WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6126, 12 March 1898, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

f The eldest daughter of the Duke jand' Duchess of Cumberland'has just come out at a Viennese Court-Ball, andwon universal : admu-ation. She is, like all the children iof this popular couple, exfeeanely handJ some. j Queen Natalie, of Servia, .has -written .a j bookof .xeellentadages, suditas " Unhappy i is he who has not experienced thehappi_ies_»of doing -good;" " A-.anoment.of apathy may render 'superfluous a whole existence j of -hcgreatest' energy." ! The Princess of Wales, ahvays übbb dis- ! tilled water for her face and hands. A ! popular duchess Bwears by rose water, j whioh she herself in a littie silver ! Etna upon her toilet table, whilst .Mesdames Patti ancLAlbani, both • of whom ! have very youthful complexions, believe firmly in the virtues of English coldicream, which they havo used overy dayfortheJast twentyyoars. Sally Lunn was a pastrycook famons for her teacaj.es. She llvedvin Bath. about 1776. Charlotte is a corruption of the«old EngKsh oharlyt, which was m. dish of custard. A charlotte-rusee is shuply a Russian charlotte. Macaroni is taken from the Greek derivation, meaning the ""blessed dead." Its name referred to 'the custom of serving it-at funeral feasts. The beauty of woman^shonid last, growing more and more me&owniniil the end. That the-beauty of women,. like that of men, should be determined from the standpoint of advancing maturity •cannot bedisputod. Itis absurd to claim that the ripe, _ich beau ty -of forty Ib less attractive than :the buddmg _»afa__ty of sweet sixteen. When women live in harmony with Nature's laws, each stage of life haß its own^charm. The f ulnessof beauty does not reach its .zenith under-the-ageofrthirty-five or forty. The Queen invited Madame Albani to Osborne last January, and made a . special point of asking her young son/to accompany her,.as well as her _nsba_d,.Mr Gye. After the prima donna had sung, the Queen took her aside and entered into a long conversation with her "Tittle Canadian subject," as she always calls her. Her Majesty's parting with her -favourite cantatrice was very fond, and Madame Albani, who fairly worships her Sovereign friend of the last twenty years, was -deeply touched by the Queen's farewell on her departure to Australia. Miss .Ellen Terry's parrot, Mr Pigott,is, with delightful inconsequence, known familiarly as Nell. MissTenty had acquired it, says an interviewer, for the sake-of its green hue, its-mauve-head, scariofbeakand pink breast, and it had just arrived, .but its accomplishments were an absolutely un-known-quantity. Sir Henry Irvingcalled, and Miss Terry said, " ThisißA-marvelldus bird, talks beautifully!" and placed it-on Sir Henry's finger. Quoth the bird instantly, "Henry"!— and its fame was secured. It .only knew two words, and this was one of them. Thus as the bubble reputatiou'wonat theparrot's mouth. An address was lately given by Frederio Harrison, a well-known English ■wrile__Jn whioh.be summed up tho position of women with some charming sentiment. He laid special stress upon the virtue of essential womanliness, and its valuecompared'toinere intellectuality. How, he asked, can we weigh even the actions of the women in Shakßpere's King Lear against an aot of inestimable self-sacrifice and love of a mother ? Woman, said he, is less robust and bouragoous than man, and more tenderly constituted, and it was well for humanity that by her physical nature Bho was set free froni the toil of the field and forge to devote herself to the graciouß.and ennobling service -of the heart. Mrs Gladstone was eighty-six last January. She is, says one who knows her,* grand old woman, if ever one breathed. Once lovely to look upon, she has still a light upon her quiet face whioh Bheds its radiance on all and sundry. Frank, winning, always keeping herself in tho background, and bringing you, however humble your social status, to the foreground; enlisting herself in many a charitable scheme, but particularly loving to give her time and thoughts to the two "homos" ne.-ling close to Hawarden Castle — one a home for old ladies, and another for orphan boys — with all the softer charms of the "old woman," but with the enthusiasm of the new. Admirable as a mother, whilst perfect as a wife; gentle of speech ; homely, but picturesque of attire, as a lady of her years should be, that's Mrs Gladstone !

The amount of cheese imported by tho combined countries of Europe is about 480,000,0001 b, and of this England takes over 360,000,0001 b, 0r nearly%).iper*Geii_of the^whole.