|_ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9; 1952,
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
PAINTING TIPS FOR AMATEURS
By ELEANOR ROSS
LOVELY
Aren't they, those slanting sun. beams of spring, as they come glinting into one's home! But how they do show up dingy Interiors, frayed, solled rugs, dirty or peeling paint jobs,
BY
· MARILYN MARSHALL IF you can join an exercise
class, I am all in favour of it. Pay your money, and go three times a week, - ́or five, or even one! When you see what some of the more determined of your. classmates can do to slim their measurements, you will be willing and eager to work between sessions.
Many adirl has learned to take brush in hand and do quite a good job of freshening up walls and woodwork. Some of
An exercise that is a standby them latched on to the job durmaya gym is the old one- ing the last war and now that well known to you as a specta- they've become
expert at St. they like to keep right on.
10, if nothing vel-of hoisting the heels into the ale to pumy Things are easier, too, what with
The those new odourless paints and hips in the "bicycle". It is
loga vigorously from the the rich spectrum, of colours road exercise. There's just one mention those drawback: you may perform at
results in proportion Bo stenuously that you expect
not
available nylon brushes.
4
exercise
A loss spectacular performed from the same start-
The conny painter consults with her paint dealer for sho knows that there's propel paint for each surface. She has on: hand turpentine, putty, sand- papar, plenty of sponges, dust! sloths, old newspapers to pro feet floors and furniture, a step- position, shoulders down on. ladder, work gloves to protest door, heels high in alt, egs and hands braced her bands, and petroleum jelly straight,
almost guarantees to rub over hardware and fight under hips, switch covers that can't be re-resulta you will like: Just keep very lega straight and,
upward slowly, pushing hips with hands, lower legs overhend to touch toes to floor back of the head. Hold it for a second, then slowly return to the start- Ing position.
moved.
At hand should be brushes of the correct size, good brushes for a good job. A sash tool brush for culting in around window glass and small trim la essential. Also necessary are one-inch brushes if you are going to do small furniture; a 1-2 inch brush for large interior woodwork and fumiture: a 3-0 Inch brush for foors, walls and celling.
the.
the
This exercise forces you 10 use the big, lazy hip muscles. strengthens
stomach muscles, and stretches your legs. At first, you should not attempt it more than three times and the increase should be easy and gradual.
Clean and Smooth Amateur decorators soon learn never to tackle a surface that in't dry, clean-and smoothe Wax, polish, grease and oli are removed from furniture by washing with
D turpentine-
be
saturated cloth, while walls get a rub-down with your favourite Glossy surfaces should sandpapered before starting the new paint job. starting even a small job, doors and windows should be open to insure proper ventilation.
Before
Read directions on tin until] you are familiar with them, and mix paint thoroughly.
Jacket Costume
Gray woolen and black.
By VERA WINSTON
A JACKET, short, long or middling, offers a nico way to transform, a.... dress into a cos tume or to add a bit of colour contrast. Here we have a dí- minutive coat ready to act as escort to a dress of herringbone weaver gray woollen. The dress has 'a scooped-out neejc and short sleeves. The full gathered skirt in topped by, a curved black wool cummerbund which matches the jacket, and has a Ball. rolled coller above, the -ont-button, closing.
Household Hints
If you have heiricom buttons,. wash them with, warm, "soDDY water and d'roft-brush, working Buds into carving end intricate designs. Then put the buttons on ih, dress or suit and have a
pair of them made int
into earrings.
If you prefer to bolly
· YOUT „elojhen after washing, bo sure they nie claan, before you put thom in the fresh hot sonpy "water to theil topilivo to ten
after bolling
at increasing fie reach of your Loes to the floor back of your hoad: thon, after your, lea muscles have becoma accus- tomed to the stretching with toes pointed.. pull your toes In and try. 10 point them with knees straight and lower feet to floor,
Photo courtesy Warner Bros.
Flexibility and a thick waistline are just not compatible. So Dorothy Hart shows you how to take inches off that mid-
riff section-and keep them off!
You can le
the on
floor (almost) for one of the most effective work- outs ever de- vised for trim- ming your mid- section; Lie full length, on your back, on the floor, with arms stretched out on either side in line with the shoulders, legs straight down and feet together.
of
learn how it feels to tense and one foot-without letting your relax your muscles, you can al- ahou'ders go forward of your: most ace the improvement in stomach protrude you
will your figure with each 15 to 30 huve come close to losing any
elint and you minutes
are surplus Inchas, Flexibility and unlikely ever to be at the mercy, a thick waist are just not cum-
your
Until nerves, You can always paliblo.
You pass that relax mechanically.
test, make a point of pulling From that position, draw your Wemen spend so much of back toward your Instep with knees up uver your stomach. their lives on high heels that your toes as you lower your
should trunk sideward and forward. then, keeping knees and fest leg-stretching exercise together, turn them slightly be as routine as brushing tho sideward and thrust legs teeth. But, as already indicat straight down but a few inches ed, your legwork can be part of off the Bose;
objective such that for your main hold
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Another side-bender for alim- ming the waist in to fiand erect, one leg straight out and some- second swing legs to opposite midsection alimming.
draw them back up over In sitting on the floor, legs what to the side, with foot rest- ebdomen, thrust straight down stretched straight out and wide ing on a chair seat or hassock, rest, apart, trunk stretched up with arms stretched overhead, then to starting position, and Reinx all through your body. cut hunching shoulders, arms to bend toward the outstretched
foot. As you
bend, curl the Let your spine sag into the rug, stretched overhead, you do a your arms go absolutely limp, side bend, first to the right, then toes lightly up leward the in- : the left, to wrench inches uit step (or, point the heel hard, your legs the same,
your waistline, But when you if you prefert) so that the calf- become so fexible that you can muscles strotch. reach out and grasp the toes of out of the' exercise.
An old standby---but still one of the most effective of alt exercises. Here's start of the bicycle routine,
Instead of trying to increase tao, number of ilmes you do the Betaxing after an exercise to exercise quickly to prove you just as important as putting the fre not in such bad shape, um, right muscles into it. Once you
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We offer today à varlegate cook for 5 min., stirring until
No healthy body. LONDON. a mutitude of autarent roles with gold sequin matita at either group of recipes, but all nicely, thickened. Should be served im- druga, Just plain contmon sense
scared to this lovely time of mediately.
reducing, as I have done. Your FALL REPAIRS EFFECTED BY OMEONE once described from a morning occasion with a end.
food should be
health instead of being impaired when cult, to an evening occasion with Spunish-style waistcoats, with | year' Britain's export trade
will thrive on losing excessive SELECTED & EXPERIENCED a full-length evening skirt. colourful embroidery are another colourful yet hearty. For, some-
well-seasoned, thrifty fat. Complete 'cource $30.00, in THREE WORDS-wool-
of the most attractive of those Indispensables, so good thing enticing by way of a ham meat-rice combination, with an Personal Interview on further
black lens, whisky and Wedgwood styles was the evening sweater for sitting off the de
dish ground which to build a interest-provoking title, try Por-Beauty Culturs, Grooming, and china. The export market is with the off-the-shoulder neck dress or the little black sweater.
cupine Balls, so named because | Deportment $15.00 extra.” Box ns the rice spring dinner, how about a
as they cook the rice pokes out | 24, "China Mall.” daily consuming bottles of line, edged with a hand-sewn With Lelge gaberdine
waistcoat Is concoction named Hamil by through the surface to give a por
cm- (See illustration). A basis, the "Scotch" and crates of de-.
style-but very flattering, broidered with all colours of the the elever cock who concocted
cupine effect. licate Wedgwood china of was also one
rainbow in intricate scroll pat- +117 of the most
terns. (See illustration). much the same colour and unusual styles; not everyone
Combine 1 lb ground lean would think of buying a sweater atyle as in years past.
specially for evening wear. Tho But what of the "woollens"? beauty of cashmera lies in the Are the cardigans, for example, fact that, although it is certainly of the same regulation colours warm in a cold atmosphore, It is and styles worn by past, genera- tions? Not 'bit of it.
a
For they are subject to the whims of fashion which one season may decree
alcoves und low
long accklines and the next change unpredictably to cap sleeves and high necklines. In the same way,
even the name changes
from
season to season. The "cardiganss of past generations have been re-named- "sweaters" by people of the atomic age.
the
So we como to the export trade in sweaters. At an
.:
Spanish-styled waistcoat.
cx-
port
never
quarter sleeves. Colours variqd
from burnt heather
over-warm in
a
inches thick.
SQUARE DANCING For 0 servings, havo one pork, 4 c. uncooked rice, c. pepper, tbsp. THE popularity of square-large slice smoked ham 11⁄2 milk, 4 c. chopped onion, tosp.
Brown the ham chopped green dancing which has swept
chopped pimiento, tsp. salt,
pepper through this country like wild-on both sides, then add 0 car tsp. age and tsp. fire, has created a need for rots cut into Julienne strips, 4 Form into balls and roll in four. thup, raisins, 6 thin strips of Brown, in hot fat, place in baking completely different type
wear from the orange peel and one c. water. pan and pour over one can to- of evening
tittle black Cover and simmer 11⁄2 hours. mato soup and one tin "water, sophisticated sweater, Clothes must be bright, Mix tbsp. cerstarch, with c. mixed. Cover and bake at 300 the orange juice to a smooth cons F. for 2 hours. Add more water to capture gay and casual right spirit.
Short, swinging sistency. Add to hum and liquid; at the end of the first hour. skirts and bright tops for women, and dungarees and gay checked shirts for men, have become the crder of the evening. (See Illustration centre).
THE HAIRLINE CUT HAIRSTYLES seem to have
no
hair
been left off that list of wool- lens, whisky and Wedgwood china, London hairstylist Riche is making quite a point of ex- collection of cashmere sweaters styles varied from
porting" hairstyles. Last October, hos he a
took the Troubadour nine-button sweaters to evening atmosphere, because the wool is Trim" to Paris; now he is sweaters wilh scalloped necklines; as fine as gossamer To touch, off to New York: to show frem long sleeves to three it feels like a million dollars. the "Hairline Cuta khort,
alcok style
with below the hairline. This is a slyle which can easily avocado green.
The wide wool scart is another adapted to suit. the individual The sensation was the "little piece of woollen frippery popular set and thickness of the hair. * black sweater"-which is rapidly at the moment, especially for He makes a bold prediction becoming as essential to the evening. Some scarves in fine, about hairstyles, saying “om- London woman as the "little crepe, have dramatically fringed phatically, "Long hair will never black dress" to the Parisienne. ends; others are handwoven. But return." His reasons?... "Life" is Depending on the arcusmories the smartest of all are the top brisk, and money too short worn, it can be dressed up to it Shetland scarves, embroidered to cope with it.”
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