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WITH GILES AND FAMILY ON HOLIDAY

The strange desire of the British to paddle at least once a year.

London Express Service

UNMENTIONABLES

get a 266-page mention in a history

book of

their own

Übanis, 1811 Nightgown, 1008

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1951.

Wicksteed

gets left with

a girl,

aged 2

RE you an expert "nt. Naturally, after all this ex- bringing up chikiren? cement they wouldn't isale at thelr cold mutton stew and

I used to be before I had cabbage,

any of my own. I was so Beaton with them? They expert I couldn't imagine wouldn't listen to reason. They why my

clila't want to grow up, into blu friends managed

strong men and women. things no badly.

All this nonsenso at meal timba for Instance. It was n an elementary fact that child should eat what in put on his plate or go without.

The same with bedtiate, All those painful scenes that I used to observe in the homes of others wero so un- necessary. At the appoint ed hour, seven o'clock or whatever it is, the child should go straight upstairs without any fuss.

John said he wanted to grow caller, not bigger. He wanted to grow co small that he could

rabbit holes crawl down

zi.d tea there, "All right," I said, "you wil zit here until you do eat it." O} course, the moment I'd said it i trased what a fix I was in because I'd have to sit there,

too.

We sat it out for about half an hour. By that time most of the stew and all the cabbage was on the floor or the tablecloth and couldn't be eaten anyway.

The rice pudding, was burned. In the nap I'd forgotten to take it out of the oven, and I was

consump.i uu- unit for human

.lon. So the children Easted on brind and jam, which was what they'd wanted all along."

It was simply a matter of authority. You acquired thority by. winning the child's confidence, and the way to slo that was to explain things.

Escape No. 2

It was no good just telling children that it is wrong to pour reacle all over the cat, I would xy. You must explain why it REDTIME Was worse. Just ia wrong. You must point out when I'd got Karl's clothes that, for one thing, it's an awful waste of treacle.

Sole charge

TA! Hat it makes me laugh to HA

think of it now that I've go three of my own. I I said to young John, aged four, "How would you like to havə treacle poured all over you?" he'd probably say, "Very much," nd empty the tin on his head.

off che slipped through my hands and escaped with dz-. moniac chrleks of delight. I couldn't go after her for fon that young John would bolt. bahrosm, and, reasoning that a I'd got him cornered in las child in th

hand was worth two in the bush, concentrated on the ons got.

"Now then, John," I said.

straight into ch" "Get

the bath. There must be no arguments. I want instant obedience.".

I was in sole charge of him and his sister Karl, aged two, the other day. Shall I tell you about 117

We had cold mutton stew and cabbage, for lunch. It was all t right when I cooked it, but mude the serious mistake of collar, bul detachable cuffs serving it out on the plates be which could, be reversed when fore the children were rounded one edge was tolled, Worse still up. was the "cuff protector." This operation took about and would have which was slipped on over the half an hour, cuff to protect it for office work, been a great success if

intended to be game Shiri

fronts .with collars hide and seek. attached were still a feature of) the lower and middle class trade, where they were, un-| officially, gown as "cheat"

On Certain Male Attire

Men's braces embroidered in

woolwork

CHORUS GIRLS SANG PYJAMAS INTO FASHION

of many colours came into 'notice. What is remark. able about them cpart from the:

CLEAR, dinical light of Manchester, in getting escurt, is the fact that they

Escape No. 1

I'd

"f

+

COULD Catch ono or other or them easily enough, but not both at the same time. If I caught Karl and carried her Indoors, she'd be gone again by the time I'd herded the other

unc

in.

tried locking her in, but had to abandon the idea because her yells could, have been heard by the N.S.P.C.C.

think

A today intrudes the too hastily over a stile, were so often worked by young

Do Jadles and given es presents 10

you Dime

best with

sanctuary of lavender caught a hoop of her cage the stener

scx, this ta and lace. In a six-century (crinoline) in it and went when studery Corbade the mea- history book of English regularly hend over ton of the garments which underclothes Doctors C. heels, lighting on her feet they were des ined Willett and Phillis Cunning with her cage and whole ton survey the wardrobe petticoats remaining above

'from the medieval linen her head, smock to the modern chiffon nightdress.

No custom or point of etiquette in this sphere is too slight for the authors to note. These quotations from their book" give some iden of how much there is to say about the clothes 80 little is said about:-

1857-66 Views on Coloured Undies

The sewing machine had arrived, which made possi ble an abundance of ready- made." underclothes: 11 exuberant hues.

"They say there was never such a thing seen-and the other ladies hardly knew whether

to be fas-

On Women's Two-piece Pyjamas

I certainly got it. He leaped iniu the bath, with all his clothts Counting ten and holding my breath before I said anything, I remarked,

"That wasn't a very nice thing to do."

"Well," he answered, "You esked for Interesting obodi- dence."

"Catch me!·

EAVING him there to xoak, I went off for Kari. I be- ilove soaking is the correct treatment for diriý boys as well as dirty clothes, so was killing two birds with one soak.

door

Kari was nowhere in the house. The back

wai open and so was the gate. I asked a woman in the rond it he'd soon's girl with blue eyes

and blonde, curly, hair. You

I said. "Sho

couldn't miss hasn't got any clothes on."

The woman gave me one look and hurried away without word.

I found Kari in a front garden thrae écors up. She was sitting on a pile of builders' and sark naked and roaring with laugh- ter

"Caton me," she said as she oddled off squealing with plea- sure. I should think everybody in the entire neighbourhood was. looking on as I ran after her down the street.

your feet up? Bernard Wicksteed

WHAT is the best position for really hard thinking?

To wear such would Inour the Sitting? Lying down? Wallding

about? to risk ol being thought 11 be thankful or not that her suffragette. It was a daring underclothing consisted in part theatrical novelty of 1906, when

of scarlet tortan knicker chorus girls in pyjamas came bockers...."

on to the stage singing "We won't wear a nightle any more."

On Finer Point's

of Class Distinction-1

All through the period.

1867-1082) to expose an inch

. ús

was webrer

"not

On Mon's Two-piece Pyjamas

.

It all depends on your blood-

London SOYB pressure,

chiatrist Dr J. R. Rees. have three choices:--

it your. blood- pressure is on the low side you should do your best thinking lying down or sit-

These had become generally | ting in дл

armchair with

pay- You

too much shirt-front (by day) accepted in place of the night- was a social stigma indicating shirt (1887-1988), though the your feet on

the that

mantel- quite." On the other hand, the pure-minded clung to the belief the

shelf. In that summer sult was cut to reveal that any garment worn in bed

way gravity three studs, so must of necessity have improper will help your much. na Trudery Fanuddered; it that to appear a gentleman one: implications, and the advent brain to get a betler blood sup-

had to watch the calendar. acemed incompatible with a

of a leading actor on the stage ply,

In of the period clothed the convenient 2 People with average blood- pressure usually think best never referred to her "bustic", pyjamas shocked the ladies."

sitting on a hard seat with a "The name bustle' was in, the

upright back. An armchair is fatal to deep concentration for them. It relaxes their: muscles so much that the legs absorb

• milk-white mind to wear. And `n lady coloured underclothing: The habit might lead to who knows what indescribable excesses.

On Upper Class Sports Wear

Report from a social diary

of the time: "The Duchcas

1880's considered a little coarse, Tournure or diesa improveri was a more ladylike appendage to the lower back.""

On Finer Points

of Class Distinction-2

(1883-1898.) democratie "The History of Underctother convention was creeping in, not (Michael Joseph, 30#.);

only was there the detachable

NANCY

Cook-Eyed

OH, DEAR DINNER WON'T BE READY FOR TWO HOURS AND IM STARVING

FILL GO. WATER. THE

LAWN---THAPLL KEEP MY MIND OFF FOOD.

On the Way Things have Changed

3

A Nightle in 1933 was de-blood which should be coursing scribed in the Bystander mago- through the brain. zinė 03

nightgown of Those with high blood-pres- flowered chiffon, with cowl

over-alert sure any often neck, cut on the cross, almost mentally, whatever their post- backless, ribbon sash...a very ure. Their brains have a too- ceducer of stout hearts."

effetent blood supply, which' keeps them awake even. when they are worn out physically...

L. E. S.

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