TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 49, 22 June 1928, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Influence of Royalty. THE longer skirt is certainly due in part to the influence of Royalty. It is difficult to look Royal in a short, narrow skirt. On the links and the tennis courts short skirts are right for everyone, even Royalty can lay down its ceremonial manners when playing games, but for "opening things," as_ Christopher Robin would say, for going to balls and banquets, a short, tight | ‘skirt does take away from the dignity of the most Royal personage. Improving Pastry. When next you are making pastry try this improvement, which is also an } economy. Melt the butter or lard a. little, and whip it into a cream before mixing with the flour. Only half the quantity is then required, and the pastry is mixed in far less time.

The Joy of Living. T requires very moderate intelligence to realise that happiness is greatly dependent upon mental health, We have only to observe people, to listen for one day to the women who come into one’s lives, and what do we find? Some women appear to have everything that should make for happiness, and are yet discontented, dissatisfied. Others, in an environment far from "perfect," with more than their share of worries and difficulties, manage to live happily and harmoniously. What is the matter with women who are always a little depressed. self-pity ing, without interest and joy in life? So the sensible woman determines to be physically fit. Indeed, the widespread interest in health and hygiene accounts largely for the increase of beauty and the more youthful appeaxance of modern women. Psychology and Happiness. [T: in spite of a hygienic life and good physical health, a woman is still dissatisfied, full of grievances and fears, what then? The cause may be physical. Misery is sometimes the result of inability to adjust oneself te life, sometimes it is due to unsolved conflicts. The people who are always mis‘understood, the women who are selfcentred and complaining, will never be well in spring or at any time of year without self knowledge and a new adjustment to life. Every human being must, to win health and happiness, develop psychologically as well as physically from the infant to the adult. How few of us do! Some remain "fixed" in the infantile phase, completely selfish and self-loving. Others are really children, boasting, quarrelling, bullying, antagonistic to the other sex. Most of us never pass the phase of idolescence, characterised by irresponsibility and a love of philandering. It would be an easier, happier world if people really "grew up" in. their minds as they do in brains and body. Well, the next generation should be happier because women, the mothers und teachers, are interesting themselves in psychology, the science of

the mind or soul.

Dr:.

Elizabeth

Sloane

Chesser

Our Pofent Weapon. YY OMEN are rediscovering the immemorial truth that their most potent weapon lies in their own grace and charn. Four notable comments upon the revolution-two by Lord Birkenhead, oue by a very distinguished German woman, and one by a prominent American business woman-ure interesting, The sentiments expressed are all closes ly alike. "We women should stay in woman's sphere," said Miss Louise Luekenbill, when declining the post of vice president of a great American adver tising corporation. "Some day," she added, ‘women will have an even chance in the business world. But it will come slowly and of its own aecord, helped by tact. It will not’ be hastened by fussing and fuming." The "Oncrowned Queen." RAU VON KARDORFF-OHEIMB is one of the three outstanding Women personalities in the Germany of to-day. A great and suecesstul worker in politics and business organisation, she has been hailed as the "uncrowned queen" of Germany. But, before all else, she is, most intensely, a2 woman, with all a woman's sympathy and charm. She, too, believes that women are "eligible for any and every career," but she never fails to warn her sex against the wromrg line of attack. "I always make friends with the men, she says. "The old method is the best one after all. Femininity always has been, and ever must remain, woman’s cnly invincible weapon." The Man's Angle. ORD BIRKENHEAD naturally takes the man’s angle, And men, needless to remark, agree whole heartedly with Frau yon KardorftOheimb. They may, as a race, be absurdly self-conscious about women, and very shy in our relationship with them, but no man who is a man failg to react to the charm of genuine womanhood. They might, certainly: learn to react more gracefully than they do. And here is something upol} which women may well increasingly exercise their wit and tact.