WOMANS WORLD.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3515, 4 May 1912, Page 10

WOMANS WORLD.

A Bride’s Gommandrnents. A pretty scenario writer, who is about to be married, has set down the following commandments for her future husband to observe: — Thou shalt love no woman but me, ! and have no other affinity or soul- j mate. Thou shalt not he indifferent. Neglect is often more heartbreaking than ; positive disloyalty. Thou shalt not deceive me, hut shall confide in me implicitly as to the state of thy mind, morals and finances. | Thou shalt not ho addicted to strong drink or gambling. j Thou shalt not he jealous nor by-! percritieal. (It is understood that I shall give thee no occasion to be either.) ! Thou shalt he on time at thy meals, j and not remain out at unreasonable; hours without good cause. j Thou shalt take notice when I have ' “bediked” myself, done up my liair j differently, or done any other little j thing for thy delectation. j Thou shalt not diminish the little; courtesies and attentions of our sweetheart days. Expensive Opera Coats. Luxury runs riot in London just now in women’s cloaks for evening wear, and some of those seen at theatres and at after-theatre suppers in fashionable restaurants are of regal splendor. The big loose coat of snowy ermine—or its substitute, white coney —or of costly chinchilla lined with softest satin, and wrapped round the figure is prime favorite. With such a coat, a muff to match, is often carried even to a theatre, where the bag attachment makes a handy receptacle for the owner’s handkerchief, opera glass, and other necessaries. Even more opulent than the all-fur coats are those of some supper brocade, with the design in velvet or in gold or silver on a ground of shot colors. Tliese coats are widely bordered with some costly, preferably dark sable, mink, or skunk, and red and gold, purple, vivid blue, and Empire green are favorite colors for them. Woman in Norway. It is well known that, with the possible exception of Finland, Norway is the country where tfio Women Suffrage movement lias gone furthest. It is now many years since women obtained the municipal vote and became entitled to seats on the county councils. At last Parliamentary elections they had not only the vote, but also the right to stand as Parliamentary candidates, and Fru Rognerud, the first elected woman member of the Storthing, took her seat in the Norwegian Parliament about a year ago. Recently a further step was taken, when a Rill was passed by the Norwegian Parliament admitting women to all public positions except those of being—

1. Members outlie Government. 2. Ministers of the State Church. 3. Diplomatic and consular representatives. ■4. In military command.

5. Positions which may hereafter he opened, and which at the time Parliament should consider suitable for men only. It was passed by a large majority—a majority composed of all sections of the House, irrespective of party divisions. In Norway, therefore, says the Daily News, we may shortly see women judges, women heads of departments, and women chiefs of police. The day may not be far distant when a Norwegian barrister addressing tiie judges in the Court of Appeal, will open with the whrds: “May it please vour ladyships!” We understand that a still wider proposal to throw open all Government appointments to women was defeated by 60 votes to 28. —Votes for Women.

Irish Sayings. Beware of the hoof of the horse, the horn of the bull, and the smile of theSaxon. An Irishman is never at' peace except when he’s fighting. Do not waste, do not scatter, do not do away with what is your own. When an Irishman can enjoy a potato plantation and a cow he thinks himself happy enough. The Irish never speak well of one another. Get an Irishman on the spit and you’ll easily find another to turn him. He killed what the Connaught man shot at—i.o., nothing. The hole in the Irishman’s coat lets in the heat and lets out the cold. The water is so strong it requires two whiskies. If my father had made me a hatter men would have been born _ without heads. .Great cry and little wool, as the man said when he shaved the pig. It is in the nature of a wild Irishthat the worse you use him the more service he doth you.

While the diamond is the hardest substance known, it is also brittle, and may be fractured by a blow. It, however, it is placed between two hard steel faces in a hydraulic press and a slowly accelerating pressure applied, the hard steel will he indented.