WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 163, 9 January 1914, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

Conducted by "Eileen."

PLAIN TALK ABOUT WOMEN Sl'Ol'T A I!AL> MAUK! AtlE -MAIIKKT. Dr. T. CI:! vc S!mv.* had a good many things to say about the modem woman .which are likely to be resented. Dr. Shuw was formerly medical officer of Hn list cad Asvlir.ii, and his observations wore contained i:i a lecture cm "The Nervous Factor in Woman's Health," which be delivered at the Institute of Hygiene, Louden. Here are some of his pronouncements: — The type of woman has changed; .sho has become harder in feature and more wrinkled; her complexion is affected by her outdoor life; she is more independent; she has less■reverence for authorit.'. has fewer home interests, and is ,lc.-i (if a stay-al-humo. If, as it seems to the women's desire is to be what men are and to do what men do, then 1 think 1 can see .some reason for the present style of dress ill women, in its .shortness and tightness to display the figure- In the matter of temperatiirefceling, women seem to have thermometer readings 0 f their own. There is probably some difference in the Idood of women from Unit of n.vii. but, we cannot definitely say wli-.it it is; but, there is mi doubt that they r.'ein to be more indilVcrmt to cold; anyhow. thev go about in much thinner attire in eold weather and at night, and wear openwork stockings in the coldest and wettest weather!

Sport is :l bad ir.an-iai'e market; the sporting uirl becomes ten li!:e the man mid -exposes liar character tii him ton much. liesides, as a rule she neglects hrr homo. You can alwa;. s it'll the sporting gh'l at home. liicycles thrown together and never cleaned; hockey sticks heaped t(),m'ili!"v; "monkeys" over the backs of chairs: ill-shaped, muddy shoos without l«sU; meals at casual interval.-', it". Then (here is the acquired bucolic look and the athletic carelessness tf deportment!

1 am struck with the enormous number of "beauty preservers." Well, I see 110 harm in them, but it all points to vanity. It is said that women arc deficient in "sittlichkeit"—i.e., in morality, in truth for its own sake. Do women always play the game? Do they still try to (jet advantage by unfair means? Do they still think that, men will forgive or condone any of their defections from the straight course? l'or years women have bail to get what they want ,by deceit, cajolery ami llattcry, and it 'takes time to eradicate this trend.

Proper sex development, he went on, was necessary for full mental development. .Some of the recent writings of Miss Ciiristabel I'auk'iuirst were unnecessary and mischievous. If was not right to put within the of a penny such ideas as she prnmulgatiMl. Turning to the strictly mental functions of women, Dr. Shaw expressed the opinion that women were more emotional than men, because for ages t'liey had been used to deference and adulation. Being more emotional, women were more impulsive than men. It had been said that women who had recently done violent acta were inline or hysterical. Nothing of the kind- On the contrary.

they hail in a great measure got what t'liey wanted. They bail gone in for hunger-striking, and had been successful in obtaining their freedom. Did that look like insanity? It was, he added, of no use asking women to stay where i t.liey were, for the knowledge of success gave them thirst for more. Meanwhile, concluded Dr. Shaw, if women strike for other filings, it is man's duty to help them, but it is equally his duty to warn them, and even to stop them, if he sees them imperilling their mental and bodily integrity; ami the danger is that a new kind of woman may arise for whom men have no sympathy, and whom to esteem and cherish will necessitate a new mental attitude. It will take a long time to do this, ami no one can foresee that the new social system will be an improvement if indeei'i it ia workable.

A SCOTSMAN'S ROMANCE The new British steamship Arabistan. with -!7,0(K) oases <if <late;, arrived at Xcw York from tile Persian lliilf after fighting the stormy Atlantic for 40 days (.says the Xew York correspondent of tlio Daily Xcws and Leader). Her sole passenger was a Scotchman named Ferguson, a young fair-haired man, wearing eye-glasses, who told a curious story u! his romantic adventures in Persia a; the correspondent of a Hirniinghaii! paper. Tiring of Teheran, lie joined tin l caravan of Sheik Vephrem. The Sheikh fell ill, and Ferguson united him. Then they encountered a rival tribe under Sheik liesht Scing, a soldier of fortune, as well as a doctor and a journalist. Ferguson took command, and drove oil' the enemy. He was shot in the shoulder, however, and the Sheik's beautiful dauyhler, who had been captured, poured oil into the Hig'lihuider's wound, in return for which Ferguson, under a Hag of truce, conveyed her back to her defeated father. After this both Sheikhs were ready to worship him. Ferguson graphically described the farewell of the (iamask-elieeked daughter of the desert, who blew kisses across the sand as long as she was visible. The American reporters asked him if he was not returning to the Persian maid to write a story eclipsing Kobei'l 1 lichens. Ferguson made the laughing answer: "There's u little blue-eyed girl in Aberdeen to be ronsidertd."

HOUSEMAID'S ROMANCE HXD'S HI I.L lOX AI iilO lirxlUXD IX CANADA. Xeus lias been received in Aberdeen i.l' I lie romantie wwldin;; of a former factory worker to an American million* aire. Agnes Murison wan the daughter of a working painter, who went to Aberdeen from Stafford about a dozen years ago, and the two lived for a time in Cerrard street. Nan. as her friends railed the f»irl, was employed at some jute works, and one of her old workmates describe her as; "a honnio winsome lass.'' Al)out four years ii£o f her parents then bein<>; dead, Miss Murison, tiring ol factory life, obtained employment with a Perth family. She stayed'there, however, only a little while, and rather more than three year* aj;o .- he oniigrated, -along with some companions, to Canada. She (juiekly found employment at Montreal a■» housemaid to the family of a well-to-do business man, and there it was that Miss Murison met her future husband—a Chicago manufacturer. H« was taking a trip to Canada at that tune, and paid a visit to the f>iri'H employer, who was an old business Iriend. As is the case in many Canadian homes, Uhc housemaid was*treated .much as one of the family, and the '\vealtl\y American fell a victim to her charms. Shortly afterwards millionaire and .servant girl were married, and returned io Chicago together.

ATHLETICS FOR GIRLS Some would have it that 100 much time and attention are given to athletics iu public schools, hut this is not so (-says a writer i:i the Gentlewoman). On the hockey lielil or at cricket girls learn to strive for a cause and to work, oblivious of hard knocks, for a definite purpose. It is part of the argumentative British nature to take sides. We must do it; we mint he actively loyal to something when our country jogs along without the need of our partisanship. And this incessant rubbing of our loyalty keeps us keen and ready for our country at any moment.

A SERVANTS' CLUB A club for female domestic •ervants has just been formed in Los Angeles by the members of an institution known as the Friday .Morning Club, the largest woman'.) organisation in Los Angeles. The club is to be established in one of the niost fashionable residential districts, and will contain not only dining and recreation rooms, lecture rooms and a theatre, but there will also be a number of parlors for the reception and entertainment of male visitors, so that (ho servant girls of l.o< Angeles shall 110 longer .lie compelled to entertain their "young men" in the kitchen known- or | unknown—to their mistresses. I NOTES

Shall tlie modern schoolgirl add (*!>> I (if money to her already j I nil <Miniiiihiiii ? asks a writer iit the Ladies' Pictorial . The nucstion worth. consideration, in (lie light of the recent [ironoimcenient of a legal expert on this vexed problem. Hitherto onlv dress allowance lias been the item reckoned for in the schoolgirl's expenditure,' but with increased extension of her independence, and opening up of wider fields' of activity, there is much ground for endorsing the suggestion (hat the modern schoolgirl should be made responsible for every item of expense in her daily liie. Miuiy a hard-working professional man would learn to appreciate ths training in money values acquired by a voiing wife ere she assumes the post of head of a household, A London paper record* the fact that, in fulfilment of a promise to a dying woman to cure for her invalid sun. Miss Marv Lander was carried at Northampton to Jlr .lames Williams, an invalid, who had to lie taken to St. Katherinse's Church in a motor ambulance and carried into it 011 a stretcher. Tlicy were engaged to he married when, some years ago. (ho bridegroom was ,tricken down with rheumatic fever contracted while sleeping- in a tent during mission work for tile Church Army, of which be waa then an officer. llc\lias since been bedridden, hut Miss Lander remained true to him, and when his mother was on her deathbed she promised her (hat she would take care of her sou as long aa she lived. A number of people watched while the vicar, the liev. K. 1!. Uoberts, read the marriage service, wi(h the bridegroom lying on the stretcher before him.

The following advice, given by a French corsetiere to a friend, is good, though expressed in different Knglish: "l'ull yourself always well up out of yourself. l/'ave your breathing all well below down there. Kulge your chest out. and 'old your 'ed well 'igh!"