THE LADIES WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3360, 28 October 1911, Page 8

THE LADIES WORLD.

CLERK OR COOK?

A writer in the New York Press, signing herself “Business Woman,” does not advise girls to study shorthand and typewriting. “Better,” she says, “study domestic affairs and become a first-class cook, where you can demand a decent salary, and get your board and keep, than to pound a machine for eignt or nine hours a day for not more than enough to pay your board. I know that the trade of a domestic is looked down upon; but the people to blame are the women who employ and those who are employed. In the profession of cooks the competition is at zero. If a woman iShows she is intelligent and demands the same respect she would receive in the. office of her madam’s husband she will get it.” SCHOOLS FOR MOTHERS. Prominent among the schools for motherhood, which are obtaining such a. footing in Britain, is King’s College for Women, an institution which enjoys the active support of Queen Mary. " The whole science of home life is exhaustively taught at King’s College. On the trust fund, controlling the finance of the College, are Viscountess Esher, Lady Meyer and Airs Asquith. In connection with the College a resident establishment, called Queen Mary’s Hosted. is being founded. A COSMOPOLITAN PLAY WRITER. Mrs Alfred Lyttelton is a truly cosmopolitan play-writer. A year or two ago she devoted her energies to a London play showing the evils of the livingin system for shop girLs. Now she has produced a Zulu play, “Nyanysa," which “The Queen” describes as “a very original and powerful piece of work —the best tlmt she has written. A considerable study of Zulu ideas and words must have gone to the composition of this uncommon little drama." A PRECIOUS RELIC. A peculiarly precious relic is kept with extraordinary care in the Cathedral of Genoa. ft is a vase cut from a single emerald, is twelve and a half inches in diameter and five and threequarter inches in height. It is rarely exhibited in public, and is then suspended round the neck of q priest, who alone is permitted to handle the precious vase. Probably its peculiar sanctity is derived from an old belief that it was one of the gifts given to Solomon by the Queen of Sheba. LACE WAISTCOATS. The newest tiling in men's fashions is a lace waistcoat. These are being made of black net over dark purpie cloth for morning wear, -.-. into not over pale green for evening, .and other striking combinations. The effect is certainly very rich, and possibly artistic; but it is probably much too dressy ail idea to appeal to tile aver_ age man. If they had revived the beautiful old embroidered waistcoat, now, it would have stood a chance of becoming popular. THE LACE COLLAR. All sorts of lace collars and cuffs finish off the blouse of to-day, and in this beautiful fashion lie many pitfalls for those in whom good taste is conspicuous by its absence. Who has not seen the pitiful sight of a hall-dirty blouse of last year’s make painfully embellished with a cheap lace collar put over to hide defects of cut, fit, and alas, cleanliness. The collar is generally large, in order to cover the multitude of sartorial sins, which only Charity itself should he willing to hide. S UDDEN GR E Y NESS. Instances have been known of the hair turning grey in a- single night. A London doctor became grey through fear of impending bankruptcy, but as his prospects improved the original color returned. A Frenchman was once' so terrified at the idea of losing a large fortune that one side of his head became grey in the night, although the other was unaffected.