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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1949.

Woman Today

Fixing the

flowers

Novel Fashion Shows

(By PETER LOVEGROVE)

A novel idea for women's fashion shows, conceived by a 20-year-old Army signalman while ferry- ing trucks across the Po in Northern Italy, has just been put into effect by a well-known Ox- ford Streat store in London.

Instead of the usual elaborate show with profes-

women Jike themselves, lean. tank

от Jumpy, with

hip measurement varying from the sylph-like 34 to that "awkward" 47 inches.

Here's Flowers

For You

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Introducing -

THE NEW MATERIALS

Mainly For CORRIGAL' & 'CRENELLE'

Mothers

By

SISTER MARY MARTIN

Every summertime sees a run of children's complaints,, and the less serious, though not necessarily the less infec- tious, generally have to be nursed by Mother in the home.

Mumps for one. This begins within high temperature, pain and glands swelling just below the

car.

Strangely, the left side is usual- ly affected first, followed within a few days by the right, and it takes roughly a week for these swellings to subside.

During that time keep the child In bed on a semi-fuld diet. Try- ing to cut and swallowing can

be extremely plainful. Mik, milky tea, cocoa, thin custards and por- ridge, thick soups, gruel, beaten raw egg and Jellies are the most suitable.

A straw to drink through In- stead of a spoon makes feeding caster while the discomfort is at Its worst.

One thing's important. You do need a good mouth wash. Potas- sium permanganate is ximple and and safe, and your chemist would make this up in strength of one in five thousand.

German measles, too, is a mild complaint. Like mumps, It affects the glands: unlike mumps, it also brings out a rash, which com- mences on the face and senly, 'and sprends to the rest the body.

There is no very special treat- ment apart from keeping the child in bed during the time he has a temperature, and dabbing

Chicken-pox is rarely serious. but here's an important point. If the spots are scratched, tiny cars may be left for life. Not so im- portant with boys, perhaps, but girls dislike any kind of facial blemish when they grow up even If it is only an old chicken-poz Gear.

Looks Charming ters, dry up and fall off.

It was in "A Winter's Tale" the rash with blcarbonate of soda that pretty Perdita said, "Here's and water if it is irritable flowers for yott." But our This glands always swell a

tale of spring little, but flowers bring a

they are well advanced and many

not really of painful. You can feel them like you will be able to find in your little peas under the' skin if you garden most of the

blooms draw

your Angers over them, mentioned here today,

otherwise you might not know The name and fame of Con anything was wrong. stance Spry have spread far and sional mannequins displaying exclusive and ex- wide as a result of her unique and imaginative floral arrange- pensive models at a time when the business wo-

ments, (It was Miss Spry who man is busy pounding a typewriter and the thought of whitewashing bare

twigs and ornamenting

them shop-assistant is busy at her counter, young with baubles

Christmas de coration.) Mickey Hutton proposed shows after office

Possirig her hours.

London shop, I suddenly thought of the delight They are designed to give and fro behind the scenes put-so many women find in arrang ordinary working girls an opting the faishing touches to the ing the flowers Around thele portunity to see coats, suits and next model about to step through hemes; but not many have Miss

The spots appear quite soon→→ dresses within their Income flimsy white curtains to the Spry's Lalent for effect.

on the second day-on the body So

first, then on face, scalp and worn, not by straight up or brilliantly-llt temporary stage.

and Francis. Marshall sketched some clown glamour girls, but by No Previous Experience of her vases, thinking you limbs.

They come out in crops "Not so fantastic," he assured might like to arrange romething for three or four days--pink at

similar for yourselves.

the start, then turn to tiny bils- me breezity. Though I had n previous experience in it, the rog trade has always been in the Have you an old-fashioned or I the child has a temperature, Hutton' blood. Father once had nument or vase, inherited may-keep him in bed while it rises. I attended the first of these a chain of shops throughout Bri- be, and such funny shape? Dust the spots frequently with nightly half-hour shows recently. tain: my elder brothers Pip and Look at the little chinn conch starch and zinc powder mixed in There is no doubt about their Borry were in it too, I always shell (on left in the sketch) equal parts. If they are appeal. The audience was alwanted to follow in their foot- adorned, so help us, with n irritating.

Cupid! It looks charming filled most entirely composed of City steps." typists and clerks from Govern- The war called a halt to these with pink ranunculus, Dresden ment departments; the models activities and hopes. Pip didn't daisies, and two small sprays of were picked from the

Note were

staff of come back: he was shot down and tradescantia for greenery. the store, itself

how the flowers follow the line and had

been killed while ferrying aircraft of their container, reaching up hard at work throughou! the the Middie. East. In 1943. But

But alongside the Cupid. day: had the clothes they

dis- Barry any tradlilon. Barry hus right holds

and Mickey now carry on) The small mantel vase, on the played varied from

little Julity afternoon dress

black ivy te the family

berries; of spun enthusiastically endorsed his bro-tallstemmed pink magazia rayon worth £3 to a Paris-mo- ther's ideas. At the first show, flowers, and parrot tulips. The del purple coat at £21.19s. Fer- in striped trousers and morning two large leaves are dark red haps the greatest interest was coat, he wielded the microphone begonia loaves. Also unpacked by

centred on the bridal dresses, and Introduced the models. Just Top is a larger and more am- which Indiented that there is no over six years ago, when a ma-bitious

arrangement in, a vase reason why white

like a reversed weddings Jor in the first battalion of the shoped

dotura should be beyond the most hum-Black Watch, he was smashed up flower and is especially lovely. ble means. One outfit, consisting at El Alamein while with the This is more "townish," since the of dresses for a bride and two Highland Division.

then flowers will not all be found in bridesmaids, only cost a total of served for a time with the Camei the garden at the same season. Corps In Tripolitania, and was larch and a large artichoke leaf, There are slender branches of It may seem a far call from eventually invalided out of the cherry blossom, two kinds of lily hauling three-tanners on and off Service at the end of 1945 after the arum und the

down with blackwater!

amaryllis), an Italian river ferry and work-going

tulips, both double white and ing Diesel generators in Venice, fever in Eritrea.

single yellow, and two pale pink which was Mickey's lot not so They had to start almost from rosea. long ago, to dual-purpose swing-scratch again. Barry's Arat Job It is a useful hint to know

coats was to scrub the arcade! swagger-cum-fitted

And that all these flowers are held

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dress parade, realised that the brothers had had to lay it on, physically, from the start Anish, spending their evenings niter office hours loying the caf- pets and building the stage step. by step,

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Don't forget that chicken-pox

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