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Acquiring Balance
THEORETICALLY,
We
WORTHIN
always long as you can,
up to a minute, think of u
as being then repeat with the other leg.
Your next alm should be to do graceful, but actually, only a small
actunity exercises while proportion of womankind fare, really, uther
as graceful as one expects them to balancing. Start with the least vlo- be, whether they are dancing," walk- lent, that is, gentle arm
waving.
more
that is,
ing, sitting, or doing anything else. Standing on one fout an before, raise Grace depends on number of the arms sideways and wave thein things, of course, but one of the most lightly up and down, Change the feet and repeat. When you begin Important is balance.
You may, at first, think there is to feel more certain on your feet,
or rather foot, you can do no connection between balance and vigorous arm movements,
race, but anyone who has anything bending the arina smartly and touch- to do with physleni culture will telling the shoulders with the finger- you that an ability to balance with us, then extending the arms again
up. forward, side.. case has a direct effect on the phys smartly, cal movements of everyday life down. since they lend assurance, ease, and control to the whole being.
Aim nt requiring a
certain sanount
Head Exercises
and
Next. Some head exercises.
of balance, and you may rest assured Balancing on one fuot, and keeping will Improve your walking, your hands on your hips, muve-the ', that
dancing, and other activities. Include head, at first very gently, forward the following exerckes in your daily and up again, then similiarly to the .physleni jerks.
An Important Point
Fides and back. As your balance becomes surer, you can move the you head more vigorously. Then enn try an even harder exercise, that One of the Arst
and most im la bending the head forward, then portant firings to remember wheu
round in a complete circle and doing balancing exercises is to keep the toes well turned out. The rea again, Shaking the head, at first
another thing to do. for thin is twofold. Firstly, the Henlly, then move
Don't allow body adopts 1 greater case and a
yourself to more airy grace when the tees, and therefore the limb, are turned out; agitated if you wobble when dolnit exercises. If you cannot steady you can prove this by watching the grace of ballet dancers. Secondly, it yourself, just drop the second foot is a fact that it is easier to keep ones and rest for a second
you allow yourself
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vigorously,
become
or two. If to get worried will bulante with the toes turned out and hot and bothered, you because the basis on which the body completely spoil your chances of ae- above is poised is greater than if the quiring bilance, for your subconsci- ous mind wil become worried and toes point merely strnight forward.
The first and simplest exercise is will lose confidence permanently. to stand on one leg, with foot turned Keep calm and assured all the time. Balancing exercises give you poise, Dui, of enurse, and to ruise the other
Uttle worth a the foot well and they ore well slowly, keeping stretched down and the bent knee practice.
Roma Lobel smartly out. Keep this position as
Youthful Married Fashion Notes
Women
EVENING dresses are on the whole
They
s brilliant as butterflies. Now do you manage to keep
looking so your?" asked are frequently designed in chiffon of five or more different colours, the married woman of my nequaintance Lands of each being worked dia
other day. Although she hust been married for over eight years, gully across the corsage, and then has two young children, and runs allowed to fare down the full skirt. Butterflies, indeed, are ultra-smart
the
the home with only occasional helst season, and they are to be seen she does not look older than I re-
in muslin, in painted satin, in chif-
member her in pre-marriage days,
She replied modestly that she did on, and in luce.
not know, and, quite frankly, did
WIB
Rainbow
colours are
worked in
not think anything about it. So 1 vertical bands of gradually increas
left to ponder over the reason, ing length on some of the new mo- defs. Green butterfies on a green having us a background for my thoughts the fact that so many mattulle frock are matched by bows of rled women seem to grow older thinn green in butterfly form on a wrap to
warrant, and Bo many top the dress. the years single women retain their youth til sell-acknowledged middle age.
But something my friend Jet slip gave me a clue. "This is my night for the theatre," she said. She went since she on to explain that ever
A cream dinner dress seen has a girdle of straw and linen.
Feathers add an agreeable note to many ensembles. Shoulder-capes ure seen in ostrich feathers In two tones had married she had reserved one of one colour or in many colours, night in the week for her girlhood friends,
most of whom
Feathers of orange and white bor- were under a striped transparent cape over married. They spent this one night on orange gown. The cape is worn together. During the winter. months with a spunglass cap.
Train can now be hooked up on to they went to an entertainment, and in the summer, there was tennis or the skirt or left down, as the occn- a walk in the ston demands. In some cases, trains occasionally golf or country. She looked forward to that are abandoned in favour of dresses night in the week, and had scarcely which just clear the floor. This missed it in all the years
of her means, however, that the shoes are Just visible, and hence considerable married life.
given to foot-
match Marvelling at the unusual length attention has been of such friendship, became dimly wear in materials lu
ware of dificulties. "But the childdresses,
my
In a Rut
the
girl ac-
7" 1 murmured. "Oh, husband knows this is my night the companionship
How often, for example, we forgo who of those before we were out and he tries to stay in, and,
our friends he cannot, wo
get someone to were come in. I also learned that both married. Sometimes a bride invites husband and wife arranged a night to tea or supper the companions of
her youth, office friends, out by themselves each week if it were possible, even if it were only quaintances, ostensibly to celebrate the occasion of the marriage, Some- to have supper together in town.
times parties, far too often they are farewell to the youthful friends, pre- occupations, and interests of Perhaps there is more in this thon marriage days.
we cannot It may be said that we think. We married woman are
why, but would not For the have it both to seltic down.
if we so prone
even be brighter Arst few weeks or months we retain our home
even in were brighter ourselves? something of our energy
Youthfulness these days is not so being entertained or in sport or in triendship and companionship, but much a matter of years us of one's gradually
the ttitude to life. And what may be we become tied to home. It is to easy to slip into ways felt within is reflected without. Those which, while they may do justice to who feel young may more easily look the home, do not do justice to our-young.
L. T scives,
Wednesday,
HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH
March 15, 1939.
Make-up
apron
Cut it out in gay
cotton, wear it when
you do your ·
face
IN these days of elaborate coiffures and closefitting dresses, we have to make up and "do" our hair after slip- ping on our frocks. Powder and blobs of cream are likely to fall on nice new dresses, and hairs drop on to our shoulders.
This useful apron will prevent all that. Its cape top will protect your shoulders and the pocketed front part will take care of your skirt. A supply of cotton-wool, elcans- ing tissues, orange sticks, etc., can be kept in the pockets.
The upstanding neckband can be tucked into highnecked dresses so that the neck can be creamed and powdered without any damage to the dress.
Selvedge
What You Need
To make the apron you need 1 yds. of 36 in. wide checked sceratie- ker and yd. of plain material. Seersucker washes like the proverbial rug, and does not lose its colours.
Cut the odd 4 yd, from the checked material, leaving a plece 36 in. square. Fold this in lives and cut it into 'n large semicircle, as shown in the diagram. Cut out a small semicircle for, the neck. Open the mu terial into a circle and cut a slit from neck to hem for. Die back opening.
Cut the yd. of checked material in halves lengthwise. Stitch one und of one of the pieces to the front of the circular piece, matching the centres.
Measure-off nine inches from the remaining piece of material. This is for the pocket. Cut off an inch or two from the bottom of the apron skirt if it is too long for, you, then sew on the pocket. The sketch will show you how this should, look. A line of stitching up the middle will divide the pocket into two.
I
I Don't Understand My Son
AM bitterly disappointed about my son. When he was a child 1 looked forward to his being grown up. I expected to find him a pal; I imagined we would have many interests in common. And that our companionship would be fun.
But the fact is I cannot get to grips with him. He is twenty-two, has a worth-while job in the City, and has never given cause for any anxiety, but as for my knowing what goes on in his mind or what his am- bitions
being a pat of ure, or his mine, he might just as well be a complete stranger.
Sometimes I begin to have my suk- piclons. I feel forced to think that I cannot get to grips with him be- cause there is nothing to grip. 1s he hollow, a sham, a man lacking in 'guts?
I suspect that my son gets along quite well because he has noi sul ficient character to go wrong, is too lackadaisical to kick over the traces. Apparent Lack of Interest
He indulges in most modern pur- sults-hus u ear of his own, plays tennis, slays out late at night, but he does it all with on air of not be ing particularly interested.
The same thing applies to business and politics. He never offers me a word about his affairs in the city, and when I ask him how he is get- ting
on he replies with a "Quite as far as O.K., Dad," and that is we get.
I have not any Idea what his poli- tics are. I have never heard him drop a word of dislike for "the other side or of Praise for "our side." The wrongs of this, that, or Use other party or people do not rouse
flicker of Indignation.
Why, I would prefer it if he was burning red-hot for the alde whose views are opposed to mine: I would feel then that he had come opinions and the guts to back them up. "Polit!- clans!" he utters scornfully, when even broach the subject
In my youth I was cast in a very different mould. I was interested in everything, and went full. out for the interest of the moment, No, one
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of lack of could never enthusiasm, and the blunders I made were of commission rather than omission,
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And that brings me to the pussi- billy that I am making a blunder now. Am I blaming my son for my not being able to get to grips with him when the fault is really mine? Is it not perhaps, the eternal prob lem of youth never to be truly un- derstood by the old?
is Maybe there
Special shrewdness behind this apparent Jack shows no of Interest. Maybe he sign of amblilon because in his own way he is planning carefully for the future.
A Superior Philosophy?
come
Is his refusal to shout for this or the sign of a which knows that political badge superior philosophy that the promised millennium will come from neither?
Perhaps be regards my political enthusiasma as something rather pitiable and refuses to discuss them to spare my feelings.
I am beginning to think that after all there is behind the apparently casual, lukewarm attitude of modern resolutiun ☐ hardness and youth which are all the more valuable through their luck of outward show. Are we old ones wrong and the young ones, right?
Do they regard our enthusiasms as so much. ballyhoo7
I am beginning to believe that my son and all our sons would fight to the death, in the gun-pit and trench if need be, for what they consider, in their cold, logical way, to be right, *--~.
Their apparent lack of entitustusm is due to scorn of flog-wagging, drum-beating, and all the ballyhou of patriotism • lo
That is why I cannot get to grips with my son.
In remotely dif- ferent worlds, and this lack of com-
He and I live panlonship is part of the price the older generation must pay for having made such an unholy mess of the world that was ours.
Fashion dictates that velle with complement Spring hate, be they simple br dressy. At left, the slightly mushroom,"quava crepe hat in white is enmeshed in a fina black veil. The pur- ple veil brings out one of the colours of the turban in-change- able tafela at right, 34)
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Tur under in. hem al round the pram and stitch it neatly, or else cut narrow crossway strips from the plain materind and bind the edges. This looks very much nicer but takes longer to do.
Bind the top of the pocket. Cut a crossway band 2in. wide the from the plain fabric. Bind neck with this to make an upstand- Ing neckband'lin. wide.
Apron Strings
Attach apron strings of the plain material to each side of the scirt at the waist. A plece of tape should of the neck be sewn to each side opening, and the upron is finished. For visits away from home special "best apron can be made from a less serviceable fabric, but be sure that it will wash. It s only when you have been wearing an apron for a couple of werks that you will realise how much it saves your dresses!
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