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One of the most trying moments for a woman is when she has "no-
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thing to wear" and no money with..
which to buy anything, and she is invited to stay in a country house where all the other women have masses to wear.
In her desire to put up some sort of a fight, she will probably pack all her best bits and pieces, only to find that no occasion arises upon which she can reasonably put them on.
Last winter I had a cottage in the country, and I was asked by a neigh- bour to come over to lunch, and told
friends to bring with me three happened to have staying with me.
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"What's our hostess like?" one of my friends asked me, when told her where we were going.
"Very rich, very pretty and very smart," I said.
"I don't intend to be outshone, and the only smart thing I've got with me is my ermine. I shall wear that," she said.
"Not in the country!" I protested.
"Oh! bother the country! Er- mine's érmine all the world over,' she answered.
When we arrived, we discovered that we were expected to follow the hounds, and I had a good giggle
THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 17, 1938.
STRUGGLE
Barbara Black
has some sound ad- vice for you to-day. She's been thinking backwards. She's been remembering the times when she has felt a fool herself when she has seen other wo- men suffering self- conscious agonies because they weren't Just right for the occasion. She wants you to be always right. She tells you how to make the- best of your face, your clothes and your personality wherever you are.
Did you
"Clever woman, that! notice she wasn't wearing a bit of jewellery? Made the others look rather like a lot of Christmas trees!"
Rich women always have sump- tuous furs, so if you are going out with them leave your bit of rabbit at home. You will probably catch a cracking cold, but no matter.
Your apparent indifference to the chilly blast will arouse their ad- miration, and you will get the re- putation of being a Woman who does not mind the cold.
And even an uncomfortable re- putation is better than no reputa- tion at all!
You can do a bit of competing with
make-up, too.
If you know that the plutocrats with whom you are going to consort use a lot, use hardly any and vice
versa.
And it is always a good stunt to forgo the varnish on your nails. Your courage will intrigue the wo- men and your simplicity will please the men.
The woman who wants to live successfully amongst people richer
watching her clambering over hedges a sort of "What makes her think that stress your lack of expensive than herself must have a few par-
and wading through ditches, all dolled up in an ermine tippet!
I
Years ago, when I was about se- venteen, I went to stay in the coun- try with some millionaires, and thought that I would try to pretend that I too had oodles of money.
I took my one any only ball dress, upon which I had spent the whole of my quarter's allowance.
It was a very decollete white satin affair, trimmed with diamante, and, as I trailed down the wide oak stair case, I said to myself. "This ought to knock 'em."
there's going to be a ball?" look in their eyes.
possessions.”
It's a trick which, cleverly work- ed, never fails to succeed. Let me tell y you some of the rules.
I shievered self-consciously through the evening (all grand coun- try houses are kept icy cold), vow- ing I would spend my next quar-
If, for example, you are going to ter's allowance on a tea gown a dine with women who you know will vow which I kept, unfortunately, be- be dripping with jewels-go jewel- cause no suitable occasion arose on less. which I could wear thing, and it ended its days as very uncomfy dressing gown!
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the. darned
Even the diamond ring George gave you when you became engaged to him must stay at home.
It is impossible for a woman
I hate to depress you, but it will with a small income to try to copy
one. The look like something out of a cracker a woman with a large trappings of the rich cost wads of when it comes up against the glit money, and no imitation, however tering Koh-i-noors that adorn your snappy, has a chance against the hostess's hands. real thing.
All the other women were draped from chin to heel, and wrist to car So, don't copy--strike out a dif- lobe, in velvet tea gowns, and, though ferent line. Make yourself a startl
adopting means they were too polite to say it, I saw ing contrast by
lour tricks.
She should be able to make a salad, to mend a fuse or to tell them of a cast-iron cure for obesity.
or
And she should never appear to be impressed by their riches sigh enviously: "It must be lovely to be rich like you!"
They will probably shrug their shoulders and say: "Money's not everything my dear. Your job sounds such fun. I'd love to have to work like you."
But as they tell that cracking lie they are searching their mind for some excuse whereby they need not see quite so much of you,be- In that sparkling company your cause that hint of envy. in your absence of glitter will make an ar voice makes them suspect that you resting figure of you, and someone are preparing the way to borrow will say:
ing a bit!
This Girl has tired
Now try Exercise ONE Put a pencil on the ground, sit on a chair with your legs crossed and try to pick the pencil up with the toes of the top foot, (Try this twelve times.
Feet!
Do your feet ache?
Do you come home from a long walk or a morning's shopping ready to drop into the nearest armchair? Then perhaps you have flat feet.
Exercise TWO ... Stand.. -with-feet-straight and- slightly apert." Raise and Jower heels twelve times,
Exercise THREE Stand with Loeturned in and touching.. Raiso Bod, lower heels' twelve times.
Exercise FOUR SM
Stand on a stool with. toen just over edge." Benit” toes down as far as pee- sible and raise again.
"twelve ilmnem,
Flat feet are the result of weaken- ed or sunken arches.
Here are some exercises which will strengthen your arches and "False" them again.
For weakness of the long arch ness of the cross arch shows you can do all the exercises, but for your toes are contracted and raised weakness of the cross arch do only from the ground and the balla of exercises ONE and FOUR. (Weak your feet painful and hard)
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