Magazine. [ TUBE FJRE RISKS. J As far as Mr Yerkes's newly-coi ' structed tubes are concerned, «e b ' lieve that every effort will be mat ' i to make them as safe from fire as " practical. On the other hand, v ' regret to say that we antieipa ; j some lamentable disaster on oth ' existing railways, for it would n | most .appear that even Mr Cunnin: ; ham, the general manager of tl '! Central London Railway, has n< • yet quite grasped what the meanir • of fire protection is on undergrour - electric railways.—Bnilders' Journn ! TOILET PUBLICITIES, : Tliere is no longer any mystei > about my lady's toilet. She accep - costly complexion creams, as si f ] would bottles of perfume. Xo lo ' ger does she attempt to conceal tl [fact that the curls which kiss hi : ibroir ; £ire not her own, that the ha ■in viiA* she motors is not that - whicJfShe dines. Nothing is left 1 r the imagination in these days. CV.s ; ing about for acceptable Yule-li< j gifts for ladies, a man may feel sa - in giving anything that is "descrilx las an aid to beauty—The World.