(Continued from Page 3.) Mr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Nickle, Miss Thursday for Whithy to attend the Jessie Dickson, Hugh Nickle and Douglas Nickle, who motored to To- ronto early in the week, returned home on Thursday. : Miss Kathleen Saunders, 'Alice street, will leave on Monday for Montreal to visit Mrs. R. N. Smyth, Miss Beatrice Sanderson, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, is visit- ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Sanderson, Barrie street. ' - - » Miss Margot and Miss Isobel Fra- ser, Union street, have returned home after being the guests of Miss Grace Morris in Pembroke. Dr. and Mrs. D. A. Black, King street, motored to Toronto this week. Mr. and Mfs. W. J. Crothers and the Misses Crothers, Earl . street, have returned after spending the summer at "Glenlogie." . Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Harvey and Miss Harvey motored to town from Lyndhurst on Friday. - -. -. Miss Eleanor Minnes, "Hillcroft," has returned after spending two weeks in Brockville with her aunt Mrs. Griffith. Miss Jean omens McLelland and Miss | Mrs. G. S Mary McLelland, Earl street, left on Whitby Ladies College. Miss Eleanor Powell, New York, is the guest of her cousin, Miss Eleanor Minnes, "Hillcroft." Miss Lilian' Macdonald, Ganan- oque, spent a few days this week with Miss Gwenneth Merrick, William street. Dr. and Mrs.-J. F. Sparks, Welling- ton. street. who motored to Toronto early in the week, have returned Miss Agnes Johnston is in Ganan- oque for the week-end. 8 = a Miss Mabel Murphy, who was Miss Dorothy Crown's guest, left this week for her home in Winnipeg Mr.-and Mrs. John McKay, Syden- ham street, spent this week in To- ronto i Miss Hilda Kent, King street, is visting Mrs. Austin Gillies, Niagara- on-the-Lake Miss Madele Wilson, New York, is the guest of Mrs. T. R. P. Power, Earl street D. R. Hemming and Miss Hemming have decided to in England for the winter with S. Bowerbank. | History of a Frivolous Silk Shirt Waist } i i Five dollars for a little silk shirt waist?" gasped the buyer. "Where are the cotton ones." Five dollars, yes. cheap at the price? If that shirt waist €ould tell you its- history you would marvel that that small sum could be its purchase price. = We know go little about the clothing we wear, how they are made where they come froni, that it might be interesting to hear the story of the most ordinary garment. Hence and erstwhile, then, here goes. The silk moth starts the thing go- ing. This busy bird lays about 350 eggs at one sitting--or should we say laying? After this event it lin- gers for a few days, and passes on to insect heaven. ed carefully by the silk fabric mak- ers. Each egg gives forth a larva, which is a bit of a caterpillar one- eighth of an inch in length, of such delicate physique that it must be kept always at certain warm temper- ature. Mr. Larva eats continually for 36 days, refusing every kind of food other than fine fresh mullberry leaves, and grows fine and fat. Then the cocoon is spun. The spinning process is a peculiar business. «+ The worm moves its head back and forth, producing a thread about 2,000 feet long, After all this work, worm goes to sleep, growing a brown coat over himself af he slumbers. The cocoons are « then sorted, some being better than others; and, as reward for their in- dustry, they are steamed, and put in pans of hot water. They are then | mss ao ws "Men may not love their wives now any more than they did fifty or sixty years ago," said the middle aged man, "but I fancy that they are new in many ways morc helpful to them and were chivalrous in their devotion, ° "in old days the, man attended strictly to his work and the woman to hers. It is true that in those times before rugs had come into general use, the husband took wp the carpets when they needed clean- ing, carried them out in the back yard, beat them, ahd then put thew down again. And of steam heating equipment he put up the stoves in the fall anc took them down in the spring, with all that incidental wrestling with refractory stovepipes and the comic writers used to dwell upon in print so humorously. In short, the man did help about the house some; but speaking gener- ally he had his work to do in life and the woman had hers; and usual ly the husband stuck preity closely to his province and the wife to hers. madame, And The eggs are watch-| i i A AA A ct stirred gently until the threads loos- en and the ends are found, when the silk is reeled off, four threads at a time. ' The threads are dried, made into yarn, the gum removed Ly washing. the threads "loaded" with sugar and salts of iron to give body, and are hung in rooms filled with sulphur fumes. Follows then the dyeing, and af- terward the weaving. This the fa- bric is made. We now haye the material, Forty or fifty widths of silk are laid upon a cutting table, a pattern is placed on top, and, very carefully, the cutting machine is used. Great care must be taken to see that the ilk does notfold of crinkle. The pieces are distributed to workers, each one sewing on different pieces. Other girls attend to the buttonholes, {heavy burden. wives; but now mem are no longet ashamed tq carry the baby. "It is the commonest thing in the! world nowadays to see men out alone trundling the baby carriage along proudly while the mother rests 'at home. /If husband and wife are out together it'is in the husband's strong arms that the blessed baby is car- vied, to relieve the mother of this Really it is a remark- able change that has come about in this respect within the last fifty years. "Comradeship is rather a tame word to apply to any phase of the re- lationship between man and wife, but certainly there is more of'it now than ever before, with a correspond- ing increase in their happiness, and all this in the face of circumstances that might seem to militate to the contrary. "This is the day of woman's ad- vancement, enfranchisement, inde- pendence. No longer depending solely upon man she becomes self-support- ing and takes yp working many fields that for ages had been reserved ex- clusively for mam. And it is per- haps not unnatural that men should have resented this intrusion. We have even been told that men have been less polite to women because some have engaged in competition with them in this or that pursuit; and there, may be man who have been thus less polite, but not. many of them. "The" fact is that, along with ev- erything else in the. world, men's manners have in the past fifty years greatly improved. Man was never so thoughtful and considerate of woman as now, while despite the superficial business changes in the relations of men and women there has been in their relations no sub- stantial change. Man falls in love now quite as he has always done, and marriage still remains the great institution, with husband and wife never before knewing so well Low to live never so happy as at the present day." MAXIMUM OF FOOD That Hardworking Person Should . Eat In 2 Week. Sunday. Breakfast--1 pint of chocolate, 6 ounces of bread, 3 ounce of butter, 4 ounces of meat stew and 3 ounces of fruit sauce. Dinner--I pint of soup, 6 ounces of roast beef, 8 ounces of potatoes, 4 ounces of other vegetables and 4 ounces of rice or tapioca pudding. Supper--1 pint of tea, 6 ounces of bread, % ounces of butter and 12 ounces of mush and milk. still others sew on the buttons. A special force clips the ravelings, and threads. The garments are inspect- ed and the size labels sewed on. They are then folded, packed and sent away to various retail dealers, y The reasons for, the expense of the silk shirt waist includes the difficulty of raising silk worms, the process of dyeing and weaying, the d'ficulty of handling silk when cutting and sew- ing, and the delicacy of the fabric it- self, which means that it cannot be thrown about carelessly. : It is well to treat your AMjlk shirt waist tenderly, When washing, do not rub on a board; use lukewarm water and a neutral soap and when pressing use a cool iron. Husbands and wives are mutually more helpful. "It is a modern story, that of the troubles of the husband sent out by his wife to match a piece of ribbon. In old days the wife never dreamed of asking her husband to do even that, or to help in any of the multi- farioys duties of the household, Now hi it hesitation she asks him mot only fo match ribbons but to rum many errands and to do various things about the house. "It is not because she is less self- reliant or less seif-heipful,. but a thange has come in their relations, The man is now not .only ready but! he is really glad to do many things that once it would not. have seemed Stting for him to do at all, in those other days. when customs were dif- ferent. ; "Take, for instance, the care of small children, which in old times fell solely upon the mother. It was she, always, who took the littler one out fn its wagon; always she who lugged it 'n her arms when she and her austand werl anywhere 'vould have felt queer and sheepish if he dragged a baby wagon or carried a 'Husban A { baby In public. ds, then, didn't do such things; this hard work was left exclusively for the low foundations are Monday. Breakfast--1 pint of coffee, 6 ounces of bread, 1 ounce of butter, !6 ounces of meat hash with vegeia- bles and 3 ounces of fresh or stewed fruit. Dinner---1 pint of vegetable soup, 6 ounces of boiled beef, 8 ounces, of potatoes, 4 ounces of pudding with sauce and 4 ounces of bread. Supper---1 pint of tea, 6 ounces of bread, '¢ ounce of butter and 3 oun- ces of fruit sauce. r : Tuesday. Breakfast--1 pint of coffee, 6 ounces of bread, 3: ounce of butter and 6 ounces of corned boel hash with potatoes. Dinner---1 pint of beef soup, & ounces of boiled beef, 6 ounces of fresh fish, 8 ounces of vegetables, 4 ounces of bread 4 ounces of fruit. 1 pint of tea, 6 ounces of bread, % ounce of butter and 4 oun- ces of fresh or stewed fruit, Wednesday. Breakfast--1 pint of colfee, 4 oua- tes of bread % ounce of butter and 6 onnces of fish hash with vegetabies. r--1 pint. of mution broth, 6 ounces of broiled mutton, 8 ounces of potatoes, 4 ounces of rice pudding with sauce and 4 ounces of bread. 1 pint of tea, 6 ounces of bi , % ounee of butter and 4 cun- ces of cooked fruit. Thursday: Breakfast--1 pint of coffee, 6 oun- Ges of bread, % ounces of hatter apd 6 ounces of meat stew. . Dinner-----1 pint of bouillon, § oun- ces of roast beef, 8 ounces of. pota- toes, 4 ounces of bread ane = cunes of fruit. Supper--1 pint of tea, 4 ounces of bread, 3% ounce of butter-and 1 oun- ces of fruit pudding. Friday. . Breakfast--1 pint of coffee, 6 oun- ces of bread, % ounce of butter and 6 ounces of Gch hash with vagetab!- es. . Dinner--1 pint of vegetable soup £ ounces of meat stew, 9 ounces ef fish, 4 ounces of bread, 8 ounces of vegetables and 4 ounces of fruit. ~~ Supper--1 pint of tea, 4 ounces of bread, % ounces of butter and 4 oun- Jces of cold meat. | t= . \ Bripkhost.~ bread and 10 ounces of vegetables, Supper---1 pint of tea, 4 ounces of bread, % ounces of buttér and 4 cun- 'J ees of rice with sauce or syrup. Unigae PI Dolls, +. <4 A novelty iR_dolldom is a *wash- able, bedtime pillow doll. ; slips which are bahd palated a signed to represent either a § THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1915. m---- Activities of Women Out of every 1,000 births, eleven are twing.. Girls are barred from smoking in Minneapolis. Los Angeles has a eity mother-- Mrs. Aletha Gilbert. Fat women retain their husbandas better than lean ones. "The heart of a female from eight to ten ounces. Furkish parents beat their child- ren on the soles of tiie feet. Investigations show that, women sleep longer and harder-than men. Women are said to be just as pro- ficient as men in the game of chess. Ouly one woman in a thousand marries after she is 60 years old. Miss Etta Kirkland is the only girl rural -mail-carrier in Pennsyl- vania. Woman suffrage has met defeat in twenty states during the last six months. ' One third of all the women in New Jersey have to work outside the home for a living Kansas will have two the race for the atorship in 1918. Grace George, the actress, will manage her own playhouse during the coming season % Grass widows are barred from tak ing examinations. for postoffice jobs in the United States. Princess Margrethe of | Denmark has been selected as the bride-to-be of the Princess of Wales. Philadelphia has more divorces in proportion to population than any other city in the East. Women have taken the places of all the grooms in the famous Duryea rucing stables near Paris. Miss Grace Barstow of San Jose, Cal, is said to be the only woman violin-maker in the world. California has a woman in the for- est service who occupies a cabin on the top of Mount Klamath, Mrs. A. G. Hallaran receives $2,- 000 a year as deputy financial clerk of Queens county, New York. Vassar college for Sirls will here- after teach horticulture, landscape gardening, law and journalism. The immense Krupp gun-works, located in Essen, Germany, are now employing over 5,000 young women. A concerted effort is being made in Philadelphia to have a woman ap- pointed 'at head of the public-school system. ; In Turkey there are 769 men to every 100 women, while in China the ratio is 3,074 men to every 100 wo- men. The Massachusetts Federat of Women's clubs has a membership of 65,485 women and includes 284 clubs. Massachusetts has 56,000 more women than men because its textile industries employ a majority of fe- male workers. An expression of opinion of 100 women in Worcester, Mass., showed that only thirteen per ceni., of them wanted the vote. A In Arabia; as soon as the bride reaches the bridegroom's house, she makes him presents of -household furniture, a spear and a tent, English society women have es- tablished an institution in 'which nurses get three years of training in the care of dogs and other pets, The work of classifying and 'cata- loging the library of the state depart- ment at Washington is done by a woman--Miss Lucy S. Fitzhugh. The medical department of Johns Hopkins university--the most ad- vanced institution of learning im the United States--is open to women. Mlle. Jacqueline Forsanne tne ce- lebrated professional beauty of Paris, passed the first night of her honey- moon recently in an army balloon. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman has been made head of the pension board for the needy widows of- New York city. Statistics show that in 1914 there were 77,120 women in the colleges of the United States as compared with 73,678 in 1913. Dr. Carrie W, Smith of Dallas, Tex, will be superintendent of the new girls training school being built at Gainesville, Tex. Over 4,000,000 women are expect- ed to be in attendance at the first convention of women voter: to be held in San Francisco on S¢piember 14th-16th. . Pennsylvania divorce laws are more lax than those of most Eastern states, approaching' even those of some of the Western stales in this respect. n ; Princess Mary of England is a splendid tennis player, a perfect horseweman and never misses her daily course of Swedish drill exercis- weighs i women in United 'States sen- es. . . Kate Douglas Wiggin, the author- ess, earns mere than $59,000 a year from her books and royalties on plays taken from her most popular novels, rt Fifteen Japanese woman newspa- per and magazine writers of Tokio are forming a women's press club-- the first 'organization of its kind in the Far East. Fy Miss Grae Keller Lititz, Pa, has been a phone operator for 20 years and is one of the oldest tele- phone eperators In length of service in that state. - a che Payson, who is acts Miss ' 1 ing as Special policewoman on the | i Joy Zone at the Panama 'exposition, is six feet, four inthes tall and weighs over 200 pounds, The first woman justices ip the British Empire were appointed re- cently in South Australia and among them was Mrs. Price, widow of the first labor premier of ihat state. , Mme. Sarah Bernhardt has for years had a curious business custom. She insists on being paid, 'net as is usual, at the end of each week, but aller each performance. Besides doing - all the work: on her bumglow, Miss Alida Graves, a Redlands (Ca'.) 100i teacher, is also making the furniture which will furnish the place. Mrs. Russell Hastings Millward wife of the well-known explorer, has won the prize of the Navy League for enlisting members, She enlist- ted 91 in one week's campaign Mrs, Jessie Stillman Taylor New York, but now a resident of Munich, has presented to the Bavar- ian army an ambulance train consist- {ng of a motorcar and two trailers Mlle. Lina Cavalieri, the famous opera singer, who for years past exil- ed herself from her native country, has gone back there and Is now act ing as a war nurse to the Italian troops. What is said to be a new world's baseball throwing recard for a girl was that' which was made recently by Miss Ruth McCabe of Tacoma, Wash.," who threw & ball 209 five inches. Dr. Lydia A. De Vilbiss, head of the new child hygiene bureau of the state board of kealth of Kansas, has inaugurated a campaign to get wd men to run for the legislature in her slate. Thirteen-year-old | Alice Lord, re- ently swam across Long Island Sound, a distance of nine miles. The feat has been accomplished only once before, but never by a girl or woman. - Mrs. Henry T. Griffin, who has been elected president of the beard of education at White Plains, this state, is the first woman to be elect- ed president of a similar board in New York state, The chief recreation of Gaby Desl- ys, the famous French actress, is to 20 shopping The - girl assistant who accompanies her around the dif- ferent department stores is reward- ed with a large box of chocolates. The 4,598 girl permit workers of Wisconsin receive instructions in cooking, sewing and millinery, while a certain percentage receive voca- tional instruction in salesmanship, typewriting, bookkeeping and short- hand. « Mrs. William McConnell of Phila- delphia, recently covered the five- mile marathon swimming course on the Schuylkill river in one hour and twenty 'minutes flat, the fastest time ever made by a woman. over this course. Berlin has five schosls where wo- men are taught the art of conducting a street-car through the crowded thoroughfares. Each week between 300 and 400 women conductors are graduated to take the places of men called to the front. Although she is over 70 years of age, Mme. Patti, the famous prima donna, has subscribed largely to war funds organized in Wales and onl recently sent her famous fan and slippers to be sold at a charity auc- tion. The Czarina Alexander Fedorov- na and two of her daughters have passed examinations as trained nurs- es, and with scores of other titled Russian women are working shoulder to shoulder 'with the daughters of the humblest citizens. While the war in Austria has de- creased the number of men unem- ployed, it has greatly increased the number of 'women seeking' work. At4 the present time there are from nine to twelge per. cent, more womeén out of work" than men. Qualifying over several hundred applicants. Miss Mary Smith, aged 23, of Chicago, Ill, has accepted the position of companion to an aged couple in McHenry county, Hjinois, who have agreed to give her $3 a week and $10,000 in cash at the death o? the couple. . A new pesition, that of superin- tendent, has been created at the Ox- ford (O,) College for Women, and the first incumbent wilt*be Miss Mar- garet Dorwin ef Indianapolis, who will havé charge of the buildings and grounds, the cuisine, and nearly ev- erything not connected with the col legiate departments. Mrs. Frank Brumsom of Cherokee, Ia., claims the distinction of having the largest ball of string in the world. When the ball of twine was started back in 190%, Mrs. Brunson had ncthing in mind in saving the pieces of string she found from day to day, and now the ball is more than 58 inches in circumference and weighs 45 pounds. According to. Dr. A. 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