THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2635, 18 October 1909, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

THE WOMAN WHO WORRIES

A woman who never worries declares that there is nothing more detrimental to beauty than worry. The worrying woman-does nobody • any good, Sho t simply invites the band' of Time, which writes plenty of wrinkles on lier brow, around her eyes and mouth, paints her face yellow, and gives a lack-lustre eye that no artifice can brighten, says the “Woman’s Home Journal.”

It is quite unnecessary to worry, and it is a total waste of energy, which could be better employed. You know a worrying woman the moment you see her. Her character is written in her face in wrinkles which you .would think nothing short of a miracle would obliterate. Downright ugliness is a heavy price to have to pay for the possession of a bad habit, but there it is. And not only does worry directly influence the complexion for evil, its more remote effects are no less potent in robbing the face of the peacn-bloom tints which were the admiration of the poet, the painter, and the general public. Worry affects the entire nervous system, and through it the liver and organs of digestion and' the heart. The things a woman thinks have more than anything else the power to make or mar her beauty; so let her beware of worrying overmuch, lest she lose the greatest of all the gifts. THEATRICAL NOTES.

Mine. Melba is said to have bought a station property in Victoria, and intends to reside there after finishing her next European and American engagements. , 'Mr. E. M. Rovie, the author of “The Squaw Man,” has written a sequel to it, “In the Blood.” Jim Carson, the squaw man,' returns in the original play to his British home, taking with him his child, the son of his dead Indian wife. In the new play. Mr. Royle shows the fate of this boy. who, reared in the best English, society, surrounded by its refinements and traditions, still feels the mysterious, influence that impels him to- return to his people. Though he knows nothing of the Indians, he feels that ca.l “in the blood to the land in which his people have dwelt for generations. S6me observations on the big attendances at the Oscar Asche-Lily Brayton season in Melbourne are afforded by a ‘ ‘Bulletin’ ’ correspondent: Never before (he writes) has there been such wellsustained patronage lor Shakespearean plavs; and never before was the patronage in general, and especially in the amphitheatre, so largely represented by Girl. In the front row of the gods the other night I counted 50 girls to five men. On several occasions during the season the amphitheatre has been filled by 5 o’clock—three hours before the show started. The early come.s were women —more than 90 per cent, of them —and mostly young. These enthusiasts are not content with going on first nights and last nights. The v are there two or three times a week. Ihe saino faces and the same hats haye grown familiar to the comnr'ssionaire who directs the queue in the vestibule. The few men who repeat themselves night after night are old, as a rule.; but the average age of the females is about 22, and they bring their “book of the words” with them. They are reading Shakespeare just new in preference to Marie Corelli.Charles J. Carter, the pushful magician, tells the “Dramatic Courier,” of New York, that he travelled 75,000 miles in the course of his two years’ -world’s tour. Quite undiscouraged, however, he proposes, after a year under Klaw and Erlanger, to set out on a second all-embracing trip. Mr. Jerome K. Jerome’s famous novel,“Three Men in a Boat,” is shortly to he produced on the music-hall stage in the form of a sketch. The <rentleinan responsible for the version and the production is Mr. “Hugh Montague,” which is but a nom de guerre of a well-known member of the L.C.C., who for the time being wishes to re; main anonymous. As Mr “Hugh Montftgue” will play in tTio sketch himself, this is perhaps the first occasion on which a member of the Council has seceded to the stage. .. . , The secretary'of the Variety Artists Benevolent Fund, England, says he has never known so much distress from lack of employment in the music hall profession as .at present. Every week we are making grants and loans. “There is one woman to whom we make a small weekly allowance who was a ‘star’ a few' years ago, earning on occasions .-€IOO a week. Her name was a household word.” “The King of Cadonia” company are the'latest to essay a “Belle of New York” revival.- There are few musical organisations that , have not had a try at this comedy during the.past decade, but it is doubtful whether, there has been achieved quite the artistic success of the first castes in either Australia.or New Zealand. ■ Miss Carrie Moore’s debut on the music-hall stage was not quite the great affair we had been promised (says a writer in the Manchester “Chronicle”). Whether it was that she was poorly placed at the Manchester Hippodrome or not I do not know, but the results were such that many were disappointed in her. Perhaps it is yet early to judge finally of her capacity for "music-hall work.

WHAT EVERY HOUSEKEEPER SHOULD KNOW. That nutmegs should be grated at the blossom end first. That the colder-eggs are the quicker they will froth. That to make good pastry the ingredients must be very cold. \ That a brush dipped in salt water should he used when cleaning bamboo furniture. . ; ... That good macaroni is of a yellowish tint, does not .break readily in cooking, and swells to two or three times its bulk. That warm bread and cake should be cut with a knife, the blade of which has been heated by being plunged in boiling water. HOME HINTS. Instead of parchment for'jam- covers try tissue paper dipped' in milk. If pressed down neatly it will require no string to tie it on. Candles may be made to fit into any candlesticks by. sinYply holding their ends for .a few moments in hot water. This softens the wax. so -that the candles may be easily pushed into the candlesticks that would otherwise he too small for them, and they will fit in neatly and/ firmly.