WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 304, 18 May 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") WOMAN M.P. DEBIT IX THE NORWEGIAN" PARLIAMENT. Christiania, March 17. For the first time a woman has taken her seat in the Norwegian Storthing. The new legislator is Miss Anna Itogstad, who was elected as a deputy M.P., according to the Norwegian custom, in l!)0i). The first representative for her constituency being absent on leave. Miss Rogstad took his place in the House today. She is a member of the Conservative party. There was eager competition for tho public places in tho House to witness Miss Rogstad's debut. Many of the applicants were ladies. The greater part | of the public gallery was reserved for 1 friends of members, and a large crowd ; failed to obtain admission.

After the opening of the session, the President (Speaker), Mr. Halvorscn, made a speech, while all the members stood. It was, he said, one of the most important days in the history of Norway. For the first time, he observed, a woman was sitting in the Storthing, and though the members were not unanimous that this was the right moment for such an innovation, he was convinced that posterity would regard it as a reform which brought honor to the country, and, further, that the progress of the country would benefit by it.

The Premier and a number of other members then greeted Miss Rogstad. Her house is filled with flowers sent by political admirers, and she has received numerous telegrams from many parts of the world.

Miss Rogstad was bom in 1854, and is a teacher by profession. She lives in a little cottage of her own on one of the hills near Christiania. She does all her own household work, gardening and wood chopping.

WISDOM OF WOMEN. "It has been said that woman all the trouble in life. But also she makes life worth all the trouble." —Mrs. Philip Snowden. "The time has at last come when it is an enormously good thing to be a woman." —Miss Clementina Black. "Half the unhappy marriages in Eng land to-day among people who have to manage their homes without servants arc caused by the inability of the wife to perform any household duty well and satisfactorily."—Mrs. Zangwill.

"Life without the arts would not be worth the trouble."—Miss Horniman. •

"As long as women do not count they will be cheapeners of men's labor."— Miss Gerald'me Cooke. "If there is one law that is certain in this world it is that in the long run work remains in the hands best fitted to do it."—Mrs. Drew.

"There are no salons in England simply because Kiviish people do not 'talk.'" —Mdlle. Revnard.

if sports are looked up to, and domestic science looked down upon, by girl> at school, that point of view will govern in after-life."—Miss Leahy.

A lady doctor in the London Times dis-' coui'-es mi "Diet Crochets." She write.-;: "Sniir ;nilk us a cure for digest ; ve disorders lias been swallowed by a number; of people during the last two years wit.li more or less success. The Sauerin tabloid is even more fashionable than the tablet, of saccharin, which was surreptitiously dropped into the tea at. after-] noon parties a few years ago. One grows' very tired of the sour milkite, the nut-| list, the enthusiastic Fletcherite. There I is nothing clandestine about the modern diet, maniac. One would be only too: glad of a little secrecy on his part as to the respective merits of his particular! crotchet compared with those of other! people. Any woman who Ims sat next to a diet maniac during the course of a long dinner party feels at the end of it] that she never wishes to see, smell, taste or hear about food again. The ordinary normal woman cares not a farthing how much protein or carbo-hydrate lier entree tic, gouty, or obese he is certain to expound his views on the subject without the slightest, encouragement. The unfortunate' thing is that he seems to have lost his power of discerning when other people! are. b6red. He will discourse for half-andiourwith an enthusiasm and self-' satisfaction' generally attributed to the ydurtg mother with a first baby, or the 'amateur physician with views about Wagner. From a commonsense standpoint such people are simply absurd. If we wish to be healthy wo should train ourselves to eat ordinary everyday food, and eat it cheerfully. If we wish to bej popula£;j\W; should refrain, when we go visiting other people, from demanding different food from that supplied in the ) ordinary routine of the household. There ) is no greater bore than the man who wants to eat bananas at 0 a.m. when there are none in the house and the nearest fruit shop is three miles away. There • .is'. I'm more undesirable guest than the woman who must have her food cooked in certain ways or who insists upon having her potatoes boiled without salt. Food' becomes a fetish with Buch types, ''and'their certain reward is a dyspeptic old age.' ' • ■ . i-r!

OtJQ SUPERSTITIONS. Never allow anyone else to put on your (nigagemcnt ring, or trouble will fol-j low, that act. If an umbrella is laid on the table, a' .quarrel will ensue. I „l jf, you. turn a loaf of bread the wrong way. you wijl turn someone out of the | house. I If you out your finger-nails before .breakfast on Monday, you will receive 1 .a handsome present before the week is out. P.I'LWANS' KTNTi AND QL'EKN. ! The King and Queen of the Belgians] arc known to take keen interest in modi-' (ill ' matters, and liis Majesty lias re-! eenlly -riven the very handsome dona-: I lion of five hundred pounds to the funds 1 ' of tlie Liverpool School of Tropical Meili-I I.cine, with a message that it is in apprcci-j J afion of the valuable work done by tlie '

Society in the interests of tropical countries. Belgium, of course, is largely interested in Central Africa. TO KEEP FLOWERS FRESH. Put the stalks of the cut flowers in water containing a very small bit of soap and a pinch of salt, to which, when the soap is melted, a little borax in powder is added. The ends of the stalks should be cut slanting and cleaned from time to timc> so as to allow the water to rise in the stalk. Another method is to crush about an inch of the stalk with a hammer. The water can then ascend better, and roses can often be kept fresh for several days longer in this way. '•GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD MORNING." Quite the latest thing in music-hall turns has been invented by Fraulein Mimi Frohlieh, a popular and charming variety artist, who is drawing all Berlin to hear her song to sleep, entitled, "Good Night and Good Morning." Fraulein Frohlich's turn is lavishly "mounted." and is given in a bedroom setting.— The Sketch. LADY EILEEN KNOX. Lady Eileen Knox, daughter of Lord Ranftirly. is to lie one of the four trainbearers of the Queen at the coronation. Hitherto the train-bearers have always been pages, but Queen Mary has introduced mi innovation by selecting four daughter* of peers. Lady Mary Dawson, Lady Dorothy Browne, and Lady Eileen I'itller are the other three trainbearer?. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Wedding rings were originally signet rings. The last wolf in Scotland was killed in the reign of Charles 11. | The waltz was introduced into Emj- ! land at Almaek's in 1813.

The ancient Greeks supposed that wine drunk from an amethyst cup -would not intoxicate. Formerly all English people started their dinner with pudding. i Orange* were unknown in Europe be-J fore the time of Edward VI. i It is rather difficult to imagine that within the memory of some still living,' ladies went out to evening parties in i Sedan chairs. =—s i