For Our Lady Readers.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 28, 12 November 1897, Page 6

For Our Lady Readers.

MAKE LIFE HAPPY. How easy it is to spoil a day — The thoughtless word of a cherished friend, The s 'lfish act of a child at play, The strength of a will that will not bend, The slight of a comrade, the scorn of a foe, The smile that is full of bitter things — They all can tarnish its golden glow, And take the grace from its airy wings. How easy it is to spoil a life — And many are spoiled ere well begun — In home-light darkened by sin and strife, Or the downward course of a cherished one ; By toil that robs the form of its grace, And undermines till the health gives way ; By the peevish temper, the frowning face, The hopes that go and the cares that stay. A day is too long to be spent in vain — Some good should come as the hours go by ; Some tangled maze may be made more plain, Some lowered glance may be raided on high ; And liie is too short to be spoiled like this. If only a prelude it may be sweet ; Let us bind together its threads of bliss, And nourish the flowers around our feet. TO DKESS WOUNDS. Three useful things to have in the house as a provision in case of wounls are a spool of adhesive plaster, iodoform gauze and a package of carbolated absorbent cotton. Cleanse and dry as nearly as may be the cut surface with a wad of the cotton, using moderate pressure and elevaiiug the part if necessary to check the flow of blood. Do not apply any water. Bring the cut surface tojieth ras ccurately i'.s possible an I retain them there with as few and as narrow strip-, of the pl.i-t r a« will suilice, cutting them of a good length. Then iovu the wound with a dozen or so thicknesses of the lO'loforni g.uizj. w'.iicn should extend a*i inch b. yond the wound. Over the gau/," apply a liber il layer of the absorbent cotton, allowing it L) extend beyond the g.iuc\ The cotton m.iy be kept m place by a b ind.ige of lli^c^p lo'h, or a pirt of a log of a stojking may be driwn o\er it. M. de ate pre-siuv. ii evenly distributed, L helpful. The pressure of a stiing is hurtful. THE COLOUR 01' THE EYES. •' Which is the prettiest colour ? '' The colour of the eyes we love best. Here's what an authority says of the different colours .—. — Hazel-eyed people are rarely shallow, and you must be prepared for surprL-es when you ha\e to deal with them. Blue eyes take care of their friends, brown of their enemies, gray of their countries, black of their pleasures, and green of themselves. The violet eye is a woman's eye, of which the main characteristics are affection and purity, elnvalric belief and limited or deficient intellectuality. Speaking popularly, it may be said that eyes are brown, blue, gray, hazel, green, or of no colour at all. The laot Jii\e \arieties, however, are based on misnomer. Blue-gray eyes, radiated from within with brown and bronze streaks, are chiefly found among the mixed races, and espc. Lilly the English and AuiM'icm-s. They always suggj-t a g od de.il of strength of character, generally a sen--u of miMjhiei and triokmess, and sometimes that humorous cruelty which bjlonga to the An_;loSaxon race, The blue is certainly the type with the greatest nunb^r of varieties. It is a colour that illustrates pre-eminently tV ierninine qualities — tenderness, affection, a yielding to the w-shes of others, a sympathy with small sufferings, that measure of vanity without which no woman can be entirely attractive.