Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 254, 25 March 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

HAIR ANY COLOR YOU LIKE. Tin' growing favor with whicli tin; modern woman regards (lie postiche, or false hair, has given the coill'eur the, chance for which lie lias been long sighing. anil hi 1 docs not mean to let it slip through his lingers. (Iradually, almost imperceptibly, women have liecn led from fringes, frizzies., hands, twists and waving (false curls etc..) wigs, and dyes. Transformations led last year to "envclopers" which, thanks to chemical aid, enable the wearer to match the color of her hair with that of her gown, and at a ball recently given by the lomtesse de Lesseps all the guests wore color-transformations to match their dresses. The hairdressers have now decided to strike a decisive blow. Four hundred mannei|iii>is. selected from among tuosu employed by the leading couturiers, are to be provided with color-wigs in which to appear at the ball and music hall resorts' of Montmartre and other rendezvous of gay Paris. "It will probably be. some time before color-wigs are a part of woman's walking attire," said a member of the Fashion Committee, "but we expect to see them worn more and more in fashionable saloons and at the theatre. Aii, if only opera would g'ive a soiree and a few ladies would appear at it in colorwigs! The coquette is timed in her way, and she needs a 'pacer,' especially when the style is eccentric." ■ The price of the color-wig will always prove a bar to its success. Before a wig can be colored the hair composing it must be bleached, and not all hair resists this operation. The consequence is tluit that the pound of "raw material" costs £2O. The process of coloring is extremely delicate, and this fact alone makes for costliness. Only the wealthy will be able to afford j a wig for every fresh gown.

WORDS OF THE WISE. Every man lias his besetting sin.— Cicero. The only way to have a friend is to be one. —Emerson. Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wits at tlie expense of one's Letter nature.—Montesquieu. So many faiths, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind; But just the art of being kind. Is all this sad world needs. ■'Almost" is a dangerous word. It has tripped up many a mail who might have been successful if lie had had determination and grit to go on a little further, to hold on a. little longer. What you love in your friend is not himself as ordinarily seen or estimated, but his higher self, that few see, perhaps that you alone discern. What he is to the world, or the world to him, you do not care. It is what he is to you that is of importance.—Lillian Whiting. THE RULE OF THREE. Three things to fight for—honor, country and home. Three things to think about—life, death and eternity. Three tilings to govern temper, tongue and conduct. Three things to love—courage, gentleness and affection. Three things to hate—cruelty, arrogance; and ingratitude. Three tilings to delight in—frankness, freedom and beauty. Three things to avoid—idleness, loquacity and flippant jesting. Three things to wish for—health, friends and a cheerful spirit. Three things to admire —intellectual power, dignity and gracefulness.

SCIENCE CAN'T EXPLAIN ANY OF THESE FAMILIAR THINGS. What sleep is. i How an eye sees. What electricity is. How a firefly lights its lamp. How a seed grows into a tree. How a rose makes its perfume. Whence the sun gets its heat. Why the compass points to the north. What makes a bird build its first nest. What causes the sex of a baby or an animal. What happens when food is oxidised in the system. What change takes place in iron when it is magnetised. What makes rain fall ill some places and not in others. How a bloodhound tracks a man by the smell of his footprints. What nial-es an apple fall to the ground and not Itv off in the air. How a bird can fly in the dark through a forest without hitting the trees. flow glands that are identical in structure secrete absolutely different fluids. Why iron alone in particular states is capable of being magnetised. What happens when two volumes of hydrogen and one of oxygen are combined to form water. The difference between a live man am" a dead man, or a live dog and a dead dog—in other words, what Life is.