THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1954.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Dance Frock from Paris Manil Uses Herbs And Sandalwood Cicloform
To Keep Herself Beautiful
This dance frock called "Phedre", by a Paris designer,
is in red faille, laced with red muslin,
London.
FEW years ago when
A1 visited Ceylon I met
By LADY BOYLE
the hint dance in
sequences
a young schoolgiri. I have she was still in Ceylon and whe just met her again — in the in Elephant Walk. TV studio.
Her name is Mand Weerakoon, and she has grown into a lovely young Woin 10, with all the subtle grace and beauty of the
East.
I
admired have always Oriental beauty, and often won- dered why so many women of the East are a lovely to look nt. Is it because the wealthy there live an idle, sun-drenched
She tells me that every girl in Ceylon from the humblest peasant home to the great society families starts her beauty treat- ment in childhood and carries on with the routine throughout her life. I was fascinated by the
the East which secrets of revealed.
Flawless skin
she
Secret number one-the com-
life, escaping the wear and tear plexion. Manil drew my hand of household chores, and the across her check. It was velvet- furious bustle which furrows our
and soft, without bw with nervous strain and blemlah. temper?
Mant! laughed when i asked her She has been here since last September and she escupes nonʊ of our Westem bustle, for she is at present breaking into films, She started in this career when
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"The skin on our faces rarely marked," she said. "Grea! care 19 taken to clean and fred the pores regularly." For this they use gingerlee oil, made of crushed mustard seed and mixed herbs.
AT WIMBLEDON
The herh julee prevent blister. Ing and sunburn, and cleanse the pores; the oil gives That healthy bronzed golden glow.
Jasmine flowers have been added. The eyebath is always rinsed out before bathing the second ere, because inflammation spreads so easily,
The eyes are protected from the dust and heat of the East with surma, or lampblack. This Clear, cold water (but not too is a mixture of the purest almond cold) is used to wash the face, oỤ, burned together with Monil says that sandal-wood la camphor and herba on a low only possible soap. The flame. Onco the mixturo the
itself is ground thickens. It is left to cool, then Saudal-wood Into a paste and, mixed with the put in a little silver casket. juice of a Jemon, acta whitening mask for face, neck The almond look and shoulders.
as a
Milk is a favourite beauty in- gredient in Ceylon. For night cream, they use the cream off the top of the bottle. First thing in the morning they splash cold silk on the face and go out in the sun to dry--a winderful way to encourage painless sun tab,
Another secret those beauti- ful deep liquid Eastern eyes. To keep them bright and limpid the girls bathe them in cool water, to which Д few freshly picked
Dresses, Not Shorts.
Are The Winners
THE
HOW TO CHOOSE T YOUR PERFUME
1
NEST
devide which of the state- menta A, B, C or D in each of our subject groupss most clearly expresses your taste. We'll tell you the type of perfume perfect for your personality. MUSIC
yourself in our times historical fact: Frances Fragrance Poll!
Just Parkinson Keyes, Frank Yerby,
Georgette Heyer. FOOD AND DRINK
A. You love Tchaikow- sky, which appeals more to your heart than your mind; you like
you can Rune
and
recognise."
You like impressure, B. symphonie musie; and the insouciance of Gilbert Sullivan.
the technical C
like You
the and perfectin of Bach, strange harmonies of Prokofiev; liko smooth, string orchestruos Kejanetz and Mantovani.
D. You are moved by excit- ing, staring themes; you adore Latin American rhythm.
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Invourites.
must
Are
In
elastle sharkskin dress for the opening day had white rouleau along the seams and round the hem.
As her dresses have to give maximum freedom of move- ment, they are sleeveless, Some are tollarless, too, while others. have small tailored revers.
HE Wimbledon cham
pionships usually raise the old controversy of shorta versus dresses, This year, however, there is no Ruch argument. The women players by accident or chosen design --- have
short- dresses usually skirted affairs with frilled Tinting noticed that antmai petticoats.
prints were in fashion, and he introduced These into Teddy Tinling-the Hartnell has
hair
On a recent visit to America,
came
on
the
of the tennis world-has made Maureen's wardrobe, Her favou A. Your taste is for simple more than a hundred outfits for rite dress is the white pique one fare: the best in home cooking Wimbledon, and amongst them which has white poodles inset nothing too spicy. Cider and are only two pairs of shorts, into the bodice and just above
for the hem. alo
cocktails These, he told occasionally,
arc rne, rarely.
practice, not matches.
When I went along to see the B. You are adventurous in designs for his star customer,
Connolly, 1 foutal Maureen, wearing a blue and your eating, always willing to Maureen
something new. Sherry that dressta were her first white striped dress and a while try
ilquers
monkey jacket, has twelve
new woollen your choice.
I was talking to outfits cach
with along while complete (dry) and
ribbon and Tialing. She perched ratching C. Continental dishes for cardigan-and only one of these edge of a green balze table, and bubbled over with cathusiasm you: garlic a
your features shoria.
Little Mo in one of hor kitchen and omelettca your Maureen has made a point of as questions were fired at her.
new outfits--a princess line speciality. Quite a connoisseur selecting easily washable She said that she is making about wine, you love the ritual fabrics, because she likes
dress in white pique with white poodles inset on the of choosing the right wine for launder her tennis outfit in her the most of her visit to London. and shopping. steing plays
bodloo and above the bem. She has picked hotel room.
(She shops wherever she goes, several new materials, including has bought silks in India, on
white Bwiss pique embroider-
the opening day. Indian od with white tennis balls; an in Germany and now woollens husband on
miniature in Britain.) She hopes to be Each consisted dishes. Cocktails with weird American overglaze linen flock-a
tennis racquet decorated married and an she and her fiance have a "pipe with a pearl tennis bail.
led early next year, and gilt rames and weird ingredients ed with white wool:
elastic sharkskin.
dream"
a guest ranch in California. She admits sho can't cook, but thinks you make out quite well if you can read cook book and follow the re- cipes stage by stage.
the right food.
D. Your taste veers times towards the exotic you love Chinese and
tool
CLOTHES
A. You like tales of families down through the generations: Such authors as Daphine du
la Mourier. Mazo de Roche, "Battle
jewellery. Philip Gibba
SCL/VCH:
War
of
shoes;
to
of a
Mrs Tony Trabert was an- "tennis widow" with other fashion BETLJC. Sho stole the show on the second day by turning up In a white cotton skirt printed round the hemline with strawberries the size
And she scotched once and
all the
footballs. rumour that she
The rest of
ot
"
Tinling mado up his designs A. You love dresses with full,
in these materials not only for feminine skirts; all shades blue; medium-heeled
their washability. They are all
fabrics. He is natural
using flower jewellery.
few synthetic materials because for Casual
form of their tendency to cockie on would give up tennis after her straight skirts and
sweaters the seams. And he is anxious marriage, When something is
the spectators dressed up with gay cotton
studded belis
to avoid this since the princess part of your life, she said, you divided themselves into pessim and
irts and optimists. The optimista line, which
he launched for can't give it up.
and shoes;
littla very
tennis this
Spectators at Wimbledon al- wore patterned sun suits this year, has long scams
cotton dresses. The ways provide lively fashion in- gay
to taste is front shoulder to hem.
clung They Maureen's tennis outfits are terest. Among this year's fans pessimists?
One woollies.
even of the tennis winter an interesting for their style as it is the wives and their material. They all follow stars who show most originality turned up in a thick fisherman's knit sweater, complete with court shoes the princess style, and most of in their "spectater sportswear."
collar and with the new Spanish heel; the them have rouleau
high trimming
polo Mrs Victor Seixas launched a classic perfection of pearls, our
down the long seams to new line in earrings with the sleeves. D. You love to dress up your phasise the princess lines, Her good-luck pair she wore for her
-fLondon Express Service) like outfits with stoles; you
bouffant equally very
skirts and pencil-lim oner you're addicted to ballerina shoes and adore gipsy earrings.
B. Your favourite reading 12 of adventuro and derring-do: Joseph Conrad, Scott, Nicholas Monserrat.
C. Humorous writers, satirists, are your favourites: Cornella Otis Skinner, Stephen
Leacock, Nancy Mitford.
D. You like stories of the past, sometimes fantasy, some→
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WHAT YOUR SCORE
MEANS
Mostly A's? Then you're domesticated girl who
loves her house in
order:
An uncomplicated person---
to be depended upon.
Mostly Ba? A typical
putdoor vivacious with.
girl: you BEC and fun to be
of
Mostly O's? Extremely capable in anything you set out to do, you are poised and successful as a career Art. You would probably Ond the trummels
• ^a^- telfo, Irk- domesticity some-but only at first,
Mostly Da?) Sophisi!.....
cated,
and roady to try
(anything opeel).
(have,
friend
are mainly
C. An uncluttered
sults with yours:
the rounded shoulder line nipped-in
walst;
THE PERFUME FOR
YOU
Choose light, floral fra- grances to highlight your fresh charm.
UTO
the mossy
new
Yours woody, forny There are any number of delightful fragrances to be chosen from this group.
The
spicy, cinado per-
fumes are for you, as well
DA
those from the cool; citrus group.
•The heavier, musdey
fumea (would-
em-
Hip-Slimming Exercises
By Ida Jean Kain
XERCISE can help you into view, and now we are
fat humped on the upper thigh and years younger. It's a line. This is a common figure combination figure fixer flaw oven with normal weights, But what you and le due to lack of tone in and tonic.
the musclos bounding that want to know la: which
particular spot-one of the exercises. can positively muscular "dead" acus. slim the hips?
EXERCISE filleely to give a pincushion of
of general
over
long
Then, come up to semi-sitting
this angle, with knees bent, to iron out thighting bulges,
To banish humps in upper thighline: On floor on left side, right leo bent, with weight supported as laft forearm- you're in a half reclining post- tices. For better balance, place palm of right hand in back on floor, thu· extralen la fo bounce up and down, amack 'on
Hips are notably the problem
To continue. „Take a ride measurement of the feminine
to view to me there is a bustle figure, but it's a mistake tump all hip fixing together. of muscle futting rearward. Truc, large hips are often port Again the problem is not were the bilge: Bounce, bounce, m that case it's out-of-kilter bounos, but make sure you are and parcel
there pockano. This side view, also hitting the bugle Change ddas parked weight and fat policeable, thow up hire that have and make the other bulge the But it is not only the per trouble is chup to stapelses fendency to just plain droop.
target Freights who have hip irre..." --
сове
Bingo rolling is skalaritine,
· Exercise. It won't pat gimp back LiLet's see what the mirror, result takes a syariety of exer into droopy, hip muscles.
hipe-thal, ūgling to popa with the many, druk, swinging-exercird will. Not
„háp Dewi. Here, they are, take
Will' rolling, banish the bustie,
· Brought on by awkypick
Mani showed me how she applied it with a little sliver stick and a steady hand to the inside of the lower eyelid, One swift stroke, ending with an up- wards movement gives the eye thas lovely almond took, Surma clears and brightens the eye, apart from protecting it and is even used on bables,
a
What about those sparkling teeth? Is the whileness just an in contrast with tho Alucion darker
skin? Manil nashes winning mulle. "We use pow-
dered charcoat, sho says, "mixed with very tine salt to clean our tooth
and
Her hair is thick, rich dark, so typical of beauty in the East where it often reaches be- low the linees. It is massaged with coconut oll and crushed herbs. The mixture is massaged well lato the scalp, left on over- night, then washed off thorough- ly next day It is guaranteed to stop scant, grey or falling hair.
These herbs I have mentioned can be pleked out there in the same way that we would go and gather buttercups and daisies.
Manil's expressive hands are kept smooth and soft with a paste of red sandal-wood. She uses It on her feet, too,
Incense bath!
Finally, scent--the perfumes of the East. Before warm bath, the body is spread liberally with gingerlee oll,
seod mistard and herbs; then into the water with plenty of foamy nad sandal- wood soap to wash with.
cuid spray, a brisk rub down with a towel, and then the big- gest luxury of all:
drying oneself over a burner of one's favourite incense, This dedicate fragrance in the the body and lingers on hale throughout the day!
To me all this wounded too luxurious to be practical, and I said so. But Manil goes through it all as a matter of routine, without thinking twice. She says it is every woman's birthright to seem beautiful, and to move in an atmosphere of beauty, How I agree with herl
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