By Josephine E. Law
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"I DO!"
by Majid, Gafoor THE modern age has paved the way for many a marriage. Let us see what the attractions are.
Here is Mr Smith who has
asked her rashly
said she couldn't, because the man told her not to mind; he wasn't going to hold it against her, even if she sang like a frog. So she sang like a frog!"
to
Big joke? The moral is not underestimate your voice, ever. It is every bit as much of your fortune as your face is. But I'm not going to tell you to take all sorts of tonics to prevent colds, unless you catch terrific ones that last practically all winter.
Colds don't do inestimable. damage of your voice! Remem→ ber the uproar Garbo created with her first 'talkie?'
Since this is a 17-21 Club, I ought to make myself clear. Remember the talk of the uproar Garbo created? Re- member Eartha Kitt, the girl who wanted to be evil? June Allyson? What's wrong with a raspy or if you must-husky voice? Nothing!
"A soft answer turneth away wrath." A soft and sweet answer can turneth away much' more besides. So, if it is soft, but you can sing a duet with a bullfrog, don't throw up your hands in dispair, but take stock of yourself and work at toning It down.
SHRILL VOICE
Nobody, but nobody, has a one note voice! A shrill voice should be toned down. Shrieky voices are especially hard on the ears as they tend to be unpleasantly ::nasal as well. The pitch can easily be corrected. To lose that nasal twang, try to talk in more of a whisper. The pinched effect comes from not opening your throat correctly.
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To know your voice as it is, use a tape recorder, Invite that radio, hi-fi, stereo, friend over, have him turn the right knobs and listen to yourself. Or you could stand in a corner with your mouth about four inches from it and act mad for the next few minutes. If you have been complimented on your pleasant- sounding voice, give yourself a pat on the back, you lucky girl! I know you should enunciate.
have But you don't
to give whoever it is you're talking to, a back, front and side view of your canines, molars, premolars, tongue and palate in recurring flashes. Nor do you want to talk with a typical British stiff swirling skirt. Looking at her upper lip' and give the im-dance in it is really something. pression of a piece of dead. It is so pretty just looking at inert flesh under your nose. If her that she usually ends up on in the company of strangers, no the dance floor alone.' (dancing one looks oddly at you (after partner understood) Need you you have made a perfectly
more persuasion? sane observation),.stares a little before breaking into a nervous, non-committal laugh, acts vague before saying some absolutely irrelevant thing. you can let someone else worry about their speech. (Of course, whoever it was you're talking to, may not ever be listening).
you,
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I have two such dresses for One is in a polished or satin finished cotton, striped. The little girl look is further carried out by the two bows at the sleeves for solid contrast,
The other is a ribbed cotton
affair. A row of tiny buttons
first few days he is much too blind to notice anything differ ent at home. His loving mate has lived up to all her pro- mises of making him happy.
THE CAREER CORNER
By ANNE
HEYWOOD
ON
MY very first job in-
terview
was
Then comes the day when the Royal Orders are given. He finds that the way of gov-nervous that I arrived 20 ernment is completely revised. minutes early and then, be-
cause I didn't want to seem: too eager, I walked around the block. It was a gusty December day so I arrived not only nervous but blown to bits.
His 'duties' DOW include washing dishes, cleaning win- dows, sweeping the floor and doing the marketing besides cleaning his car, fixing the roof and mowing the lawn (after any of these things are done, SHE declares that SHE is ex- hausted!)
His darling wife then tells him that it is absolutely neces- sary to have this and that and that all of which she had not had before she was married and had got on very well with-
out.
Promise
She uses the car and before going the first ten miles, wraps it round a telephone pole. He advises her to drive more care- fully next time and
she promptly says, "You don't love me! You never let me do any thing my way!" This is fol- lowed by several sobs and a sniff and at the drop of the curtain, he has promised her a new dress.
Shaving
And recently a friend con- she used to pray fessed that there'd be an elevator black-out when going to a job interview. Feared interviewers
"After all, most of the job interviews I had were in "Offices in skyscrapers and I used to pray for an elevator strike to save me from the horrors of the interview.”
Because nervousness in inter- views is a perfectly normal thing, it pays to learn how to handle it, since you'll probably. always have it.
Basic pointers
Here are some basic pointers:
Have enough interviews lined up. Have at least a dazen interviews in prospect. If you know you're going an just one of many, you won't be Dearly as ne vous as you'd be if you knew it was the one and
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LEARN TO
BE CALM
DURING JOB
INTERVIEW
She's At A Loss BoeszSO Can't Use Rehearsed Dining
to write up the office, ing the boss, his secretary, the receptionist and the furniture. Don't let yourself rehearse yourself and give you the slat
This will keep your mind The party outgoing look that gets people
PUPPY
LOVE
Then along comes junior. After some more harrowing years of changing diapers, buy ing baby clothes and wheeling the brat, Mr Smith, with quite an increase of grey hair, finally raises the child to teenhood.
Now junior goes
around in his snazzy shirts, strumming his only. guitar to the latest discs by Don't rehearse Belvis Blessme and Bat Boone. Mr Smith's wallet and his growth of hair join hands and dialogue it's fatal. grow thin.
Mrs Smith has, of the first part will never de- Hired. through experience, learnt to liver the lines you expect him, miss the telephone poles, but to and he'll throw you for a-- junior is making up for that loss, leaving all your nicely re- and turns out to be a better hearsed lines trozen on your telephone pole итаррет than tongue. And that will unnerve his mom had ever been.
you more than you can believe. During job-hunting periods, Junior has had his shaving take as good care of yourself day and is now a 'man'. He as a football player does during comes back one day with his season. Get plenty of sleep, head ringing and reciting fresh air and plain, wholesome nursery rhymes. Old man food. Stay away from late par- at once ties that leave circles under recognises the symptoms. He your eyes. You need to be alert, S has fallen for a member of the polsed and calm now more than 'weaker'(?) sex..
at any other time of your life. Junior tells senior that he is Line up a good-looking. taking her to the altar. In comfortable job-hunting COS- vain does Smith senior try to tume and stay with it, dissuade him, recalling at the it to each interview, even if same time how HE had told you're called back three times HIS pop of his intention. Now to the same office. It's just as junior was doing the same thing much of a mistake to display as it only, his style was more jazzed your sartorial variety
would be for the same soap to up.
have a different-coloured wrap- per each time you go to the I store to buy it..
Smith sees this and
Junior wins in the end and the following scene shows the 'loving couple advancing to say the words that has ruined many a good man—"I do.”
THE was so beautiful,
She was so fair, She had such long
And glossy brown hair,
Wear H Her teeth were so whlie; i
ER eyes glowed so brightly, "
My heart pounded swiftly, `
I
Twas love at first sight|
KNEW that I loved her, I knew she'd be true; vowed that I'd have her, So what did I do? -- ZAR DASHED in the pet shop!
And came out in time, Followed by a sweet poppy,
Who'd always be mine! -Credit card to Linda Ann Wi Hongkong,
what I
Try to forget what the in- terviewer thinks of you, and Sometime ago, I was told that
concentrate, rather, on a bouffant dress with bouffant run down the centre of the This, I believe, is where I
you think of him, sleeves did wonders for making square-necked bodice. Rows of came in, so if you'll kindly
girl look feminine, His narrow lace suggest tucks. If open the door I'll go keep my Pretending helps exact words were.....she's you go for the provincial look, appointment with my wife-to- rather slim, and the wide sleeves this would look good in ging- be. Credit
Majid look very dainty, especially the ham.
Gafoor, Hongkong.
a
--Credit card to Roy Fay, Kowloon.
card 'to
Pretend
you're a newspaper.
reporter and that you will have
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TO SOMEONE
Pre trodden all paths on earth, I've seen all trees, far and near, How much mem'ries worth recollection, Tell me, my Lover, canst thou hear?
can't forget thy weary looks,
I knew thy implicit love for me, Thon tooketh me to a blissful dream, Yet thy visage left my mental sea!
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My Love my dear broken-hearted My sweet desire whom I first blessed,
I cared only for the Rose all day,
But made the Orchid feel distressed!
Credit card to Peter Ignatius Wong, Kowloon.
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