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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1954.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
To Prevent Nails from Splitting-
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zel dull complexions.
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When a kid boy hov man.
beautifully
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the b Sa ex. And
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1111k that dentale liser 1 have tried it myself and tweeter by it now. dag I used to have very difffeult muls indeed.
Anne Lambton also has lovely Treib, and we were comparing
toothpaste the
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other Ber
that *** Gall Yes, Just
her tooth-
plaan table salt, burmah, und her ordinary toothpaste ori other days. It brings up a real sparkler ant els 9201 whatsoever
once or twice a week-
Bie ennase-1
A cup a day
harm
Don't swallow it thought, Ju nevi ban mitch water to queen la your thirst. And that ta fattening
water is All the same,
the best spring (clean for the com- plexion.
Every morning, hy sou s you wake up, before breakfast (even before the early cup of tea sip a gloss full of water, possibly stand it.
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A coolie style in criss-crossed fabric mounted on black.
Psychiatrists vs Sentimentalists
SCHOOLROOM BRIDES...
ARE
young marriages grood or bad? And, what
is more important, are they happy?
From each season's crop THE }
pretty dobs, one or two capture and walk Jeligible young men
straight 1 -almost from their schooldesks,
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One of the youngest was Lardy Nayfor-Leylandi, who Was debastante in 1951, married t Seventern, on had her Brat son when she was nineteen.
Who will be the schoolroom brides this year? The deu parties and other activities are now in full swing.
But although most ambitious manas are going to be sadly
I try to start the day Ilke diappointed and daughters will this all through the year, and I really notice the
ference
10 J I leave eff, even for a few days
rruptions do
have to settle down next year to earning their own livings,
the re will be the lucky ones. One or two, who will console themelves with a bank account, even if they do not collect a
But if spring seer i Bite of these precau- tions, very good drying-up title. treatment is a dab of surgical Brit mixed with which hazel.
For Pretty Feet,
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Wear Shoes That Fit!
By HELEN FOLLETT
There are
mariages.
of
schools these youthful
Psychiatrists, marriage con- sultants and disillusioned AX- wives will tell you
they are BAD.
"A girl is not fully developed emotionally under 21, tre- quently not then," they say. And they stress that a girl can't know her own mind untli sho has had a chance to meet people and forro byy iriens about the kind of man with whom sho
CHATTY shoe rlerk wishes to spend her lite.
confides, "The only
small feet that toddle into
our shop belong to middle aged or old huddies.
ADVANTAGES
grandinamas,
TAMAS anch When Mh tuppy marriage his- they were young they re- torles of tarded normal foot develop they are GOOD.
their own, will say
ment by wearing shoes that "You develop your characters not only interfered with toguthur," they sentimentallse, muscle health. but restrict-"you are more tolerant of one ed circulation. Vanity! All another's fallings, vanity! Chinese foot bind-o make a success of the union,"
more eager
in
Three Ways to Wear
the Sailor Hat
spring.
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By DOROTHY BARKLEY
London.
young
1
I'man's fancy turns
love, a girl's fancy turns then to buying a new hat.
he has chosen is not of florld contemporary flavour. is not one of those glorious techni- colour schemes which gleam at un from the pages of the glossies --hot yellow-pink-tan-blie, for instance. No, his is a "bluck This year, manufacturera
perled" theme, colour which and leading stores have con-
Covers *liting-room farsiture, ducted a bigger campaign bathroom, pleture frames and than
ever before 10 en- all. courage us to inty a new hat for spring.
There has been no doubt about the theme song they
have been putting out "Every nice girl likes sailor hat."
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You might think TIDE sight of every other Londoner Lachkou sailer hat makes too much of ป gond thing-
there Here's how, in stages,
alette bit of variety
Is introduced
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First, there's the way of the average girl. There's no non-
ubout
tu her approachi fashion, so she wears her sallor That straight on the head, will
thư bright petersham ribbon
and circling the crown
<?
In a double tail at the back.
Second, the way of the thre- light actress (seen: London last week) who likes To be in fashion
different from everyone else at the same Time. She wears St dat against
the back of her hendi like schoolboy's boater.
Poise Needed THIRD, the
ib
way of the tup designer who likes to have a
casual
Two weeks ago in Paris 1 mel athy Norwegian blonde in her thirties. Vivacious letter
and! pretty Mine. Ragna Hoff makes picture between delightful her two 6ft. sons, and she can stkl enjoy 12 complete day's new slant in fashion. He pro-
the corefully skiing with them without tiring.motes
tips the hat obliquely angle, Still more
she's Important,
towards the right car and young enough not to fuss when N
balances an outsize pompom on they are entering for staff ski-
the uppermost side. (This hat Jump competitions and races. takes more than
simple hat She still understands and shares sense to make it a
success. It the thrills of youth. Another SIN
must be perfectly poised,
Just 15 who
the young woman
so, or your friends will be in- mother of a six-footer is TV
why quiring
earth on
you fashion adviser Bettle Spurling haven't put
hut ΘΗΣ Young-looking and pretty,
your he straight. You have been warn- astonished me when she con- ed!)
fessed to a son of 23.
IN PARIS
TWENTY-four hours in Paris
his customers
coloured velvet
Erik, the designer concerned. shows two collections #year for
In London aud Paris. His version of the tp ttet saller hat is illustrated. He makes it in lime
10 in straw and trims it with
ribbon and hot styles for « pompom. Another this year, also pictured, coolio shape, mado in white criss-crossed fabric mounted on black.
when the chestnuts are in bloom and the magnolias flower in the Tuileries Gardens does more for feminine morale than a dozen new hats or bot- ties of physic.
It's the only city in the world where
you can work all day and dance all night and sull feel fresher for the change.
1n Paris I noticed..
that the smart French male is wearing his top coat hip length in a new shade of mushroom.
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Mimosa and a variety of fruits trim other hats in his collection.
not
Erik, by the way--however
and colourful
springliko his new hats may be-does
nt home what he practise preaches in # salon. He seems, in fact, to have taken n definite dislike to colour when
that 3-plece Spring suits aro popular with the ladies, i...off-duty. a sull with its own short match- Ing top jacket,
--(London Express Service)
He is now In Paris decorating his studio
the Left Bank. The colour scheme
on
And this is the background gainst which he'll be dreaming up next season's hats,
Hair Raising Tactics
1JOMEN who have clung to thr short hair fashion through thick and thin, despite chignon crazes and humne permis, nre still the favourites of the styllst.
Mayfair hair-stylist Riche forechats that longer styles will mat return for six months yet.
He
"short
is promoting feminine styles tending towards the studied caruniness which is so hard to achieve."
He's telling ust
Not long ago I spent good
several money,
hours of valu- able time at my hairdresser's in order to achieve this "eal-
"de culated carelessness" signed disarray"--I forget which was the current phrase at the time.
or
And what happened? Every- one complimenting me wherever I went? Platoons of young men parading to my fremt door with orchids, and chocolates with my favourite centre. Not on your Ife. The remarks heard were a few discreet Inquiries ne whether I had forgotten to comb my hair.
Perhaps other people have been more fortunate than 7 mgl can let me how the hair style should oc done.
A sailor hat in lime coloured straw, trimmed with pompom and velvet ribbon, and worn dipping down over the right eye.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Fishing sinkers
'an be used to keep a plastle s, ower curtain from billowing and blowing around. Just attach
fow a pinch-on type sinkers to the bottom edge of the curtain.
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Wash old powder puffs and keep them in the shoo kit for applying wax polish.
10
To make celery exceptionally crisp, let it stand for half an hour or more in cold water to which sugar has been added, Use ono teaspoon sugar to one quart of water.
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Use a tea ball to hold anions or other seasonings when flavouring soups and stew.
RE-APPEARANCE OF THE MASTERFUL HE-MAN
WHAT IS THE SECRET OF HIS HOLD
Dor
ON FEMININE HEARTS?
By EILEEN ASCROFT
So here's a tip to the modem
London.
unhappy just because she has lost her s01100 of persper' 'vo women like masterful
over her household gods.
A LESSON do, judging from recent
Gary Cooper and Humphrey male on how to handle women. cinema poll results. Enter Bogart, who at 63 sill near-top Tell them what to do and they'lls the things we save and Marlon Brando as the ladies popularity polls. He may have love it. Bully them a little and plan for we prize the most
21 wrinkles (I've counted them), they'll love you, too.. now hero-mean, moody and
but the awashbuckling charm is magnificent. Exit
the
still intact. Michael Wildings, with their smooth manners and witty are tongues, higher
ing wasn't much worse Supporting the sentimentalists, than the effect of
shoes
piece of inter- I produce this esting evidence from America, that were much too full of where, under the GI Bill of feet,"
Rights, one-third of the prescut The average shoe In those university students are married
days was a number four, even men. for the tali girls and heav7-
These married students weights. Pint-sized lassico wear getting pixes now, larger girls sevens. marks. And some of the huskies paddle around in sizes oven larger.
A fat woman, tripping along on too-small shoes which push
the flesh of the top portion of
consistently
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The University reveals that young fathers
the highest marka of all.
rot
her foot upward, would look I do believe that children gain better with her trotters encased from
younger
marriages-in
in Who are the new heroes public life? They are types too, without the
Perhaps women are growing acting.
AGEING STARS
THERE was blanda
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HOUSEPROUD BORE
highly. Shop asistant Rita Dodd struggled for a year to buy her wedding dress.
Then à month ago her flance. Maurice Lewis, won 275,000 in
football pool.
VOU don't often hear of a 1 manly houseproud man. But we've
He bought Rita a £1,000 car play all met the feminine houseproud and a fine house and promised ... famtic. And what a boro shu her the most wonderful wedding dress that London could provide. But Rita will wear the dress
.
Cool,
Baby,
Cool...
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keep you comfy when the heat's on.
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St. Louis School Art Exhibition H.K.A.A.F. Annual Dance
a little red of their emancipa- of Wisconsin
tion and are finding it rather Men who do something whole can bʊ! fun to bo bossed again, Armly heartedly, who don't like oppo- ' She plumps up the cushions managed or even bullied
allon. Speed kings, like racing the moment you rise from your she sayed for in pennies and
has beeped at every day ashtray your motorist Stirling Moss and test chair; empties
sho
It since bought 119, has sparned a avery time you've smoked a pliot Nevilla Duke.
Rita, watches your foot cigaretto
the lesson that many of is never ara suspiciously as you I believe that women
learn "and" then wonder why front door to make Terry Morley, who went to heartily tired of nattery and wipe your feet can hardly wilt we are dissatished
The lessch? That an disy their for you to swallow the last bite South Africa in a show. Last men who can't make up week she was home to kiss Und minds.
before she's bustling around victory is really no victory at clearing the table and is forever all. It is what we win by per SOU | CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.
sobal endeavour that really pounts.
in shoes that conform to the fun, character development and contour of her feat Wouldn't happiness,
patrem,
you think she'd know?
Lazy women who love
soft Oushions develop
their high
arches, Women who are much
Icot a good part of the Ume,
married. And this is the way
The male dictator is
coming
she proudly described her new 沿 There is nothing so easy but husband:
into his own.
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4.
IT HAPPENS!
100 active, who are on their Words of the Wise good-bye and fell him he was
develop low arches.
A pretty
foot calls for
What about that it becomes dimcult when
formed you do it with reluctance, piecly
inward
neat, trim ankle. yours? The
onko
han n graceful
curve about one inch above the
ward
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"He didn't like my show or my costumes on the logo, dr.
(Terenice)
off. He didn't like my How long is it since you heard hair or may long Angarnale. Be women boasting that "my unkle bone, then a gradual out- For prying into any; human
curve into the cait of affaira; none are equal to those Insisted on choosing my wedding husband don't like me to.
clothes himself.!
smoke, "I'd cut my hair, but leg. It isn't Just the whom it does not concern
of the ankle that
-(Victor Hugo)
So back to is to her my hande would be furious, or for beauty points, but
masterful ho-man, with a new "I never drink spielts, my boy the contour.
Burely human affairs would hairstyle, short fingerrimila anit 'friend-won't let me? Makers
hosiery said be fark happier te tisa, power in the kind of dresses he likes designers of shoegare con-men to be silent were the sema
But it's happening totiny
of
a
enler
hddling with the flowers in case there's a stem out of place.
HUSBANDS hate her because sho puts her housewifely pride before their comfort. Pipe smoking is frowned" on and a scattered pile of magazines or
Used glass is
regarded erline.
CHILDREN
too,
Her constant fear, that they will touch things pells: her fun.
EN ANIMALS: Cluke her
cause ne ha balo her. Pride
2, because the heartily disapproven
of them. Dirty pawa and hairy | the postwar years pl on the carpet spoil the immacus,
Bex equality, ex- "Inte affect, 41
tributing nobly, to the:: beauties that to speak; but expirience The asma mikture of senil ful appearance of feet and legs, more than sufficiently touches tivé violence and selfishy ágykát:45
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