Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 222, 19 March 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

JUDAH IN MODERN DRESS ZION WALKS THE BLOCK. CLERIC'S COMPARISONS. Melbourne, March 1. At the Hawthorn Presbyterian Church the Rev. C. H. Nnsh, M.A., delivered an address to the Young Men's Bible Class on the prophet Isaiah. He spoke of the period in which Isaiah lived—nearly 800 years before Christ, It was a ' time of abounding prosperity, anahigous to that which Victoria "isrfiow enjoying'. Everybody was patting everyone close on the back, and saying, "These are glorious times." It was, to use an anachronism, the day of the motor-car, the theatre, the racecourse, and the picture shows. In the midst of this the prophet Isaiah was raised up—a lofty-minded man with a clear vision, who went about with his eyes and ears open, seeing tilings a3 they were, and not afraid to speak the truth. "The motor-cars were flashing off to St. Kilda, and the people were having a royal time. There was plenty of money to spend, and it was spent freely. But Isaiah stood up and cried: " 'Your social condition is rotten to the core. Why? . Because, though you are living in the enjoyment of many blessings, you have forgotten God.' "Read the third chapter of Isaiah," exclaimed Mr. Nash, "and see if you can get a better picture as a description of The Block in Collins street. " 'Moreover, the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet. " 'Therefore, the Lord will smite with a scab the crowd of the head of the daughters of Zion. ... In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of , their tinkling ornaments about their feet and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon. " 'The chains and the bracelets and the mufflers.

" 'TUe bonnets arid the ornaments of the legs and the head bands and the tablets and the earrings. " 'The rings and nose jewels. " 'The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles and the wimples, and the crisping pins. " 'The glasses and the fine linen and the hoods and veil*.' "Can you,'? continued Mr .Nash, "beat that for a full, honorable exposure of the lavish waste of money and the needless fripperies that characterised the people of that day? Isaiah was not dazzled by what he saw, and, as be foretold, it came to an end, as it will come to an end with us, for we shall surely fall oh hard times. There are greyheaded men and women in this church who have been through them before." While Mr. Nash wag speaking his words were at times made almost inaudible by. the sound of motor floras and the whizzing and rushing' noise of the cars as they passed the church at frequent intervals.

MINISTERING ANGEL INVASION SOCIETY WOMEN BECOME NURSES. A plague of society women, Modern Society tells us, masquerading as amateur nurses, are making deadly preparations to invade Ulster should Sir Edward Carson and Galloper F. E. Smith push matters in the North of Ireland to civil war. The "smart set" matron, when she takes up enthusiastically the healing of fighting men, is not seldom regarded as a very distinct nuisance by military medicos and their henchmen. * The Boer war was a notorious instance of this, for Kitchener was almost driven out of his wits by the importunity of the host of would-be ministering angels, who descended upon the Mount Kelson Hotel, and divided honors in the ir.attcr of llutation with the contingent of interesting willows who frequented that too-famous hostelry. When K. of K. was in town iuuncdi- ; ately after his return from India, lie was heard speaking in a characteristically sarcastic vein of the society nurse infliction. "There was a youiij"woman., |« pruuO'.'.Uci.'d hrum'tle," said "the eoiiiqueror of tlie Soudan, "who came out to Capetown disguised as a lady nurse, her object being to keep her 'eye on her husband, who held a billet under General Forestier-Walker at the base. Later ioh he was unfortunately sent to tin front, where, still more unfortunately, he was forthwith picked off In- a wandering Mauser bullet. The widow was such ,a victim to the luxury of unrestrained grief that it was observed her raven locks turned amber in a siiHc night. ~ " ' "Thus," added his lordship, with « malicious grin, "East and West does occasionally meet. The stricken widow on the Ganges puts ashes on her head as an indication of her bereavement, and the widow from the banks of the Illumes applied peroxide of hvdroger, as an advertisement of her uncontrollable sorrow."

THE • TEN PEMANDMENTS." For gross worldly wisdom it would bo difficult to surpass the "Ten Demandments" hanging in a Canadian salmon cannery. 1. Don't lie. It wastes my time and yours. lam sure to catchy-oil in the end, and that is tlio wrong end. 2. Watch your work, not the clock. A long day's work makes a long day short; and a short day's work makes my face long. 3. Give me more than I expect, and J will give you more than you expect. 1 can afford to increase your pay if you increase nly profits. 4. You owe so much to yourself von cannot afford to owe anybody else Keep out of debt, or keep' out of my shops. ' 5. Dishonesty is never an accident. Good men. like good women, never see temptation when they meet it. li. Mind your own business, and in time-you 11 have a business of your own to mind. J 7. Don't do anything here which hurts your self-respect. An employee who is willing to steal for me is willing to steal from me. a It is none of my business what ;ou do at night. But if dissipation affects what you do next day, and you do half as much as I demand, you'll last half as long as you hoped. 9. Don't tell me what I'd like to hear, but what I ought to hear. I dont want a valet for my vanity, but one for my dollars. 10 Don't kick if I kick. If you're worth while correcting you're worth while keeping. I don't waste time cutting specks out of rotten apples.

were at any period of life quite safe to handle. It would be exceedingly bad for men if they could find a woman so young or so old that she might be regarded as being tame and docile. There is a blessed devil in woman that invests her mildness with incalculable potentialities of revolt. This blessed devil may be detected in the small soul of the small girl who still wears nursery ringlets and short socks. Itmay also be surprised in the spirit of the great-grandmother who is forced to keep u>) her end against the insolence of !\vo generations. Once a woman ahvavs a woman.

TRY OPENING THE EYKS. "When you want to go to sleep and cannot, try keeping your eyes open," says an expert in nervous disorders. A person whose brain is too active will sometimes close the eyes and vainly endeavor to sleep. But this very closing of the eyes only helps to concentrate the mental faculties on business all'airs and other distractions. "If the victim of insomnia will fix his eyes upon some gleam of light upon the wall, some shadow, or even on the darkness itself, he can relieve his mind from thoughts that perplex it, and divert attention from himself. Before he is aware of it the etl'ort will have ended, and he will have drifted away into slumber."

"PIN MONEY." Pins were pins in the fourteenth century. They were not dropped carelessly on the floor, or given away at the drapers' as a substitute for a farthing change. The law permitted them to be sold only on the first, and second days of January in each year, in order that they might not become too common. So it became the custom for ladies of all degrees to lay in on these two days their stock of pins for the whole of the year. The money provided by their husbands or fathers for this purpose was known as "pin money." When pins at last became cheap and common, the ladies spent their allowance for pins jn other ways. But the phrase "pin money" survived and has come down to us to-day.

GIFTS GIRLS SHOULD REFUSE. Unless fcom a declared lover (according to a feminine authority) a girl should not accept from male friends any gifts save those of a perishable nature, such as flowers or sweets. Books are sometimes held to be an exception to this rule, but they should not be costly, and should only be given to mark a birthday or as a Christmas gift. No Iright-minded girl (the authority declares) will accept valuable presents from a man to whom she is not engaged, unless, of course, he happens to be an old and privileged friend of the family. In fact, it is wrong for a man to offer gifts, because he must know they are embarrassing. Such offerings, however, have their advantages. They enable a girl to refuse them in such a way as to stop troublesome attentions before they reach the "proposal" stage.

WHAT IS HOUSEHOLD CHARM. Household charm is the one quality that perhaps every housewife seeks to have, and which everyone ought to wish to give to a.house. It is not measured by cost, for, as a matter of fact, it is quite independent of money. M.iriy costly houses, on which great sums of money have been expended, are entirely without charm; while many inexpensive dwellings are thoroughly attractive in every way. The charming room is the room that gives evidencie or personal care and thought, in which'the color scheme, the walls, the curtains, the carpet or rugs tell of manifest intent to produce a harmonious interior. Otherwise it van have no harm, or, at the most, only a slight interest.

DON'T BE TOO SENSITIVE. V. e all know the sensitive woman. She has two dec]) lines between her eyes and a plaintive droop to the corners of her mouth ami to her eyebrows. Whatever is said sha applies to "self." F.VCvy cap seems to fit her, and she wears it. She is losing all'the heallhy enjoyment that comes her way, She is missing half her life because sue is looking for snubs. She says she can't help it. She can. Tt is a very easy matter, to let those slights imagined' or real, roll off one like \catw Off a duck's back. It takes a little doing for Uie fi)>l three or four weeks, but after that :!■ comes natural enough. The sensitive woman is one of the most miserable of being-. It doesn't pay to be miserable, especially when merely a healthy effort will bring happiness.