THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 24, 1937.
Small Children Just Will Dawdle:
Something original for evening is, worn here by Jean Muir, screen actress. Her gown is fashioned of a crepe printed in shades of violet and green leaves. On each should- er, the beautiful screen star wears a bow of the same material adorn- ed with rhinestone clips.
MIND
YOUR MANNERS
Test your knowledge of correct social usages by answering the following questions, then checking against the authoritative answers below:
1. Does a hostess rise to greet her guests when they are men?
Expect Them To
VERY mother has her pet What is the use of hurrying, say
EX peeves, one of which is cer-his awkward fingers, when there is
tainly the irritation of watching nothing any more exciting than the
into act of dressing? her offspring get reluctantly his
even
AWKWARD PROCESS
task at hand, and slows rather than speeds him.
PROVIDE INCENTIVE.
Also, the all to breakfast is sel- dom as delightful a prospect as it is to the adult whose senses begin to stir at the first smell of the break- fast coffee. There is no such spark to turn the child into a dynamo of energy. Food is usually a pretty. dull matter for him, especially in
keen least
clothes. The fact that he knows how to dress himself, enjoys doing it, in no way pre- We must expect small children to the morning.
Dressing themselves vents the mother from experienc-dawdle.
is of course, this doesn't help the ing a desire to tear out her hair bound to be an awkward process problem from the mother's angle, at his insufferable dawdling. If before it becomes a nimble one. but if she is aware that children she can't "stand" it, she hustles Buttons slip out as often as they who can't be hurried lack a him into his clothes herself, even slip in, but there is fun in match- enough incentive, she can at though she knows she ought to let ing buttons and button holes vie-provide that incentive. him accomplish this task alone. toriously, fun which the child en-OVERNIGHT SUGGESTIONS
Even if she does let him dress joys to the limit.
Suggest at bedtime some altoge- himself she can't help nagging him. We just have to allow more time
ther fascinating adventure that is “Hurry, hurry," she yells at inter-and be more patient while he pro vals. "I'm coming," says the child, ceeds to fulfil each one of those going to take place to-morrow after brush-breakfastpies to be baked and and after a brief period of obvious delightful duties-washing, scurrying about, there is silence ing teeth, hair combing and fitting the child to help, the porch to be again, and investigation finds him himself into his various, and often scrubbed with small broom--some- staring into space, playing with a complicated garments.
toy, or taking off the trousers that he has just put on wrong side to!
TASKS ARE UNINVITING
ADULTS, TOO
thing that is certain to take place, which can be helpful to the mother as well as sport and adventure to the child. The older the child, the There are a lot of adults, men
more keenly will the call of play- especially, who haven't the faintest
mates lend speed to his fingers. What makes children so slow? notion of the nature of a garment Why can't they hustle into their when separated from the wearer, USUALLY PRIZE DAWDLERS clothes? Let's answer it with an- so how can we expect the small child other question:"
Why hurry?
The child under six or seven is always to know the direction of jusually the prize dawdler, and his The child hasn't these trousered and sleeved puzzles mother must think up games and a day full of momentous tasks, which into which he must get the correct duties that are fun instead of work, must be checked off with rhythmical leg and arm?
and will fire his imagination to the regularly. The child has no dishes To yell, "Hurry up. I can't keep point. where he forgets to dream to be washed, shopping to be done, breakfast. waiting all morning," and dawdle while he hurries to the
etc., none of the tasks which put merely diverts his mind from the appointed task with zest. wings on the feet of his mother.
NOTHING BUT TASKS
Sometimes, poor child, he has no-- thing but tasks--horrid tasks that he must do before he can go out to play; then his feet lag and his hands fumble simply to delay the disagreeable moment when he has to take up the duties that weigh so heavily upon him.
Try These Recipes For Tea-Time
CHOCOLATE ́SLAB CAKE
baking
6oz. flour, 1 teaspoonful powder, 6 oz. sugar, 2 teacup cocoa
2. In making an introduction is powder, 3 eggs, 5oz. margarine,
3
a child presented to an older per- teaspoonfuls coffee essence, vanilla son?
essence.
3. What might a hostess say toÉSULTA
Cream the margarine and sugar.
a departing guest who thanks her Add the whisked eggs, and the flour for a pleasant time?
4. Should a hostess walk through doors first, or stand aside for her guests?
5 May one repay an invitation to dinner with an invitation to tea?
What would you do iƒ--- Someone compliments you on dress you are wearing—
(a)
a
Pass the compliment off with a remark such as, "Oh, do you like this? such an old thing.”
and baking powder very lightly.
Mix the cocoa to a paste with the coffee essence, vanilla, and a combine this with the other mix- teacupful of hot water, sweeten, and
ture. Turn into a shallow tin.
Bake in a moderate oven for forty minutes. Cut into slabs.
DATE SANDWICH ~
11⁄2 breakfast cups Quick Quaker
flour, is oats, 11⁄2 breakfast cups It
I breakfast cup moist sugar, 1⁄2 teas- soda, 2lb, margarine, ~ 1 teaspoonful vanilla Your essence, 1lb. stoned dates.
(b) Say, "Thank you. It is nice poonful carbonate of
of you to say. 80,"
(c) Say, "Thank You
dress is pretty to
ANSWERS
Yes.
2. Yes.
3. She might say, "I'm
O came
happy that you
enjoyed having you here."
very
Use stoned dates, and boil till soft with a spoonful of water to prevent burning. Flavour with vanilla. Set aside to cool.
Mix the soda, flour oats and sugar, "I have and rub in the fat until you have bound all into a paste. Roll out on
4. Stand aside for her guests. a floured board, put half in the
5. No, an invitation is repaid in
oven till
bottom of a shallow tin, spread the kind.
dates on, and put the other half of Best "What Would You Do" solu- the-mixture on top. tion—(b), (a) indicates embarruss- Bake in a moderate ment or lack of sincerity, and ques-lightly browned. Cut in squares tions the other person's taste. (c) or fingers while still in the tin. lessens the pleasure of the person Lift out when cool.. „giving the first compliment.
HOPE KERR.
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