THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1915. THE REALM OF WOMAN -- = TET = eT IS BEAUTY HANDICAP TO BUSINESS GIRL? * A Woman Woo Helped to Make French History | Eugenie, once of lady's comment ~goes farther.' A bett i | kGles | "Tastes RES % [a } Beatrice Fairfax Says It Is An Asset If Combined With Common Sense. empress the | many years, and in the other the (Continued From Page Three) . (ing Miss Ada Miss | street. to| another of the in peace time in| The Toronto Globe says: Marie Carruthers' engagement Major Constantine is happy affairs begun which have been consummated war. Almost siice the outbreak of trouble Miss Carruthers has taken making herself useful in many ways, at oné time helping in the domestic * details of an hospital staff, and prov- Ing herself as efficient as. a house- Hala as she Is charming as a society girl, Mr, and Mrs. Charles R. Wagar, | Deseronto, announée the engagement of their daughter, Edna Burniece, to E. Scott, Frost, B.Se., Pembroke, the marriage to take place in September. Mrs. G. Kennedy, Stratford, Is spending her vacation with relatives in Kingston. Miss Effie Hamilton, Kingston, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. James Nimick Stratford. Miss Marjorie Thompson, Kings- ton, is the guest of her friend, Miss Marjorie Lowey, Victoria avenue, "Brockville, Masters James and Edmund Mil ney have returned to Kingston after spending a pleasant holiday the guests of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Healy, Smith's Falls. Miss Carey and Miss Beatrice Milney, Kingston, also visit- ed with Mr. and Mrs. Healey. * . -. » Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Thomson, Ottawa, are spending the week-end with Mrs. Robert Thomson, 47 Clergy street. Mrs. W. T. C. Jenkins has re- turned after' visiting old friends in Durham and, Ontario counties. » The marriage fakes'place in Bom- bay in October of H. A, Joly de Lot- biniere, of the Royal: Engineers, to Enid, daughter of Dr. Harfy Smith, Chatham. { # . . . Rev. J. Fi Mavety, D.D., and his family, Ottawa, are at thelr summer home at Sydenham, Ont. Mr, and Mrs, Hobert Dyde; John- son street, have gone on a trip down. te the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Clarence D, Ferguson, secretary of the Farmel Milling Co., Buffalo, N.Y, a fermer Kingstonian, is visit- Strachan, Division A. O'Connor, New York 1s or in Kingston. Miss 'Marie Pellethier, Kingston, is visiting Mrs. Hector Bouchard, Ogdensburg, N.Y, : Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Dowsley return- ed to Toronto after spending a few weeks at Past View Park, Ross Livingstea and Stewart Live ingston have returned from am auto outing to Toronto, Samdbanks and Picton: A a visit- -------------------- Omelet Hints, Here are some omlet items: Omelets are difficult to make proper- ly, and only practice gives a cook the knack of turning a perfect one. The French cooks use no liquid in it, and beat the eggs only enough to break the yolks; this side of the Atlantic the custom is to add water or milk, and many American cooks beat the whites to a stiff froth and the yolks to a foamy cream, and mix them 10= gether with knife, just enough to blend them. Some cooks insist that water, is better than milk; some insist 'that water toughens the omelet. and oth- ers insist that milk makes it heavy So the only way to learn to make an omelet that is light, of firm texture; substantial and yet in no way sug- gestive of leather is to try recipe af- ter recipe and method after methoa until perfection is attained. It is easier to make several small omelets than one large one. It is dif- ficult to handle a large one and its edges usually burn before the middie part is done, Experience alone tells the cook when to turn an omelet. If turned too soon it falls from its own weight. Some cooks find it easier to slip. it in the oven as soon as it is set around the edges--pan and all--until, i puffs. Thon they turn one-half on he other half and send it to the table. Remember that a pan should: be clean and smooth, Iron pans ean be rubbed with salt to polish off any uneveness ' on' the surface. The amount of grease and the kind used are matters which each cook must determine for herself. ig ' NE ary &Praclical | Home Dress Makin 9 Lessons | Prepared sispecially For This Newspaper by Pictorial Review | By Beatrice Fairfax Is beauty a handicap to the busi- ness woman? Dees a share of pul- chritude interfere with a woman' efficiency in business? . Does femin- ine loveliness get preference when out seeking employment, or does it go about sadly looking for a job while plain, practical looking per- sons get most of the available posi- tions? For the society girl, for the shel- tered woman, beality is generally an asset either at the game of social success or in the popular pursuit of husband hunfing. But when the "poor working girl" is considered, the world is likely to talk about "the fatal gift of beauty" and to murmur something about Ed- na's being far too pretty for her own good, and Louise's seeming much too ornamental to be very useful, Beauty is an asset to the business woman' until she tries to make it one. We are all under the spell of beauty. Our interest goes out in response te healthy good looks in man or woman. No man in search of a stenographer, no womau who is looking for a secre- tary is so stupidly narrow minded as to suppose that it follows as the night the day. that because a girl is pretty she cannot be an efficient worker, Healthy is not always a pink and white simper and smirk, 'ner is it an exotic bizarrenéss of form and fea- ture, Trye beauty is harmony and health ayd intelligence and charm and normal good features in pleasant combination. And all these things are as likely to indicate a harmoni- ous nature and a sane mind in a healthy body as they are postulate the presence of less pleasant charac- teristics. , Of course, when the pretty girl WES to be a silly fool and. to stroll down' to business in a Fifth avenue costume of glazed boots, sheer silken hosiery, fluttering short skirts and elaborate blouses topped off by white fox, and with the final self-conscious silliness of a velvet, hat in defiance of the seasons, she deserves eriti- cism---and gets it. . Common sense is not a monopoly of the ugly, Nor are brains, nor business ability, nor willingness to attend to work during working hours and to extend them at neces-| sity, The hardest worker, the 'most willing worker" in a large office which employs twenty girls, and as many men, sits beauty: She is an unselfconscious young person with an ambition to work up in the world and no matter how hard "she plays when she plays," no one in the office ever sees her do it, She does not flirt nor powder her nose at anxious. intervals, nor angle for invitations for lunch, She at- tends strictly to business and it at the same time a refreshing sight for the eyes of any one who takes a mo- wuat's a from labor. She no more interferes with the discipline of the office' than did a great mass of red roses she brought in one day from her home over in Jersey. Beauty is restful and refreshing and a panacea for tired spirits. And it never will be a handicap to the woman who works--unless her idea of working is that of working--oth- ers. . Between beauty and self-conscious French, entered upon her 'ninetieth | Farnborough, her England, in the midst of British sel- diers quartered .in the convalescent | hospital which she had established | in a wing of her house. hair gathered into a tight little knob at the base of the neck, shielded by big goggles, and enveloped in thé shapeless folds of | a black woolen wister and the threat swathed in a black woolen muffler, the formir empress made her ap-; pearance upon the lawn, where the | men who weré able to be wheeled out | In invalid chairs awaited her. In one | band grasping the ancient umbrella, { one's knowledge, being a subterfuge for a crutch, her companion trace the Indians' ancestors to the | stone age. { In a town in the south of France! a girl of 22 has performed the fume-| tions of mayor since last August. Ocean Park Beach, a summer r¢- Sort in California, has a life saving guard consisting of five women. | The Women's Co-operative guild, the largest organization of working women in England, has over 35,000 members. The British war department now recognizes women in the extent of giving them rank. .as non-commis- | Arizona has a woman live stock inspector, probably the only one in the werld, through the appointment of Mrs. Okla Noonan. Though she's past 80 years of age, Lady Katharine Coke, daughter -of the second Earl Wilton, still attends on Queen Mary. The second vice president of the Florida State Medical association is Dr. Mary Freeman, a very smart and capable woman, The French Government allows the wife or woma#f dependent of :g sol- dier 25 cents a day, plus five cents a day for each child. i year May, 4th, passing the day. at | country" seat im | { congratulations with An old woman, with snow white | the eyes | the | forehead by the drooping black veil | of an antiquated hat, the stout frame which has never been opened to any | | for| fonéd officers in the army. f The' Duehiéss of Connaught, wife : ee posing there is an unbridged river. Wholesome loveliness is as welcome in the b world as it is all through lif And tinsel, tawdry, self-adulation will always bore peo. ple and be one of the things they do not take willingly into their offices for homes or hearts. wl od ua od SRE ney SSE REY Oregon, has over 100 women phy- | 'urkey the wife rarely ts With the husband. i ebony cane, which is frankly an aid to infirmity, she made her way | among the soldiers, extending her | hand in greeting and receiving their bowed head. Thus she has held her last court The tiagic eyed nonagenarian dressed in mourning; whose face is furrowed with care and figure bent with sorrow as well as age, bedrs to- day little trace of the radiant beauty whith enraptured the world when she was crowned as the consort of Nap- oleon IIE: And the gick soldier boys in their rough khaki uniforms, who smiled gratefully upon her as their benefactor, bore small resemblance to the courtiers wlo used to erowd her salons at the palace of the Toil- eries, Standing aloof, she accepted their homage to the position sho had bought with beauty and scheming, | but she began her ninetieth year pay- ing homage herself to patriotism and valor. re L of the Governor General of Canada, is a Hohenzollern. princess and first cousin of the Kaiser. Mrd, Lillian Mitehuer, the Kansas temperance advocate, has announced her candidacy for the Utiited States senate from that state. Mrs Gertrude Corby of London is faid to be the first domestic servant who. has written a volume of poems that have been published, The aggregate cost of qeparation allowances paid to wives and chil-- dren of English soldiers and sailors has been to date $125,000,00v. Miss Anne Vauelain, daughter of the head of the Baldwin Locomotive works, has just purchased the cham- pion English stallion Fire Boy for a price said to be $5,000. Dr. Loujse Taylor Jones of Wash- ington, D.C, and Dr. Catherine H. Travis of New Britain, Ct., have sail- ed for Serbia, where they will estab- lish a baby hospital. Women have so "far supplanted men in some of the large industries of Germany, that there are now 7,000 doing the ordinary work of their husbands and brothers.. Out of this total 6,000 are in the iron works and have to do work customarily consld- ered too heavy for women. HE delightful lather from Ivory Soap is due to several things. First, is the high qual- ity of the soap. 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