Woman's World

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 266, 8 April 1914, Page 6

Woman's World

GIRLS WHO DAEE, j j '■She did not euro wliiit people said," ! would make a fitting epitaph for many a girl who had gone wrong. It is not always enough to lie conscious thatwe are innocent, to know that we do what is light; we must not put ourselves ill questionable positions. <iirls should avoid the appearances of evil, avoid questionable situations, avoid being seen in the company of men known to be of had character. Nor should they carry on sill-/ conversations over the 'phone with men whom they hardly know. A girl who doesn't care what people sav about her does not realise that gossip has a multitude of tongues; she does not' realise that liad things said about people are infinitely more contagions than good tilings. She does not realise how much her welfare, her sucin life depends upon what people think of her. No one is independent of the opinion of others any more than a drop of water in the ocean is independent of the other drops. The destiny of one is the destiny of all. Kvcu the appearanc of evil should be shunned an much as possible. An immoral act is just as wrong for a man as for a'Voman, lmt hitherto it j has not been regarded in the same light. ! Society has taken it for granted that i when a woman goes wrong, even through

ignorance, she is a fallen being, an outcast, but that when a man does the same thing his reputation even is not affected. Society used to say that the young man gone wrong was merely sowing his wild oats, that all young men hud to sow them sooner or later, but it '.vas not considered a terrible thing for a man to violate the laws of chastity. The new woman, however, is creating a new public opinion, a new standard of morals for society, and her slogan . "chastity for men," is going to compel ! him to clean up his life, to force him to :a higher morality.

The great conspiracy of silence lias ? kept covered up for centuries the plague ; of white slavery, a plague infinitely j move disastrous than the black plague curse of the Middle Ages. Vice has been kept from the light, shielded, protected I by a senseless, cruel, criminal prudery, j The greatest fact of nature, the sex impulse, the impulse which in its purity was evidently regarded by the Creator as the most sacred of ail impulses, the Jj;isii! racial instinct, has been tabooed as something shameful and not to be mentioned. The wise use of this instinct lias brought tile greatest blessings to mankind, while its perversion, its 11ns- , use, its misdirection, has brought the greatest evils, mental, moral and physical. \ We are slowly awakening to these tremendous facts. The olu-age crime ot | silence in regard to sex matters is at ■ last being broken. It seems incompro.hensible to modern progressive people j liow society could so long have conspired ; to pass over in silence this vital subject ! and thus continue to expose millions of j young people to the frightful dangers ; accruing from ignorance, j If wo knew that some one had poured ! typhoid fever germs into a stream which I | supplies water to tour neighbors we , 1 would think it a crime not to warn them j of their danger, but all knowledge of a ] j worse danger has been carefully hiddeij' from our sons and daughters. It is time ! that parents realised their duty to their i children and saved them from the pitfalls that await unsuspecting innocence. ACTKESS AND MILLIONAIRE. There came by the American mail '-he other day a story that will interest many people her. Here is how a San Francisco paper tells it: — The romantic denouement of a brief five weeks' courtship of Miss Louise Hamilton, the beautiful actress, by Percivai Walker Selby, the liurlin- | game clubman and all-round open-air d<>- ; votce, came last night in the amiouncc- : mont of the engagement of the couple. Since the arrival of the beauty with ! the Andrew Mack company last month ' the marked devotion of the wealthy athletic enthusiast bad been noted. Xeverethcless, the word of his success caused a wide ripple of surprise in I social circles. Miss Hamilton is a typical Irish girl and proudly claims Dublin as her birthplace. The wonderful grey-blue eyes about which the poet William Butler Yeats once raved caught Selby in their spell at first seeing, according to the intimates who watched the progress of his | whirlwind courtship. .Stage ambition i held oil' the suitor for a while, but finally Miss Hamilton capitulated. Selby is famous in golf, polo, horseback riding, walking and all forms of sport. He is president of the California Coif Association. Four years ago he showed himself a game pedestrian by engaging in a biking contest betweeen Burlinhame and Monterov, a distance of over one hundred miles. The next year he rode over 500 wiles on horseback to show the army officers' test

was not so hard, ;md incidentally to win a wager. Selby is a son of the late T, 11. Selby, formerly Mayor of San Francisco, and founder of the Selby smelting works. MEDICAL NOTES. SOKE THROAT. "An ounce of prevention," it is said, "is worth a pound of cure,'' and certainly the old adage is self proven in the case of sore throat. Prompt attention given to iirst symlomn will in all probability avert the threafeii''d catastrophe. It is generally heralded/ by headache, chilliness and a dry, roughV feeling in tile throat. To produce a | thorough sweat is the must simple, way . to break up a cold, and this may be ac- | eomplislied by a hot 'oath immediately } before getting into bed, wrapping oneself in warmed blankets and taking a very hot drink, lemonade, etc. . I hie teaspoonful of common baking soda to a glass of hot water, or sail water in 7 the same proportion, makes a capital gargle, and is one which can lie obtained at a few moments' notive. The garglo should be as hot as can he borne, and rnsed every half hour till the inlhimniation subsides. DEEP I'.REATIHX'I!. ! A medical man makes an earnest plea for deep breathing as a therapeutic measure of the first magnitude in the treatment of malnutrition characterised by that complex group of symptoms ascribed to neurasthenia, toxaemia, indigestion, anaemia, gout and in affections of the lungs and pleura, lie .-ays that deformities due to rickets and spinal curvatures are often susceptible of great improvement by combined exercise of the lungs and special gymnastics. In delayed consolidation, incomplete resolution, imperfect restoration of function i accompanying or following pneumonia; • partial consolidation, collapse, m- carni- } fication of the lung, associated with or f rom pleurisy with effusion;

uronciiiociiisw ami aunesions ui pleura, <k-ei> brealhin;; is ]:■ rticiiiurly ] beneficial. lll'eSltllillJi exercises must I'C ! taught and watched lo lie effective. The j lungs should lie filled from Ir. iijiu to top. Tile object to he. obtained is increase of the tidal and supplemental, and a decrease of the residual, air. If cou«iiim,' is produced by deep breathing, it is usually beneficial and assists in distending unused lun;,' tissue, :strel rhblit tearing adhesions and, dislodging sccretiou. TIIKAT.VIEXT Of THE SKI.V. flood lieallh depends ij) a great lire ou t'ne skill hem;; kepi ill i'■' 1 condition, and the most important i.i'* tors in this are ■diet, clothing. and cleanliness. Improper food whirh is not readily digested often causes eruptions on I lie'si; in Hint are and unsightly even if tliev are.not sufficiently ini|jortant to come unJer the bead of disease. Kxevcise is imperative if the skin is to perform its natural j function. When exercise of a slreiin- ' ous nature has been indulged m. and tae ' body lias perspired freely, the. clothing : should be ,removed, the body rubbed > with a towel and a fresh set of nniler--1 garments put on. In this way a feeling of renewed vii,'or and freshness is enenjoyed, whereas the damp clothing, if kept on, is apt lo cause a chill to the skin. In washing the body all that is wanted is to cleanse the surface of the skin and remove the excretion wliicli settles ou it in the course of the day or liin'ht. Scrubbing, rubbing and steaming is not good for the skin, simply because tbe outer protective surface is thereby removed. This outer skin is wanted in its proper place, it has a distinct function to perform, anil the removal of it leaves the larger, plumper cells of the miderlyitiiS cuticle exposed to injury.