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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13710, 26 September 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)

tell mother, because, although kind and all that, she would not understand, and might think such a question or piec- of information foolish. ""~" Put aside your reserve, mothers. Let your " girls see that you have not forgotten when love first came into your own lives. The coming years will bring sorrow to them, as to all. Give your children something to remember when the rose-hued future has faded into the dead past, and life for them, too, is strenuous and full of care. There need be no familiarity. Just show them that you, whose mother-love has never yet failed, would like to live your own young days over again in theirs; that you' understand the meaning of the luminous expression love has brought into their eyes, and there is nothing to be ashamed' of. Let each mother encourage her daughter to talk about the one who is seeking. her for a wife, and do not be afraid of uttering a warning should you see anything in him of which you do not approve. Remember her inexperience. . Besides, how should she be able' to judge when the Golden Dustman has obscured her vision with a yellow shower. When she sees clearly again it will be through being disillusioned. Time is fleeting. Your girl's spell of happiness may be brief; so let motherlove make her way bright and pleasant into the realm of wifehood. Don't be constrained or shy; but think of the days when someone came wooing to you, and let her benefit by your experience. WOMAN IN WAR. Mrs. Emily E. Woodley, who was said to be the only woman ever regularly commissioned as an officer in the United States army, died the other day in Philadelphia at the age of seventy-three. She was the last of the 35 young women from Philadelphia who enlisted as nurses in the Civil War. She was a , widow of twenty-six when she offered her ser- # vices as a nurse in 1861, and for her bravery and good work President Lincoln conferred on her a commission as captain in the army. She was later decorated with a gold medal by Secretary of War Stanton. For a number of years. she was president of the National Association of Army Nurses of the Civil War, which she organised, and was the only woman member of the Grand Army of the Republic. THE FRENCH WAY. Mile. Fallieres, the daughter of the President of the French Republic, is engaged to be married; but the engagement of Mile. Fallieres has excited not the least notice with the exception of a five-line paragraph of small type in the newspapers. The London Daily Express, commenting upon the fact, says: —"The engagement has had a five-line notice in the newspapers, and the excitement has ended there. President Fallieres occupies a very different position in French minds from that of the President of the Vi ited States in the minds of" Americans. He is regarded l as a politician (which by his office he is not allowed to be). He is esteemed as a man, but as a social factor lie is practically nil, and nobody in France takes the slightest interest in what his wife and daughter wear or in what Mine. Fallieres pays her cook. SPOONS. The subject of spoons is rather a sore point with us just now, but another asjiect is given -to it by the craze of our American visitors for spoon-collecting on their own account (remarks a writer in the Sydney Daily Telegraph apropos of the fleet visit). They all, including the jackies and 'the marines, bought souvenir spoons by the gross to take away with them. One -jeweller reports that his stock of spoons, ranging in price from 10s to a guinea, was completely cleared out during fleet week, and nearly all were bought by foremost tars. "They were real good buyers, and had plenty of money to spend," said the shopkeeper alluding to above, and he tells of oue jackie who, after making several purchases which left him with £7 10s, took a fancy to a dress ring, price £2 10s. "Well, say, I'd like to buy this," he remarked, " but it'll only leave me with £5, and I can't get through the rest of the day on that." So he paid 10s deposit, and the rest on delivery' when the ring was sent to the ship. Many of them bought c.0.d., and never failed' to pay when required. Twenty were often cheerfully given by f .sailor for a ring, while the officers lavishly bought highly-priced rubies and diamonds costing four times as much. MEN AND CORSETS. j According to a woman writer in a lea-l-ing London magazine, who made it her business to go round to men's tailors, etc., and possess herself of knowledge that would place her in a position U> speak with absolute authority, tlw fashiouable I*ondon woman is not in it with the fashionable London man as regards extravagance and vanity. Since corsets are generally regarded as exclusively destined for feminine wear, it may come os a surprise to many to learn that the annual corset bill of many a smart man is much larger than that of an average smart woman. This is nevertheless a fact. A lending corseticrc who -supplies of them (remarks the writer) put down a good customer's bill at £l5O per annum. Let no one imagine that only fops wear them. The majority of wearers are miliatry men, who, I learn, require a greater amount of padding than civilians. Others are ordinary well-dressed men. given to manly sjiorts, and by no means effiminate. A man's figure has to be gradually coaxed into idiape, and is put first of all into a soft silk corset with scarcely any bones, until ho attains by degrees to tlw full glory of the perfect figure. This process usually takes tlm-e months, and five special makes of cored* are employed in the development, or perhaps it would be more accurate to ,«ay the " repression." of the figure. A greater variety are made for men's use than for that of women. Hunting belts are made of strong elastic strapped with fine kid, and shooting belts are of pink or white coutille, about six inches deep. The riding corset—about nine inch*** long--is of handsome- brocaded ."-ilk coutille, strapped with kid, while tin? *u*penders attached arc <>f coloured frilled silk elastic A man's evening corset —from fourteen to eighteen itu-lics deep—-if. mad-- of exquisitely >oft white kid, with the top cut. in scollops and pinked out round thedge, and carrying four suspendeis. Kr tr.i --mart men have t-houlder strap* with these convts. to ke»-p tln< buck in tho desip-d >h.tpe. Then UK-re is the golf first I '., a!->o in white kid. with -<ilk elastic gorer- **v«-ic!y claruisic in *lyl«>; a\\<\ tlm nvirniii£ c-irn-t. fourteen inch*--* deep, in «hiw -,ilk coutille, lined with tv-tin. Slc--piii-j U'ltr anotlx-r iu-Mi tKcv-'irv '" " RCt a W.-.1.-4 " - are live inches devp. and inaiie nf -.troii£ w!k elastic with inlet.'* "I -rf»m«- porous material. l"i>r ih>- lien- ti'- of tlw nnitiatit) it may l«* f>tat»<l that the i<»rr»-t i.i worn between »hn vr-»t -ui't Oie r<jisrt ; alrvj that own by rvi tii«.it-s <]«-->im a >ftiall wu-»i. but t.t-ii.-r pnde- tlcni-Mrivrs n-win a inca«un' tticiit <>f nn>«-!«-n -in-h*-v though thr aver «.i»,'. )«, twenty four. Kand painted ■orM-ts art? thn fancy of Minio nwti, ««n) ■ <*•' ten £ii'l*.uv Th" c«»r-«*-tirti- '■> whom I --m iii<icii'.»? !■•;- (■!)!• mforni.it sort :* loii-l in praj»e of h>-r in.il«- • lteli!e|e Thcv .iir n»! fidgety. llf v have goi"i ta .'• . .ift<! tio iitailfr what -'!h«-r h'il"- thcv liavi- unp-un --■ he )■• »1 j travn *tjr« nf h«-r money. i*->*j<:!i!v (.■•*- rnTi -ir-oTjld d»r» far*- a from -*'•■'■ *» - l ,•:••'•-

The lady's indictment concludes thusly,-—" Let not the fashionable man cast a stone at the fashionable woniari. All he can claim like her is that he is a means of circulating much money, : and : let us hope of putting a fair proportion into the hands of those who need' it badly."