NEWS
Business
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üre is drop can "Birely ex- by the t be en women plied
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B USINESS women should
In
office
Blouse:
THIS is made from one yard of
material and would be ex- cellent to wear at the office. Slip it over another blouse if you like. Cut the oblong big enough to put your head through," and "
back two inches. make the
#horter than the front.
for mavings business house which attracts many schemes. Many large Bras have women each year, superannuation schemes for women employees.
Premiums range upwards from 52.50 monthly. No medical examin- For girls working alone there is atlon is necessary and an advance a business women's single, pension in a lump sum is made it the girl one marries, although she may continue scheme now
at ΤΗΣ
being
Our Office
She has
ISS ROBERTS is a terrifying woman. cropped hair and horn-rimmed spectacles, a gruff -voice and a no-nonsense manner.
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She works for Mr. Smith-probably because she is the only girl in the office who could not possibly appeal to him.
console
It is so over-
And yet She always manages to make me feel inefficient. myself her very efficiency is quite the opposite really. powering that it defeats its own ends.
You never Know
For instance,
she is firm with unwelcome visitors
to the point of
rudeness. The story goes that once a mild and undistinguished little man walked into her office and asked to-
see Mr. Smith.
Miss Roberts had never seen the man before, and sent him about his
uncertain business in
no
manner. To every one's horror, he turned out
to be the chairman of the company: Which just goes to show that you aught to be civil to every one, even though they may be a nuisance,
Then there is the way in which she deals with Mr. Smith." I agree that Mr. Smith needs a Arm band. He likes to waste time chatting, and he is very unbusinesslike.
But that is no reason why Miss Roberts should silence him no brus- quely, or nag bim so loudly. Mrihods more subtle would be less embarras-! sing to the looker-on.
Mr. Smith stands for it-I think he la too frightened of her to do But most men would anything else, dismiss her at once.
Doesn't look Right
the policy afterwards benefit from it.
to get full
THERE is an association in Landon which caters for the ambitious business girl who wants to earn over £300 a year.
For a fixed fee it will keep on the look-out for the right job for you.
Jorge but It is not an agency, organisation in touch with every phase of women's employment. This is a great help to those who have the right qualifications, but do not know how to go about finding a res- ponsible post. Something after this style would do well in Hongkong.
DVANCING years bring A craving for security. You begin to be more careful in your work and jealous of your job. You with strive to ingratiate yourself superiors,
Be careful not to carry this too for. No one is more unpopular than the elderly woman who bosses every one she can and is constantly trying to prove her efficiency, and loyalty.
ONE
\NE__Wʊy
to prove your interest in the arm is to take n hand, in organising the activities. It there are no social activities, start some.
Social evenings, outings, amateur
welcomed theatricals will be every one.
TOUCH
TYPING
isn't so difficult
by
10 learn touch typing it is essential to depend solely upon the To
touch of the fingers and to look only at the work to be copied. The fingers must have a home position from which to reach out to the other keys. When any finger is not in use it should rest on its home key.
To find the home keys, place all your finger-tips on the front
outside edge of the typewriter. From there, let your fingers climb forward to the space bar, then to the Drst bank of keys, and from there to the second bank where the home keys are situated.
Place the little finger of your left hand on the outside key, and cath Miss Roberts even looks wrong. following finger on
and She wears bristling tweeds clumping brogues, when she would the left. look much better surfaced tailored suit elvillied shoes.
key to the right beside it; place your right little Anger on the second from the outside key, and the other fingers each on a key to
-and
in a Gmooth- Slide the two first fingers towards each other to find, two keys in the more middle uncovered, then return to the original position. It is wise to prac- tise finding the home keys in this way until it can be done without error. Use the right thump on the space bar to make a space after words and groups of letters.
USING your left finger only, strike "", feel above "" slightly
She insists on walking to the office each morning. This is an excellent) Idea If you allow enough time. To judge from Miss Roberts's scarlet Ince and shortness of breath when of "" from "" is known. she arrives, I don't thing that she! does.
She comes buck after lunch even mare scarlet, and with wet hair. For she spends her lunch hour in a and gnaws a swimming bath bun and an apple on her way back to the office. As a result, her man- ner in the afternoon is gruffer than and Insufficient ever for hurried. meals ruin the strongest temper and digestion.
All that Nonsense ·
Miss
Also the best complexion. Roberta disdains the mildest form of make-up, and her skin is shining) proof of this.
to
to the left for "r" and practise this reach until the posillon
Then practise the following reaches in the same way. Remember not look at the keys.
Below "" slightly to right for "y"; above "f" slightly to right for "t"; beside "J" to right for "g"; from "f" over “g” and below for "L".
These are all the letter keys for the left Arst Anger. Now with the right first Anger strike "" and above to the left for "u".
Below"" to right for "m"; below "" to left for "n": "beside "3" to left ""; from “¿" over "h" and above for "u"."
for
may
run by my tug
"I can't be bothered with all that, nonsense," she said to me last week.
But it isn't nonsense to be efficient in your job-and it is efficient to look right,
But I think. It is on the telephone that Miss Roberta's etfelency defeats
When all these first-fuger letters are known, the following sentences
be practised:--
my gun hurt my thumb
The worst is now over, and it is easy to find the rest of the keys,
THE second left finger is resting on home key "d" Strike the
key without moving the other fingers, and reach
Above "d" to left for "e", below "d" to right for "e".
Reach: Above " to left for
The second right finger is on "k".
below " to right for "
The third left finger is on "s". below"" to right for "x".
..
Reach; ---Above "e" to left for "w",
The third right finger is on "1". Reach:-Above "P" to left for "o", below "" to right "" (the full-stop).
The fourth left Anger is on "n"
itself most, She whips off the re- Reach;-Above "a" to left for "q",
calver and bawls "Yes?" in such a ferocious manner that your head is nearly blown off.
Treating them Rough
She may be busy, but it's not the caller's fault. She may be cross
below "a" to right for "z",
The fourth right anger is on "" (semi-colon). Reach Above towels for "p", below to right for
THE Angers
practised, in
manner.
should be similar.
A
2, 3, 4 and 5 are typed with the fingers of the left hand, and 0, 7, 8 and 9 with the right hand, corres- ponding with the home keys.
The three additional keys on the j Mr. Smith, but she has no right are operated by your right Une the shift lock for words in quarrel with the people telephoning fourth Anger. him So why speak to them as if
with
"Who hast
capitals, so that you can keep to the correct fingering. ⠀ When these letters have been weil sie t pracused, the alphabet should box, Specially, timed and graded gromo- Mexit only she would realise that typed several times. Keep your eyes, phone itsoords; are made for. "typan) stand charm are not the least shut, and allow each Anger to oper- writing Forfils these will help you to Part of eficiency, Mere mechanical ate independently, in order to make get a speed of six to eight
"compétence is not nearly enough,
them; suppley,
ă minutes Singentive
NEW
for NAILS
NOVEMBER'S aut problem tr, more often than not, a tale of
broke nalls...
p weather conditions-health that is not at its highest peak ly days in home and office when there's little time for proper hand care-all these things result in nails that are brittle and chipped and ready to break at the lightest touch.
To prevent this tendency there is a special of which brings new health and strength to the finger natts.
All you have to do is to apply the oil at bed-time and massage round the cuticles and under the nails. It takes no, time to do and does not affect the varnish on the nails in anyway. Price 2/6 a bottle, complete with glass rod for ùpplication.
Recipes From The Border Of Spain
IT. seemed strange and as before. Mix with chopped. chic-
little bits of bacon. be able to cross the bridge at Behobie Blake in a moderate oven, in a fire- and go in search of culinary adven- proof dish, for a quarter of an hour.
sad this month not to ken livers and
tures in the North of Spain from my Aubergines Boucalaise
own side of the border.
Allow
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1987,
A
NEW DRESS?
good
welt, not exactly but almost as
it has just been
ZORIC CLEANED
one, aubergine (egg-plant) THE STEAM LAUNDRY Co.
Watching the smoke of Irun from adistatice on the French road, and listening to the guns, we wondered for two people. Cut them in two with salt, about all the charming places we length-ways; sprinkle
sharp with a making culs across knew AD well.
Was the knife. Leave them for an hour or Was Pasajes untouched? lovely church safe with its perfect so. golden altar? Had the clumsily Then scoop out the Besh, and wipe carved statue of San Juan been dea: it well to remove the water which troyed on the little place where the hne oozed out, perlume of incense mingles with the
Put some olive oil in a frying pan powerful smell of drying cod?
Were the old women, still selling (about two tablespoonfuls for four outside the porch? What Aubergines). When hot, put in the прега
Пesh of the aubergines cut in small- about the charming restaurant stand- ish pieces; cook these on a slow are
on wooden piles in the bay? There we had paella and catamare en 50 that they melt and do not brown du tints, which is cuttlefish cooked and fry.
When they are becoming soft and
few slices own ink, and we had collected good recipes
What had been transparent, add a the fate of the liestaurant Rodil in mushrooms and cook a few minutes more. Add, three minutes before San Sebastian?
For even on the French side of the serving, a little chopped garlic and Bidussoa there had been altic parsley,
This vegetable, which should be damage. The good woman at the
road highly seasoned, is served either as small Inn on the Birlatou showed us with exellement holes a separate dish or with a roast meat, made in the walls of her house by preferably. fillet of veal or bullets.
chops.
ing
its
But now the battle had retresied
to the other side of Irun, and the Paschitos Fritos place was safe.
sun.
of
pork
We had luncheon there. It looked For haif a pound of lean beef, peaceful: ducks and children were finely minced, have three ounces of bathing in the river. and on the olives and one hard-boiled egg.
side of the international Spanish
Put in a pan two tablespoonfuls bridge the new fing was flying in the of olive oil; when hot put in two small onions, chopped; brown them Three men, looking like smugglers, and add the flesh of three tomatoes. were engaged in a loud conversation Cook a few minutes, then stir in the which sounded like a quarrel about beef, the olives, the egg (all chap- one of the Spanish parties. But they ped), salt, pepper and mixed spice. were talking about food, while the Mix well and cook slowly for about patronne, who does the cooking, was twenty minutes. popping in and out of the kitchen to throw in a word.
Prepare a
kind of ordinary pastry
Ona of the men had very definite with half a pound of four, a glass ideas. "I like plenty of garlle," he of water and a quarter of a pound said, "you try a chicken saute, with of butter. When ready, role it to garlic instead of potatoes and you'll the shape of a square tart, quite thin. Then we had put in the mixed minced meat and see the difference." again the recipe for the real piperade; vegetables, cover it with thin pastry, and bake in a moderate oven. Serve at once. his recipe was simple enough.
"It's neither an omelette scrambled eggs," declared he,, "you
not
melt your peppers and your toma- Anchovy Tart
teer and you chuck in your eggs."
I certainly was good, and you could
Prepare as before a pastry of the
not see any trace of the eggs. We semi-flaky-kind. The Alag Inside had grilled gammon with. it.
is made with chopped anchovies in
Here are a few more recipes from oil and parsley, but the anchovics that part of the world.
Aubergines
Capbretonnaise
should not be very salty.
When chopped, add a litle butter and oli to moisten them well. Bake the tart in the ordinary way.
This is good as a savoury. It is also very pleasant, cut in small quar- ters, for n cocktail party, but it must the scooped-out flesh melted in i be served very hot.
The egg-plants are prepared and
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