WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 203, 1 October 1909, Page 1

WOMAN'S WORLD.

THE HOME DOCTOR. (Three meals a day, with intervals of five hours between each, is the standard set by eminent medical men. Sufferers from insomnia will find that a Gharp walk just before retiring will often induce a refreshing slumber. Headaches brought on by overstudy or too much reading in n bud light should be treated with a dose of phenacetin.

For lockjaw and cuts on the hand bum a piece of worsted, and hold the injured lingers or,part of the hand over tlie smoke for thirty minutes, or longer, according to the nature of the wound. A large number of people have tried this remedy, with excellent results. Cream is an excellent substitute for cod-liver oil, and can be taken by mnny who cannot digest the oil. Castor oil or other medicine with a disagreeable taste can be easily swallowed if the mouth be first rinsed with strong peppermint and water or Jamaica ginger and water, either of which will temporarily numb the palate. Another method is to put n tea spoonful of glycerine in a wine-glass, then the oil, then a teaspoonful of lemon juice, taking all at a draught. If dust or other foreign substanco blows into the eye, do not rub the eye nor endeavor, to remove the irritating Intruder for a monient or so. Close the eye, holding the.lids- together with the fingers until the,,tear work, then open the eye, and unleM t«9. dust ha 6 caught fa6t to the ball it will be washed out by the tears.. During the windy month—and Jadeed at'all times—the eyes should Be, washed before retiring with a solution of ealt and water, cold water, or boracic acid and water, a teaspoonful of either the salt.or tne acid being added to a glassful of water,' and a bit of absorbent cotton or the fingers used for the applying. WHOM EVERYBODY LIKES.

The whom everybody ltfces 1b tolerant and broad-minded, Writes ail up-to-date philosopher. She always sees the best side of' everybody. She is above reproach hereelf,-but she is the. first to make allowances for those wbi have wandered off the path and to hoid out a helping hand of friendship to them. Sli? pitifs where others blamn. She ''stands up l ' for her friends—and her enemies, tod; if she should happen to have any. jtaid she is thoroughly good-natured. She can adirnire other people's beauty, accomplishments, and | successes whole-heartedly. There is nothing envious, or mean, or petty, or small about her.; Her philosophy is .1 bright, stimulating, everyday one. Slw sees things as they are/takes thenv.a? they come, and makes the best of thera.

THE UNKIND CRITIC. Some little time ago a very pleasant German professor made Ills way through New Zealand, enquiring into the social and economic reforms of this young country, very much interested in New Zealand's social experiments, and anxious to believe that the majority of them would prove successful. Professor Manes is a professor at the Berlin Commercial | University, and' interested in practical work in his own country. From conversation with him, one gathered that he had been associated, on charitable organisations in Germany, with German women of the most cultivated and cfiieient type, and one guessed that he had expected to find the same type very much in evidence in countries where women have the franchise. He had evidently expected to find that the worn n here would take their politics seriously, that they would know something of eco. uomics, and a good deal about the world outside Australasia. He came from a country where .education of girls is more thorough than 'perhaps anvwhere else in the world, ,nnd he was bitterly di«appointed to ffnil ; ho w far below their Intellectual standard the women of Australia fall. And, u« he has gone on through the States, he has told interviewers of his disappointment. Here in New Zealand lie spoke of the intelligence of the women, but said he had expected to find them'different by virtue of their possession ot the franchise. In West Australia he has been making liis criticism of the Australian education system the occasion for the expression of his surprise at discovering that the Australian young ladies can converse on no subject hut sport, and that in families the highest in the Innd, the children can speak no language but their own. There was no country in the world with so much leisure as Australia he said, hut it was all fo r sport, and seldom for education. "What do <Hrls do with their time?" he asks, ft is assuredly a very hard question, and it would take a very learned man to answer it. If a girl were asked what sl'e did with her time, her answer would almost certainly he: "My time, why I never have any."

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