MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1923, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES.

Many women in England have taken to drinking orange juice, or some coollooknig concoction with orange juice as its main ingredient. Clear and beautiful complexions are said to come to those who drink deeply of the juice of the orange. A slice of orange is sometimes) placed in the afternoon tea instead of lemon.

“It is ridiculous for two children such as you, having found yourselves married, to be. coming here for a separation order,’’ said the Mayor of Oldham in the local police, court, to Edwin Lenh an and his wife, who are both under 17. The girl charged hethusband with persistent cruelty since shortly after their marriage last December. She said they had one child. The pair were told to go home and make up their differences.

An Italian woman visitor recently left a trail of smallpox in Londoif. She told a servant at a West End hotel that she was suffering from influenza. Subsequently 18 persons contracted smallpox, including the hotel laundress and two guests, who occupied the room on the night following the woman’s departure. Two others succumbed. The health officers traced the woman to the house of a relative whom a doctor was treating for chickenpox.

A tragedy caused a sensation in the Buda Pest High Court recently. Colonel Baron Bela Szabo de Bartfalvy suddenly drew an automatic pistol and shot himself through the head. For many years he had been carrying on a lawsuit against his married daughter about a country estdte. The Judge announced his decision that the colonel must deliver part of the estate to his daughter. The colonel immediately rose and said to his daughter, “Now you can have everything belonging to me.” In a- moment he was dead.

Wonderful advances have recently been made by British manufacturers of hosiery in the production of cloth by knitting instead of weaving. Some of the finest and most intricate machinery in the world is employed, and by aid of advances in the finishing department, there are now produced knitted cloths attractive in appearance and remarkably durable. Garments made from, the’’new material are competing seriously with those of woven cloth, and in this development there is fresh evidence of tin- pride taken by the British hosiery trade in keeping up to date.

Mr Justice Horridge, in the Divorce Court, last month, granted a decree nisi to Phalnee Cooper, of Manchester, on the ground of his wife’s misconduct with Alfred Lee, of George Street, Manly, Sydney, who was cited as corespondent. Petitioner said the marriage took place in Blanchester in 1909. His wife left him in 1913, presumably for Australia. After he had served during the war, petitioner went to Australia in 1921 seeking his wife. He did not find her at her married sister’s address in Sydney. He sought the assistance of an inquiry agent. One day petitioner was taken ill in George Street, Manly, and went to the nearest house for a drink. He there met his wife face to face. Both stood speechless. Respondent then exclaimed: “I thought you were dead; I’m married again.” Later respondent’s statement that she had married Lee was found to be false; but she admitted having live.d with Lee for three years.

It is very sad but not really surprising that two strong and determined natures cannot get on together, and I often wonder, says a writer m an exchange, whether some such reason is not at the root of what has come to be, known as “the domestic problem.” When both mistress and maid are capable, and each determined that her way is the right and only one, a clash is inevitable, and this may account for many a domestic upheaval that appeared inexplicable on the surface. Or again, tak e the case where the mistress is capable and quick, and the maid is slow, you again get the clash, caused this time by the mistress’ impatience. I have known the nicest woman unable to keep any maid for long for this very reason. She always engaged young maids, who needed to be taught their work and always proved too impatient to train them. She was so quick and clever herself that she simply could not see their difficulties, or realise how little they knew, and she just frightened them into leaving as soon as they could. Of course she is an extreme example, but there must be many cases where unpleasant relationships between mistress and maid could be traced to the same reason, though it may not be so obvious. What a pity it is that for some reason or other Ihe great lesson of give and take is left out of our educations. The lack of it earns us a bad name in both public and private life, which is distressing and disheartening, and horribly hard to live down.