WOMAN'S WORLD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16672, 17 October 1917, Page 9

WOMAN'S WORLD.

BEAUTY AND THE WOMAN. J If ever there was a time when the cult ' of beauty should bo preached it is now (says a writer in an exchange). Care for the feminine appearance shou'd be made compulsory, like restaurant rations and meatless lays; it is just as '.leceasary for the good of the nation. Tint is because we are, most of rightly enough —in the mood to believe that nothing on earth matters but work, and getting on with the war, and being very strenuous and helpful. Women are extremists; it is all or nothing with them. Ever so many people believe thai, it is foolish and wrong and unpatriotic even to consider such trivialities as care of our hands and hair and figures at a tine like this; and, of course, if the war was in any likelihood of being won, or even helped, by our having heads like hayricks, and hands like nutmeg-graters, and figures like kangaroos, it would be. But, fortunately, it isn't, and however hard we work, and however sad we feel, a little thought and care and comracn sense will show us that we can still be beautiful, though

busy. . We have to be on our guard against those who would have us believe that work, in itself, is all that is necessary for the regeneration of our appearance in general, not to speak of our souls. Get- , ting up at 6 a.m., doing all the housework, and sitting from nine till five in a stuffy office isn't so conducive to health and beauty as some of those who write on the subject would have us believe. Care and anxiety are not natural complexion tonics, and daring as it may sound—not all of its ate too much in prewar days, and will therefore be benefited in face and figure by a diet that comprises neither meat nor starchy foods. Those who are food hogs by predilection are still "hogging;" you can watch them doing it in any restaurant you like. But it is against the effects of the altered regime that we who care to be beautiful must guard. CHILDREN AND MONEY. The extremes have been taken by parents with regard to children's handling money. Some give their children all the money they want, while others never rive their "children a half-penny. In the first case, the children grow up without any idea of economy and are often obliged to learn later in life, through failure, the value of money. In the second case, as soon as the child reaches an age to learn anything, he wishes to enjoy the luxury and freedom of spending as he chooses, and often does so, with about the same result as in the first instance. Neither method is wise nor just to the child. A great deal of his future happiness and usefulness, as well as that of those connected with him, depends upon his ability to earn and manage an income. Whenever the child can earn money honourably let him do so. Give a child a certain 1 amount of allowance. As soon as he is old enough, teach him to keep a little book account. Let him spend some of his money. He will make mistakes, of coures, but better learn to use good judgment through a sixpenny mistake when a child than through a hundredpound one when grown up. Advise a child how to spend, but if possible make him feel that he is responsible for the result. Every time that he makes a poor I bargain let him suffer the natural consequences. Teach ihs system in finances. One of our. wealthy men made it a rule ' to lay by one-fifth of his income for a : nest e<,g. A certain proportion should be ■ given to benevolent purposes. By teach- . ing a child honour and good judgment ■ in the use of noney you teach him much \ that goes into the making of a good citizen.

IN THE NURSERY. Children whose feet are bathed regularly night and morning in cold water, then wiped, and rubbed dry with a coarse towel, as a rule are exempt from colds. Upon the first symptoms of a cold, such as snuffling or a slight hoarseness, a child should be given .a warm foot-bath, then be greased on the nose, neck, chest, and feet with mutton ' tallow or some other good grease, and put at once to bed and wrapped up well. If prompt action is thus taken, the cold will usually be broken up without further treatment. An antiquated, but nevertheless very effective, household remedy for a cold is prepared as follows :—Put into a saucepan a quarter of a pound of butter, a pint of treacle, and a teaspoonful of ginger. Let simmer for half an hour, then stir into the mixture the juice of two lemons; cover the pan, and let stand for five minutes longer. Take hot just before retiring. -.other old-time remedy which is exc Tor all sorts of colds, but especially lor thai, tightness of the chest which so often afflicts children in cold weather, is known as mutton custard. To make it, shred nto a pint of good skim-milt 2oz. of fresh mutton suet, simmer gently for an hour, strain, and give to the child at bed time. To prepare linsed for a cough, boil the seed in water until a thick syrup is formed, then strain, add powdered sugar and lemon nice. To be taken in tewpoonful doses whenever the cough is troublesome. For a chafed upper lip and soreness of the end of the nose, such as generally accompanies a cold in the head, nothing gives mare relief than greasing the parts with mutton tallow. By the way, no well-regulated nursery is without its supply of this homely but most useful ointment, whose virtue cannot be disputed. One authority upon such, matters makes the bold assertion that nine-tenths of the children who die of croup might be saved | by the timely application of roasted I onions, mashed, laid upon a napkin, and well moistened with goose oil, sweet oil, or if neither of these is at hand, melted hog's lard, the whole to be applied as warm as the child can bear it to the throat and upper part of the chest. Nothing is better for whooping ccugh than a complete change of air. The child's bowels should be kept open by pen tie laxatives- Its food should bo light but nourishing, and given a* frequent intervals. Children should be taught as early as possible to gargle their throats. Their lives may somo time depend upon their abi'itv to do it.

a child chokes, lift it up suddenly by the arms. A drink of water will sometimes remove 3, substance from the throat. The white of an egg, swallowed raw, will remove a fish bone in the throat.

A certain remedy for a burn is a poul- | tice made of a raw apple, scraped and mixed with salad oil. Bind it on jt-lie affected part, renewing as it dries. A cooling poultice for a burn is made of lard and flour. For healing a burn after all the fire has been drawn out, nothing is better than bismuth. Make into a salve l Dv mixing with enough lard to give it a body. The best cure for a sprained ankle is cold water and salt. Use freely, and thus keep down inflamation. Keep the afflicted member elevated; give the patient a cooling purgative, and keep on a low diet.

CHOOSING WISELY. Girls, being loved is a pleasant sensation. Being loved agrees with our vanity— this wonderful feeling of assurance that some one likes n- r caresses and is ready to serve our v. hiras. , Bui there ■« no particular reason wiry the first man who awakens this feeling is the one mer on earth who deserves von. Your 0-rt lover may sweep you along with his ardour, gain jour gratitude by devotion, reason you into acceptance, marry yiu. To these things women surrender, unconscious that they are not in love—until the awakening comes. Every true woman leads an inner life. Ask yourselves, girls, if you really could be happy with the man whom you could subdue and conquer with your beauty, 4IOJU. BeftStjr .idUswlh . .-<•;. :'. 4.

HOME-CLEANING MEMS. White Skin Rugs: Get an empty barrel or something which will answer the .«'.me purpose, and, having removed the canvas hacking lightly tack the rug round it. Make a good lather with paraffin soap, hot water, and one tablespoon if ammonia to each pail of water. Have tl is lather all ready, and wash the rug thor uglily with it, afterwards rinsing it with two lots of cold water. As the skin dries, rub the fur up the wrong way and comb with a coarse comb. Great care should be taken that the skin and fur are both thoroughly dry before the backing is replaced. Linen Blinds: Before washing, take off the cord and lath, but not the roller. Soak the blind in warm water over-night with plenty of soda. Lay it on a table, and soap all over on both sides. Then d : p it up and down in a bath of hot iter and i afterwards in a bath of cold water t)vjr<>. Now replace the lath, and hang ;'Uf .> drip till it is dry. Do not squecz-.- or wring out. While it is still on tie line pour starch iver it from a r-can. When q'\ie dry, damp down and ircn at full length, with not too hot a.ll iron CATS OF FAMOUS MEN. Looking backward we find tli;.l pussy has been the pet and favourite ui some of the most famous personages in hisiory, says a writer in an exchange. Mahommed rather chose to cut off the. sleeves of his robe than to disturb a <a! lying upon them, and his followers, nh > have no more objugatory term for the Christian than dog, admit it into their mosques, Dante and Petrarch each bad i fondness for them, and the great Richelieu had a pet cat, while Cardinal Wolsey placed his favourite tabby near him on a chair while esenisine his judicial functions. Sir Isaao Newton nad a pet cat and kitten. Montaigne, too, was not too witty or too cynical but the frolics of a cat would amuse him, and La Belle Stuart, the famous beautv in the reign of Charles 11., satirised by Pope in the line well known, " Die and endow a college or a cat," left annuities to several of her friends on .'ondition of caring and maintaining her cats. Among contemporary celebrities, E'len Terry loves to disport herself with her cat 3. Both Reran and Taine possessed an extravagant fondness for cats, and Francois Coppee who, since the dea'ii of Victor Hugo, nas been generally classed as the leading poet of contemporary France, also shares this hobby in a marked degree. Cats surround his. desk and nibble at his

pen while he writes, and his friends can recite a dozen poems which he has composed in honour of these pets.