THE TYRANNICAL TEEN
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ERE was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead.
was horrid.
...
earned dollars..
"
Lin was
discussing
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By Josephine E. Law
SINCE separates are so popular with the younger
here is the low-down. Unless you have flawless clothes sense, avoid wearing separates that sport different designs.
Times over
I had read the little dear up already and wash tellectual. She can hold a con- little verse at my daughter's ing a couple of her daddy's versation for hours with her bedside, each time noticing that shirts it brought a paternal tear friends on the phone. But I she got a little older. Now she to my eye to see her press the must admit it is exasperating has reached the age when she buttons on the washer all by sometimes when such occasions doesn't want just one little curf herself.
arise when Daddy-O has to in the middle of her forehead, But then, how was I to know phone his boss about a million but prefers. (in plainer language, that over-sized shirts did look dollar project. insists on) having the bouffant so good with jeans as her look, which cost me twenty-eight mother tactfully told me when I I know it was terribly un- whole honest-to-goodness-well- returned home just in time to important when compared to There is only one chance in
wave goodbye to Linda Sue, what
about with
ten when you can get away It's true that Linda Sue is a who was wearing my best shirt (incidentally, it was
wearing two different Jenny's sister's friend's cousin checks, but just you try com- good little girl, and very, very to a hay ride.
However, to return to good too....Why, just the other
the who bought a hat exactly like binning a stripe and a floral! is- very
in- the one the charwoman has morning I awoke to find the point, Linda Sue
had for years). So I decided You are safest with a pat- to phone at the Joneses next termed top and a solid skirt. If door, only to discover that the you are slim, and there is person at the other end of our nothing short of vertical stripes line was the Joneses daughteri slim girls can't get away with, you want to show-off that oh- 90-chic slimness in a fitted skirt.
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華民國
王雄生題,
Credit card to Dawin H. S. Wang, Hongkong.
Reel Corner
KATE
O'REILLY
When
BERSERK
occasions arise when all the homework is done, and If you can't see yourself in the TV has gone berserk and this category, even with your
half-closed and when the phone is out of order, eyes
your and so is the record player, and imagination running wild, you because there's a storm raging had better haul out mother's outside which prevents Linda dieting tips, meanwhile keeping and simple. Sue from going to her friend's to gored skirts house, and her friends from styles! coming to ours, I get an opportunity to have a heart to heart talk with my "little girl" telling her to take all her troubles to me.
SLIM
You may have heard that slira skirts fit better when. lined. Here is some more; shorts ought to be lined if they are made in a white or thin fabric.
I hardly expect her to take such advantage of the invita tion but at about three
One of the privileges of being o'clock (A.M.) one day I
young is being able to wear all was awakened by my little the new, bright colours. Make girl informing me that she the most of colour, psychologists just had the "horriblest dream say that it makes food appetis. ever," and staunchly refusing ing, homes livable and women to get back to bed because the closet in her room had been opening all by itself, inch by inch! And so was the one in
beautiful!
tiro
with a bright coloured shirk Save the sombre greys, browas tails of which are creating and: blacks for the time when impression through your skirt, your half-si to the stage tuck them to my room! With a yell, Linda you have come
where they do something'
Wear wash and wear fabrics your clothes tend to look though you have just taken over- out of a five by six (inches)
Sue jumped into my bed- curlers and all.
A second later she was fast
asleep. But not me.
you; *
Neatness cannot be
for
I found stressed A good-looking dress That's not being fair to yo those curlers hard to put up with. can look so much better looking dress, much less being fair
washed, ironed and yourselft! Then I had a brainwave. Why if it is
I have illustrated for you
a
not sleep in Lin's room? So I starched. There is nothing so went, but couldn't sleep a wink demoralising as a dress that is all night because I was sure the limp, a dress that does nothing shirt cut along the classic thes those wonderful, wash ʼn wears. closet door WAS opening little for itself, can't do anything for with roll-up sleeves in cos of
you! :
Hongkong
bave by little all by itself!
shops You don't want to look like wide range of such shirts to the last rose of Summer in choose from. January-ready to drop!
Next morning I was roused by my girl with "Hey Pop, remem- ber you told me to wake you at five thirty because you were going on a fishing trip at with your boss?"
Another very important item
If you are really ambitious,
six for summer is the deodorant, at you could make your own Bay which you might scoff, but which a Simplicity pattern froen Swin- has no equal in improving public dou Bookshop and make up your mind to read all the fine petat. relations.
the They are really worth trouble (the patterns), as they usually offer alternatives and a different fabric makes a wuid of difference.
She paused and planted a smack on my prematurely
If you are inclined to forget thinning pate and went on: "Well, it's nine forty-five now." about yourself, at least think of But Linda Sue is learning the poor, suffering soul, who will how to get about on her own while you blithely hold onto the be sitting there dying by bits, POW. There she goes down
bar above his head! the drive on a camping trip- the real rough 'n' tough kind, and she's got my fishing tackle, my tent, my camping equip ment, my car and she bought If you've tried everything and To do that, however, you hayr in the
we'll to have some elementary know- food al with her own still sweat like a horse, allowance, with eight months give you a C for effort Per- ledge of dressmaking; you have of it wheedled out of me-in ad- haps, you could experiment fur- to have some hazy idea
ther, and stay away from carrots,- cutting it this way instead of sugar and cats?
that won't have you ending Another thing, if you are with a lot of little pieces wearing a light coloured skirt nothing!
Then, with a little imagination and a flare for taking shortcuts Deodorants are usually anti- and detours, you could end up an entirely unexpected perspirant too and can be bought with style. at any local dispensary.
HIS is Janette Scott, and if you want to see her she
on show
is in the film, "The Devil's Disciple"
Hongkong this week.
This is quite a
break
vil's Disciple"
for
vance.
Credit Card to Antoinette Rozario, Kowloon.
that
Janette, for although "The De- in was made
England, it is underwritten by Hollywood, and takes Janette among the Hollywood stars.
Janette is the daughter of two well known English showpeople -actress Thora Hird. and musi- cian Jimmy Scott.
With such a background, it is no wonder that Janette broke
was
into show business while she was quite young, for she only two years of age when she appeared in a film called "Went the Day Well?"
During the war while Janette was a child, she appeared in a number of films which starred famous English actresses.
In 1948. Janette made her mark as a child actress in "No Place for Jennifer" with
Leo
Then came TV, and Janette began to star in all the im- portant shows.
At Christmastime, 1957, Genn and Rosamund John. Janette played Peter Pan in the This established her as Eng- traditional London production land's leading child actress and of that name. She had to do
become she followed up with major that, for it has juvenile roles in "The Galloping tradition that every actress who Major" "The Magic Box," and is going to star must obtain that "No Highway In The Sky." role..
Branching out, Janette ap-
peared on the London stage in
a
In spite of all she has
The Third Person," and "The achieved in England she is un- Private Life Of Helen."
known in the States. Or should At that time she also broke I say, she was unknown. For Dato radio work and made her the "Devil's Disciple" has been debut as Little Nell in the BBC released in the States, version
and
went down in a big Charles Dickens' Janette of "The Old Curiosity Shop."
way. Go and see for yourself.
·Credit card to Roy Fay, Hongkong.
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