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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY," "APRIL 25, 1953.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

a,

THE THIRD Those Picture Moments in a ̧.

W

DIMENSION

By HAZEL MEYRICK

London.

As

$1

7İULE' Hollywood

raving about the new three dimensional films, and as inhabitants have permanent headache from peering at screens through rose-coloured spectacles, int London we're being told to watch that other third dimension our all-round measurements.

Spring time is corset time for London's foundation Industry. Just when everyone prepares whalebone to cust-off winter

the corset makers hold National Corset Week in an effort to push us into it again,

is

London's corsel industry run by cheerful people -- most of theni bachelors who think of women as a herd of cattle who need fencing in, Hence they tell us to Watch that waistline, Buy a new girdle to greet the spring, and pro- duce horrifying clinical detail 1 to show what will happen it self walking we don't.

The 3-D's

With this propaganda ringing

whose third dimension needs

The Boater Giri

doubled-over to keep the thing in place.

Atoo-long roll-on rolls up- like a shop-blind, and you an added ridge not your

own.

Woman's Life.

Duck this one-

like mad!

THE sly fight between a camera and a

page.

woman's face is recorded on

this

It is a tale of an inescapable feud from the first click to the last, of the year by year reminder of what the camera sees in you.

No one can dodge it. The prettier you are the more

the prelunged

struggle. "Once

off the plane Miss Leigh held her chin high when photographers wanted to take her pic ture." R was reparted.

Consider this picture on the right. Do you realice that this is the picture no woman should ever alt for-unless she's got the looks of the model? It Is the most merelless pose in the world.

Every line of the photograph will give her of the To live gives away.

up to the catechiam camera she must have a perfect hairline, per- fecily spaced, perfectly shaped eyes, small nur- row rose, flawless mouth.

So it pays to take time over in the cars, the poor womans buying a foundation. Sit down tome attention has started deal in it, dance in it, touch your

Ing with LE through yet Another of the 3-D's: Dieting. Deportment or Discipline.

Mest women

If her face, is oddly shaped, every bump ond bulge shows. If her forehead is high it tous in it. Never mind the looks twice the size. If her chin is the least

glare. She salergirl's

hasn't bit out of course it looks monstrous in the pic- She must have a clean, young jawline, a

got to live with it-you have. It without wrinkles, and a straight, graceful

And dieting #1 Easter Hats

trin. Like the original

Eve,

bls.

they find the templat on of for-

London's Easterwet and bidden fruit irresistible. Any- way it would take a caint to cold-nevertheless, produced lis watch someone else cut a three- usual crop of fantastic

Elizabeth and I spotted a girl tourse dinner while fainting

wearing what might have been away in hunger. So if diet you

a basket, but turned out to be must. keep

Another wore yourrelf on the straight and bechive.

bird of uncertain narrow path to a straight and tropical narrow figure with the help of origin perched on top, while a third, with an eye on the weu- friend who has 3-D trouble too, look like an umbrella, with a ther, wore a beret stitched to your choice tiny rolled umbrella for a hat-

little competition. Find

ard slim together.

You can take

Uu

frem fruit juice diets, wet and pin.

The cracked egg appeared in dry dlets, starch-free or alka several guises, one of

which line diets. They will all do

Elizabeth has sketched on the

straw imilation

their work if they provide you left. One girl went completely with less fuel than you need

up whimsical and were n

ນ

and fores your body to use up nes1 complete with its fut reserves. But madam,

on't le prostinte ou a couch CPRs and fluffy chicks.

Seen in a boat on the river

all day, or sit down, to a hearty was a girl with a covere black

e bouter with waist-lengh

meal the minute you slop diet-

ing your

Touble

merely wasted,

Easier

on

went 1

Elizabetli

her head

raffia

has

plail to match, tied up with

Elizabeth ribbon. ed drawn her on the right. Seen getting onto a bus in Piccadil- ly Circus, a girl wearing a cor- wheel but of spun glass. Seca Ja London fashion Show,

Chinese coolie hat which came I low over the eye that peep- holes were provided.

Handbags caught the -cg-thune-too, and on from

Easter

sale 1wo

were Ɛome made halves of a plastic egg hlaged together.

Current fashion in handbaga over here, by the way, hus veered from the bucket-shaped ours introduced from Paris to min alure attache cases, BOULO with fake hotel labels on them If you want to show off with the seal thing, there's a small Bhop neur Victorlu Station

to

want

where they se}] secondhand hotel labels, presumably urmcha'r travellers who to impress their friends.

Coronation Sheep

The gastronomic world is a small one. While London is busy Appealing 10 barbecue- Deportment, the second D, trained America for advice on is the one that produces

Coronation sheep ond the roasting

Zealand, quickest results. Walk the way oxen, Dunedin, New the thalel girls do, scat well wants to know how to cook tucked in, hips thrust slightly haggis for the Duke of Edin- forward, shoulders held corn- burg when he arrives there. Here, encaked from the back fortably back, and you'll lose some third-dimension right kitchen of a London hotel, at away. Keep walking that way great expense, for Dunedin, or and you'll find yourself with a Banyone else who likes to have new figure.

a try, is the recipe for cook- The third D-Discipline, is inga haggis: achieved, as the corset indus- Wash a cheep's paunch well try hasten to tell us, by the use and leave it to soak overnight, and Turn it inside out scald of a foundation garment.

Gone are the days when you clean it. Leave it to sock laced yourself into a contrap- cold water.

in

back. If she smiles, it must be the kind that might give the toothpaste advertisers a twinge of envy.

Look at her again. This is why Full- Face-to-the-Camera gives you that Passport Picture look.

Let us, therefore, take a peep instead at a portraft selection.every family knows-cach one less exueling than this picture here on the right. For example:

1

1ts the THE BABY PICTURE

girl can kick the only time photographer and see him smile Me prods her tuinny and experts a ravishing look in return. He waves toys in her face she's seen. Shie 200 often Duce

before. screams the place down in protest -and he snaps the scene for

posterity.

CHILDREN'S PICTURE: She wanted to look attractive and the sort of person you rely on dressce in her new suit with a little Jewellery.

can She

But it's ten to

one that she looks drab, prim and

the kind of per

on you'd rather

de than connde

ia.

THE

THE BEACH She SNAP: stands in, Ricy August wind. fondly supposing abe looks like

deep sea diver-

but the camera shows her face is against her.

GROOM'S MOTHER: She's curing leas about what

THE SCHOOL SNAP She longs to be snapped in the

middle to

show she's the king-pin of the group. But in the wretched picture she's always on the outside.

GRANNY'S PORTRAIT The last picture has been taken. She hangs on the wall, the.

upright. camera can

serene and com- posed-a cupout from family

го

do to her. And it cords that hat that smile and the firm grasp on the glass of What's going.

group, and the only one in it who didn't care

if the wrinkles showed or not. The comers foud is bally faded

SO THEY SAY

1 JUST DON'T believe it... when they say?—

"I assure you, the money isn't what interests me. . • •

"What heaven--to have a quiet evening at home..."

"But I never knew he was married..."

" make a point of not reading what the critics say about my

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ours was. ...

"Your generation is not near- ly to romantic as

"I could have had a great I decided to be a carcer--but wife and mother...."

"I'd rather be admired for my brains than my looks-

I was a girl your age I never behaved like that...we

"Oh, no, of course not, Just ran into one another by

tion of Whalebone and Bicci, Wash the pluck (the heart, London's shops during Corset liver and other bits), Boll if Work displayed-minlature clos- for 1 hours, then drain and tie: girdios in black, white, blue. mince it. Mix this with equal onion, oatmeal and yellow

Royal quantities of and even

that Purple, so small

they and suet, little parsley and would go in your handbag. other seasonings, together with work..

had no idea you were pure chance and he suggested But beware the top-short come good gravy. girld. In an effort to cover Three-quarter all the paunch short of eggs--I'd have sent you we all of you at once, it slides with this mixture, Tie it up in some..." down to your hipline. giving a cloth, and boll for 3 or 4 you an extra bulge where your hours. Serve very hot without photograph of the children on waist should be. You and your Enuce or gravy.

bel on Y

f

MEAT CURRY

FIRST PRY SOME CHOPPED MAKING A

ONION BROWN CURRY

IN A LITTLE MRS AP FAT- AND A. SHOW MENU ÚTILA BIT OF

HOW/ GARLIC, TOO, IF

'A BAYLGAR AS

WELL.

-THEN STIR IN A DESSERTSPOONFUL OF CURRY POWDER AND SALT TO TASTE. COVER AND COOK VARY GENTLY FOR 5 MINUTES

NOW STIR IN A CHOPPED TOMATO OR TWO AND THE COLD MEAT_CUT" IN SMALL PIECES; AND COOK AGAIN DENTLY: FOR ANOTHER 5 MIN.!

"I'm not sure if I've got a

me—I'll look... ¿

I ALWAYS ADO A SMALL;

HANDFUL

OF SULTANAS, THOSTS NOT REALLY CORRECT

JUST COVER THE MEAT WITH HOT

WATER MIXED WITH A TEASPOON FUL OF MEAT OF EXTRACT

SAND.. →ØMMER VERY GENTLY FOR AT LOAT 2 HRS, THEN ADD

"A SMALL SURATE CR LEMON

should have dinner together...

"I was much happier when I was poor..."

London Express Service.

AND SERVE INITH_ PLAIN BOILED RICE THAT'S ALL, BUT ITS FUNNY THAT CURRY WARMED

UP THE DAY! AFTER IT'S COCKED ALWAYS GERMAN CHICURA...

THE WEDDING PICTURE: The camera does its womi. However comely the tride may look, the picture of her often appear comic. There she stands-eclipsed by Fast bouquet, a mile of white train or a Deld of dull bridespalda,

Pago.7

By

DRUSILLA

Women

BEYFUS

THE CHRISTENING: Bhe's never looking her best and the camera never misses a trick. In the photo christening. of the aphie, rather plain Mama pazes, raptur ously at a pala die interested haby.

HOUSEHOLD HINT

Black velvet...

red flannel

Man's Occupation:

Housewife

OF SOME IMPORTANCE

Sally Ann Howes, star with the "rich mouse " hair,

by Robb

NALLY ANN HOWES, A

young woman of con- siderable importance in the West End theatre, dresses with an expert eye for what looks nice, but buya strictly according to her purse.

"I do not buy model dresses," sho tays. "I work hard for my money, and I hate lo aco it dis- appear on a dress which will last a few months only.

I buy what I seo. In the shops.

Bright

Bully, 22. profers grey, black, or white for day wear. but likes sulis and stresses equally, She brightens them with may accessories,

For evening' she prefers short dresses, black, and again with Bright touches.

ого

Her working clothes sweaters and skirts, and the has become addicted to the hati- kerchief-scart since wearing ope In the chow Paint

Your Waroa, in which the is⋅ up- pearing with her father, Bobby Howes.

Her hair

Sally describes her hair as "rich mouse," and adds:

"I long to dye it, but I Laven't the nerve?

She keeps It Jong because it

is botter 1 ke that for stage work,

and has it washed once a week. Sho dare not put it in curlers at night"My husband would Wla-Aladin hate it and so geis up carly De Brozzo, an assistant district to put it in pins. attorney, was questioning a mon

MILWAUKEE,

court.

For the dress record: Off-

on the jury panel in municipal stage Sally likes this party dress (top) black velvet toppett, "Are you married or single?" halter-necked. The skirt is Do Brozzo asked.

picated white net embroidered "A--widower, the man re-in silver lovera'-knots."" One way to make housework dustpans and floor "waxers,” easier and cut down on fatigue and even long-handled dish

On stage she wears, a bar- "What is at the end of a cleaning day, is mops- so you won't need to to decrease stooping and reach- bend over the sink would be cupation your business or oc-yard dress (lower) of red poplin with petticoata and red fennel ing, by using long-handled wise buys in selecting replace- "Nothing, I guess. You might lace-trimmed_bloomers. equipment. Long-handled mops, ments or new equipment." call me a housewife."

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