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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1959.
*** PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
Anne Scott-James From VERONICA PAPWORTH GOING PLACES?
BE
Says I'll make a take-over
with YOU in mind...
•
get In every
I would have fewer staff and
pay them more. I would run a five-day week on a shlet system,
EING a milionaire in Courses they
not usually one of my American store. favourite dreams., I have, Thought a lot about winning Wimbledon, being a great beauty, or marrying Orson Welles, but not about get- ting in the big money.
But this week, I would like to slap in a surprise bid, and
buy a nice, big shop and run it my way. I would like to con- found the City men-who would be waiting like undertakers to bury the body--by making a success of my little venture and doubling the value of the shares.
Sold Ma Fraser: "And tell your staff what you're doing. Have meetings and keep them posted on your plans How can they take an Interest if you leave them in the dark?!
the household
They
I'd study and decoration departments in America. not only sell things, they offer Acrvices. They stock rudy- misle chintz curtains, they will remodel your hall,
r
a fur
house-
excellent, the
Here, women are becoming mudly houseproud. A I have been putting my shop plan to the great Mr Hugh frigerator comes before Fraser,
bidding for coat. But though our who is Harrods, a twinkling. dynamic hold goods are Sectsman with the lean charm fitting and servicing are third- of Bub Rathbone. He shot out rate, ZÜMLE crisp comments while munching strawberry tarts
answering anvi telephones.
Sald Mr
"We've
Frazer: cream Fenreely begun to lap this mor
three kel. And never underestimate the customers' taste, Trade UP all the time;"
He was too busy saying "add another million" to a
steedy to enhance your special beauty.stream of callers to give me his theories on running a shop, so, Shown-a crisp silk stripo
never backward, I gave him
and cotton silhouette, with box-pleated flare skirt, puckered back for maximum flattery. Gold, Turquoisa or Plum,
OBTAINABLE AT ALL LEADING STORES
Headaches
"Toothaches
Colds
are quickly overcome by
CAFASPIN
minu.
Here is what I'd do if I could take over a big store anywhere (it needn't be in London) with a few of Mr Fruser's cracks.
I'd plunge
like a lunatie
the telephone I'd jack W
system. The tele- phone is mui a new-fangled gadget to be resented. It is an essential service. There should be telephone clerks in every department to cope with cua- tomers' colis, and klocks On every floor for customers' use.
two genuine sales
I'd hold a year, in June
on the For- and January, and I would kill gotten Sex. I would double the all the others. Women are business in clothes and gadgets growing suspicious of sales, and for men. Five new men's shops too many de-class a good store. open in Britain every month. This is a soaring market,
Five years ago, a good, red- blooded Englishmen was pretty dident about wearing anything brighter than a heather mixture cardigan. He shuddered at his wife's birthday the.
Mr
* Said
Fraser: "I'm pushing our sales back a week every year. I'd like to BEC summer sules starting at the end of Jurie, not a day before."
the timing
I'd improve and sizing of
my fashion stock, which often for bears no relation to what the I would stop has customer wants.
Now, he has ⚫ dazzling wordrebe of Casual clothes, pays through the nose fantages from Italy, aweaters that range from char- coal cashmere to led-blue alpaca with clamen borders.
This man is the customer 1
want.
I
selling cctions in January. would have fewer models, but a full range of aizes and colours for each dress. If I advertised ''dress; the supplies would be
three.
Sold Mr Fraser: "And don't forget the yachting clothes. Snapped Mr Fraser: "Can't Everything to do with boats think what you're grousing is good."
about. This is done in all my shops now."
I'd make
д drive
for
*
better sales I'd deal helpfully staff. A shop can have lovely
goods and throw them away if
complaints,
I know customers
with
can be
the people who sell are bored maddening, but so can shopa
and mosty. We all know the` girl who says: "Nothing in your size, Madam
me
Shops tell that getting terrible good sales staff is a hragache. It is not considered a prestige job. It is a five- and-a-half-day week. Girls will not accept the training
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THE QUEEN SETS THE STYLE
Is the Queen a style setter? Yes, say I, when she wears anything as pretty, as copyable, and as typically British as this flower hat,
If you have a grievance, you want to get it to someone who matters. You do not want -a duplicated letter from a clerk.
STORIES
Purr-Purr's Secret Wish
-She Wants To Live In A Tree As The Birds Do-
By MAX TRELL
"Right." said Purr-Purr. "And what did you do then,
naughty Kitten?
You ITANID Look Purr-Purr, the you
Black Kitten, in her lap. gathered together a lot of twigs "Now,
my dear Purr-Purr," and dried leaves, bits of string and le said Hanid, after she had look- and strips of raga ed the Kitten sternly in the eyes patches of old newspapers and for a minute or two. "I'm sur- you built yourself a nest." prised at you for even thinking of such a thing. What ever made you think a Cat could live in tree?"
Only Meowed
"That's what the Birds do," said Purr-Purr. "If Birds can do it, so can Cats."
"Cats don't live in nests," argued Hanid. "Cats live in
Might Grow Wings
Hanid waited for Purt-Purr houses." to say something. Pur-Purr opened her mouth, but all that came out were several sharp meows.
Hanid couldn't
understand
what the meows meant.
Then, suddenly, Hanid re- membered.
She reached into her apron pucket and pulled out a blue silk ribbon. She hung it around Furr-Purt's neck.
This was the magic talking ribbon.
„Regular_Words...
Instantly Pur-Purr's became regular words.
meows
"I don't know what you mean
by saying that a Cat can't live
in a tree," she said. "Birds live
in trees, don't they? If Birds con, I don't see why Cats can't." "That's just it," "Hanid braku in, "Cals aren't allowed to liva in the same place as Birds,”
"I don't see why not," Purr-Purr, "I like Birds.”
#Aki
น
“Of course you do," agreed Hanid. "But they don't like you." Likes Birds
bad,"
"That's just too Pur-Purr "I like Birds better than almost anything I can think of, except. inaybe Miro."
"Oh, you're a very naughty Kitten" old Hanid,
"Now let's talk about what you just tried to do. You climb- nd up to the roof of our house, thin you" jumped keroks
into
|the big bragich, of the simia, tren |where the Bobina and the Bear- [rowa, live, That's ¦ zight,en't
**Maybe," said Purr-Purr, "I
By this time, I suppose my crphans would be penniless, shop would be bust, the shares thanks to me, would
worthless, and I think I'll go in with Mr thousands of widowe and Fruser.
FOR
· K-18]
Hinft waited for Parr-Parr to say something.
1 lived in that tree long enough in a house anyway. It's com-
BOYS
Pack-Up With Katie Moss, Wife Of Racing Driver Stirling
By
Mary Hampson
WHATEVER husbands may claim, nine times out of ten it's the wife who is left to do the packing ..... still sitting on the floor at midnight, trying to move a mountain of clothes into a few | small suitcases.
་
And she's the one responsible for anything left behind!
Criticism is easy (and husbands are good at it!) but what we need is help. That's why I sent an S.0.5. to an expert.
*
SHE is Katie Moss, wife of
racing driver Stirling. And what Katie doesn't know about packing 't worth re- membering.
has
tellly petticoat you'll pro- bably wear it once
and you
could use the room it takes to pack four slim dresses and two pairs of slacks.
Remember: belts and spare gloves,
She News In a suitcase, and 3. Cover the bottom layer in your case with strong paper or Bottom on which you can pack plastic and you've made à false dresses and overblouses (the overblouse is an excellent way of giving a dress a new look).
packed in a hurry for journeys which have taken her from Le Mans to Salt Lake City. from Monte Carlo to Hongkong The evidence of travel is all over the Moss fat in Kensing ton, London. Even a cushion is embroidered with the
werds: "Flye Countries in Fifteen Days."
☆ ☆ ☆
Remember: a Buffy stole, spare coat hangers, masses of tissue paper to put inside dresses before you fold them,
Pins: It's well worth pinning lepels and pleats to make sure they don't got turned back in
have a plan, "You must
Boys Katie. "And you the crush, MUST make a list. You'll thìnic you're writing a book before it's finished, but it's worth It.
0. Pack his case with the trousers first, then the shirts. Fold the shirts as they are when
"Put down everything you you buy them now. Up the think you'll nced -- then halve ties in stiff paper in the neck of it. Then when you know what 'the shirts. you're taking, pack to
plan:-
1. Fill shoes with jewellery, stockings, soap, and small odd
люлв.
Remember: cleaning fluid, razor and blades, needles and thread, sun tan creams, sticking plaster and a little plastic clothes-line.
Remember: ang special clipa he may need for the collar or ties, cuff links, spare studs, adaptor for electric razor,
7. Pack Jackets-1 guarantee to pack öne that will arrive looking as though it has just come from the tailors. Silp your hands in the top of the sleeves and pull the shoulders inside out. Fold the lapels inside the suit and then fold the jacket horizontally over the pockets.
Remember; if you're travelling
car cleaning
or plane, a plastic wardrobe is your best bat, That underclothes and way, you just hang the suits awesters between shoes-they'll and that's that:
2. Wrap shoes in tissue paper for, better still, those little plastic bags you can buy for sandwichest) and line the bot- tom of your case with them.
Remember: shoe materiala und spare laces,
3. Crum
by
stay clean, thanks to the plastic 6. Put his underpants, socks, bugs, Down the side of the case,,swimming trunks into tissue put your permanently pleated paper, and cram them into his skirt it won't mind if it lives shues.
up to its name!
Remember: All your stock
ings should match.
4. See that all your clothes
9. Put his shoes into plastic
bags and pack on top of the
case.
10. Tell him it's safe to come
are interchangeable, Don't lake out now. All he has to do 25
full-skirted dress and a ait on the lid
| one
& GIRLS
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
THESE TRIOS
E has something in common, Evangeline Amoreau, t
Нелку
James
and that is that each has the Longfellow. C. Timrod. same arst name. Can you pick-
Was
Which the person who is described in bachelor president? A. Buchanan. each statement?
B. Moncos. C. Polk. 1. Which William was the 5. Which Hernando diacover- A. 25th president of the United ed the Mississippi River? Slates? A. McKinley, B. Har- Corten. B. Dasota. C. Magellan, Juan discovered 6. Which rison. C. Toft,
2. Which George was a Civil Florida? A. DeLeon, B. De Solis, War general? A. Washington. C..Cabrillo,
H. Patton. C. McClellan,
7. Which John DS famous
Camels Mean Luck
I mean if you hadn't made me fortable. It never raing-in and
21 Arab boy or girl get of that tree-I would everybody in the whole house,
all the were to count have grown wings Just like a loves you dearly." Bird."
"Okay," sakt Pur-Purr. "IT words for camel that he "Oh no," said Hand. "Cats keep out of that tree. But I still know, he might be counting can never grow winge
can't understand why the Birds for a long time. "Mice can," said Purr-Purr. don't like me ne much as I like
There are over 1,000 dit- "They're called Bats.
I them." OIL suppose I'd better not by Then Hanid took the magle ferent words for camel in live in that tree again."
talking ribbon from Pur-Purr's the Arabic language. neck and put it back in her
Lo
"Now, that's a good Kitten" said Hanid, as she patted Purr Purr gently on the head.
apron pocket. And Purr-Purr There is a word for a camel didn't say another word. She who limps and another, for a You just let the Birds live in just curled up in Hanid's lap camel who is blind and so forth., the tree. It's much better living and purred.
Rupert and Raggety-10
With, more and more difficulty, awful," he pulls. "I wonder it Rupert pushee himmelf up the that Imp knew that I should yes. alopa of the Consmon. The rose auch a hard wind when he told Log noise osaggin louder than...... me to come this way.", Nasr Bản. westy and, à. burniane of wind be meg a larger solitary CEM IN prashes aglángt skum fylffulde on that (ing) the "jpiKORT KOI ground to move at all. "" "This la mentale on es crouch harsh ) 300-
If the youth should see a black camel, he would bo 2 black trightened because eamel is a sign of death.
THERE ARE,
OVER 1000 DIFFERENT
WORDS FOR
CAMEL NI
ARABIG
A camel is also considered lucky. In Persia, a boy wears a anall cloth camel on top of ħla
There 'are special camel vet- hat to protect him from evİL
Sometimes children ше a erinarians. They treat eye dia- and other Ill- camal skin for a sort of raft or enres, lamencos water wings.
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Camels are branded too, just
"The · brands, "are; Uke cattle..
A camel can carry 500 pounds or more on his back for duyu at
shoulder.
EORG
JOE
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BILL
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NK
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for ils drawings of birds? Burroughs. B Audubon, Muir.
Au
8. Which Thomas painted "The Blue Boy"? Ai Eakins. H. Lawrence. C. Gainsborough.
9. Which Robert bulk the drat
steamboat? A Peary.
B. Lamunt. C. Futoni
10. Which Francis wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner? A. Bellamy. B. Key, C, Parkinan,
" AND NOW, - try these just- ||for-fun rissiem
1. What is - always : behind time?-
a. When is it right for you! to lie?
3. When la a klam (book not a blue book? SELAMENT
4. What “redĪLIS,
ngwe
a time. On caravans special lite placed on the necks and", "lett tors or chairs are arranged, on their back for people who are not used to, camel-back travel." Regular fraveller have ste cial camel enddies. Bempatan stomach. He can go. three days) alphabet?", worden „grind gynim sit have litile, siersa un top of the
A camal does not carry water | than a pig in a sty? ABPM
in his hump, but in an oxirą,
without water.
5. What bird 18 a letter of the
10, What animal do you look [like when you go in mimming?
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tain a reindeer: "
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