Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 195, 16 February 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

WELFARE OF CHILDREN. I DR. TRI/11Y KDT(i'S RETURN. Dr. F. Truby King, wlio represented tlu> New Zealand (iovcmment at the conference recently held in London on infantile morality ami cliilil welfare, returned to the Dominion by the <;.=. Rnapclm. In conversation with n reporter, Dr. King said that the secretary of the Na- < tional League ''"' Physical Education that his association was arranging for the publication in England of newspaper articles on the model of what was carried out in New Zealand. Fifty newspapers had already signilied their willingness to publish the matter. At the present time, said Dr. King, not only in England, but throughout Europe anil America, an enormous a»nount itf interest was concentrated upiMi Hie question of securing the best nurture and rearing of children, and an enormous amount of public money, contributed by the {Jovorumcnts and the municipalities, was being expended, in addition to what was being done by the voluntary organisations which had come into existence, mostly during the last five years. New Zealand's example in tliese matters was being closely watched, and was i|uoted on numerous occasions during the conference. Dr. Lafe.ta, of New York, a leading child specialist, had said that America, would do well to copy .New Zealand's methods, as far as the mass of the population was concerned.

During the last few weeks of Dr. King's stay in England he delivered a number of addressee, and the greatest interest was shown in the subjects dealt with.

OUT OP DOORS SLEEPING. ; The longer I live (says "Vesta ' in the Melbourne Aryns) the more persuaded I am of the benefits of out-of-door living and sleeping - , under proper conilitions and with proper safeguards. There were many people who regarded the en-, thusiasm that was aroused a few ywirs ago for sleeping out of doors as a mere passing craze, but to-day there is hardly a family tbat does not possess amongst its members at least one out-of-doors sleeper, and there are very many mothers who have arranged that all their small children shall sleep out of doors, at least in the summer months. The slcer>im>- hnlc.nnv is quite a feature of the architecture of tbe last few years, and one is surprised nowadays ,to see a Queen Anne villa of any size erected,without one or more of these balconies. Gradually, too, people arc beginning to realise that if sleeping out of doors is not feasible or advisable, then an upstairs bedroom is greatly to be preferred to a ground floor room. We are getting away,agaiii from the absurd idea that a two-storied house involves more work, and arc learning that not only is the upstair bedroom healthier, but the two-storied house can be kept (dean with less effort, and allows of better regulation of work and Isss domestic dis'turbaace. THE WAV OF THE REPORTERS.

Koine months ago Signor Ewilo de 'Gorjjoai married Madame Hmma Eames In .New lork. Tint bride was an operatic star who had sung with great miceess at Covent Garden and bad also appeared with distinction a» a principal in a divorce suit. Tlie AnierictiH reporters have their own way of handling social «ilairs of this kind* and nobody was surprised at the publication of. i.ii interview with Mr. Julian 'Story, the lady's first husband, quoting; reasons why he felt sure the marriage woul.! not he a success. The bridegroom would find, saiil Mr. Story, that the bride was ''icy cold and a slave to temperament.' Now Signor Emilo kas told the reportore that bis predecessor was "quite wrong." The marriage lias been a "complete success" and Madame Gorgnea "has become eminently domesticated and has put K) rout every prediction of her linst husband." The reporters are disappointod that the subject of this tribute refuses to make a statement on her own account. PKICES OF PHIFUMES.

It is worth notin." how the manufacture of perfumes has increased in price during the present year. Practically all the floral essences are dearer, with' the result that the use of artificial odors, mainly of coal tar origin, has lieconu' more common. Oil of lavender, whici forms the basis of many popular scents, has advanced in price because of an increased demand and a deficient harvest in the South of France. Essence of lemon, which enters into the composition of both expensive and inexpensive perfumes, is nearly three times its nor-

mal value, althougk price* aro »ow tending lower. Attar of roses is quoted at extreme rates, an ounce being wortli something like £o. This preciou* substance is an ingredient of dozens if popular perfumes, and its Tery 'high price is, partly due to the unsettled state of Bulgaria, the country 01 production. Oil of geranium is also considerably dearer, and, with few exceptions, the materials used in the manufacture of perfumes are tending upward. NOTES.

The Americans are very proud of thuir rural delivery, which was designed, amongst other tilings, to make the Women on the farms contented by giving them a daily mail through which they could do their shopping and roceiTd newspapers and magazines, and so breaic down the sense of isolation that was always look*d upon as one of the greatest trials of the remoter country life for women. Perhaps that is why they have begun sending the women themselves—or, at any rate, one girl— ; by post. What may happen to a bachelor j schoolmastenJlr. Stephen Coleridge, in his •'.Menioriese," tells the following diverting talc of Dr. Jowett, the celebrated master, of Balliol College at Oxford, who was a little round man of undistinguished features, a small, high voice, a receding chin and a round nose. His aspect was strangely suggestive of a bird of the parrot species. An undergraduate at Balliol fell ill, and his sister came up and nursed him. The master was very hind, and was constant in his visits to the young man's rooms. The youth recovered, and the sister, who was engaged to one of her brother'! friends, was preparing to depart, when Jowett came t» bid her "ood-bye. She thanked him warmly for kindness to her lirother, and ended by saying that she I had a great favor to ask him—"Would ' lie mind marrying her?" She meant, of course, to ask him to perform the marriage ceremony. But Jowett, in great ngitation, seized his cap and rushed from the room, c-xclaiming, "My dear • young lady, it would be utter misery to ] both of us."