WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 278, 21 May 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by " Eileen ") ) CURIOUS GIRLS CLUB WIVES SUPPLIED. * Weston Lockney, a prosperous young : ranchman, of Peabody, Kansas (U.S.A.), has arrived home from a hurried trip to : Sweden, bringing with him as a bride the first of the club of young Swedish women who applied to Mr. William Payton, editor of the Peabody Herald, for husbands. The bride was Miss Agatha Olson, of Stockholm, Sweden. She was the secretary of 'the dub who wrote to Payton and told him that the young women there had organised for the purpose of getting husbands and asking him to aid them. Payton got busy at once, and it is probable that, as a result of his efforts, every one of the young women will be supplied with a husband. If what Lockney says of them is true the rush now is bound to be greater than ever. Summing up Lockney's discription, all the young women are "peaches." Lockney was one of the first to hear of the club through Payton. At his sug-1 gestion Payton cabled to the secretary of j I the club that Lockney would take the | first one offered. It so happened that | Miss Olson was ready at once, and she j cabled back word to that effect. Lock-1 ney took the first steamer from New I York, went to Stockholm, married Miss Olson, and now they are setting up housekeeping on the Lockney ranch. Mrs. Lockney is well educated and speaks English fluently. "About a yeaT ago," she said, "a yeung man who was born and reared in our neighborhood, and who had come to Kansas and returned with a fortune, told j us all about the State and the scarcity ' 1 of young ■women. He said there were a !lot of fine young men around Peabody •who wanted wives. He ulso told us about the American Leap Year custom. !"He married a young woman in our neighborhood, and returned to Kansas, and the idea came to us to organise a club and study English and learn AmeriIcan ways, and try to win American husbands for ourselves. ■ "There are more women than men ■ where we lived, anyhow. There were twelve of us at the start, but three of them were married at home before the club got fairly organised, and four others have been married sinme. That left five of us. Now lam married, two others have been married since. That cans, and Mr. Payton has made arrangements for the other three. All of us 1 will live near each other, and we are go- ) ing to supply the names of other girls 1 we know at home to good men who want \ wives."

As the result of Pay ton's efforts on * behalf of the Swedish girls he has been compelled to spend a large part of his j time acting as a matrimonial agent. Let : i ters came to him by the dozen every day from both men and women seeking mates. To those who send a. stamp for reply Payton sends a list of eligibles, reminding the women that this is Leap Year, and it is their privilege to do the asking. This is a sample of the letters: "Having read of the efforts of the ] Swedish women to • get American bus- \ bands, and being reminded that this is j Leap Year, I think it has come my time to pop. lam a resident of Arkansas J City, am the daughter of a well-to-do farmer, and a member of the United Presbyterian Church. Am not the handsomest girl in the world, but am pass-; able, have blue eyes, brown hair, am ] rather tall, weigh 100 pounds, and am 34 ' years old.—Miss Emma Marshall, Arkansas City, Kan." The girls of Peabody are not going to : be left out of the deal"however. At first' they paid no attention to Payton's efforts, but now they are getting into the ' game, and several-«of them are demanding that the young men of the neighbor- : hood exhaust the home supply of avail--able women before going abroad. They have sent the following letter to Mr. Payton:— "The undersigned desire to exercise their Leap Year privilege by protesting against the men of this country making such a strenuous effort to obtain wives from Sweden as shown by the multitude of letters you have received. Right here in Peabody there are young ladies who, in personal appearance, education refinement, culture, cooking and housekeeping, are the peers of any women in the world. As a matter of State pride we ask that Kansas young men first look at home for wives, not overlooking us—Jeanette, Mabel. Helen Mae, Mildred, Lena, Pearl, Elsie, Beulah, Ethel Daisy, Edna, Olive, Alice, Esther, Eileen, Lulu, | Anna, Edna, Laura, Helen, Ruth, Bertha."

USEFUL HINTS When steaming puddings or dumplings, put a cloth over the steamer before putting on the lid. This will prevent the moisture settling and rendering the pudding heavy. Keep silver articles in green baize bags lined with flannelette. <ind in each bag put a small piece of camphor; then your silver will remain bright for an indefinite period. To remove fruit stains from the hands, rub the stains with a piece of cut lemon before washing in soap and water. To-mato-skins rubbed over the hands are also effective for removing fruit stains. To prevent potatoes becoming black when cooked, put them into cold water, and when the water is brought to the < boil, squeeze a little lemon-juice in. They will then keep a good color and be of good flavor. To clean a porcelain kettle, fill it half* full of hot water and put in a teaspoonful of powdered borax; let it boil. If this does not remove all the stains, scour with a cloth rubbed with soap and borax. Towels should be thoroughly dried before being put away. In their damp condition mould sometimes forms on them, which not only spoils the towels, but has even been known to cause skin troubles. New leather boots are sometimes difficult to polish successfully. When this is the case it is a good plan to rub over the leather with a cut lemon. Allow the juice to dry thoroughly. Apply blacking in the usual way, and polish with a good hard brush. For a nervous headache or one following a too strenuous day, a simple means of alleviation is to remove the pressure of the blood on the brain by soaking the feet in water as hot as can be borne. The blood is quickly drawn to the feel. | and the brain is thus relieved of pres- [ sure. A teaspoonful of mustard added to the water will effect a relief when the former method fails. A little salt rubbed on cups will take off tea-stains. As a tooth-powder it will keep the teeth white and the gums hard and rosy. It is one of the best gargles for sore throats. Neuralgia of the feet and limbs can be cured by bathing night and morning with salt and water as hot as can be borne. When taken out, rub \ the feet briskly with a coarse towel. I Salt and water is one of the best reLmedies for sore eyes, and if applied in y time will scatter the, inflammation.