THE LADIES’ WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2756, 10 March 1910, Page 3

THE LADIES’ WORLD.

AN OLD MAID’S WILL. An elderly spinster, who died in Vienna recently, left her fortune—about £so.ooo—to bo divided between her three nephews, now aged twenty-four, twenty-seven, and twenty-nine, and her three nieces, aged nineteen, twenty-one, and twenty-two, in equal parts, on the following conditions: — The six nephews and nieces must ail live in the house formerly inhabited by their aunt, with the executor, a lawyer, whose business it will be to see that the conditions of the will are strictly observed. None of the nephews is to marry before reaching his fortieth year, nor the nieces before their thirtieth. under the penalty that the share of tile one so marrying will be divided amongst the others. Further, the six legatees are admonished never to quarrel among themselves. If one should do so persistently, the executor is empowered to turn iiim or her out of the house and divide the share as in tiie case of marriage. The executor himself is forbidden to marry or reside elsewhere than in the house with the legatees as long as die holds his office, to which a handsome remuneration it attached. The old maid is said to have made this peculiar will because her nephews and nieces continually worried her during her life by asking her to give them money to enable them to marry—requests she, always refused. HIS CONCILIATORY WAY. Aand Mrs. Pickaway, although really fond of. each other, bad frequent quarrels, owing, no doubt, to infirmities of temper on the part of both. Mr. Pickaway was-Lelling his troubles to his elderly maiden aunt. •‘I try to he as good a husband to Bertha as I know how to lie,” he said, but we don't get along. It takes so little to irritate her, and when shestarts scolding she'never knows when to stop. She takes offence, too, at such little things.” “Then don’t say tho.se little things, Joshua, said his aunt. “When she is cross you must try to he conciliatory.” “I am conciliatory, Aunt Betty.” he answered. ”1 often say to her, ‘Bertha, I know the utter uselessness of trying to reason with you, but will you listen to me just a minuter” and she gets mad even at that!”— • Vo utli ’ s Companion. ’ ’ ANTS AND SUFFRAGISTS. An amusing argument against woman suffrage was propounded in the course of a lecture bv Mr. Hill to a juvenile audience at the London Institution. He explained that the male ant bad no memory, and without the assistance of the female it would be unable to find its wav back to the nest. That seemed to him what would haonen to men if women got their way in the world, as they were trying to do. By mid by, when they had all the power, a man, according to the law of compensation, would have lost it, and his memory would gradually go, there would come a time when, if women wished to get rid of their husbands, they would take them out for a walk and lose them. (A lady’s voice: “No fear.’ ) Mr. Hill went on to observe that ants undoubtedly came next to us in joint intelligence, and far surpassed the higher apes and anv other form of animal life.

IRON AS STERILISER. The German scientist, though often a dreamer has a curious knack of giving h:s investigations a practical turn. We have an illustration of that in the “Archiv fuer Hygiene,” in which it is painted out that the domestic flat-iron is a useful servant of health. Its temperature is usually between ”00 and 300 degrees. Dr. Ivarl Suchla. we are told, let loose innumerable levies of bacteria on various kinds of material which lie then dampened and ironed on this material, such as muslin or handkerchief linen, all the germs were killed by the iron being passed over it a single time. Thick material, however, had to be ironed on both sides and the interior of very thick cloths could not ho made germ-free by ironing. But Dr. Suchla recommends ironing as a method of effective and easy sterilisation. Persons suffering from infectious diseases should have ready for tlieir doctor a linen garment which he should put on before entering the sick-room. After each visit the garment should be damped and ironed. The germs, instead of being carried away on the doctor’s clothes, would, ■after each visit, heir oned to death. TOO MUCH TALK. An American paper reports that recently Bertram M. Ruse 11 is a victim of the dreadful monologue which some persons call conversation. He talked 50 long and so exclusively that his wife, a school teacher, had him summoned into the Municipal Court-in an effort to curb his tongue. “He never threatened ine; he just talked and talked,’ said the wife. “What oeemed to- be the matter with him?” inquired Judge Fry. “He talked,” replied the witness. “Talked.”

“Yes, Your Honor, lie talked. I have known him to talk continuously from 7 o’clock in the morning until 7 o’clock in the evening. Tuesday night lie came home and started. “I am the mother of four children. I don’t want to prosecute my husband. I only want to stop him from talking. He is a terrible man when he starts talking. He talked Socialism, literature, religion, labor and sang some verses which he picked up to tibo effect tlia-t work is the curse of the drinking man. He would not allow me to attend to anv of my duties.” Upon signing the bonds to hold his tongue Russell was released.