THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31,
1988:
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add a flower or two
Don't be surprised to see Our SOCIAL EDITRESS tells you where floral dog collars this acason.
and how to wear your flowers this winter
Made on the lines of a wide
throat band, they will be among the many new flower fashions demonstrated at the Convention of Florists at Torquay this month.
or a pure white gardenin, both of which have a velvety finish to their petals.
For chiffon, tulle or antin, choose lies of the valley
But dog collars will not be the only new was to which or stephanotis. flowers will be put during the next few months.
country tweed or grey flannel
ult.
Also marigolds or any really simple garden flowers carry out the note of the garment.
6 Apart from materials there
is the type of wearer to be
3 Roses, it well mounted, considered. The exotic woman look beautiful on satin-with a "linky" figure con Deep bracelets like those their dull sheen against the wear large orchida bunched on wide gold bands our Edwar- gleaming silk is a fine contrast her shoulder is she is not too but don't wear a spray of tall. as this adds height and dian grandmothera wore, roses unless made by expert glamour. with one large bloom in the centre, in place of the cameo carried in them, will be the
rape soon.
Here are a few do's and don'ts on what to wear and how to
wear them:
hands.
4 For tailor-mades or three
piece cloth ensembles for town wear, a very large mal- malson in white or any colour that tones with the costume is hard to beat.
Or If you would be really
correct, pln a single gardenia to your lapel.
Small posies of simple
1 Don't wear "fly" nowers of Bowers-cornflowers and on velvet, This is a regal wheat-ears with poppy material and enlis for exotics possible — look tremendously such as the large mauve orchid arresting and smart with
These would be all wrong
on a fluffy debutanie who
needs lilles of the valley, step- hanotis or a small white orchid at her waist-ine, just tucked in carelessly as though placed there and forgotten.
Foliage and berries only, in lovely warm tones, will be another new fashion for severe frocks and sults for morning wear in the autumn.
Tiny feather qulils ostrich feathers mingled with flowers will also be a new feature of forat adornment.
Did you MACLEAN your teeth to-day?
NURSERY TRAINING
MANY valuable lessons uf
psychological nature can be imparted by a mother to her child) during his pre-school days. When planning his daily routine a certain time should be allowed for Instruc-] tive gaines that will afford opportunity of developing mind and| body.
Between the ages of two and five years the senses and nervous system
should be receiving their training,
To-night
Let's Celebrate Hallowe'en
Do You Worry Your Children?
AMONG every group of children
there are some who do not smile as readily as they should. Apparent- ly they are in good health and are well fed, but their faces in repose bear a hard and worried look which will become fixed unless we find n reason and a remedy.
TO-DAY this festival England. To live, many parties are to be given by Scottish fan enthusiasm
"O-DAY, the festival of Hallowmas Eve is kept up in Scottish homes with as much enthusiasm expression in most cases is that the
for the little one's faculties in Colony to celebrate the popular festival.
abservation, creation, and manipula
tion
SHu practised.
that
tivated in modelling and denwbig.
fut appica and nuts and copper coins. Hallowe'en was also a season
The boys of the village dance omens and
spac
realise that all games and occupa-round their bonfire and leap through of the futuries, when glimpses for apples, the latter including reels
are allowed to le dormant nt!TN this far land, we are trying spirits of the departed were believed "Orgia,” and “The Witches Sabbath" that stage, his potentialities will keep Hallowe'en as they do at to revisit their old humes. The Call three, incidentally, avaliable cn. never be properly developed. ToHome. But it is not quite the same, fairies, too, were "out"; in fact, the gramophone acquire mastery over his body, such for this is a town ant the spirit of whate other-word was upset, and who can
recorda.) A "witch" fents as balancing and jumping, and Hallowe'en is best preserved in the all sorts of uncanny creatures were asset.
fortunes is a great light objects should De country. To-night, at Home, little released-witches
and
warlocks,
The children arrive in fancy dress groups of guisers sally forth after
ghoulies,
ghaisties, und His sonsca must also be trained so dusk carrying turnip lanterns or
gyre and masks, After a grand parade. (mother-witches); and it (with music), and much laughter- accuracy, Judgment, and love of candles stuck into a hollowed out was dangerous to go out after dark making speculation as to identities, the beautiful become in time quite kail-runt.
unless protected by fire kindled at the unmasking takes place. Then natural to him. Self-expression and Embroidered by disguise, they go the sacred flame. That is why the follow the various rites, which are creation must not be overlooked, and these important factors cas de cue from door to door-with a "Please to children, at Home go about with fully described in
Burns's poem, help the guisers!" and receive gifts turnip lanterns,
"Hallowe'en." with the exception, If this training at Arst appeurs
curiously, of the popular "dooking" dificult to the mother, she should
could be obtained, and Scottish country dances. tlons which arc of an educational the flames, and when it has burned especially by those who had "the nature are actually the simplest and down, they blacken their hands and believed to have prophetic qualities, sight." Apples and hazel-nuts were fees with the ashes "to keep the
The act of going through water and the parlour games of to-day are witches away." Then it's home to the solemn divination rites of earlier to obtain apples is in all probability the big warm kitchen to ent the times,
Druidic rite representing the pass- A box of bricks, for instaner, is champit taities in which are buried
ing through water to Avalon, apple- more than a toy, for it provides end-the charms, to dook for apples, burn
land, the land of the Immortals- two for apples are the fruit of life. party. The
We read that True Thomas and Electric light kills the the Fairy Queen, on their way to
Ideal The
"watled Hallowe'en Elland,
through waters is held in party
a big rattered abune the knee, and kitchen, it only by firelight and a Syne they cùm' on to a gairden string of lanterns, the corners
turnip being left in deep shadow,
An' she pu'd un aipple fque aff
most economical to provide. Creative Work
Eeriness and Galety
scope for creative work, and the nuts, dip into "the three luggies," Now for the many valuable icssons
Titty be and perform other traditional rites. learned with it, espectally if used But what is it all about? Probably things to aim at are evreness and with an assortment of miscellaneous few of the revellers know; yet with ty articles. By providing sand for use knowledge it is much easier to cap. mystery! out of doors and plastic materials ture the spirit of the festival. for rainy days that are spent indoors. many happy and instructive hours:
can be enjoyed.
Fairies and Witches
Brielly, Hallowe'en derives from a A wooden tub, half-filled with It is a mistake, however, to try great Druidle fire-festival, and the water, stan and make
stands on the kitchen floor; ld model something "nicht of tine" of which the guisers on the dresser is a pile of red-check- that does not appeal to him, and on
ready to be tumbled in, account must thu
On the range stands
no
work
Seja form of sun-worship peculiar to and
grene,
A tre
Apple-Land
"Tak, this for my wages. True
Thoning;
It will gl'e thee tengur, that ne'er
can
Fice."
The real reason of this harassed
children are worried in a variety of ways. One child is burdened with "the facts of life" whilst still an infant. Another is allowed to decide so many things for himself that the burden of it all is too great for his peace of mind and he shows this by the distressed look on his face when one of life's problems comes his way. Another child lives in a home where discord rather than harmony reigns. He dally listens to hard words and grumbles from parents who little dream of the effect these are having on their small son. An- other an only child, has parents who wish him to be a man as quickly as possible. He is missing his child- hood and is worried in consequence.
Sheltered Lives
It is dimeult in these days for children to live sheltered lives as they did in an earlier generation but we must do something to avold burdening our children
with our worries, unless we wish to see our boys and girls auffering from nervous Is when they get older.
The hazel-nuts commemorate the obtain obed, yet some parents
be means a night of fre. Druidlem, ed ade it a bowl of the sweet- criticised. If possible, the object he the Cellle peoples, was still the ful of "champit tatties," in which magle tree that wizards loved" as
creates might be likened to unligion of Scotland when, in the sixth
nuts.
The Government and the schools are doing much for the encourage- ment of physical finess, but only fathers and mothers can so arrange home life that the burden of worry, which is the main source of - health, shall not interfere with the health of their children.
A child should not know the menning of
by threats of ter- rible punishments. A child ought to animal or fals, and if the parent century. St. Columbla arrived in are the "dden charms" where the source of all wisdom; the grotes
be kept free from the knowledge of tactfully suggests minor improve
there are parents who lona.
tragedy, The end of October By
the the
discuss disasters and horrors in the older tradition prevalls these que masks of the guisers represent ments, a definite creation may be
trops were in and on this, the Just are buried in a bowlful of sowung the uncanny creatures of this light
Celtic year, bontires or of cream-crowdle
presence of small children. avere it on the hill-tops at nightfall, mixed lightly with topped cream world who are at large on this night;
be full of whilst the bonfires, the squibe, and
joy of living and the Bre the Insi the mother realises how early with fuil Druidle rites, partly as i
The Hallowe'en colours, black and the turnip lanterns Instinct is shown, and sort of harvest thanksgiving to the orange, mould be in silence, and traces of the ancient fire-rites with naturally as the sun peeps out from this might with advantage be de benevolent sun and partly for puri- ceric
muslo provided -} masked which our anecators honoured the behind the clouds. If a child wear worried look or walk about with veloped by covering the lower part Reation and protection from the musician, for instance, might play a sun. Thus in the children's festival of the nursery wall with American powers of evil.
are enshrined cloth on which the child may draw
flute or chanter in a shadowy cor- ancestral memories At this, the season of earth's de- ner. Some of the Hebridean melodies which link generation. to generation with bold sweeping strokes. A child should be encouraged, niso, to drawcy, the Celtic peoples remembered are particularly suitable and such right down the ages. the characters in his or her favourite their dead, and on Hallowe'en the music
evolved from what appears to be aimless moulding.
atories. Let Him Help You'
A child soon shows a desire for helping his mother, who will if she Is wise, encourage him, even though) at first his efforts are more of a hindrance than petuni assistance, for is really the psychological moment] when the helples, sting, should be
formed.
An excellent training for the memory is to place a number of articles
on a tray and invite the child.
then
to look at them for a minute, and, with back turned, to enumerate what he remembers seeing. He will like this game, for a child has sharp eyes and
A quick borÝ, therefore appreciates the opportunity! "of demonstrating them.
Ann Thorogood.
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Sorcler," preserve it!
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Happiness brings smiles to the Parents are faces of our little ones. responsible for the happiness of their entinot children. Worried children be happy, so it a well that we realise this fact and let a boy's or girl's young days be as free as pos- sible from knowledge of the ugly and unpleasant sides of life, and from anything else which kills joy.
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