WOMAN'S WORLD.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 19 April 1907, Page 4

WOMAN'S WORLD.

A STICH IN TIME. You all know this old proveiib, and I dare say : havd also proviod- its exceeding value again and again. And yet, and yet— well, how fond wo all are of putting off. Wo know that if wo don't put in vhat proverbial stich just .when it's needed, wo most likely let ourselves in for a long piece of sewing-- but still we so on putting oft from one cause or another, or even from sheer laziness. The needle may not bo handy-; to keep up the metaphor, we perhaps. .aren't good at threading it when we have found it; and then, again. we may be wanting a thimble. Oil, there'll 'be plenty of excu.--.-s to hand if we don't want to set about that stichiDg; indeed, if wo spent a tithe of the timo we| was to in coining reasons why we should not do a duty that stares us in t/ha face, in doing that same duty we'd find ourselves very much to iJio goodi at the end of a week, aye, at the end of a day. The habit of .'putting off is an easy one to fall into, and yet how bad and inconvenient a habit it is. If we give way to it in small thinjjs, we shall find it governing all our actions, oven those on which much depends. And people will find us out, tooi; they will cense to depend on us. o.nd then they will help us on the dowmvard road, because to think a person this or that, •whether it be good, or whether it be evil, goes long way to make him so, and her, too. Let us hurry up with that stitch than, the little thing on which So much hangs, and do it, just as soon/ aa ever it needs, directly tho duty comes along, whatever it may be. DUTIES FOR DAUGHTERS. "To dress youthfully when youth is long past is a sad mistake " said a thoughtful adviser of her sex. "•It provokes amusement and contempt. "Yet a woman is never too old to dress iteautifully, for every period of a life may have a beauty of its awn which the dress may accentuate if only it is of appropriate style. In the ease of a motJher this is especially true, and many a dowdily dressed, sad-faced woman might too as loveiy to the eye as sho is in character, if only her daughters, in the unlhinkjing self ness of their youth, had not failed to. do their part by caring . aS much for her outward appearance as -for their awn. There are daughters who keep their mothers fresh and attractive >y loving attentious of this kind." THE RIGHT KIND OF A GIRL. Let a girl be ever so graceful in the dance, let her be ever so elegant of walk, across a drawinGJroom, ever so bright in conversation, she must posses some other qualities to convince the great average run of young mien that she can be the manager of his 'home. Frugality, woman instincts of love for home, an eyo to the best mr tert-sts of her husband and the Care-, ful training- of her chilcfren-tJiese are the tr a its which make tho gra o d ■wife of to-day, and which young men look for in the 'girls tihey meet. Men may sometimes give tho impression that they do not care for common-sense in their sweethearts, but there is nothing: they so un failing demand of their wives.