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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 13, 1940. Bringing Up Father

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A PAGE FOR WOMEN

'Cook for Victory

"To-morrow" afternoon, come have discovered that something area schools for the training of what may in the way of interrup- like 10 per cent. of the 45,000,000 cookery teachers--to meet the tion, we are going to attend a people of Great Britain have been urgent demand for skilled instruc- cockery lecture.

subsisting, in normal times, upon tors.

The fact is that we have been a diet insufficient for them, and Day in and day out, the radio rudely awakened to our own that nearly a quarter of this 10 and the press, backed by the cullinary deficiencies and are de- per cent. have been children. women's organizations, put forth termined to remedy them. War The fact has alarmed them. They a flow of exhortations and hints does funny things. Nobody could-realize now that methods of and appeals-all part of what, the have foreseen that. war would adequate feeding should be

has so National Council of Women rouse a desire to excel in the use firmly adopted as to make it im- termed the "mobilization of the of ovens and frying pans. But possible, when war is over, to Kitchen Front." there it is.

slip again into those errors of Being a housekeeper-merely a Many women in Great Britain food judgment which have; in pusher-on of a general routine are, at the moment, animated by the past, gone: to produce the that seemed to have no relation a similar sense of inadequacy, and, people- especially the children to war effort-was a trying affair a few months ago. It would have

a similar desire to dispel it.'

-of the slums.

This new interest is partly due As a result of these realizations, been so much easier to "dig for to the fact that women are com- there is a very general demand victory" even to "lend for vic- ing to realize that a nation will for knowledge, and this demand tory" like the more public, char- remain in good heart longer if has roused organized. women to acters. But housekeeping is well fed, and they are anxious seek means for its supply.

having its turn now. In the

to discover, just how meals may Not long ago, the National Fed- kitchens of the nation it is pos

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be balanced against a supply of eration of Women's Institutes sible to "cook for victory" and to 176, Nathan Road, Kowloon. food which, if not limited in called a conference. of food ex- "save for victory." Women the quantity, is undoubtedly limited perts in London. The experts ordinary home women are be în variety.

called for the establishment of ginning to understand this,

Furthermore, evacuation re- velations have made them see that the proper feeding of the na- tion should not. be undertaken] merely as a war measure. Women

Making A Frock Look Different

MADE HER WEAR RED FLANNEL

off

PAINTED LEGS ARE STOCKINGS

Although she is forty-eight

A pair of sheer silk hose years old and the mother of six A girl can make а frock of children, a

woman's husband is every woman's dream, a plain material look "different" by forced her to wear two red flannel dream broken by inter- ringing the changes in the mat petticoats, two of every other un- ter of collars and cuffs and belt der garment, and a long skirt as mittent One day she can wear a linen set protection against the wiles

nightmares of in some pastel colour; another other men.

holes and ladders and day they might be of white star-

She told this story at Totten twisted seams; writes a ched muslin, and a third change ham, London, N., Police Court

when she summoned her husband London woman correspon- for being persistently cruel to her. dent.

She said he had got the idea

could be of cire satin.

She should always see that she

is very neat about the feet.

the

Now let us think about clothes into his head that she used lip- for leisure and pleasure. In these stick: war days women naturally are dressing much ·less élaborately; and we can all do without glit- tering evening gowns if we wish!| Dinner gowns, either. long: or shortskirted, that can be worn at

And what a substitute-no lad- a-cocktail party and after, How long has this been going on? ders, no holes, no twisted seams, throughout the evening, whether-For years.

not so much as the tiniest crease the wearer is going to a theatre, Mis. Sanders: Extraordinary or wrinkle! Quite simple, really, a dance, or entertaining at home, woman.

we've just taken a tip from the are the most popular choice Zat A daughter who gave éviderice Ancient Britons, instead of put- the moment for evening wear. for her mother said that she used ting on our stockings in the

morning, we paint them on."

Now, at one fell swoop, She added that her husband pride of our wardrobes threatens watched her undress every to become scarcer, and, perhaps, night"and" made” sure^ she had disappear, Do we care? No, we carried out his wishes.

just and a substitute, DAUGHTER'8" LIPSTICK Mrs. Sanders, the Magistrate:

There will not be an Ascot this lipstick:

father object?—Yes;

Mrs. Sanders: Yet you still go on using it?-Yea Mrs. Sanders smiled her ap-

year, and so the women attending Mrs. Sanders: And does your smaller race-meeting, and garden parties will discard their lace and chiffon dresses· `for ́ ́ clothes of more tailored lines; Neat.' linen suits, two-pieces in plain or proval, and counsel remarked that printed crepes, and fine woollen here they had the difference be- frocks in light colours will there- fween the present generation and fore be the best choice, for "best the older generation.⠀ wear" this Summer.

Beauty. Remains

Don't let bad news on the wireless be your closing thought.

The mother was granted separation with alimony.

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MEXICO'S NAZIS WORRY AMERICA

Turn the mind to some sim- Guards at plane factor- ple scene of mountain, moon, ories in California were dou- sea. Road some simple dovation- al book or a great biography, a bled yesterday following book of friendly essays or a hook disturbing reports and hills. Put on a gramophone re- rumours from Mexico, cord of some great sonata or noc- where Nazis are known to turne or melody, so that you may be extremely active. say to yourself, "Beauty remains,

about birds or flowers or stars or

I have tried the new warg time stockings it comes out-of

an elegant cosmetic pot. Hopa fully 1 moistened the palms of my hands, then gently massaged

a kind of cream, the colour of cocoa (moondusk was its exotic name), into each leg.

Next I took a brown pencil, and, with a steady hand; drew the "searn" up the centre of each leg.

Then I tried it out.

"H'm, had. the

sense to wear stockings again, I see, said a candid friend,

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