THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1951.
DEBUTANTES
learn
to cook
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
Please Come to My Birthday Party
May th
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Sarah St. Pierre- Banbury from Chelsea, who is studying art. Jumps from the table which has served as a "ladder" while she painted a mural on the art room wall. All the art students learn. mural painting:
by
VIVIEN BATCHELOR Pictures by Victor Drees
NCE the role of the debutante was stereotyped and simple --- perhaps some might think enviable. She "came out," made her how to the King and Queen, attended the right parties in -the-right clothes with the right escorts, announced her engagement and finally be- came a society bride.
The iden of earning her living or going to the kitchen and cooking the dinner she would graciously present to her guests was as unthinkable as it would have been im- practicable.
Wars
world
hus The impact of two changed all that, and girls from the best families are now faced with the
same
problems of earning their
ROSEMARY NIVEN from Rhodesia tunes in the radio in the room which she shares with June Alexander from Natal June is in her third session at the Club: Rosemary le stil serving her "probationary" period of ten weeks before being secepted as a member. Most girls like to share a room, but any girl who prefers can have a smaller room to herself.
OVERHEAD
IN THE
ORIENT
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living as girls with
less
exalted family trees.
Stress is laid on that fact
Club
in London's most exclusive finishing school-the
of the Three Wise Street, Monkeys, in Pont S.W.
SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Anne Davina Alderton from Woldingham, Surrey, shows some of the girls the dress she made. for the Queen' Charlotte's Bal}, The skirt measures 25 yards round the hem. It took her a week to make.
shorthand, to make her Audley Park, Oxfordshire, Here something there are 40 members-all res-
Foumled in 1923 by its own clothes or present heud, Miss Marian equally practical. Ellison, it has become famous as "The Monkey Club."
It
dent3.
ten
Some overseas members are accepted, but the application st is kager than the vacancies.
A girl must serve a proba- is
weeks nc- tionary period Every girl who
is finally accupied member is before she cepted as # compelled to study at least for the club. In almost every case she must be recommended Though a
member may one educational course-and to mumbers of two years' spend some time learning at the end of it to take an incding to whom she is known
personally. court curtsey she examination. spends far longer in the kitchen, learning to cook 'a Seventeen-year-old Anne meal, or in a classroom. Davina Alderton, of
decorate learning to
a Woldingham, Surrey, who room, to attain a speed of is studying dressmaking. 160 words a minute at male her own dress for the Queen Charlotte's Ball. It
At present, overseas members cost her £17 17s, and took include Allqui Baralambidore, her a week to make. It was from Athens. She is studying art. of white net with it sequinned strapless bodice Valentine Hakkak, from Per- skirt sta, is taking the advanced high- billowing measuring 25 yards round class cookery class. the hem.
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and
a
**I lost count of the
They nequins,
took the longest time of all to sew ou," she said.
A few weeks ago 18-year-old Lavinia Leighton, eldest daugh- and Lady ter of Sir Richard Leighton,
of Loton Park, Shrewsbury, inade her curtsey the King and Queen, wearing a full skirted navy nit dress with, a tiny clere ting hat.
to
☆
June Alexander, frem Natal, has been a member for seven
l room months. She shares
Rosemary Niven, from with Rhodesia, who is in her fourth week as a meager.
reaches a high enough standard is sure of a job, for the Monkey Club is always being asked to
Apply trained secretaries.
A diploma course in gookery costs 90 gas, a 20 weeks' course in home making including cookery costs 80 gns. A cours: of ten Icetures in art, history, French, male,
of the history art, silver and glass, philosophy o: Iterature costs 2 session (10 lectures).
Your can use your camera to make clever announcements and
personal greatings throughout the year. PUT YOUR CAMERA TO WORK
and
about
YOUR camera helps you at make, yet it is different
Christmas time. Why not defnitely personal. Besides
how Invitations, The photo- party the year around? graphic Christmas card has be- using your camera to make come an extremely popular way place cards, book plates and book of reading holiday greetings to marks, greeting cards, birth an- friends. 1 has the plesleg nouncements, change-of-address
of being
calendar both a announcements, and original type of
decorations. These are only a if, this system has few ideas. You can probably been so succésful at Christmas, think of many more. it can be useful at other mes, ico. Think about it a bit and ree if there aren't other occasions when you could put your camera to work for you.
greeting. So,
In a
The first requirement project of this kind is to start
Garly enough to complete the job in time for the occasion. If
The illustration above is but you don't have to retsh too much, one example. It was the sim- you can do a much better job. plest thing in the world to
-Jolin van Guilder
A British Crossword Puzzle
gns, a
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Girls are allowed out un!!! Il pan. Twice a week, with special permission, they can stay out later. Every time they go out they must sign a book, say- ing where and with whom they are going.
They are allowed to entertain' young teen friends in the clus dining room and they may smoke, subject to parentab ap- proval. They may give a cocktail party or a private danez In the club.
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At one
time girls usually spent two years at the club; now the average time is six to twelve months.
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"They want to get out and carn their living in that time,"
Girls mostly share rooms, bự! any-girl-who prefers-a-single-the-doputy principal, the Hon. Miss H. G. Joynron-Hicks, said. roem can have one to herself.
three wise
Fees for residence and board The club's motto is "Speak. with "Matron's carc and no Evil, See no Evil, Hear no chaperonage" are 4% gns, to 5 Evil," after the ans, weekly, with a 10 percent monkeys.
archarge.
Every girl whether resident or not, must be a member. Annual members pay 8 gas, fec. Life members pay 40 gns, and avacelate members (over 25 years old) pay 4 gas, à year.
Each year the girls mee! to souss questions of chaperon- age and conduct. Anyone who violates the But now the dress is folded
restraints agreed upon ut these meetings is asked away for "best" occasions in
to resign. Every girl at these Lavinja's wardrobe. She is more
meetings is expected to give a often to be sten wearin
vote of confidence to the min- serviccable flowered overall and
the courses of in- cipal, Miss Ellson, that in "any learning to paint and redecorate an old chest of drawers, or to struction vary. The secretarial question of uncertainty or emer
Ens. for 20 gancy her dicelsion should be re-cover no eiderdown or a chair. She has been a member weeks. At the end a girl who taken as a ruling of the club,"
of the Monkey Club for years.
a
tavo
In the kitchens the girls learn all types of cookery, Some g no further than simple straight- forward "home" cooking. Others, like Mary Phillips, are engaged on advanced courses and hope to make a living from their skill. Mary wants to qualify for In, stitutional management. Others' hope to go to France to lake their Cordon Bley examination,
The club has 120 members in London-00 of them rest- dents. The rest live in or near London and travel to the club each day.
Average age of the girls in Londen is about 18. The club will not take them until they
are 17.
17.
Members who are under when they join are sent to the country branch nt Stratton
JOHNNY HAZARD
It i¢ You! WELL 77
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Costs of
Course
-IT IS 1... AND IT IS WELL THAME · CONTACTED "THE
FELLOW YOU
GEEK/
costs 90
HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT...
YOU HAD AN OOD FEELING IN YOUR SKIN
AND FOUND IT WAS
CHANGING INTO BARK ——
—THIS DREAM' MEANS:- You've "forn a strip" of someone you love and you feel very sorry about it
This dream reveals that you feel guilty about some act of aggression, Teeth in a dream symbolize aggression and a desire to kuri: in this dream you remove the weapons by, which you cause that hurt. Your narression has been what the psychiatrists call "oral'aggression," Le., aggression committed by word of mouth.
ARE YOU SURE
IT WAS HAZARD 7 "WILL ME COASE 77
LAVE DONE WELL? IT WAS, HE,
·AND ME WILSH COMES
MEANWHILE...
ON THE LEFT wea THE SANDUG ALGIERO)
JAIL... INSPIRED
BY THE BASTILLE
IN PARK
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1 Saunter(0).
ACROSS
5 Indecision (5).
8 Tool (5).
9 Kind of acid (0),
10 Raise a captious objection (5),
11 Send (5).
12. Egress (4).
13 Evade (5).
16 Exist (0),
18 False charm (6).
20 Occurrence (5). 22 Irritation (4). 23 Cops (5). 25 Pure (5). 20 Resorts (60). 27 Loafer (5).
29
14
28 Removes skin (5). 29_Necessary (0),
DOWN
1 Judgment (8).
2 Get back (8).
3
Den (4),
4 Fodder plani (?).
5 Critical match (7).
& Speaker (8).
7 Fetch (5).
14 Fated (8).
15 Showed Treat Interest (8).
16 Means (7),
17 Pagan (7),
19 Bring on (8).
21 Dance (5).
24 Animal (4),
(
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD Across: 1 Towing, 5 Ideas, & Earn, Portal, 1 Vague, 12 Marose, 14 Wise, 30 Shell. 18 Force 1 Head, 20 Enamel. 24 Antic. 25 Trade, 20 Tour, 27 Deems, 20 Settle. Down 1 Type, 2 Warm, 3 Near, 4 Galore, 3 Inverse, Engaged, ? Steeple, 10 Tople, 13 offand, 14 Wrestle, 15 Selects, 17 Haver, 19 Hiatus, 21 Mire, 22 Last, 23 Mere.
AND THAT YOUR GUMS
· HAD GONE TO NOTHINGNESS
AND YOU COULD PICK
YOUR TEETH OUT?
Your skin changing to bark symbolises your gully feeling that you have been unsympathetle creature.
a bard, insensitive,
You are one of those people who-when anxious or flurried or in the least bit frustrated—lash out. wildly and aggressively, and in your panlo hurt the prople you love and need.
A most catastrophie and anti-social habit; time you sipped it in the bud,
By Frank Robbins
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