THE WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12066, 9 September 1902, Page 3

THE WOMAN'S WORLD.

. A GOOD SUGGESTION. iVjiere there is a family of girls at home it 3 a good plan to allow each oDe in turn to is.sume the responsibility of housekeeping 'or a certain time, and to keep the accounts 'or it accurately. It is right that girls should be made to take a share of respou- j iibilitv concerning household tasks, and the I ;xoerience "will be of great value to them j vhen thev have houses of their own. Let j ;hem. therefore, have, a month at a time in succession, charge of the mending, cooking. besides housekeeping—all, of course, under proper supervision. ROW TO CLEAN YOUR OWN GLOVES. Air. white and -coloured kid and suede gloves can be cleaned at home. Get a pint or half a pint of sweet benzine from an oil and colour shop (which answers die purpose equally as well as that bought xt a chemist's in "small bottles, and it is rery much cheaper and goes much further). Lay a small white cloth on the table—any old piece of linen or sheeting, if folded in seveial thicknesses, will answer the purpose. By the side of this place an- empty soap-dish or a small pie-dish., rind into it put i pair of glove*: pour enough benzine on to sover them. If thev are only slightly soiled, leave them in soak "for three minutes: but if verv dirty, let them remain in the spirit for five to eight minutes, and then take one out. squeeze it lightly, and lay it palm downwards upon the cloth, and rub it hard upwards towards the lingers with an old, clean, soft handkerchief; then turn it over, and rub the palm of the glove. This will remove all the dirt, unless the glove is very dirty, in which case it may bo necessary to apply a little more of the benzine with a corner of the handkerchief. When both gloves are done in this way, lay them upon a. clean cloth, and put them by or outside an open window. The air will dry them and rake away all smell of the benzine. ('.loves cart be cleaned several times in this war, as nothing is used which can rot them. The cleaning must not be done by artificial light, as benzine is highly inflammable. CHANGES IN WOMAN. Women*, says '' Sybil,'" in the Sketch, have their phases, like the moon and other creations of the gender, but, unlike the lunar planet, they never repeat themselves. The early Victorian girl was a simpering, giggling, blushing, fainting, ringleted, cham-pagne-bottle shouldered, white-stockinged, cloth-booted, impeccable non-entity. The mid-Victorian Miss was a thing of bustles, chignons, sprightliness, archery meetings, and dawning emancipation. The later Victorian New Woman was composed of platform phrases, cropped hair, thick boots, formless arguments, affected animadversion of the tyrant man. and despair of the matrimonial * estate. We to-day are full of smart " ambitions, overflowing with smart, slang, weighted down with smart bills, for smart clothes, compelled to live in smart streets, to the great attenuation of our less smart incomes. Never, in fact, has there been such an Old Man of the Sea as this fetish smartness that we have been hugging to our souls—or what represents —for the last dozen years. Not to be smart is to be socially dead.