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Friday!
How do
you
with
your FAMILY?
HAVE you ever thought what it would be like if you occupied a different position in the family series?
If, instead of being, say, the youngest, pou were the eldest or ine middle one, do you reallas that li might affect your charac- ter in all sorts of unexpected ways, might even alter the whole course of pour life? is a speculation which may throw some odd lights on your present behaviour. This is an article on this
quration.
Are you દી girl with
two younger brothers?
UNBRELLA WOMEN
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
stand
found she could gain plenty of ap- proval.
By the time her second brother Christopher was born, when she was six, she had acquired a reputation in the neighbourhood as a wonderfully unselfish and sweet-natured elder sister,
As the Brighton children grew up it became apparent that Mark had an exceptionally good singing votee. It was su more apparent that Mark was his mother's favourite.
Mobel, after she had left school, found that she had a gift for teach- ing small children. To get a good post, she needed training. There
January 27, 1939.
Good Company
1000 cheer and good company, are
the highlights of any IN Вп By the quantity of your inviti s moy the quality of your company be judged. Perhaps that is an over statement, but certainly "good com- pany" is always in demand.
Now is the moment nasess the quality of your company; what do you contribute to the evening's entertainment and the hostess's case of mind when you are asked to a party? When you receive an in- vitation do you reply within a few days with a definite uùcceptance or refusal? (You should.) Don't pigeon hole it will you see if some more exciting "date" turns up, so that on exasperated hostess has to ring up to discover your intentions.
Dress contributes materially to establishing 21 popular reputation. You should study the wording at your card and, remembering your hostess's social position, decide on what is absolutely right. Don't nt- trnet questionable attention by np- pearing in gaudy raiment, when it is obviously an informal affair, nor dis- grace the hostess by making do with any old thing.
As
you alip into your chosen attire, let yourself gradually, become en- veloped in a joyous spirit of antiel- pation. The worries and depressions of daily existence should be banished from your mind as you dab the last spot of powder to your party sell.
Having a due regard for the Im- portance of being asked out, you are sure to arrive up, to time and at least tive minutes early for a dinner. You cannot be good company it your tar- diness has ruined the cook's temper.
Cultivate the Party Spirit
You should alight at the door in a party spirit, not necessarily in a mood of noisy hilarity, but in a re- ceptive frame of mind prepared to be amused, delighted, entertained, and definitely-not bored. Do not come
SOME of the difficulties was little spare cash in the family, show off your wit, your intelligence,
pect that some of it should be spent
you have to-day may be but Mabel had a perfect right to ex- explained by the difficulties on her.
of the position you once held Don't Worry"
in the nursery hierarchy.
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Mark, but in order 10
or the height of your social position. That simply is not done.
Rather be ready to appreciate other's attempts at wit and to en- ilven the conversation by speriding vitality with the objective motive to
Though you may long ago INSTEAD, not out of love of making the party go, and not merely to satisfy your own ego. An intel- have broken away from the
keep up the warm, comforting glowligent woman has often a flair for family circle and be leading of approval in which she had basked sensing the atmosphere of a gather- your own life, you may still, since she was five, she paid brightly,ing and chameleon-like she
mold her mentality to blend with without knowing it, be re-enact- "Don't worry about me, mother.
the prevailing background. ing the dramas of your child- ' perfectly happy at home. You make daddy fork cut for the best hood.
icasons for old Mark."
THREE dangers heset us in win- that the main la descending as straight successfully,
ter:
Cold, drenching as possible. showers catch us unawares, and el
up
- (1)
If you happen to be a girl with When Mubel was twenty-five she two younger brothers, read the story awoke to a distressing fact. She of a girl whom I will call Mabel had practically no friends of her Brighton. You will see how her own tuge. She was popular with the whole life has been affected by the older generation, who compared her, fact that she once played, much too to her advantage, with "those dread- the part of "little ful modern girls." But her school friends had long ago drified away mother to two younger brothers,
Bibel was the only child in the from the small town into professions Brighton family until she was four or had married.
She was by no means unattractive, years old. Though she was an ami- able and unexacting child, it was a but she wore the dewdy clothes her shock when
friends approved a rival appeared in the mother's
of and d her hair in an old-fashioned way form of her brother Murk,
At first she became sulky and in- berause "that's how daddy likes it efined to relapse into babyish habits best." to attract her mother's attention to Mabel is nearly thirty now. herself. But this was unsuccessful. Mrs. Brighton grew impatient and Bitterness Grows made it clear to her small daughter that the new baby was now the most important person in the house.
(2) Pavements become Protection for Handbags slippy, and we sit down violently
The secret of this eccentric man and unexpectedly, (3) There is no nee of handing an umbrella may be law against women using umbrellas, found, I faney, in the portmanteau
If, unhappily, a next war comes, it can be settled speedily by sending that every member of the fair sex carries to-day. She calls it a hand- a battalion of British women, armed bag. What its contents are, apart with open umbrellas, to the front. from something the size of a grand One charge by them would scatter plano, remains a mystery. They the finest military machine in the must be very valuable, because the world,
first duty of an umbrella, is clearly A woman with an umbrella to protect this portmanteau. Inw unto herself. Shu thinks, scerningly, that she has been arened If the rain swamps in from the with a weapon with which to des- right, the handbag a slipped under At troy her fellow-creatures; If not ex- the left, armpit, and the umbrella is terminale them, at least cripple as held facing towards the left. If the Fain comes from the left, then the many of them as possible.
manoeuvres are carried on towards As a Shield
the right.
Can
if
Don't embark on long and boring anccdotes, nor lapse into supercilious silence. De so Interested in the other guests that your interest draws them out to make the best of them- selves. You should not push your- self forward unnecessarily, but your hostess is appealing for ideas, be quietly suggestive.
When it comes to eating, it per- chance you are on a diet do not draw attention to the fact by exclaiming that "you daren't cat that" or "you simply mustn't touch this." Your obviais enjoyment of the whole af- fale will radlate through the assem- bly and the party will go with a
wing.
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You step out into the night as the doors close softly behind you leaving an impression of the quality of your company.
Will hostesses say of you, "Let's have So and So, she's such good company"?
C. R. M.
Apple Mould
CHE is st) nice-looking, still has the reputation for being sweet, unselfish and wan- 5-A Discovery derfully domesticaled. But under the sweetness she is becoming aware the time she was five, of a strong undercurrent of bitter- Babel mate great dis- at a
on from covery. Finding that being naughty home, for, being without certificates,
DEEL and slice 1 lb apples and put only made her position worse she she can only plek up small teaching
them into a pan along with 1 With head down,
good. jobs in the neighbourhood where she and Umbrella "There k"something else that makes tried being preternaturally
kill water ond She begins to feel that
2 ozs sugar. Cook held before her like
This was a great success. By run- Is itnown. t shield, she a woman use an unbrella somewhat
the apples till they are tender, and ning errands. and helping to look her only escape is marriage. launches herself upon an unprepared freakitly. You may have noticed
of the par then rub the contents amuse baby Mark, she mankind. Like the river, she takes that, when the sun is shining bright- after and
Certainly, it seems hard that any
through a sleve, one so good in the home, so admic- the line of least resistance. If that 13. many women marry umbrellas. It
able with small children, should be line happens to lead the polat of her must be admitted that, owing to the
But Ma- of our British climate. umbrella Into the eye of someone exigencies approaching, so much the worse for their, gesture displays considerable the eye and its owner.
perspicully, A few minutes sun any Women with umbrellas flop about time in Britain is usually the signal all over the place. For some extra for an immediate downpour of rain. ordinary reason, they do not use um ut, even if the sun is shining, she And so, when a woman wears a new brellas primarily to keep the rain off themselves. Firstly. an umbrella takes out an umbrella. Who can is employed to clear a way for its blame her? Not this admirer of her bolder. Secondly, it appears to be sex!
of service to keep its owner balanced Impressive Spectacle In a windy ruin, Türdly, it is pre- summbly
that trix has one.
ot just to show A woman protecting a new hat with an umbrella is a moving sight, II. by an amazing chance, a wo- Poets have burat into cestasies over man holds an umbrella over her mother love, and suchlike matters; head, it can be taken for granted but none has ever written an ode to that the ruin Is fashing upon her a woman keeping the wet off her from the front, back, oriside. It alie latest headgear. Which rather goes carries it at un angle, it is odds-on to show that the depth of feeling of
selves would inake out..
poets is not as great as they them-unable to find a husband.
bel is going the wrong way about it. Indeed, Abc is n moving sight. A men has only to take the least She moves all human beings within notice of her for an expression of a considerable distance out of the gilke devotion to appear in her way as she juggles with her un are--he Alles in terror.
And-men being what they brella in an attempt to keep even
one drop of rain from touching the You see, she cannot learn that the creation which its jauntily and pre-technique of pleasing a contemporary cariously upon her galden hale. Is entirely different from the techal-
Women need not have their um-que of winning parental approval or brellas open to be a threat to the of being motherly and indispensable welfare of their brother-and-sister 10 two small boys hardly out of the
with beings. Watch them
these cradle.
But no healthy human being can stumpy affairs of theirs when they are entering or leaving bus or tram. live on an exclusive diet of mild ap- They jerk them under their arms, proval and unsatisfled desires. point upwards, just so that they will irmly prod anybody following.
Douglas A. Scoti
Soups With Sprouts
When this is done whip up the pulp and juice ili light and frothy, and add to it a pint packet of lemon or red currant jelly cut up into small pieces.
Sur till the jelly is thorougly dis- solved, and then pour into a mould, Leave it to set, and when required turn out and dicorate with whipped and sweetened cream.
B. M.
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COUPS with Brussels sprouts have remedial value, as well as being good internal heaters and energiser's, at this time of the year when com- plaints due to impure blood are com-
mon.
Several varieties of soups can be made from the
same foundation,
which includes half a pound" of sprouts, steamed til tender, chopped and added to a quart of stock with seasoning to taste.
Chopped fried onion can be added, or parsley, either raw or fried, An- other tasty addition is zh cooked rasher of bacon inely chopped.
Simmer the soup for about twenty minutes. Rub it through 11 hair sleve If a purce is desired, and thicken with a tablespoonful of blended corn- Hour. A g of boiling milk can be udded, either to the puree or to the unsieved soup.
Serve with fried or toasted crou- tone.
W. B.
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