WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 166, 13 January 1914, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

Conducted liy "Eileen."

LOVE AND MABKIAGE Here lII' IWO li'llll! (!X ! lCTt:ltil)llS mi lie niiUU'i' of nianiiisc. Doth I'oini! nun women, and they agree. Vim limy ■veil call them complementary or c:;ilanalory of each other. "Fur the orlinary women even marriage without, ovo is better than no marriage, provided die respects ami like; her husband.', ami .here i.„ a. reasonable prospect oi' happiios.-." Thus t.aily Trouhridgo, ami .Mhs .accly llitmilton chimes in: "The 'grand passion' we hear ,so much about is not [or everybody. Some people have a genius or 'I talent for loving, just as -omo 'people have a genius or a talent for making butler—or pictures." Well, vou agree. It is honest commonsenso, anil perhaps we ought to lie enthusiastically grateful when anyone talks about marriage. J'ut (asks a. writer in a London paper) is it really worth, while to warn young people that, they must not expect to know a "grand passion"'; Is it desirable to ring I he praises of "marriage without love'"; Let us by ai* means in such a mutter avoid becoming sentimentalists. Nobody over twenly-live'-supposes tli.it the "grand passion'' of the poets (ami the tragedians) is necessary to a happy marriage. We may admit that thousands of marriages 'have provided ami rea!i>ed "a reasonable pro•sped, of happiness'' without anything that could fairly b- called love iuUuding into the contrail Yet we may ho.-i-' late twice and thrice and linully over advising even the; most ordinary of women to challenge the risks of marring" .without something which :ho can at lea,l persuade herself U li.vo. She will need", good deal of ability, a fairly thick skin, or '- most unlikely poilion of lack if she is to make a success of the bit-d-

no-.-:. And when you have formulate! that intoleritbly obvious foin-lns'oll here conic- somebody i-lau i.r;un]ii:ipf it with I)<U vigovo'H i;'-j:v of dogmatism: "If love tft'i'e UiiV'i-.-.il in marriage, we -would hear nothing of the cry for independence." It. is, of cour.-o, a good big postulate. "If love W!;i;p. universal in hmrriago," YOU would hve fo learn your knowledge of the world all over nffii;)l, l.ife would ho so mightily different,' lint, after nil, everything would not he changed. I'V example, in a [ country where polygamy is not legal and women ouluumhev the nun, in such a country as England, many women would Mill remain single. They might in this new and reformed world, where "love is universal in marriage,' 1 much regret their celibacy, hut in tiie absence of enough men to go round, single they would remain.

MRS. HETTY GREEN'S BIRTHDAY Mrs. Hetty Green, America's famous ■woman financier, who is reported to be the wealthiest woman in the country, celebrated her scventv-eighlh birthday recently. the London Telegraph says, by rising slightly earlier than usual and receiving a large assortment of newspaper representatives and photographers in her city office, where she daily transacts business with hunks and other corporations. Mrs. Green thanked the interviewers for their congratulations, and said she tried to feel younger as she grew older. She refused to discuss tiie Mexican -itnation, the money mar- | hef or the tnrilf; but repeated her annual advice to her inquisitors to lead the simple life and cat onions. "I sun never without my onion," Mrs. flrcen confided; "the strength of the onion kills the genus one gathers about the streets- 1 have eaten onions constantly for years and they keep me healthy." Asked if she would give other rules for attaining her age, Mrs. flrcen replied: "Have a good conscience, no worries, and trust in God. Most people eat too much and work too little." Mrs. Green expressed lier disapproval of the tango end the new styles for women. She declared that] she was Mill a Quaker, and Quakers didn't believe in dancing. "Do you do your shopping?" someone asked. "Yes," was the reply, ''and I get 1(10 cents' worth for every dollar. If more people did that there'would be less t.ilk of hard tinic= and the high cost of living." A<ked what slm proposed to do with her millions of dollars, the venerable lady said she had no announcements to make, hut lier friends predict that one day "she'll startle the world."

MAW'S DISADVANTAGE Man is never tired of stmlviiif*- woman, in the hope that some day lie will lje able to understand her. That old saying may ha true to i\ certain extent, bin tli« mo-:t indomitable perseverance of mere man would probably he unavailing in the end if he attempted to master the science of woman's attire. All the learning of the law at the Supremo {'ourt in Adelaide the other day failed to lucidly explain that mystery of a woman's dress commonly known as the placket hole. A petitioner, under cross-examination in a divorce ease, admitted having grabbed at his wife and torn her dress in the region of the placket hole. 'Then you must have caught her at the back." 'exclaimed the questioning counsel. '-(Hi. no," replied the witness. "Then where is the placket hole?" asked 1 !„. triumphant lawyer. "Vou never know where it is," continued the perplexed witness. ■•Sometimes it is at the back of the dress, sometimes in the front, and sometimes at the side: in fact, all round." At this stage Mr. Jiisiicc Gordon broke in with a confes-ion that be was (juite ignorant concerning the nature of the feminine adornment under discussion. Mr. Skipper endeavored to enlighten the darkness hy vague reference to the cut ill Ihe dress below the belt. "Is it where the belt joins?" asked his Honor. "Where il buttons up." vouchsafed counsel. The Judge murmured thanks for the n.-si.-dniici! from tin; Bar. "I notice that (he (wo youngest members of the Bar are (he greatest experts on this •subject." said his Honor with a smile. WORKING PRINCESS HOSPITAL WHO INSISTS ON SriinißlNfi FLOORS. Vienna, November 2S. • The Archduchess Isabelle, who as "Sister Irinenuard" is now a nurse in (lie Red Cross hospital bere, intends, if she receives leave from the lady -uperior, to ■no to Spain and engage in iiospliai w'ork dhere. , This plan is the re-ult of the King of Spain's visit (o the I'rincess' father Just Sunday, when he. saw the princess, . wlio is his cousin, in the dress of a i-nurse, and invited her to «o to Spain. Meantime. Sister Irmengard will continue her hard work in the hospital there, where she takes the same food as the other nurses and will not even he talked out of scrubbing floors.

THE BUSINESS GIRL ' wnv ,u\sti:alians kxckl. According to .Miss ( ntbhert-on. woo read ,1 paper at the annual congress ot I the National Council of Women in Melbourne a short time ago on "Women's Work in the 'ndustrial World." the typicnl Australian girl who earns her living in factories, simps, or in workrooms is a well-built, athletic young woman, with a fair education. She is often a church .worker and member of a Sunday school and a friendly society. She has the independence which usually accompanies fair wages and a reasonable prospect of 'steady work, and the greatest complaint about her is one that it is impossible to :remedy. She will leave her situation and get married, and is thus practically lost to the industrial world unless misfortune overtakes her.

In her recent trip lei England .Miss Cuthbcrlsrvn had many opportunities of ■ contrasting tin- Australian •>ifl worker with the Knglisli one, anil she says, without hesitation, if there are any girls " r women .smarter at tlieir work than the. Australians she would like to see them. When she asked skilled English workers what they considered a fair amount of the particular work they did the amount stated was almost invariably under that of the Australian, though the hours were usually longer. The principal reason fur this superiority is, in Miss (Juthbedson's opinion, due a the excellent system and conditions dI work laid down by the Victorian Vaclory and Shop Acl, which protect* in •very way the interests of the worker. In New Zealand tin: Act was spoken of I is the most advanied factory law in the. J vorld, and to cover the same ground in j \<:w Zealand no fewer than six Acts had . ohe read together, (me of t'lic great- , st benclits conferred by factory legisiaion was the limitation of working hours ! or all women, boys and girls to -is knurs ' ter week. Women must not be employ-1 d more than 10 hours each day or aftw | in the evening, except under special j onditioiis regarding overtinie. }<:. ton- j equenee of th.c high rates to he paid ivertime had decreased considerably, for, rom an economic point of view, it w.is ibvious that when no more could he obaincd for the work it did not pay to rork overtime if the work could not lie lone in ordinary time. Another result ras that work was done in a more rc;ular niaimer. The Act also provided or decent accommodation to work in. )n this point, Miss Cuthbertson said lrat in Melbourne there were factories vherc fine dining-rooms, roof gardens .nd pianos were provided for the eniiloyees, and in one ease a small hospital, vith a nurse in attendance, was part of hu equipment, and, in addition to good rages, an insurance scheme was also ilanned for all operatives.

THE CONTINENTAL WOMAN A letter from Mr. V. Lelhbrklge, of I'angitikei, now travelling abroad, refers to women's work thus: "From Amsterdam we started for lierlin, leaving at 8.20 ami. and reaching lierlin at 7.1 p.m., rather a long journey, but the country is most interesting. One sees ploughs drawn by cows working in the fields, and very often women working the teams. It seems to he quite the proper thing to make; your wife do the heavy work here. She digs the potatoes and carries them in a cra'te on her back to the pit. She also hoes the mangolds and dors the farm work generally, and for ii change looks after the house between Limes. 'J'lien when she lias finished this she works at. the railway station filling trucks with coal and any other light job she can lind. Berlin is n great city. By far the best, streets we have come across in our travels and the most beautiful parks we have seen. Since coming to Austria we notice that the women still work in the fields and do the road work as well, as we saw several breaking stones as we passed and some mixing cement, while others were digging drains in the streets."

NOTES A woman charged in Pari* \vit>, stealing- a box of chocolates from the front of a shop pleaded that she had oaten nothing fur three days and was hungry. "Yoii are accpiitted," said the judge. ''After three days without food you may he excused for eating even chocolate." The hridc-clcet of Mr. Alher 1 , Aiucll, a professional weight-lifter and the son .of a liirmingham licensed victualler, turns the scales at 4Ost alb, although she is only If) years of age. Her name, is Xcllie Lambert, and she is the groat-grand-daug'htcr of .Mr. Daniel Lambert, whose weight was "rist 11 lb. She has a waist-line of 7ft lin, while her ami is 2(iin in circumference. The prospective bridegroom weighs between 14st and lost and stands Oft high.