FOR WOMEN ONLY.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8190, 3 August 1912, Page 9

FOR WOMEN ONLY.

THE NEW COMMANDMENTS

A WONDERFUL DECALOGUE

The Marchesa di Trevano, chatelaine of the Gastello Avezzano, Sulmona, in the Abruzzi, who is now engaged in nursing officers wounded in the Tripoli war, has given the world an up-to-date decalogue for the guidance of women. The Marchesa’s Ten Commandments for Women aro as follow: — I. —Thou shall not lie, oven though thine own weapon of self-defence be taken from thee. For lies do increase with habit, and the ’truth, which is never believed, answers better. 11. —Thou shall not steal. It is better to pick a man’s pocket than to steal precious moments which are his golden opportunities, and which, once flown, never come again. 111. —Thou shalt not be unworthy of confidence, but seal thy lips upon the scored secrets with which thy friend has entrusted thee. A lost jewel may bo regained, but a secret is a secret no more. Treat tho secrets of thy friends as thou wouldst have them treat thine. IV. —Honour thy father and mother, and be not contemptuous of their oldfashioned ways nor of their white hair. For thine own cheek shall wrinkle and thy hair shall silver, and thy children shall laugh merrily at thy old style in days to come. V. —Thou shalt not set up gold as a god and worship it, nor place it before God Almighty. For it may turn to dross in thy hand. Rather learn to worship truth and modesty and character, which shall always be jewels without price. VI. —Thou shalt not be a sloven or don a Paris gown over an un bathed body. Thou shalt place cleanliness and daintiness next to godliness and a wellcoiffod head before rare plumage, and thou shalt not let thy husband see tlico in careless attire, for verily the man who pays thy bills and cherishes thee in his heart should be first to see thee carefully groomed. VII. —Thou shalt not covet thy friend’s husband, nor her tiara, nor her Pekinese, nor her sweetheart, nor anything that is hers. To do so is an admission that fortune hath not favoured thee, and admissions are fatal. Nothing like success succeeds, and if thou puttest thyself in the attitude to receive, these things shall be lawfully thine. And. the broken hearts thou bringest to other women shall rebound and hit thee like boomerangs. VIII. —Thou shalt not defile thy lips with cigarettes, for verily shall a man say, ‘.‘Lips that are odorous of tobacco shall hover touch mine.” And thy example is great among the virgins that admire thee. Thou shalt be temperate in all things, nor flush thy cheek with much wine, nor pollute thy lips with slang, nor say of others that which thou wouldst not have said of thee.

‘LX.—Thou shalt not fie a cat with claws' in readiness under thy velvet paws to scratch thy best friends. Thou shalt not wear two faces, not a hypocrite be, for thy duplicty shall be discovered, and there will be no health in thee. Thou shalt be honest with others, but first with thyself. Remember, a real enemy is more to be desired than a false friend, with whom thou knowest not how thou standest. X. —Thou shalt not slander,- lie, cheat at cards or love, bear false witness against thy neighbour, nor value a friend for his possession rather than for himself. For gold and jewels shall return to. tho earth that gave them, but a loving heart knowest no bounds and shall live for ever and ever. Thou shalt not push thyself in the marketplace, but thou shalt remember the man who kisseth thy hand and worshipped thee, revers thee for thy femininity. Keep thyself his superior, but submissive as well, and he will marvel at thy sweetness and tolerate thy ignorance of politics and worship thy dependence upon him. Thy assumption of equality detracts from thy charm, and thy husband loveth the vino that clings but repulsed the oak that standed alone.—“ Rhodesia Journal.”