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THE CHINA MAIL NOVEMBER 26, 1988..

Beauty and You

by PATRICIA LINDSAY

SUCCESSFUL AUTHOR

AUTHOR CONVINCED THAT CAREFUL GROOMING IS ESSENTIAL TO CAREERISTS

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give it some- just gild the lily thing to feed on! Women simply must keep their health and their figures and their sense of balance, if they wish to be truly beautiful. and successful.

Of course I'm convinced that the beauty comes from inside. Don't woman who keeps herself nicely groomed gets more out of life than her indifferent "sister! In fact I feel that girls cannot start too young to care for their looks, ac- quire good habits, and keep them- selves up generally"! Those are the words of. Marjorie Hillis, that successful author who writes gay and pointed narratives about the women of our day.

"And environment means a great deal, too. I've written so much about the importance of attractive bed jackets and negligees, well stocked dressing tables, and beauti- ful bedrooms, that I am kidded Her profound understanding of unmercifully! But it is true, that feminine psychology has been ac- those things give a woman a most quired through her own formative reassuring feeling of well being, career years sixteen of which and as a result she carries a more were spent on the staff of a lead- colourful personality to her job, ing fashion magazine. Now she is and more relaxed, enjoyable madly engaged in filling lecture personality to her friends. engagements throughout the coun- try and writing articles and books for women and about them!

a

were

MISS MARJORIE HILLIS, believes woman much happiness by not making

own career,

little tricks

"Take for instance Claudia and Eileen in my last book, "Work Ends at Nightfall.' They In Miss Hillis' opinion, "it is the successful because they were meti- determination to keep one's self culous or I might say, because looking well groomed and keeping they lived meticulously. Kate and currently informed about things Irene didn't bother, and just let

"Soaking for about twelve hours and people, which gets a woman themselves go, so as a consequence in a fairly strong solution of places." She feels "it is.dated to they got only the second best from Scrubb's cloudy ammonia and water think beauty is outside. Most of life instead of the best, which they is the best way to clean sponges

desired.

: that have become sticky and unplea- "It is very apparent that if a sant. After soaking, rinse under the woman or girl is seriously inter- tap, and soak again for a few hours ested in a career she must be con-in a solution scious of the impression she makes salt."

Witty Kitty

(0 1920, by Bell Bradicate]

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Some times when a man says a girl is a riddle it means he wants to be given up.

on others at first glance, and the

dent she makes during the first conversation!"

of cold water and

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There were more questions I "When sterilising a needle in wanted to ask Miss Hillis about boiling water to remove splinters, gracious living and beauty, but etc., it is often very difficult to re-

the needle she was hurriedly packing (ex-move

from the quisitely gowned. in a two-tone water. Try threading the needle negligee!) for a trip to the coast with cotton, and there will be no where she was booked to answer necessity to burn your fingers when similar questions for the women removing it.” of California!

"When darning, darn in the shape of a triangle instead of in the usual square. This will make the darn doubly strong,"

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"On a wet of foggy day you will | probably find you have a job to get a nice polish on your furniture ow- ing to the damp atmosphere. By warming your duster first you will find it quite easy,"

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