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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1987.
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The sun-dress has shaped panels in the skirt, which make it practical for seaside tennis as well as boach woar. A sleeveless matching jacket partners the second frock, with its original collar and cuffs.
UST twenty and all out for fresh air and sunshine, yet how lovely day can be spoilt by the wrong frock or the feel- ing that your hat, bag or shoes are not just right with the rest of your quint.
When you are young, molchills are apt to assume mountain-like propur. tions, no before I go on to describe to day's patterns, here is a word of advice on summer colour schemes.
Do, plense, keep your wash frocks. however many you inve, to three or four shades-this allows plenty of choice and make one set of peers. sories do for two or three dress a
For astanee,' with brown or blur the following colours blend beautifully - shades of blue from love in the mist ta bright cornflower, green froin patea leaf shades to quite brilliant hues, chin or curat pink, orange, lemon, terra cotta, cural, nånd, belge, white and off white.
Bear in mind, too, that beige and white accessories tone in with most shades successfully. In tudition, they are cool looking and give a summery note to an outfit
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They are particularly relected for those who do not make many of their own clothes and are really easy-to- make styles for the unateur with the minimum of seams.
I want you to study the back view of patter No. 1051. You will notice that it has a smurt slaated bedlec
This little sun dress is cut with shaped panels in the back of the skirt as well as the front. It will, therefore, serve as a useft tennis frock an there is plenty of room to run about the court. Size 34in. bust takes 27 yds. 36in, fabric. Sizes obtainable are 32. 34. 36 and 381. bust.
Don't you like the checky collar and culls of pattern No. 1055. In blue and while it would hrive a smart nautical air. The front is double breasted, and there in a sleeveless matching jacket.
There are a nice range of sizes avail- Size able, 33, 34, 39, and 30ln. bust. 30, bus takes 17 yds. 30in, material, 15 yds. contrast.
A coat to slip on over frocks in an Indispensable item of your summer
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wardrobe. I aunttest that you make it a neutral colour in 'out of those nice camel hair cloth They are Bght In weight, yet warm if it is cool.
You can have this design, No. 1950, in three sizer, 34, 30 und 40in. bust,
5 36 bust requires 22 yds. 54in. Weed, at 11 you do want to line whared 3 yds. 36in. materiał,
you
MARY GRACE,
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DO TEACH YOUR
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To Wear TO PLAY
on the Beach
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A slip-on coat is a useful holiday extra. Camel hair doth would be a good choice for material.
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to play properly.
So often out here one meets the child who can't play by himselt ("Won't," his mother usually says) who must have an amah or mother or another child to play with him. This is a sad reflection on his parent, A young child should learn to amuse himself, and given the right toys, and
been taught to use them, he will do so. To be able to play by himself is one of the great assets of his life.
Remember how annoying people
are when they cannot sit at home, but must for ever be going out some-
where, simply because they have never learned how to amuse them selves. There won't always be some- one for your child to play with, so make certain he learns to amuse him- scif
Concentration
NE of the most astonishing things
ONE of mast is the power
of concentration for a joy he likes, You can watch a mere baby playing with a tin. He will sit for a very long time taking the lid off and put- ing it on again. If he is left undis- turbed he will learn to amuse him- self in this way.
His amusement lies in finding out something entirely new, in realising that he can do this particular thing himself.
All
play is an attempt On the child's part, unconsciously. to fit himself for the part he will play later on. Therefore, encourage such games. Let the child imitate you, or help you if you are doing some work in which he can help.
Don't thrust him asitle
when
you are cooking or dusting or sewing, with "go away, you can't do this," but let him help. Give the child a nerdie and cotton and an old piece of material. She will be perfectly happy imitating Mummy, and think- ing she is doing something of value.
course, that Mothers do so Bitle.
nuisance.
the
wet
romper
ment, science has calculated`tīvat 11 rlige, science provides o definite aerease. The reason for this is prob; to learn to play with others, and here.
little
THE frouble in this country is, of They rarely cook--a joy to any child or make the or dust, or swveen.
or wash the clothes. And „beds, Fumahs can't be bothered with child- ren when they are busy. But you should try to let your child do these ur four TAKE reg
shees of lemon (the rind things. If she wants to wash clothes,
let her. A
js snan of hap-should be eut off) and put them in able to have their chances of haps side decrease the chances piness calculated in several plures of piness by about 20 per cent. On the your boiler with white clothes and changed, even if amah thinks it is a
husband's side the
If she wants to scrub the floor, decrease is not house linen. will help to live decimals.
your clothes a while, well-cured-forgive her a bucket of water and a fewer than forty factors enter quite so large.
Education is quite an important look,
brush in the bathroom where she inta th success or failure of mar-
higher a
hart. Don't all the time! Page Euch factor has been given a factor in marriage. The
can do yo say "no-you will kill her interest, diferent "weight." Perhaps it dues couple stand in the cultural sealt the Moths Beaten
T this time of the year and probably wonder when you get nst need selence to tell us that the wider their margin of safety from
Α Wide discrepan-
most weightiest factors are the four domestic discord.
women are waging "home" why your child is so lacking fottr
cies between the cultural level of in-laws,
war against an invading air force of in the interest other children show
in the normal routine of the house. Some of the discoveries of selence husband and wife are prolific sources
moths, mosquitoes and is.
Early play is entirely individual. Perhaps the greatest are agrordance with the findings of trouble. of commonsense and comedians.
annoyances are The moths. Their You: chikiren do not play together. the Long or Short Engagements?
each other, The husband's mother
silence
enables them to get on with They may play beside" marriage
but their games do not Interlock. As "in-law
On that very vexed question the the good work in peace. who alleets
cool detaéli-
child grows older I will have must seriously. With
length of engagement prior to mar-
The math menace is on the in-
careful guidance will make the harsband's mother is dead the
interesting answer. From three to chances are that the couple will live ve years is the best length for a easier for the child. la life of harmony. The bride's father is next in importance on the artship; this includes the engage- that must houses these days possess first she will resent another taking! answer is to ment period. Doubtless this asser-boilers, which means that they are list of
Dipotential marriage-wreckers. tion will cause many modern couples warmer than they used to be, thus her toys, will always want every.
making the muths far more at home thing herself. The
suggest some gaine the children can If he is not living, the prospects of or
in disdain. When furniture or carpets have play together tea parties, mummies happiness are quite good. If both to raise their eyebrows these parents are dead, the odds are where the courtship laste for less
than year, there is 20 per cent, less teen badly attacked by moth, there and dandles, doctors, and so forth A courtship of is only one safe method of guarding and give each its own part, to luke change of happiness. in favour of happiness.
Parents, however, according to
to have the article concerned treated Children play better by themselves, sefence, have their uses before mar less than three months increases this against, further dange, und that is
to 30. Courtships ex- riage,
If a father advises against a percentage
take fited. His advice is ceeding five years in length are also to a special baking process now in then when they have an annoying
adult giving orders. Teach marriage.
unfavourable.
Most big furniture stores and up games, and then leave them to play much better than a mother's. Selene "Only" children are not such good
But do teach them goes so far as to say that as a general rule it is safe to disregard mother's marriage prospects as members of bolsterers undertake this work fairly names
families. This seems to contradictinexpensively, and it really is neces- other to have it done, for Indvice, whether for or against.
the previous finding about brothers sory and sisters, but the two results are articles of furniture might easily be-
distinct. The come intreted in the same why. quite separate and
ariner There are liquids which can be When a wife has outside interests, best thing to do is to pick her marriage is more likely to turn who is not an "only" child and then safely sprayed upon all kinds of de- out successful than that of the wife take care to live right away from the licate fabrics, and even animals, and who clings to the old maxim that the other members of the family. A are a splendid preventive.
of trouble. pinen of a woman is in the home. wife's sisters are sources
And Sweet Scents people bred in cities Young Up to a certain point, interest in re
ily in making
marital clubs, and greater difcully church affairs.
MAKE false hems brought up MAR
matching
material, on the part of adjustments than those organisations
the chances of in rural communities. This is an them with lavender and tack them increases wife
TEA leaves, have their uses. announcement. other
unexpected
Try them for cleaning the success in marriage,
of narrow-necked. bottles. Husbands and wives who inved Many people believe that the oppo-to the edges of your net curtains.
Drain the ten off the leaves and put their parents are likely to be happy site is the case, owing to the fact that Summer breezes will blow the scent inside with cach other. Those whose city life calls for more adjustments into your room.
Cant hangers padded with laven-plenty into the bottle, half all with were not har than country life. The comparative family relationships mtious find it more difficult to make failure of city-Bred couples is prob- der Import their freshness to your warm water, then with your hand ably due to the nervous strain of city clothes or make an attractive gift for over the top of the opening swill first one way and then the other. Rinse adjustments in the married state.
Happiness is hereditary. Subject fe, rather than to failure to make a friend.
A large shallow bowl of polished with cold water. copper or china, Alled with lavender Refreshen fired-looking mats with flowers and placed on a table or antea leaves. Drain then and sprinkle old chest, gives character to your the wet leaves on the mat; brush off rall.
with a stiff broom.
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HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The total Expenditure up to October, 1937, on behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated at $25,000, against which the Income to date is $20,000.
The Society asks for the balanco of..
Hon. Treasurers:
$5,000
Mr. D. BLACK, Ç.A..
c/o Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming,
6 Des Voeux Road, Central.
Mr. KWOK CHAN.
E/o Banque de L'Indo Chino.
Hongkong.
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