THE" CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER --G, › 1959.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
HERE'S MY IDEA OF BLISS
Home... and
nothing
to do but
POTTER
THE advantages of being what is euphemistically known as a Career Girl are many as no doubt the average housewife will be infuriated to hear once again.. But those advan- tages are not all they seem.
To my friends who sit at home happy as birds on their nests, it appears (on the very rare occasions when my "work" crops up in conversation) that my life is one fas- cinating whirl of "all those divine men"
expense accounts, unlimited free clothes "after the models have worn them" "such interesting people" and "what is Gites like I mean really!
A non-starter
Since I claim to be married to the most "divine" of men.. am two inches shorter in the waist than the average model and have never set cyes on Giles, my career, conversationwise, is generally a non-starter.
What is guaranteed to keep the girls arguing for the next 20 minutes is my firm bellef that for every woman who works, there is nothing to equal the delights of HOME. When she can get them,
home
Home without the routine. with all the time in the world to do all the thousand and one things 1 am always meaning to do Oh, the bliss of it!
Like almost every other woman. I'm a born "putterer." The trouble is that, given a sudden, unexpected 48 hours in my house on my own-gs happened to me lust week I simply could not think where to begin.
Shave our heads?
"Let's do something absolutely mad," said I to my son who had stayed behind with me.
"Like shaving our heads?" said he
happily.
"Not exactly-something my face, sipping icedrum drinking?" that would still seem funny and Comorrow."
yoghourt,
peeling "Only a very small rum TUBE-patterned wallpaper off and yoghourt and I don't In the end we wallpaper- my legs and wondering if I really like it. I'm just har ed the insides of some might due the dog blue." ing fun alone." cupboards (in
great #
She was round like a "Are you all right, dear?
Bay you were flash to satisfy herself I
splashy rose print) with Did you
striking, if
resulta.
amateurishr,
But it was not quite what
I had in mind.
Inevitably we are all of
us, business women or home birds, caught up in 1 routine of some kind-cat- ing at mealtime, ducking into bed at bedtime, wash- ing our backs, taking our turn. standing in line, minding our own business, keeping to the left... and
BO ON.
The choice
Occasionally comes. the urge to stay in bed till tea- time... to talk to total strangera
...to
choose
lobster for breakfast... colour-rinse the dog aky blue... sleep out under
BUT CHOOSE YOUR PARTNER WITH CARE
INTRODUCING the just-above-the- ankle-length gown - the most interesting nows in formal evening dressing to come out of Paris.
This one in heavy white guipure lace has a black velvet ribbon sash
I like the length....
BECAUSE it is manageable. BECAUSE it is comfortable to dance in.
BECAUSE one could get in and out of a present-day car gracefully when wearing it.
But this new length, frousing first attention on the homiine, demands pretty
Which mean
feet and perfect shoes. picking your dancing parties earefully -and no reußied tocs.
The cape covers a low-cut evening dress with shoulder-ine dippină almost to the waist at the back.
Capes are news. Princess Alexan- dra's Australlan tour wardrobe includes
a beauty in sharp red over a matching
'Dronc de dah mendest. Plezanu wy eine Adriaan.
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Make The Most Of Beans
Dake the best use of
most honie-makers
dried benne?" the Chef ask-|
"Unfortunately, Chet, they do not," I told him. "Probably because many do not know how to use them, or feel they take 100 long to prepare.
08
"Dried beans are vahmbie foods. They re classed Įpecondary proteins. But add a ttle meat when cooking them, or serve them in a meal contain- ing a small amount of meat, fish, cheese, ex or milk, their pro- teins are completed and activa- later,ted and they become important
body."
hadn't taken leave of my senses.
Twenty minutes
smothered in toning tonic protein building blocks in the mask, she tried out her first iced rum and yoghurt.
She loved it.
Vee Pee Again
Buying furs? Then watch
your line
A pear shape into a shaggy- WONT GO—well, dog shape not with any success fashion- wise,
"Never mind. After all there must be some good in the beastly thing though for Ting part I..
THERE IT IS AGAIN, by your NOSE!
"Don't... oh why did you
twitch?
the stars... see what pale is regrettable but muggly and soft, make a singu. Don't excito it!
green pearl
varnished toenails really look like.
Maybe I got as close as any woman could get to un entirely feminine picnic at home on the evening of my 48 hours' semi-solitude.
I was lying in my bath when the telephone rang. It was one of the nicest and most sensible women know.
Reply
I
"What are you doing. dear?" she asked. "Aro you utterly miserable on your own
"When you telephoned," I
told her happily, "I wan
lying in a radioactive ther
true that the average British woman is five feet two and pear-shaped.
Gurv
of a The results published by the Stationery Omen are available, price is. 3d, to prove 11
Which means that she must
For A Main Dish
"Par example, Madame, if one served plain baked beans for the main dish the protein needed could be furnished by a first coume of sardines or ham mlad- etter; or a cream soup or coltage cheese on lettuce,"
"Or it could be in the form of la dessert mitch as lee cream, or a custard ar pudding, Chef, made with milk and egos. A meal based on dried beard once or twice a week adde variety and is in real money saver,”
Tomorrow's Dinnor
Cabbage-Colery Blaw Boston Baked Beans Barbecued Frankfurters Fried Tomatoes Sauteed Groen Peppers Fruit Cocktail Ple Coffee
TCA
Muk
All Measurements Are Level Recipes Proportioned to Serpa 4 to 8 Cooked Blad Dressing: Melt 215 thep, butter or margarine in
a qt. double boiler top.
"I've missed it again. "Just keep calm, dear. Now look-there's one in your tea!
"Crush it with your spoon, It's too near drowning dear. Considembic pitfalls lle ahead to care about us. for her too in the shape of fur
saich crush it, dear-end trimmed coats and sulis fox forgot the squelch. Be ruthless, autumn and winter..
move, dear. "Don't Glant bolater collars, all there's another under your hat: larly unbecoming line-nuing In from the tip of the ear to the shoulder seams-creating
1 tbsp. cornstarch. Deat and add 1 egg. Stir in c. sweet seemingly neckless wonder,
"Please, please stop lushing or commercial sour cream, of The wide, long-haired variety
They only sting] undilitedi
milk: evaporated can be even more remarkable out like that.
| Cook-stir over boiling water conjuring up on impression of when they're frightened.
"Now here's ANOTHERİ until it thickens. the head served up on a hairy
and they've both settled in the Then, with rotary beater, plate.
gradually beat in 4 c. cider Look before you leap at those jam Sweet!
calm "Koop perfectly furs--look at yourself full- they'll stay there.
and vinegar. Cook and beat about
Keep Calm
Stir in up. dry mustard,
lep, sall, thap, sugar and
length and from all angles. "Relax, dear. Fear is so easily min, or until the consistency of
THE GREAT
OUTDOORS
WHAT
leavy cream.
*
transmitted to dumb animals. Refrigerate in a covered jar. Even the humblest of creatures; · Fruit Cockta!!
just let me roll pe pie shell know it up me napkin, dear. Thero's a
Before baking, pro beauty creeping quietly round naked coconus Into the crust
your neck, arid
Pie: Bako
dry
"There whatever possessed the edge. Prepara 1 pkg, any always say you to jump? I missed it again desired Vitamin C fruit gelatin there's nothing quite Well, I'm very sorry, 1 certaining only 1 o. water, Be
frigorate untill syrupy: like ten out of Boors. Yes, you by had no intention, of hitting And 2 e, drained canned frutt sit here and I'll all here and you in the cyet sundwiches, deart a
The poor thing'e frantic and "Now keep PERFECTLY no wonder.› STILL
don't MOVE, Ia de calm All I wanted was only a wornt
for us to take tea out of doors "Oh. Bereand I missed it, rojoicing in the blowings mataro and A. ohf., on!
mal bath with a rejuvenat-practise considerable restraint Was that your car, deary fug, toning tonic mask on | when choosing fure,
"Bo sorry,
cooktalk. Retrigerate unti ben ginning to thicken; spoon Into the ple shell Refrigerate 3 lus., or unit firm
Top' with whipped cream, OT dust with pre dry flaked coco« -mut, tonated pale betereni
LADY
your
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LUCK
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER -5
AQUARIUS (January 21- VIRGO (August 22-Septem.
February 19): Since you dislike unpleasant scenes, you must try, and avoid un- necessary arguments which lead nowhero.
PISCES
(February 20- March 20): You will con- tribute considerably to the
. great success of a party to which you will be invited at the last moment.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don't be tempted to lose control of your emotions, But keep seme things un- sald if they are likely to get you into trouble. TAUNUS (April 20-May 20); A few days of completo rest will do you a world of
good and help you to solve your most urgent problems. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): An experience gained some time ago will serve you well. when encountering a rather delicate situation at home. CANCER (June 22-July 21): Although the family may disapprove of your ambi- tions, don't let their attitude hamper your progress. LEO (July 22-August 21):
Your uncritical love for those near you is liable to make
you overlook any faults they may have.
ber 22): Since you find it Ad difficult to break away from your daily. routine, you ought to 1190 every spare moment for relaxing pastime.
some
LIBRA (September 23-Octo-
bor 22): You will be able in the not so distant future to reveal your true feelings to a person who until now bas thought you rather cool and distant. SCORPIO
(October 1921- November 21); Since you possess the necessary mental and physical equipment, you can accept, an unusual challenge without hosita tion.
SAGITTARIUS, (November
T2-December 21): This Cought to be a day full of Interest for you which may mark the beginning of a Justing association, CAPRICORN (December 22-
January 20) Your couraga and faith are most enviable traits and are an inspiration to others to face life with greater fortitudo.
LUCKY ENCOUNTER: If this is your birthday, a meeting with a man named ROGER May bavo some special significance.
SPECIAL OCCASIONS:
"Important visitors, V.I.Ps for Fred ... and a strenuous time for me too... after that long drive on their last after- noon showing them some of the sights... we had only enough time to bathe and and then toe took them for change... dinner to one of the newest nightspots... I might have thought I'd be just a little tired... but it turned out to be a
***Thank partly to that Knight's Castile bath... as always!"
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