JOTTINGS FOB WOMEN.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9814, 25 August 1897, Page 4

JOTTINGS FOB WOMEN.

A PANACEA FOX WORRIRS.J ■; j The matron of a London hospital" low* j upon the newspaper as a panacea for mM-? i ills. When her subordinates come to he' , With tales and evidences of petty diwsfe** •' factions she handles thuin firmly. "-*•» the papers, my dears; you will fled you »» not the only folk with troubles to pat "P with." She has reason on her side anyWOJ' The average woman would" be 60 per centmore companionable, not to mention ' a rß?][ minded and generous, if she went » m» beyond the " Births, Deaths, and War* riages," just to see how it fores in nw - world we live in. Minds get lazy quick** than bodies, and Tommy's new overalls ana trimming of tho font blouse are sure to gei fairly mixed with Indian troubled and m» Cretan question at first, but the law remains that fathers, husbands, and brotners still exist who might find a lucid co--or a hwift assertion mow satisfactory tna« a flurried question or ignorant <«* Bol according to the dispositions of wa womankind—and on their accounts alone W« wise woman will make some effort to Keep in touch with the times. THE QUEENi HEALTH. Mr H. W. Luoy, in his London letter to , . , the Sydney Mornlr-y Herald, writg* «»/ ; follows under date July 9th :-'«The Queen is said by an old member of her person*" Buite to be in better health just -»«* t^' 1 she has been for years. For some wees* - even months, before the Jubilee, she WMj."-. ; a nervous Mate, natural in the circus*; •

I ..,«.-,. What if, with her weight of years, *•' should sink down even on the thresh - ant* *n-'" - * , . . . . . ■< j , n 0 [ the memorable anniversary and a time f ivjdi-ing should become for those dear to I 1!,,, a tirno of mourning? Having once got ihronv;!* Jubilee Day, her spirits distinctly - cc 'hci' strength was renewed like tho frit's Every day since has brought its • ' H,poiiiifd tank and", as happened in tlie case [ die reception of the member* of the House f (■•o'linnnns at Windsor hi«t Saturday, her lu]m\ v lias voluntarily added to her engage*