NURSERY FOLK...
Bernard Shaw says that every child has a right là a room of its
OWD.
This is certainly an ideal to be striven for after babyhood, and indeed from his first day a baby has a right to a room, even if it is not for his pole use, of which he is at all events the most important
Lennat
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 24th, 1927.
The housing problem is every- where such, both in England and in Hong Kong that to have a play room, often means a real, sacrifice on the part of the parents. But it is a anorifice well worth making for. the sake of the child's mental and physical development and of per- manently happy relations between parents and children.
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The
WOMAN'S PAGE
THE VICTORIAN HOUSEWIFE.
DOUBTS ON ANOTHER MYTH.
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I have never considered myself a Marrying in domestic treasure. the early thirties, after a girlhood devoted to games and office work,
Nursery Lessons. The nursery is the child's own It seems incredible when
wedomain, but that does not meau read modern books that our parents, that the child's will must rule or even we ourselves, managed supreme behind its doors. The survive under the old nursery foundations both of churniter and tenditions. Mother fave insisted that! of success in life are laid in the if baby did lie cradled in, ber nursery. There is perhaps ng more arms, his cot was at all eventeential lesson for a child than 98
dent in a Home paper.
The short-skirted, jazz-loving THE MECCA OF FAIR matron of to-day probably has a far closer acquaintanceship with he infant-who overrons the entire!
WOMEN.
Paris is the Mecen of women of all races who want to be well dress-
at, and needs must feed with the grown-ups from its earliest years than our mothers ever knew of theired, but unfortunately they cannot all go there, especially we who are exited in the East. Bo Paris is large, but more remote, families.
The modern girl, when married, coming to Hong Kong instead, or takes in her stride more matinal at all events a shop which will do for us much that Paris does for work in her home than the Vic-those who live close enough to run over there for a week's shopping. Rolande Sarrault, whose preins are known already as the shrine of. chic, is opening shortly a far farger establishment which will cater for number of other wants of her
elicate.
I have found myself constantly torian woman ever attempted. The facing household problems and dif-ex-business girl, bringing a trained ficuties; and the arrival of my brain to bear on the domestic bud twin babies gave me still more than get, is capable of wiser spending which to cope, writes a correspon-than the woman of yesterday, who,
kept in the dark by her husband'
A French hairdresser with two us to money matters, was baffed Some dire crisis was always aris by the mystery of a chrque book or lady assistants and all the latest equipment are on their way from Paris. He has the apparatus for servants went out. bills came account-keeping.
The surprising amount of prettiness right alongside his mother's bed. concentration, and no habit which in, chimneys stoked, boilers hurst and comfort in the modern home, ami violet ray treatment besides a know- The Ríodern mother is told that is more important in later life. It the babies ent teeth with serram, spite of high priors, hard times, ledge of all the new styles of hair- baby's cot should be placed in the is frequently asserted that a surged over our pieturesque roof shows that we can have little to export masseures, and from what room, ant that she must forego the this is untrue. If you do not try tree. I never failed to moau; c,learn about the art of house-kery). ↑ Madaine told me she is to have the
middle of a sparsely farnished
is incapable of concentration, but
and
vach domestic disaster and the scarcity of domestic help,
ateur! If only. I wore a good olil- fashioned type of woman, I should know exactly how to manage: these things."
ing,
dressing. Both his assistants are
most modern of heauty parlours. But we don't talk about it as much as our mothers did.
PARIS.
to organise his play and imagines himself unobserved, a 'child will often try for a long time 10 arrange his bricks in a parti-
And then a friend of my mother's A FASHION NOTE FROM cular way or to build a tower with who I bad been taught 10 re them. If you sayLet Mummy gard as only second in wisdoni to show you how to do it," you are Mrs. Berton herself-came to stay destroying his independence and with us. weakening his power of concen- tration: At the same time nursery. piny offers ample opportunity for teaching a child to do carefully and completely anything which he begins. A word of help or praise is far better than nelive interven tion.
A Red Satin Dress.
As regards the decoration of the room and nursery clothes the child's own taste should be taken into consideration; a child's taste is generally far more decisive than -that of à grown up person.
We are swayed by considerations of public opinion, of fashion or of culture, where as the child knows exactly what it likes even though it may not be able to express its preference clearly, Montessure sys that if your little girl wants to wear a red satin frock she-should- ms given one, it is a necessary part of her mental training to learn that it is not becoming and to learn by experience. But the long. ing for end satin comes through a repression of the natural desire for bright colour, which can be bed-in the right direction through a pro- A pretty dress for a young girl.. perly equipped nursery.
pretty lining and curtains for its trimming in order that baly may have the great essential to his well being, fresh air..
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A Picture Frieze.
A smart hat for Summer wear.
Advice I Did Not Get,
The very first evening 1 sought. advice on the subject of bathing the little boys.
That is one of the new develop ments. Another is the opening of
workrooms where Targe
gowns. corsets and millinery will be made under Madame's direction, to suit the special need of each customer. Perhaps the most badly needed gift that French ingenuity and enter- prise is offering us, the "ophuing in the near future of a florists de The little mask-veil is with us againn delicious thing that prepariment. Here you will be alfe. tends to shade the eyes, but which to buy the best flowers that Kowloon can produce, artistically arranged. only makes them look bigger and
and selected. "If you want a button more mischievous than ever! A real beauty-ransk veil is made of darkish hole for yourself or a gift of flowers blue Russian net with a row of tiny for a friend you will be able to moonlight-blue paillettes at the get them there as nearly as pos- border. Under a dark blue "mask" zible as you would, buy them in
Paris. the eyes may be slightly made up- the lashes darkened and the faintest dust of blue power under the lower lid-but only a mere suspicion of powder!
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SHINGLE HATS AND HEALTH. A very famous milliner recently
Fashion's decree is now the tight- said that veils, for general wear fitting shingle hat, and rumours are. are coming into favour again, but abroad that the extreme kind is there is no sign of this revival-responsible for headache, so con unless we agree to call the "beauty mask,
a reil
BY THE WAY.
· POINEER · SALE. The axle at the Pioneer, Silk Store is still in pro- gress. Everything is reduced from between 10 per cent. to 30 per cent., stockings, hacri conts and under- wear being particularly cheap.
CRIN STRAW-Crin straw hats seem the fittest accompaniment to light summer dresses. wide brims. Two which were in very lovely models in Powell's with very pale bois de rose were parti- So the question of whether it is cularly pretty and graceful in line wise to wash-babies' hair everyOne of the advantages of cria is that even when it loses its firat night had so go unanswered.
But no help was to be found. "Oh, my dear, I never bathed my children. Old Nanuie always did that herself: you know she was with me from the birth of my first baby until the youngest went to even me in the nursery at tub school, and Nannie wonhla't allow
time."
I saw some
users pictures is, where Every child loves pictures. The the child can see and touch them, and a feze round the bottom of the walls is excellent. Suitable coloured pictures can be cut out of Mast babies to-day have a ronn almost any magazine and pasted The next day my modern Mrs. freshoess it falls into graceful
lines, Beeton undertook to Wake one of to themselves; possibly they are onto the walls to make such a
VOILE DRESS LENGTHR.-At the frieze. This not only pleases the her. famous sponge cales for ten. guarded at night, but the room little ones, but is in itself a method Now when I make cakes, I am left same shop I saw some dress lengths essentially the baby's. It is all the of education. If you let the child alone in the kitchen and I leave of cotton voile, all at the same price, I find them all these, and vach one different in design, more extraordinary, therefore, that collect them himself you will find things as when the little one grows out of he is as proud-of his walls as the utensils are washed up and restored They come from Debenham and
owner any private gallery. Friends to their places.
Freebody's and are of the latest infancy the nursery is HE altet
and relations abroad can be inter- Not so this time; other days, colours and patterns. absorbed into the grown-ups part sted-in the collection and persuad-other ways Victorians require wai!- of the house. "John bas her cot ised to send pictures from abroad, ing on..
our rom now, we simply must have
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A sparu róom. Perhaps Joan likes the change but, it is not good for her, and even worse is the fact that she no play room,
A "Good". Ohild,
It is not good for children to be always with their parents for inevitably it leads to a repression of childish instiueta. Baby's taste is not your taste either in clothes, mural decorations, or on the ques- tion of noise. The too-sophisticated child is one of our tragedies to day
that the nursery walls become when A. Victorian Made A Sponge baby's stamp and post card album, and of real educational value.
Cako.
stricting, are its confining lines, writes an eminent lady doctor. More, baldness has been mentioned! Shingled Heads Hygienic,
No one could look their best suffering from a beadache, and in cipient baldness could not be ac
Eve is counted a fortunate end; therefore confronted with two un- desirable facts which ultimately make neither for health nor beauty, The present-day search for health by admonitions regarding right and beneficial dressing, diet and exercise, has carried all before it, as. far as the figure is concerned. Shingled heads are more hygienic, we are told. fore's the pity that fashionable headgear should strike as unhygienic note!
be.
Effect On Face And Expressiolt. Moreover, a constriction about. the head produces not only headache but a feeling of discomfort. The unaccessary pressure becomes tire- some, makes one irritable, and the free assumes an anxious expression. It seems that tight bats may be as pernicious as tight waists used to After all, it is well known that PICNIC
TABLE CLOTHS.-White- away, Laidlaw's have some very the emotional disturbances caused pretty, picnic table cloths and by the pin-prinks of the make-up of napkins of Japanese crêpe paper.life are wreckers of health and good A luncheon set consisting of table looks Tight hats play their part "Now then, Mary, bring me the cloth, tray cloth, a dozen napkins in this. They may be responsible Nursery Clothes..
four, please, and the eggs and the and 3 doiley's costs only 50 cents, for the worry habit or the hurry Next comes the question of nur caster sugar-put my chair near the and they have also other packets at habit, and so predispose not to
and happiness but All too often Sery clothes.
a table. You beat the eggs well; the same low prices of a dozen health
nourotic manifestations, which des mother's vanity it expressed while I measure the dry materials cloths or naptius separately.
Some time later she sail- through her children. She dressed
BATHING TOWELS.-In the furnish- troy the harmony of one's being.
Madame La Mode cannot be de them to piense hier own taste, or ed out of the kitchen, saying, overing department of the same shop
you can get splendid towels for nounced, but fashionable headgear worse still to be a foil to her own her shoulder It will take about batay, quite regardless of their an hour so mind you watch the bathing made of thick Turkish should be combined with comfort comfort or well being. Tight cloth-time carefully, and be sure not to towelling in various coloured de- and so conduce to health, wherein
lies the seeds of beauty, ing is an abomination for children: elam the oven door! everything should be sufficiently
But Mary, hindered from having signs, for one dollar each. loose to encourage movement, and finished her ordinary morning's clothes which are easily spoilt are work, looks very like slamming all unfair on the child.
the doors with unnecessary violence. In the course of the next few
The sort of nursery garments which I saw this week in White-days I began to wonder if the much- and this over-sophisticntion cannot
away,
Laidlaw's fulfil every childish paised Victorian housewives were be avoided if the child shares its red. They are strong, loosely cut, so capable after all. It is certain parents life. To quote G.B.s.abd in cheerful colours. No stigma that they never attempted to do a of the ugly can be attacked to a number of inelegant but useful clean again" A Good Child means n pink, linen pinafore with a large things serub floor or child which gives no trouble to its triangular pocket in front on windows, for instance-which we parents, and that
that which is embroidered a jolly druke. modern ne'er-do-wells can, if needs nearly all its natural instinets are saw a blue linen dress with a be, successfully accomplish without being repressed. There are some dear little basket of flowers cut selfympathy or comment. Lots of parents who protest that noise does from eretonne appliqué on it and us did them often during the war. not worry them; that they can sit another gay suit in butcher blue unmoved through the delightful piped orange, with Dutch children music of a chair being pushed about embroidered on the yoke
ments
The Halcyon Times.
Labour was cheap in the haloyen
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polished floor; but in point of It needs but little material, time, Victorian days; space was less limit- fact, however patiently they bear and ingenuity to make frocks of this ed. The children had their nur the infliction at the time, their description hut it should be remem series at the top of the house and nerves are being fretted so that bored that children do not share except for the "children's hour
appreciation of what is and Juncheon on Sundays-did not when the elld reaches the age our of adolescenct parental patience is "quaint," what they like are the trespass on the premises sacred to
their elders. ncarly worn out.
gandy and the pretty.
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From $15.00.
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to
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FLAT HEELS
From $11.50.
OR
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OPPOSITE COLONIAL DISPENSABT.
Nothing
Looks- Smarter
Or is more comfortable than a Straw Hat.
A New Shipment of
STRAW HATS
has just arrived from Europe,
Prices
from $1.75 upwards.
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