10
Acquiring
THEORETICALLY,
wo
Balance
always long as you can, up to a minute, think of # Woman as being then repeat with the other leg. graceful, but netually, only a small proportion of womankind are really other
Your next olm should be to du
exercises while actually
a graceful as one expects them to balancing. Start with the least vlo- to, whether they are dancing, walk- lent,
fr
that is, gentle arm waving.
ποτα
Ing, sitting, or doing anything else. Standing on one foot as before, raise Graco depends on a number of the arms sideways and wave them things, of course, but one of the most lightly up and down. Change the feet and repeat. When you begin important is balance.
to feel more certain on your feet, You may, at frat, think there is
rather foot, you can do connection between balance and vigorous arm movements, that 18, trace, but anyone who is anything bending the arms smartly and touch- to do with physical culture will teli ing the shoulders with the Anger- you that an ability to balance with Ens, then extending the arms again caso has a direct effect on the physi cal movements of
everyday life, smartly,
since they lend assurance, case, and control to the whole being
Alm at acquiring a certain amount
down.
forward. alde, up, nod
Head Exercises
Next some hend -exercises. of balance, and you may rest assured Balancing on one foot, and keeping that it will Improve your walking, your hands on your hips, move the dancing, and other activities. Include head, at first very gently, forward the following exercises in your daily and up again, then simliarly to the physical jerks.
An Important Point
Alex and back." As your balance becomes surer, you can move the head more vigorously. Then you
ORC of the rat and most im- can try an even harder exercise, that Is bending the head forward, then portant things to remember when all round in a coinplete circle and doing unlancing exercises is to keep up again. Shaking the head, at first the toes well turned out. The rea-
then Rently,
move vigorously, 58 son for this is twofold. Firstly, the another thing to do. body adopts a grenter case and a
Don't allow yourself to become
more airy grace when the toes, and agitated if you wobble when doing therefore the limbs, are turned out; you can prove it by watching the exercises,
grace of ballet dancers. Secondly, it
11 you cannot steady yourself. Just drop the second fool or two, If sa fact that it is curier to keep one's and rest for a second
tu get worried balance with the toes turned out, you allow yourself
hot and bothered, you will because the basis on which, the body and above is poised is greater than if the completely spoil your chances of e- quietag balance, for your subconsci- tots point merely straight forward. ous mind will become worried and The first and simplest exercise in will lose confidence permanently. to stand on one leg, with foot, turned Keep calm and assured all the time. out, of course, and to raise the other Balancing exercises give you polse,
the slowly, keeping
foot well and they are well worth a little stretched down and the bent kace practice. smartly out. Keep this position as
Roma Lobel
Youthful Married Fashion Notes
Women
#LOW do you manage to keep looking so young?" asked a married woman of my acquaintance the other day. Although che ins
VENING dresses are on the whole as brillant as butterfles. They are frequently designed in chiffon of Ave
more
different colours, the bands of each being worked din- zonally neross the corsage, and then
been married for over eight years, allowed to Bare down the full skiri. has two young children, und
Funs
the home with only ecensional help,!
Butterflies. Indeed, are ultra-smart
she does not look older than I re-this season, and they are to be seen
member her in pre-marriage days.
in muslin, in painted satin, in chif
She replied modestly that she did fon, and in luce.
not know, and, quite frankly, did not think anything about it. So I
Rainbow colours are worked ju vertical bands of gradually increas ning length on some of the new mo- a green
was left to ponder over the reason, dels. Green butterflies on having as a background for myle frock are matched by bows of thoughts the fact that so many mur- ried women seem to grow older than green in butterfly form on a wrap to and so many top the dress.
the years
warrant;
single women retain their youth t
self-acknowledged middle age.
But something my friend let alip gave me a clue. "This is my night
A ereum dinner dreas seen has a girdle of straw and nea.
X
我
Feathers add an agreeable nole to
for the theatre," she said. She went many ensembles. Shoulder-capes are on to explain that ever since she seen In ostrich feathers in two tones had married she had reserved one of one colour or in many colours.
Feathers of orange and white bor- night in the week for her girlhood: friends, most of whom were under n striped transparent cape, over married. They spent this one night an orange gown. The cape is worn together. During the winter months with a spunglass cap. they went to an entertainment, and
Train can now be hooked up on to
in the summer there was tennis or the skirt or left down, as the occa- In some cases, trains Occasionally golf or a walk in the sion demands. country. She looked forward to that are abandoned in favour of dresses the floor. This night in the week, and had senteely which just eleur missed it in all the years of her means, however, that the shoes are Just visible, and hence considerable married life.
given to foot- Marvelling at the unusual length attention has been
to
match the
f such friendship, I became dunty wear in materials aware of difficulties. "But the child-dresses.
ren.
7" I murmured, "Oh,
out and he tries to stay in, and, if
in,"
companionship of those who
our friends'
before we were
my husband knows-this-is-my-night How often, for example, we forgo
the someon to i were we get 13lso fearned that both married. Sometimes a bride invites husband and wife arranged a night to tea or supper the companions of out by themselves each week If it her, youth,
he cannot, come
were possible, even if it were only to have supper together la town.
In a Rut
-
Wednesday,
· HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH.
March 15, 1939.
Make-up
apron
IN
Cut it out in gay cotton, wear it when
you do your face
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, cleans- ing tissues, orange slicks, etc., enn 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,
n
Selvedge
What You Need
To make the apron you need 14 yds. of 35 in. wide checked scersuc- ker and 4 yd. of plain material. Seersucker washes like the proverbial rng, and does not loss its colours.
Cut the odd yd. from the checked material, leaving a piece 36 in. square. Fold this in halves and cut it into a 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 the back opening.
Cut the yd. of checked material in halves lengthwise. Sutch one end of one of the pieces to the front of the circular piece, matching the centres.
Measure off nine inches from the remaining plece 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 inte iwo.
I Don't Understand My Son
thin
AM.bitterly disappointed.about.ms___could_never_accuse me of luck_of
When he was son.
a child i enthusiasm, and the blunders I made
rather looked forward to his being grown were of commission up, I expected to find him a pal; omission
we would have many I imagined 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 ns for my knowing what goes on in his mind or what his am- bitions are, or his it we
being a pal of mine, he might just as well be a complete stranger.
office friends, girl ac- quaintances, ostensibly to celebrate the occasion of the marriage. Some- times parties, for too often they are tarewell 10 the youthful friends, of pre- occupations, and interests
we cannot
Perhaps there is more in this than marriage days. we think. We married woman are) It may be said that
even be brighter
50 prone to settle down. For the have it both ways, but would not first few weeks or months we retain our home something of our energy even in were brighter ourselves?
Youthfulness these days is not so being entertained or in sport or in, friendship
and companionship, but much a matter of years as of one's gradually
we become tied to
the attitude to life. And what may be home. It is so enay 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 noi do justice to our-young.
L. T. acives.
Sometimes I begin to have my sus- pletons. I feel forced to think that I cannot get to grips with him be cause there is nothing to grip. is he hollow, a sham, a man lacking in Buis?
I suspect that my son gets along quite well because he has not suf- ficient character to go wrong, is too luckadaisical to kick over the traces. Apparent Lack of Interest
He indulges in most modern pur- sults has o car of his own, plays tennis, stays out late at night, but he does it all with an air of not be- ing particularly interested.
And that brings me to the possi- bility 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?
there Maybe
is some special shrewdness behind this apparent luck of interest. Maybe he shows no sign of ambition because in his own way he is planning carefully for the future.
A Superior Philosophy?
Is his refusal to shout for this or the sign of a that political badge
knows superior philosophy which 'that the promised millennium will
come from neither?
Perhaps he regards my political enthusiasms as something rather pillable and refuses to discuss them to spure my feelings.
I am beginning to think that after all there is behind the apparently casual, lukewarm attitude of modern a hardness and resolution The same thing, applies to business youth
which are all the more valuabic and politics. He never offers me a word about his affairs in the city, through their incle of outward show.
ask him how he is get- Are and when
we old ones wrong and the on he replies with a "Quite young ones right? ting O.K., Dad," and that is as far as we get,
I have not any idea what his poli- ties 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 the other party or people do not rouse a Bicker of indignation.
Why, I would prefer it if he was burning red-hot for the side whose views are opposed to mine; I would feel then that ho had some opinions
"Polit and the guts to back them up. clans!" he utters scornfully, when- even I breach 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
Do they regard our enthusiasms as so muen ballyhoo?
I am beginning to belleve 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 enthusiasm is due to scorn of flag-wagging. drum-beating, and all the ballyhoo of patriotism.
That is why I cannot get to grips with my son.
Be and I live in remotely dil- ferent worlds, and this lack of com panionship is part of the price the older generation must pay for having mate, such an unholy mess of the world that was ours,
Turn under a 4in. hem all round the apron and stitch it neatly, or else cut nurrow crossway strips from the plain material and bind the edges, This looks very
much nicer, but takes longer to do.
Bind the top of the pocket. Cut crossway band 24in. wide from the plain fabric. Bind the neck with this to make un upstand- ing neckband in. wide.
Apron Strings
Attach apron strings of the plain material to ench side of the skirt at the waist. A piece of tape should
opening, and the apron is finished,
For visits away from home a special "best" apron can be made -from-a-less-serviceable fabric, but
be sure that it will wash. It only when you have been wearing an apron for a couple of wecks that you will railise how much it saves your dresses!
be sewn to each side of the neck
is
The secret
of radiant
Take a little
beauty
'HAZELINE"
SNOW on your finger-tips and gently massage it into the skin. The smooth and lovely complexion which results will reveal to you the true secret of radiant beauty.
HAZELINE
Class Jars from all Pharmacias and Stores
Trade Marki
SNOW"
BURROUGHS WELLCOME & CO.
A. 7611
PADINIRTONAL THR WELLCOME FOUNDATION Lvo Longon,
LONDON AND SHANGHAI COPYRIGHT
WHAT
WILL HE THINK
WHEN HE'S DANCING
WITH YOU ? .
will the freshness. sparkling colour and pleasing cleanliness of your dance frock make him think
"How dainty she is?" Don't risk a bad im- pression
"ZORIC"
Odourless Dryclean
all your formal wear,
THE STEAM LAUNDRY CO.
Head Office & Works 57032
Hong Kong Depot, Tel. 21279. Peaic Depot, - Tel. 20352.
ACRONI
1-pirai inclined
PLDT
Dacred Cantata
New Zekod nalles.
15 Mauchorian besa
18
DIO-WOM Katah
Perce
1 Kind of fort
Confedersta.goraraz
11 Indivisible
substance
15 Oiherwise
**ZAADHARA ZAKAA****=*Q****92*5* 86038
Detoured
Gloucester Bldg., 2nd Flr,, Tel. 28030. Kowloon Depot,
as
Tel. 50545.
Crossword Puzzle
Gitar in Rushling Province ́in
By LARS MOREIS:
ANBWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
CJntet £3-Mothing 70-Tightly drama 11-Pet Wi type again * Beverage T3-Spirited
DOWN
-Plosing expresston 2-Desert bexit
-Gord
4-Before BOUKIMIAm trick ..
А
-pace
-Printing characters D-Uae who sires set!
for principle 10-Indefile"` mernasi
pronour
1. Caused by udga
12
Make happy
Ductin
11 Fa!
23 Close
influite
13 ne who askatu
31-Insert
13-Light brown
33 Viper
14 Artspie
25-In addition
Fruit stone
39 Balt of work
30 Maldro
10 - Uneren
mo
13 Dody of water
43 -Vebine
43
46-Prepartian (Latias
48-- Then of y
42-CoArm moral atala 30-Perigrator
51-G1279 pamE 57-Prog«ilkə anıtmalā 67 -Danger
--In direction of
60-Veln
61-Necently deceased 44-Pleso at inw
-Veebid
9 jo # 72 B
Jidle 101 zbosinos
(small pie
Mountain +RES
He present at
Ident wore in golf
Divorce expital
Abbreviated
Tencereussion
Mexican TÍ
Worried
Intermectad
Entiated
2 Female
Fast Continens
or Gezien leader
Rant
Roundof
50 Particular
Mast unimportant
Period at time
EX-To the MIL
12
13
14
6
7 18
19
17
כון
78
122
126
130 131
33 34 35
19
30
P
$7
28
29
38
"guava
Fashion dictates that vells with complement Spring hats, be they simple or dressy. At left, the slightly mushroom, crepe" hat in white is enmeshed in a fine black vell. The put- ple veil brings out one of the colours of the turban in change- able taffeta at right, "..
PEPSODENT
TOOTH PASTE and POWDER
CONTAIN IRIUM.
FOR GREATER CLEANSING POWER
Shawn here is a dotted tailored frack with four pockets and red leather belt, and shirred print bolero with black basic frock.
METROPOLE
ROOM BATH $6
FROM
CENITIAL
CLEAN
COMFORTABLE
47. W8
50 51
58
59
10
67
66 167
168
169
70
155 156