WOMAN'S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 188, 18 January 1915, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORLD.

DANGEROUS! ; THK COMMON TOWEL AND SOAV. Many persons have been disabled or disfigured fiir life by using towels and soap after they Imvt heel) infected In otlur people sitll'eriug from contagious discuses. Have your individual towel, snap and glass. If you are ever forced to use public soap, before you touch your hands to it let hot water run over it until tin: outer coating is washed oil'. The hands are most susceptible to infection because of their open pores. .Thousands of people are taking chances with their health every day of (heir lives using public soap tablets and public towels (writes Lilian Russell in the Chicago Tribune.) Aside from the general impurity of cheap soaps, great danger lies in accumulated dirt upon the public bar of soap. There is no knowing who has usvd the soap before you, or what condition of health they might have been in. Therefore it is necessary to wash the. soap before us- . ing it. This may sound superrtoiir', but it is not so. Soap can collect and absorb in.purities f?r move effectively than cm glass, and gn-at precudic.iis have to l)-> taken of lite to present infectious frj:'i glass and tin drjikin*.' cups. K'l-KS OF ni.-: HANDS ALWAYS OPEN. The pores of the hands' urj aLvays op 'ii Hands are therefore more liable to infection than any portion of the body. They touch everything, and arc generally uncovered and unprotected. Too much can' and caution cannot be observed in their protection when you censider that any impurities may enter the pores of the hands anil penetrate the blood within 8 few minutes' time.

There are people strong and healthy enough to throw off impurities of all kinds, but they are in perfect physical condition from plenty of exercise and fresh air. Unfortunately, they are not in the majority. I am giving advice to those who work in the places where soap and towels are public. 1 do not consider that the public towels are as dangerous as the soap and wash-cloths, for the hands are supposed to be cleansed before the towel is touched. The wash-eloth should be avoided altogether, never touched by human hands, unless taken from a package direct from the steriliser. Otherwise it cannot be anything but poisonous. Clean soap and water ajid clean hands are the.best instruments for washing the face. Xo spong-. nor sponge-cloth can feel where just to get at the dirt Fingers can feel if the eyes, ears, and the bark of the neck have received sufficient attention. But the hands must be perfectly clean bffore the face is touched by them.

THE SAFEST PLAN. A business-girl would be safer to carry a. little jar of cleansing-cream in I her pocket and a bit of sterilised gua/.ej and use it upon her face instead of soap j and water. In any case it would protect her skin against infection, and also proU'ct it from the elements until she could arrive at her home, where she has her own private «oap F water and towels. Before you take up any cake of soap let the water run freely over it If it i is very soiled, let the soap soak in water until the outer covering is washed off ] before you rub it on your hands. Then I the soap cannot carry infection. I Remember: Germs adore dirt, and ihi'j health depends upon destroying them. ; "LAUGH AND THE WORLD LAUGHS, WITH YOU!" THE CONTAGION uF MIRTH. I heard her laugh this morning, and the day turned suddenly from grey to rose, color. I wonder who she is, the One Who Laughs? Docs she live next Joor all the time.' Somehow I feel as if she were just a frequent visitor. How glad they must be to se her when she arrives with that laugh! Is she young, I M'smler, and pretty, too? It doesn't always follow. The prettiert laugh I now belongs to a woman who is I'.ll years old. And she is poor, and not very well, and alone in the world, and I would go ten miles any day to hear her laugh.

When I r-l met. li.-r 1 didn't under- \ , stand. ; ' I ha.l heard nliout li.t so much. "IM 1 ,! vim know Mi— Mary:" said the' very , fir-t woman I met at the very lir.-t clnii ( , 1 entered in tJii> new town. . . j "lift's (ret Mi>s Mary I'nr a chaperon.":: saiil the very lir-t pretty pivl who \va- , planning a house party to the now ivsort. I •■lla\e yen ask.',! Mi-- Mary v>ha( i'.Jl do?" said the man win', was talkiim dm v \ • ■ plans for a new dee lil.rary. i ' "Dear me." -aid i *o my-olf. -Tl! liav; \ !o know Mi-- Mary. (hat's ~|,e sin-.-' j thing," and when T did know Iter I wa- ■ very miieli di-ap; ■ .inled at fii-.-t. ; : She wasn't e\cti , .\v< utive. and ..he , ' never ihonuhi ~i 1,-iae l.rillian!. >!'■■ mil-' hav,. la,-:, p,v!,'y ,„,,-,, in .-, "filths , fi'inifiiiii' soil id' way -41m-,.rr ~)' pivtti- : in— ilia! ,!.„.-!,'! leave ■an a trace after' ' 10 ai,.| die were plain cioiio-. without : ' the fainlest aHcmpt Uhe "modern." \] What in the world, thnn.sl't T to no.- I'. -elf. are file, al 1 <:• rra/v aliont Miss ;: ATnry forv And then there was a discus- j Hion

rm MAcrf m- ,\ T.Arcn. T"■• di-en-sirm lieeati in a friendly |Y hi. hi, lint somolioU ,-aid .-onioHiiii;r '", ,'i-oual." as somebody is almost sure. 1 • il», and the discussion liccame an ,'ir»;iTiieiit, and the argument was fast tuni- .«;.' into a <|i!flirrJ, tvhen Mis* Mary laughed.

' ''Aunt I.ucy, if yo s knew how funny you are when you try to be indignant, you'd never try it agiin. "I can't sec in tlic glass from who'' 1 I am, but I know my lint lias a dent in it, and I could feud it getting over on tone side the minute Kate Freeman !)• gan to be sarcastic. I must be a sight Why don't you laugh at mo?" And Hiss Mary threw back her hem and laughed. And her laughter whs like the chiming of tiny silver bells, and \\e all laughed, and lb: quarrel was gone where all the quarrels go when Miss Mary laughs. She looks like an elderly, faded, disappointed woman until she laughs, and then she looks like sweet Hi, with all the years laughing down the road ahead of her. Miss Mary is out of town on a visit, so she can't be the one who's laughing next door. J wonder who it can be?

This morning was grey and cloudy. The seagulls flew high over the house, ami that always meiviis a storm. The bills •came in in a dolorous flock: Little Brother had a sliver in his finger, and Little Sister was going to have a test in mathematics and was worried about it, anil sugar lus gone up and so has bacon. And how do they dare sell such sleazy goods—the almost new trotiil out suit f started to put on is almost shiny already Dear me, what a bore ill, l world is! T'll s'vp into the garden a minute and see—wet underfoot, sloshy. What a mistake this business'of living g' ts to be! And then she laughed. ■'.<.. WISH SHE'D IST ME LAUGH WITH HER."' The Little Boy ran out. His grey eyes w re dancing. "Who is it*"' he whin-! pcrcd. 'I wish she'd let me laugh with her." And laugh hj» , .:1 all at once. He cuMln't help it. I And Raffles, the A venule pup, seeing] there was merrir.i.'ir 1 afoot, wagged his] tail so 1 ard that he viniost knocked the j Little Boy down, and then there, was J 'ioiv laughter and we nil went, ii to b.eakfavt in a gale, -.in l everything was i funny and everythin ; '■ ,is friendly, end i vi rybody was happy

.'ust because son'tVuy with a r0..1 laugli laughed. Bless your heart, whoever you are, dear neighbor with the laugh! I wish you'd come and live ijext door for ever.

Whatever mini's to you in the world, don't lose the laugh. If you are poor, if you are old, if you are lonely, if those you love forsake you, and if the ones who love you now forget, keep on laughing-, for oh! the world is always kind to one who laughs as you do.