THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 9, 1937.
MY DAUGHTER Preview of Coronation Styles
ROSEMARY
IT'S a very funny thing, but the
Every night round, about
*bed-
you know about a sub-time, Rosemary would become
She felt ill, had
ject theoretically, the less you seem troublesome.
a
to be able to apply it in your own pain, was frightened of the dark, private life. You find doctors heal-was hungry, and so on.
her I
Every night I gave way to ing other people and having delicate sick wives of their own. You find making excuses to my husband.
men even became so foolish that I would barristers advising business how to save economic positions and leave her door wide open and some- yet in a state of hopeless bankruptcy times carry her little tempting bits themselves. And you find women of the dishes we were having into
in her room. with many years of training child welfare, quite blind to blems in their own children.
pro-Dinner became later and later, and eventually it was impossible to have Rosemary is the daughter of my any evening at all to ourselves. ·
Rosemary, of course, did not look first marriage, and for four years
I might, in fact,
"
very
of her life we were quite alone toge- very well either. ther. We have been through very have been more sensible from the
has first if she had still looked difficult times and Rosemary understood in a rather grown-upfit. way. We have also had the most which exciting, travel holidays in Rosemary has been more companion than daughter to me.
1 MARRIED AGAIN
The holidays ended at last, and back Rosemary went to school. My husband had been very sweet and charming all the time, and had, in fact, taken his turn in ministering to Rosemary's evening wants.
JEALOUSY
Three years ago, when Rosemary was seven, I decided to marry again.
Another term went by and holi- On my weekly visit to her board-
These were far ing school I broke the news to her days came again.
She, of course, knew worse. Rosemary now took it into quite casually. my finace well and liked him bet-her head to shout at me for trivial ter than any other man of her ac-things until nine o'clock at night, of and she also developed a lot quaintance.
crying fits and looked really pale and unhealthy.
When holiday time came, Rose mary returned to our Chelsea flat into a beautiful new bedroom all de corated to her own design and ideas. ROSEMARY ASSERTS HERSELF
In
she
"Changing? No, of course she isn't. She's just as jealous of Neil as she can be.
London stylists are busy with their designs for the forthcoming coronation. Among the models previewed was the court gown, left, which has been officially approved George and Queen by King Elizabeth. It has a train of del- phinium-blue satin, and the "off- shoulder" decollete, bodice and train are hand-embroidered in a "feather" design of crystals and pearls. The coronation hát, above, has a crown of coarse ahiny straw, trimmed with
roll of thick 8. chiffon in red, white and blue, the enda of which are draped down the back of the neck.
How To Make Yourself Smaller
She did not come to the wedding because I consider her too young to
one An old friend came round grasp the meaning of such a cere-
the mony. But the day after my mar- evening and was subjected to riage we both went down to the evening's interruptions. school and took her off for a picnic. went to Rosemary and had a talk. She took the whole situation very Soon Rosemary was laughing "änd
One day a woman with a trim she opened it quite wide and said: calmly, except that she showed tre talking twenty to the dozen.
she⠀⠀ “What's the matter with her nowa- mouth and an eagle eye opened the “You're impossible!
“Yes,” To which Daisy replied, mendous pride in saying that
her office t two inches (she now had a mother and a father like days; do you think she's changing door of her
in character at all?" I asked for was always economical) and said in because that was the answer.
10: You see,
"went on the woman, the other children.
tones, "Daisy, this friend was one I had known clipped ferocious
where's that letter from Crumpet who was warming to her work, "you do spread yourself so. Look since my school days.
and Peabody?"
now:
Littered. You're And Daisy's heart missed a beat at your desk
like people who take up three- because she knew she didn't know. Jealousy. I actually hadn't And the woman (who was the quarters of the bus seat because secretary they will put everything they have For the first few days of the thought of that I thought my love very efficient organising
to to carry down beside them and read completely of
firm) walked abig
arm's holiday, all went extremely well. for Rosemary
Tch, Tch!" the largest newspaper at would Daisy's desk and said, And then, on the fourth day of the proven to her that nothing
with her trim mouth. After which length. You're like people who stick holiday, Rosemary decided that she frighten her again.
out their elbows at meal-times and But jealousy it was. Jealousy was old enough to stay up to late
are always dropping their table dinner. I, of course, demurred, and that she was being shut out from love was going to lessen.
napkins. I'm sure you bump into then the trouble began.
some part of my life and that my
SHE HAS A BROTHER
people when walk about and
you It's all over now. My husband tread heavily upon their toes."
And Daisy's heart missed two did the wisest thing. He made a friend of Rosemary. He bathed beats because she knew that it was her, he answered her terrible true. scientific questions with enthus- iasm. He taught her to have con- fidence in her own strength. Until smiling mouth opened the door of “Daisy! one night Rosemary actually turned her office and called,
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A month later a woman with a
me out of the bathroom, saying: Where's that letter from Bumpkin "I'm having Neil to bath me to- and Splinterwedge?”
night, because he talks about “sur- face tension, and you don't under- stand."
Now Rosemary
has
a
baby
And Daisy said: "Here it is!”! So the woman walked over Daisy's desk and said, "Good!"
she was always smil- Nowadays brother, of whom she is inordin- ing and saying "Good" and quite ately proud. She takes photographs a lot of other people smiled and of him to school and swanks about said "Good!" to Daisy, too.
You see, Daisy had made herself his progress to other mothers. No shadow of jealousy has ever occur "smaller." She didn't spread her- Belf or her belongings all over the red about the brother.
of the I have learned my lesson too. Iplace. She didn't do any realise that with small children ofte annoying things the' woman
her | over told her about with has to prove oneself over and
she put things away in again.
Jealousy, is a bitter thing mouth and it can undermine a child's their places and always looked and health to a very serious degree. thought what she was doing. In And the basis of jealousy in chil, fact, she wasn't annoying any more except that, occasionally she dren is just the terror of losing love
But, as the organising and 'protection. Don't laugh at it aniffed.
Get right secretary said to herself one day, down to the fact and give the child you really must put up with some-
and
don't ignore
security and away will go the thing. jealousy.
had
trim
E. R.
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