LADIES' GOSSIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2860, 6 January 1909, Page 73

LADIES' GOSSIP.

— A pretty novelty is being much used in London just now for engagement and w&dding presents. This is a bracelet of flexible gold, ending in two golden hands clasped each in each. Tiie woman's hand is adorned with a jewelled bracelet of 'tiny dimensions, and even a ring as well. The same idea is carried out even in rings. — Lady March is a solo pianist, and those who have heard her are inclined to rank her high among society's amateur musicians. Of these Lady Limerick is probably the foremost, as far as the pianoJEacte is cojiceirnetL hut Lao^ Galloway run&

— Mrs J. E. Green, the new president, of the Ladies' Literary Society, is a most womanly woman. Dainty and fragile in . appearance, with beautiful white hair, the j clinging grey dress, which had the new ( sleeveless brai-ded coatee, she wore was eminently becoming to her. The widow of a great "historian, her&elf an authority on Celtic legend aud the ever present Irish question, witty in % speech and ready in j repartee, one is not surprised to hear that Mrs Green's house in Grosvenor road is the rendezvous of some of the best intellectual and political society of the day. The Women Journalists are to be con- [ gratulated on their succession of presidents, it is a list of one distinguished name after another. — One of the things in which the German woman differs from her English sister is that every German girl, when she reaches the age of 17 or 18, is sent away from horns to some family a long way off, who send one of their own 1 ■daughters in exchange. According to the ; Gentlewoman, this, exchange lasts for about three ye.iTS. The girl is treated as one of the family, is styled Fraulein, but in even^ other respect is a mere servant. She has to do all the work of the house, scrubbing, washing, cooking, mending — in fact, everything that a domestic servant is required to perform. This does not leave her much leisure for play, and the ) •outdoor sports of an English girl are quite unknown in Germany. A German lady on being told that English girls played tennis and hockey expressed her contempt for such foolery, and asked who did the housework. On being informed that no English girl or matron would dream of turning to and doing the cooking, etc., she gasped out — "Oh, Lord! What a lot of lazy hussies !" Every German woman has all the work of her home on I her shoulders, and by this is not meant I tbe lower class of women. No German lady thinks oi having more than one servant, who gets about £5 a year, and does the rough work, her mistress doing all the cooking and -mending. It is a sight to see the lady in a German town going to market. She knows what to buy and what to pay, and every Wednesday and Saturday xsik aaay eefc her trotting

1 the people were dying in large numbers, without anyone to teacli them the way to salvation. This so touched the heart of Rakeri, who was present, that she volunteered to go and teach the women and children. She was warned. She was told of the peril. It would be at the risk of her life. Infection meant death. There -was no cure. But nothing could turn #her from her purpose. When her errand of mercy was over she came home to die. " She lived for some months in the hospital under the doctor's care, and, as long as she could move about, she was a* a ministering angel to the sick ones in the women's ward. And all the while 6'he was a dying woman. It was during^ this time of comparative strength that Rakeri came to the Communion service in the cathedral. She sat in that distant corner all alone, became she knew that people would shrink away from her as they would shrink from contact with death itself. — From Bishop Tucker's " Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa."