MATTERS FEMININE.

Waipa Post, Volume VII, Issue 326, 26 June 1914, Page 3

MATTERS FEMININE.

CYNICISMS.

■ ' “Nothing hurts a woman so much as when a man won’t givo her the opportunity of saying ‘No.’ ” ..

j “To ask a woman what she means is almost as unwise as to ask her if she has any.”

“A woman without a past should be be happy—but she isn’t.”

“Usually when a woman tells her lover to ‘go!’ she means ‘go—and come back!’ ”

“Some women agree with their husbands—in name only.” “Too much letter-writing has been the death of jnany a love affair which started out with flying colors.” “It isn’t so much that a woman wouldn’t, but she hates you to think she would.”

“A woman is never so happy a when she refuses to forgive.”

REGULATE THE READING

It is a very bad plan to allow children to read overmuch. Some children if they are given a bonk will sit curled, up in a chair all dav long reading itTho habit is exceedingly bad for the eyesight. While children are growing they should bo ciicourr.g.d to run about and stretch their limbs out c* school hours, as ordinary lessons arc quite enough strain on the child’s eyes and mind. When boys and girls are older, too. it is not wise to encourage overmuch reading. A child who leach too much sometimes ceases after c time to have any originality of thought and, without knowing it. is always voicing as his own the opinion he hat read in one or the other of his books.

THE RADIUM UND E-R3G DICE

In addition to the front and bad views of this ligh'tening-specd made bodice, our artist has also shown th shape as i.t looks when cut out. 1 is wonderfully simple to make, and will fit most all figures. There is ;■ speciality about the shoulder that con duces to its perfect adjustment. It fastens on each shoulder with one but

ton and buttonhole. Consequently i‘ depends upon the wearer’s choice of whether she prefers a wide or a narrow arm hole. It is also most useful to ladies who go out much in the evening and wear very low’ bodices—the button can be unfastened and th shoulder left uncovered. Independently of embroidery or feather stitching, if plainly made can be produced in. half an hour; ff yd. 30-inch,

LONG ENGAGEMENTS

Love’s young dream, unduly post poned in its realisation of its ultimate ending in marriage, is apt to become commonplace and lose much of the charm and romance that should surround the days of courtship.

Lost Buss

The victims of too-long courtships, even when marriage does come, an robbed of much ideal bliss by rcaso” of a too familiar and prolonged intercourse resultant of a lengthy engage meut. Youthful Marriages

Are not to be commended unless both parties have known each other sufficiently long enough to he sure that it is a love that is for each other and not for gold, position -or social advantage. Even then, when their parents think there are circumstances wherein it, would be better to wait awhile, it is wiser to look facts in the face than to shut the eyes and afterward regret the blindness of their own making.

Marriage a Lottery

Whenever any one begins to discuss the marriage question and says, ‘‘Marriages are made in Heaven,” there is quite enough evidence amongst the the generality of married couples to ask \\liieh Heaven? If Heaven is ;vichin us, it goes without saying that there must he a union of tastes, nicely blended temperaments and ‘proper arrangements provided for the housing of “Two Dears” —tho bear and tho fotbear—otherwise Heaven is not at hand, but very far off. Now,.girls, you need to look before you lean. A well-educat-ed, evenly-balanced, clear-headed 20th century girl ought to show more common sense in accepting a partner to: life, that the divorce court recital;, given by oqv daily press reveals.

High Ideals

M arringe is undoubtedly an ideal state, where the parties concerned are mated as well as married. The moral is: Be engaged long enough to judge the character of vour Adonis, hut not too long to wear all the sentiment threadbare, for when that happens ideality is supplanted by the commonplace, and there, is an end of it.