THE CHINA MAIL,
- 【TURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1957.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Are you a lovely way to spend an evening?
What brings a man hurry- ing home from work? Some distinguished husbands and wives answer this
- question frankly.
DOES
OES your husband always seem to find other women more amusing than you at cocktail parties?
When
look acrosн you that crowded room do you see him laugh in a way he hasn't laughed with you for years? Linger longer as he lights her cigarette (when he'd leave you to light your own, or say: "Do you really want another one?").
Does ho tpend evenings, longer and oftener, enterlafi- in clients or eustomers or business dinners? Come home Ured, nonosyllabic, to rent his papers or watch television?
Danger
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She puts flowers and candles and the pretileet china on the fable...and watches him reuet likele boy confronted wit a pile of chocolate cetuirs. If so, beware. For this may
And the has the supreme art be the moment of danger,
Designer The of looking as though she never momen! when perhap quite cooked a thing; and never tells unconsciously-he doesn't find him now much trouble it has you exciting any longer,
taken.
This is the moment for you
10 remember that however What else can make him kurry oxcellent a mother and house- home? Canvassing husbandly ktoper you may be, few men opinion, I talked to industrialist, ever left home for either.
Sir Graliam Cunningham,
1 man
Ask yourself-are you the kind of woman will by-pass club and pub for, and hurry home from the office to be with?
Psychology
Whether you are.married to a taxi-driver or a tycoon, you've got to be something of a paychu
jogist,
The clever woman knows, for instance, that the best way to get her husband to want to take her out for dinner is to sur prise him occasionally with n really superb one at home.
PRETTY AS A PICTURE
By JEANNE D'ARCY
"I NEVER take a goori picture," sho says,
laughing nervously.
Who? Why just about every woman in the world! It's a standard comment, and if you! doubt it, just ask any
photo- grapher. We'll be willing to bet he's heard it more than once; every wolding day of his life.
A FEW PRECAUTIONS
The truth of the matter is that many women don't photograph well, and sometimes, if they'd loke a fow beauty precautions in advance, their finished vic-
tures would be pretiler.
First of all, the hairdo should
be considered.
When does yours look best? Gome women say the day after n shampoo curls are soft and
Jov:ly. Olliers find that im- mediately after washing curls pre en soft, they're downright strongly.
Whichever is the case, the point of the matter is this: plan your shampoo with your photo- Araphy date in mind se hair will look just right! Whatever you do, don't sit in front of the cainera with a head full of light, unnatural-looking curls. A re- toucher can just do so much and
10 maru,
Put your best face forward for
the camera.
This means a smooth appilca. tion of foundation and a nice
CRUSL
in the
"I long to get home to my wife," he told me, "because she is quite apart from business, and I never mix the two.
Method
"I LIKE to know how we are going to spend the evening when I leave home in the morning and she is very methodical about that,
to
Are you slipping...?
What of the artistic tempera- ment? Just the opposite,
Ronald Paterson said: "1 like shook tacties plans suggested on the spur of the moment, because I hate having to make up my own mind.” Accordingly. I must never be asked what I want to rat, or what I want to do.""
Unselfishness
Mr Paletson shares my own theory that wifely unselfishness
Sir Alan Cobham, aviation plonecr and industrialist, told ine; "I look forward to creature comfort and a warm, uncritical, unquestioning welcome-against which no right-thinking husband is proof."
Luck
What do the wives themsetner have to say?
Mrs Ted Heath, wife of the band leader, said, with all the conviction of 24 years of happily can amount almost to n vice married life
her: behind ....the little woman who only "Maybe Fin lucky, but my wants to do whatever he would husband just wants to spead
like to do, while barely concent- the evening at home." ing some unspoken but superior
the recipe for this Plan of her own. That has made-desirable state of affairs? MIs woman's company more stima "Perhaps represent-away Inting
from it all-nothing to do with work. We're not party people st all, only see our most intimate friends, I never try to organise him into an evening. I just let him relax and only talk shop
What
another cath docan't have one.
andny
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Inan find
if he has something he wants to
get off his cheat,"
Mr Peter Mastfield, wife of the Bristol Aircraft executive, agreed; "He comes home lo come up for air! But not all the shaded lights and bowls of rozes and dellelous food in the world would get him home 12 work Interrupted.
on
"I have learned to cancel parties with a good grace at the Tast moment; but that is occupational Hisense with every- One 1 know who is connected. with the aircraft Industry,
Common-sense
Lady Barneti might, I thought, have been the sort of woman who was too busy in her own 1ight to worry whether her husband came home on the nail. Bul
"Not a bit of it," she said. "Certainly I want him to hurry home; He does tout don't know why."
Some gentle prompting pro- duced the most common-sense Answer I've heard' yei"I'd put it down to warmth, confort, and good food. And nothing serious or controversial is ever
talked about until at least the warmth, the comfort, and one gin have had their effect,"
Pleasure
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It occurred to me that use three women
were, for their different reasona, glad to sen their husbands—and showed
It. And what man can resist the warmth of a real welcome"
But I leave It to a well-known psychologist, whose werk entails hearing both sides of other prople's troubles, to sum up:-- "The wife who wants her husband to hurry home must appreciate the fact that he hus done the day's work, and that she will be the first person he can take it out on if it has been a bad day.
We.men look for a mother something for nothing. as well as a mate, and we expect AUT there is a limit to what you can get for nothing and some remember that."
husbands ought to get home,
"I'd HATE looking forward to a quiet even- ing, and be told we are going out for cocktails."
"I can always cope with a bit of a tartar" Mr Paterson re- "but marleed with pungency, spare me the martyrs of this world!"
A point for your considera- tion, gentlemen?
MR. LONDON
BRINGS BACK
THE FUR-LINED PELISSE...
GIVE THAT OLD FUR COAT A NEW LEASE OF LIFE
A phone csit from Solo- "Miss Pap- mon Londen: worth, I have something new to show you -- some-
Ho Xir
thing that will appeal to Jour practical mind." was abeolutely right. London has revived the far- lined pelirse......[for>Inspired. and oh so elegant,
women
To many
#fur Jining has a luxury — plos quality or its own. There's
an odd sort of one-upman- ship about lucking it away fuside.
"Now," said Mr London. "with a fur coat that is no longer now....rubbed here and there but with plenty of wear left in It - we can make a transformation. You see promised you some- thing practical"
I've sketched my favour- Ite-in red with velvety black shadows. Tite colour of a Charles Malleria TOST.
The lining? - "Bunny," he told Irte, Bumble black -bunny.——A—stai-ooney-0034-
gives a new lease of life."
Sick of that old fur coál?
Idea? --Voronica Papworth
We've changed our
minds
According to
about men
Veronica Papworth
The Waistless
Twenties are
here again
The chandelier and the backless drasz.
TE'S had them for years Stevens, a buyer for 64 men's
of course,
Hhose shapeless flan shops. And then, onkie.
nel bags (elephant's legs!) and that nondescript pull over-but it looks as if he won't be wearing them much longer. There's a "re- volutionary change" in the men's-wear trade-so they toll me. "Elegant 11- formality is on its way IN for evenings.
A busy man shrugs off his cares with his business clothes. That's why our 'separates for men are so successful.
"Don't write this new look of as a sort of Elvis-the-Felvis tig I've sold it to stdents and I've told it to stockbrokers."
BIT OF A DEVIL He thumbed through a rail of corduroy slipovers cut like sall- Why? Because a woman's ing stocks. Take this crimson view of her man has completely top worn with black velvet In this 'altered,"
men's wear slacks as an example. Fays
oulît 1 man looks younger. designer Lewis Aronsen:
goyer and a little bit of a devil. "That's what appeals to ans woman--now isn't it?"
*THESE DAYS
"At one time the quieter he
looked the more sure she was
As Mr Stevens was wearing a xtit ment chalk-striped suit,
of him. These days if no one collar and dark blue e I felt
else admiren him--she doesn't." perfectly safe in alving him
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George warm affirmative.
The Raincoat Rebellion
not
by VERONICA PAPWORTH CITOP-think twice-don't say a word about the powydering job. Go lightly with dress on the left of my bath make-up items and don't sketch. Not yet, Like it or apply lipstieiet heavily. You can not at first sight, every skip using rouge, because it may woman will gradually work
And of THERE la a rebellion in dozen fancy designs. dark shadows
THERE wrong places. If your face is her way into the short, straight out with--/I'm a nihe seemed singularly_doubtful”— the raincoat world, the 100 classic ones only about difficult to photograph. the waldtless look. Some will teen-twenties giri, of course. All they told me.
There is a strike among the 25 per cent are coloured," photographer will probably sug- take a couple of seasons this is nothing new to me.
So feminine Going, going ------ ***WE'VO gest a few make up tricks to others are slinking around how utterly grotesque we loole on it ever since
"What's more, I remember
been booking orders] Wearora.
We're conding and, I pray, gone for ever- THE stores are finding
that make you more photogenic.
ed-and it didn't deter us in the one off to a VIP in the South of are the satin and Bilk 1 If you wear glasses, don't be in it already.
their bright pinks and very slightest. We shortched France tonight, No, we can't 'our skidris, bound down our say who she is. It's for a VI get-ups that are supposed cheerful blues just Bre
Relling. Women are asking for to cheer up the English trench coats or simple, plain, busis and managed to convince parly:"
macintoshes, off-white our boy friends that we looked, Loss VI purchasera can have countryside in the rain.
It for the same price-£10 105, Bort with those hideous straight, full backs, and fly- I've had fun istening to reae ravishingly bemkiful." tions in the fashion world.
In this age of general rush 10's Above right eco another cyclamen hats and costs, thooo button fastening.
murprising that revival--the backless dress with Black, shiny. shower-shakers They have been envying the As far as clothes ate concern- "Me, darling I was in my. ut perhaps
tourists This bred with
#trenely fashion will cradle when this look first came time to repeat itself.
history is taking less Back to front neckinen,
a wasplah yellow American avoid dresses that
one, la black velvet, coste and black stripe, the smart walking about London in their "date" the picture. Simplicity but The Dolly Slaters--who
10s. 6d.
macintoshoa, hating. is the best rule, so skip frilla on earth were thee?"Really, SOLD TO A
girl is asking for a macintosh mannlei MANDaging entrings, ropos of like a
and man's."
poplins And she is their purple and ruffies and too many jewels, have thero born fringed dienes Boe, above left w "chandolier*
wondering, why the Americans Beforehand, try on the outh before aturally ono's seen dress as white alle fringe. The beads, slave bangios in quailty getting it
to look Ball one oid-established tem zwan
oo soft and you're going to wear for the this sort of thing in old photo prototype was sold within you'll be needing them... picture, Set how it looks and graphs-too Miling,"
the other day: "The classics are wraining while they feel as if hour of being shown-do a MAN. make any necessary changça or
How very nico it was to meet "He absolutely insisted that
zumning tre muurket. For every. they are in fancy dress Famion Directrice who came his wife antatt have it. She improverinta,
100 classlo dans we sell only a.
Joy Matthews
vain and omit them for the pic- Meanwhile, If you're hovoring ture. After all, you want the on the brink of the dangerous photograph to look like you, and forties are you going to admit you won't be yourcolt sada to remembering it? specs.
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