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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1959. ̈ ̄`
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
GET ONE UP ON THE WAITER!
A QUIZ FOR EVERYONE EVER PUZZLED BY A MENU
1- jou ordered Crépus Suzetté la
a restaurant, would you expect: (0) Grilled mushrooms on toast? (b) Thin pancakes dipped in rich butter and orange supce, with brandy and Curaçao posted over them and set alaki?
(c) Little rolli of real staffed with minced bacon and herbs?
2-Here are the ingrediants of three
Which 1 cinaste dishes. Coulibloc?
(0) Pastry turn-oras filled with meat, patatass and a little turnly? (b) Stewed vaul in a rich cream BOUCH, goraished with 12 whole small onions and 12 white button mash- rooms, cooked in butter?
Te) Brioche sustry filled with layers
of salman, kurd-bolted agar, semolino and resign?
Of the following recipes, which one in Piperode?
(0) Onions, swart peppers, tomatoes and finely chopped 'bom, cooked in pork fat with a whiff of gertic, with beaten egg stirred in at the lost minute?
(8) Chick peos, cooked, crushed," mixed with garlic and sesame oil and saasona87
(c) Fixely ground corn mool cooked Into a porridge and served with tomato sauce?
-Which is not a bird? (a) Bomber duck?
(b) Scotch woodcock? (c) Copercallzie?
5-Which of the following rarms denotes a garnish of" saudad muscat gropes?
(a) Chatelaine?
(b) Boulanger?
(c) Veronique ?
(8) St. Menehould
6—Which of the Isllowing implies a garish of shrimps and ravisėlę? (a). A l'Allerno ?-
(b) A fá Bráchu?
(c) A la Dieppo" )? ·
(d) A lo Marviken ?
7—Which Is Succotash ?
(a) A garlic-llavoured stew of meat, acions, potatom and other vegetables?
oi (b) As American dish
fresh carts kernels of sweet
and tima
beans, cooked togather, sesioned and gluteged with "buitor?
(c) A Danish dish.et sievad stawed red currants and raspberries, slightly thickened?
6-What kind of steak is Tomsede
Henri IV.7
(0) Fried to butter and topped with o slice each of pâté de foin gros and truffla?
(b) Grilled fillet of beef on on viti- choke bottem, filled with trailed soubise sovee, glöte and veal gravy? (c) Grilled middle cur of filles staak with rim of Béarnaise sauce, an ortichoke bottom in the centre and garnished with small potatues cooked in butter?
ANSWERS ON PAGE 20
SHE SAYS ITS GOOD
by JOAN CRAWFORD
N a flying trip to a southern city not long ago, I met the wife of a prominent businessman at a cocktail party. The talk turned to marriage and she made this confession to me "I have almost everything I want except the thing I want most." She looked a bit sheepish as she explained: "The sprig of forget-me-nots my husband used to put on my dresser every Sunday." She paused a moment, honest understanding. In the sighed and apeared an hors Hollywood environment, only the few and the lucky can risa d'oevre. "You see," the
above the basic artificiality and concluded, "he's forgotten." schieve this understanding.
I have hopped all over the country within the past 18 months and spoken to hun dreds of women. And I have discovered that many American wives, along with the southern lady, are mourning the disappearance from their
of
romance
married lives.
But in the same breath, they say something like this: "Natur- olly, I realise romance can't gɔ on forever..." Well, I disagree violently!
I think romance can go on forever, even though the part ners are together 28 or more
years and even though they are deep in their 40s, 50s and _be-- yond. Newlyweds and college kids don't have a copyright on tomance.
None of us wants to bring up
ast mistakes. But if they have belped me to learn how to make
this mati I love so much happy. then I am glad i had the ex- perlence.
And so much for the past.
ROMANCE
Now how is romance being kept alive in my marriage? In a number of ways.
I am part of my husband's business life ચા પતંગ તમ hly personal life. I know what be does during his working day. I know the problelps he faces, the worries he has.
can
this
The point is that arguing in Actually, 1 Jose?
too, slope bothering. Then the at each other. Thus we incert
Bir without the usual loud way can cnally works both ways. I'm interest- lady wants to know where, oh in clearing the editi Jan's work, too. We where has romance gone?
bruising anyone's feelings in the lead to abuse and name-calling. made up our minds when we I dress to please my husband, process.. In other words, we get You get curried away, bring in before you were inarried that
the benefits of a good rousing personalities and we would Men are going to love this!"
the diand- kuow IL deep, long-lasting not be separated, and the way There's red-hot argument argument without
wounds have been inflicted. to accomplish this in to be these days around the question: vantage! deeply interested in each For whom do women dress any- other's
ot women work and problems. way men, other
alm to And by this, I mean anything themselves? Well, a wife does whether it's n keep romance alive In my job, or running a home. I've learned a lot about the enter tainment business, too, Joan took me to a rehearsal of a
TV play recently. I brought along a bushess associate and we both watched Joan in A love seene. My associate whic pered to me: "That fellow's kissing your wife. Doe't it make you jealous?" I said: "Not a bit. Watch closely and you'll see the guy is a lousy lover and that Joan is teach- ing him his job.")
marriage, so dress chiefly to BLACK AND WHITE
please my man, and then to
lease myself.
AL home, Alfred doesn't specially care for makeup, OD I go without it. At home, he preters ray hair long RO 11% worn long.
the mad
I am crazy about hats. I own dozens and snap them up hun- rlly when I go shopping. But if my husband shows in come way that he doesn't care about a new one, back it goes to slorc even though I'm stay with my husbund at about it myself, parties. At a social gathering
I use my
own, judgment not long ago, I watched a coupe about clothes, of ourse, because. come in. As soon as they had 1. know from long experience dluposed of their coats, the what styles and colours suit me woman tripped off to
Nevertheless, great best.
my hus friends, leaving the band thinks look awful, in-a man standing in the foyer, purticular outôt, I won't wear the Soon h.b drifted into an- thing no matter how well I other group and the two Te think it looks or how much
some
mained apart until it was time to a home,
other women might approve,, If that makes me a patsy,cali mo If this woBELIZE ever wails to patay, but that's the way things me that romance has gone out are in my marriage and I like of her marriage, I'll tell her one it jne. For too many women, thest
(Asido by good reason! A women needs to hours are a great big vold, and feel that she's wanted
Mr Stcele: It but a Join over showed up in a that's a pity." They have
man wants some attention too. sack, then there really would If a woman keeps showing her be á family argument. man that she's more interested in gossiping with her friends than being with him, she's kiss- ing romance goodbye herself.
only
orang-
but
the fogglest notions of how the breadwinner wins the bread, 1 asked an acquaintance once There's romance in my mam- 'what her husband does and she age and heaven knows I'm no replied he was "in insurance." teenager, I'd like to explain this She didn't know if he insured but before I do, please let me people, steamships or make it plain that I am not go ulans. Another woman I know ing to offer any kind of advice la talrly certain her husband Is in this article. I don't consider in the brokerage business myself an expert in anybody's ask her for detajis and she's marriage except mine. What 1 lost. will try to tell you iu how my When my husband comes home husband and I manage to keep at the end of the day, we cut this prime Ingredient in our off the phone, mix a drink and married lives.
discuss what happened. We talk about his business, bocause now that's my business too in addi- tion to the business of under- There is something I must say standing him and the business of first. I won't be easy but I making him happy. I know won't deck it eliber. It's this: inore about new plants opening my latest
FIRST
with
I have been married before, of up than I do abou! course. But a screen actress television rating. sometimes lives for ven, even 20 Not only am I deeply interest- yenes in a make-believe world, ed in his work-I work with make-believe emotions, be- him, too. fore she awakens into the real world of flesh and blood people. I have known stars who never nwaken at all and that's tragedy.
te-
It my husband were an ac- countant, I'd help him total up figures. If he ran a store, I'd be behind the counter. It happens my husband must travel, so It's enormously hard to travel with him. I've logged 98,- main undazzled in that atmo- 000 ilks in the past year and a sphere. The sets are so glamor hall. Up to the time I married us, the men in them so gay and him, I was in an airplane only charming, the stories so drama- once-I felt it God had wanted tie, the wit so sprightly. Not me to fly, he would have made only that--tho life outside the me a bird. Well, I got married studio, feeds on artifciality too. and I've been flying in more
ways than one ever since,
Now this untreality becomes a mujor part of a screen player's ife, often the whole of it. She
BEAMS
that
(Reply by Joan: I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those things. They hide what you've ot. And as long as I've got It, I'll show iti)
á
I keep flirting with my hum] band. He won't over catch, me I've noticed
happily at home with cream on my face, married couples always either metal curlers in my hair or stay together all evening or drift sloppy outât, I meant what I offering together for long periods. Spike said earlier about not Jones, for example, never leaves advice, but it's. terribly hard to his wife Helen's aide-they even resist saying just this: The guis who let themselves go around hold hands. Jerry Lewis 12 always close to his wife, Patli. the house with the explanation, She alts and beams as he makes that "it's only old Joe who seci. his jokes. I stay with my hus- me" should remember that Joe band, and the reason I do is that keeps seeing those glamour cats he's more fun to with than in the office and the shops. And pretty soon sloppy old you won't anybody else,"
look bot to good old Joe.
(Aside by Mr Steele: And I stay with Joan, but I have no choice. If I ever wander off,
Beck sure as shooting some operator would sidle over and Try to make time with my wlto!)
I've got a pretty good au- thority backing me up in this Just a few weeks ago, the famous evangelist Billy Grahora had this to say during his San Fran- cisco crusade: "A wife should stay attractive," he told a crowd of 18,000, "No wonder some hus-
I tell my husband I love nim. This may astonish many women who have been brought up to bands don't come home." T
believe that the man says all the
put on the cams, lotions whispered' words of love, while and other beautifying stuff when the lady merely listens demure- Alfred isn't home. This girl is Av. 1 Women who complain that their her husband
think that's nonsense, alming for those moments when looks at her pa usbands no longer woo them though she were the most special rarely stop to think that a man, thing in the world. What's your too, wants to be told he's loved. aim, mean?
Why not tell a man you love
voices. We argue him? He wants evidence, of, Sure, we have disagreernents, And if he receives 1, he'll have an argument affeption just as a woman does. What Imried couple docan't
respond and with lots more than while? But we have a trick. sprigs of forget-me-nots.
is
my
The point 1 tim making samply thle: I don't shut myself scarcely knows where hor real, aut of a major portion of life begins and her pretend selt nusband's existence-his work. leaves off. And this is poor soli And because I am a part of it,
in which to plant a marriage. I am that much more part of
Whether li's a Hollywood type his life. of unreality or a lot's-live-it-Up kind of ille In any city or suburb, the point is stil the samme. Successful marriages inced truth, a facing of hard fople,
And I don't just tell my hut- band-I show him too. At
once in
Q
ARGUMENTS
(Aside by Mr Steele: Join is home, I do lifle extra things to We agreed that no metisy practically a business assoel- let him know he's something what the subject or how upat nte. Few of my colleagues specia. Not bothering makes awe think we one, we would "not, have her business head and marriage go stale. A man senses raiso our voices during on none has her figure. So how this proty quickly and then he, argument. We would not explode
The LIVELY EYE
WHAT THEY SAY
by scriptwriters
MUIR AND NORDEN
"Marriage is like a self- service cafeteria. You pick out what you like and then when you see what the other chap's got, you with
h you had some of
that too."
looks at Marriage
*Im going back to my
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