WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 60, 5 April 1909, Page 4

WOMAN'S WORLD.

PAY YOUR WAY. Women generally have a horror of debt that all men do not possess. It is this feminine feeling that money must be in sight before attempting big operations that men say keeps women from being among the world's financiers. It also keeps them from much extravagince and wrecked happiness. While the average woman has a just horror of debt some are destitute of money sense. A running account by many is regarded as a gold mine, and the day of reckoning at the end of the month never teaches its lesson. The woman who earns her own money knows the value of it usually, and is not apt to acquire the debt habit. The houskeeping woman, who is on an inadequate allowance or short of ready money and. allowed to run bills, is the chief delinquent. And she is also the chief sufferer. The worker at least has her earning power at her back, and there is the possibility of catching up liiuincially without a scene. The woman wh» is dependant upon father or husband is doubly foolish if she runs into debt ; she infringes the right of others and lays up untold trouble for herself. Debt is deterioating to everyone. It is hard to keep self-respecting when one must dodge the butcher and baker, have the consciousness that one's clothes really belong to the dressmaker and milliner, and be forced to submit to the indignity of duns. What is the use of living at a rate one cannot afford 1 It is not as if the end never came ; the creepy pall of unpaid bills under which one lives is sure to settle and blot you out from the )>ersons and things you have striven to keep

up with. There are some faults that have seeming juslilicition; the debt habit is quite inexcusable ; except when perhaps it is incidental, not chronic. The man and woman caught by misfortune, who, by reason of illness or lost positions, find themselves short of money, as a rule work off their indebtedness as soon as they possibly can. There is but one way to escape the debt microbe (says an English writer)—pay as you go. Perhaps you ;inay not be able to dress as you please or live in style to which the rest of your friends without spending more than you can pay, far better seek less extravagant circles! A pleasure loving nature is the sec-el of much of the debt folly. There is a craving for amusement, too often it matters not at what cost. Recreation is necessary for young and old alike ; the thing is to get fun out of what you can affoi'U. If one cannot go to the opera or tour the country in a motor-car, it is not necessary to stay at home. Cultivate a taste for simple pleasure and you will find they will prove more amusing in the end thau amusement at the cost of worry over unpaid bills. Children should have drilled into them the axiom —pay as you go. An allowance that must be lived within is an excellent way to give even children a money sense that makes the corroding debt habit less possible in after life. Stint yourself, go shabby, live the uneventful life, even fall short of your highest development, if to do otherwise means spending more money than you have in hand and acquiring the debt habit which robs you of peace and brings back a hard look into the face.

THOUGHTS ABOUT WOMEN. "A woman in the last resource of desperation will always lly to another woman. She may not get much help or encouragement there, but she will get understanding, and that is one thing a man is morally incapable of giving her." —The Green Parrot, by Bernard Capes.

" When .a woman doesn't want to be bothered with men, she's hi an unnatural state, and something's going to Happen to her."

"All hats—all good hats—arc poems. Add a rose to a cloud of diapanous material, indescribable by the tongue of mere mail ; mix the ingredients well together ; fastened with diamond drops of dew shaken from the rose —which the unimaginative would call hatpins—and put the dish, seasoned with a white veil, upon the prettiest head you can lind, and the result is certainly a poem." "A woman who hasn't a temper is like lamb without mint sauce. What satisfaction is there in having a wife who won't quarrel when you want a row '!"— The Green Domino, by Anthony Dyllington.

"■When a man in love thinks of the woman he thinks of her as 'mine,' and that thrills him—possession. But when the woman thinks of him she thinks ol herself as 'his,' and that moves every fibre of her, strikes every chord—capitulation."—Once Aboard the Lugger—, by A. S. M. Hutchinson.

Women are cats, and love to scratch oven those they're fond of. Sometimes, the more they love tliem, the harder they scratch.

To use power with propriety needs wisdom, ami the woman who is at five-aud-twenly cannot make out at sixty why she has remained an old maid. Tlie delightful way to use it is that of a babe when lie lirst discovers that a slick hits.

Every woman resents a universal criticism of her sex, but cannot help feeling a twinge of respect for the critic. When passionate women obey elemental laws laws, they are reckless in speech, and overwhelming in assertion and denunciation.

As soon as a woman knows what siie wants she generally gets it. Some philosophers assert that her methods are circuitous; others , on the other hand, maintain that she rides in a bee-line towards the desired object, galloping ruthlessly over conventions, susceptibilities, heart, and such-like obstacles. All, however, agree that she is unscrupulous. ... It is when a woman docs not know what she wants that she batl'les the philosopher, just as the ant in her aimless discursiveness hall'les the entomologist.—Septimus, by W. J. Locke.

According to a Paris correspondent news of the revolt of the American dressmakers against the "dictulorialship of Paris'" is received with amiable scepticism in the Hue do hi Paix. M. Jacques Worth, head of the firm which made the wedding-dresses of Lady Oranard. smiled when asked for his opinion on the attitude of the United Ladies' Tailors' Association or America. "Americans," he said, ''have for years tried to exclude Paris-made gowns from the United States by means of prohibitive tariffs. The only result so far in Unit instead of imr sending dresses across the Atlantic, American ladies come in ever-increasing number to Paris to buy them here. AVe cannot build •.skyscrapers,' and don't want to—but we Can make dresses better than anyone eke. To prod-nee the creations which have made the Hue de la Paix famous you must have Paris artists and Paris workgirls. Americans have neither. They might import them, but six months after they have left France they have lost the 'chic' which makes the Paris gown superior to any other. You have tried the experiment In London, and I know that the dress made here, by bVnch workgirls, even if mi«terialsi and model lie identical, is not the siuiK' an the dress made here. It is the artistic atmosphere of Paris which gives the dress made here its 'cachet,' Americans have not got it, and cannot get it. As soon as the model* for the season are reach - representatives of the lending American houses llock to Paris to make their selection," and M. Worth led the writer upstairs to a large room where a 'score of ladies with Transatlantic accents were passing in review the 'fashions for the coming spring and summer.