MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 June 1925, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES.

Blouses for wearing under coats may have very, short sleeves, or very long shirt ones. In the latter case they have cuffs that are long qnough to be turned back over the coat sleeves and pinned on to them with tiny jewelled safety pins. The neck of the blouse is generally finished with a single or double turnover collar, suitable in form to . harmonise with the coat collar.

A confirmed invalid must have a bed-rest, but in a case of temporary illness great comfort may be arranged for the patient by a careful placing of the pillows so that they give the utmost support where it is needed. A patient who can read needs to be supported without definitely sitting up. Smooth the bolster, then take two pillows and lay them cror-swise on the bolster so that they just meet. Now take a third pillow and place -that straight across the two pillows, but high up. In this way support is given to the arms as well as to the back and shoulders.

“He’s not fit to kiss his wife’s foot’’ said a Chicago counsel the other day of a man brought up for wife beating. “I disagree. That’s just what he is fit for,” said the judge, and ordered the man, as part of his punishment, to do so. The culprit thought it tactful no doubt to look wildly round as for escape, before kneeling and duly smacking his lips against his wife’s shoe. In days of gallantry, gentlemen drank out of a lady's slipper without magisterial compulsion. It was not, however, the wife’s slipper.

It might be thought, and is gen erally assumed, that of all callings in life, teaching is the most suited to women, says an authority on education. It may therefore cause surprise that at a recent conference of the National Association of Schoolmasters it should, have been declared, with all the weight of a practically unanimous decision, that the great increase of juvenile crime is due to the handing over of the teaching profession to women. This may be an exaggerated expression of something that is true. It may be tendered with a touch of prejudice—even of jealousy. Still, it should be noted that the body which passed the resolution embraces the most experienced instructors of youth in the country.

xAll expiusive IUVI WAIIA.iI JU I ed will replace petrol, because it is more powerful and will cost only a few pence a gallon, has just been discovered by Mlle. Irene Laurent, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a French scientist. Irene, who is a pretty girl with bright bine eyes, is no mean chemist. She had been watching her father searching for a hydrocarbon solvent of an explosive he had discovered when she suggested experimenting with ordinary cane sugar- She worked in her father's laboratory until late in the evening, and next morning produced a clear, golden-coloured liquid without any precipitate. She had solved the problem that had puzzled her father for months. The new motor fuel, which has been named Irolene, in honour of the girl inventor, has been subjected to exhaustive tests by big French motor firms, and is said to have given every satisfaction. Some men remain bachelors, and would cheerfully pay a bachelor’s tax not .so much out of a selfish desire to live unencumbered, but because of a fear as to the modern woman’s domestic qualities. They see her in the street such an exquisite production of Nature, with the adventitious aids of smart and costly frocks, and of powder and paint, that they have a. gnawing doubt whether life in tho

home and the kitchen would prove quite congenial, and whether they could safely and profitably commit their lives and their weekly pay to them. But the Government is trying to mend matters. In an effort to build up good housewives, with a love for the home and a regard for the gastronomic niceties of the men they might some day wed, the Government is establishing a course in home economics at one of the technical colleges. The course, which will, cover three years, will include cookery, .chemistry, hygiene, dressmaking, millinery, and such other subjects as household accounts and the other activities that come within home economics. As an inducement to girds to take the course, a- number of scholarships are being offered. The most recent ten commandments by a husband have more pathetic touches than is usually the case with such enactments, says “Shirley” in the Auckland “Star.” “Do not .scold me with your eyes,” is poetic, and also commandment number two, ‘Don’t ‘-faqcy I object to have you ruffle my hair with your hand.” “Make a fuss over me now and then. I like it, though I’m old enough to know better,’ also strikes the right note. I don’t quite follow the argument in the fourth ; “Don’t give away my comfortable old clothes to some poor person. I don’t give away yours. A woman does not object to her old clothes being given away. She might be quite pleased if martail authority decreed a wardrobe clearance. “Do get the work done before I get home,” is a trenchant bit of pleading which will receive attention only when the office-going woman

fICLCIS Jiei vILLI tJclblvb UJI LIAtJ .MIUJUUIh The woman who doesn’t mind a muddle when she is part of it and putting it right, is the very one that objects when she is tired onlooker only- Then she understands masculine hatred of this sort of thing.