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"THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, „1948,
Woman Today
GOG and EDNA MčKENNA, go out in the midday sun.
Men met the challenge
COMPLETELY ignored up
to now in the fashion columns of newspapеEN, More Man's ralment has responded to the weather's challenge in a way that can no longer be lightly dis- regarded.
. Here, for your holiday amusement. are same - hand impressions. They prove that man's New Le like woman's, closely linked with the past. Its effect on the
future is problematical.
Lock of basic design is mainly avident, Nearly all the West Ent models I anw have little in common. with the exception of trousera, and even Bere there are whimsical varja- Lions,
As worn nowe
1 HATS: Aiready'some of our
American guests-nfter one peep at our spiya wenzing models from their homeland- have bolted into Bond-street and bought an English hat.
SHOES in suede-once the subject of rough Jest-are all the vogue, though the heavy narching variety of boot has not altogether lost a recent popularity.
NECKWEAR: Wallpaper American Lies seem to be get- ung into many M-Aid pareris, but there is a lacking alt. Adam's apples, very sunburnt, are to be seen in all the best pinces.
OUTER WEAR; American drape ahopes. bush shirts. tlemob, sulla and sporta conts all have their devotees. There is evidener, Loo, of the inftience of the Eastern passion for wearing the shirt outside the trousera.
A WITTY REPORT
FROM LONDON.
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WITH THE ONLY REDONGHURT DOOR
and as for the women!
BLONDES may look good in blue, but
even the prettiest will wit she walks down Bond-street with the lem- perature over 00 wearing a blue sweater with a black dirridi skirt.
Somebody must have fold her once that black was smart, so ons determined woma greeted the heat-wave in an all-black outlie, huge black hat, black initetn ballerina suit, black gloves and tight block stilts for shoes. Did we may all black? Borry! Her ince was puce,
Geisha" girls' knew how to wield a pretty fan and keep cool at the same time, but the two women we noticed in Lel- cester-square acted as if they were operating windmill. The spectators were exhausted.
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Who in Sylyla? Even Shake- speare would have found 11 imelt to any if she acted like the girl in Hyde Park who worn a wide-brimmed hat, hair down to her shoulders and enormous goggles. Oog bad a suspicion she might have been pretty, He will never knowl
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King Charles's Golden Days are gene, but the girl in the big black hat weighed down
Am Templem
Third Party Dilemma
THIRD PARTY DILEMMA When he came back from the Army he found Jitx 1stle had gone off with another man and
10tta Bient take is 10N forgave her and took her back, but she went off again with an other man and again. took the
.com.
He was desperately unhappy, and a wOMUN friend went to keep house for him. She is in love with him, but there's nothing but friendship
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swears
My husband. Is 43 DOUT (t Our children. talker os I am. are lively and intelligent, with enger, inquiring minds.
I am hopeless at producing subjects for conversation. How can I teach the children to con- rerse?-E.F. *
Who is it? Greta Garbo? What has she got to hide? As Gog saya,, she might bo pretty. But who's to know?
with roses, the blouse Inden down with ince and frills, and the long black skirt did not seem to realise it. She flapped down Oxford-street through a gauntlet of turning henda
Five in certainly popular but the woman in the all-blue outfit, mult, hat and hair, gave one the feeling of Olorious Technicolor."
To oll oneself all over is a certain way to acquire a per- fect tan, but as all her best frienda were telling her the girl who chose the sandiest bit of beach to lie on before doing so
looked an awful mess when she sat up again.
She wasn't seventeen, but abe should have known by this time that she turns lobster before turning brown, yet she covered her
the Jegs with darkest of tan make-up. Com- bination of lobster, little bits of
Lan white and dark
looked horridl
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We all knew it was hoi, buj mopping operations as carried out by two large women, with Lwo equally large handker- chiefs were intensive-paintul to the sensitivities to watch.
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Cartwheel-size straw hats are all very well for the wearer, but the man sitting next to one on t crowded bus, whose face was getting scratched by the rough edge of one as its pretty wearer dodged her head back- wards and forwards to chatter to a friend in front, was burst- ing to give HIS view of the fashion.
And hot as it was there was the inevitable woman who'd been given a fox cape that very morning and was deler mined to wear it!
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Birthday cake Idea: Inscribe After washing woollonsTM-13y- "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" on enke them on a wire screen covered
clean with alphabet noodles tinted In ❘ with
sheeting. Pull into diluted food colouring.
then till the shape carefully. screen as far as possible, being careful that the garments do not Fusten all buttons before for cosmetics inside a kitchen cup-washing to help keep the original board, then you en quickly. reshape.
make-up pair
If unexpected callers arrive.
Install a small mirror and shelf slip.
To give extra glitter to your If they have eager and inquir- ing minds and are encouraged to sliver after polishing, dip first in express themselves-what's
that hot soapy water, then in het but conversation
clear water, and rub lengthwise Two Don'ts: (1) Don't think with soft clean cloth. For bowls you musl produce subjects and teapots a circular motion is
best, when These forced squibs
polishing. fizzle out. He has applied for divorce. Topics nrise out of your interest. think he does not jeant to gire If the children ask you a ques-
Sharp teeth in a comb can he his wife the chance to
gently rubbing the marution to which you don't know blunted by
marble stub. When agnin, but he does not realise be the answer get up and fetch the ciges on a as hiting at himself at the same encyclopedin and all of you get washing comb use warm water time: love him and think he inton hudrtle together.
splash of ammenta.. iontit lone me tf this Jouse- (2) Don't think you have to keeper would leave him alone," say" anything" clever." "No" one Small mats will not cur! If you She is desperately jealous of me. will ever shine in conversation sew a strip of linoleun to each
thinks My greatest is to marry him who
of snying fine end with fine string. Holes can and make him happy and try things."
be made in the linoleum with a and make up for all ne uns auf- Let the childen tench you, gimlet or leather punch. fered, What is my best mare not you the children.
JOPEFUL.
It isn't easy and it isn't 1- why's wise to try tourrange olher people's happiness fur them.
with
cheerful
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Snip off a corner of an enve- lope and use it as a funnel to salt and pepper, shakers.
Out of ink? Add a little cold
the water to the sediment In
the ink bottle and baltuin af
enough ink to you'll produce write a short letter or sign cheque!
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If silk is spotted with jodine, soak in milk, rubbing occasionally. As the milk discolours, replace it with fresh milk. When the stain is practically gone, launder the-nrlicle with soap and water.
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For creamier, fluffler påtatoes, mask them Orsi with a fork and then whip them with the egg- beater. This literally "stretches" them, and provides bigger look.
Because of staggered holidays beings for a change. Solitude is in servings." I had to go on my holiday alone their ideal holiday. this year. I was so fed up that i And there are some I same back home two days souls who enjoy. meetlog new acquaintances, getting a kick PAWNS early.
out of novelty,
We should hold off if we find we are making people in a game.
What you want yourself is too nich involved in this already much Involved human drama. Your thinking he loves you and your thinking you could malte him happy is enough. It Is he who must think that way.
I don't see hip as a man so wenk that he is asking to be res- eved. It's for more kely that he fust wants very badly to be let alone.
frlanilinen--and move to him.
Renommée
Would you agree that to have
And there are some who can't a good holiday you must be with puts or your "famity?—J.D. enjoy anything without having There are some lone ducks. their own kind to share it with who like to get away from human em. Takes "ull sorts.'...
Here's Hint for travel comfort: favourite perfume Seal your bottle with colourless nail polish, and then you'll have no fear that it may lesk. At the end of the journey, simply remove the lacquer with a little noil polish
remover,
A Peep Behind The Scenes
Suppose You dropped
contenta?
your
There is something quite ex- traordinary about handbags, or
By Janet Martin
for a single momcat, in their sorted out, they
Case,
lond and the Hong Kong ones for handbag and everything fell out
are so much bigger. There is Best for himn and best yourself
to that your friends had
also a bundle of dirty tüle 10 would be an entirely 50 disinterested and sympathetic scramble about picking up the at least about the inskies of them cent notes, the cause of half the to have a peculiar trouble. They would be much the bits. How would you feel about They seem leaving
Euch A sudden
revelation of its genius. for collecting bits of rub-botter in a separate envelope or
bish, for causing the contents to in a purse of their own. K you have reason to be proud become frayed, chipped and even A cigarette onse: it is a smart of the interior condition of your not quite clean.
enninel one, we'l preserved in the handbag, then you have nothing This odd state of affaire must little cover so thoughtfully pro- to fear. But how many of us be the fault of the bag or else vided by the manufacturer. But could lay honest claim to such the possession at a handbag must the cover has obviously taken distinction? I know that is great exercise an evil rifluence on our the brunt of the wear and lear many more of us would have characters. To say that the in- and doesn't look us if it had had better reason to be embarassed if side of the average handbag is 4
wash for quite some time. not a little ashamed.
any reflection of the character of Driving licence.・・ card the owner would be, in most cheque book; no comments. Sun- cases, sheer libel. Yet, the fact dry miscellaneous scrops of pa- is that many women tolerate a per, ranging from old shopping state of affaly would not stand grammes and odd visiting cards: inside their hand- ists and receipts to theatre pro- bags that they
would probably And
It all too often divido fairly evenly between the happens that a lady who looks desk and the wastepaper basket. os spick and span as a new pin: Next comes small bundle of MARTIN `C HUZZLEWIT,
...and as smart...takes some letters. We won't look inside. holding LITTLE DORRIT by the thing out of her handbag and but come of them seem to have hand, mel BARNABY RUDGE rather spoils the illusion. Which been there for a long time, the who said he had seen, from the is a a pity.
corners of the envelopes are quite window of the OLD CURIOSITY Just take a handbag, quite at tattered. Are they unpaid bills, SHOP, DOMBEY AND SON, en-randomu, tl see what we might unanswered correspondence, or ter BLEAK HOUSE. *
fud inside.
love letters falling to pieces with Thither they repaired. and A handkerchief quite unused, constant re-reading? when they entered found DAVID but, unless it war put into the Down at the bottom of the bag. COPPERFIELD amusing OLIVER bag fresh this morning, it may we find lipsticks, keys, comb, TWIST with 'SKETCHES not be quite clean.
nollfiled and odd patterns of wool BOZ and items from the PICK A powder compact; a very or dress material perhaps, ail WICK PAPENS,
And if we and amid beautiful ons, a recent birthday Jumbled together GREAT EXPECTATIONS, OUR present perhaps. Inside 1$ give the empty bogʻa good shake, MUTUAL FRIEND, THE UN- small puff, but that is not quite we may be rewarded with
trea- COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER, so beautiful, in fact it has quite sure trove of forgotten hairpins entertaining EDWIN DROOD lost its pristine freshness. No and grips, mingled with bits of with CHRISTMAS CAROLS and put of delicato pastel hue can fluff and shreds of tobacco, also
telling him A TALE OF continue to look attractive un "And now, white everything
dresses
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THE LIFT IS INSTALLED | TWO CITIES in HARD TIMES, less it is washed every few days, turned out, let's perform a small . HOUSEHOLD: A nojocase:, but it was made sorting out and spring cleaning
to hold the banknotes of Eng, operation and start afreshi
using many.
WORDS.
Peggy
Sage
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