MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 September 1924, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES. The term “honeymoon” had its origin among the early Germans, when newly-married couples drank mead, mixed with honey, for 40 days after the wedding.

The women’s clubs in Wellington are making progress—the Lyceum has removed from Manners Street to Lambton Quay—their membership increasing so much that larger premises became a necessity. A new club, which is not quite ready to start, is busy enrolling members, and this club will be .sponsored by Lady Pomare. Already the membership is nearly 'complete and an early date is being fixed for the opening ceremony.

The American lady who advertised her houses to let only to persons with large families, writing to a friend in Auckland, says : “I wondered how the news of my unusual proposition got into the pages of the ‘Auckland Star.’ 1 had hundreds of letters from all over the United States asking was it really true that I wanted children in my houses ? I have bought seven houses within a stone’s throw of Lynn, Mass-, and I have in them forty three c 1 dren, one family of ten, one of eight and in my four-room tenements, four’ and five children each. It is a dreadful thing the way landlords act about allowing children in their houses. Th>'v seem to think it a crime to have a family.” A market gardener of the suburbs of Paris has just made the interesting discovery that there are flowers that do not like music, and he supports h’is statement by saying that carnations and cyclamens will tremble and turn the other way when they hear a jazz band (says the “Observer”). Whether the latter fact—if it is a fact—proves that these flowers dislike music may, perhaps, be disputable. At any rate it shows that Paris nurserymen take an interest in their flowers beyond the mere desire to sell them. The discovery opens up all sorts of interesting possibilities. In time, music; properly adjusted to the individual requirements of different plants, may be made to replace manure. On the other hand what must be the feeling of carnations when they are waiting under the conductor’s desk to be presented to the prima donna at the opera Over the whole range of occupations into which female labour was introduced during the war, the reversion to the older practice is now virtually complete. Even where a few women are still left in such occupations, they are replaced as they retire, by men. The confident predictions that wartime dilution would usher in a new epoch of women’s employment on work previously done by men have been fulfilled in hardly a single occupation, even where women’s work during the war gave the greatest satisfaction. The shorter duration of women’s working life, and the special provisions that have to be made, where women are employed are still effective barriers to any widespread substitution of women’s labour for men’s, even where, in a technical sense, the women . are equally capable of doing the work. , Mere conservation is also a powerful j factor in causing the reversion to pre. ‘ war practices.— The “New Statesnan.” ( c It is really wonderful how many I kings salt may be used for. It is 1 t capital remedy for rheumatism, if v ■aken regularly in a glass of cold s vater before breakfast. A nightly ] 'argle of salt and water strengthens <■ I weak throat and wards off bronchitis endencies. When eaten with nuts, , ;alt aids digestion; and it will relieve leartburn if taken in cold water. It e s also a good thing for burns, and 11 or stings of bees and wasps. If a I hick plaster of wet salt is tied on the I dace it will take the pain out. if n inything has been burnt in the oven, hrow salt in and it will take all the a mell away. When soot drops on the v arpet, throw salt on it and then weep it up. If salt is thrown' on the c arpet before sweeping, the colours rill be brighter. If salt is rubbed on * ilver, china or earthenware, it will a ake off stains of tea, eggs, burns, etc. n f applied at once it will take out “ nk stains. In washing coloured A lothes, if a handful is put in the si rater, the colour will neither run nor b ade. If used in frosty weather on a oorsteps, bricks etc., it fills the place a i f ashes, and is ever so much cleaner. n j nd amongst its many uses it will al- ) kill the most obstinate weeds on m ■avel garden walks. ,