THE LADIES’ WORLD

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2423, 11 February 1909, Page 7

THE LADIES’ WORLD

SIX DON’TS. expect life to smile at you unless you smile first. Don’t expect your fellow-workers to extend a helping hand unless you look 'as if the hand would be appreciated. Don’t cultivate unevenness of temper. Let people feel no fear in approach iog you. Don’t- expect others to avoid stepping! 011 y° ur c °rns if you "yourself traapk ruthlessly on theirs. Doh’t bowail your sorrows to the public Your acquaintances have troubles enough and to spare of their own. Don’t- think it is fate that is hard when a girl with .a smile is preferred grandmothers of to-day. (“Woman’s Life.”) Times have changed since the dayswhen grandmother sat in the chimney corner,, knitting socles and mittens. V'ovn.en who have married early in life nave no more inclination for subsiding into arm-chairs and giving up all interests in life than have the young mothers themselves. The grandmother of the present day plays golf as often as not, and, what is more, has been known to leave her granddaughter far behind on tho links. There are artists, musicians and writers among the grandmothers of today, women who are doing their part of 'the world’s work, and women who have chosen careers for themselves wliilg they are taking care of their 'own children, and who keep steadily on, with as much love in their hearts for their descendants as if their lives bad been given up entirely to domestic duties pure and simple. Fifty years ago all the grandmothers.‘except a few rare instances, were fashioned much after tile same type, whose outward expression was a handkerchief folded smoothly about the neck, a cap with -a- white border, and a pair of spectacles. To-duv they keep their own individdress' fashionably, travel in tlifeV' own country and abroad, and prove pleasant companions avcll up in the world’s doing. There are few more delightful people than the twentieth century grandmother.

BUTTONS AND BRAIDING. Most fashionable women now present a perfect rash of buttons, says a writer in an Australian paper. These little adornments break out all over the dress of the-wearer. A checkskirt , a short coat in self-color to raatch ’ the check with buttons clingall over like limpets to a. rock, is the latest expression of good taste as exhibited in our city. Nor need the wearer fear that they will soon be out of fashion, for buttons and braiding will bo found on all the new things when they are opened up. Some advance evening cloaks were seen last week, just a casual glance in .a show room ; the prettiest are still all braided ; gold is used, also black. “The note of black” is sounded by fashion’s heralds as loudly as ever. Though hats will probably dwindle, and skirts sprr'oA in size, the buttons and the br.vifffiJgs will be found as pre-eminent as they are to-day. TO CURE A COLD. HowNnany years have we all been spending in the vain attempt to cure or prevent the common household cold? says an Australian paper. Wo have saturated ourselves mith drugs, tried change of air, called the thing influenza and taken it very seriously, dismissed it as “only a cold in the head,” and nearly died pf it —we have mm- the gamut of emotion and ingenurfr without effect. The common cold may still be said to triumph over wretched, humanity. Once, it is true, we were told of a sovereign remedy. But as this consisted of abstaining from all drink, liquid, that is to say, of any sort or kind, for a complete twenty-four hours, it is not hard to determine that we preferred the. co.u. Now we are told that these ailments are duo to tho fact that our feet have become tender owing to the luxurious habit of socks and shoes, and it is said that tbe last advice of medical fashion is to go barefooted for some boors'every day. a condition of body which it is said to cure and prevent colds.