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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
SHIRLEY LORD
LORD WOMAN'S
The sure
ruin
way to
ON EVERY
WAVELENGTH
any romance
WOMEN
Many men think will never
KO, They have to cover their endearing believe that men weakness with a stern. bluff object to seeing
cry.
them manner or so they say.
They refuse to accept that their tears do not bring
Convinced
out the soft, supple side of "I CAN'T even bear la walk their man's nature....that In the park," sold Van immediately the sniffles Johnson, talking about his soft heart the other day, “If I saw a start, every idiotle little boxer dog playing there, I'd he whim will not be granted. quite likely to burst into tears. You see, your quarantine laws ("But you promized-gulp mean I'm reparoled from Joe. to take me-gulp-to the Four I've owned my boxer Joe for 1 Hondred-atf-it I mended long years and I miss him ter- your seeks as Mother used in ribly." do....
sud story, that
une.)
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In fact, tears-let-me face the subject bravely-ruin mort zamences than mend them and rarely cure marital rows, either. but will women learn? No.
We cy. We are told we cry very often gui nur own way, which is, of course, very repres .hensible.
If there were statistles to hand
on this funcinating. If damp, subject, men would tell us that in this Island alone enough gallons of tears are shed · each year-irrusponsibly by women- to our largest lake. As it is, there are no statistics available, for who would dare take them?
As u means of persuasion, then, our weeping, unfortunately has very little effeel-but when tear-shed- it comes to serious ding, ure we less soft hearted thon men?
He convinced me sn, I began to get a blur about the eyes.
But you can't judge a soft heart by talking about pets.
overflow Emotions always
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this subject..
even if the
pet happens to be a prize bull, Charlie Clore could tell you how he felt when his £28,000 Eric had to be "put down."
Testing masculine feelings was child's play in any case.
All were anxious to tell me how casily touched they were.
"I feel very moved when I see old ladies walking in the rather down-at-heel," street admitted Michnet Medwin. "Mind
thes have you, very old ladies,..."
whenever he read a story about an abandoned baby.
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I'm delighted to be able, report that at last London is as York for keeping her "ladies in well equipped as Paris or New
Horses turned into hersellesh, sad ilms, Income tax, golf- many were the events in day-to-welling" fashionably equipped. day life that turned a big strong man into a blubbery little baby inshile, of course.
One subject never cropped up, No man admitted he ever tell
even near to tears when think-
ng about or talking to his own fille woman.
BUSIEST
FASHION
OF ALL...
Could
be true?
1.-What did I learn from the slimmest, trimmest girl in the room caiing ehicken ple with cal two helpings of crust. HI what like because I learned the easy way to keep thin.... to cal very slowly." She took three-quarters of an hour to my 20 minutes.
TORKS may be busy,
but they can't be busier COULD BE TRUE? than the maternity clothes side of the fashion industry just now.
For the last few weeks I hove teen snowed under .
in- undated with pretty,
pregny pictures of excellent "expanding" clothes, and Items of red-hot news for chic-conscious expec- tant Mums has meant the tele-
2~The modern pamiers succeed because their work suits
sald small rooms,”
the rich Ruman collector. "People used to have high ceilings, wide vistas of wall
homes ... their could take classical paintings, now they can't."
COULD BE TRUE?
phone has jangled even more n woman who gets up at the then usual. bu
My chiropodist whilst causing me excruelating pain (naturally it was "grin being a woman,
and bear it" for me), told me about his tendency to
tears
shops seem sprung into vitality
The reason? Three to have suddenly life with grealet
All have
delicious sent ne
madle pictures of clothes which sense as well as slick shape...
3. Would you like to meet
crack of dawn to pick mush- Square," rooms In Grosvenor said the gallery owner In W.1. I said "Yes," now I'm waiting to be invited on the pre-breakfast trip. Do you think I will be?
~~(London Express Service).
I wouldn't mind my child
charring for her teacher!
NOMETIMES I wonder if the men
SOMETI
are, right
after all, and we women just can't think
straight.
cup after
by Joyce Bowman
where
a good night's question to ask about all this
housework. The schoul
done is a mixed school. And knowing how nien dlsap- pear when there's housework to be done, what I want to know is
what do the boys do?
It seems that mothers in Altrincham, Cheshire, are sleep. upset because their daughters are, as part of domestic But put a record on the TC- science lessons, doing the housework in a house where cord-player and see how two of their teachers live.
get
The youngsters. 11
Scen
home bu exhausted bagi
This that they fall asleep. Or Nobody ever left grubby
so the mother say,
fingermarks on the paint.
Sald one mother: "It 13 So we polished floors that wrong that young girls should were already like mirrors; we be used as teachers' servants." shane sliver that couldn't get Said anothor: "I
paint agree with any shinler; we washed girls being taught to
that didn't need washing. It the home, but using them to look must be just like that in citer two teachers is too much." Army.
the work. Well, who
We didn't mind should they be
But we did mind useless work, looking after?
It was here that I learned the quickest way to polish a floor is to sit on the duster and have someone tow you round by the ankles.
I remember my own domes- tle science days t school. It was a wonderful school, and there was a flat used just for us to learn on. And how dul! Il was. For nobody ever lived An it.
QUICKEST
TOBODY ever scuffed the
Noors wo polished so
lovingly. Nobody ever ate off the silver wo shono.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
That's the only bit of house- work I get my youngsters to do willingly now.
Of course, the girls
might
as well do useful work while they're learning, and who de- serves It more than their teachers?
ABILITY
wakes up!
she
" I were
Altrincham an muther, I would have only one
**(London Express Serulco).
Mink takes
on a
new shape
TAVOLUTION
us allalt When
and
engrussco
the time.
to It comes
tha evolution of Bomething luxurious
slightly out-of-reach, paradoxi catly interest is heighten. ed, the longing for knowledge exolted.
So it is with the mink story-exalted, bragged- about mink.
In the beginning 植
Vetols, a coat in one brown
dolour... lator mink especially bred to produce fabulovely different shaded ekinɛ.
Now with designers all over the world using mink as a "abric" instead of a fur. I'm sure the next stage in the evolution story will be a price one-favourable to us all.
Paris and London are now shaping mink into fitte over-tunics for the theatre, cardigans for the country and well-walsted coats for day-to-day wear.
Here you can use two different outlooks from New Yark (bottom picture), an example of one of the double. breasted country jackets made from honey coloured Baga Scandinavian 'aking from Germany, a Pancho of pala ekin designed to wear over trousers with throw-away elegance for casual evening parties.
WHI there ever be an excoes of mink? Let's hope e--then we can all afford it.
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Two Smart Fellows
-Owl And Cricket Know Almost Everything-
By MAX TRELL
the park bench next to his two friends.
Hunid said they
"Oh, he knew that one. alt right," said Christopheri "Ho the one who asked him that when the day is over it becomes yesterday."
told
sald
Knart Interrupted to say that he thought yesterdays just faded away.
He sold
kept
"That's very Rood," "He told me that the ques- Horld. "But what happens to tion that was troubling him all the yesterdays?" "H, PALS," said Christo was this where do light u
pher Cricket to his friends when they go out?" Knart and Hanid, the Shadow "Did you really know the Children with the Turned- answer??" asked Knart, About Names.
"Certainly I did," said Chris-
Thought the same He came out from under a topher Cricket. daisy and sat himself down on Knart and
wished they knew where lights Christopher. "But Owl said no, That's what I thought," said went when lights went out.
that wasn't so ni all, Didn't go out
that all the yesterdays "I met an interesting fellow WONDER if the mothers In the park last night," Chris- "You'ro almost as bad as my turning into last-year's-birth- "It was a Bird friend Hool," said Christopher. days, and last-year's-Christmas, who protest haven't fal- topher aafd.
and last-week's-wonderful-din- len into the mistake most of named Hoot. He's an Owl. A "I tell you what I told him. us make these days of smart Bird," Christopher I told him that lights didn't her, and fast-st:mmer's-wonder-
added.
really go out. They went around ful-plenie, and. yesterday-when- underestimating what chiki-
looking for other things that mother - hugged and - kissed- Really smart?
needed to be lit up. ren can do,
smart Bird, "You mean, dear," said Horld, Hidden away somewhere
Kaart and Hand both wont that when lights go out in ono zigül," Knurf said, have a sampler, painstakingly ed to know if the Owl was place, they come up in an-
09 smart as everyone other?" embroidered in 1820 by a kiri really of 12 I don't know
any 12-sold.
smarter than
"He's
"That's Just what I mean/1. that!" answered Christopher.
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One part of sour milk with year-old who could do work as two parts of turpentine is one exquisite as that today—and answered Christopher, "He "Go" nie! Hanke, speaking of the best renovating agents their natural ability can't have knows
the answer
for a stained bath. Mix the in-changed all that much in 135 question, almost,' gredients in a saucer and apply years.
to the bath with a piece of old
every more to herself than to Chris- topher or Knorf, "it a match "What happens," asked Knart, goes out in one place, it lights "when Owl doesn't know the up somewhere else. And if a Perhaps we're barking up answer to a question?" linen, rubbing until marks the wrong
candle goes out in one house, tree. Should we vanish. Then wash down
"He asks me," said Christo- I lights up in another house- and the youngsters out to
"And if stare bilak out in work first floor-tcrubbing, pher Cricket.
Knarf and Hank looked at our part of the, sky," paid Remember to remove backlos stitching-and send
| rand-aweeping, polishing,
Christopher in surprise,
Kaarf, they blink on in as- and unwashable, trimmings from
"Yes, sir" said Christopher, other part of the sky for other. the dresses before washing, and to chool after they've grown
"between us. Owi and I know People in other parle of mend the garments and remove enough to appreciato 17
No, perhaps not.
gverything. I found that out world?" stalnu and apols before
Christopher Cricket Irept Jaundering.
nooding all through this.
Artd
them
to
up
inst night.
WAKES UP
Wanted holp
Dage girls
· Another. question To raute potatoes, peel the
ht after I met him, Owl "And he continued, logi potatoes, and then boll in the ON'T lot's believe teen-sald he'd like me to help him told me that, someone asked Unual way tinut dy are just
when they on a question that someone had him where the day went when cooked but all; firm. Cul inte
the day was overij slices and fry the little butler come home exhausted" by asked him a few days ago.
the To glad to help you, Didn' the "Owl know
that ellier asked Koarf,
or margarins unli
they are housework. I have one who 2Toot, 1 sald. Whint's the ques- answer to golden brown, on bath'sider. is too tired to wash up tion that's troubling you?"
question,
me."
"Owl's 'a
ali
"II, pala!" Christopher called
to Knarf and Hanid.
"Yes," sold Cricket, "between
Christopher Us We do
know almost everything. Hoot knews the 'everything' and I know the almost." "
Rupert and the Secret Path-42
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ALL RISHITTE AKARAVER