WOMAN’S WORLD.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1922, Page 6

WOMAN’S WORLD.

PERSONALS. Miss M. Leitch left by Tuesday’s mail train for the South Island, where she is spending a few weeks’ vacation. Miss S. W. Shaw and Miss Olivia Shaw return from Auckland to-night. Miss Moana Cholmeley has returned from Dannevirke. Airs. C. H. Weston has returned from a visit to Auckland and Helensville. Airs. Muller, of Auckland, is visiting her mother, Mrs. D. S. Millar, and she will remain until after her sister’s wedding. Mrs. J. Climie returns to Wellington to-day. ♦ • • • Mrs. T. King (Hawke’s Bay) is staying in New Plymouth, visiting friends and relations. Mrs. W. Averill has returned to Auckland. Airs. Hessell has returned to Kaponga. Alias Ala vis Tuke returned to her home in Auckland last week. Captain Newenham Cornwall gave a luncheon on the Otaki last Wednesday, the gueste being Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Sladden, Airs. R. C. Davies and Miss E. Davies, Dr. and Mrs. Rex Brewster, Mrs. Gordon Williams (Hawke’s Bay) and Mists Brewster. Airs. Barthorp and Aliss Beryl Barthorp return to New Plymouth early in the week. Mrs. Gordon Williams returned to Hawke’s Bay on Thursday. Mrs. R. C. Davies left on Thursday for Taihape, en route to Nelson, where she will make her future home. Miss B. A. Campbell returned last night from her trip to Colombo. « * * • Mrs. L. B. Webster has returned from a visit to Hawke’s Bay and Wellington. Last Tuesday at her residence Airs. Rex Brewster pave a small fox trot party for her guests, Mrs. Gordon Williams and 'Miss Eileen Davies. Airs. Erica Liveeey is visiting Feeding. ♦ * * * Airs. W. N. Ewing left on Wednesday for Christchurch and Dunedin. On her return she will be accompanied by Miss Ailsa Ewing, who has completed her third year at the Dunedin University as a home science student. * * * • Mrs. A. Gunn, of Wellington, is staying with Mrs. Alabin at Onaero. THE SECRET OF YOUTH.

Eady Norah Bentinck recently commented on the foolish way in which people make a bogey of old age. An old lady of her acquaintance, she eaid, simply refused to let her age bother her. To begin with she ignored her birthdays, or rather informed her friends that she had no desire to be reminded of them. Alany people feel old from the time they have passed their twenty-first birthdays (of course, twenty-two is proverbially the oldest and wisest of ages), and instead of enjoying each age to the full, are weary pessimists at the age of forty, having hardly ever known what it meant to be young, remarks a contemporary. The mournful pessimists who inform dear old ladies, such as the one described above, that they “shoud be careful” or that they “are getting too old now” to do such-and-such a thing should be sent to an infirmary themselves for dolt-headed sendee. Besides being tactless it is downright unkind and may cast a premature shadow over the enjoyment of some dearly loved hobby. One is never too old to do anything one enjoys. What if it does mean (and one doubts it) the shortening of one’s day to a slight extent? Surely that would be preferable to the dull and drawn out existence of the valetudinarian who has never known how to live.

TITLED WOMEN FORCED TO SEEK JOBS.

The fight for a living has driven an increasing number of German women of rank into the world of bread winners. In the face of the season’s first chilly blasts many women, who formerly were hostesses at Berlin's brilliant social functions, are seeking shelter behind the doors of employment organisations able to furnish them with odd jobs. A varied assortment appears every morning in the headquarters established by the Housewives’ Association of Greater Berlin. This association aims to provide the needy of the middle classes with employment. The ordinary ’burglar’s wife, who though uneducated is an expert needlewoman, may be seen alongside a professor’s wife or a Countess.

The association examines the applicants regarding their ability to fit certain kinds of work. It gives instruction free, if required, and supplies home work, such as sewing and embroidering. The products are sold at the association’s salerooms’, the buyer never learning the identity of the actual producer. Private labor exchanges are unable to conceal the former social status of their would-be employees. A Major’® wife recently applied to the exchange for a housemaid. The willing candidate appeared, but was rejected because she was found to be the wife of a Colonel. The Major saw the applicant and thought that it might cause her embarrassment and explained to the exchange officials that it was impossible for him to engage her. A Countess, who occupied a distinguished social position before the war, was- assigned to a servant’s position recently, merely to keep body and soul together. Investigators say that the German exchange rate has caused ruin for the middle classes. This stratum of society, some social workers declare, must either join the proletariat or die out. Many who through inheritance of lifetime savings had acquired what was regarded as a ccmtfortcble fortune now

find themselves virtually penniless because of the depreciation in the exchange. A largo property exchange is conducted by the Housewives’ Association. Scores of the middle classes sacrifice every day some treasured household article in order to meet the rent, gas, or other domestic •hills. Fino ashes-, moistened with a little turpentine are an economical and effective cleaner for steel and brass. Stains on knife handles, if not too long standing, can be removed by rubbing them with a little salt and vinegar.