WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 76, 16 August 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") ON LOVERS AND HUSBANDS. When ;i woman wants to cry the devil himself cjin't stop her.—"The Spell of the Lotus," bv D. IT. Dennis.

The thing that a woman demands most of love is that she may prove it.— "The Prelude to Adventure," by Hugh Willpole. It is not what a woman does, but what she is, tliai a man loves and finds loveable. —''The Second Woman," by Norma Lorrimer.

Xo man despairs when a woman admits that she is half afraid of his influence.—"Up to Perrin's," by Margaret B. Cross. I Girls welcome love or hatred, but indifference is a sin which they will never forgive.—"Streams of Music, of Purity, and of Love." A house always has a more finished look when there's a man around it, even if you «nly hang up his hat in the hall." —"Dickie Dilver," by G. B. Burgin. When a woman is in love, she always regards every pair of lovers with the eagerly critical eye of one who knows.— "Barter," by G. de S. Wentworth Jones.

The modern woman has learned that the thirties, properly led up to, are the years of a supreme fascination.—'•'Golightly: Father and Son," by Laurence North.

A man's business is to specialise on the woman he loves and study her. If he really loves her, that will keep him •busy for the rest of his life.—"Dickie Dilver," by G. B. Burgin. Young women, knowing little of love, love their lovers. Older and more sophisticated women, knowing more about lovers, love love.—"The Woman Hunter," by Arabella Kenealy. It is always better to conciliate the female sex. A kind word to a woman is like apples to a guinea-pig or nuts to a parrot; it induces pleasure and willingness to serve.—"The/Bride of Love," by Kate Horn. The really agreeable husband must be a person who takes you for better or \ for worse, and shrugs his shoulders and ■ loves you all the same, and doesn't care two-pence three-farthings about your ideas; but never forgets that you take sugar in your early morning tea, and never has cold hands when he does up t your blouse for you.—"Up to Perrin's," ] by Margaret B. Cross. r

AFTER 42 YEARS. At Einsiedeln, in the Canton of Schwytz—the Swiss Lourdes—a remarkable marriage took place in the principal church. In 1870 a wealthy Swiss couple living in the neighborhood became engaged, but on the breaking out of war between France and Germany, the fiance left for Switzerland to serve under the French flag. The couple then drifted apart for the ensuing forty-two years, and strangely enough each married three times during this period—the husband losing three wives by death and the wife three husbands.

. LEMON CURES• Lemons are very useful both in health and sickness (says the Family Doctor). Hot lemonade is one of the best remedies for an incipient cold. It is also excellent in cases of biliousness. For malaria the "Roman cure" is prepared by cutting the rind and pulp of a lemon into a pint of water, then boiling until there is only half a pint. One teaspoonful is taken before each meal. This has cured obstinate cases when quinine failed. Lemon syrup, made hy baking a lemon twenty minutes and then squeezing the juice upon half a cupful of sugar, is excellent for hoarseness and to break up a cold.

THE HOPE DIAMOND. WAS IT ABOARD THB TITANIC? According to the magazine, the Lady, the celebrated "Hope" diamond was on hoard the Titanic when she went down. It states also that though the French Press has commented on the fact, it seems to have escaped notice 011 this side of the Channel. .111-luck is believed to dog the possessor of this stone, and the superstitious will say that the wrook of the Titanic was the crownin™ misfortune of its baleful career. The "Hope" is said to he the. loveliest of ail colored diamonds. It is of a brilliant sapphire blue. Mr. H. T. Hope, father of the Dowager Duchess of Newcastle, bought it early in the nineteenth century for .£IB,OOO. The diamond is believed to be part of tke ''Tavermer blue," which was one of the French Crown jewels, stolen during the French Revolution, It gained its name "Tavenier" from the merchant, Jean Baptiste Tavernier. who sold the stonf to Louis XTV.. or the Regent Duke of Orleans—for authorities differ—and the misfortunes which befel the French Bourbons have been laid, at its door. Lord Francis Hope, the brother of the Duke of Newcastle, sold the diamond iii HKlti. Tt was sold again in l.TOfl. Now. if Hie Ladr is right, it has done its worst and last.

WOMAN'S ADVENTUKES IN THE CONGO About 500 photographs, taken during a recent journey in Central Africa, were exhibited by Mrs. J, H. Harris at the Royal Colonial Institute recently. A\ith her husband, Mrs. Harris went out chiefly to investigate the condition of the natives in the Belgian Congo. 1 lie\ weie absent from Kngland for a. year, during which time Mrs. Harris took over 100(1 photographs. These she developed under difficulties. 'The water in the rivers," she said, "was too muddy for the purpose, and I had to rely on the water we were able to collect from the tornadoes. We used to gather if. in sailcloths. hi many of the places," she told a Daily Chronicle representative, wo came across natives who had never seen a camera, and when I attempted to 'take' them Ihey ran away and hid. They thought mv camera was a gun. After I printed the negatives I showed them the result, and then they said, looking at the pictures, that I 'had caught and bewitched their spirits." Some of the photographs show the extraordinary prevalence of the native custom of cicatrisation. The wounds are self-inflicted, and the resulting scars are the distinguishing marks of different tribes. When someone remarked on a picture of a young native terribly scarred. Mrs. Harris explained that, if she didn't do it sin' would probably be without a husb;l ml.

Due picture gave a grim suggestion of the dangers risked by Mr. and Mrs. Harris in their .journey. Tt, is of a woman whose face has been pernianeiiHv scarred liy a leopard which stole her hjilic from her arm* as she slept. M"-. Harris said that tliev liad to lake special precautions against these animals at night.