WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 84, 26 August 1912, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen") j TO SUPPRESS KISSING. "A BLOT ON T CIVILISATION." The Milwaukee physicians are preparing a BiLl to be submitted to the Legislature for the suppression of kissing. ! They say it is a blot on civilisation, i They say it is a menace to health. They say it is an outrage upon decency. I They say that we should rub noses or foreheads, but never kiss. Oh, what twin-screw, boiler-plated, double-expan-sion asses! If someone would only introduce a Bill to abolish the Milwaukee doctors it would probably be a good thing for the health and sanity of the city. Milwaukee could get along very well without her doctors, but not without kissing. And the mere idea of having to rub noses with a citizen of Milwaukee would be equivalent to a quarantine upon that gay city. In referring to kissing we mean, of course, the kissing of women by men, and vice versa. If the Milwaukee physicians can prohibit the kissing of women by women they shall be reprieved. It ought to be an' indict- ; able offence, and women would be the first to make it so. The woman who uses powder or paint—and all nice women use one or the other—feels that the possible kiss from a female friend is one of the menaces of her day. She watches warily for the premonitory symptoms, she entrenches herself Dehind a mental hedge of 'bayonets, and if she is compelled to submit she does so with an impotent rage all the more deadly for the placid exterior behind which it boils. The ancient Romans knew a good deal about kissing. They catalogued and classified the kiss, and provided each variety with its appropriate name. There was the osculum, which was the mark of friendship, and the basium, which implied affection. These were bestowed upon the forehead or cheeks, but the suavium was the kiss of love, and for this the lips were reserved. Personally, we rather favor the : suavium. It is the other varieties that ought to be suppressed. The conventional kiss of friendship is simply an assault, hated alike by the giver and the givee. We find it in its most detestable form among women, and it might not' be a'bad plan if women's conventions and the like ; would make a preliminary ruling that there must be no kissing.—The Argonaut - _ WOMAN AS

At a reception of the Mayfair and St. George's branches of the National League for Opposing Woman .Suffrage, Laay Tree, wife of the eminent London actormanager, said that woman exerted her influence personally, and not upon masses. She never- had, and never would, impress herself, upon the multitude, but upon the, individual. Woman, in fact, was not a leader of man, except in so far as she led him by;'her little finger. The woman to whom it was given, as wife and mother, to fulfil nobly a woman's duties would never lack the means to t make her influence felt. No right of voting would add to her power. The whole movement which was called the "woman's movement" was really a movement away from woman towards man. As a woman, she objected to plagiarise man. Why should woman wish to copy man instead of perfecting herself ?

LATEST FEMININE ABOMINATION The latest abomination (says the fash"ion expert of the Gentlewoman) is the appearance of white_shoes- and stockings, as the very latest "cri" from Paris. I am thankful to say that even the man in the street rebels against this hideous fashion, for the other day a young lady who walked out in white footwear found herself the object of so much attention that she had to take refuge in a taxicab. And yet lam asked to believe that what is in the height of fashion must of necessity be beautiful!

THE QUEEN IN A MINER'S COTTAGE. During the recent Welsh tour of the King and Queen the Queen expressed a wish to see a miner's cottage, and the one chosen for the visit was that of Thomas Jones, in Bute street, Aberdare, because of its proximity to the square.' A carpet was laid from the Royal carriage to the door. They first entered the front room and found on the table a Welsh family Bible. Mrs. Jones, whose husband has worked underground for 19 years, invited their Majesties into the kitchen, the real living-room of the family. There was a fire in the grate and a kettle on the hob. The Queen took a cup of tea with Mrs. Jones, looked at the pictures, which included portraits of their Majesties and of Mr. Gladstone. and was amused at the toys of the miner'p little girl—a teddy bear without 1 legs atad a doll without a face. Her Majesty also went upstairs and saw the bedrooms. The whole cottage was beautifully spick and span, and its appearance was very little different from that which it must present on any other day. For example, it was drying day, and the clothes of the family were hanging from the ceiling. Before leaving the Queen accepted a china jug which was oyer 100 years old as a memento of the visit, and readily agreed to Mrs. Jones'irequest that the cottage should in future be known as Queen Mary Cottage.

DANCERS' DECALOGUE.

"The Academy of French Dancing Masters has just published the ten commandments of the dancer, which may lows," says the Telegraph's Paris correiows," says the Telegraph's Paris correspondent:— 1. Let vour movements be beautiful. 2. Thy deportment shall be at all times correct.

3. Let thy dance be a tacit form of politeness. 4. Be refined in thought. 5. Thy movement*? shall bo as noble as thv thoughts.

fi. Subject all the muscles of thy body to a perfect training. 7. Young man. take your youn<x lady respectfully by the waist; young lady, be reserved, but graceful.

8. Let your movements be approved by your understanding.

0. Your soul must correspond to your dance.

10. Consider <lancing to be a beauti' fill form of physical education.