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Interesting Code For Living
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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 9,
cleaning up a situation.”
That happiness can be yours if he explains, “would be good at any ΤΟΥ know your three L's thing requiring immediate results, is the substance of an interesting code for living given out by psy- chologist and author, Dr. William Moulton Marston.
Dr. Marston who is famed as the inventor of the "lie detector," has for years been a consulting psy- chologist and a professor at various universities in the United States, including Columbia Now he has
next.
Which brings us to the step. Find out how your likes can be expressed. The psychologist. commends everyone to do what they
like for that way lies success, he says. Money, fame, power, what- follows because you do best what ever it is you want, necessarily
It isn't enough to say "Ha-ha" or read the comic strips.
evolved the triangle of happiness? you find pleasure in doing. Don't RABBIT SKIN PUFFS
pry any attention to the puritani-
live, love and laugh, which Is guaranteed to solve the riddle that cal notion that you must force your- irks stenographer and king; how self to do something, particularly to make the most out of life, now!! that you're here. In other words, how to be happy.
By a study of his mathematical formula, Dr. Marston maintains that anyone, and that includes you, can start finding their own path to happiness. He lays down few rules for everyone who wants to achieve a perfect life, and, for a start off this is that you must do.
LIVING
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Draw a triangle.
Fut an L on each corner of it, and evaluate your living, laughing and loving by these standards;
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if you have an aversion for it. It's passe. And don't be afraid to Next time you powder your nose, jump from one task to another girls, if you want to make-up in the while trying to find what you like height of fashion you must do it An attack of stick-to-it-iveness is with a puff of softest white rabbit fine in its place; but if you are skin. working at something you like, you won't always have that do-or-die
attitude toward it.
Now tackle your list of dislikes, Disagreeable things are bound to creep into the nicest job, and here Dr. Marston issues a warning. Don't try to escape from them, nor ride over them. It is far better to recognise them, analyse them, and then try to guide them into a channel of expression.
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Take living first and ask your- self: "Am I doing what I like to
If you find you haven't been do?" Make a list of all your likes living at all, just existing, you had and dislikes and put down the most better alter side of your petty things, for they are signifi-triangle for the time being! cant of something fundamental:
LAUGHTER AND LOVE Then analyse what is behind each desire. Supposing you are
Few people can a
qualify in woman who likes housework. That laughter. It isn't enough to say indicates that you enjoy order and "Ha-ha," or read the comic strips neatness, according to Dr. Marston. with a face like the Rock of Gibral- "A" woman who likes housework," tar.
Can you laugh at your own failures, that's the point! The essence of laughter, as defined by Dr. Marston, is change. When
a rabbit farm. As she stroked the One day a beauty expert visited
silky pelt of the champion white rabbit, she had an idea.
How soft and silky a rabbit skin puff would be.
Then she remembered that the first powder puff of all was made of a rabbit's foot. Now the new puffs are on the market.
I saw them recently at the Show of Furry Pets at the Dorland Hall, London.
Attractive-Mrs. Jack Arney, who has a rabbit farm at Cheltenham, told me: "These puffs last for ever. You can wash them and use them indefinitely. And they are so soft"
Rabbit-skin puffs are not the only novelty at the Furry Pets'
Show. Members of the National Mouse Club, anxious to prove that their pets are useful, too, proudly showed coats and hand-bags made of mouse skin
Rabbits in the show include
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you feel defeated, can you climb up, silver, orange, blue, lilac, black and on a hilltop and see your own in-buff, saving the necessity of dyeing
the wool congruities? You may find that
Within sight of them are evening sense of incongruity by standing on your head, reading Schopenhauer Wraps coats, gloves and other or seeing the Marx Brothers.
garments. Finally, love. Dr. Marston not only advises it, but to those who wail, I haven't time," he points the accusing finger. "That is one very important reason why 94 per cent of the people in America are not happy in love,” he says. That is his estimate made after a long survey of more than a thousand Three little animal clips on the cases, and he puts it down to the edge of the lapel I of your new The healthy "infant needs no medi- fact that present day people care spring jacket or on the breast
The Healthy Infant
for your new outfit
cine, and fortunate indeed are the more for success than anything pocket. parents of such a child Yet, in spite else.
of loving care and attention, almost every child at some time or other is affected by one of the many minor
A Tiny posy of multi-coloured felt The right sort of love is giving, chain from the lapel buttonhole on flowers swinging on a footiength
health troubles of childhood. He may not taking If you give because
be constipated, or his digestion be up- you want to, hoping for something a plain black coat.
set through over feeding, resulting in in return your own happiness, Little compartments on your
wind', colic, and perhaps diarrhoea in
a mild form, he may be feverish, show money, gifts, prestige, anything-breast pocket like cartridge holders, signs of a cold, or if unduly irritable your love won't work. But if you cach holding a tiny spray of spring worms may be his troubler
give, thinking solely of the other fowers
A simple home remedy wherewith person's needs and likes you will Cut out á green felt clover and and quickly to restore bappy normal make the other person, and your-embroider a tiny ladybid realis-
to correct these health irregularities
well-being is Baby's Own Tablets. The self, happy. Try it out at break-tically in the centre-then pin it prescription of a British medical child- fast, he suggests. You hate grape-on your dark blue or black jacket. specialist, the tablets are pleasant to fruit, but your partner enjoys it Or if you don't like insects, stick take and therefore easy to give, and are absolutely free from any injurious utterly. Make yourself like grape a red quill through the lapel. substance.
fruit, and discover that it ves As a variation from wearing your Parents who keep Baby's Own you both pleasure.
theart on your sleeve, you can now Tablets in the home have constantly at
Now how does your triangle sport it on your lapel in the form band a reliable corrective for their little children's health troubles. Sold look? Do the sides balance? Or of a locket-brooch. Heart is of red is the triangle lopsided. If it is, painted wood with a “front door" you know what to do about it. opening for your loved one's photo-
Start learning your three L's graph
by chemists everywhere.
Baby's Own Tablets
Keep Children Well-
TO MAKE AN OLD FOWL TENDER
This hint on the cooking of an old fowl may come in useful at the festive season. It is contributed by a member of a Fife institute.
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A very old fowl can be made as tender as a chicken if cooked follows:-Rub the fowl first over with lemon juice, which whitens the flesh and improves the flavour. Then warp in buttered paper and steam for 2 or 3 hours, according to size.
The flesh of an old fowl is more nourishing than that of a young one, and quite as delicious if cook-
ed this way.
The fowl may be roasted after being partially steamed.
WHITE AND COLOUR White dresses -accented with colour are - classics for. sports wear. Here this popular effect is developed in a simple shirtwaist dress in a firm twill surfaced fabric. The breast pockets are trimmed with bright buttons to match - the sash-the contrast colour being repeated in the plastic slide fastener frat closes the front of the high necked bodice,