WOMAN'S WORLD.

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13269, 26 August 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

WOMAN'S WORLD.

Saving Life on the Battlefield. Through assistance rendered 'by his Royal Highness tho Duke of Connaught, the Canadian St. John Ambulance Association is giving first-aid instruction to the soldiers from the Dominion going oversea. Instructors -with military rank are attached to every bati.ilion, and the men are being taught iiist-aid, which will be useful to themselves and their comrades in emergencies. Canada's Lady Military Chauffeur. Miss Grimmer, of New Brunswick, daughter of the Hon. Mr Justice Grimmer? of the Supreme Court of tlv.it province. is said to enjoy the distinction of being the first Canadian lady to be accepted by the Canadian Government !>vemv»s service as a chauffeur in the war zone— -and Miss Grimmer is well acquainted to till her appointment. She is an excellent mechanic, and has long driven and repaired her own automobile.

Medicinal Herbs in British Columbia. The cultivation of medicinal berks is being tested at Laugford, British Col'iimbix. About 50 varieties of these have been planted. The growers will keep an exact record of the progress of each, and hope to have valuable information tabulated at the end of the season. It is hoped and 'believed that the enterprise will succeed, and there does not seem to be any reason why it should not. Ten years ago it was considered impossible that a profitable trade in bulbs would have rewarded the iudusti v of growers in \ aneouver Island." vet a bulb farm and many smaller concerns are now in full operation. Children's Sleeping with Adults. It, is a most injurious practice for a child to sleep with an «idult, the Kamilv Doctor states, but it is equally bad for a strong, vigorous child to sleep with a, delicate, nervous one. The stronger person may sometimes draw strength from the weaker, but usually this is reversed and the more vigorous person is the sufferer. Return of the Beauty Spot. Princess Arthur of Connaught launched a new fashion in public the other d;iy—that of the beauty spot, a mode hitherto restricted to the ballroom. The occasion was the opening by her Royal Highness of the British 'Women s Workers Exhibit 1011 at linue s Skating Club. The Princess, we are told, was looking very young in a navy lilue tailor-made, touched with white, white fox furs, and a t>mall tricorne Int. The beauty patch worn on the chin showed up strikingly against her lair complexion.

"Paperettes." Tlii.- is not n now food, the Star says, !, m simply tin- name that two girl house dot orators have railed thomvelves. Tliey ;ire olllcrpl'i.sino athletic -irU. with foresight, who apprenticed ! hem-elves to a London house decorator for six lr.onths soon alter the «Ji" Marled. This spring they have opeiiei' loeallv on their own account, and with two women assistants have more orders than they can fulfil. Being women, ti • v pa\ sjX'fial attention to the householder's I 'ids regarding art shades in wallpapers. etc., and also, being v. 0:11011. 111 e \ lire careful to he punctual ai their work.

Splendid Red Cress Work Seniething of the magnitude and iin::!«•!!sit vof the work being don.' by the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Hed Cross Society, through its ward branches and auxiliaries in Greater Vancouver and its subsidiary branches in the interior of tlte province, may !>e gathered from the fact, that the centra T supplies depot lias received, clashed, and shipped to headquarters at Toronto and England a grand total of 1.V77.K1-2 large and small articles !or the men at the front. Needless to say, all the oilier provinces have been equally energetic, and the amount ol good tln:> accomplished cannot readily be overestimated. The Waste in Matches. In an appeal for rigid economy in domestic matters, Mr B. 11. \ . Wragge, Recorder of Pontefract, at the qaurter sessions, estimated that i~,OOO,<XK) used matches daily. Some struck a great many more than necessary, and if only one match was saved by <yu/h person daily there would be half a. million boxes, each containing ."30 matches, saved daily. Ihat in the course of the year would be 182.."MX),000 boxes. Taking boxes at a halfpenny each meant a saving of £380,000. It was astonishing, he said, how easily people struck a match, and if it did not quite satisfy them, threw it away, and struck another. Even now they did that quite recklessly. The other day in a country walk he followed for about three miles three men who were smoking, and lie counted 62 matches struck by those three men.

Australians' Passion for Tea. The Australian's passion for tlie Chinese herb is well known (savs the Globe); and in. popular restaurants "down under" a pot of tea is brought 1 with meals as a matter of course, and 'without charge, just i'is ice-water is placed on the table in the States. Which reminds a correspondent that when he was lunching in a Strand ref stauraut recently some colonial s<ll- - diers came in and ordered oysters. , The reticent delicacies were, brought, together with appropriate brown brc/ul . and butter, lemon, and condiment. When the Italian, servitor asked his . customers what they would drink with [ their oysters their reply gave our correspondent the shock of his life. They . did not call for the ordinary bottle stout, or Chablis or champagne. No ; [ they commanded pots of tea!