TEA TABLE TALK.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1797, 18 May 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)

TEA TABLE TALK.

Never wear the same pair of shoes two days in succession. It retards the growth of the feet. Big feet are an indication of an amiable temperament. Big intellects do not go with small feet. Cultivate large feet, and the intellect will grow auiomatically. When men and women reach forty, it is common for them to grow fleshy. How much better, how much more comfortable, if ,they have big feet to carry the added weight.—Dr Helen Kellogg.

Queen Victoria was the first Sovereign, except Richard 11., who paid more than one visit to Ireland. Since the Conquest, only six monarchs nave made any - stay there. '. In 1821, George IV. stayed a month, and after an interval of 28 years Queen Victoria paid her first visit, which was such a success that she repeated it subsequently in various years.

The first woman in history to join the diplomatic corps of any nation is Senorina Cldthilde Luisij-a. native of Uruguay. She belongs to one of the Republic's oldest families, arid is a doctor of law of thb University "o Paraguay. Her first.- fippoinfmp'-* will ,be at the Uruguayan Legation ■at; Brussels as an attache: -

It is riot at all well known that Knighthood has constantly been conferred upon women. Many English ladies received the . accolade, and many more were members of such knightly orders as the Garter and St. John. When Mary Cholmondeley, "the Bold Lady of Cheshire," was knighted by Elizabeth for "her valiant address" on the Queen taking the command at the threatened invasion by Spain, did she know that a whole city of Spanish women, the gallant women of Tortosa, had been knighted for saving that city from the Moors ? Mary and Elizabeth had both been knighted at their Coronation; but by the time Anne, the second Mary, and Victoria ascended to the throne, it had been quite forgotten that according to English law and use, a woman who filled a man's office acquired all its privileges, and was immune from none of its duties.

. The first woman ro occupy a university chair in Germany is Fraulein Woker, who has just been appointed professor extraordinary at Leipzig. Her special subject is physical chemistry, and she has done some good work at the Berne Uni-, versity. Last year the Countess yon Linden, of the University of Bonn, was nominated for the chair of assistant professor of zoology, but the Prussian authorities refused to accept the nomination. However, the prejudice against woman seems to be dying out now. To. her Grace the Duchess "of Portland belongs the distinction of being the tallest English duchess. She is a very beautiful and stately woman, famed alike for her philanthropy and social gifts. An idea! hostess/ .'.- h -the D.-'che-si of Portland, only '.""" '""''" "'<--'!'• ?n tli» social. J poliricni, and artistic- worlds' -being ;i - . \

invited to her town house in Grosvenor Square, or to Welbeck Abbey. Both the duke and duchess have very simple tastes, and were it not for the sake of their daughter, Lady Victoria Bentinck, would prefer to spend most of their time.out of town.

Lady Jjecies takes a great interest in all kinds of animals, and at Scotswood, her place near Ascot, she has one of the finest catteries in England. In it are many high-born felines, who are the rivals of the blueblooded Persians in the cattery of Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Hol-stein. At the foot of the cliff over Italy against ithe Castle Merrion, away down eighty feet below the surface ot the Adriatic, there is a little bit of a crevice that has been cut in the cliff, and down in that cleft there are. .'VB the "Sunday at Home," some of the most priceless -pearls that aT«> known. They belong to an arch-duch-ess. They had not been worn for a long time, and experts decided that tlie only thing that could bring back their brilliancy was to give them Ihis prolonged bath in the sea. Arict these experts say that these pearls which had gone "sick" are coming back to their old brilliancy. When Miss Cornelia Martin married the Earl of Craven in 1893 she became a countess at "the early age of sixteen. According to. a pretty story, 'air was "put up" for the first t i*r*e on hei budal morning The i"-" 11 ) h o s b"°i*i i happy one, ,' d L n dv Coi on has developed a r v a charm of manner and an -l-nt-l Itv to fcj-'g'sh custom* -flinch i"- -,1011 her di^t ir "'tjon Tlie Eail of C r nven tur-oeclel to the title when no *nis fifteen vear<- of age, and he «*■•*• a lis m-iri-.ge He -ft <r.v? ■> fir- 1-- - I '] T-lnr.f, p/-o 'Jov-j + ; —Ccoi-be Ab-'-ev—for it was