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HIE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 30, 1988.
Beauty and You
by PATRÍCIA LINDSAY
The ugly duckling got her man, and a mighty nice man at that.
AN UGLY DUCKLING GETS HER MAN
I can't understand it," wailed à| stupid mother to me, "Jenny is so plain and her two sisters are 30 beautiful! I only hope some man will see something in her and marry her. I'll have no getting the other two married but Jenny is going to be a problem!"
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Jenny heard her mother and she just laughed. "It's too bad I am so plain." she said, "and if no man will marry me when I grow up I'll be a nurse!" Jenny was then.
fifteen
Five years later I saw Jenny again. Her mother had written that Jenny was to be married and her two pretty sisters (still not married!) were to attend her. I was amazed at this turn of events.
When I stepped off the train there was Jenny with frank lovely eyes smiling me a welcome, Her rather angular figure was becom- ingly attired in a simply cut sports frock and her long straight black hair had been cut and waved. Now short curls haloed her plain face giving it the most fascinating piquant expression.
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WHEN USING
WHOLE MEAL-
A few rules to observe in making pastry, bread, cakes and biscuits with wholemeal flour.
1-Any cakes and pastry made
with wholemeal flour are bet- "ter ́made' a day before they
are eaten. 2.--Brend should not be less than two days old before it is cut.. 3-Avoid underbaking. Put in
hot oven for about 15 minutes, then lower heat graduaily; and bake thoroughly. Give about 20 minutes or so longer time than for ordinary flour. 4-When brown sugar is used, or Barbadoes, crush or pound it very finely before beating it with fint fat. Nut fat be ing richer, less fat is needed than when dairy butter is. used: about 2oz. to 3oz. less per lb.
„Cakes made with wholemeal flour should not be large when air only is used as a raising agent. Put such cakes into a moderate oven. After 10 or 15 minutes increase heat; when cake begins to brown lower it again.
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From that first moment it was "When I first looked into Jenny's fun to be with Jenny, to listen to beautiful eyes," Bill told her wedding plans, to meet her knew I had to marry her. She's young-friends, and to watch her the most gorgeous creature in the easy, delightful poise. "The Ugly world!” Duckling's certainly made good,” I murmured, and was curious to know what she had done during those five intervening years.
Plainness No Handicap
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What Bill had really seen in Jenny's eyes was a person of charm and depth of character. She had made the most of herself. Her grooming was "meticulous and she selected her clothes with great It seems that at an early age care. And she certainly had done Jenny realised that beaux and a lot with that plain little face parties and indulgence) of whims which the Creator had given her. were not going to be hers easily, But that wasn't all. She had let because she lacked the beauty her her grand sense of humour (often sisters had, so she struck out for an Ugly Duckling's compensation!) a life of her own and went to col-carry her through life with lege. There she concentrated colours! She lived happily, kept school affairs as ardently as on herself busy and proved to all the her studies and soon won an en- ugly ducklings that not being viable place in the hearts of her beautiful is no handicap if you classmates. Not expecting much face facts. For Jenny got her man, from life without effort she ma- and a mighty nice man. "tured into an unselfish""
person and through
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What The Stars Foretell
By MARY BLAKE?
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