THE CHINA MAIL,
MARCH 25, 1938.
Recipe For Popularity
Beauty Is No Longer Enough
omen may as well learn rig
single pattern, make up and now, for it has to be accepted by dress their hair after acuniform them some day in their careers, mode, whose idle chatter follows a that there is more to life, to their peculiarly uniform pattern. After lives in particular, than the hectic a while they become like a decora- pursuit of pictorial effects with the tive chair or other bit of furnishing object of attracting attention, in which holds interest only so long terest in them and admiration for and no longer.
So spoke one whose international MUST COME BEARING GIFTS reputation as an entertainment pro moter entitles her to an – unusual position from which to observe the feminine sex as it angles for effect and a place in the sun.
Some women are exactly like that. "How lovely to look at!" you exclaim, their and then pass on, forgetful of the existence because they have no more "What do you think," she asks, to give than lime and material. "is the reason why one woman with- "No truer words ever were out beauty, without and particular spoken," this authority continues, style in dress, can descend upon athan those about the eye being roomful of smartly gowned and quickly sated if the ear is not offer- more beautiful women and, in no ed sustenance The woods are clut- time, capture the whole gather-tered with women who offer ing?
'ear sustenance.
the "Because she brings something to "I say again that women, that gathering besides a dressup older women especially, must learn manequin picture. She's amusing that beauty is no longer enough. or she is extremely gracious, or she They must bring more to a gather- is doing something unusual and ing. They must come bearing gifts fascinating. She is interesting, and of their own creation that's why she can conquer every beauty every time.”
NEEDS MORE THAN LOOKS
"It may be a native talent or a cultivated one. It may be an in- terest that is amusing or instruc- tive: It may be a supergrace, such as listening and laughing intelli- The authority quoted was speak-gently. It may be that gorgeous ing of the older woman in. whose gift of rare good nature that at- efforts to attempt to rival the pic-tracts." It may be the sheer vital- torial qualities of younger ones she ity of those who find much in life sees social suicide, so to speak. to enjoy.
"Naturally the older woman must "It can't be dullness. It can't do all in her power to make herself be silly prattle, nor can it be cat- presentable and personally attrac-tiness or cheap wise-cracking just tive. But that's not enough. She to talk. It can't be off-coloured must be something, do something, be humour which, on woman's lips, al entertaining, amusing, gay, witty, or ways is offensive. It can't be the
be
ter at reverse type whose quiet loud laughter that bespeaks
the
COCOA BROWN MOUSSELINE DE SOIF" fashions the dinner gown worn by Billie Burke, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer player, over a fitted taffeta slip. The transparent material has a fitted bodice and a full skirt falling in folds to the floor and features a slight train. A flare collar, long tight fitted sleeves with ruching around the wrist are of interest as is the brown velvet ribbon detail around the top of the bodice. Miss Burke wears a double strand of pearls.
I'D MISS
MY MISS
Says This Married Woman
To be called Madam for the firstțit don't seem right." But I have an time was, if reports be true, the uneasy feeling that this means that crowning triumph of a girl's life up another of my best plates has gone to a generation ago. In the dim, beyond recall or that that recent and poise, and consuming in-hollow mind. It can't be affectá- in life, and people endows her tion. Never that. It has been dead Victorian days, when women smell of burning means a hot coal with the ability for getting on with out for years. It can't be family were dubbed matrons in their twen-dropped on my new carpet. That people without any apparent effort name and record, since to-day it's ties, took to bonnets and footstools she is, in short, a bit of a psycholo- in the thirties, and thereafter Let gist. And one does not expert one's on her part to please. The same what one does with her own life
the World Go By, Madam was a charwoman to be anything but goes for younge eto day, that counts. It can't be recitals
dattering designation. It was a rosy charwoman, and a good one if pos- of woe or of operations, since all
aura round that so over-whelmingly sible. At the present time, our authority have their quota of each"
fat gold wedding ring. observes, the truly popular one is the woman who can make people laugh, who can cheer up a worried
toat
DO YOU DANCE?.
Newly married from the school- And then, again, there was that room, the breathless little chit of unfortunate episode with the young a girl in those days would wait all man in the lift. He was a nice,
world, who can infect others with REGISTRY MARRIAGE
MARRIAGE of a twitter until the old family cheerful young man, and after I had
her well trained optimism.
“And I say "zained gatimism,
herself to be an optimist.”
nurse or coachman or the porter at met him in the lift for the fourth the station first called her Madam, time, with the operator's polite she explains, "because one of the The marriage of Mirs Florence and thereby confirmed her in her Good day, Miss, ringing in my ears, most socially successful women I Fung, daughter of Mr. Fung Kee proud new dignity and status. we exchanged views on the weather, know did just that. She trained Chin, to Mr. Chan Chung Cheong, If Miss slipped out thereafter a fortnight after that we had reach
son of Mr. Chan Hin Wan, took from any lips, it was a major cala-jed the phase of "Do you dance?" place at the Registry at 3.30 pm mity. It was a direct blow at that He was very charming. But what yesterday.
solidly built-up dignity and ascen-[hopes of our acquaintanceship he The ceremony which was perform-dency that came with being marri-had entertained I shall never know, people to tur Jed by the Deputy Registrar, Mr. ed:
For the day after urry and seek more W: A. Jones, was witnessed by the
steps my husban congenial
just dwell on fathers of both bride and groom.
lift with the darker themes of life, the hard The bridegroom is associated with times, the dreadful goings-on a a Messrs. The Office Appliance Com lost generation, the bitter, a to which you may have been jected
IT'S AN EAR DECADE
If
Typhoid Mary's is the
our authority says,
disease is contagious
for
cause
pany.
WALK TO REDUCE
is forewarned by outward ap- Walking will help you to reduce,
tout ex in the ar one and br
briskly, and hold your head eeply. Continue
with decorative king until you can do three mile them who dress a stretch without getting winded.
all
MERE
at variance attitude of our generation
It's the ba
the expr
Well,
After being married for six years,
I don't think any of the gratuitous but Miss pleasures life offers me pleases me fading out inte
I might half so much as the fact that I'm still regularly called Miss. Although sometimes creeps in.
are:
orties,
to ent elderly
the other 23 this
Tought
Miss, ** ade a Madam, but it does
up in the
nearly
sary but