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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2230, 24 October 1908, Page 4 (Supplement)

The difference between tlio freedom of the colonial girl and that of her English sister (says a writer in a contemporary) is vividly shown by an amazed paragraph in the ladies’ letter of a recent English paper. It described how, at the. theatre, an engaged couple, of the upperest of the upper cl uses, were been —without chaperon or companion—in a privgate box. The enormity of this bold bid for emancipation, will not strike the colonial girl, who is not impressed with the necessity of chaperons, very forcibly. Probably the idea of a damsel going to a place of entertainment with a man to whom, she was not engaged would have struck the English commentor dumb. And yet I have known this to be done. Dr. Truby King, addressing a meeting of women .at Wellington on October 12, remarked that if for every slight indisposition the cow was considered unfit to feed her calf, the calf would die. If man hadn’t invented artificial foods for babies, babies would either die or their mothers—supposing the maternal instinct to be stronger than the instinct for pretty hats —would solve the question instantly. The best guide for a mother as to the condition of her child was to weigh it frequently. No woman should neglect this, for it was nearly always a sure indication of progress, supposing the child was fed on food that was either natural or. approaching as near as science could have it to the natural.

Princess'Louise, Duchess of Argyll, is quite -the most versatile member ol the British Itoyal Family. When she was only twenty-one “London Opinion” recalls, Carlyle said of her: “Decidedly a very pretty young lady, and clever too, as I found out m talking to her afterwards.” 'Her tutor, the late Sir Edgar Boehm, had a very high opinion of her skill as a painter and sculptor, while her musical talents have aroused the admiration of so competent a critic as Herr Johannes Wolff. Among the Princess’ bestknown works are the statues of Queen Victoria at Manchester Cathedral and in Kensington Gardens, the bronze memorial in St. Paul’s to the Colonials who fell in the South African Wav, and a likeness! of Paderewski,,