THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1959.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
Pee Wells
REPORTS ON THE WAY WOMEN TREAT THE JEWELS THEY HAVE -AND HOW THEY WOULD TREAT THOSE THEY LONG · FOR
Could YOU resist the lure
.
ALL YOURS
FOR £12,000
Ice...rocks...call
it what you Oke, It's the real stuff.
Work with
grace and tasto
-and a touch
of the dramatic.
PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE
Shelltox, the wonder insecticide containing
Dieldrin, gives your house invisible but absoluta protection against all common disease-carrying pests. To obtain best results,
follow carefully the directions on the tin.
SSHELL YOU CAN, DE SURE OF
SHELL INSECTICIDES
Shellfox
in a load
of diamonds?:
WOMEN are-whatever else they are-funny. Offer them mink. Some wouldn't take it as a gift. Wouldn't be caught dead in a mink- lined coffin. Some would give up 7,300 lunches for 20 years to buy it. Some, secretly, would love it--but forceps couldn't drag the truth out. And some can take it or leave it.
Offer women anything. Yachts, castles, cars, silver, furniture, art- even clothes,
Sorro women would dialo- cale their shoulder grabbing as much as they could get.
Some wouldn't bat an eye if they never had any,
Some would glance up from their novel, murmur
"Why. thank, you darling."
and go straight back to page 29.
Bat offer jewellery--and 90 women out of 100 will lick their lips, nod eagerly, streich out their hands and burble "Oh, yes, please."
It takes women differently. But it takes all women.
A
FOUR-YEAR-OLD FEMALE loves a boxful of junk jewellery. For hours she'll drape the pearls, put rings on every pin finger, and painstakingly on as many gaudy baubles as
there's room - for,
Like moths
TEENAGE GIRLS, and GVET their elders. #lock thick as motas around costume-jewellery counters. They "try" the neck- laces, the pins.
bright bit of glam sel in bruns, 1 would take's bei that there fxn't a wozesa in the ostmitry who doesn't own at least one piece of jewellary.
in
But for all this interest jewellery I would take another bet that not ono wapo 4,000 knows how to wear t
Watch one getting dressed for a party. Hair lacquered, face done, en goes the pressed dress. She's ready? In a pig's wro she's ready. She has only begum She reaches for her jewellery Lox, and the trimmings.
Dangly
་
The dangly covringa, the of pearls that she will TOWS wear twined in with crystal or
gold beads Then the bracelets The brooch to point up the bosom. The big "dinner" ring din one hand. A knuckleduster "cocktail" ring on the other; Then, it up like a battery of are lights, she's ready.
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Sate, uncontroversial and pack- ing as much decorative wallop as papler poudre.
Snatched...
Sandwichot between the Don't Knows and the Don't Dares is the runny lling of Don't Cares. You wouldn't think they'd own jewellery. But they do.
They own it. And they wear it. Any old way,
Chaty-brariots with ball dresses. Chandelier earrings Rhinestones
with blue jeans.
with twoed. Ceramic deer of poodles on chiffon dresses. Whatever Jewellery they have, they wear it as if they rep
holl all laid out on the front table and Just take blind,
charge by.
Ever Been Embarrassed By Cluttered Handbag?
Pelas photo
COFT A CO-KD'S carryalli Make one, with pockata to fila things. Cover your own buttons for handle trimming.
running snaich at it they YOUR BIRTHDAY
Lonesome
Way out in wilderness, a little colony into themselves, are the women who do right to jewellery,
rea! Some
SATURDAY, MAY. 16
BY STELLA
You enjoy going out in society, BORN today, you have most of
the qualifications at a stern die- and when you are in the mood you can be the life of the party. ciplinarian. There in a right and a wrong way to do something. Obvi- You will leave the library for the QUALY, YOUR way is the right une, drawing room any time there is and you can be quite starn with interesting: compraxi. You wamen who falls to fallow your are das inmemaker, and although
Some of them have Jewellery, Lucky them. haven't anything realer than a 'carat gold pån studded with Tall her she looks like the chunks of semi-precious stones.
Tell Most of them haven't got that, toggle-tangle gipates oh?
But they know how to put it for, then. She won't believe
She's on. And you She's put it all on.
when and what sections to the letter. You have you do bare business telesá, you leave T. ready. She's dressCE. mull
They know that one striking vaunting ambition sa reach your would prefer to use it in managing YOU WILL KISKO They
over earrings.
your own home. THEN TAKE LITTLE MISS plece worn alone is worth 10 frost Stokk you mine it will be They seriously.consider bruce-
* Ane partner for an ambitiate man, through na lick of you trying) She's over their TIMIT.
there niggly bila and beads. They Bamatize the maxim "any paste for you will understand his datená icts from every angle
and want to helpi crouching under that
looge now that one
gold to an end" can bogmeting, bringing hierry wrists can turn.
Among those born as this date uniqrtunate resulte. You will be boord at the for end of the bangle-real or fake is better uns to temper your demands with are: Philip Danforth Armour, intus. barn. She's shy, she is. Shy than a busy armful. That day-
traitsbeth Palmer Peabody, author and educator: Lavi P. and self-effacing. Fachows time earrings must
banker and diblomst: The star have given you talent, Morton. litter. When sher
16 dangle, and never have slones- wud fold she was
that
a single real or fake. They know that energy, and plenty of "t-up-and- William H. Seward, Becretary of *a." You have a good head for, State under Laurain Dougies By is only when the sun is well down business and probably will become neman, historian; Josephs Medili strand of cultured pearls
McCormick, legislator; and newe- what nice giris
Or a is the giliter to be trotted out. } gutia waaling during your lifetime.
will get you paper aWDER. heart-shaped locket on a silver They know in slut, that your self-reliance
to and what the stars have to Dat be Jewellery is damite. To be ples, but you
storm for you tomorrow, select your universalty Uked “because of your carefully handled and used methoda. Guard against fine pride birthday star and seed the corres
ponding paragraph. - Eat your birth- wearing these sparingly.
and a tendency to become gyer- bearing. London Express Serutės.).
day star be "your daily guide.
DOWAGERA STEF FROM DAIMLERS and do the same- but not at a crowded counter, For them a brocaded arischalt in the privacy of a panelled room, with velvet-lined leather cuses on a handsome table,
chala
Whether 10' · diamond stomacher, a string of yearts, She's been
wear.
a tarnished glik pin, or just a chaste, nusery items ever since.
From Out On
nevez
A Limb
I'm Telling You...
cousin but not for the hippe often are, wrong about fashion. hip look of the tailleur length. But they cannot be wrong about
a dumpy, that exposed square what they like. of skirt.
I PREDICT shoes wit stay pointed and that beets, no alter the pirlia will... get "slimmer. Promoters of egg-focs, poroda-toes, duck-hit-platypus tock, and sturdier heels will bo left whistling.
[I PREDICT all the cardigan suits 80 Loosely dubbed "Chanel-type" will room to such heights of strato- spheric popularity that only I PREDICT downteli for any spacemen will be able to see w dors to eve coloured stockings Who con. afford the top.
them? Or has the legs that And that the newest, nicest can afford such brutal delinea- way to Worthing all belon? Incoming Ughtest now! without those maddening, clut colour with golden overtoner.
they're Why! Beca UŠE
·kind, sering, tawdry bende,
even to women whose under- pinnings would be better under a plano.
I PREDICT the death knell for mchale and all kindred fuzz It will take some shovelling 10 bury it completely, but it will go thataway the same way. the Empire dress went.
1 PREDICT = modest boom for the slim, long-cost salt. Liker wise for its soven-cigbike and thredquarter length jacket
Household Hints
То prevent fermentation ar crystallisation at the top of jars of home-made jam add thres teaspoonfuls of strearing to every pound of "fruit when ranking the jam.
To
•
from remove mildew material, apply a paste made of two parts each of equal quen- titles of white soap and starch and one part kitchen: salt moistened With lemon juice.
car
swirls.
FREDICT that the
coat fabric of the future will be cashmere with rarer, costlier vicuma élbawing in on they act. The lining will be Siamean silk
and bands like the defence budget.
more diplomacy).
DLEY
SUNDAY, MAY 17
TAURUA
11-May LARY.
11)- After your usual moming devotions, spend the balance of the day in recreation suitable for a Sunday,
GEMINI {alay 12-June Plan a short trip for the day to visit close friends or relatives you I have not seen for some ilme.
CANCER (June 12-July
-
A church air this evening may Give of need your co-operation. your presence as weit as financial
Assistance.
LEO (July 26-Aug. 1)- Get outdoors today if the weaührer 1 pleasant. It will give your spirits as well as your health a lit.
VIRGO CAE. 24-Bapt. 13) You may have some studying to do. this weekend. Catch up on what you have been neglecting,
231- LIBRA (Sept. 26-Oct. Itetax tanaites today. Make no attempt to gilch up on baizvak Let wat wait usus fomores
M-NOW.
SCORPIO, (Oct. Take the Itad in some important matter. Perhaps your church or cemmunity needs your brain,
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. Zi-Dic, II)--- This could be a good day for family pichle if the weather is fo Healthful recreation, too!
CAPRICORN (0%. 2. – Visit acmeone you may NOT BATH good to renew the acquaintance.
for some time. It will be AQUARIUS (Jan. 11-15, 19— This is your day for letting-down tensions and relaxing. Don't do anything you don't have to.
FACES (PAD. This is a the-day for you. Apend..... time with members of your. Carmála and clase ebends.
ABIES
(Mar. TR-ADE. Pay a vitit, or invite friends to
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come and see you this afternoon
SUNDAY, MAY, 17
and inventive mind. You are deter you from true success in like. I PREDICT » sweeping return the cut will be so casual BORN today, you have an original this side of your nature or is can When depressed, you are not able -you'd swear it was done with a nover satisfied with things us they to neatness. Crisp or slick, hair easy knife...the colour will zen but seek to Emprove them. You to do, your best work,
Perhaps on solsition is to wed at will be smoother, longer. And a be neutral and black..........and are independent of the opintom of
fairly early age, finding somer brief- but certain lanings
athers. With a keen senis of duty to the bill for di will look to hus- Victorian
to your personal ideale, once you one who believes in your drains have set up standards, you will quite uelt as you do. THEN, ballerina drama.
Kullow them asiduously Your when you are discouraged, you can I PREDICT only a short run Investigative mind will be interested go to the one you love for encour I PREDICT the shirtwaist for the wide, wider, widest belt. in science, and with the proper rement and inspiration. Select
timinity.you right early make a dress will dig in so deep that. I PREDICT a rush on smooth game for yourself in the field of intellagh, Then, "as a team, you who has a challenging
nothing will dislodge it. It leather
wulte), experimentation, esttributing same will climb the success ladder, wAIN ||Faris drops shirtwaistą, shirt- handkerchief » welglik apedo thing important to the kuwveldge of camer
all mankind.
Among those bom on this duda walsts will not drop dead. Why? dresses pad skiria. Iista too lu There is another side to your are; Dr Zdward Jennet, discoverer Bause the push-up, longlah- both szmoth and mode. que character which CRLF for aristic of vaccine Tears darbuses, ther
someone
isleaved variety with a whoosh of don't hather turning your THE Expression.
are of
Dr Sebastian developer bi full skirt from beneath a ripped one funkle out, for is still will
happiest if youre and will be hydrotherapy icing Alfonso put
you can spend part of of Opsin
You your time in the country. it appeals to Englishwremt be sedly in next watum
To find what the stare hata sh amoother, - Uny-sleevedy
have romaniso stresic which ovan store for you tomorrow, select your straight-shirted" style has soldi 1 FREDICT, tearfully, that you do not quite understand, and birthday star, and read the CONTES
ponding paragraph... Let your Dirik- temily (through New Looks, whetever the fabrics whatever thom you are moody and de- sacks, and whatever) for the summer, whatever I say, the primed. You must be to curb day side be your daily, puidu. years in America. These women riot of ́- colour, Bower - print
110,000,000 of them-com be, dress will bloom again.
THE COST OF HIGH-LIVING
Day in the man, wash in cold This week's two most spine-obaking, guaranteed true, or lukewarm water, rinse, then | extravaganTORS. dry, in the usual way,
The chle London hairdresser who specialises in trimming
MONDAY, MAY 18-
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then follow it, GRE
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Canan 1 bables, and small childrente bar. The cut lelf, and ungu.
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of pumice stone. This will re Youre the dirt und will not in-
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When wasting black
ments add two" teaspoque" of borax to the water.
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With the now lease juri signed on a glorious Mayfair data young matron I know sallied forth to shop for drawing room Partnerslųp curtains Found
need your clown Just the ‹tigtl - wonderfil : Italian · daeratit. § jrug money probatski, atales Inyoiy- Consider, all utter of a week feng
before, going to law about it. The Absolutely the thing for the three 10ft, drawing room windows, Fatima, kewangan angka le remomgikes, differrien Dem.
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Bell-comfilence. 09 yards. At £20 o yard, her bill; 21,800 Not including,
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