THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 16, 1938.
FROM HERE AND THERE
Random Selections From My Mail Bag
(By URSULA JEFFRIES)
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I have received several letters (1928, and again in 1936, this week from friends residing tours visited the prairie farms and overseas, and they are of the type the holiday camps. of Canada, while that are just too good to keep en- in 1934, a party of schoolgirls went tirely to myself. You know the out to Australia and New Zealand, kind. Letters that you feel you where they had the opportunity of simply must share bits of, at staying in the cottage homes at the least, with someone else? So I Fairbridge Farm, of visiting the have selected a few random, and thermal regions n New Zealand and, will tell you what these friends more valuable still, the opportunity have to sax in the way of news of of meeting, in a friendly, informal general interest to all.“
way, the girls of Australian up- country schools, and of Australian medical sheep-ranches. So this South African instance, and Rhodesian tour is not the first of its kind, and it is being organiz- per- ed by a special committee set Cali-under the auspices of the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women.
woman
rare
aged woman, married over 30 years but childless, had daily been
was found that her
hoarse voice.
up
!
FOR COOLNESS
Page
A Stepney firm has just completed a strange order for a Maharajah it is furniture made entirely of glass to enable him to keep cool in his A glass office desk, with paper trays, writing pad, paper weight and lamp, office stool and chairs, all of glass, form this strange order. Here you see the very striking glass desk and the rest of the office equip- ment ready for his approval.
In the
de-
hus-
old
A RARE OPERATION A letter from a young student in America, for tells of a very curious and operation which was recently formed at the University of fornia Hospital. It is А very strange case and outstanding in medical history, inasmuch as it
South Africa and Rhodesia pro- has restored the normal feminine
vide, between them, enough of appearance and charecteristics of beauty and of interest to attract the a 61-year-old.
office. threatened party of young people. In addition with "transformation" into a man. to seeing the Victoria Falls, Zimbab- My friend explains that before we, the Matopos, Kruger National submitting to the operation, the Park,
the Drakensberg Mountains, the Wilderness, etc., there will betrays. She is at home to greet her schools to visit, games to be played, husband at least four times a week, serves his own chair for reading, his
house, the husband assuming definite male characteris-friendships to be made, and a better and she always has dinner on time. own cubby-hole for fishing tackele. tics, which finally became so pro-be achieved. It promises to be a setback, the real wife can take it on if she sends him off in the morning
understanding of life in general to
When the husband has a financial He'll be happier throughout the day nounced that, in her embarrass- ment and distress, she sought re-
great adventure to the selected the chin as well as he can. Instead with a smile and a kiss, instead of lief at the hospital. She told group of young girls.
THE PERFECT WIFE
of sulking, she encourages him to a "thank-goodness-he's-gone” examining physicians that for some time she had been obliged to Hollywood, just what film stars ex- the perfect wife dresses with an band about it. She may be throw
After hearing from a friend in
tray again.
Before throwing away his old And then Clark Gable adds that clothes, she first talks to her shave at least once a day, and itpect of their wives, you will not be
masculinity surprised that so many Hollywood eye to the husbands likes. She keeps ing out his most comfortable took the form of broad shoulders, Personalities spend their spare time her personal appearance as it was shoes body hirsutism, and a deep-toned, filling in legal documents somewhere when she was single and, if there clothes.
and his favourite fishing
The operation, continues my in- quite a lot of things
near Reno. In fact, it explains are children, she permits the hus-
band to spank the kids if they de- she accepts it gently and does not When he mentions his in-laws, formant called
removal Search for the Perfect Husband!
including the
serve it, instead of threatening to start a discussion on the family. If of an arrhenoblastoma (masculini- Clark Gable, he-man hero of
report him to the Society for the he does tell his favourite story more zing ovarian tumour, to you), and million feminine hearts, is convinced
Prevention of Cruelty to Children. medical history, prior to 1931, that a wife should first and fore-
POWELL'S PERFECT SPECIMEN
than once, she graciously laughs at failed to record a similar case. most "be
William Powell thinks the perfect it. She never meddles in his busi- Eighteen days after the
a pal." By a pal, my wife should make her husband feel ness life, and she should let him tion, the patient left the hespital. find enjoyment
opera- friend says he means that she must as important in her life after mar-pick his own associates as well and four months later an examina-husband does, such as in his hunt-gives her flowers he deserves a kiss. beautiful she is.
in the things the riage as she did before. When he his own secretary, no matter tion noted that the facial contours ing, fishing and other recreations. She does not continue to remind him had softened, the body hirsutism (There is
And lastly, Mr. Powell says no mention of the had definitely diminished and voice had lost its masculine timbre. of the pastimes of the wife!):
the band enjoying a certain percentage they were married, and she gets up head of the house, even though he hus-of the good times she had before should make him believe he is the
The woman has since moved to a
in the morning and has breakfast may not be, and she must keep the Moreover, the perfect wife does with him, looking as pretty then as household expenses within the fam- small Eastern city and has in-not complain about formed the hospital that she
too many ash-she does at dinner.
ily budget. longer finds it necessary to shave!
So now you know, girls. Go to it I NEW CARNATIONS SOUGHT The Queen is giving the leadin the search for new dinner table carnations, according to a friend in London. Varieties lately in-
Once you get the knack of re- Also a Southern outfit guaranteed troduced to the Royal Gardens at cognizing the little tricks of fashion for success might be a slack suit of Windsor, which will decide future and the courage to practice them chalked striped flannel in a luscious
while they're excitingly new, your canary yellow colour schemes at the Queen's dîn- ner parties, include a pink
or a soft, French dressing will take on a new zest and pink. and gray bloom which has а back-you a new flair! To-day's little.
* ground of salmon rose shaded with suggestions for chic include:
For an ultra smart accent If you've been wearing a check-your dark suit, add a pair of pur-medical child specialist's prescription French gray.
the or
dish brown tone is "overlaid"
no
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worn
Velvety pelargoniums, a variety ered suit all winter, give it newple and gold of carnation in which a dark red-life with a fitted, velveteen jacket Schiaparelli.
în one of the check colours, on pink, will also be used by the over the suit skirt. Queen to carry out her ideas in table treatment, together with very modern
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For Children Troubled With Digestive Disorders.
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how
she
are all impeded
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FRIENDSHIP TOUR :
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wear vivid colour accents such as pouchy velvet, bags
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