WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 182, 6 September 1909, Page 1

WOMAN'S WORLD.

). AFFABILITY. Many girls tliink ihey arc demeaning themselves if they are approach* ».«. Tiliey cultivate an icy manner as a hallmark of respectability. Don't lie afraid of Swing pleasant.. It eanuut hurt yon, and will be as good as a tonic for all yon meet. What though you <lo tliiuk yourself superior to most of your acquaintances; is it good itaste to placard your - belief by ®'freezing countenance'! There is nothing like aHaliUity to conceal one's family skeletons. A haugiuv manner is a direct bid for the rest of the world to rake U[> ancestral secrets that you thought buried under a mouiul of goM. The secret of many a. lionieiv girl's success is an affable onauner that makes everyone she meets feed welcome. Be affable. II yon are not. pleasant liecause it comes natural, be pleasant because 'it is .the only manner that isnvell bred. The shyest person can cultivate offalbility. She ivill be surprised to find that itlwi effort noit on'ly helps her own but is a regular magnet as ;i friond-Svinacr. If you want .to be affab'e, ■take an 'interest in everyone you meet.

IK) CLEAN SUNSHADES. The idry cleaner's process is apt to rot parasols of tiaffobas or other silk, especially if they luuve Ibcen put away home. Either gasolene or Fuller's earth may foe employed, while in the case of a sunshade mf plain white silk a, lather of soapsude can often he toacd -with perfect success. The Fuller's earth treatment 'is especially suited .to chiffon aid delicate fabrics-, to which it should hj« aipplicd fwiith' a soft flesh brash, while if employed On plain, silk, a clean velvet pad', or one mMe of Turkish kArellim;,

WEAK NERVES IN YOUNG GIRLS. of the .prevailing diseases of it Especially are younn- girls, wit not to know that tthev luwe anj v..« —.^ iW a uu ji. trjty is.utisr It used rtot to to so. Before the piano supplanted the spinning-wheel young Mies .did not need to be sent away from liome to recuperate their nervous energies. Havo they less physical stamina than their grandmothers? Or is there something in the busy, hurrying life of to-day which wcnirs disastrously upon the nerVcs, exhausting them long before their time? AVlien we think what is expected of schoolgirls now it does not seem so strange that many droop by the way. Iteiul' the list ol studies pursued in our best schoo'.s, which it is expected will' be mastered. or Tather "gone through with" sji a specified time. History, •literature, art. science, languages, music, pamtiig! dancing, etc.—the sum fa appalling. 'A recitation is required in nearly every division of the school hours, making necessary either practice or study nearly every hour at home. No wonder the poor girl's nerves' arc prostrated before ■she leaves the schoolroom. She cannot think, she has no time for it; she cannot sleep, Hie whirl of the tired Ibrain ■will not stop long enough. It is not necessary that girts should attempt to master all the ologles. A thorough •knowledge of a few things is better than a mere smattering of all the sciences. A vast amount of .money and of nerve power is wasted in trying to gain a knowledge of music when' Nature has not bestowed an car for it, and the fashionable craze for painting, cmbroidery, crochet Vork, land hammered Uass, which has filled our houses with so-called ornaments unlike anything m heaven above or earth beneath is relay jcxh'auisted nerve age. A few such cases, or eases occurri„.„ <i„i,- ■.«,«„£ mature women who cessant cares, need not excite alarm, umt such premature old age among the young may well give U6