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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER. 20, 1958.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
What NOT to
to give
this Christmas
TEN like bragging about
successful Christmus presents that reveal thought and affection. They
have definite dislikes.
also
Here are businessman Lungley Powe's special hotes. They may give you welcome warning about
your
particular malc
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pre- DON'T give cruzading sents, such as a car cleaning out nt if It's 。 Job he normally shirks.
DON'T give him anything for his favourite hobby, unless you are sure it is the right kind and make.
DON'T give him anything for the house. Think how you feel when it happens to you,
DON'T give him practical presents like underclothes, whlen he can't exhibit to friends.
DON'T give him anything drink or smoke unless you know he likes drinking smoking it.
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Touchy
or
JOMEN are
Just As touchy about presents that reveal inck of thought and affection.
By Eileen Ascroft
From business woman Laurie Newton Sharp comes this list of don'ts. (I echo every one!)
DON'T give perfume because you think it smelis nice, or the girt in the shop fancies 1. S Must be her favourite brand
DON'T give chocolates, unless she's slim na a reed and you know she likes them.
DON'T give stockings, unless you know not only the size, but the brand and shade as well.
IKON'T give her things she needs for the house. She won'! regard this as a present at all.
DON'T give clothes, unless you're terribly sure of your own laste and here
Interesting
MY story last week of Lady MY
Jeilleoe becoming a work ing girl for the Arst time at 40 nus brought me other interesting experiences of the enterprising fortics,
I lunched the other day with two women who had never con- sidered a job until their sons went away to do military service,
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Ruth Stokes, married whoesale haberdasher was feel. Ing bored one day and answered on advertisement for an office cleaning supervisor.
Betty Marshall, wife of a bank **T official, had the same urge. had too much time to be ill and
what my doctor said
I needed was a real jub of work."
Once
own
Once they'd learned the bual ness they borrowed £200 capital and set up their
offee clooning concern.
That was in March 1955. By June they had landed their first big contract. Today they have a turnover of £50,000 a year.
Not bad going for two house- wives in their forties with time on their hands!
City and business notes cach day for possible contacts and reckons
to land one good contract for every 500 letters she writes.
Their business day starts at 5.30 in the morning, "but most of our hard work is shod by 9.00."
Now they employ an army of
married cleaners
"mostly women, they're so responsible"
-several supervisors and mechanic working full-time the various cleaning machines,
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Men are employed for the window cleaning and heavy jobs -"not so easy to manage as tha and they already women" have two vans for transporting heavy equipment,
Shipping offices, grain im→ porters, advertising agencies, oli compartes all come under their spit-and-polish care.
"But it's the modern offices women really
enjoy working it," they told me, and their chief grumble is untidy desks.”
How much time do these "Personal supervision has been
our success," says highly professional "Mrs Mops" the key to
huvc to devote to their own half-Irish Betty Marshall.
"I'm a perfectionist and really homes?
Not
Both enjoy good results."
much nowadays. Ruth Stukes"three-quarters have daily cleaning wonen, but Welsh and tone-deaf" is the slike to do their own shop- Sho studies the ping and cooking. business end.
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Some people will just call in ai flock of professionals and them decorate the house, the
party tables and the Christmas
tree. The results are exquisite, but they are also impersonal be- cause they lack the feeling of work that is done for the love of
it, not for gain.
Most of
this us love
extra
work. Our ingenuity and imagination get a workout and even the fle ones have chance to lend a hand, although everything may have to be done again afterwards.
for
made,
to
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There's 500 to be ribbons and Wreaths shined up, and co much to done that the house becomes a beehive of trustling activity.
Snow-making is one of the holiday projects family, especially the youngsters. Great big bowls of dry soapsuds egg are whipped up with an beater or electile mixer until they are stiff and frothy. Then spread they are ready to be with a spoon over Christmas tree branches, the leaves on the chimney piece and to specktie the door and window wreaths.
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Airliner's Holiday Dinner Equally Festive At Home
6HROUGHOUT the Melt 1 tbsp, meat fat in d "THR
holidays hundreds of large frying pan. Tum in the stuffing Saute until halt dry thousands of people will but not browned, be travelling by plane. But wherever they go, the gaiety and glamour of the season flies along, too," ob- served the Chef.
"For example, the head of the commissary of a world-famous airline gave me the appetising holiday dinner menu they wil Berve Perbops our readers would like to try it at home."
Airline Holiday Dinner
Mushroom Soup Assorted Relishes Roast Stuffed Turkey Condled Sweets Seasonable Vegetable Red Cranberry Relish Ringed with Pineapple
Choice of
Plum Pudding Brandled Mince Ple or Multiflavoured Ice Cream Cotice
The Christmas trays will hold favours: a miniature Santa Claus ur peppermint candy cane; spe- cial holiday mints shaped like ators, bells and Santas; asserted
By Eleanor Ross nuts and chocolates.
then
Oyster Crumb Stuffing: Add pt. shucked halved or conned oysters to New England stulling.
Cheese - Mushroom Crumb sumus: To the basic stuffing, add 1 c. coarse-grated sharp American cheese or cheese food, 2 tbsp. Ant-chopped pickle, 1 minced pecled section garlic and
15. chopped fresh mushrooms, Sausage Staffing: Slow-fry i 15. sausage ment until done.
Drain off the fat. Mish the sausage fine. Add to the basic New England stuffing.
Tomorrow's Dinner
Beet BouilloTA Liver Soute with Bacon Creamed Potatoes Buttered Carrots Green Pepper Coleslaw Blueberry Taploca Fluff Whipped. Topping
Cofice
Ten
Milk
All measurements are izvci; recipes proportioned to serve 4 to 6 Blueberry Tapioca Fluff: Heat the cotitents 1 (1 lb) can blue- berries and syrup. When bolling, stir in ⭑. quick-cooking tapioca; isp. salt, the Ane- Appetising Turkey Stuffings: grated rind 1 lemon and 11⁄2 tsp. Use slightly dried enriched bread, lemon juice. Simmer 10 rhin, enough for an 8 lb. turkey or 2 or until the toploca looks clear. (31⁄2 lbs.) chickens. Be sure to Stir occasionally. add little baking powder to
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Taste and add a little gronu- make the stuffing light,
inted sugar if necessary. Basto New England Stuffing:
Whip 1 egg white silir.. Fold Combine & c. (not fresh) curich in the tapioca; chi.
bread crumbs (packed ed
Balt, top, down), 2 tsp. pepper, 2 tsp. poultry season- It i ninazing what really Ing, 2 tsp. monosodium gluta- beautiful and artistic effects con mate, 1⁄2 tbsp, scraped onion and be crented with the aid of these 1 tsp. baking powder.
Stir in 2 c. hented reconsti- prop, when they are used with imagination. The suds dry in a tuted instant milk. few hours and last as long an the festivities.
Let the first layer dry, add a second layer. For a beautifully realistic
effect, sprinkle top with dry
sway flakes. Or, if you don't care how lavish you get, sprinkle it with cranberries, acquins or, bitter sweet berries.
If you want to use come of that fine satin ribbon that ban done duty in other yeate and which you cherish fon associa« tion's sake, just suds and press It. Tay a piece of wax paper over the ribbon when you press it to restore fis crispness.
A gentle uponging, with dry auds gives new life to artificial greenery. And ornamexits will shina lito new R you go over flem with a sixday sponge,
And did you know that pr mistoa tineol will gleami · again alter, a áóap and water bath? Bwish it through fulawarm muds and rinse, thai. iny. it on a lowri la dry.
And for another good, triok, rub cancion between 17011 #opped pola no that they won't drip or smelte when the time cean to guE CLARK LAS
Serve in sherbet glasses; suute with blightly sweetened shredded orange pulp.
Trick Of The Chef`· Dust liver lightly with thyme before sautering.
CHRISTMAS DINNER with all the tetminties and favours, tool-léservéd od festiva trays to travellers by nit daring the natidari
Here is a pink fallle evening dress by RAHVIS to attract every eye at the Christmas parties. It has the new "souffle" skirt which is short at the front and long at the back.
So you want to be a success?
Y
YOU want to be a success at those Christmas
parties? Here are a few tips:
• Enjoy your fallow guests; however long-winded, and keep
a few smiley for elderly relations, · ·
Say thank-you afterwards. Even if the evening has been a dead, lors, leave a pleasant memory behind. Thọ next invitation may be better!
• Drink what's provided and look happy about it.'
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Dress up for the occasion to add to the festive stone and for your sake and for everyono olse's-wear comfortable shoes.
Don't choose a party for tasting your drinking capacity. Play safe in public. Experiment if you wish at home! Even if you're dieting, taste your hostess's food. Don't be more than half an hour late arrivingor deporting!
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London Express Servica,
My new party look
'VE got a new look for Christmas. The picture shows me wearing a close-fitting nylon wig which turns me from a blonde into a copper-head.
They're becoming to popular for party wear, the only way of teating whether a girl's hair is her own nowadays is to pull it!
Upkeep is simple. It goes along to the hairdresser with you for a separate styling, tinting and shampoo and set.
By Eileen Aserbit.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Brighten soiled glazed chintz upholstery, and alip cover (not waxed-cósted élíní2) by fabrics, may be brightened in spreading it on a flat surface, the name way: and sponging it quickly with Jukewarm water. It pressing The handles of all saucepdny in necessary, uso a Jukewarm and skillets': should be furripd; fton and work on the wron away from the edge of tho dile of the chintz, or on the kitchen range. A protruding right side with a slightly dam handle is too easily hit, knock- Bened cloth over it. Ing the pant over. Make this a "Many printed, estióna grand habit especially if théig, dre
children in the house, Houweli
isyon