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has taken over as No. 1 Baby Expert
by AWINE EDWARDS SHE is pretty, slender, youthful -the reverse of the traditional picture of a woman at the top of the nursing profession. SHE took six years from the time sie qualified as a midwife at the Middlesex Hospital to the day she the whole department-as
the sister-in-charge of
maternity wing, a job she held. right through the war.
ran
SHE has supervised the delivery of more than 6,000 babies, has deliver el more babies than she can remem ber, says it is the most interesting job in the world, because:
"Every baby, every mother, and the techni- calities of every baby's arrival are different,"
SHE believes that top qualification for a good nurse is to be human. She tells her nurses: "Never forget that a new baby may be an exhaust Ing. five-times-a-night routine to you-but it is the most important event in the world to the parents. And be kind to fathers-tell them they're welcome to ring up every half-hour if they like."
What Britain
proposes to do for the family
No
¡Sir Ronald Davison
on the 60₫
of social:
NOW in England after World War ness of the scheme to the average
HI, another forward move is in citizen in Britain. progrets. The first step, was the It may be objected that the sub- payment of family allowances. Since sidy will ba pail by the taxpayers persens August, 1940, the State has pald, who are, the same as the to the mother of a family the sum insured under this national Insurance of shillings a week for each one for all citizens. That, of course, is of her children under 16, except only true enough, but the State collects the first born.
income taxes according to Individual At the other
end of family capacity to pay, and not at a flat rate life, the rate of old, aga pensions like the weekly Insurance premiums.
In
This means that bigger income bear 1046 more than doubled retired people. But this more of the subsidy than lower in- latter reform · was really
only comes, to that extent, and in other пп advance Instalment of the ways, the new social security plan Government's new scheme of all-in will have an equalitarian effect in national insurance, a major under. Britain. taking which will begin on July 0.
Was
for
All` To Share
th
·Short Haircut for Summer
5.256.
Ireno Beasley, famous radio star, dnds this trim hairdo practicak.
for summer,
When it is in operation it will All classes are to share in the employed uredly be the most complete and scheme, not only those ambitious scheme of compulsory for wages and salaries. It will be contributory social insurance yet attempted in any country. It will the guarantee of pensions for the old 40 and for widows, pansions that will affect the whole population of
make weekly contributions particu- and will provide millions
cash larly worth while for those who are benents during stekness, unemploy self-employed, and also for the ment, old age, widowhood, and other small number of non-cammers. The
w[1] include
only non-contributors, subject contingencies. It funeral grant.
exceptions, minor
will be most Married Women
married women and all children Married
leaves women, particularly under 10 years. That
ere to be well million persons between the ages of during maternity, looked after. Those who normally 16 and 65 to pay weekly contribu- work, even though they pay no tions. contributions themselves will The
balance in favour of the receive a maternity allowance of 30s. average contributor to this scheme will in fact be quite remarkable. for 13 weeks, and other women.an attendance allowance of 205. for For it is estimated that, in future, four weeks. All will receive Д the married man who draws his MANY women love the short cut and lustre; that is most important. with The wool upon our heads is subject maternity grant of £4 for each retirement pensions of 42s. a week with the bend covered
for himself and his wife for as much curly euICS. They insist upon hay- to change; don't forget that. lness, child.
that's all right. The worry, loss of sleep, (say from 65 to 76)ing it, and The normal benefits and pensions as 10 years are fixed on a fint rate of 26s. a will receive eight times what he three-inch length is grand for the can take a toll. Hence the need of
any summer. You luther your head, if respect for the laws of health week for a man or woman, with 16s. paid. That does not include
spare for well-being. allowance for an adult dependent benefits, such as slek benefits, which you have little time to
working professional attentions, twirl the
Keep your hair beautifully clean. and 78. 6d. for the first child. That he may draw during his
must. No commercial insurance com- short strands around metal curlers The fortnightly shampoo is
that adds up to 43s, Od.-a week for a life.
time tho sweat and and there you are: All set until the By man, wife and first child, together pany in the world could offer
sebaceous glands have deposited with the ordinary family allowances terms.
next shampoo day comes 'round,
debris upon the scalp that must be of ús. a week for children who come later.
Weekly Contributions
em-
SHE helped to run the celebrated £20-baby scheme at the Middlesex
All this is going to be costly, and during the war-cut-price for
weekly con Service wives that included three the insured person's weeks as a private patient in hos-iribations will not be small. They fact be Ps, Id, for a man pital, plus care by their specialists. Will in
(of which 43. 8d. In paid by the man SHE says about Dizelpline-the No.henself) or nearly double the week-
paid by 1 grumble of nurses: "It is silly to ly premiums nov
contributors and their give nurses the responsibility of
two lesser and patient's health on duty, and then employers to the
modest social Insurance treat them like schoolchildren
off more
scheines for health and unemploy duty. Discipline is only valuable where it affects the patient. Or ment which have been working in course, nursing is an exacting life, Britain since 1912. but our system has been justified. I have never yet heard criticism of British nursing
i
ployed
сол
But in addition to the contribu- cm- low of the insured and their ployers there will also be сот- siderable State subsidy to the пси SHE was born in Rhymney, Mon-insurances. This will add mouthshire, 37 years ago, has large, siderably to the financial attractive- dark eyes, soft voice and tons of ambition. She was christened Mary-but answers to "Bill"
SHE has just taken over the top job in the baby nursing profession. Two weeks ago she went on duty in a new navy and white uniform as Miss Mary Williams, the youngest matron ever to run Queen Char- lotte's 3,000-babies-a-year Materuity Hospital in West London.
NEW-LOOK- FOR
GRANDMA
GRANDMOTHER with two grandchildren aged 17 and 18 was one of six "over-50" models to take part in a fashion parade at a city store in Sydney recently.
The average waist measurement of the six models was 32 inches.
París designers advocate an 18- Inch waistline for New Look clothes -for the
Young.
The store,
Murdoch's, showed clollies adapted to suit the older woman. They claimed it was the first show of its type in Sydney.
The grandmother. Mrs Ann Camp- hell, of Rose Bay, la 62. She has a 44-inch hips. and a 35-inch waist.
She modelled corsets as well as housecoats, day and evening frocks, and model hats.
"I took up modelling when I turned 50," she said recently.
I
"My two sons were grown up and
BOL
sick of housework. { deter-
few
mined to become a model-some- thing I had wanted to be all my life.
With
the exception of a years during the war when there wasn't much work, I've been doing it ever since.
"The Interest has kept me young, and I've made a good income..out of it.
"My grandchildren tell me I've got a good figure.".
Corsetry experts at Murdoch's sald Mrs Campbell had a "perfect small figure"
RED : RYDER ®
A ROOK HEWN. BAIRWAY UNDER
TIEN
not
AÐ TRIDES
Accent On hips
Cream and brown fle-allk makes this evening gown whose skirt, faviably draped, is rathered in\folds on the right hip and held with a button on the left. From the
· Frederick Starke collection.
་་་་
such
Handsome is as-
hand-
MILWAUKEE The tall, some fallow couldn't understand why everyone grinned when he and his wife entered church.
Finally a friend tipped him off he had forgotten to remove a wave clamp from his blond curly hair.
M
By HELEN FOLLETT
nervousness
and
hair
dust.
Young girls and many moyle stars thoroughly washed nway. Before
shampoo, brush have flowing
the manes. Women who the like to look digniled are upping vigorously to remove surface their tresses into top knots Women Have three sonpings and as
many are really emancipated when they rinsings. If you use a cream or oll are not confined to a standardised shampoo, rub it well into the scalp. hairdo. If a new style suits them Keep on rubbing until it foams up. they accept it If It doesn't ap- A nightly brushing is of wonder- peal, they stick to the mode they ful beneDL. If the hair is moulting, love and find becoming.
this treatment is especially No matter what form the hairdo sary. Only the dead shafts will be takes, the hair must have health renloved,
BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE
Knarf Heard Strange Voices
They Were Coming Out of the Sewing Basket By MAX TRELL
OTHER was doing some sew-
ing, and had just walked out of the room when Knarf, the shadow boy with the turned-around name, walked in. He looked Around the room. The sewing basket, with the cover off, was on the little table, just where mother left it; and there, at the top of the basket was the spool of white thread with the needle sticking in it. There were. quite a number of pina scattered. over the table, and some bits of coloured cloth.
Seeing no one in the room, Knarf Lwas about to walk out again when. he heard a voice, exclaiming: "Ouch! You're sticking me, Needlet"
"Nonsense!" ropiled Needle sharp. ly. "I'm not hurting you at all, Spool! Besides, if I didn't have you to stand in, I'd fall on the floor and roll in a crack. You wouldn't want that to happen to me, would you?"
Stood and Listened
The voices come from the sewing basket. Knarf stood by the door very quielly and stened.
"I don't care much what happens
Blackfe, the Kitten, chased the spool.
Where can 1 go?"
Needle.
cried the
At this the pins on the table all shouted in their little voices: "Stand in our pin-cushion! There's plenty of room for you!"
Ho Could Sco It
to you, Needle," Spool went on anything to be
Poor Needle! He would have given able to get to the it weren't for you, I'd have much pin-cushion. I was lying right near him. He could see it, with his eye. more thread around me than I have But how could he get to it?
now. You keep taking pieces of
At that moment an unexpected my thread and sewing stitches with thing happened. Blackle the Kitten, them. If you keep it up, I'll have who was sleeping under one of the
no
tread left at all!"
RIDDLES
FOR KIDS ONLY
necesTM
Here are some riddles you won't want to pass up. In case of need you'll find the correct answers be- low.
1. What is the best way to keep
a child's love away?
2. What young animals
are ni-
lowed at fashionable teas, dances, etc.?
3. Why are little children like cherubim?
4. Which, is the best land for
young children?
5. When is a boy in n. pantry like a poacher?
Word Diamond
Puzzle
OTHELLO, one. of Shakespearo's characters, forms the centre of our diamond. The second word is an abbreviation for "baronets," the third "a kind of black ten," the fifth girl's name. and the sixth ₪ "winglike part"
DIDDLES:
chairs, suddenly jumped on the table kids,
H
OTHELLO
ANSWERS
1--Not to return It. 2-White-
3-Because they "continually
gets into the preserves.
"It's not his fault, Spool!" cried and gave the basket a push with her de cry." 4-Lapland. 6-When he a voice that sounded like someone paw. And before anyone could do Chashing his teeth. It was the Scis- anything, over went the sawing bas- sors. "Needle doesn't do the sew and Needle and Pins and Scissors ket, upside down, scoitering Spool ing. If you want to blame anyone. and Thimble and Thread-and blame Thimble!"
-over
"Oh, please don't blame me!" great many other things all cried Thimble from down at the bot- the room.
And Spool rolled across the floor, tom of the basket. "I only push and Blackle the Kitten would have against Needle. But it's Finger who rolled her out of the room and down pushes against me! It's Finger who the stairs, and perhaps out into the does the sewing!".
They all wailed for Finger to say something; but os Finger belonged to Mother, and Mother was out of the room, no ono answered,
gorden and the only reason she to didn't was that when she tried touch Spool with her paw, Needle promptly stuck her! And that made Spool happy at Inst,
But Mother wasn't very happy when she came back to the room me, and found everything on the floor.
Oh nol
"Anyway," Spool began again; " don't like your silcking Into Needle. I wish you'd get off."
He's Here!
"FROM THE WATERFALL I SAW THEM.
PRINCESS FIREFLY, TWO MONSTERS, NEITHER DER NOR BUFFALD,PULLING" LAND CANOE
BY FRED HARMAN
ON ANOTHER, V RED BEAST WAS RED RYDER
FACE?
HAIRED PALE-
WORD DIAMOND
BTS BOHEA
OTHELLO
SELMA
ALA
Rupert's Island Adventure-24
When all their estorts with the wheel have had no effect the party returns to the upper room to think. **I could squeeze through those iron. bars but I couldn't swim far," saya.. Rupert, The dwarf sinks on to a pile of prepared paper and looks.. quite dispirited." That little window. is the only one that opens." he sayaĮ. "but even il my master or I could squeeze through that we couldn't- swim as fxt as the shore, either. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, whatever- will happen to us all 7,"
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