LADIES’ COLUMN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143771, 20 April 1912, Page 5

LADIES’ COLUMN.

(By Sister Ann.) OF LOCAL INTEREST. ■ Miss Ethel Standish will leave New" Plymouth in about a fortnight on a trip to England.., Mrs. T. Nicholson is spending a few days in New Plymouth, staying at the White Hart Hotel. Mrs. 0. H- Weston left last week for Melbourne on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart. Miss Roy left last week for Temuka in order to he a bridesmaid at the wedding of Alias Gappor. Airs. Ryder, sen., who has been staying with her son, Air. Ryder, of the High'School staff, has left again for her home. Airs. C. Webster andNAlrs. L. B, Webster have returned from AA’anganui, where they have been enjoying a short holiday. AJiss Winnie Webster will accompany her father, Air. AV. D. Webster, to Sydney, leaving here on Friday next for Auckland, where Airs. R. B. Lusk will join the parly. Aliss Teresa APEnroe, a well-known Wellington soprano vocalist,, who hat. been staying with Airs. F. Henderson, returned home on AA’ednesday after a most enjoyable holiday. THE WIFE'IN BUSINESS. A man's wife often knows more than he" does about a great many things, ami. while he need not lower himself in her estimation by admitting her mental superiority, it. is well sometimes for him to silently recognise her superior intelligence and profit by it. The judgment of the average woman, regarding the disbursement of money is often better than that of the average man, particularly when it comes to spending money 'for domestic purposes. It takes a shrewd tradesman to get over the average sensible woman, while a tradesman finds it easy to work olf the stale goods on the average man, and the most conceited man might, as well acknowledge frankly that Ins wife run attend to most of the affairs of her own household better than be can attend to them for her. AA'omen very often have the mast acute perception regarding business affairs. If men would onlv ‘‘talk business” with their ■ wives, instead of taking it for granted that women "don’t understand anything about business,” there would probably be fewer failures. Aiauy a sue-' cessful business man owes his success to the keenness of jiklgment of a partner whoso name does not appear in the firm or over the shop window, and who is not supposed to have any connection with the business, and that partner is his wife, in whom he is wise enough to confide. MATRIMONIAL BLISS. The Queen of Koumania, whose nom de plume is Carmen Sylva, has drawn up the ,following .list., of-rules , which, if observed, will ensure any worpan matrimonial bliss.

1. —Never begin a quarrel, but if a discussion is inevitable, don’t yield until justice has been done to you. 2. —Don’t forget, however, that you are the wife of a man, and not of a superior being. That will help you to understand his failings. 3. —Don’t osk hmi. too often for money. Try to manage with what he gives you at tho beginning of the week. 4. —Tf you notice that your husband has a heart that is somewhat too large, remember that he also possesses a stomach. Nurse his stomach, and you’ll soon win his heart. 5. —Occasionally, but. not often, allow him to have the “last word” ; that will please him immensely, but it won’t hurt you a bit. 6. —Read everything in vour newspaper—not only the sensational news. Husbands love to talk about the events of the day and the political situation. 7. —Don’t hurt his feelings, even when you are sulking. S.—Pay him a compliment from,time to time. Tell him he is the nicest and most attentive of men. but give him also to understand that ho has his little failings.

ELLEN TERRY ON BEAUTY. To think thnt I, .Ellen Terry, of the age of sixty-two and one-half years, should be asked to write on the subject of beauty! How I acquired my good looks? Why, bless you, 1 was never supposed to have any, was I? Well, there is my hair. And if you could see how grey it is! But it is as soft and almost as heavy at when I was a girl. And how do I keep it so? By washing it. By rubbing it occasionally with my finger-tips. By not brushing it. Rubbing does everything that ever brushing did thnt is beneficial and it does not generate and distribute the oil. There is my skin. And whatever it has of softness, firmness, flexibility, I think I owe to th'e English climate. Oh, yes, I mb cold cream into it and get ounces of dirt out of the pores when I go over my face with a soft tpwel. But it is that constant, soft-humidity against the cOieeks, T think, that gives to British complexions their clear brilliancy - and the firmness to the skin. I should th'nk something could be substituted for this natural blessing. An application of cool vapour, for instance, every dav for an hour or so. There is my body, which 1 try to keep clean—an nehievemnnt in ;f-nlf if one is in the city—and I think that is about all. No, it is not. either. It is not the finish of this little talk of mine, but just the beginning.