WISDOM OF WOMEN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3217, 13 May 1911, Page 7

WISDOM OF WOMEN.

“It- has been said that woman makes all the trouble in life. But also she makes life worth all-the- trouble.”—Mrs Philip Snowden.

“The time has at last come when- it is an enormously good thing to be a woman.” —Miss Clementina Black.

“Half tlie unhappy marriages in England to-day among people who have to manage their homes without servants are caused by the inability of the wife to perform any household duty well and satisfactorily.”—Mrs Zangwill. ‘Life without the arts would! not; be worth the trouble.” —Miss Horniman.

“As long as women do not- count they will be che-apeners- of -men’s labor.”— Miss Geraldine Cooke. ‘lf there is one law that is certain in this world’ it is that in the long run work remains! in tlie hands best fitted to do it.”—Mrs- Drew.

“There are no salons in England, simply because English people do not ‘talk.’ ” —Mdl-le Reynard. “If sports are looked, up to, and! domestic science looked down upon, by girls at- school, that point of view will govern in after-life.” —Miss Leahy. A lady d'oetor, in the- London “Times,” discourses on “Diet Crotchets.” She writes:—Sour milk as a cure for digestive disorders has been swallowed by a number of people during the last two years 'with more or less success. The Sauerin tabloid, is even more fashionable than the tablet of saccharin, which was surreptitiously dropped into the tea at- afternoon parties- a few years ago. One grows very tired of the sour milkite, the nuttist, the enthusiastic Fletcherite. There is nothing clandestine about the modern diet maniac. One would be- only too glad of a little secrecy on his part- as to the respective merits of' his particular crotchet compared! with those of other people. Any woman who has sat next to a diet maniac during the course of a long dinner party feels at the- end of it that she- never wishes to see, smell taste or hear about food 1 again. Tlie ordinary normal woman cares not a farthing how much p-roteid or carbohydrate her entree contains. If her dinner partner is dyspeptic, gouty, or obese heris certain to expound his views on the subject with the slightest encouragemejyt. The unfortunate tiling is that 'heitoeiniis to have lost his power of other people- are bo-red.• He will(mscourse for -half-an-hour with. aji'enithjisiasm and self-satisfaction .genthe young mother with, a ffirst baby or the amateur musician with view 6 about Wagner. From a commonseiise standpoint such people are simply absurd. If we wish to be healthy we should train ourselves to eat ordina.ry everyday - food 1 and eat it cheerfully. If we wish to- be popular we; should" refrain,' when we go visiting other people, from demanding different food from that supplied 1 in the ordinary routine of the household- There is no greater bore than the man who wants to eat bananas at 9 a.m-. when mere are none in the house and- tlie nearest fruit slioj> is three miles away. There is no more undesirable guest than tlie woman who must have her food cooked in certain ways or who insists upon having her potatoes boiled without salt. Food becomes a fetisli with such types, and their certain reward is a dyspeptic old ago-