OVER THE TEA-CUPS

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 249, 17 October 1908, Page 14

OVER THE TEA-CUPS

WHAT TT§E PERIODICALS SAT. DENYING HER GLORY. Every good Suffragist must be heartily tired of being told that she cannot fight. —"Votes for Women." LESSON OP THE STAGE NOVEL. No young woman of the upper middleclass is likely to take too rosy a view of the life after reading a modern novel of the stage.—"Era." MARRIAGE IN AMERICA. The more one studies the problem of marriage, the more plain does it become that many of the heathen ideas on '.he subject are infinitely superior to ours.—"American," New York. SOMETHING NEW IN FADS. This is a strange world, indedd, when poisons can become as fashionable as sports, dresses, or a certain kind of jewellery. Opium smoking is the latest "lad" in Paris. "Opinion," Paris. THE FEMININE LETTER. It is a remarkable fact that many well-educated men are unable to write a good letter, while the majority of women display great insight and delicacy in their correspondence.—"Familien Zeitung," Vienna. BREAKFAST TABLE CHATTER. Ifreakfast is not the time for senseless chatter, or even for the most sagacious and profound observations. One is inclined to mistrust people who are airy and cheerful at breakfast.—"Herald," Glasgow. THE REALLY SMART WOMAN. As a rule the middle class produces the smart woman. She is better educated ar.d more calculating than the aristocrats, and she spends money with freedom on things that are safe to attract Attention.—'"Tatler." CHARM OF THE PAST. Whatever may be the charms of the present, the fascination and hopes of the future, man loves, above all, the Past. We like best the old things-—old songs, oiil glories, old paintings, books and dreams.—"Petit Bleu." Brussels. BEAUTY OF THE ENGLISH SCHOOLGIRL. If the English girls could appear before us with only the charm which characterises them behind the walls of their boarding schools it would be their contribution to the international education in beauty.—"Lc Soir.' , Brussels. BEAUTY PLUS BRAINS. The bachelor woman ie at her best at thirty, because she is consciously charming. She has all the advantages with ■vhieh Nature originally equipped her, and has added the frills and furbelows of art.—"Wor"d and His Wife.' , NO "MANAGING" A WIFE. When a man who contemplates being married seriously asks how he shall "manage" his future wife, it may safely be predicted that there is trouble in store both for him and for her. People who want to manage each other ought not to marry. —'"Sunday Tribune," Chicago. DAY OF THE WOMAN "WRITER. Neither big-game shooting, nor exploration, nor mountaineering has its terrors for women in these times, and on the whole they write of their ad*entures more amusingly th(au tiien, 1.0 whom, none the less, they appeal more than to readers of their own sex.— " Lady's Pictorial." THE CULT OF UGLINESS. Sometimes our feelings are relieved by sneering at our early Victorian grandmothers and grandfathers, who are credited with v cult of ugliness; but ;<rr we any better? Whoever thinks so should be taken to a fashionable and newly-developed seaside watering-place. —'"Country Life." IMAGINARY ILLS. There is far more imaginary ill-health among the well-to-do classes than those whn have to work hard for a living. '"Live on sixpence a day and earn it," is the advice that would answer best with 90 per cent, of health faddists. Work, and plenty of it, is the only rational cure for their complaints.— "Queen. ,, GARDEN BEDROOMS. Sleeping in the garden is much recommended by the medical profession for nervousness and insomnia. Although we arc agreed about the healthfulness of a maximum supply of oxygen by day, people do not yet sufficiently realise the great beneficial results to be obtained from an abundant supply during the hours of sleep.—"Country Home." HOLIDAY FRIENDSHIPS. The great point about holidays is the part played in them by "Hazard." We free ourselves from our usual surroundings, occupation, and from ourselves, as it were; "Hazard" conies along, makes us meet new people and form new friendships, and the general direction of our life is often changed.—"La Suisse," Geneva. WOMAN. A woman is, writes G. Maidstone in the "Woman Worker," the most wonderful wonder that a wonderful Nature has yet evolved. Not only is a woman the most precious gift of Nature to man, she is more than that. She is the only thing that makes life worth living. Take her out of the world, and the world would be a desert in which no man would care to abide. DECAY OF THE SENTIMENTAL. The age is growing happier. W 7 e may be less romantic but we are more cheerful. We do not spend nearly so much time before the drawers of escritoires, turning over packets of old love-letters. Many people file them nowadays, or keep busy writing new ones. We stay younger longer, and surely it is wiser to use old love-letters for purposes o£ reference than tears?—" Queen." NATURE'S FAVOURITES. The man who is unpleasing to look at has no remedy against Nature. Woman claims the sole right to put back the hand of Time, to smooth the wrinkles from her brow, and chase the silver from her hair, just as man has the sole right to inflict his ugliness on the world without a twinge of diffidence. It is a code of honour established for all time.— "Ladies' Pictorial."