WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1922, Page 11

WOMAN’S WORLD.

BEAUTY’S HUNDREDTH BIRTHDAY. Paris, September 28. A well-known beauty in the days before Napoleon .111. was Emperor, Mme. De Chevalier, celebrates her HM)th birthday to-morrow at her house in the Boulevard Peri ere, Paris. Mine. Le Chevalier retains her faculties, and hae delightful reminiscences* of events of those far-off days. She married three timeH, and is the mother of Genres Vihert, a successful artist, and mother-in-law of Berne Bellecour, the celebrated military painter. A lady contributor to the Manawatn Time<s desires to know whether the A. and P. Association would consider the suggestion of offering a prize for “the best .and healthiest family of ten children reared under natural conditions.” If so she would make one competitor at the next show.

A romance of the war had its culmination when the Archbishop of 'Milan united in marriage two rich sisters with two young men blinded and maimed in the war. L’mberto Bianchi, blind and minus both hands, and Marco Sala, blind and minus his right arm, were the two bridegrooms. They were married respectively to Marie, 27, and Rosine Molten© 25, daughters of a rich Milan family, well known for the generous financial support they gave to wounded soldiers. The romance began in a local hospital, which was among the institutions to benefit frorh this generosity, and in which the two men have been under treatment since the second year of the war. •\ y WOMANISMS. Faint Heart never won fair lady, but he often makes the path much easier Jor the next man. Stealing a heart may not be punishable by law, but it often condemns the thief to a life of penal servitude. Fret your heart out over little things and you’ll never have any big things to worry about. People who are so free with good advice in their old age were usually juat as lavish with bad examples in tneir youth. It is man’s nature to strive always for the unattainable. That is why many a man finds himself tied to an indifferent wife; he mistook her coldness for coyness. A smile costs nothing, and it often buys a big measure of comfort and a lot of pleasure, yet some women store it up as if it was a pearl of great price.—“ Aussie.” CLEVER WIVES. Girls are apt to take too seriously the oft-repeated statement of many men —that they will not marry clever women.

Jealously, they say, is behind this criticism. Men don’t like clever women because they are afraid of their competition in commerce, in the arts, in the professions, and in public life. But the fact is that, although many women have proved that they can make a place for themselves in all these preoccupations, no pre-occupation is attractive enough to draw women at large from the great work of home-making. And most men will tell you, if you pin them down to the point, that they welcome women’s competition in the labor market because the results of it show how little men have to fear on its account.

No; the reason why men dislike what they call “ clever women” is because they have a very definite picture in their minds of what they mean by the type. They mean the woman who is anxious to show how clever she is at the expense of any man or all men, who is always parading her achievements as a sex-advertisement, and who feels it her duty to coin sharp sarcasms at the expense of the other sex, and protect herself from reply behind the stout shield of masculine chivalry. Oh, yes. The world is full of such women. And they have no patience at all with the happy wives and mothers who rejoice in the slavery of domestic ties, not being clever enough to know that their happiness is only an illusion.

Sir William Herries mentioned at Morrinsville the other night that Mr. Massey was not regarded at his true worth in New Zealand, hut that in Englund he wa» regarded as a safe man »«:d a man to be trusted. “The contrast (says the Auckland Herald) is quite easily explained. Old England appreciates the security of sterling character. Difficulties rather than compliments have been Mr. Massey’s portion for the most difficult decade in political history. It is probable that Mr. Massey is quite content with his record of service. In any case, there are many comperyations. He has reached the stage in a statesman’s career wnen not even his worst opponent would question hi* honesty and love of hard work. In politics, the Prime Minister hast been a weaver of broadcloth rather than of lace. This has often robbed him of his due meed of praise. So many critical minds nowadays are captured by elaborate embroideries. It fas to be admitted that Mr. Massey is deficient in the confections of politics. e. deals in the plainest of common ftense. What else, after all, does New Zealand need most in the. midst of its difficulties?, ‘A safe man and a man to be trusted.’ ”

A proportion of the housing problem was caused, stated the Rt. Hon. W. F. Mastsey to a meeting of electors in Auckland West, hy the thoughtlessness of many of our young men . who never saved a penny before marriage. The wife then had the job of saving for a man for whom she was too good. “What aiiout th- man wno has a wife and four k'.dis to keep on C 4 a week?” inquired an interjector. “He should have saved the money for the hoiwe before he got the wife and kids!” retorted Mr. Massey. There is a good time coming for the gay Lotharios who wish to exchange il'c irresponsible life for a ro^e-covered bungalow in suburbia, remarks the Uliritslehurch Sun. Mr. R. Macartney, a candidate for l.yiellton, advocates that all young fe'lr-w-- “ of marriageable age" should be helpt'd to establish a home in the same maimer that the were helped. Tb.ev should, be given opportunities to purchase heincis or to learn trades. He suggested that the State should subsidise them <>n a D2 lor £1 basis. If a young man .a 1 <i!\rd C3GO, the State should lend him £(i()0 to but a home.