WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 169, 16 January 1914, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

FOR TliS SiIALL ALLOWANCE. , WHAT AMEUICAXS WEAK. When questioned regarding her favorite subject oi discussion, the average woman invariably answers, "Clothes." For clothes attract the so-called weaker sex as a candle-dame attracts a moth. And it is perfectly right and natural for women to thin!; about dress, livery 'woman worthy of the name should care for clothes; though not to the expulsion of everything else and the development of immense personal vanity. Xo, indeed, that U quite the wrong- way to think of dress.

But to desire to look as nice as possible, and to take a keen interest in clothes as a means towards that end, is every true Woman's duty. She owes it to herself and to everyone with whom she (tomes in contact.

If you have a modest allowance, do not begin by thinking/ that, .because your dress allowance is small, you can.not 'be.well dressed and compete with richer women.

Aim at simplicity. Neither indulge is gaudy, common clothes, which should be studiously avoided by those who wish to be considered good dressers. Buy good materials and have them made up simply and daintily. .Remember, Fashion —as represented J>y things 'ultra chic — is only for those lucky beings with unlimited wealth.

Do not aim at 'being a fashion-plate. Cultivate individuality in clothes, and, in following the less extreme forms of fashion, try to realise that they are more effective when adapted to your particular type than when slavishly copied en bloc.

Have, you never seen a woman in a gown cfbviously le dernier cr'i, and shuddered at the hideous misuitahility of the whole thing? And, again, haven't you watched some girl in a perfectly simple, graceful gown -a girl with a good car-

riage and pretty figure and known in your innermost heart, that her dress, valued at a few shillings, is worth twenty of tlu'.t ultra chic garment, costing many, pounds!

And, of course, the most particular word of advice to tho3o with small dress allowance conecrns corsets- Do 'buy good corsets! The difference they will make to your whole appearance is ;beyond description. You realise that the most expensive gown looks hideous on a bad figure. Oil the other hand, a simple, cheap dress gains ell'ect and elegance when worn over really excellent cornets. It is well to copy the dress of the average American girl. In America they go in for trim, neat styles—tile elegance of the; American shirtwaist is astonishing, worn with sucli an air of,confidence and finished with a "cute" tie. Their shoes are sensible, and their skirts fairly heavy, but wonderfully neat, and worn rather short. No feathers out of curl; no "fluffy ruffles"; but' a certain dapper sniurtness that appeals tremendously.

WIZARD OF HEALING. j PEER'S STRANOE POWER TO BANISH I'AIX. Like the mystic power of the famous wiz-ards of old is a remarkable gift of healing claimed to be possessed by Lord Sandwich. In the form of a confession Ldrd Sandwich, a peer aged . 74, announced his ability to cure people without the aid of drugs whilst presiding at a meeting at University College, London, to inaugurate a. medico-psychologi-cal clinic in London for the treatment of certain diseases iby means of pliychotheraphy. The object of the clinic is to treat various forms of "soiul suffering" arising front nervous disorders, insomnia, and so on, by mental medicine. Lord (Sandwich mentioned astounding instances in which he said his treatment had been successful. 'There can ibe," he said, ''no doubt as to the immense power of the mind over the body, and the further that subject is investigated the greater the results we shall get. Ido not pretend to medical or surgical science, but I have had great experience in healing. After the South African war I had some 60 wounded officers at my country home, and there was never a doctor, or nurse in the house. 1 was both to the wounded men, and I was gratified at tiic success obtained. There are a few serious maladies that 1 have not treated with success. I think I may say that I have never failed to relieve people in agonies of pain. In one case—and this was the first intimation that I had of my pqwer of healing—a mutual friend told me of a man he knew who had undergone a serious operation in a London ho.-pitai and was in terrible agon v. I" went to see the sick man, and when the hitter told me that the

AfJOXY WAS BKf!1NMlX(l AGAIX. I said: No, it is not! You arc never going to have it again. Anil lie never diil." From that time onward, Lord Sandwich said, lie hud had great experience in the -healing of maladies, mental and physical. "1 'have at tended people ill palaces,'' lie proceeded, ''in cottages, in hospitals, and in homes, and inv patients have included a Hindu monk in his monastery, a Mohammedan in his mosque. and a Hindu princess who was brought (JOO miles by her husband to see me. There are people who dub me lunatic, impostor, and liar possibly, but that is a matter of iiidill'crence to me, as I know that pain has 'been alleviated and the sick healed." Lord Sandwich added that he knew one man who, he believed, possessed the same power, and hit had -heard of others who had it. It was likely there were many such people, but thev had not an opportunity 'to exercise their gift. He had been a.sked io explain his power, but he had nothing to explain. He. only knew what happened. If he was possessed of that puwerthcre must be'many possessed of the lesser power suggested in the formation o! that clinic which they could exercise with grea.t usefulness, and lie hoped the institution they were inaugurating would do much for the healing and happiness of large numbers of people. Dr. Constance Long said that many doctors had successfully practised lihvcho-therapliy, .hut so fiir there had been 110 provision for the poor. Their patients were those, sull'ering from depression, » morbid attention to bodily ailments, loss of seiisa-tions, insomnia, the drug haliit;, and manifold manifestations of ill-health for which 110 adequate provision existed.

"SOUL SUFFERERS." JM-iy lie bodily IkniHliv." Dr. Constance f.on.i.' pointed orit. "vet they may bo itilin other directions. Napoleon, for ins'mice, siid'ered from «. nervous ill■nes>: Socrates from a stammer. 'Already the committee li.'ul had letters from all parts of London asking when ]>atieiite niiffht 'be sent There was already one such clinic in Liverpool. They

woulu practise by suggestion, even bvhypnotic suggi'st.un, and in states of 'induced -leer, and by re-education. The practice would not weaken the will, [.■' chough il might he necessary sometimes to 'dig out' a ifcprbid idea before filling the mind of the- patient with healthy ideas."- -Dr. Maurice Craig said! thai ['•.there was scarcely a hospital in LOll- - don that would ta.;e in a patient ivlio I was .-uH'cring from nervous exhaustion. "The science 0 f medicine should be <!e,voted to the prevention of luahuly, not Uo lio:i.'.ing people when they were ill." |,ho s.iiil. "Y'e:, persons siiltefing from A'ii<.rvmin disease are often put down us /malingerers or oil" their heads." —Miss. (Jerlruile Kingston mentioned the ease of a. man whom she knew who spent 15 years "dragging himself from one sana-. tori'.im to another—nothing the. matter with his body, but everything the natter '.villi iiis soiil."; His wife, a beautiful woman, died this year, aiid the man\ ".-onl anguish" was only increased wiieu he rclleetud that his malady has luliau: her death.