WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 73, 22 April 1909, Page 4

WOMAN'S WORLD.

THE MAORIS—BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. In an article iu an American paper, Mr. Franklin Matthews, one of the journalists who accompanied the United States battleship fleet to Auckland in August last, thus refers to the Maoris: "Interesting as was the Maori welcome, the visitors found the natives themselves much more interesting,. The beauty of the women astonished them. They are chocolate in color, and the younger ones are lithe, Their features are almost typically Grecian. Their eyes are wonderfully bright, and they earry themselves with the air of nobility. The men have long given up the practice of tattooing their faces. It was marvellous how they worked out those patterns. Some of the women still tattoo their lips and chins. It now indicates a marriage mark, but it mars the beauty of the faces wofully. They are gradually giving up the custom, and are beginning to see that they are more beautiful if they forego this painful operation of staining their skins with a shell and the indelible ink they make from a root. "The writer went to Rotorua in a ear where there -was a young .Maori matron : of high rank. Like hundreds of the I women, she was a graduate of the Maori College. She had as regular features as any Grecian maiden of old, but her chin j was stained. You forgot it when she smiled and her face lighted up with merriment. She was the life of the car. ■ When she spoke it was with as soft a I voice as was ever given to one of her jsex. Her English was delightful in its II pronunciation, and the diction was abso- | I lately free from slang.

"She wore a Paris hat. and it was tied down with an automobile veil. She had some of the. native embroidery on her gown, and she wore diamond's on her lingers. She told of the legends of her people. She entered into delightful repartee from time to lime, hut never a touch of the colloquial in her large vocabulary why, it was enough to make almost any man fall in love with her at first sight, tattooed chin and all, and you could understand to some extent why the whites had intermarried with these people. She was a glorious creature, refined, educated'.) vivacious, a horn aristocrat! One could then understand why these people hold themselves above ordinary folk. You can never get one for a servant. They are now a petted race, and they have come to presume that due honor will be paid to them simply because they are the proud people they are. They' feel thai they have the right lo be proud. "The English had to compromise with them. They are the aristocrats. And if you ever wish to hear speech spoken in the softest, richest, sweetest tones ill the world, spend an hour in conversation with one of these educated chieftainesses of the Maoris, and you'll never forget it. You can also understand the patriotism of the men, whose proudest saying is: 'The death of tile warrior is to die for the land.'" DON'T WORRY. "Every one of these doors creaks so horribly that they almost drive me wild!" exclaimed a tired housekeeper, who was trying to rest a little after the labors of a wearisome day. Xow, this was not the first, but perhaps the twentieth time she had made the same, or similar, remark, about the creaking doors, when with the aid of an oiled | feather she might have made them | swing noiselessly and save herself all annoyance.

It is a great ileal easier to make suggestions than to follow them, |, u t it seems to me that the ""olcK-n rule" for the housekeeper* might be this: "If anvthing goes wrong for which there is'a remedy, apply it as soon as possible; if there is absolutely no remedy—then do not worry, but make' the best of it." I believe that often it is not the work but the worrying over it that makes ns so weary at the day's end. J remember worrying a good ,i ( , a | „,.,,,. siMm . chl . ist . »ia« puddings., complaining that i alwavs spoiled them by putting in too much of one thing or another. When in,- «jster quietly remarked that perhaps 1 put too much anxiety into them, i saw the point, anil resolved henceforth to worryess over result,—but alwavs to do m'v best. Kvor after I had far greater success, and also more peace of mind. There are days when to the housekeeper everything seems determined to go wrong and a perfect avalanche of little roubles and perplexities seems to overwhelm her. But often at the dose ot sin-1 a day has she looked back and that all came right at last, in spite ot forebodings, and she has wished so much that she could have been self-con-trolled and sweet-tempered through it all. It is so natural to magnify little troubles mstead of rememberim- that hey are not worth fretting about. If the breakfast rolls are a little too brown <>■' the bacon a trifle overdone. i„ nearly every case no one will he troubled over it it you are not.

I-pcd'ally should we guard aphis' ; v ""7'"ff- i«™use of the -discomfort it in Hut™ °? ? llollt " H aml "'" Imrtfnl nflueiiee lt l,„ s „,,„„ (i|era [f ]|p lousokoqKir worriw, the children will'. I,kiw,si ' /'"; servants, for nothing is "ore contagious. Tilings may go Won-' but nothing is gained by wcUin, „•?,: them, and if we cannot ahvavsVcheeru, we can endure patiently „„ t il the "torn, passes and s „„sl, im ., ~;l urns i( . m due timo.-Sydney Jlorn-