FEMININE CHIT-CHAT.

Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)

FEMININE CHIT-CHAT.

I liIISi3UUX-XA OUWJU'X. Motto— "Help One Another." The object of our Society is to enable "Shut-in" invalids to receive a littlo brightness and comfort from the outside world in the shape of letters, papers, and books. I have a numbor of kindly " Free-holpers " ready to help in this work, and any "Shut-in" may be corresponded with on communicating by letter' to "Clio," E.L.0., Evening Post. There is no subscription, no committee, no fuss, and no publicity. Several persona have asked me to send for papers, magazines, etc, for our " Shutins, ' but, I regret to say, I am unable to do bo. They can bs either left at the Evening Post, or " Clio," c/o Mrs. Innes, No. 20, Oriental Bay. I acknowledge, with thanks, "The IllustratedNewa " and " The Queen " from " A Friend." The announcement that the Queen has been indisposed " in consequence of tho cold weather," is inaccurate (says The World), for Her Majesty has been ha excellent health throughout the winter. The cold was decidedly beneficial to both her health and her spirits. The Queen's rheumatism in the knees is a chronic complaint, from which she has Buffered for more than ten years. But Her Majesty has much alleviated the malady by having ceased to walk except for a few steps, and still more by never attempting to ascend or to descend any staircase or steps. The Queen is practically lifted into her carnage whenever the goes out driving. "Do many of the women who pass the medical examinations practise?" a lady journalist asked a well-known medical "woman." "Most certainly," was the reply ; "thereare over 40 women practising in London alone, and on the Medical Register there are nearly 150. The greater - number of these go to China, India, and i Eastern countries generally to practise; r but women are now frequently employed i by the Government when medical examinations are required in the case of female Poßt Office employees, boarded-out work- [ house children, and so on. The Aslyums > Board and the infirmaries employ them largely also. Some of the women who are ' practising abroad are rapidly making E fortunes, and I know one in India whose ¦ income last year amounted to over £4,000 — 1 she had one present of over £500." Here is a eohemo for some woman who is r wondering what she shall do to make a . living: — Let her get up a business card, ,• stating that clio will do all kinds of mending for gentlemen, work to bs called for a and returned, and leave the cards with some self-addressed postal wrappers with s tbe landlady of every good boarding-house a she knows of, to be distributed among the men whose laundresses can neither darn, p . mend, nor sew buttons on. d A medical journal tells us that after (1 women pass middle age they" lose a considerable amount of their height, not by c stooping, ai men do, but by actual collapse, a fdakiug down. This, it explains, ia mainly to be attributed to the perishing of the I. muscles that support the frame, in consequence of habitual and constant pressure 1. of corsets and dependence upon tho artificial support by them afforded. Every girl d who wears corsets that press 1 upon these it muscles and restrict the free development d of the fibres that form them, relieving them w of their natural duties of supporting the spine, indeed, incapacitating them from so ;o doing, may feel she is preparing herself to is be a dumpty woman. \g A ladies' paper vows that women are not ir co penurious as men. For every female § miser there are at least 10 male misers. ly Perhaps the most exraordinary female miser was the sister of -a well-known i, baronet, who, not co long since, although ie she posßes3ed£loo,ooo, literallystarved herself sooner than part with some of her id precious money to obtain the necessities of n. life. If there is one thing whose veracity can i- be relied upon it ib the census returns, and id they unbhuhingly declare that there are a ok million more women in England than there are men to balance them. Consequently, at he bigamy ia against the law, it stands to reason that every woman has not the chance he of being married, happily'or otherwise, ai en the case may be. Therefore, it is much he better that all women should face this fact, and bo fit themselves to earn their owr 3r, living, that, if they ate the odd woman ir If every hundred who is never to have c o'. husband to support her, they may be abl< to support themselves. How 'much bettei than to sit with folded hands waiting foi Hy the " impossible he " to turn up, when al n- tbe waiting in tbe world won't make him ai :et accepted faot. Her own life and those oi other people will be far brighter anc happier if she becomes a busy, indispensabl*

" baohelor girl," instead of a feeble apology for a married woman.