WOMAN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 179, 28 January 1914, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD

VERY BUCK A New Zealand man win) has just come back from Paris seems to have been muck struck by the soinhreness of Parisian .millinery during the hat few months. Black velvet, black plush, black broche —these are all (he favorites. Some are edged with a brim-bor-der of skunk, some are bordered with a halo of wired black tulle; many are j brimless, and are really caps, filling j well down on to the head; others which I are neat and compact shapes have the I brim turned sharply up at the -side. Osprevs and aigrettes form the chief | trimming 1 , and bundles of those arc often placed at very curious angles. jutting' out from the highest point, in the brim-edge, tliev are either lilac]; or white; if they happen to be colored it, is because' the shape' is of colored velvet, but anything that is not black is the exception and not the rule. In London, too, there is an epidemic of black velvet millinerv— it seems about all there is to sec, alike in places where shapes cost guineas and in quite cheap shops. One welcomes the color touch as a relief from the all-black, even if it happens to be a deep rich claret-red or a sapphire-blue. In London, though, some milliners are generous with their colors, setting a full crown of velvet in a bright and cheerful color into brims

of black velvet, and banding the shape

with fur. Paris and London, however, agree that black is more chic for smart ocasions. Hence the epidemic of black velvet lials.^

HINTS FOR THE SURFER The son hath its pearls, also its aggravating little way* of working injury to looks and tempers. Leaving 1 the great complexion worry out of court altogether. we have to face tile fact that besides the hair, the finger-nails are the worse for being too often clasped in ■old Ocean's embrace. They become brittle, and those hateful little "raptnails" make their appearance after ,a few days' steady surfing. Cocoanut oil is a good friend, to be rubbed oil the nails before /loins 1 in for a bathe. Eau do Cologne and glycerine soap should both he kept alongside one. These simple refreshers will often be found move useful than the more pretentious compounds: the soap is very good for sunburn and tan. Tt is just as well, too, to wear stockings to match the costume. Last summer it was the exception, oil the more populous beaches, to see a woman who did not so complete lier surfing cosf nine. But. this season thev seem to be going back to the old style. All things considered, the drawbacks in connection with our glorious national pastime of surfing form so small a percentage 011 the whole that- every season we are bound to see it nourishing' more nnd more among women as well as 1 among men.

THE BORED GIRL. j YOll meet her every day. the girl who is always bored. Host usually she in a pretty girl, for some pretty girls labor under the delusion that it' is sufficient for their friends to look at them. They do not trouble, therefore, to make, themselves* agreeable, or to put themselves out to please others in any way. The girl who is always bored is. as a rule, wrapped up in herself. Tf sbo he one of a family of girls, she will lake little trouble to be pleasant to her sister's friends. Her own friends are the only people in whom she will take, any interest at all. She is a kind of wet blanket on homely little social evenings, provided, of course, that someone in whom she is interested does not happen to bo present. In nine cases out of ten she will sit apart from the others in a corner, reading. Should they wish her to 1 tako a hand at bridge, she ''hates" cards. If she is asked to play an accompaniment to a song-, she "feels sure she could not read the music." Should a walk be proposed, she is invariably too tired to join the others, and is the same with any other kind of game or amusement which i& suggested. But, the proverbial worm has a habit of turntng, and, should she persist in her disagreeable attitude to everyone, the girl who is always bored will awake suddenly one day + o the fact that people have become tired of trying to court her good graces, and just as she cannot be bothered with them so they will ■show that they cannot be bothered with her.

WOMEN BEHIND THE SCENES. Representative Mann, Minority loader of tlic House at Washington, gives -Mrs. Florence A. Donnelly, his clerk for twenty-two veavs, credit for much of the information that he imparts to the -Ilonso, and 'Representative Underwood, Majority leader, says that Mrs. Marian E. 'Martin, his secretary, helped him (o frame the Tariff Bill. She goes between Mr. Underwood and the public, and h:is a knack of eliminating the unwelcome ■caller and despatching important ones. To hor tlfe Minister dictates all his correspondence. When the newspaper men go to see him they are met at the door hy Mrs. "Martin, always well dressed and courteous, who ushers (hem in if their business seems urgent. Mr. Underwood is one of (he. easiest men ill public life to see—it' one sees Mrs Martin first.

A LUXURIOUS BOON. . For the well-to-do a long-felt want is supplied hv tin" introduction of hoiWater trees for boots and shoes. These trees are the full lengtth ami >liapc of the boot or shoe. 'J'licy are made of aluminium. Heach tree is lilled from 1 lie •top by tlie removal of a «ei'cw-top. I'rimnj'ily intended (o warm boots and shoos before putting them oil, I hey will aNo he found indispensible for drying wet hoots and shoes, whether worn for shooting' and hunting. for golf or hockey; also i'ley can lie. employed to dry cricket shoes and tennis shoes after the latter have 'been whitened. The use of the tree is recommended, too. as preserving the color of tan boots and shoes after being wet. Moreover, the "Vern'.r' warm tree, as it is called, can be u-ed as a hot water bottle for the bed. when travelling. Kach tree is lijjlil in weight, and is not clumsy to pack. The warning is given that, boiling water must not hn used, but only hot water. Presently 110 doubt this useful novelty will be regarded as an indispensable possession, I and its price, two guineas per pair, will ! not he grudged.