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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1951,
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
by SUSAN DEACON THE hat (Pretty and practical) the hair style
(Soft and flattering)
AVIY not a lovely new hair style for the
new season?
WI
The Petit Pageboy.....the Chignon and Chatelaine.....or the Chignette?
EXOTIC NAMES for the new simple hair styles Just seer in London.
sun.
I choose the Chignette as The Style of the Sca-
A Chignette is a row of false curls caslly fixed
In the nape of the neck.
I like because:
(1) It la soft and flattering,
(b)
(e)
ft hides the in-between growing stage so many women are going through at the moment;
It looks nice with the new forward move- ment hats.
These new softer styles are a change from the flat straight masculine cuts.
The CENTRE PARTING is again fashionable. braids are being wom.
And the PETIT PAGEBOY? This is a new ver- nion of an old fashion. The trair is cut quite short and turns under into a short easy-to-keep-tidy style. THE CHIGNON (wo popular in Parts) is worn decorated with a free-chain Chatelaine the sort normally worn on the Inpel.
And The Fat to wear with The Hair Style?
I saw YELLOW PILLBOXES trimmed with cowslips, enor moum black straw cartwheels with scalloped brims, berits and hats with wide-mesh visor verts,
But I choose lic
grey chip straw pillbox seen in thier pic- iure. · Tailored, worn slightly forward, this is a practical as well as a polty hat.
It can
be wom with many hair styles, and with either a suit or a print dress,
Most of
many the "£4 Plun
(The Contented. Housewife)
letters about
Food," For
mabject in the home,
· CHIGNETTE...... row of false curls ....easily fixed.
PILLBOX...
bare- flash-
ly to be mentioned, a back to Our Fust. Quarrel?
WHAT DO The Men do when they have a night off?
They meet So-and-So who has just come home from India, Perhaps a regimental reunion, a game of darts, or a visit to the club.
In short, a night off is re- freshing and harmless. Why not let The Men have it? 3 would like to hear your views.
My Jury...
to
Wday up WILL you be having a hell- usual your standarda this year?
found no fault Clover Rug Strategy
with the
тепи,
Co-star Celeste Holm of About They Darryl Zanuck's "All
Eve" worked a Tom Sawyer on other members of the cast in making a by 12-hook rug for her home,
wondered how Mrs Andrews did on 4. The critics said: WHY NO SOUP?"
Mrs McNell,
of the
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Thelma Riller and their stand- ins all were lured into work- ing on the rug which Miss bc- making
pát- ut recent
Hector Holm has been wife tween scenes Secre-
tary of State
Scotland.
tures.
on
After commenting
the for
beauty of the writes:~~
rug and their Your wise desire to make one, the players I were invited to try their hand housewife very good in- at it. With their aid, the pro- deed, butas Ject-originally scheduled
Scotswoman two years-win be finished in -I would like one, Mis Holm says.
10
don't ask, ihese_sussenachs_ever
soup?
moke
They don't need bones 10 make soup, so don't give me the bit about no bones.
Bacon rinds are excellent for lentil soup; onion soup and potato soup can be made with- out stock, ele. No one single the whole plate of soup in week's menu!
WHY
The Men
THY are The Men frightened when asked: "Does your wife allow you to take a night опан
I put the question to 20 men tockbrokers, actors, authors, bank-clerks. To a mon, The Men were slient.
They were talkative on any other subject, touchingly help- ful about other men who would give their views (but didn't), and all of them were afraid.
AFRAID OF WHAT? Afraid thelr wives might also ask for a night off? Afraid their wives might disagree with their vows? "Afraid of neigh- bourly tittle-tattle?
IN'T THE ANSWER that the night off is a
delicate
for
I puL THIS QUESTION to hundred the members
House- m y wives' Jury,
The reply trom 45 fùml- lics:
"We
cannot afford a holl- day at all!"*
14 Only members an- swer "YES"
The remain-
ing Jurywomen are planning lo spend the holl- days with parents Irlends.
cost
от
of
the It seems that living has risen so much that it is no longer possible for people to economise, even by going to Folkestone Instead of France or by goirut away for one week Instead of two.
They can no longer afford to go away at all.
Jurywoman Mra Starkey, of Worcester. Park, writes:
"For the first time for four having to forgo years we are our annual escape from ierity....This year our holiday is a new dining-room carpet."
AUSTM
Mrs Parker, of Dorset, "ms to prospects of a holiday this. Year.
of Maidenhead, Mrs Larens, is "planning visits to friends, und Dientes.
VERDICT: The break from food and household problems has to -be forfeited in. the struggle to make ends meet.
Wisdom
"NO la
-
-
women
for
grey chip siraw..... slightly forward.
400,000 Women
Women Planned This
Ideal Home
home
SHOP AT
SINCERE'S
DEPARTMENT STORE
FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS
as his wee bit ingle WELCOME. THE RAINS
The latest
LONDON. of the three main Hills-is one of
grandeur and splendour. A blinking boonille," Fail annual oxhibitions, Bry
London's Ideal Home wide red carpet extends down type gas stove and refrigerator, kitchen and bathrooms, are not oxhibition provides the distance and, on proceeding
to down this one looked most completo guide
at the up-to-the-minute, the modern furniture displays on either home-builders. Whether you aide, but rather at the are planning a brand new
not
sufficient, To be completely
home, or merely looking for decoration. Ten crystal use must now have
celling and rich draping In red
magnificent with 50 lampa something to improve the apiece, are suspended from the old one-maybe only an fabric festoons from the
ceiling electric cooker, a tin opener on either side. This aiste leads "Crystal Palace" 0 or a fancy lampshade-here to the is the place to find it, in its momento of the 1851 Exhibition
The second Impression of this latest, most efficient form.
hall-and indeed of any cart of the exhibition is the "glorious technicolour"; rich reds, yellows, oranges and greens mingle to- gether 1lko pattern in kaleidoscope.
Noah's Ark
It is all very reminiscent of Noah's Ark, except that there are more than two of everything. Every existing product seems to be represented, no matter its species, entegory, size, shape or form. And, by some miracle of
dis olympian,
every thing has found its way to its stand in this vast own particular home of circuses and exhibl- Lions-Olympla.
Third Impression
2
The third impression is noise: through a microphone some
Its own
burglar alarm system, with signals direct to Scotland. Yard.
Ideal House
Most successful of the houses is that planted by the Women's instilistes whose 400,000 members have pooled idear. Their house suggests a paradise for mothers -low; handrails for children in the staircase, and a gate at the top; a place for the pram with a straight run-in from the door; toy cupboard under the window- Beat; and there's a swivelling spotlight over the cooking range.
oya muation, which can only be where the scherzo from Men- are on view on the ground floor.
The first impression on enter ing the Grant Hall-the largest
Your Sewing Scrapbook
Mary Brooks Picken
Child's Jumper and Blouse-In Jersey, Striped and Plain
MAKE this attractive dress for your little girl's birth- day, or later for school wear. It is casy and will give good ser- vice.
For a six-year-old you need hyd. of 54" striped tubular jersey and yd, of plain. Add % yd, to 4 yd, to each measure- mout for a larger size, and re- duce by yd, for a smaller one.
Fold Toward You
Lay fabric flat with one fold l blouse and skiri pizces _loward-you-ns diagram shows..
Blouse: A is lower left-hand cornor. At centre of fold is B. Chalk # line straight across from B to opposite fold. C is breast plus 14 in from B. From C chalk a line straight across to D. E ond Fare % neck plus from. A.
"
E length of Measure from shoulder plus length of sleeve desired for G. Straight across from G on line B is I. I is 11⁄2 band measure plus 1" to left of H. Connect H and I; I and E; E and F.
Cut out front, rounding under- arm, as shown. Lay front over
3/8 yd Back
back plece, folds together, and cut put back same as front ex- cept for neckline, Curve back neck down ".
Cut back fold from neckline down 3 or 4" for neck closing. From scraps
cut pockets for The jumper.
can be the pockets pleeed it necessary.
French-stam shoulders and underarms. Turn 1⁄2" hem in bottom edge. Bind or face neck, back opening, and bottom of sleeves. Tack a rhbon bow al front neckline.
Centre of Fold Jumper: J is at centre ut fold, ..Chark a ilne straight in from
fold, Ye breast plus 2 for K. Through K, chalk a line straight across from edge to edge.
L and M are 1⁄4 neck plus 4* to left and above J. N is 1 10 right of J. O is width of shoulder from M. P and Q are arm- hole and neck curves,
Cut bodice off along line K. Cut out neck and armhole. Cai two 1 binding strips (R) from skirt piece.
French-seam skirt and under- arms of bodice. Gather top of skirt to at bottom of bodice. Put on bodice,
The houses, the furniture, the garden implements, the house- hold equipment, and the Roys
delssohn's Midsummer Night's while the second floor displays alternating with all the innumerable "side- Dream Souza
Issues
forth
on shows," exhibition: from one during the exh corner there comes the noise of machinerya demonstration of how sugar is packed; from an- other part
an urgent, Incessant whistling
tling noise. On investiga- lon, the latter comes from the "theatre of pressure cookery."
Triumph of the exhibition is surely the village of ideal homes,
Every known food product seems to be on display: rows and rown of tins, bottles, jars, cartons, On one stand, boules of fruit squash are riding on a roundabout; on another, a bread manufacturer is demonstrating how bread and rolls are mode, the moment and selling them
There are six houses they come out of the oven, one designed by the
The cosmetic section: with the Institutes, the aller Ave by make-up "for the stars and writers on the staff of the "Dally you" being demonstrated on live Mall which sponsored the ex-models-or yourself. There is hibition. Among them are
the "beauty
#1 Light", compact chalet,
has room for powder. bungalow and three which
lipstick, cigarettes, mirror, front- two-storey houses.
door key, and also a torch bat- tery and bulb so that you can make-up in the dark.
A
We have certainly travelled a long way since the days when Burns could describe the ideal
Irene
Dunne's Special Spoon Bread
To two cups bofing water salted with one teaspoon salt add two cups yellow corn meal and cook to a staff mush Add two 888 well beaten together. two teaspoons baking pow- der, two tablespoons melted butter, one and one-half eurs milk. Beat altogether most thoroughly. Place in well-buttered and heated baking dish and bake in moderate oven for thirty- Dve minutes. Serve from baking dish with spoon.
Avoid These
Tape Around Waistling Beauty Griefs
Tie a tape around waistline. Pin skirt along this line, match- ing skirt scam to left underarm
seam.
Make a placket on left side if jumper is fitted at waistline. Mark skirt length, Romove' gar- ment.
.
Stitch waistline. Trim seam to "Turn siam up on wrong side and topstitch from right side. Bind neck and armholes,
Turn and stitch bottom hem. Turn and stitch hem in pockets and stitch pockets to jumper, **
1⁄2 4d
Shirt
[Front]
no negative in mouth,”-Sis woman's Philip Sidney.
1/%/4 Breast + 1/2 £ Fold 1
Bodice
AF
AM A Fold JN
-(London Express Service}
Though Only Eight She Knows Her Hollywood
IGI Perreau may be an ac- Heaven's Sake," a comedy 20th about her role. He asked' her:"
G men of only dight but the Century Fox made with Clif- how old she was,
knows her Hollywood,
ion Webb, Joan Bennett, Robert Cummings and Edmund, When Director-Writer George Gwenn in the starring roles, he Seaton
"Eight," she said. "Fine," he remarked,
"We'll was preparing "For called Gigi in to talk with her have you eight or the script.".
VIGARAGE
PUDDING
WHAT SHALL,
1. DO FOR
GOMETHING
SPECIAL
WITH, THIS TIN OF APPLE PURAS,
MUM P
HERE'S A NICE OLD FASHIONED PUDDING-
GREASE
A PIE-
DISH WITH MARG
ALAND
LING IT BOTTOM AND, BJORG/ WITH SUCES FOR:BROWNA
« BREAD AND
BUTTER
PUT A LAYER OF APPLE PUREC
IN THE
~ BOTTOM,
ADDING A LITTLE --BUGAR IF
NSCISBARYA
FILL UP WITH ALTERNATE LAYERS OF BROWN BREAD- CRUMBS AND“
APPLE
PUITING
“Do we have to?" she asked. "Other ladies in the pictures are never as old as they really are." Seaton thought the point was well put So Gigi.played a six-year old.
YOU CAN USE
By HELEN FOLLETT
NERVOUS, highly strung wo- men are lkoly to do facial movements. They will pay a high price for these indulgences, because eventually wrinkles will forth. To express surprise they lift their eyebrows. The flesh of the forehead folds into running from horizontal lines one temple to the other. Let them keep, up that practice and Unes will be there for keeps.
Expressing irritation, they pull their eyebrows together. Two up-rights form between them, horrid kittle frowns that get more pronounced with the years. It seems a pity to be mean, to oneself. Enough beauty griefs appear that cannot be prevented without creating them.
Complexion Crinkles.
If you see signs of complexion crimides, buy a jar of heavy mas- sage cream, apply it every night with correct movements. Mas- sage can be of benefit; as any beautician wat tell you: Iron
furrows A the incipient
you would. press out creases in a fabric, keeping your Angers anointed with the cream. Rub frowns crosswise. Pick them up, inger at top, thumb below, do upward pressure with the thumb, This movement will lift the flesh out of the groove.
little tracks are lining the foretrend, do rotary movements from one side to the other, hold- : ing the flesh smooth with the fingers of the other hand while you do.col.
Around the Eyes Sometimes the first little pleats appear around the eyes.. They are bound to come if you
·have the habit of aquioting or -If you are in need of ginsson.. * You "can" Iron - them out, M; they are not too deep, by en Feierling: the eyes with's 'creamed- angery; starting at the Inner comber of the uggler.lk, coming back to starting points be
While the cream remains on," go over the entire facial, arus. with anŭloeolibe·ntraoped (in:
“La-Zi-Li”
Then there is the travel and, holiday section, where one is to a transported (mentally) sunny palm-shaded beach by the sight of "rocking hammocks" shown in action by elegant, sun- tanned models. The hammocks are something like deckchaire... that is they rest on the and are not suspended b the
They two nearest trees. have a metal frame, which, being slightly rounded, enables them to be rocked. They are called the "EA-ZI-LI."
The "Gardens of Music" are the most charming and relaxing exhibition, part of the whole
are
Seventeen landscape gardeners represented in it,
and seventeen gardens have been plamed complete with rockerles, waterfalls, pools and summer houses. It seems that apring flower is there, azaleas, roses, rhododendrons, and every variety of shrub. The ceiling is draped with blue cloth which gives an effect of sunlight. Visitors feel thoroughly at home here and are.texi plenicking..
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