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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 49, 26 February 1921, Page 9

ARE YOU YOUR HUSBAND'S WARD?

For two centuries past women have fought hard to lessen the burden for wives and mothers of the future. According to the ; religious rites of matrimony eh ■WWe el"orced ty "Blackstono in 1848, the wife was merely the ward of her husband. He was entitled to her time, labour, earnings, and private property (if any). At her death, by courtesy, he would inherit life use of all her property.. What did this law command from the husband? Comparatively naught.' It is due to the continual tight these women have made that the wife to-day has a much brighter outlook. But it took brains, and, most important of all—personality to achieve this. Often, personality is lacking owing to_ those unmistakable superfluous hairs which can so easily be permanently destroyed by the ■ Bona Dea Superfluous Hair Method, which is the only one of'its kind In the whole of New Zealand. Miss Silver, of the Bona Dea Toilet Rooms,_ Manners-street (over the Regent), has in this issue an invitation to offer. Read this for your own benefit.—Advt.

DO BE CAREFUL!

Mothers often speak to their little ones thus, but they must be careful, too. The smallest scratcs on a child's hand, will often turn to a nasty septic sore, if neglected. Keep_ a pot of Bee Ointment handy. Quickly soothes and heals sores, cuts, scratches, bruises, burn, and all skin troubles. All ■ chemists and stores.—Advt.