1947-12-18 — Page 17

HOW TO HAVE

FUN AT A PARTY

You're invited to A party-8 wear. And give your dancemate | wonderful Christmas party the break by applying muke:un 0, where it belongson very thought of which makes you it stays practically perish with joy-but your face, not on his jacket, Use at the same time you are also a brush for your lipstick, boit practically perishing with fright. with lasues and then dab on a trusty You're afraid because you live bit of face powder. Uso

na confidence in yourself. Oh, make-up base, such as enke. And yes, you can think of the clever press on powder, instead of nat est things say and the mosting or rubbing. Finally, after interesting ways to net but al. you've put on this lovely face. It completely with a ways too late-after the party is go over

now. you are Invited cotton pad which has been wrung over. Sa

This really to this big boliday party and the out in cold water. closer the wonderful night an "ots" the make.up. proaches, the more frightened

you become.

Nothing charms the bovs like And that fragrance, xweet #

Well, that's not sen-ible. Don't works two ways-first what you

THE CHINA MAIL CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1947.

Once you start it isn't easy to make conversation stop. Don't by tearing people down. Be builder-upper. Finding good Beware

Igives you an attitude and a grace Then someone else wanders by that means good timen. Finding attitude too. and you start frantically talking bad gives you an

You find yourself saying but people won't like you. to him,

If you take some of these tips, things which you wouldn't dream even of thinking were you not you'll find yourself having one a good time at that Christmas party. so nervous and upset. You talk whale of about the guests, cattily.

bo afraid. Just be your own start with, then what you ndu. A inside of you as though the very bath just before the big event? floor were falling down, down, don't rink with you. And sweet self-be natural,

Den't dress like a siren if you Well, natch.

fun for spelling Wearspulling your are not the siren typ clothes that are right for you, your own) with-ugh! But we might as well say it-underarm The best remedy for that fluttery

Guard your bath feeling in the pit of sour tummy perspiration.

gond anti-per- freshness with a is the mirror's assurance that you picant for underarms, try one look your very besi,

of the new deodorant colognes as an allover body rub. Finally nut drop of perfuns behind each Car, at the temples, wrists and on the underhen of your skirt.

When yen choose your dress be sure that its colour and lines de the most for you, that the skirt covers your knees and lows plenty of freedom for den eing. Put it on and wear it for a little while at home several times before the big occasion, so that you will know just how it

Your dress

Let's Pretend

Let's pretend now that you've looks and how it Certs, And then done all that; you know you look feel right. when you get to the party for tight beenuse

and an But problems are still springing ket about

Reup around you. centrate on your partner. member that the

You know that you're part of simpler th

and a very important style, the better, because you a party

But somehow you're never want Joe to nemire vos qui not pari.

able to bring that great impor your dresa,

tant you out into the open. feel as though you were a bunch of joints and bones sticking out at the wrong places.

Someone asks

Angelic

But,

You

Why We Celebrate Christmas

By Katherine Anne Porter

When she was five years old, my having been cross but was willing to again why we let the subject pass. We moved on dance. niece asked you to

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if it is going to bo lang and flow and lightly in your partner's chanted at the pictures which I dis by ermoving the beams and letting

your

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You may look your most an gelic with enrls piled high stop your head, providing that ther

a bridge is you, you're not reicbrated Christmas, She had asked to The Withy Tree, which tells how wor stay put, but don't nite & on to

gund dancer.

stream and crossed Forget that of your head when you know very

then.

Just let yourself go. Don't he was three and when she the Child ance east

was four, and each site had listen sunbeams over a looks best and you look best when

HEL ed with ashining, believing face, upant it, and played a trick on little en John the Baptist, who followed Him. its well brushed gleaming lengths look down at your feet to

you. Let fall about your shoulders. But if they're following

Rest your feet, take you.

learning the songs and gazing

stories. John fall in the water. The Child's as proof of my

Inother switched Him smartly for Ing, make sure it flows on you.

Forget played

could have been more suc Nothing

wished not in everyone else's face and and let him lead you. oyes! Curling the ends will give that arm that wants to tell him cresful, an I began once mote con-this with a branch of withy, and the

Get the

bad luck upon the whole rare them body, help keep them in what to do: follow him. place. Use a touch of lacquer rhythm of the music and try not leatly to recrite in effect the follows

The feast in the beginning was withles for ever, gay to think of anything else. Ifing:

partner's unruly you do step on your

"What's a withy ?" asked the little toe, please forget to blush: langh menust to celebrate with joy the birth

tance to this world that angels sangit. I looked it up. in the dictionary garlah at yourself and he'll laugh with of a Child, an event of such impor

from the skies in human language to sad discovered it incant osiers, or

if we may be willows.

"Just a willow like ours?" she ask- anununce it and even, live the old painters, enine down

e tejecting this intrusion of the with garlands in their hands

Yes, but once, when danced on the broken roof of the car communplace.

His father was struggling with shed where ile was born.

heavy piece of timber almust beyond his strength, the Child ran and touch- ed it with one finger and the timber rose and fell properly into place. At that, I went on, slightly dashed, for night glistering

commercial

at strategic ornaments tresses.

spots. Wear

to anchor

Don't strive for # glamour puss, but do take into you. consideration the fading effect of artificial Nights. Usu shades than for ordinary street alone.

That dance is over and he is deeper gone, leaving you standing culte You get a frantic feeling

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Por aby," she said, disregard. ing the angels,

"didn't His papa and ma have bausep* They weren't quite so poor as all

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fast year the angels had been the glitering, gay enough with music and centre of interest. His papa and ma-tosd and extravagance of feeling and and expence, marz ina were able to pay taxes at least, but behaviour and

ancient they had to leave home and go to more on the order of the

the Saturnalia. I have nothing against Bethlehem to pay them,

ind.

Was

pastimes?

Our

implanin

of

could have afforded a run t the Saturnalia, it belongs to this season inn, but the town was crowded her of the year: but how do we get so cause everybody came to pay tax confused about the true They were quils even at the same time. lucky to find a manger full of clean

Meanwhile, for our money we straw to sleep in. When the baby was horn, a good-hearted servsat

found a present for the little girl's girl named Bertha came to help the

the mother. It turned out to be a mall mother.

Bertha ZT47

had

arms, bat in

green pottery shell with a coloured the rim which the perched on moment the unexpectedly grew a that mo

dbird fine new pair of arms and hands, little girl took for an ash tray, which and the first thing she did wish them

may as well have been. in was to wrap the baby

Awaddling clothes. We then sang together the song about Bertha the armless ser: Thinking I say a practical question dawning in a pure gray eye, I hurried on to the part about how

"We'll wrap it up and hayg it on the tree and say it came from Santa Claus," she said, trustfully making of me a fellow conspirator.

"You don't believe in Santa Claus for

all the animals-cows, calves, lon-any more?" I asked carefully,

keys, sheep.

"And pigs?"

Even Pigs

we had taken her infant credulity for granted. I had already seen in a sceptical her face that morning a view of my sentimental legends, she was plainly trying to sort out thing from another in them; and I

спо

Pigs perhaps even had knelt in ating around the baby and breathed upon Him to keep Him warm was turning over to my mind the nation of beginning again with her through His first hours in this world.

A new mar appeared and moved in on other grounds, of making an at

straight courie

tempt toward Bethlehem

for many nights to guide three

to draw, however faintly, some and lines between fact which is not so difficult; but kings who came from far countries

place important gift in the straw ass further to show where truth and beside Him: gold, frankincense and poetry were, if not the same being. at least twins who could wear, each myrrh.

"What beautiful clothes," said the other's clothes. But that couldn't be

done in day nor with

prepared for Charles the Seventh of France enti neeling before meck blonde girl the first half of her answer, but the

accond took me by surprise. and charming baby.

"No, I don't," she mid, with the

of

Title girl, looking at the picture tention. I was perfectly pedantia la-

Te seas the way some people used freedom of her natural candour, "but

o dress, The Child's mother, Mary please don't tell my mother, for she and His father, Joseph, a carpenter, still does."

were

wuch

souls unworldly simple

they never once thought of

'

taking Grain Of Truth":

hummarf

deal

she

any honour to themselves nor of For herself, then, she rejected the turning the gifts to their own benefit. gigantic hoax which a whole power- "What became of the gifts?" ankful society had organized and was ed the little girl,

sustaining at the vastest pains and Nobody knews, nobody seems to expense, and she was yet to and the have paid

truth lying lost in the much attention to them, grain of they were never heard of again after gaudy, debris around her, but there

her immediate that night. So far sì, we know, these were the only presents anyone ever situation, and that she could gave to the Child while He lived. with, or so she believeds her mother But He was not unhappy. Once He believed in Santa Claus, or caused a cherry tree in full fruit would not have said so. The little 10 bend down one of its branches so girl did not believe in what her His mother could more easily pick mother, had told her. She did not cherries. We then sang about the want her mother to. know she did not cherry tree until we came to the believe, yet her mother's lusions words Then, up spake old Joseph, 10 must not be disturbed. In that momeur of decisión her infancy, was gotte rude and unkind,

there

before vanished forever, -It bad. I thought perhaps traja

thoughtfulty I took the cross mood.

"What was he cross about" of my budding linie diplomat, whom Dear me, what should I say now? we had a lovingly, unconsciously After, ail, this was, not my daughter prepared for her career, which no whatever, would her, mother answer doubt would be quite a successful to this 1. asked her la urn what anc; and, we walked along in the she was cross about when she waj bright sweet-smelling Christmas dust, cross the couldn't remember ever myself, for once, completely stenced.

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