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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1951.
WOMANSENSE- Domestic help? It depends
HOW
where
OW hard is it to get a maid these days? I find there is no shortage of domestic labour in London if you live in one of the "right" places.
These include Mayfair, Chel- sen. Konsington, Maida Vale and Regent's Park. The "difficult" places are anywhen nurth Maida Vale, south of the river o west of Kensington.
you live
EILEEN ASCROFT's COLUMN
inty
human in their many rules and regulations, compored with those of other countries,
On a recent visit to Greece I found children's hospitals where mothers
their can accompany babies, sleep in the liospital and help with nursing.
Most hopeful course, if
In Spain I found that fathers- need was great and my pocket to-be are automatically given a small, would be to bring over truckle bed in maternity hos-
either an of foreigner,
Austrian, pitals to stay with their wives German er Swizy. This takes until the babies are born. Enr-
six weeks to lish anything from
writer John Langdon- three months and would cost a
Davies told me that last year five-guinea fee to the agency when his young
wife Patricia and £10 to £12 for the girl's had her baby. the Barcelona
advanced 10 a fare,
travel hospital provided him with Usual wage asked is bed and meals and also gave | agency.
£2
him a white gown and mask and allowed him to help the doctor. (World Copyright Reserved-London Express Service.)
One agency, with 2,000 houses wives on its books waiting for cooks, general malds and nan- nies, reports that 1,800 of the 2.000 are in North-west London
Mrs Mopp worked for is. an hour day she demands 2s.
Girls prefer to take jobs in central London They are re)ue- El le go to districts like Edg- ware and Hampstead Wimbledon Bd. or 35,
and Streatham they regard beng almost in the country
MIN"
Pick of 30
S
Stigma gone
WHY is it easier to get help TWO TASTY
in the house at prosent? The
old stigma of domestic service
comfortable
SOUPS
Want a recipe or along these lines?
two
cayenne
1 is always caster to obtain help for a modern fat than for a huse, because girls believe
will be less heavy is dead. Also high wages and That there
the
of a work. Even
and advantages young hendly frequently stipulate "No home and free keep are attract-
Greatest
would formerly prejudice ng girls who
BEEF SHANK AND BARLET Wher over - 45 cook- have tried for an office job, but Thong
housekeepers in
now find it almost impossible to SOUP is subetantind and tasty. and 10-merads
live in lodgings "Inidren in the house.
on a business | For 5 servings "add 2 e. water, wage
Isp. salt, tsp. each Murried couples. tired of and pepper to 2 1b, beef shank: housing problems, are taking up summer for 2 hrs, or until ten- domestic work; they can com- der. Pick meat from bones and mand £7 or £8 a week between return meat to stock, Add 1/3 v. them and
comfortable dicet cetery, 1/3 e. each julienne unjoy quarters
carrols and onions, chopped, 2 Young women
remming from tbsp. chopped parsley, one qt. stay a year or so in Britain, and barley. Australia and New Zealand to soup stock for bouillon). 3 tbsp.
Simmer 25 to 30 min girls from the continent want- Add 1/2 Usp. Worcestershire
learn English, are also saure; serve,
work "finding domestic
Scotch Boup is made with To make 11⁄2 qt. soup
I wife
bave
F were a Kensington house- I would have Ittle difficulty
obtaining iFL
help. From one agency alone could
had the pick of
u dozen girls n a week, all qualified, with good references.
Most
them wanted ર weekly
of at least £3. ng to
week
I could have had
year more
more
wage whole day on a two half-days, their own bed-paying than typing or clerking, lamb.
But the average housewife put 11⁄2 lb. lamb neck with sitting room, and daily help for
must rely on the daily help.' the rough work.
Every
women are a buller, with experience in the best eng driven to work in other
by the houses" for £5 a week, an ex- people's houses
rising cost of living But even £4. for narny perienced
high today. chauffeur for £5 10s, ed. oor a daily wages narmed couple for £7 10%. Od.
Family affair But if I lived in Stanmore my problem would be more
ult
A
are
ever-
bones in stew kettle and add one quart cold water. Simmer for several hours. One hour be fore serving, remove bones; add sliced sliced potatoes, 2 onions, 3 diced carrots, 2 tbsp. barley, salt and pepper to taste. Thicken with flour and cold
dim- I SOMETIMES wonder if our water mixture if desired. Parsley
hospitals are not a little in- for celery may be added.
Fur Fashions
These two striking fur models were seen at a fur show recently held in London.
Above:
Cat (South
A bright Civit American)
fur coat.
coat.
Below: A £6,000 Mink
DUMB-BELLS
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IN THIS TOWN, IS
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THEM FOR
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THANKS TO
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This Double Hand Scared Rival Away
By OSWALD JACOBY
6 A BIG dispute about penalty A doubles has split our bridge club right down the middle," re- lates a Pittsburgh' correspondent. "One group says that a penalty double is
not to be mcakeyed with. You double when you can surdly beat the contract, and a
who takes partner
out your penalty double is one degree lower in the social scale than a horse thief.
"The other group says that most bridx. penalty doubles are merely Like other bids. they are offered without absolute assurance and may taken out fesesaly even by nice respectable malden ladies.
"The argument started a sult of this hand. Nothing very temible happened on the band. ав you will note, but the argument is lierce just the same.
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BY THE WAY.
by Beachcomber
OCKEY
ts
"Hockey was English,
the Sussex Downs." Oh. Hockey was invented by a Frenchman tamed Hoquet in the seventeenth ren'ury. He
Vidame of
Poitiers.
Was
The game arrived In England in 7803, when a match was played at the Vauxhall Gardens. The Marquie de Vieuzac, banished by Napoleon. introduced it into America, and that was probably the origin of "OK." Strabismus and the egg
mar fer
way, up for a bullon, however wound
An apt illustration
story of a farmer whose horsC CITRABISMUS went on to bell the
got aluck sideways in a gate. Instead of getting the horse end-un, he greased it all over and then pushed it through backwards. Not only was the greasing unnecessary, but the horse could just as well have gone through head first as tail first. "That seems to imply," said the sage, "that It doesn't matter which end of horse goes through a gate first; an ergument as datuous and as super- Jcial as that which tails to distin guish between the two ends of an SEK."
To the outspoken comment that
does matter twopence to Rapprochement anybody which way up an ear is, Dr Strabismus (Whom God Preserve! of Utrecht has given a characteristic reply. The sngè anys: "It would be equally true, to say that it doesn't inatter twopence to anybody whother aprawa has whiskers or not. Prawns and eggs continue to be eaten by those whose interest in them, apart from these use as food. As Laughably elementary. Yet, to take the case of the egg, this elovenly attitude lends to the boiler that if doesn't matter which
way up, anything is a con- clusion, which applied elephant, is Sen nonsensical: What matter to anybody byt a tailor which way up an attached button 197 Therefore, selence teaches the tellur that there is a right and a wrong
IN a courageous attempt to break
away from guessing the weight of a cake, coripolitors in a recent ragamadolio submitted "a heming, crowned and robed in erhine, on a threne of prawns, and„a' model of the skylon in lppers." I haven't felt so contented since a model of the Bank of England in horas-mest was publicly eaten by the Mayor of Xerxes (Omaha)" at a Friends of Culture gymkhana in Swinden. "You and who else?"
An
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A
FILM actress, who remarried her sith husband, only to find that he was still married to his fifth wife, said recently, "Men don't just seen to have any ecrúpíaa." · The husband said, "These dames ask for romance, but when they get it they holler."
STUFFED
NUTMEG
UNE OF THE OISHES WE HAD IN ITALY
SCOCIF JUT THE CORE
AND SEEDS FRUM THE TOMATOES LEAVING THE FLESH INSIDE THE SKIN
COOK A SMALL CHOPPED ONION
IN A LITTLE OUVE OIL TILL SOFT BUT NOT
BROWNED
THEN ADD 4 CHOPPED ANCHOVIES (OR A TEASPOON
OF ANCHONY ESSENCE)
1 TABLESPOON OF CHOPPED CAPERS
A TABLESPOON OF CHOPPED PARSLEY
AND ENOUGH WHITE
BREADCRUMBS TO MAKE A
STUFFING
MIX WELL TOGETHER
ADDING PEPPER
AND
Fil THE TOMATCES
WITH
ARRANGE THEM IN A FIREPROOF DISH, SPRINKLE EACH WITH BREADCRUMBS AND A FEW DROPS OF THE OIL, AND BAKE IN A MODERATE
OVEN ABOUT 12HR.
WE HAD A SMASHING TIME!
AND
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BOYS' AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
Why Isn't It Always Monday?
-Clarence and Archibald Don't Know-Do You?-
comes Friday. By MAX TRELL
Then Saturday comes, and finally Sunday."
"And CLARENCE the caterpillar was
then what happens?" walking along the top of a sold Clarence. fence when he met his friend "And then Monday Archibald, who was also a cater-
"Good-morning.
pillar.
sald Clarence.
sald Archibald.
Archibald,"
"Good -"morning, Clarence,"
comes
agvin.”
·Coming and Going
Archibald shook his head. "There are twelve of those months. And the whole bunch of them make a year."
said "Sounds very foolish," Clarence. "I think it would be simpler just to have Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter."
Round and Round
"Those are the seasons," said Clarence thought about this Archibald "They keep coming "Only it isn't for awhile, "I can't understand back, too. Everything keeps com morning any more. It's after why all these things keep coming back-the days-the months ing and going. Why can't it the different parts of the days Clarence looked surprised. always be Monday?"
--and the seasons. They all go round and round and round,"
noon."
"Afternoon? Since when did it become aftemoon? It was morning when I woke up. What happened to the morning?".
Archibald said: "Don't ask me, Clarence. I haven't got any- thing to do about it."
"Who has?"
"I don't know exactly," Te- plied Archibald. "It just must have disappeared. That's what months."
"What months?
It does every day. Then the afternoon comes along. Finally they?
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and got
a heart return, continued hearts, and East discarded
a club on the fourth round. This limited South to two club tricks and four trump, tricks,
"Nobody had any complaint about the play of the cards or Suuth's third-hand opening bid of che spade. The argument was about. North's double of two diamonds and South's run out to two spades.
"Should North double two dia- mends? If not, why not? If he does double, should Spath accept it. or.
un out to two spades?"
No expert would double two dia- monds. Buch 'a double warme the enemy to find a better spot. If they do so, the North hand is worthless both offensively and defensively., For example, if West runs to two hearts, he will make it. Even if West stays at two 'diamonds, he will probably be set only one trick, Ir North does double, South's correct course depends on what he thinks of North's game. If North is a good player, South should un- hesitatingly bid two spades. I North Is a poor enough player to double on a hand that's worthless except against diamonds, South 'may pass. Even so he might be forgiven for bidding two spades,
The subject cannot be day, 'BO
discussion
week.
of penalty doubles cleared up in a single I intend to continue the,
ins
· other artioles, this:
The pigment should be Ladea CARD Sense
from the centre of each lid up- "Well," said Clarence,, as far "Stace when did it become ward and toward each eye as I'm concerned, I'm not going afternoon?" Clarence asked corner. A smart accent is given Archibald,
when a blue crayon is passed to pay any attention to any of
along the bases of the lashes, "I don't know. And take the that stuff. I don't care what
day it is, or what part of the day Clarence alghed. Archibald Of course, when you do this, you what month it is, or sighed. "I'm glad we don't go are using eye shadows of blue, are it is, or What
what season.
All I care about round and round," said Clar- the most popular colour; - one · is breakfast, dinner and sup- ence. But Archibald said: "We that I becoming to blondes, the afternoon disappears, too. "Each month is a whole lot of per."
do, Clarence. First we're cater-brunettes and the silver-crown- Then the night comes. Then we days. First there's January. It
pillars, then we become butter-eds. The red-head needs a soft all go to sleep,"
"They keep going round and flies, then we lay eggs, then the moss green that brings out the stays for days and days, and "And when we wake up, the weeks and weeks. Then it goes round like everything else, Clar eggs become caterpillars again." highlights of her flaming thatch.
stid Archibald. "You morning is back again," said and February comes, Then come ence,"
Foot Clarence, He didn't If you use crayon for, darken- Clarence. "I can't understand March, April, May, June, July, finish breakfast, and you have
August, September, October, dinner. You finish dinner and know what to say. So he just ing your eyebrows, do feather it.
means quick, November, and December, And you have supper. But the next sald, "Good-morning-I mean stroking which
iny strokes in the afrection the after December, It starts all morning you begin breakfast all good-afternoon, Archibald."
over again and so on, and so And he turned and crawled off hair shafts point toward the ter over again with January."
Will the fence. "Why?"
Lots of Funny Things "Neither can I," Bald Archi- bald. "But there are lots of other funny things. Take Mon- day, for instance.”
"Monday?" EDİLİ Clarence. "What about Monday?"
"Monday says all day from morning unti night.
Then all of a sudden "it isn't Monday, any more."CVE
What
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"Oh! Whats. Tuesday!!
"It's the day after Monday!!. But what happens to Mon- day? 63/høre duen it go?!!
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with it smart don't use too much,
Whether crayon or mascara is
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YOUR BIRTHDAY......... BY STELLA
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12
ORN today, your excellent memory, your good Judgment and meticulous attention to detall will be, of tremendous help to you along the road to success. In, ad dition, you are a shrewd observer and fine conversationalist. Socially adeptable. you know how to meet people and usually make a good impression. Your ability to size up en individual at first sight is unusual and should be put to use in your Hle work.
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By C.. GOSMAN.. Black 6 pieces,
White, 9 pieces.
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