WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13494, 22 May 1907, Page 9

WOMAN'S WORLD.

BRIDAL LORE. A Jastary bride will bo a prudent housekeeper and very good-tempered. A February bride will be a humane and affectiosato wife and tender mother. A March bride will be a frivolous chatterbox, somewhat given to quarrelling. An April bride will be inconsistent, not very intelligent, but fairly good looking. , A May bride will be handsome, amiable, and likely to be nappy. A June bride will be impetuous and generous. A July bride will be handsome and smart, but a trifle quick-tempered. An August bride will be amiable and practical. A September bride will be discreet, affable, and much liked. An October bride will be pretty, coquettish, loving, but jealous. A November bride will be liberal, kind, ! but of a wild disposition. A December bride will be well proportioned, fond of novelty, entertaining, bat extravagant. t SARAH BERNHARDT BELIEVES IX YOUTH. A lady who recently had a pleasant interview with Sarah Bernhardt in her home —where she met the woman and not the actresswas again struck with the youthfulness and vivacity of the great French actress. No doubt, says the visitor, commenting upon rind ' explaining this fact, Madame. Bernhardt takes scientific care of her person and uses skill to keep herself young in appearance, yet there is another great underlying cause of her youthful appearance. She never allows "her mind to wear ruts in her countenance. She never permits herself to become bored with life, -.weary of work, or phlegmatic in emotion. She keeps herself alivo, expectant, determined. Were we to look up the playmates of her youth, who have lived monotonous lives in remote places, we would find them old women with worn faces and shapeless forms, believing in age and decrepitude. Sarah Bernhardt has believed in youth, in beauty, in work, in progress, in art. So now at sixty-two she has more beauty than she kad'at twenty, and almost as much youth. MERINGUE BISCUITS. A nice way of using up whiles of eggs that have been left from other dishes, and at tho same time making delicious little biscuits, is as follows Put the whites into a large basin, add to this about, sixty drops of essence of almonds. Beat, to a stiff froth with a fork. Now add (a tablespoonful at a time) half a pound of caster sugar, and the whole Will gradually assume the appearance of thick paste. Place some thick, white paper on a shelf of the oven. Drop some portions of mixture about size of balf-a-crown on the paper—keep half an inch apart. Bake in a slow oven about a quarter'of an hour. When they turn pale brown they are usually done. To make some pink, use up half tho mixture, then add a few drops 1 Of cochineal to what is left. Allow them to cool before removing with a knife. t . ■ ■ ' ■ --■■ CURES FOR LOVE, Absence is one of the means of. curing love. Two thousand years ago Ovid advised his readers who wished to cure themselves of an unlucky attachment to flee the capital, to travel, hunt, or till the soil. ■ " Love," said Coleridge,." is a local anguish. "•';:,, 1 am 50 miles away and not half so miserable." t ':- . r ■ ■■■':'*'■:-. .^:?': :: .':- But other men, have found that absence increases love. ''" La Rochefoucauld probably hit upon the truth when he said that " Absence destroys weak passions, but increases strong ones, as the wind extinguishes a candle but blows up a fire." If the love is all fancy and has little strength, it may be cured by personal contact with the object. But*the safer plan, perhaps, is to keep out of the way. Hence travel is a good expedient. Business, perhaps, is' a better one. OTid said: "If you desire to end your love employ yourself, and you will conquer, for love flees business." Still another expedent is reflection upon the unhappiness of married life. A man in search of this view can find it everywhere. . Addison said thai " Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon tho sense;" and Hazlitt, that '.' Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration.' Goethe said : With most marriages it. does not take long for things to assume a very piteous look." But none of these men married happily. Goldsmith said: "Many of the English marry in order to have one happy month in their lives." And Colley Gibber: "Oh, how many torments lie in t'he small circle of a weddingring ;. '..,...' But undoubtedly the best way to get rid of one love is to have another. " All love may be expelled by love; as poisons are by other poisons," says Dryden. Heine says.- "The most effective antidote to woman is woman. In such a case the medicine is often more noxious than the malady; but it is, at any rate, a change, and in a disconsolate love affair a change in the inamorata is unquestionably the best policy." PARENTS WHO REMAIN YOUNG. It has been truly said that it is not so easy to guess a woman's age as it once was. for we are constantly trying to retain youthfulness in both looks" and actions. Medical science, improved conditions, outdoor exercises, all are tending to lengthen, life and prolong youth. There is scarcely any advantage which does not create. some condition which is disadvantageous, and in this. instance it appears to be a growing want of respect on the part of children for their parents. We have no desire to return to the old days, when a lad trembled before hie father and always had to address him as "sir," instead of " father," or the more affectionate "dad." It was rather fear than verit- i able respect which animated the children of uiose times. We wish to see sons and daughters imbued with that respect which comes when they have someone whom they love and to whom they can look for example in conduct. To be able to respect anyone, including parents, we must have examples of dignity. We must also feel that the person in question is somewhat above us, somewhat apart from us. Filial respect partakes of the.nature of reverence. Now, in.the effort to remain youthful, are not .many ' parents acting in just the right way to make it well-nigh impossible for their children to entertain that filial respect? ■ The mother, for instance, accompanies her sixteen or seventeen-year old daughter on cycling' tours) or to tennis parties and what not, talking and acting just as if she were -.io girl's school chum. She imitates : the dress of younger women, sometimes ' of a much younger woman, and in general ' comports herself after the manner of a girl, [ or tries to. Is this kind of intercourse, this extreme familiarity, calculated to maintain the position of a parent? ' It must be remembered that mothers sometimes enter so largely into the occupations of their daughters 'that they talk in tiie school or office slang with them, and therefore make themselves " cheap," There is no valid reason why a mother should not endeavour to retain* her youthfulness : there is equally no reason for refraining from being a companion for her daughter; but there should always be dignity;. There is danger in pushing this companionship too far. J It requires great tact and skill op the part of one holding a higher position to be on terms of good-fellowship with those on a lower level and. yet to maintain in those persons that feeling that respect is still due in undiminished quality and quantity. If mothers fail to exercise this tact and skill they will lose some of the respect due to them. .

PORTIERES INcuEAD OF DOORS.

Portieres occasionally take the place of doors in tip-to-date houses, They are certainly artistic, and succeed in making a, room look comfortable and eo*y. Applique curtains are pretty unci inexpensive, and specially attractive made of cloth.- Reproductions of fine old tapestries are admirahlv suited for portieres, and velvet curtains ; still hold their own. In chousing portieres ma that they do not contest too sharply with the wall*, woodwork, or wallpaper.