WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 46, 3 June 1910, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

FIRST AID. I met her deer-stalking down the road with a look of determination 011 her face and a St. John's Ambulance texti book under her arm. "Hullo," I said, "what 'are you doing?" •She looked at me vaguely; her ninct v. as evidently set oi. higher things. 'What ani I doing?" she repented; 'i am learning first aid." ■'Oh,' said 1, '"what for?" "Because it is my duty," she replied. "Didn't you sec the 'Englishman's Home?' Well, I consider that it is ;lie duty of every Englishman to become a volunteer, and of every Englishwoman i to le'.vi'ii nursing, or at least tirst aid." "Great Scott!" I exclaimed in 'jismny, "you don't think I ought to come a volunteer?" She looked me over in a way that made me wonder whether I were really sft llin in my stocking feet, or only imagined it. "1 only concern myself with what is my duty," she said scathingly; "other j people nuist look after themse'lves. - ' I "Then what's the good of learning I first aid," I asked eagerly, "if every- •. one is to look after himself." i j "Morally, I mean," she replied cosily, : ''l am afraid I am in rather a hurry this morning. Good-bye." "One moment," I said. "I meant to ask you—if you have time to spare from (I .glanced at the te»t J boo!k) your duty —will you let me take you for a ride on ' Sunday ?" "Thanks awfully," she said enthusiastically; "I should love it." It was not till .'Sunday morning, when I was helping her into the saddle, that a wicked little idea popped suddenly into my brain and made its home there. It was rather a mad idea, so 1 did my ibest to eject it; but it was fascinating in its madness, and more than once I laughed aloud. ! "It's the air," I explained to Evelyn. • "It's sq fresh, like champagne and all | that sort of thing. By the way, how is the first aid getting on?" Erelyn brightened visibly. "Splendidly. I know quite ia lot now. How to wind up broken bones, how to slop 'bleeding, and all sorts of things." "Do you know how to bring a man round when lie's unconscious?" I asked. Evelyn nodded briskly. "Of course 1 do. At least I am not quite sure"— she hesitated—"but I would manage somehow," she ended confidently. The idea in my brain jumped joyously, but I said nothing. "I think." said Evelyn, dreamily, as we entered the S'achseawald, "I think I shall take up nursing. It would be so splendid to be able to relieve the sufferings of one's fellow-creatures, and besides it is very interesting and so simple when one :knows what to do?" "Oh," I said blankly, "and what about me!" Evelyn opened her eyes. "What about you?" she asked. "Well, you know, you said you wouid marry me if " "I said perhaps I would marry you if you got the new billet you applied for," corrected Evelyn. ; "And I've got it," I interrupted. "I know you have," said Evelyn serenely, "but 1 think that I will take up nursing instead; it will be awfully good training." "And what am I to do?" I persisted. "You? You can marry some one else " I "Some one else be hanged!"' I "Or you can wait till I finish my training." "But :a nurse's training takes years," I protested, "years and years." "Yes." said Evelyn, "I know; but it's worth it," "AVell, I'm d d!" said I, bitterly, and I dug my heels into Ponto's sides as viciously as 1 ;knew 'how. And then it was that the idea, which had been lying dormant for the last few minutes, became a fact, It flew from my brain like an electric spark, and. finding something in the nature of a conductor in whatever constituted Ponto's centre of activity, caused him to stand up on his hind legs suddenly, then give a bound forward, and the next moment I found myself flying through the air. Landing as I did on a heap of dead leaves I did not hurt myself; but 1 lay where 1 fell witli my e.ves shut and waited. In a moment Evelyn was off i her mare, and kneeling bv my side. ! "Dick," she cried anxiously, "Dick, '' are you -hurt?" I made no reply. "Dick," she cried again; then as I did not move, "Oh, he is (killed; what shall ' f I do, what shall I do?" 1 Then her comnionsense came to her ■ ' aid, and she wiped her eyes and felt for my ipulse. It took her some time . to find it, and by the time her fingers ; had finished wandering round my : wrist it was beating at a pace that ' would have justified a diagnosis of fever. | "He's not dead." she said, joyfully; I then she sat bae'k on her heels; "but | what' am I to do?" she, wailed dismally. I She looked up and down the road in ' search of inspiration, and through my half-closed eyelids I watched her. Suddenly she sprang to her feet, and, holding up the skirt of her habit, she ran ► out into the middle of the road and be- ► gan waving frantically. For a moment * I feared that grief had driven her mad; * and then I saw what it was that had | so excited lwr—a policeman on a bicycle ► coming down the hill towards us. I sat ► up hurriedly: but it was too late. She t had stopped him. ► ! "Oh, (please." she said breathlessly. ► "tlieres a gentleman here who's hurt t j himself; he s not dead, but Im afraid , ; he's broken something, and 1 I don t don't know wh—what to do"; then she, began to cry. ' The .policeman looked at her in be'Wiildcrment. '■Broken something?'' he repeated, then he saw me. "Is it you, sir, the lady means?" he asked. I rose to my feet and came towards him. "Constable," I said, "if you will be so good as to bicycle down the road you

will find two horses 'loose and straying. I would 'be much Obliged if you would bring tlvem .back." I slipped ;i win into his band. "You needn't worry about me," I added, "this lady knows all about first aid." The policeman saluted, and mounting his bicycle rode away to look for our horses. I watched him as far as tne hend of the road. Then 1 turned to Evelyn. She was sitting on the trunk of a fallen tree, gazing straight before her, and her checks were very red. "Evelyn," 1 said huniTdy, then as she did not answer, "Evelyn," I said again. Pke did not move; but when she : spoke her voice was trembling. "It was very kind of you, Mr. Thornton, to make fun of me," she said. "I wasn't making fun of you," I protested in dismay, "I am very sorry to trouble you; but I—l—l really have broken something." She jumped up and came to me, her face fail of anxiety. "Oh, I am so sorry," she said, "what can I do?" "You can mend it," I suggested. She stopped short. "What have you broken?" she asked suspiciously. "My heart," said I, "you might mend it for me." "Just first aid?" asked Evelyn, with a sudden smile. "No," said I, "rcnilar nursing.. It will ibe awfully good training." "Very well," said Evelyn, "I'll tell you what I'll d:o. I'll take you as a private case, all to myself." " PROFESSOR OF FLIRTATION." Professor IVmer, who holds the chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of Harvard, has gained the title of Professor of Flirting, on account of his views. In an interview professor Palmer said: "Flirting is the surest road to the -proper knowledge of social life. The girls of Radcliffe (which is the woman's college of Harvard University), <and the boys of Harvard, devote too much time to study, with the result that when they complete their University course they : kno\v nothing of social life. They should mingles a little frivolity with their studies :aml flirt. Of course, it makes a lot of difference who does the flirting, and when, where, and how it is done, 'but a little harmless flirting is like a real holiday." NOTES FOR WOMEN. London, April 15 THE QUEEN IN PARLIAMENT. The Queen and Princess Victoria paid a two-hours' visit to the Hotiw oi Commons on Monday afternoon, and listened to the opening of the veto debate, including speeches by Mr. Asquith, Mr. Walter Long, Mr. Barnes (chairman of the Labor party), and Lord Roseibery's son, Mr. Neil Primrose. This is the* first time for many years that a Queen of England has paid a visit to the House of Commons, though occasionally, as Princess of Wales, Queen Alexandra did. so. Her Majesty and Princess Victoria afterwards had tea at the • House of Commons with Mrs. Lowther, the wife of the Speaker. SUFFRAGETTES. Seven Suffragettes in the stalls oi the Sheffield Hippodrome created a scene the other evening by objecting to a bur- 1 lesque of Suffragettes on the stage, and j 1 were quickly ejected. LEFT TILL CALLED FOR! j A lllOll2 many novel ideas that will be. j realisedin Messrs Whitelev's new pre- j niises for the benefit of 'customers aj ] playground on the roof of the building, j ( where ladies will be able to leave child-1 i dren while they do their shopping. <, FAMOUS WOMAN RIFLE SHOT.' Sirs. Chapman, of Staines, has secured ; the world's record for women's ritle ' shooting by getting 00 points out of a j possible 105 in a competition of tlie South London Rifle Club at Bisley. Quartermaster-Sergeant Fulton, oi tlie Queen's Westminsters, winner of the Queen's Prize in 1888, secured the same aggregate, 'but was beaten by Mrs. Chap-. ■ man at 500 yards, although he scurea .ii points to her 32 'at the longest range. * Mrs. Chapman's ritle is a Lee-Metford, , and she has won no fewer than 100 • prizes, and at tile National Rifle Assocition's meeting at Bisley last year, when she was the only Englishwoman shoot- , in« with the Service rifle, her name appeared in the Alexandra, Brownlow, and ' Civilian .prize-lists, her scores being in the first-named 02 out of a possible 70, in the second 30 of a possible of 35, and, in the third 67 of 70. GERMAN WOMAN APOTHECARY. Fraulein von Uusnar, aged twenty- : one, is the first German woman apothecary who has succeeded in passing her examinations. There are, of course, many women pharmacists in England. SIMPLE LIFE DELICACIES. Visitors to the Simple Life 'and Healthy Food Exhibition, now being held in London, may tearn how to satisfy their appetites and yet keep strictiy within line of what the Simple Life exponents admit. There they will find big supplies of nut 'butter, nut lard, nut margerine, nut soups, nut cakes, and various other delicacies. One can even have nut puddings in all sorts of flavors from chocolate to cashew. Then there is banana coffee and "Trumilk." This test is really milk minus the liqu>n. All the water is taken out, leaving the; nourishing part of the milk in the form of fine, white powder. To turn "Trumilk" into the original cow's milk, from which it is made, you simply put back the water which the process has taken out. and the taste will :be found to be ,the same as that of the original liquid milk. In the process of being reduced to powder the milk is pasteurised and rendered free from ibacteria. Trumilk powder is put up in tins, and 'keeps for any length of .time. WASHING IN THE OLD DAYS. Before the ingenious appliances now on view at. the Laundry Exhibition were invented. French dandies appear . to have spent vast sums on the washing of their linen, says the Daily Chronicle. In the sixteenth' century clothes were sent from all parts of France to be washed in Holland, where the waters of the canals were supposed to have special

dean properties. As the cost of transport was al-cut ten .times greater in till)-'! days than at present, the exquisite ;>ai i ily for the gloss oil his linen. At a later period persons living in Bordeaux used regularly to send their washing all the way to Sail Domingo. FORTY-SIX YEARS' ENGAGEMENT. Jfrom Geneva comes news this week of the wedding of two people who have faithfully waited forty-six years to terminate their engagement by marriage. The couple, who are of the same age, ■became engaged at eighteen at school, and young Wittaw left for South America to make his fortune. A month ago he returned to Altdorf a rich .man, and he is now on the way back to the Argentine with his former schoolgirl sweetheart as his wife. During their long separation the couple exchanged about 2000 letters and hundreds of photographs. Fraulein Singen refused several otters ot marriage when she wag young. !i THE GREATEST THING." '•The greatest thing in life," said Judge Rentoul this week in his charming address to the Freemen of London, "is to spread as much happiness as possible among those , with whom we The saying is not a new one, but it is an uncommonly good one, which most people accept in theory, and which many forget to carry out in practice. It, of course, takes special cognisance of the spirit as distinguished from the body. No man ever made another "happy" by the mere fact of giving him a good dinner; whereas many have made others happy with a shake of the hand or a pleasant word that unmistakably spelt friendliness and trust. And it is 'because happiness is so largely a thing of the spirit that great poets and musicians', who so conspicuously minister to the spirit's needs, stand at so great an elevation in the esteem oi mankind. We have not forgotten what Gladstone, the .politician, once said ot Tennyson, the poet: "When I and my works are dead and forgotten, he and his will still be living, making men and women happier." Before, however, anyone can make others happy he must be happy himself. And, after all, and in spite of everything, there is, for most of us, a good deal more to be harmv aJbout in life than there is cause for unhappiness. GOOD ADVICE TO GIRLS. The Bishoip of Bath and Wells, in his recent charge at Bath, advised the clergy to preach the sanctity and sacramental character of matrimony. They should urge upon young men not that they should marry so as to live pure lives, but to be ipure so that they should be worthy to marry. His own advice to girls in confirmation was never to dream of marrying any man they could not kneel down with and say their prayers. USEFUL HINTS. To Remove Match Marks—To remove the marks that have been made hy dropping matches, cigarettes, etc., 011 white paint—when the scorch is not too dee]) — the part affected should be rubbed with a •piece of fresh lemon. The end of a wet cloth should then be dipped in powdered whiting and rubbed well over me surface of the paint, after which it should be dried with a soft cloth. When hanging clothes to dry. first hang up by the thickest part —waist m neek bands, etc.—because i: hung up by the thinner part the water will run into the thick part, lodge there, ana tai-ce longer to dry, And cause woollen goo's to shrink. Secondly, hang up everything wrong side out, so that any accidental s'oil will not, do so much damage as if it appeared on the right side. Very dainty-looking lamp or candle shades can be made with the aid oi a pretty wallpaper (a last year's pattern booh can be procured from any good firm of decorators for a small sum). Cut out dainty wreaths of flowers or foliage, gum them lightly on the plain sides, which can he bought ready made, and when dry draw very lightly round the edge of the glned-on paper a thin line of gold paint. This gives the finishing touch to an article home-made, but really artistic. This sells well at bazaars. When buying apples be guided bv their weight. The heaviest are the best. Keep the inside of your oven smumlouslv clean; lrave the sides, shelves, and door scraped down and washed with hot soda and water at least once a week.