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THE CHINA MAIL; APRIL 26, 1989.

I know

SEE it quite a lot, you know. I sit

opposite you in ferries and watch you bring out your compact and your puff to fluff powder over your face. I walk behind

you in

cinemas when you are coming out and watch you doing the same there.

I look at you across restaurants and in cloakrooms and I know just what kind of a girl you are.

Sometimes the puff is new and spotless; that means in this respect anyhow you're that right kind of vanity girl. Sometimes it is a bit doubtful; that means you're a bit careless. And usually, it is

to use." That grubby it isn't fit means you must really pull your self together.

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I know you're all busy people and that it isn't always easy to do every- thing you plan to do-like giving your puff a weekly wash.

But how's this for a way out of the difficulty.

Instead of using a puff, use a wad of cotton-wool and throw it away after using it. It works in your handbag too, because you can wrap it in a pretty chiffon handkerchief, and there you are.

Apart from cleanliness, the im- portance of using something clean for your powdering is that a dirty puff eventually brings spots. And

the same thing goes for, a rouge puff.

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I know you by your handbag.

And I mean its inside.

You by your POWDER

PUFF..

A man once said to me, "What I do dislike so much about a lot of girls is the awful state their hand- bags are in. Apart from often be- ing too full, they always look so mucky!"

ឆ man

I hate admitting

is is being éven right when he mildly critical of women, but it's perfectly true.

A weekly clean-out of your bag is essential. It doesn't take very long with a brush and a spot of benzine.

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I know you by your comb,

If many of its teeth are missing; if it is dirty and full of loose hairs,

I think.

"Here is a careless girl who doesn't think enough of her hair to wash her brushes and combs every time she has a fresh set."

And broken combs properly.

don't work

You like white, I'm glad, because it is becoming and youth- ful when it is white.

sometimes But

trimmings your start off their lives all crisp and fresh, and go on living for a very long time without ever having 'a revitalising treatment.

And then you have to throw them out much sooner than you need have done because they are "finish- ed."

Have two sets—one on and one off. And keep the off one always freshly laundered and ready for the transformation scene.

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Your shoulder straps-

Sometimes I've seen you trying on a dress you're thinking of buy- ing. And I've seen pins where pins shouldn't be, and mucky bits of ribbons where there should be spot- less straps,

I know that lingerie straps- especially in the summer-do get Have you looked at yours with dirty more quickly than the rest

an impartial eye lately?

of the garment, and it does seem silly to wash the whole thing when

it doesn't really need it.

and a

What have press studs spare pair of ribbon straps done that you can't use them?

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I know you by the lining and the

hanging loop of your coat.

I've often seen you looking rather uncomfortable when you take off

your coat in a restaurant, and your friend hurries to help you turn it over the back of the chair.

That shows that you know that broken loops and sleeve linings that are half out do not show a fastidi- ous woman.

Why not do something about it? "I haven't the time," is often only an excuse for not wanting to make the effort, but...don't you think that it's all well worth while?

TO CURE

HAM

THIS is a good recipe for enred

hame.

1lb. bay salt, 2oz, saltpetre and 1oz. black pepper. Get these mix- ed at a chemist's and use this `quantity for each 201b, meat,

The ham must be rubbed with common salt when put into a ham trough. Next day rub in this mixture, let it stand for four days, turning and rubbing every day,

two Then pour on

or three pounds of treacle according to size of ham. It must stand a month in this, basting it every day. Then take it out and hang for two or three weeks in a cool kitchen. It may now be put into malt dust, but this is not absolutely neces-

sary.

They are best kept a year be fore use. About 25lb. is a good sized ham.

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I know you by your shoes and stockings.

Too many of you seem to have a "blind spot" here. tion everywhere stockings.

You're perfec else, but your

The seams curve madly all over the place; there are wrinkles round, the ankles and some of the darns!

My grandmother-who taught me how to darn-would have called them "cobbled."

And many of the shoes heels 1 see seem to spend most of their. time turning over one way or the other,

I know you by your gloves. Even when you are wearing them, I can often tell the colour of your nail varnish Holes..

I know you by the collars and cuffs on your frocks.

Kitty

(© 1929, by Deli Byndicsin)

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