WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 63, 1 August 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") HOW I WOULD TREAT AN ANAE. GIRL Simple (lift, with rrst in bed fe week or two, and an iron tonic, is i correct treatment for anaemia. There are many forms of this affection, each requiring its appropriate treatment, hnt diet and rest are snllicient to euro the mose eomrmm variety—that which chielly attacks young women and makes them pale, pully and short of breath.

The food should he very easy to digest, and at the same time nutritious. Soups with poumlcd meat in them, milk puddings, eggs. game and poultry, mutton cutlets, wcll-eooked green vegetables, and cooked fruits should form the staple articles of diet.

If potatoes are. eaten they should be well mashed, and taken in small quantities.

The following is a typical days' diet for the anaemic girl during her time in bed: Early breakfast—Hot milk and bread. About 11 a.m. —Half a pint of soup, thickened with baked flour or biscuit, powder, and containing some finely-minc-ed meat—beef, mutton or chicken. Luncheon.—Milk pudding, with an egg in it. Afternoon.—A cup of milk and some bread and butter. 7 p.m.—Soup, as at 11 a.m., with some toast. ■ Supper—Hot milk and bread. After two or three days of this light diet more food can be eaten, and game, poultry, chops, cutlets, green vegetables, stewed fruit, and mashed potatoes may be included in Hie diet, as well as cocoa and a very little weak tea. Great care is necessary to avoid indigestible articles, and so long as the patient suffers from indigestion the use of iron is of no avail, and may be injurious. The bowels must be kept open; this is most important if the treatment is to do real good. WHIPPED AND TARRED. On Sunday night. May 2G, at Ocean City, Maryland (U.S.A.). Mrs. Mary ITolzman, who was suspected of offending against the moral laws of the town, was taken from her house by a score of masked men and very brutally treated. She was partially stripped and tied to a tree and given forty lashes with a cowhide whip, after which she was immersed in a barrel of hot tar.

Her twelve-year-old son vainly endeavored to protect his mother, and struggled manfully with her assailants. The men took him and beat him also, and tied him up while they proceeded to administer the punishment to his mother. Mrs. Ilolzman h.is appealed to the State authorities against her assailants, many of whom she declares she identified. She accuses the local officials of collusion with the masked men who committed the outrage. Mrs. Ilolzman declared that she is innocent of offence of any kind, and her friends have joined her in making representations to the Governor on her behalf, and demanding the punishment of her assailants.

SUICIDE FOR LOVE Mr. Hsnry Spruch von Armenlhal, a Hessian nobleman, who was the American "apple king," committed suicide in Chicago on May 20, in a fit of despair, due to the announcement that his fiancee, Miss Frances Rosenblatt, niece of the' meat-packer, Mr. Nelson Morris, that she would not marry him until he had satisfactorily proved his ability to resist the craving for strong drink.

Mr. Armenthal once owned vast apple orchards in Oregon and California, but he dissipated his fortune until only some £2500 a year remained to him. ' When lie discovered that his fiancee was adamant in her resolve he returned to his 'hotel and wrote the following note:— '"We have several times contemplated my destroying myself in the last two years. Drink is the cause of it all. I love the finest woman in the world, and yet, while I know she loves me dearly, she has left me in disgust. lam disgusted with myself. Therefore the end." Hie body was discovered by a chambermaid. In one hand the dead man clutched a pistol, and in the other was the photograph of his fiancee. lie had shot himself while gazing at her features. In a will which was found beside the body, Mr. Armenthal bequeathed his orchards to Baron Sanbach con Armenthal, of Ilesse-Darmstadt, but requested that special provision be made for u a poor working boy in Chicago, who within the last few days did me great service." During the last few weeks Mr. Armenthal had been repeatedly arrested for drunkenness. CHINA'S ' QUEEN ELIZABETH." Princess Der Ling, the Empress Dowager of China's first lady-in-waiting, has set down her experiences of the Chinese Court in ''Two Years in the Forbidden City," a book which has just been published.

The Princess is the daughter of a progressive and patriotic Chinese statesman who from 1800 to 1303 was Chinese Minister in Paris, and with her acquired European outlook, viewed her duties and surroundings with much of the curiosity that belongs to the great contrast 'between Eastern and Westernwwa r s of life and thought. The Princess' account of the strongminded and vigorous old woman who ruled in I'ekin inevitably recalls Queen Elizabeth of England. In the splendor of her costumes, however, the Chinese lady was the more magnificent of the two. .She preserved the vanities of .youth in old age, and she exercised a very careful discrimination in the choice of her dress, which was frequently changed during the day. Her jewels were worthy of the Arabian Nights. A photograph shows her wearing a cape made of 3.300 pearls, reported to be of perfect shape and color.

One of her peculiarities was to insist on being addressed by her Ministers and attendants as "dear father." The reason of her choosing this title was that she wished to be regarded as a man, and would have liked to have been one.

The ignorance which prevailed among the ladies of 'her court was amazing, and she herself was very ill-informed' about foreign affairs. One lady express, ed great surprise oil learning from the I'rincess that there were European countries which were sovereign States. She. had imagined that the Empress ruled the world. The Princess saw much of the young Emperor and his consort. The former, she found, was a man of exceptional brain power, "but he had no opportunities." In the presence of the, Empress Dowager he was constrained and silent, anj in business of State she. only consulted him as a matter of form.