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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURD
JANUARY 4, 1958.
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HERE'S
WEEK-END
SYLVIA LAMOND
Do men
WOMANSENSE
plans an assault on the glamour front
stare when you
sweep into the party?
a question to ask yourself on the eve of the biggest party week of the year. When you go to a party.....walk into a room full of warmth and laughter and tinkling glasses..... do you make your entrance almost unnoticed? Or do you make an impact?
Do the men begin to stare at you, and gather round? Or do you join the group of young matrons who are looking at the woman who is being looked at?
If you are the Rooked at
congratulationis,
Woman.
it you are one of the others, I think it's time for a spot of
soul-searching.
All of us, once we acquire a famly, take for too little trouble with our glamour,
There was a time when I took
all the beauty advice I could Iny bands on.
I wouldn't go rear a "gola ocension" without my 15-minute Rop on a couch with a witch haze pad on each eye.
I remember another routine: "early morning loveliness," for the bride who wakes, rubs her
SAVING TIME
IN THE KITCHEN
By Hillary Wentworth
-THE FEATHERY TOUCH-
Three Ideas tor glamour: YOUNG, CROPPED HAIR-forthered in front. smooth, almost shingled at the back. Rich has brought out little fringes of real hair on Alice Bands, for the same effect without outting,... A SWIRL OF SWANSDOWN, Incod with ostrich fronds. for a shoulder wrap (Franceska, 9 to 16gas)
hoavy GLITTER ... and
EARRINGS (39%. 60.)
eyes, and Ands for the very first time-a man there,
It all hung on waking 15 minutes before he did. It explained exactly what to have In bedside make-up kit.. and how to put it on in the Lark without disturbing his rest
Na trouble at all for a girl with a strong sensc beauty duty.
How things have changed. I still wake Arzt, but before I ean so much as reach for a hair-brush, * carlier bird etumours for attention (tear- fully): "Come and ind my bow HUG BITOW. Somebody stole it from under the bed": or (hreateningly): "Today, I think I shall wear my braces outside my Jumper...."
It's tronicul that now my eyes could really use a pair of witch hazel pads, I never find
row often does one hear time.
HOW
a pily that when A
of them.
IU's the age-old cliche, A woman moves into what could woman's work is never be the most glamorous years of done. Granted there are her life, 30 to 40 (Dlor put them always a hundred and one at 35 to 45), she is too other- things for the housewife to rise occupied to make the mort do, and perhaps the longest and most tedious time is spent in cooking and pot- tering around the kitchen.
Although most women automatically adopt the quickest and easiest methods of doing
Your looks
Suppose you had to decide whether to cancel a trip to the circus with the children or a hair appointment-which would go?
If you had to choose between ecme Jobs, often they uncona long lazy lle in a scented batu sciously persist with inemelent
Up icing the cake-which would with the popular idea that a Usually methods
for others.
you do?
wotnan of character can dash the
only reason is thut they know of no alternative way.
There are hundreds of time- Baving tricks to get the kitchen chores down in good time and give the housewife more houre of leisure.
save
If you only had time to press straight from the ironing board ether yux
small daughter's to a party and run circles round 4gandle party frock or the all-comers, I simply don't
dress cocktail
your husband believe that my working-day likes you in best—which would face is perfect for partles-even you tackle?
with my soul shining out of my WIEKE paper
on your list of eyes and a whiff of scent sneak- priorities for the next few days Ing out of cach ear. have you placed "special atten- So this time I'm taking a Bon to lovka?”
trowel and going to it.
For instance, waxed may be used in many ways to time and diriy dishes. Place a piece of waxed paper on your chopping board
chopping cuts," herbs or celery. When baking a cake, sill your flour and other dry Ingredients on the paper instead of inlo a bowL
The ingredients will slip oft the paper more easily and you will leave no dishes to be washed. Use waxed paper as pastry board and fer lining the scales when weighing out cook- ing fals or dried fruit,
When beating the yolks and whites of CRES. it la ester to beat the whlics drst and then the yolkr. Boating the yolk: first
necessitates washing the bealer, because if ile yol gets into the while it will prevent it from becoming Aut it is simple met er lo ajunt the yelks from the wakes it sny
crack the egg into R
funnel, The yelk stays in the funnel while the white down the rpout.
drip:
When measuring fat by the cup, the water roplacement "method is the most efffelent ons to use. If half a cup of fet is needed, all the cup half full of water and then add the fa' until the waler rerches the top of The cup. Pour the weter and you have half a cup of fat. Butter or margarine will be cealer to cream it is left out of the refrigerator for en hour before using. If it is all bord, add a few drops of lemon Jules. Lemons, incidentally, will be easier to squeeze and provida more juice they are betorchard. It only a 1:10 Jules is needed, don't cut the whole lemon, just plunge a forle in and squeero until you have the required amount.
warm
How to get a little onion Julce without hacking away at the whole onion and wasting a lot of time, is a trick woll" worth krawing. Cut the onion across the grain, then scrape gently. The Juice will now almost Immediately,
These are only a few of the mány way of enving Hao and query. They will help to Manion the Depewitem, PHOTOS
Mine came as near the bottom All very WB STO glamour
don't.
I plan be a stunner.
Juggling
as makes no matter. well if you believe-- 50 often told that comes from within,
Somehow I shall and the Frankly,
TIME and make the EFFORT to I've seen enough to know that turn myself into a party dish, glamour is almost always laid III can do it for the turkey- ut from the outside.
I can do it for me. It's just of juggling the matter
With a trowel if you like. But, n personally, I'm bored to death priorities,
soot outline the eyelid applied 'with on artist's: sable brish, Number 00—15, 8d.
to As a start I've brought myself up to date on the latest beauty feds and here they are-If you care to join me,
YASHMAK EYES: you know the sort of eyes I mean they hypnotise men, and madden the women who only use their eyes to see with.
The idea is to use two or three different shadows.
d
might cake or make your lip colour "run.") ..
MAGNOLIA BEIN: Princess, LIPS. AND NAILS: The Margaret and Barbara Goaled, newest eye-catcher is to contrast have that creamy, velvet face them not match them. Garnet which makes every other face red lips and smoky pink mails; luck as if it's been around a hot or clear red with pala Wlac. It's stove all day. But you can: tone different and a good moment, down the pinkish-purple-tones to come in if, like me, you gare of a British winter sido up the fun of wearing nail way: Use a heavy, beige founda- varnish when you took on tion (no trace of pink), and responsibility for the herbacedas under a normal creamy powder border.
use a neutrallsing pully-coloured powder
Luscious
Green or blue on the lid, with a veil of gold or sliver over it to give a subtle shimmer,
The third colour brown or grey, is applied high on the
oul to the brow. and shoded
whole effert is soft, MODEL-GIRL MOUTTI: The The
·luscious, rips look comes from a shadowy, and Garto-ish.
Whatever
do you
with special glass put on top of the shadows, use lots of mascara; or colour: 3s, fid, ng good beauty
Mrs Gerald counters. bootblack like
(A warning for the Legge; or-like Elizabeth Taylor budget-minded: ordinary, Extase
this.
I wouldn't have been, above any of these beauty tricks 10 years ago. I don't see why I should be now.
I honestly don't think a woman loose any sillier paint- ing vold shadow on her eyelida -than blowing up a bálisan,
IN FASHION: ‘HIM & HER SWEATERS
TT'S fashionable and fun --for girl and boy friends to wear the same sweaters when they go rock-'n-rolling, have 籍
scasion. gramophone simply take a country walk.
cr
It's a craze that began on the American college campus, but now the French couturièrs, ÖZE showing that they too have been affected by this iden. And if you want some make-it-yourself Ideas, you could all adopt these..
From the CHRISTIAN DIOR boutique comes the novel idea of a full-length east for Her, matched to a bloused jumper for Hind (Right). Both - have the
*heavy Loose stitch, arid Band colour. Her coat her a showl collar and deep armholes while, hie swiatem Dates deep V-neck collar, and Geog armtioles.
And, by the sky. 15.) you new metalt frigga hulband on boy friend
⠀a avenator,' tako polo. of there
mek masculine trends
CLAUDE FEUIT SEEMN
tair
HONEYMOONS ARE NOT ALWAYS HONEY
By PATRICIA FISHLEY.
-all ad that she, had a date,
With
more
A honeymoons
honey? Not for some mile and a wave of her band she left her bewildered groom people apparently. In the at the church door and went off majority at cases young to keep her appolotutant, newly-weds find no thorns Although "álsappointed and' to mar their first few weeks husband at least had a good annoyed, the udozunato of married bliss, but occa- night's sleep, which was sionally, through some un- tham Thomas Turman, of Idinat trick of
ott Seattle, USA. Not fate, or
hla perhaps lack
wedding night. His bride spent Of under the entira 'night trying to standing or thoughtlessness persuade him to take out on [on behalf of either partner, Insurance policy for 10,000
dollar GI honeymoons do not come up bequeath all bis property to her. his life, and to to expectations.
Often, interference from cul- who could blame June Netm, siders fakes the cream off the or American bride for hopping gingerbread for newly-wode. out of bod da her wedding Who could blame the young night and returning home to fellow who revolted when his mother? Her busband, a bull wife insisted that her parents terrier enthusiast,, not only took accompany
then
their his dogs on his haneymoon, but honeymoon. Worse #33% Was insisted that they sleep in the the case where a ford mother nuptial bed.
assorted her rights to tuck her Another bridegroom caused son up in bed on his wedding crue to ty out at the window night by taking some card-playing Oscar Jenssen, hayover, had pala along with bim on his no one to blame but the wheel honeymoon After waiting of destiny for his disrupted Oncer had saved while her husband played poker honeymoon.
toto the night, the dis- £100 for clothes champagne appointed bride pecked her bags and everything the happy" pals. and left him to it..
would need for a glamorous The fault, however, does not right in a bridal suite
at an always Be with the husband, expensive hotel. Women, too, are quite capable When he had installed his shy |of causing a breach in nuplial young wife in their suite he harmony. Only two minutes gallantly excused' 'himenit for after the wedding ceremony, the Hall on hour. Unfortunately bride at A citizen In the lift in which be travelled Massachusetts, USA, anngune- downstairs Jammed and he was.
forced to spend his wedding (right-wedged between. floors.
Kar
Plaid Topper
By ALICE ALDEN
FAVORED for late autumn Eau de Cologne
and winter is the cost that is just short of full-length, silm of cut yet make enough to glide nicely over a sult. This makas a fine costume for all but the coldest weather.
Arthur Jablow uses for this. .coat a luxurious, doop-tex- tured, plaid woof in "rich, stained-glass-window colors with
ground of royal blue. The line is alm. but easy,
with softly malded shouldera and deep, high-placed pockets. Slits at the side of the hem allows for easy movement. Under it is a softly, fitted suit of gra- linn blue woolen.
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