WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 316, 1 June 1911, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") SCIENTIFIC BABIES. A well-known London doctor has pro-; tested in no measured terms at the hothouse atmosphere in which he considers many babies of the present day ar# reared. .Some mothers, he considers, bring up their children as if the wliole world was going to be one long summer day, fanned by a gentle sterilised breeze, and interrupted only by punctual meals of patent food stuffs. Mollycoddling and scientific feeding with earefully-workod-out diets in fractions of ounces will produce what lie stigmatises a sort of spuri-' ous health. Bottle-feeding, he says, decidedly spoils the good looks of l a baby, the indiarubber mouthpiece disorganising the muscles of the face by developing some of them abnormally. WOMAN'S PLUCKY FEAT. From Paris comes the news that Mdme. Fleurier, the wife of a carpenter at JJaunlly, accomplished a brave thing that the workmen refused to undertake on account of the danger attached. A weather vane, COft. from the ground, had to be removed fn>m the tower of a chateau, and when she heard that the men working there were afraid to ascend, Mdme. Fleurier volunteered, and climbing to the top of the tower, reached the vane and removed it. For four years the venturesome young woman hns accompanied her husband on his travels, working alongside him, and earning as much as 8s a day. CHRISTCHURCH LADIES' DRESS. A gentleman who has had a wide anil practical experience in the drapery business. states that Chriatchurch ladies dress better than the ladies of any other city in New Zealand, better, perhaps, on the whole, than the ladies of any city in Australia. He finds that costumes worn in Christchurch are the nearest lie has seen to those of the West End of London. Tn modern fashions in this direction, he thinks, fashion has run riot, and has in many cases succeeded introducing the grotesque. From an artistic point of view, he would like to see the ladies go back to the plain and simple coat and skirt, garments which he describes as graceful, serviceable, and becoming. LIFE IX THE ARGENTINE. The following—from the Buenos Aires Standard—shows the want, of domestics is as bad there as here:—"The time approaches for the opening of the Pioneer Club. The projected club for women shoiild boom if it is intelligently run. Something of the sort has been needed for years. Although the well-to-do Buenos Aires woman is largely a suburbanite. who is anything from two to ten leagues from her home when she roaches the citv, she has never hitherto had a place of her own to Jay her head or even powder her nose. European and) American cities possess innumerable] women's clubs that are good paving propositions and a comfort to those who support them. With a knowledge andl broad-minded election committee and a secretary possessed of other than social' qualifications (the ability to manage servants and to recognise good food in an uncooked state are of more value than many ancestors) there ought to be a future before the Pioneer Club. Yes. there certainly should be a future for the Pioneer Club, for now-a-days boardinghouses are full of women who have been driven out of otherwise comfortable homes by the scarcity of Mary Ann, Listen to the plaint of one young wife: 'For fourteen months I kept'house without help; but I gave it up when I could not go to —to church, of course. I was not going to be a slave and a hermit for ever, and divide my time between the broom and the gas stove.' Mrs. Youngbride and the partner for her domestic sorrows are unfortunately blessed —or bothered—or cursed, witli several van-loads of household treasures wnich' require to be guarded day and night. Were they but the happy possessors of <i two-roomed suburban cottage, with nothing more valuable in it than the plated spoons and forks, they could slam the front door cheerfully and fare forth like free people. But tiiev have had to carry the burden of riches without outside assistance for fourteen whole months, and it burst up the home more effectually than ever Socialism could ■have done. The young wife and her sister have retired to a summer resort and hubby is invited up for week-ends."