THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 6, 1938.
The Truth About Glamour
Don't Leave The Main Road For Paths To False Glamour
Glamour has been in the diction-fingly as she knew how. "Appro- ary a long time. But up until spriately" is meaty in this connec- year or so ago it didn't show much tion. I wonder how many of the sign of life. It was in a dormant so-called "glamour girls” (those who stage, as Te say
of vol-imagine they are that because they canoes. Once in a while it trail in at theatrical openings garb- spurted forth to pin a rose upon ed in everything but the Kitchen the memory of Elizabeth, the Vir-stove) really know what appropria gim Queen. Then it went to sleep teness in dress. manner and until a dream, perhaps, prompted it|versation is?
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to laurelize Marguerite of Navarre. The glamorous woman wears her
On the whole, though, it was a makeup, clothes, accessories peaceful world. It desturbed prac-cstentatiously, because she's the tically no one until one day it reverse of showy. She abhors be- staged a resurrection. Maybe aling conspicuous, but if she's in the press agent was responsible; possi-lime-light she takes it all right in bly a movie star, languidly thumb- her stride. She parades no accom.......... ing over a copy of Roget's Thesau-plishments or possessions--not be- rus, clapped her hands at the find cause she regards them as vanities. At any rate, glamour came back but merely because she keeps her and liked it Liked it So much head. that it has turned full many a silly young head, deluded more than one who should have known, dross from gold.
And because she keeps her head, she looks ahead, beyond the day at hand-gives petty irritations their, true value. Were she cluttered about with this world which is too much a part of you and me, she'd
For glamour is capricious, a firt of the deepest dye, as fickle as they come. Here to-day, gone to-mor- be like most of us: an aspirant to
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sometimes fled for good glamour, not its rare possessor. Glamour likes nothing better than to stir up a rumpus, start the pur- suer off on a false clue, then when the chase tires, desert without com- punction.
All of which would seem to mean that glamour's best left alone-to die unhonoured and unsung. Not
A Vegetable Course
Cauliflowers are plentiful just at all! It boils down to a matter now. The following is a delicious of technique. For glamour can be way of serving this vegetable as a captured.
separate courses-
Cauliflower en Casserole Ingredients:
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For many, and many a year, glamour, has lain dormant.
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several pet. To remove stain, apply milk days before they are to be used. and salt. After a time remove the Store them in a cold place and, when mixture with a knife. As the ink is it is time to serve them, rehest absorbed, add more salt. Rub the them for 30 minutes in a covered stain with a cut lemon and sponge mold or double boiler. with warm milk. Dry well.
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Always grasp the plug-not the New stockings should be washed cord-in removing electric cords before wearing. Use luke warm wa- from outlets or utensils. And hang ter and soap flakes and hang up to up the cords as straight as possible, dry by the toes. You will find they since curves or bends will affect the will cling to the legs better if this wiring. 1 cauliflower; is done. lb. tomatoes; 1oz. butter; 1oz. chooses its host (to speak scientiflour: 2 gills milk; 1 egg yolk; half fically). It's mainly a matter of personality. That person who has within herself or himself the quality pepper, and sugar.
THE SECRET
Here's the secret: Glamour
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Put slices
Roll a boiled suet pudding- over To asve time in making starch in the water before removing it a. lemon; browned crumbs; salt, for a large family wash first make from the saucepan. You will find
ja very stiff starch. Put articles re-it will not stick to the cloth. Soak cauliflower in cold salted quiring the most starch such of unconsciously convincing us that water. Remove most of the outer collars and cuffs into this. Then he or she can perform the impos-leaves and stem, and cook
Very good sandwiches in dilute the mixture with warm water these through a mincer, add sugar sible, possesses glamour without boiling salted water until tender and starch the rest of the laundry. made from figs and- knowing it. Whether or not he or (about 20 minutes).
Break canli- she achieves the impossible doesn't flower into sprigs, and arrange in a particularly count.. The illusion casserole or fireproof dish. Melt existed. We, the observers, were in touch with a human being who bestirred us to lift up our heads to the stars, to breathe a rarer air than ever we had known. It's
and lemon juice. Por
of brown bread and
ink stains from polished furniture. A teaspoonful of vinegar to a pint spread on biscuits.
Vinegar and water will
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butter in a saucepan, and add flour, and a pinch of sugar. Skin and stir well to blend into a panada, slice tomatoes, and arrange on top then gradually add the milk, of cauliflower, pouring the sauce stirring all the time. Bring to the over the whole. Cover with browsed boil, then allow to cool slightly, breadcrumbs, dot with butter, and of warm water. Wash the furniture an experience we do not forget Stir in raw egg yolk, and the juice reheat in oven, Do not let sauce and dry carefully, then polish with
That kind of glamour cannot be from the lemon. Add salt, pepper, boil while reheating.
copied. It's useless to try. But the memory of it can freshen our life like a song. Glamour chooses its host. Let's go back to that. What can we do with ourselves so that glamour will choose us?
The best we can do is to try to keep ourselves so attractive that we shan't be counted out when glamour plays eeney-miney-mo. In addition, we can cut out all obvious approa-! ches to that temperamental quality. By this time, surely, we know that we don't become glamourous through outward trappings alone-by going in hook, line and sinker for every new bit of junk jewelry on the market. Nor by adopting each latest hair style-hot out of the hairdressers whether or not it's becoming Nor does glamour fly to that person who is content to be "neat as a pin.”
REVERSE OF SHOWY There is this point about glam- our, though especially as it per- tains to women: there never was a glamorous lady in history who was not known in her time as a good dresser,” to put it bluntly. didn't mean that she wore spang în her hair sf brezitast, simply that she was dressed priately at all times, and
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