AN INDIAN LOVE AFFAIR.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 223, 13 June 1908, Page 11

AN INDIAN LOVE AFFAIR.

Mr. S. S. Bose addresses a breezy letter to ■ a Calcutta, newspaper, in which he surveys, at considerable length, the higher education of Indian women and its results. Ho is in sympathy with the movement) and appreciates'its'Benefits, but doos not fail to lay his fingers ton some of its drawbacks. He considers 1 , that the Bengali lady graduate is becoming unduly fastidious as to marriage. ■No suitor has a chance unless ho is in the Civil Service or is a barrister-at-law. To illustrate his point, Mr. Bose tells, in his own amusing stylo,, a story which desorves tex-tual-reproduction: . "You will allow me to tell you a rueful experience of a bosom'friend, of mine, a friend whoso career has been blighted and tormented, by whose fate I discuss female education and feinale cruelty. He is young, good-looking, tolerably rich, ha 3 a motor-car, and has been to England for pleasure, but '■ is .not of the. I.C.S. or bar-at-law brand. Look at this terrible, picture of female emancipation. The 'girl ;is a' graduate,. neither Hindu or Brahmo, nor good red-herring, 21, sft. 3in., poor, neither a , wasp nor a partridge, but only just embraceably plump. But there, wore, Dum-Dimi bullets m her sweetj; swimming eyes, and my friend chanced to'meet her on tho train on'his way to Madbiipore, and the blueveSl waving from the' Khoppa-at-the'back of her head made her look killingly. beautiful, and poor N, fell dangerously wounded as the, mail started— shot/right through the heart I Intimacy, increased in the mountain nooks, the bullet daily' expanding within his heart setting up reduplicated ' second sound and tric'uspidregurgibation! • It was love at .-first '• sight, yhich (as we all know to our cost) kills by inches, , producing acute'endocarditis. "She mistook him for a Bar-at-law! She was kind, and gave him her photo.. He carried it next' his skin,' like flanny''in rheumatism, and, though it warmed his shattered heart, it fomented it terribly. He made her presents of floral hair-oil, non-lathering Swadeshi 'soaps; Byron's-poems; -—-'s .cod;liver oil 'emulsion, /and all manner of' love-toKeris, even including Dr. ——'s famous mercurus nitrite hair-dyo. . ; : "'Lwill tako you to Mussoorie,' said he. ' Oh," I Jove to summer, in Calcutta',' she replied. ' Achha, I will give' you pearls and diamonds!' he said. 'Na, thack,' said-she. 'Achha, Missi Baba! I will give you 1 ten thousand rupees in G. P. i notes,' said ho. 'I will steeplechase with you along Circular Road;-,in m.v simylinder■ 40 h.p. chassis, spinning 160 kilometres per hour, crushing tho. beggars- '' ■ ; , " 'It is no use,' replied tho girl; striking an attitude'with her pretty nose in tho air. .'I "will; marry a civilian,' she said at last. 'Just consider again my kitten,' he pleaded. 'I don't-care for you; begone,: you ; black • cat,' croaked, she. , "And care is now about to kill the cat." PEACOCK IN FANCY WORK. Evidently the stately peacock still remains ' one,of'tho grandest types in decorative' work (says the "Queen"). It is,, indeed, becoming more popular, if- possible, in the realm of embroidery; since, cnarming and inexpensive representations of the splendid bird are • now available for tho artistic ornamentation of modest homes. "My .tail is my glovj" deigns at present to beautify cheap cushion covers, sofa backs, portieres, whether 1 printed or ombroidored, in the resplendent and characteristic tints so familiar to all. Even • a single, blue peacock' 3: eye is occasionally seen- inlaid in a woven ribbon-like necktie of green beads'fringed and vandykod with deep blue beads, a, simple study of one of the leading combinations of colours during the past season. This quaint notion of the peacock's'.feather design likewise bodly,adorns the white centre of a mattress sofa /cushion and its surrounding band in blue green linen, so easily embroidered in the true scheme of natural colours, according to printed directions' and traced / devices procurable from fancy needlework depots, who have quite a store of similar squares and insertions to bo enhanced • with, real artistic conceits by -the most inexperienced ■ needlewomen, who have only to follow blindly every step of the work 80 carefully prepared for them. The serpent is the "beast of the field" most' closely■ imitated by tho modistes of this season, who admire sinuous length so greatly that the clinging dresses they make . actually betray their customers into a curiously gliding walk, not ele'gent when at all exaggerated. A revival of the long wispliko tram is one result of this cult of the serpentine vogue, and that of coats with Jong pointed tails another.—"Graphic." MY DEAR LADIES. ' Did it ever strike you that an absolutely, uncomely woman is about the rarest thing in nature ? It is so. But there, are millions of women who, because they will not think intelligently or seriously of the significance and power of, beauty, are apparently content to bo plain, to mope through life on tho grey plane- of the common-place, to remain indistinguishable in the herd. Now, beauty, is infinitely worth while. Think. it out. Wo care for our teeth and nails, for our hair and bands; but, even . now, how few of us really caro for our complexions. And yet the skin is the very vestment of beauty. When tho skin goes, all goes! Given clear and radiant complexion, no woman was ever plain, or over could bo. Any woman can have that —any woman who uses Valaze—in jars, 4s. and Os. 9d.; post-free. This great Russian Skin-food is peerless, - and it never fails.. XJsc in conjunction with it, Valaze Skin Tonic (3s. 9<l. a bottle; postage 3d.) And, scrupulously observing the directions, wash always with Valaze Herbal Complexion Soap (2s. 3d. a cake). So your complexion will soon bo exalted or restored to Nature's original intention in you. You will be a joy to yourself and the beholder. Your every mood will be a solace, your every hope a.song. Of loading chefnists; or by post direct from Mademoiselle Helena Rubinstoin, Tho Valaze Massage Institute, Brandon Street, Wellington. 9705