WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 221, 6 February 1913, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Conducted by "Eileen.") THE UNPOPULAR WOMAN I.Ai !\ OF TACT AND SYMPATHY. There are few women wlifi would willirgly be accounted "unpopular," lint- unfortunately we all know only too many w'iiu arc. To tho>e who >tuily elmraet.i'r tin* reason of Ihi> unpopularity soon becomes apparent. It is just as well to nolo why they have attained to this unpleasant distinction : for it enables other.-, to avoid the same fate. ISrusmicuess is a very disagreeable feature and indicative either of ill-breedir.g or absolute carelessness of the respect <i 11,- to others. The brusque Woman answers in an ol!'haiul way, and if she he bored, far from hiding the fact, she manifests it by cutting short the conversation and snubbing the individual who is addressing her, by her manner, tone and words. The brusque woman ask- people how they are. and never waits for an answer; she is a bad listener at all times, and strips her conversation of all the graceful turns and adornments which are so charming. To be always talking of self marks another woman who is not liked. The first person singular figures too often ill her talk, and her own interests and troubles are the main subjects of it. It .may be interesting to her, but others, however sympathetic they are at first, end by being wearied out. There is the materfamilias, unselfish, good woman as she is, who tires out people by her habit of talking only of her children. A little of this conversation is all very well, but it is tiring to have to listen to details which are very commonplace stories about those one has never seen, and doing which, outside the home circle, are void of interest. With some women this talk of family is in a minor key of complaint, peccadilloes being magnified into sins, and, in fact, to revert to an old simile, all the dirty linen being washed in public. With materfamilias of another type it is precisely the opposite, her children are perfect ion— swans, if geese in reality

- and Iter servants treasures. Slip in her way is seldom a general favorite. The woman who 'speaks her mind" in and out of season rarely wins golden opinions in the narrower circle of the home or the wider one of society. She sees the mistakes of others, and never fails to point them out carefully; she tells you im your picture be out of drawing, your piano out of tune; and calls your attention to many little details you had sooner have unnoticed. Do the cushions jar with the color of the couch, she lets you know that she

v- it; and if your maid is a clumsy waitress, her pity is so annoying you .would rather she kept it to herself.. She is never behindhand in telling people their faults, persona! or otherwise, and she always prides herself on speaking her mind. IDEAL WOMEN NO USE FOR EASY CHAIRS. If the Balkans lie rightly called the cockpit of Europe, and its men. after the unpleasantness in the peninsula, tlie home avengers, surely its women can ho truthfully named as the home-makers and beautifiers. The mothers and sweeti hearts of the men who threw themselves at the throats of the encroaching Turks ;and forced them to their knees —these mothers and sweethearts come from pretty good old stock. In times gone by •they have carried arms themselves when men ran short. They have ploughed the fields and gathered thee rops in time of need. To this day they weave and sew, knit and hake as no other women in the world. Revealing in their varied peasantry an amalgamation of seemingly all the nations of the earth, they have retained the good and the strong and the beautiful of each of them, and present today the most picturesque and the most robust, the most simple' find'the most complex type of womanhood to be found in a journey around the globe. > Bulgarian women, and, in fact, all Balkan women, sit upright in their chairs, as at dress parade. There are no rocking chairs in the whole realm. Their Spanish sisters would not know what to do 'without their easy reclining seats in the stiff homes of these more rugged women, who live out of doors and work in the fields and tram]) for miles in their hare feet. carrying their boots on their shoulders to be put on when reaching the city limits. Perhaps it is this very exercise that gives to the women of the Balkans the reputation of having the line-t shaped limbs in all Europe. Their ankles and wrists are the envy of all v'-itors. and their feel and hands are almost Andalu-iau ill their symmetry. Women of liulgaria are rated by the manner in which their Imge'r nails are kept. Even the men are mod fastidious about their hands. A butcher nf Sofia has had tin- same pedicure for the last eight years. lie and his whole family are treated everv week. ''[could not walk to my business 1 if T did not have my feet properly taken care of." was his an-wer when asked if he didn't, think he was carrying the matter of persona! cleanliness too far. ( h anlini-.—, is tli" keM'.ote of the good looks- of' tlie Servian women. Serviafi pia-antrv never wear veils; their faces *'((!»• wifli repealed a hint ions. In (lie bold- at Belgrade called the "White i':';." iiv thi' wax 1 , from two Servian \\<,rd-. "lii'o" and "grad" your chain bermaid insists upon helping you with your ablutions. She holds the jug from which i~sr.es the clearest sparkling water, which she skilfiillv pour- over your hand-, ladling you meanwhile that no clean gentleman will put his hands into a bowl, and wipes your lingers with the '.vii : t"-i of to'.vels. T.smrli -.villi a farmer oil' in the country. and the first, act of

rvii-i' will 1>" 1 >ihe pi'i'H y ila'ir;ht('i' of y i!! 'Alio. nil Ii in-; inn! run! !>.«:•!, • nil o!ll illio 111'' open. wh'M'e -In- !">nr.< :■ 11'1 \»ii)i-» iii silence. riM-civiim your "Hvola" ("Tliank von v 'l with no i-I'm'l- reply save •. f v smile. Sli" !>IV .ri:ili!y li'i-f -Hloofll. Jjliwsv hair. and .'j'.l' 1 :; . rI".M r I'V.s shaded witll loupt lii-lii'-': lifi' complexion will rivnl ih(> !>•••{ is: Enclsinil. ami Iht chcoks an- as fire from paint and powder as lliose of 11m- Roumanian maiden are full of them. "When Kini; I'eter was a xoiin;j- man lie mtvi'il under Kins Nicholas of Montenegro. and. t'allinir in love xvilh his handsome daughter. Princess Zorka. carried her nIT with him to liis adjoining homo llie border a slight io (lie hp.-ni-ties of his own home country never f'or-L'otti-n hv the would he sweethearts of the yomii;- prince.