Reffexions of Mrs. Alec Tweedie Mrs. Alec Tweedie's conversation is savoured with humour and keen observation. China is proving a delight to her and its La ait. ficulties are only stimulating. Determined to find a certain brand of stocking the other day she drew a picture of a pagoda for her chauf-our, He appeared appreciative but unresponsive. Next she pointed to her stocking. He appeared aren more interested but till no action resulted. Finally the drow a sketch of stocking with an alarming hole. "Savvy, savvy!" exclaimed the chauffeur and drove her at once t> the Pagoda Shop. Here are some of the things which Mrs. Tweedie has said about women, culled from some of her 21 (now 28) book:
An "ornamental wife" is as unsatisfying as an ice-cream for dinner to a hungry man, 'A. house without books is like a home without a woman—bare, comfortless. Books bring refine: ment, women bring comfort, Capable women make capable wives; hardworking men make excellent husbands; and the others are too idle to do anything well.
Fashion is often outrageous, and the more so the more it advertises itself, and helps the dressmaker and tailors to build up fortu A tidy coitfare is as important to a woman as a well-shaved face to a When a women speaks or writes fon certain subjects she is called a crank, when a man thunders away at he is called wide-minded— or vice-verte. Sex and brains have been so ridiculously deviated conventionality., Theie te sto/aee 10, brains. themselves for generation on their honour, spelt with a capital H; but what' about women's conscientiousness? Can't we spell that with a capital C? The tone sex ig as reliable and honourable and conscientious as the other. The cricket-feld teaches the man to play the game: life with all its sordid little worries, touches the woman.
Neither of us has enough honour or conscience yet; if we had we should never do dirty little tricks in trade or in the home.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.