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Perhaps, in your own family, you may be- Puzzled by a
slow child
You know that child who is al ways late for meals, school, and even play? He begins a race when the others are half-way down the. course, and is still fumbling with
"YOU ARE
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 21, 1938.
MY HEART'S DELIGHT"
Would Any Man Say This To You?
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Worth
Noting
Chocolate for covering should he cut small and melted over a very low heat, stirring all the time. When melted stand saucepan in cold water, stirring till thick. Then remelt warming pan on stove for a moment, then removing and beating well. Continue this warming and beating till right consistency for covering. Chocolate should never
get above blood heat. It will be grey, dull,
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"When boiling greens don't for-
his pencil box when the class are putting the answers to their sums. Six experts on Woman's problems recently held and streaky if too warm.
There are many dilatory little a meeting in London to work out their ideas of what girls. But the slowcoach I'm de-
constitutes a perfect "heart's delight." The meet-get to put a crust of bread in the scribing is nearly always a boy, wandering about with faraway ex- ing was called on the strength of a letter received saucepan at the same time, to boil pression, a twisted tie, and one sock by one of the London papers from a young girl who with the vegetable. This will do
inside out.
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wrote:
But he is not a slowcoach at heart. He is probably quicker and a more
"I'm afraid I'm inclined to be vivid thinker than the punctual lit-
romantic. Whenever I hear that tle boy beside him.
song, "You Are My Heart's De- He can do things more rapidly
one day the than most-when he tries. He does light!" I hope that
man I love will be able to say that to me--and mean it!
occasionally if some enthusiasm or sudden burst of energy brings him to grips with life.
"I know you can't find the right man for me, but can you tell me what to do so that I shall be his heart's delight when he
comes
Impatient With Himself Sometimes grown-ups realise this and think he is being deliberately along?" trying in his slowness. But he
Now read what the six experts isn't. He is impatient, as are most have to say, and see whether you quick-natured people.
Not with others, but with his own slow movements, which do not keep pace with his rapid mind.
He is neither old nor reasonable enough to see that he has the chance of putting it right by patience and effort.
come up to standard.
YOUR LOOKS
A Beauty Editress says:
Of course, every man likes a woman to make the best of herself and would definitely rather not be seen about with a shiny nose and straggly hair.
But, of course again, no man really wants to escort a flour mill
So he goes off into the world where nothing hinders him.
While his feet and hands drag be-out to dinner, and thick rouge and
hind, his brain is busy with thou-heavy eye-black are unpleasant sand things and often solving. bril-things to come up against. liantly the problems he'll be bottom So, while it's absurd to try to at next day in school.
make up so that no one will notice it, there is a happy medium.
Don't overdo your scent, and why not try to find out what he
DON'T SAY IT There is one thing that must not be said to him, and that is "Hurry
up."
These words will only catch at the impatient part of him and put as well him at loggerheads with as behind--everybody else.
likes?
away with that very unpleasant smell which usually fills the house when greens are boiling.”
The big thing to remember about. clothes is fitness for purpose.
Before washing garments the The right clothes for the right colours of which are likely to run, occasions, enhanced
by your own add a little vinegar to the washing personal freshness, will help to and rinsing waters. Not only does keep your man deeply in love with it prevent colours⠀⠀ from running, you.
but actually revives the shades.
YOUR BEHAVIOUR Dorothy Dix says: Well, it's nice to find a girl with a bit of romantic-mindedness about her.
But, daughter, don't carry it too far.
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Do you know the best way cooking kippers? Brush over with olive oil and grill the inside for about five minutes:
only
Of course, you want to be his cigarettes, matches and a big heart's delight we all do.
ashtray will make him boast And I expect he'll tell you you about his gem of a wife. are in a hundred different ways during the courtship and honey-buttons in their proper places
Keep his socks darned and his moon days when you're both trip- opposite
the buttonholes and ping over clouds of happiness.
you'll not only be his heart's de- What he will not do is croon it light your life together will be to you over the breakfast table when he comes home at night, and one long song of happiness.
AND YOU YOURSELF But that won't mean he's stop-
A Psychologist says: ped thinking it. And it's up to you
Be kind—not only to people but to cultivate all those qualities he about them. Men may laugh at first admired
in you
so that no witty, catty
women but they cer- doubt creeps in to mar his certain-tainly don't respect them. ly that you are the only girl.
Don't be suspicious. When your Keep cheerful. A ready laugh-husband telephones from the office a mouth that is always on the up that he will be home and up at the corners is the surest start spoiling his evening by your late, don't thing I know to hold a man.
tone of voice.
Don't nag.
A biting tongue that'self awake. And don't keep your-
keeps on and on about things that don't matter all that much anyway
examine him when he comes in. the office, how he was bunkered on Be interested in what he did at
to old John last Wednesday. the golf course, and what he said
on purpose; to cross-
Don't embarrass him by making up in public, or by worrying too obviously over your own face when looking into he. wants you to be his. He must be shown the satisfac-
Don't comb your hair all over is the surest thing to drive him tion of making up that mind of his, which he loves, and taught how to hairs, smears of powder or blurs
your coat collar and don't leave | away, control his limbs, which he rather of lipstick all over his.
Don't before you marry him try to make him jealous by talking dislikes.
So many women make the fatal about all the other boys you know. It may make him begin to wonder boredom over their faces whenever mistake of dropping a mask of "Is she the kind of girl I thought he begins to talk about himself. she was?"
Games help, but very often the competitive spirit is lacking, or rath- er in abeyance because he knows he will always lose, though confident that he really needn't.
YOUR CLOTHES Kathleen Pearcey says: When it comes to clothes, there's one big mistake many girls make and never know.
Do give him a night off occasion Many girls try so hard to be ally. There are times when the Give him things which have to be original and ultra-smart that they most loving of
husbands likes to done slowly to be done well. Brush-make themselves conspicuous. And have a few hours with other men work, paper folding, and games the man who has asked them out and no women. like spillikins and card castles. in a burst of enthusiasm walks And don't most important of throwing is down the street feeling that every-all, perhaps pry into his affairs one's looking at him, and he vows, and query every hour he spends "Never again.”--
Dart making and
dear to boys of all ages.
A Slowcoach Won
In one school this was forbidden because exercise books, reports, and blotting paper were used.
Be feminine but not fussy. Don't follow-fashion so slavishly that you get a reputation for being At another school the headmaster freakish Modify it to suit your
own style.
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away from you.
YOUR HOME Patricia Beck says;
him or make excuses for him în And never try to make a fool of
public. of him you should have thought of If you're not particularly proud
that before.
Remember that poverty is no crime. If you know that he can't possibly afford to buy you a fur
coat or to carry you off to the Riviera don't sulk and pout your envy of other women.__________ When he marries, every man And, whatever you do, believe in wants a home. Even though he him. Support and encourage him gets as enthusiastic as you do in his plans and ambitions. about the new house, he still wants
Be all gentle curves in the even
Nothing destroys a man's self- ing softly veiled in floating it to be not only a house but a confidence more than lack of faith chiffons or picturesque taffetas home as well. with spreading skirts and moulded He bosoms.
offered a prize for the champion dart maker and thrower out of school hours. A slowcoach won.
The teacher watched him and led him on to other handicrafts. might think about history and sums without bothering to do them, but to think about darts and paper froge and boxes without mak wasn't half ao amusing.
fur
Don't wear masses of artificial
motto for everything.
make little and good your them If yon want your man to feel protective about you, wear a lot of white collars and cuffs BUT keep them crisp and fresh.
By degrees the quick; brain ed that the slow fingers could obey, and that boy to-day has nearly caught up the place in lessong he should hold.
Slowcoaches need me for every thing, Including ceasing to be slow-
roaches.
in the woman he loves..
That means he wants to be com- fortable in it.
Now that you are his "heart's And that means he's going to delight," when he is your hus- make it untidy at times.
band
you
Let him! Keeping him contented and pitying the poor bachelors is fed. Sea that your cooking does Remember men like to be well better than a spick and span house justice to the monet and a late every night husband. → to spend on food,
Have at least one real, man's... Don't because he is your hus- Shoes and stockings-they must harmchair about the place be neat and tidy — seams straight, probably have long legs and likes does for you for granted,
he'll band bully him or take what he [no ladders. Heels should be:
spraw them across the If you don't balanced and not too high
vant to be as "thick arthrug. they'll ruin your walk, and all men
as thieves" with his family, don't sensible lamp to read by, a have your swarmi about the like grace In a woman,
small table at hand for his
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