FOR WOMEN FOLK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 242, 22 March 1915, Page 6

FOR WOMEN FOLK.

"BY EILEEN."

" Eileen " will be glad to receive items of interest and j value to women for publication or reference in this column. |

"FOR HOXOR AX!) KX(ILAXJ)." Till-, WOMAN'S PART. " . the best of all that Time's fi'H vintage prest." o, W(.man, standing to watch, with the sin "lint Mimlinjr your eye, Anil your baby eloper as the moving mass fines by; Ave they men or units or pageant grand ? Do you suddenly pause to tliinjc 0:i what dear, renouneeil, ur.wavvring gaze these "Kves Front'' steadily blinl': ? "I pro for th" ,=ake of the Empire!" Do' they whisper thus to you? "So that grey hairs sleep in f.afcty T must h ave grey eyes or blue. That my children grow to manhood—that old TCnghmd's honor stands!" Does your blood brat tbii- as the soldiers pass and your children wave the:; - hands? Ka.'-li day by fever and sickness, by L wounds from shot and shell. Kaeli inomeiit some woman's man stands facing the awful hell. , While kh"i make war. the mothers of m<n, in the ghastlv trafficking. Tongue tied, ]i|> locked in this matter, stand hopelessly questioning. * Men fought and sh'W and conquered - .Willi', : "nse!(yet gallant- again. And women. her.rers of men. ask, mule, van {Ju ir labor R'ld travail in vain: While men desirov their work of love, thry mourn the useless waste. And the harvesting n? those they bore, by IV;iil:';j reh'iiih■■■•■; haste. And yet, 0 woman, with mother smile, swift bending ovrr tlie eot. Ami you. sirl, under the starlit night—are you smoothing a soldier's lot? On, on they lnareli, from ship to trench, till the eiimax of war they reach. When a Red Cross heed will bear tlieni off to the hospital there for each.

glad to think that such details wc uld be relegated for ever to the dressingtifble mirror. Many women have not-'d how much thinner thev have become since the war began. They lire leading very active lives and have restricted their hours of rest, -'.ough to l;e su-e "early to bed" is the rule now. Deliberate relaxation is a good resource for the thin subject. Ten minute.' twice a dav of complete relaxation, without the restraint of clothes, but in the cosines* of a dressing-gown, is a recipe that will bring good results.

Y\V road a good deal r.mvnilivs of hasty weddings of soldiers and sailors on tiie eve of departure for foreign service (writes the Vest's Sydney corr'spoildent). The experience of (liibcri, Eeaniim. naval instructor. as told tin; Perth Divorce Court the oilier day. may induce o'.'::r> to be nior? cavtious, li.r.v don was formerly yoon'.nn of signals on 11.M.5. Torch. He rccived sudden orders to join the ship, which sailed for the Solomon Wand at midnight. Kathleen Ann Martin, proprietress of tl:e restaurant at which lie staved when ashore, was engaged to him. She insisted unon being married at the last hour, and told him that she waited to obtain a wine lieer.-e, which oillv a married woman could get. in order to increase the business. The more money sh'.' could make the sooner would her husband be able to settle ashore in port. They were married at S.Xfl p.m., and the newivmarriid -nilor went oft to his shiii with dreams of the time when he would settin down to snug domesticity ashore. He saved all the money lie fou'd, and sent his wife !J."> monthly. But wh-n he got bacl; his wife had disappeared. Shampooing, llairdressing, and Twisting. Electrolysis for the permanent removal of superfluous hair. Switches, Toupee 9, etc. Ladies' combings made up to any design. Mrs. BEADLE, f.'jjniont Toilet Parlors, Griffiths' Buildings, near Carnegie Library.

And flic Red Cross succours and helns and cure- - to send back oil!' marching bravc.s. And ii t'lifivnl of fine, hot. lender fire runs swiftlv in burning waves, Tn tlie hca.rt of .sweat*:enrt. inoth.-r or wife —lis the call of the blood shehears, A a she proudly bof..<ts, "T gave ray Best," and smothers those whispering fears.

For equally brave, if loss well sung, is that lifi> — til!- v:r\r.an's part. In voiceless prav'r to work and watt, while a hero hohN her heart; But is there still a woman or girl withholding her chant:? to give? If so, let her start to-ilny and plan, a-ml work that a man may Iivo! I She may think in this far-off, peacebless'd land' tlnit to-inorrow a sun must rise On a field of ripened corn, forgetting today a hero dies; But wake! girl wake! —it's the spirit that counts. There is plenty of work to do, For the Red Cross calls, and your country calls—and a nation needs you. too! —"ilollie Buwn," -:i Melbourne A;ju. THE ttREY SISTKI'S bv THK RED CROSS. Let us be thankful for the existence of the. raotdr-car; once the rich man's cherished possession i»c most expensive luxury, now the faith and loyal servant of the wounded. Bespattered with itmd, discolored by stains, its costly fittings a thing of the past, its lining scratched and torn, its Sybarite days over, the motor lias become a nursing sister. She carries the sign of the Rci-l Cross. Slie races fearlessly into the thick of the battle and emerges with her load of broken and shattered humanity. The wounded bless her in their tormrait as she conveys them to the hospital. This war has brought about the | apotheosis of the motor car. The hand [ of the idle ridi has steered hei' straight to the battlefield, and it Ls the rich men and the rich women ill England who must keep these motors running, these grey sisters of the Red Cross. —Alice and Claude Askew in u London exchange. NOTES. Those of us who are not fortunate enough to possess a fur coat may take a certain amount of cheer from the fae.t that it will be much smarter this coming winter to wear a fur-trimmed coat and skirt than a plain fur coat (says a Melbourne expert). It iloo,s not sound as though the recompense would be us complete as it might be, but, at the same time, although we may still yearn for the joy of a fur coat, it is a fact that such wraps are now regarded as being more a comfort than a smart possession. Fur trimmings are to he much worn. That seems to be, certain, for all the fashion-plates from London show the full and flared skirts of both dresses and coats finished by a bordering of fur from lilt to llin wide. Luckily for us, skirts ai* keeping short, for anything move deplorable than fur that lias become "draggled" is hard to imagina High neckbands and deep waistbands of fur form the finish to the coats, and so we are invited to look on all this as an equivalent to the warm and cosy coat. "Have yon noticed how severe a check 'making-up' in public has received of late? I know it lias because of the shock it gave me to see a girl in Mie train 0110 morning powdering her nose in Jront of a pocket mirror." Tiiua comments an observruiz woman in an English exchange, adding that she was