WOMEN FRIENDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18518, 1 October 1923, Page 12

WOMEN FRIENDS.

" Tha most ';';•: charming women, when they, arc together without men, seldom cay anything that is worth' hearing, and feel more bored than when they aro alone." /.v' : -' '"**,'' Though nearly 300 years have passed pitice Mile. Scudery wrote this, it is si ill quoted as proof that women not only bore one ano'thcr, but also , are incapable of friendship. 1 .; ."' ; 'v -" : . ': : ..;-'; '■ ' ' ;">• Friendship, it is said, is limited to men Women never feel it, though they fancy they do. They form spurious ; girlhood friendships, which consist in sentimental confidences, in encircled waists, in kissing truces to petty quarrels, hut which end with school days and are rarely revived. Perhaps in maturity, even after marriage, they concoct an emotional relationship, in which they may be anything and everything but friends. So the opinion goes, and has gone, until feminine friendship has come to be regarded as something too transparent lor illusion. History yand fiction are plundered for examples of men bound m amity, and we hear to weariness of David and Jonathan, and Damon and Pythias. There are shining instances, however, of women who have been mutually attached as deeply as these.' :"•";:•■ . ;:■•/,-.; .'■ / A close, continuous companionship between women implies usually that both are in the main, good and strong. Women who have Dunk in self-esteem are prone io avoid each other, Women , discover one another's faults more .quickly, perhaps more willingly, than one mother's virtues.' They have an instinct for wrong m their sisters proportioned lo <•. their unsuspicion of the same'wrong in 'themselves. Conscious of this, they keep apart, less, because they have erred than because they do not wish to be found out. .■'•.-'.':'■■ . Tho most substantial friendships be'tween women exist-when life has gathered sober though not sombre hues. They then see each other with ciear eyes and iiettled confidence.. All reason for distrust has. passed; they do not. regard! each' other as possible rivals. Their mutual inward interest springs from lack of outward interest. - Mature women friends seldom -seriously disagreo 'after they have'- become firm friends, but having gone apart thev seldom coalesce again. RED PIMPLES ON FACE AND BODY. "My trouble began by using another person's towel. A rash broke out on my face and body, and a few davs Mater small, red pimples appeared. They appeared in blotches, and the skin was red and inflamed. Slight irritation commenced a few days after, and gradually became-worse, which prevented me from sleeping.. # r '"Seeing: the Cuticura Soap and Ointment advertisement I sent for a sa:mple, which gave relief, and after buying more .'[ was healed."-- Mrs. Nellie Havmer, 21, Little Collins Street, : : Melbourne, Victoria..'.-': .. . For saicple Soap and Ointment address: '"B. Towns Vand Co., - Sydney,; N.S'.W." O&ticura Soap .■ shaves •without mug,, 1- -.