Notes for Women.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIV, Issue 15, 13 April 1910, Page 60

Notes for Women.

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LONDON, February 25»

Madame Curie's Genius.

Some notes about Madame Curie, who, since her husband's death, has been a professor of chemistry at the Sorbonne, appear in this week’s “M.A.P.”

It appears that Madame Curie has been a scientist from the cradle. She was born at a college in Varsova, where her father, who was a noted experiment talist, was Professor of Physics. Even when she was only a baby Madame Curie, then called affectionately the Profess sorowna, showed the keenest interest in all that her father loved, and it is evldent that she possessed natural scientfe fic genius. From “ London Opinion.” “Wanted —Travellers to push neWf motorcar,” is obviously an advertisement which might have been better Definite Instructions Indeed. A letter quoted in the “Daily Graphic’* from an Indian man milliner who dea scribes his firm as “Drapers, Habers dashers, and General Merchant,” gives an amusing insight into his methods. “In placing this indent (for hats) witH you,” he says, “we have to draw your particular attention to the following ins structions, which should be strictly adhered to in the execution of the presents order. The hats now required are to ba of such a description that not a single one of them should fail to attract the attention of the constituents, and that; the one should excel the other by there fascinating appearance resulted from tha beautiful style in which they are trimmed, and the best materials used foC such trimmings to suit their respective colours. Customers must be quite admired on looking at the hats, and should be left in confusion as to which hat they should have, and they should say! that all the hats are very pretty.” Children as Necessities.

It is a severe test, says James Douglas, to be close to a child's mind, and that is why many of us dread children. Children are our consciences, and as a rule they are our guilty consciences . . . we can kill our consciences, but we eannot kill our children. Their still small voices are never hushed in our hearts. That is why children are necessary.

Woman Wants— - Man wants but little here below, but woman wants everything that other women have.” —“Puck,” N.Y.

Lady Aeroplane Builder. Miss Lilian Bland, an Irish woman, has just designed and built a biplane glider, to which engine and propellers will be fitted later. With the machine controlled from the ground by ropes satisfactory glides have already been made. Simon the Jester's Tie.

Few budding authors realise, says tns “Bodleian,” until they have passed through the disillusioning process known as publication, the many stages through which a manuscript often has to passx

Like an Act of Parliament, it is subject to many alterations and many tears, And publishers’ readers “query” to the .Verge of querulity. When the proofs of Mr. W. J. Locke’s “Simon the Jester” itrere being passed, the famous author as questioned because his jeune premier wore a wine-coloured tie. “What shade, dear sir? There is champagne and hock, there is burgundy and (alas!) claret.” To which the famous author •—terse, practical, witty: “ChateauLafitte, 1876.”

A Mermaid of Orleans. Between two and three hundred ladies have offered to impersonate Joan of Arc at the Army Pageant at Fulham this year—the fact that the Joan chosen must ride astride in armour and lead a charge of knights evidently possessing no alarms for them. Out of all, Mrs. Henry Holder, of York, sister of the Countess of Dartrey, and daughter of Sir George Wombwell, a noted horsewoman, has been chosen. She is to have two understudies.