Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 220, 17 March 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

j AFTER MARRIAGE. I Mrs. Whyte, head mistress of the (Jills' School in Limehouse, London, says tliat after marriage girls lose their pride in their personal appearance. Long experience compels her to confess to a feeling of grace uncertainty respecting the last . effects of the efforts to tenure improvements in personal cleanliness, general tidiness and self-respect, it cannot lie denied that material success attends the action of the teachers while the child remains at school. The evanescent character of the improvement, however, is marked in slum districts soon after tile pupil reaches "ieaving" age. For a few years, as shown in the appearance of the "old girls" at their periodic gatherings, self-pride is retained; but after marriage, which with many takes place at a very early age, a rapid decline appears to set in. This is attributed to poverty and ill-conditioned, crowded homes. Miss Oakes, mistress of the Bcrncrs Street School, says the poorest girl will still marry a man who is out of work, who she knows will not work, and to whom she will give pocket-money from her own earnings. It is only by raising the level of these girls, so that they will refuse to marry a mam wh» has no permanent employment, that the casual unprovided home will ceaso to be. PART THAT SMALL THINGS PLAY. Small tilings play a more important part a'in the obtaining of a desired job than many girls think. A man who does the work of choosing all the 'women employed in a large mercantile establishment lately declared that after the big characteristics are settled it is tho little things that count, and that a sweet, well-modulated voice always helped him to a decision, provided, of course, the applicant was fit for the work to be done. Undoubtedly, there 1 is a lot in a voice; The girl who has cultivated a rasp sets the nerves of whoever she works with on the jump, and, though she may be satisfactory ii every other' way, tliat is a handicap, j for, though she may perhaps say less than any other girl in the building, j she'll somehow seem to be talking most i of the time, just because one wishes j she wouldn't.

j A MATTER OF NECESSITY ) Prospective brides, who are ignorant as to the proper method to boil water, and recent brides, whose husbands think that further information on that subject w'ould do no harm, are for tbe , next term to be placed on the free list at the Chidago School of Domestic Arts ! and Science. The principal, M;s. Lynden Evans, declares that girls are appalled at the idea of housekeeping, though they should not be, and will not if they will only study a bit. It ia a matter 'of necessity, she declareß, with the domestic service problem getting more and more difficult, to do something to enable young women to be independent of servants in emergencies! There are many things ignored by the average woman, and yet they aTe important. In . Victoria, there are plenty of Bchools which teach fancy cookery, and too few which touch the fundamentals • which Mrs. Lynden Evans proposes t» emphasise in the Chicago instruction course. ' THE CULT OF BEAUTY Washing the face in the early morning dew has been recommended from time immemorial as n complexion beautifi'er. It has evidently been revived in Sydney. Says the Sun:— Iu Kentvillo Avenue, Annundale, and adjacent streets, passers-by in the early morning have seen strange sights. Girls, in kimonos, shawls, or coats over their nightdresses, kneel down on i the lawns of their respective homes and ! rub their faces on Hie wet grass. For all the world they looked like sun-wor-shippers, and a reporter made enquiries. It was hard to get the young women to talk; but at last one girl explained the mystery. Some weeks ago a local newspaper which publishes beauty hints advUoil girls who wished to have a complexion of the roses-and-cream kind to rise at about 5 o'clock a.m. and push their faces about in the dewy grass. A fortnight of this kind of treatment was guaranteed to produce a skin like a baby's. j The girls, therefore, rise at 5 o'clock. I Whether the lawns have benefited by ' the experiment is another matter. And I has the guarantee proved good?