Housekeeper.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 697, 13 October 1909, Page 7

Housekeeper.

THE WAYS OF THE ONCE-RICH CIRL. There-'are two sorts of the once-rich *irl in the business world. One is the girl who was really born to purple, fine linen, and bonds. The other merely tries to give the impression that she was. The first is always a more or less picturesque figure in the eyes of her fellow-workers, who were born under humble roofs, and with the idea that directly school days were over toil for bread and butter must begin. The second is. frankly, one of the biggest bores in the breadwinning world. Telling about the days of riches and luxuries does not win friends. Even qirls who secretly envy vou those earlier pleasures make business life unpleasant if they are treated with condescension.

TWO TYPES OF MOTHERS. The over-careful mother may be a kore, but at least she is a sincere one. The mother who dosen't care enough is an adept in deceiving herself as to her neglect of duty. She announces that her first consideration is her husband, when she joins him in gaieties at the expense of her babies, and prates loudly of the folly of pampering and the benefit of hardening as a cloak for letting- them grow up without proper attention. When the helplessness of the baby is thought of. its inabiri'v to protest against abuse, and the life-long evils that may follow not wilful abuse only but lack of care and indifference, the vote should be cast in favour of the over-careful mother strained as her watchfulness may seem to the lookeron.

NAGGING WOMEN EXCUSED. Women do nag, and we have it on excellent medical authority that they have a good excuse for doing so. Nervous irritability, a narrowing and belittling sphere, the constant presence of obnoxious and vexatious persons —what wonder the human nature exhibits such unlovely traits under these provocations! What is meant by the word "nagging" is a constant repetition of pernreproof or command. It is a habit which every conscientious housekeeper and every thoughtful mother is very much in danger of weaving for herself, and for fear of which many a woman "lets things go," to the injury of her home and her children.

FASHION'S LATEST. Fringe wide and narrow finishes off many tunics and overskirts. White floss silk is used largely in the embroidery of black and white trimmings. Black lace over white is made most effective for smart evening gowns. Strings of jet beads and ornaments of jet trim gowns of every colouring. •Olivette is a delightful grey green shade that attracts lovers of the artistic.

Whole blouses of gold net are trimmed with sold lace and ornaments to match. It is a dull semi-tarnished fold that makes the most pleasinglouse.

The sleeve trimmed with wide bands of ribbon finishing with very large square buckles is a novelty.

THE DOOM OF THE CRINOLINE. "No crinolines" is the final decree from Paris, which has been received with great relief by fashionable women and which was the result of a conclave of dressmakers in the Rue de la Paix. The manager of a great Paris firm of costumiers says :—"I do not believe the crinoline will ever be revived. Ladies are too proud of their figures. They have taken too much care of themselves for a long time, and it is not likely that they will ever rudn the result by wearing the uaigainly crinoline. "There is no doubt, however, that the new skirts are fuller, and some of our models even define the original waistline. The high-waisted effect will still be seen at the back, but very much modified."

WOMAN'S MIS-APPLiEO ENTHU SIAMS. Fully half of present-day mothers think more of the trousseau and the material advantages involved in the marriage of their children .than of the sacred side of the union. So says Mrs. Katherine Tingley. Marriage in its present state, she maintains, is distorting womankind. "Woman's duty is to make noble men. Put woman in her true place, and man will find his."

Concerning - the woman suffragists, Mrs Tingley. while paying tribute to their intellectual attainments and c devotion to principle declares they were misapplying energy that, rightly directed, would achieve more in uplifting the race than they could ever accomplish by ballot.