AT HOME WITH THE LADY EDITOR.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 6, 6 February 1892, Page 140

AT HOME WITH THE LADY EDITOR.

Mils.Er -You ought to call within a week or ten days, and leave two of your husband's cards and one of your own. Call on her reception day. if possible, and pay a short visit. If she has not a day, you can simply leave cards. An inritais a civility, and ought to receive recognition. Widow.—Yes, you must certainly acknowledge the many calls and notes you have received. You are by no means obliged to entertain callers if you do not feel equal to it. Visitors will not expect to see you until after your formal appearance in ehurch. Send car ls with ‘ Thanks for kind enquiries.’ You can get them printed at the stationer’s, or, if you prefer it, you ean write the words above your name on your ordinary printed eard. Lottie.—There is nocking at all improper in two ladies • not very young ’ going to a concert together. Wear silk dresses with a pretty little joiof of cream ehiffon lace edged with pink, gold or blue, and aainty little cape made of the same. You can put them on in the ladies dressing-room if you are going in an open carriage or public omnibus. E.M. K.—l am sorry you did not see how to crystallice grasses. Take one jxiund of alum to one quart of water. Put in a vessel back of the stove to dissolve : it must not boiL Put it then in a tall jar, place the bouquet stems up for twenty-four hours in the water. I hope you will let me know if yon succeed. Comme-IL-FaTT. —-It is not at all ‘ the proper thing ’ to wear a hat or a bonnet at a conversazione of that kind. You are supposed to be sufficiently well acquainted with the rules of good society to know that evening dress is the only correct style. Anything else betrays you as ‘ a country cousin. ’ It has been suggested to me that there are many gentlewomen in New Zealand who, from various causes, are in great need of the opportunity of adding a little to their scanty income. ‘ If,’ said the lady who introduced the subject, ‘ there could be some central place in each city where all kinds of work could be sent and disposed or at a reasonable figure, it would be a great boon to many deserving women.’ Of course, this means paying rent, and paying some one to sell the goods sent in. The seller might well tie one of those in need of some light employment. I was thinking over this subject whilst reading a popular English lady’s paper, and was much pleased to come across this paragraph:—‘An Exchange for Womens Work has just been opened at the H>>tel Anglo-F ram ais, 6 Rue Castiglione. This exchange is under the patronage of many prominent members of the American colony in Paris, and its object is to assist American gentlewomen in reduce.! circumstances. Any kind of work is received and sold at the price mentioned by the contributor. The names of the ladies who furnish work are never revealed. Orders are received for American pies, cakes and other specialities, and a circulating library is already organised. Each Thursday afternoon there are musical with the assistance of the best artists, unique Turkish embroider ies are sold, and pictures and other works of art can also be purchased. This Exchange is a real charity and deserves prosperity.’ If afternoon tea at threepence a ecp were provided, and a general interest awakened in the movement, something might be done. At all events, the subject has my warmest sympathy, and I earnestly appeal to my warmhearted lady readers to send me their ideas on the subject, whether the scheme is practical or not. To turn to another subject, I feel sure that every mother's heart in this colony has felt a pang of deep sympathy for our dear Princess of Wales, who has so suddenly lost her eldest son. He had his faults, as what mother dare say her child has not ? But he was her eldest born, and, we are told, the Royal mother was very fond of him. The Prince of Wales also is deeply attache! to his children. The moment he fancied last November) that Prince George did not seem well, he took him at once from Sandringham to London, placing him under Dr. Laking. L’nfortunately, his illness provei to be typhoid, which that month seems to have been the prevailing illness amongst the ‘ upper ten,' even more so than induenza, Lord William Nevill and two sons of Sir Henry Ponsonby suffering from it at the same time. The Princess travelled night and day from the Crimea to reach her second son, accompanied by the Princesses Victoria and Maud. An English writer says:— * The Princess and her daughters were dressed in black, and looked rather tirei after their long journey. Dr. Broadbent and Dr. Laking were in attendance at Marlborough House, and were able to give the Princess a satisfactory report of Prince George’s condition immediately upon her arrival. Saturday last was the foutteenth day of the fever, and, as a consequence. His Royal Highness was that day not quite so well, there being a slight increase of feverish symptoms, but in the evening these subsided. Saturday, being the twenty-first day, will be an anxious time, and the evening bulletin from Marlborough House will be awaited with impatience. Prince George’s bednxuu faces St. James’s Palace and not the Mall, as stated by some of my contemporaries, and it was at first feared that the music played every morning by the Guards’ band at the daily guard mounting would disturb his Royal Highness ; but this is not the case, as he likes to hear the music, and it has not therefore been temporarily suspended. Dr. Broadbent being the Senior Physician to St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, it is not surprising that the same hospital should have the honour of supplying the two nurses. Sister Victoria and Sister Edith, who wait night and day alternately on Prince George. In addition to telegraphing the morningand evening bulletins to the 'Zaeen, Dr. Laking has to write every evening a letter to Her Majesty saying how the young Prince is progressing.’ As we all know, this Prinee has recovered, whilst his eldest brother, the Dake of '.’iarence and Avondale, has been taken. Before this is in print he wall have been buried with the amount of pomp an 1 ceremony befitting his rank and positiou. And who does not feel intensely sorry for the gentle maiden, whose hnp:s were intent upon marriage rather than death : cn dainty white welding garments rather than oa sombre funeral raiment? Truly, ‘in the midst of life we are in death.