THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1961.
WEEK-END
Now that
Margaret has got Tony out from under
her feet...
By SHIRLEY LOWE
ANTONY
ARMSTRONG-JONES
has
started work. I don't know how he fools about it, but I'll bet his wife, Princess Margaret, is pleased to see him go,
Togetherness may be all right for a couple who live in a palace, with plenty of ante-rooms and corridors to lose each other in, but the Arm- strong-Joneses don't live in a palace.
They live in an ordinary-sized family house, and for the past few months the Princess must have found her husband getting under her feet the way any other woman would.
hes
To start with, a man around It has been even worse, in a
the house, as Princess Margaret
already discovered, in variably causes servant problems. When the woman comes to do out the sitting-room her husband is in there with the morning рарега. When she serves lunch he han Just popped out for a
· inorrent,
It's tough socially too. One of the richest men I know has three servants and a wife who works harder than the average navvy. His wife is his social secretary as well as his housekeeper.
SHOPPING TOO She hea to write all the letters, ring up all his friends and SCTVO anything from cocktails and snacks to a four- course meal, at the drop of a hat.
She never has time for friends of her own, or the opportunity to gossip, as he's always altting
In the corner.
has
Ho also insists on going shopping with her, so she inkes three weeks instead of three hours,
he's never quite satisfied with what she chosen.
He's always got a better way of organising the household route. And when the children are disciplined by their mother, they can run into daddy and get the decision reversed. If every day were Sunday, I confidently prodlet that there would be a lot more divorces.
When a man's at home every- day conversation is not only sparse, it is downright unreward- ing. There is no opportunity of impressing each other with your
way, for Tony, Because when ho married he Joined, ax Junior, a firm which his wife was already in the big league.
A family firm where every- body, except himself, knew exactly what to do."
1 is well worth while sitting right through TV to the National Anthem, on the off-chance of catching that particular picture when Prince Philip leana forward to make some witticism, and the Queen, who has been doing this rort of thing all her life, silences him with a royal look.
This must have happened often to Antony Armstrong- Jones in the last few months.
It is only natural that his wife should have to teach him the ropes. How, after all, does any ordinary man know what to do when presenting Colours to an Infantry regiment?
And,
two Toyal at those weddings he attended, it must have been necessary for Princess Margaret to put her husband in the picture on the foreign mem- bers of the royal firm.
CALAMITOUS
Accidentally snubbing the head of a company's foreign burena is bad enough, but snubbing one of the crowned hends of Europe could be calamitous.
A husband should be one up on his wife.
for
to
the
It must be comforting Antony Armstrong-Jones think, when he goes to Council of Industrial Design ofces today, that he knows a lot more about design than his wife.
Ho should be one up financial- ly, too. And, it's rather a pily
wit, sagacity, or hard work. that although we are willing to He can't op in at seven, the pay Princess Margaret £15,000 tired, returning hero, with tales as a married woman, he is not
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Slosvojene tunic
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Front buttoning
over white dress
WOMANSENSE
VERONICA PAPWORTH
When the designer gets it all his own way
PISTURES
· JOHN
- ADRIAAN
JUST HOW THRIFTY CAN A WOMAN BE?
" HAVE been in terrible trouble with Lady B." said my hairdresser, rolling his eyes and smacking his chest dramatically.
"She wanted a shingle. Some- one had told her it would bo the smart thing for her. So I gave her a shingle.
Oh, my dear boy, what have you done?' nho cries next time she comes in. When i go hunting I look like a man from behind..
vantage.
The same scarlat tunto reverens to
button down the back
Scarcely a week passes but someone in the world of fashion pops up to protest against that monstrous regiment of women known as "the bayers." For a great many of these highly experienced, stout-hearted, grimly determined, middle- aged women who choose what will and will not go into shops everywhere are generally agreed to be at least a couple of .... seasons behind the times.
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• Manufacturers, ane gathers, walk the tight-rope between what their temperamental designers would have them make and what "tho-buyora” think they can rell. Yet here and there smail groups of clothes designed by brilliant youngsters with a genius.for anticipating new trends, are cropping up as offshoots of the big Houses. Typical of noverat fashion lenders la Fay Carr-Jonés, joint director, with her. husband, of a million-pound dress business, who recently deolded to glyo her designers their heads,
"Make me a small selection of trendsetters,” she told them. "Let yourselves go with the kind of clothes you enjoy creating and we'll see just how right you can be,"
Left to themselves, the designers produced a group of deliciously wills, slightly angular, wirictly simple clothes.
- The only one to sell sensationally well to the buyers” so far la a square-necked, hip-sashed," pirated dress in white Tricel. "And I strongly suspect that it sold because it looked like something they recognised--a gym fanio!" said tho designer.
A
But the model girls are wild about them all. And almost to a woman have ordered them for themselves. Which sooma to prove something.
THE DAY THEY
PUT ME ON THE RACK
ONE of the disadvantages of being rolled on by
LADY
your
Under the Lunic-6 pilm white drons
LUCK
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4
21-
AQUARIUS (January
February 19): Your loyalty will be tested today, and you should stick to your conviction that
good friend is worth defending, PISCES (February 20-March
20): You will be very suc cessful as a go-between on the occasion of a disputa among your associates. ARIES (March 21-April 19): An interview will bear rich results if you live up to the promises you made in good faith.
TAURUS (April 20-May! 20): If you approach a problem prejudiced from the start, you cannot possibly solve it in a straightforward way. GEMINI: (May 21-June 21): An idea, no matter how at- tractive at first, ought to be dropped If no great value cnn bo found on closer examination. CANCER (June 22-July 21): You can turn somo indirect information to your advan inge if you are able to see its wider implications.
a horse is that it sometimes does one's discs LEO (July 22-August 21):
a considerable amount of no good at all. I speak |
from experience.
Don't worry too much over the weekend. Monday another day and everything may turn out for the best.
"Rolled on" id I say? So this is how it feels to be | VIRGO (August Thinking back rome years to "racked."
increasing
the ovent, I do believe the A gentle strain, miserable skewbald turned and gradually--no agony yet! jumped on me for good measure.
"Seventy pounds pressure so Since when my fourth lum- far," murmurs Bliver Curic bar vertebra is not what it "I'm raising #-now,"
once was.
The table arches slowly, Al- The disc gives me the slip, ready I feel six inches taller so to speak, and at infernally pulled liquorice bootlace, I am and narrowC", Like a well-
inconvenient moments,
As it did the night dancing
Charleston.
I was a fairly frenzied
•
"Sudden i have a feeling that a long, hard sofa would be utter bliss." I told my partner.
just the same but half as good
rain
"Eighty pounds," enhoes voice behind my head.
Only when I laugh
1
I
"Think of other things," urge myself. "Of the rest of the "Hard?" said he doubtfully,
fashion reportera, moybean- ning themselves in Rome or "Hard please," saki I. "On Florence and tohipping them- with the dance, Let joy be un- selves into a frenzy over the confined But lead me to a immense importance of GREEN sofa and leane me with my as a No. 1 spring colour, the fourth lumbar vertebra." astonishing appearance of a
"Jeminine" "look"
A good strong pull
a
“Why, Lord,, ph why, should "What you need," cald my I be here, tightdrawn doctor the following morning, bow?” "is a GOOD STRETCH'
"Does it hurt?! they will surely ask me. 'Only if I laugh," I'll tell them valiantly,"
"And when will the inquisi- the house mistresses, at Wy-
"I don't feel like stretching, tion commenca? combe Abbey Girls School feet lice curling up in a small (fees £140 a term) told me. hole and expiring. -.-"- But We simply cannot get maids, he was already Walling Toll Oh no, I'm afraid we couldn't for torture-or something. consider using the girls for housework. They must con- centrate on their legions." BEST EVER
THE
"What won't."'
"About Bolb, weight to` begia "It won't be a minute," says with, and give her a good strong Sliver Curls, popping up at the pull,
Working up to 10016, side of the rack. "I cannot think exactly why, but it seems this is a disad smell son of a friend See what she can stand,"
I leave it to you. Yes. maybe? of mino received a min- So I made her a pastiche to laturo doctor's bag ar
This evening? Thank you!! clip on over each car. Just a Christmas present, but apart band of curls across the back."
In emerald green ballerina "Rather an expensive remedy from on initial inspection he falls and a black silk shirt. I for a temporary; setback," anid has never played with it.
eventually arrayed misecit for 7._"But 1/suppose ahc cán well
the rack. With the exception of tho aford it."
stethoscope, which he wears constantly."
Oh my deur Mia Papworth, Lady is anything but spend that. Now that, the back has grown, she wears it across the
#
“E mean, it's almait over, We're slackening off now."
Slowly they lijed ma' from the reck. Gently they stood me an my reel agsis
September 22): A÷person
born under Cancer will prove to have a very similar outlook to yours, and your relationship could become a very pleasant one. LIBRA
(September 23- October 22): An offer from an unexpected quarter will como in good time to help you over a financial barrassment.
SCORPIO (October
cm-
23
November 21): By clouding an issue with immaterial detalls, you will cause con→ fusion and make things more difficult for all con- cerned. SAGITTARIUS
(November 22-December 21): Groap an opportunity to mako a short journey, and don't worry about tho inter ruption. of your usual routine. CAPRICORN (December 22-
January 20); An arrange mont which seemed highly complicated to you will be made with the greatest of
ENCOUNTER:'¦ IF today Is your birthday, a meeting with a man named SYDNEY may have some special significance.
LUCKY
SHE CARRIES A SPARE
I felt marvellous and, looking In a mappy white nylon dress down, I wear my foot WETU and soft silvery curls that would a couple of inches further away. Therefore his mother was have done credit to "Ward 10," particularly surprised to hear my inquisitor led me to the tor- "Nollea him listing the bag as his ture chome and strapped me about me?" I asked my hus
anything, diferent An Italian firm is producing. "favourliest present ever,” « -
shoes) with, stiletto heels | TOPSY-TURVY
dewti.
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which can be "re-shod" for example, en) I seem very DIN-POINTING the topsy.
Tight banda, over the should. #lightly failer??!!
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permanent headache,”.. one of my own, ental”.
PIN
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we're going" to start",
pulling NOW?""
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