THE LADIES’ WORLD

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2403, 19 January 1909, Page 7

THE LADIES’ WORLD

tHE BRIDE’S LILY SHEAF

I Tho idea for a bride to carry a sheaf 1 f lilies instead of a shower bouquet • rot a new onc ' s “ ice during the 1S -t t-tvo or three years quito a num- ] KI ? of brides have adopted it, but acbe li ll( r to a writer in an Australian *° ner the custom is to become generI The shower bouquet is no longer n,.f of a bride’s outfit on the eventful U, savs she. A sheaf of Madonna ''held artistically in the angle f the arm, is the latest idea. The a f rearranged like a wheat sheaf, | ®'- t h or ileafy envelope, the 1 I ijiioci or if von prefer them. AlexI tndra orchids, fixed therein, and all in tlie same direction. Thus !i „ side of the -floral burden, may be supported without detriment againg tlie wearer’s person. The shower bouquet died hard, because it was pretty and graceful, but it was cumbersome and heavy. The weight was due to the large amount of wire used +n train iv- the flowers and fern in the vav thev should go. _ The sheaf, f> thou ,T h not so heavy, is not so easy to manipulate either. The posies, which came in a year of two ago, and bad a short run. were the best after all. Dainty and simple little flower bunches they were, set in an encirc]inf frill of pleated tulle or wired, white lace, with a soft bow and ribbon ends. THE modern german girl. For generations past the German «ir! of high birth lias been looked up'housewifely talent. But. -according to 'the ‘AVoclie,” the model Haustochter of the past is rapidly making way for a young woman who is as much a disillusion to her parents as to the oldfashioned people of the ancient regime who still cherish an admiration for the courtly manners of the German well-born girl of a few years a o . It seems that the typical German daughter of "to-day no longer enterstately gravity her parent’s tfuesis, not* finds her happiness in the ~*]iome circle. She is an unwilling and unpunctual visitor at her father’s table, making no effort to disguise her preference for her college or her club, and frankly displaying her boredom at her father’s guests. Formerly the Haustochter would have chatted for hours with her mother over the success of a party after the guests’ departure; the modern girl seizes a handful of cigarrettes, and retires to f her own room to read Nietzsche or to compose her own literary effort. Tho one over-powering sense of duty which she feels is that of the need for mind A expansion, while her mission in lifo is to make breaches in the time-worn ramparts of conventionality, and to allow no antiquated ideas to pass unchallenged. She lias not even retained her domesticity, which was always the sure qua non with the girl of the past. Tho embroidered table covers, sofa cushions. tray cloths, and bed-spreads-winch shd used to evolve in preparation for her own future home are cither worked by her mother, or readv-made, are included in the furnishings which her future husband expected to provide. ' 'But though she lias lost so much that characterised her in the past, the writer concludes by admitting that where she does not go to extremes tmv%-odern _ German girl, with her widened horizon and her philosophy, is a decided improvement on the somewhat too pedantic and almost pompously virtuous Haudochter of the last generation, and is distinctly better company to the casual acquaintance, whatever she may be in the bosom of her family. • - HOUSEHOLD HINTS. It is said that if sawdust is spread evenly over the- floor before a new oil-cloth is laid, the durabilitv of the latter will be increased, and sound will be deadened as well. A wrinkle for telling a cooked egg from an uncooked one: fenin it on the table with thumb -and finger, and if it spins round it is a cooked one. An uncooked egg will not spin at all. . Furniture needs cleaning just as much as other woodwork. This may washed with warm soapsuds quick Wipe dry at once, and after a few hours polish with beeswax and turpen tine, and you will produce a beautiful finish. • . , In sewing on buttons the knot should never-he left on the underside of the material where it may chaxi the skin,, besides producing an unfinished effect. Professional dressmaker: ahvays place the knot, on the con trarv, on. the right side of the mater ml, directly under-the button. Should you be so unfortunate as i> i scorch -any article in ironing, there i ■ a very simple remedy which will bi successful with all but a very ba< scorch. Expose the scorched -portion to a very strong sunlight, and m short time there will be no mark leH Care must- be exercised with coloiei materials to cover all but the place, and to remove immediately th scorch disappears, or the sunlight • cause the material to fade. , There are a few simple things t think about when selecting papers • one is that the walls shout ho lighter than the floor <covering, an- * the ceiling lightest ofalh s , . small rooms should cither nave a ola paper or one with a small patten For a low ceiling always choose , striped paper if it is possib , - gives the effect of height. Should an ceiling he too high, bring the ceilm coloring down a foot or. two on Uses’ for wallpaper.— Pretty wg ing-desks sets are often nvade , uaner corresponding to thaff . walls of the room. A all flowered design is the mo. The blotter is made of Lcof pasteboard, with the f° ye made of wallpaper , which v ~ -i the underside of the P orre large sheet of ■blotting-paper, .. ponding in color, is ehPP®_ , a ], four corners. A pasteboard boxa ■ covered with wall-paper and fitted fto compartments; makes a paper and envelopes. A be made of four sheets , v ith no covered with the paper, ai 1 fonncl by Se Of f pg* arp te past«V&!!«tlw'- am ', tied ,'T a .,. | M : n +Vn-po places at tj - to make requiring only a

and patience, are inexpensive and most effective. A set of this sort looks: cheap and tawdry 'when it becomes soiled, but in . view of the small initial expense it is no extravagance to throw it away when it becomes shabby, and make an entirely new set.