THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1958.
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WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Exclusive "Personal” Tweed Pattern
By DOROTHY BARKLEY
LONDON. is a mass of rough samples from
THATEVER claims Lon. which to choose.
W den mas to the title of
leader of British fashion,
First to take advantage of the scheme were Mrs Winthrop Aldrich, wife of the
American when it comes to tweed and Ambarsador, and Mme Massigi), kultwear - just now the wife of the French Ambassador. stuff of fashion-the Scat (She entertains Christian Dior on his occasional Londen vialts.) tish Highlands are second Mrs Aidrich chose a tweed in to none.
mixture, A heather The three-day sale of crofters" cheeked with green; Mme grals, organised in London re- Monigli, fine herringbone cently by the Highland Home pattern in red and black. Industries Company, was there- toré something to visit.
tweed
mauve
This scheme was devised principally for American touristy. But it so happened that Amerl-. The new "personal
u can women were quite satisfied scheme" attracted attention
tweed is that you with one of the stock Lund. The idea
almost pattern patterns cince these are design your own tweed
und have it woven by a member unknown in the States.
of the Company. This will fe exclusive to
you;
it will not be
repeated or sold to anyone else.
Frw of us know the first thing En the scheme's organisers bestat designing tweeds. But discovered that their best inde the company is prepared for ny on their own doorstep. The this. If you can't think of your idea of having a unique pattern own pattern you give the com- naturally oppealed to English pay aff the details--the ralour,"
because they are now women weight of the cloth, and whether wearing Scottish tweeds more you want large checks or small, than ever before. If you hove Then they will design
your ówni "personal" tweed there's no chance of meeting Mrs Jones at the Jumble Sale or Mrs Smith at the Tea Party in an identical one.
you.
unu for
If you have a suit in a parti- cuar tweed, would like to buy the same treed again, but can't et it in your local store, you
At th: wale thire were tweeds and woeliens in wonderful misi and heather shades. These dyes are made as they were
simply send a sample of the centuries ago. The colours come
material in the company they will copy it for you,
If, on the other hand, you wint something different, there
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lichen, water-lilies iris, heather, and onion skins. Peat soat is blended into Lome to stive ย charcoal shade.
Sometimes potato s thrown in because it gives a sublic tone to the colour 1- and, in the old days because
the time of preparation
Suggestion For judged by the bursting of
INST
Canapes
New York. INSTEAD of wing crackers or toast for canapes, try baking mul pastry rounds. Roll out 1egular pastry dough as for pie crust. Cut into rounds about one and one-half inches in diameter and bake in A hol One delicious spread is even. made by blending rated sharp cheese, finely chopped walnuts, chopped pimento, ninyonnaise and a dash of cayenne pepper.
VAN the
Skling enthusiasts are having
matching hats, gloves, scarves
and sweaters made to measure
in the famous Fair isle patterns. Above: a baby shawl
Among the loveliest objects Bl the sale wero the gossamer-fine baby shawls in
pastel colours.
we thought that these would do. very well as stole for evening parties around Christmas: and that one in white worn with
luck evening dress would be particularly elegant,
mince-of
Mrs Margaret Macdonald, one
the Tinned or packaged
best authorities meat has taken the work out of spinning, came to the sale
with making mincemeat cookies, but the way from Barra
for evening wear
Fair Isle gloves for skiing
A crofter's staff for hiking
Elighthe
Basketwork chair for garden or fireside
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THEN a woman's throat becomes lined, and shows wrinkles, she fools that she is really along in years. She can stand little furrows around the eyes because these can be passed off as laugh wrinkles. But a wrinkled neck does something to her spirits. She Inments when- ever she looks in the mir
ror.
Let younger women learn a lesson from her plight. There is no doubt that creaming and massaging in the twenties and thirties will help the neck stay smooth in later years.
Rotary Movements
The face gets
its full share of cosmetic atten- tions. Every night, maybu| during the day, too, the complexion is anointed with nourishing creams. They help to tone fibres and create smooth skin. But all this; treatment stops south of the chin. If the neck were always included, it might: retain good contour und youthful appearance, too.
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If there are ominous signs, get busy with heavy nourishing cream. Rub it in up and down with flattened fingers. Smooth along the jaw line from chin to ear lobes. Do rotary movementa along the line of the collarbone
gradually working up- ward..
If the nick is several shadies darker than the face, buy a jar of bleaching cream. Before using st, have a good scap-and-water scrubbing. Keep the warm, moist wash cloth on the flesh, for some time to soften dead, dis- ¡coloured scales that must come off if your neck is to resume a lighter, more normal shade.
A good home bleach, and one that is harmless, is made by getting very thin. So is four typical croft, are
combining equal portions of the results are just as 10sty as spinning wheel to demonstrate
friends and ac- heart cries from the going- the
his handsome predecessor at peroxide and strained lemon. in grandma's day. Here is a her skill. This was
Board of Trade 'in the juice. Apply with colton, let it visit to London, and her one quaintances reveals this in- thin-on-top: favourite recipe:
Socialist government, Sir Hart-dry. -2-cup-sified-enriched-flour; desire was 10-see the Queen teresting-fact about male "Every time I-am-intro--icy Shawcros 1, teaspoon soda; teaspoon Mrs
HELEN FOLLETT talt; 1⁄2 cup shortening, woll; elded with the Queen's de- Psychology: The average duced to a pretty girl I In legal circles many good- eup brown sugar; 1 egg: 11⁄2parture, so her London hosts man does not mind being think of my receding hair looking brisers have thin- cups mincemeat; 11⁄2 cups roli escorted her to the airport to short, fat, lined, shabby, line", . . a writer. ed oats (qulek or old-Inghiɑned (see Her Majesty leave. uncooked), and pecan halves,
rail into
Macdonald's arrival evin="
The women who make flour, soda end
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"The
ning patches to hide under their wigs. Mr John Parris, for ex-
most depressing ample, and F. Elwyn Jones, thing that has happened to MP. me. I hate to look in the
Among our elegant youngor .. an orchestral authors there is mirror"
William Ban- conductor.
scm; on the stage, Noel Coward, and in the air, test pilot Neville
ugly or old, BUT HE IS these DESPERATELY SENSI- Sittent au soient tweede and woollens, living, TIVE ABOUT LOSING HIS sugar, egg and mincemeat. Beat tonely crofts-in the highlands, THATCH.
well-blended, about 2 cad until
precatious life. An minutes. Sur in oats. Drop by Atlante gale or a heavy snow
And for a man it's just 1vusprong onto greased cookie could ruin their harvest or kill as tragic to look in his shes. Place a pecan half in their sheep. is It pleasant mirror and detect the first "I would like to change my Duke, each exceedingly charm-
a thought that a purchase of signs of thinning as for a years on my age"... a busl-
puts ing in his own way. job, but my appearance moderate uvea (375 degrees) sweater or a length of tweed for 12 to 15 minutes. Yield, 48 cant help them insure them clves Woman to discover her first žess man,
2-All the women I have ques- tioned recently declare it cookies.-United Press.
agabst hard times.
wrinkles.
"Thank God I'm already makes no difference to a man's murried. I wouldn't stand sex appeal. Even young girls chance today"
a cartoon- confessed that they didn't And
centre
of each. Bake in
WATCH YOUR FIGURE
AFTER CHILD-BIRTH
By Ida Jean Kain
:
[T'S interesting to find that food needs during the period of
It's needs
your up-
Second week
of Mrs America has polite and enlarged your food
4 capacity and you're hungry. elegantly slim a waist and
Also the
nursing period calls
as perfect a figure as that of fer increased food. You need Miss America.
foods and Pennsyl- all the protective
extra milk during this period,
Fourth week
vania's Mrs Erna Snyder, but rich, heavy foods will not 1951 Mrs America, Increase the milk supply. If you the weighs a neat 115 pounds, have some excess pounds to lose,
23 inch has a
waistline you can actually reduce on 2,000
calorice and two children.
day, while nursing the baby. Follow highly pro- The mother of nine children, tective menus built around eggs, Mrs Anna Sundo, won the ute meat, fruit, green and yellow Arains, New Jersey, although vegetables and whole
of whole milk her youngest child is only eight plus 2 glasses months old. However, it seems and 4 glasses of skim milk or
total of six time to lie down and rest for his buttermilk — a that Mr Spada decided
Leave Dut all rich in minuter out of every hour shapely wife would be sure to glasoco
of Mrs
win and that, with nine children, desserts, gravies and such.
name. You'll be happy to know
her place was home, and there.
fore urged her to withdraw her
she was given a prize just the same a Florida
the entire family.
Post-pregnancy Exercises.
during the day. By this plan
you rest before you get tired, and recoup your strength. If
your
ist.
Compensations
But If you're over 40 and showing more forchand than you wish, you can stop worry- ing. There are plenty of com- pensations.
men less attractive because they were going thin on top.
And no wife I cross-examined found her husband less desir able since he began to lose his hair,
3-The experts
preserve your
who try to hair while
1-Many of the most attractive you've still got it and coax it men in public life are dis back when you haven't declare tinctly thin top, but it that it's the man with the doesn't rob them of popularity exacting, responsible job who
lores his hair young. or sex appeal.
on
FOOD
Prince Philip's hairline back a shade each year, Walter Suskind, glamour boy of the orchestra! world, has a distinct bare patch.
So take heart if the old thatch is not what It used to be, You're in good company, it may prove you're a genius, and if you're good-looking, elegant, interesting ON wealthy,
the -Cabinet women The best-looking
won't hold it against Minister, Mr Peter Thorney- you London Express Service.
Grooming For The
PE
Working Girl
́airt
will spread, for soft muscles are ties around the proteo over-made-up beauty ortake it means that agit
,
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OF
DERFECT grooming is a This eventually means a flock must for the girl who of blackheads will appear. It
ing ol, remova
with this is impossible, rest while the fares forth to the office. It toy enough to use cleane Following the baby's arrival children take their nap. Take is no credit to the boss to dissues, start from scratch. it is essential that tone be re- the time, and before long you'll have an over-dressed or can all be done in five minutes. stored to the stretched abdominal feel like yourself again. Build
much jewellery : muscles, oth
otherwise your figure
tive nutrients
The hairdo to rebuild, tap... nooded
over-drossed.. She should have a beauty kit should never, About: Lat-susceptible.
fung that six strength whole grain" cervels, beautiful weeks afterwards you may do oggs, milk
milk or hady the froshening make-up much time must be given to it or skim middle swing into a dismayed to find your
buttermilk;
and It should not be used at the in the morning before touring leafy examples, let's
7 green
frulis, loan dork, however, but in the rest out on the day's activitios, getting back- in - shapo pro- measurements have enlarged! As yellow vegetables,
Fingernails should not
be gramme. Many young mothers soon as the doctor permit, tako meat or fish including liver room.
Retouching can't be done painted vivid red; a soft deep mara ilka the natural weight or regain weight ofter exercises
Three to five minutes of re- is to be glamorous. Also puts colouring, is more appropriate. baby arrives. You emerge frat week. alim and fint and blissfully Too weary to even consider conditioning, exorcises, will also ting powder over powder, Anyhow, the Hantor thats mem happy. He wonderful to real exercise? One doctor suggests help to restore tone, and strength rouge over rouge forcon at becoming more slim again. But the increased that worn-out mother take to normal. Ask your doctor!" mospheric dust-info" the "pores, popular..
With these two
fall to get back to normal a few mbuloy of reconditioning twice weekly. These food#tily or casually if the silost, rose,
"dally perhaps the not weight-mak€qrs.).
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