WOMAN'S WORLD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9303, 1 August 1908, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD.

Queen Maud of Norway has a wonderful collection of ivory. It was begun vfub the tusks of Jiiephants shot by King Edwasci and the Duke of Connaught in India. Sonic ume ago the Czar sent his cousin the tusks of a, w^d boar he had shot, and among other treasures of iho coli.ecaon are the veeih. 01 a lion, a moose, a shark and an alligator, the tusks of a seal, and the sword of a swordfish.

The newest hygienio invention is the paper mLkcan, which is now being used by dairy companies in England for delivering milk and cream. They are made from pure mechanical wood pulp, lined with a sterile glaze, and as they axe never used twice, but are destroyed when empiy, there can be no danger of careless cieansing, as in she case of tin cans. It is also seated that milk remains fresh in them longer than in the oid cans.

A temporary homo for children has been ©aiabiished in Pans by a Swedish woman Madame Anderssori, who personally conduces it. Here children are oared for while vheir parents are out of work or unable to suippon them owing to illness. The parents are supposed to contribute a lit Je towards their keep, if possible, though the home is mainlysupported by rich patrons. When the parents are able to keep them again ihe children return to them, or if they are not able to maintain them they are apprenticed to trades or are given situations.

In an address on " The "Working of TVoman Suffrage in .New Zealand," before the Liberal Colonial Club in London, Mr s Pember Reeves contrasted the ignorance of the average English working woman ■ with the intelligent interest taken by the same class of women in the dominion. "In England," said the speaker, " tho great point at eleotion time appeared to be to tell the b.ggest lie, and to* trade en ignorance, but that could not be done in New Zealand, for people knew too much there. It would be impossible to find a woman factory-iand who was not cognisant of the Factory Acts, or a female shop assistant who was unacquainted with the Shop Acta, but it is the exception to And such women in England."

An eminent doctor in London states that 79 per cent of the girla who come to him are ill because they do not get on at home, and a writer in a leading woman's paper says that lobody oan disagree with him who knows anything of English family life. It seems to be ihe lack of interest and want of occupation in these girls' lives that makes them flrai morbidly miserable and sensitive, and then really ill, for many girls are driven into anemia by listlessnoss and boredom. With so much crying out to be done, it seems » very dreadful thing that mothers should bring up their daughters in such a way that they are not only useless to the nation, but are driven to boredom and \ll-health by lack of sane and wholesome occupation.

A professional baseball club in the United States hus adopted a baby boy. When travelling in a train, tha members of the club noticed a woman and a bright curly-haired ohild. The mother asked one member to hold ihe baby for a minute, then stepped into another carriage, and left the train at the first station. At first the club-members were indignant but before the end of the journey they Were ail in love with the abandoned baby, and entered into a compact to care for the little one. eleot him the Masoot of the club, and provide him with a good home. Tie chili was present in the grounds during several martchea played by tke olxth, and was showered with money by the speciators. He now has a bank account of over JB4OO. Tne silence cure is tho very newest for all nervous ailments. Hypochondriacs are absolutely forbidden to discuss or even allude to their illness. Such a treatment should not only be efficacious to the patient, but should be the means of preventing ziervous | disorders in others, for there is nothing more nerve-racking and distressing than to be constantly regaled with a Hat of symptoms. There was a time when it was scarcely considered decent to discuss such things, but now gruesome and revolting details of every illness are given broadoast and w^tli iolish by the lucky sufferer, without a veil of modesty or reticence. The morbid habit of introspection, both physical and mental, has been carried to such extremes of late that such a sane and wholesome cure as silence will be greeted with joy by the martyred army of listeners. Lady Ingestre is the elder sister of the Marquis of Anglesey, and hex jnarriag-e to the Earl of Shrewsbury's only son took place in 1901 a few months after the wedding of her sis er to Lord Herbert, elder son of the Earl of Pembroke. The two sisters are devoted to each other, and their respective husbands are brother officers and great friends, so they have town houses next door to each other in Manchester Square, and have been '■•hiring a house at Windsor, where the Royal Horse Guards have been quartered during the winter. Lady Ingestre and Lady Herbert, as they are generally called, a<ro known af court as Lady Winifred Ingestre' and Lady Beatrice Herbert the King having conferred on them the rank which would have been theirs had their father, instead of their brother, succeeded as Marquis of Anglesey. This promotion gives them the right to walk before viscountesses and the wives of younger sons of dukes. There has recently died in Edinburgh Miw Louisa S.evenson, tho earliest champion of university education for women In Scotland. Although privately educated herself, she grasped the possibilities of » wider sphere for woms, and was one of the chief movors in the establishment of tho association for the university education of women of which ahe was secretary for many years. It is Raid that her clear and convincing testimony given before the commission on university education did much far ihe success of £h.e movement. She ftlso helped in later yevs to establish the Mmmft Sal] as * sesidaace for wonup ttudents, and tor her services to education tho University ci Edinburgh conferred on her the honorary degree of LL.B. a, few years ago. She was also the first woman to sit on a parochial board in Edinburgh, and up to the time of her death at a great ago she was keenly interested in womaahofd suf> fra-ge «A$ *U advance movement. ■