THE LADIES WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3394, 9 December 1911, Page 8

THE LADIES WORLD.

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENT

Have you trained yourself to watch for the right psychological moment at which to act?

I>o yon even recognise the psychological moment when it does arrive? o<r perhaps you have never given a moment’s thought to the subject or the phrase ? If not, that may be just one. of the reasons why you are not scoring the success you hoped for. It pays to wait for or to seize the psychological moment. When you have complaints to. make, don’t start out on your work right at once; wait until the opportune moment. When you want to a£k a favor, wait for the moment when circumstances make it hard to resist you.

ABOUT CHILDREN. A Little girl wished to kiss a .parrot. “ Don’t touch it,” exclaimed someone present; ‘it will bite you.” ‘‘Why,” asked the child? ‘‘Because it does nort know you.” “Well, tell it that mv name’s Minnie.” “Where is God?” asked a teacher of -X little boy. “I’ll tell you,” was the answer, “when you tell me where He is not.”

Mother: “Which do you. like best, your doll or the cat?” Child (in a whisper): “The cat, but don’t let my doll know.”

A little girl went with her mother to the theatre. During the play tho leading character was supposed to kill himself under the belief that his intended bride was dead. “Mamma,” exclaimed the child, “why don’t you tell him the lady is alive.”

THE TWINS. Jack London, the novelist, han * great affection for children. _ In San Francisco there are twin sis•bsrs, little girls of six years, of whom Mr. London is very fond. On the way to his boat one morning, K>. London met one of the twins. He stopped and shook her hand. _ “Good morning, my dear,” he said. “.And which of the twins are you? The little girl answered, gravely: “I’m the one what’s out walkin’.”

BE ENTHUSIASTIC. If you really want to do some tiling, to acquire proficiency in music or art, it>y the best housekeper, to succeed in business or in a profession, tojvnte a cook, to became an authority on some subject, to straighten some crooked path, to remove the stumbling stones that impede your neighbors advance, to bring an infhience to upon one other life that shall keep it true, pure, and aspiring, why, then, you bare a reason for being enthusiastic, for you

have something worth while one’s interest in life. The main trouble with unenthuriastio people is that they aro drifting along from day to day with no strong central purpose to animate and cheer them.

BEAUTIFUL EYEBROWS. A solution of rosewater on the eyebrows and eyelashes every morning is said to make them grow. If thin the eyebrows should be gently smoothed down with vaseline at night, washed in the morning. and brusihed down the wav they should grow.

ADVANCED WOMEN. One would scarcely have looked to Abyssinia for an example of these, .and yet they appear to have reached their highest limits in that country. According to Signor Martini, the house and all it contains belongs to the wife, and if the poor husband offends her, she simply turns him out of doors till he inakes reparation of his misdeeds by the gift .of a cow, or of half the value of a camel. There is one feature in which tliis “right” in Abyssinia rosembles some of the “woman’s rights” being agitated for —it is not worth kiving. EARLY ROYAL MARRIAGES. As a rule a young Sovereign or an heir to a throne is married off early. King George 111. was 23 when Tie espoused Princess Charlotte of Meck-lenburg-Strelitz, and Queen Victoria was in her 21st year when she became the wife of Prince Albert of SaxeCoburg. King Edward VII., as Prince of Wales married Princess Alexandra of Denmark when lie was 21 years of age. His eldest son, Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, died unmarried when 2-8; and his brother, George Duke of York, was 28 when ho became the husband of his second cousin once removed, Princess Victoria Mary of Took. REVIVAL OF EARRINGS. It is said that Queen Mary has been responsible for the revival of earrings recently at Home. In the latter years of Queen Victoria, these adornments went out almost entirely in England. But thev have never gone out m France. * Queen Mary has been seen ' with magnificent (diamond or pearl earrings, and tliis old-fasHioned and, to colonial minds, somewhat barbarous jewel has been given a new lease or life.