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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1953.

Away-from-it-all Would

Woman Is In No Hurry

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from -DOUGLAS STRANGE

New York, Aug. 15, "Choosing a boat is like plek- away-from-it-all ing a husband, a wife or a horse; woman in a faded pink you have to fall in love to get the best out of the partnership." and gray shirt and sun-bleached blue shorts loll- She fell in love at frst sight ed One day this week with the 2-ton 23ft Felicity Ann. And now for the voyage aboard her tiny weather in the little craft, so packed beaten yacht Felicity Ann with gear, food and water that

at anchor amid the swank, the waterline, had to be raised sparkling motor cruisers in four inches, and there was barely Miami basin.

room to lie down,

rococo

Before her spread the fabulous skyline of America's militonaires playground. Be hind her lay the Atlantic, the memory of roaring seas when greyboards lunged at masthead height, of long days of calm with only the creak of the rig- ging.

The voyage that was to take her wandering across the Bay of Biscay, along the Spanish coast, out to the Canaries and thẹn inlo the

for ocean, bouSZICÍ Barbados.

At first there were mistakes of inexperience. She meant her first call to be. Madeira. She never made it. As she cruised One year, two months and 26 upriver to the Spanish port of days out of Plymouth, England, Vigo, she flew the. wrong flags: Stousled-beaded 38-year-old Mrs instead of psicing for a pilot

Ann Davison had made her last she

was calling "Send" oll landfall and completed the vow available lifeboats." she made оп her husband's death. She America plone.

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bad sailed to Bitter loneliness

Then came the first bitter tasio

But she was in no hurry to go ashore. At the smart hotel of lonelines and fear of sleep- where an air-conditioned room Ing. For six days, aëthough, she was awaiting her with the long- knows she must have slept and missed luxuries of baths, good nie, she recenberS doing She went off her meals and service, nobody knew nother.

course when she would arrive.

deliberately to trnil n trawler just, for companKY.

She just said she was busy with letters and sewing, and it looked as if she did not want to talk to anybody either. The away-from-it-all woman, with elvilisation crowding in on her, was in no hurry to hall a dinghy and row across to the jetty.

How does it feel?

She ran into her first storens and hove to, with Felicity Ann under bare poles as waves 23(1 high crashed about her.

"I was scared, of courte.... the noise, always the first feature storm at sea, was simply paralysing.

of a

on

be

you like

THE JOHN GORDON REPORT ON MOSCOW

it-? This is how the

women live

IN HIS assessment of the new Russia John Gordon today turns away entirely from politics to news of another kind-how the people live.

I WONDER

WHAT YOU WOMEN WOULD

SAY...

By plane and cable. --uncensored,

The present Russians" i that at all.

generation of Bad as the drewes are by our certainly not like standards, the tailored suits are Infinitely worse The popular There are few slim figures to style at the moment is the long lar be seen. Most of them tend to. Jacket, with wide heavily padded be aque, chunky, fat, and shoulders and, short sicht you excessively bosomy.

see in pictures of British women By and

Too often large they are the just after the war. most unfeminine women I have the jocket its merely where it

touches. ever met.

No glamour

A very poor-style cotton frock, at which British women would turn up their noses, costs the Life has been very hard for equivalent of £23 sterling In the them. Their grandmothers, and shops. But such a price com- sometimes even their mothers,, parison is an unfair one because were little better than serfs and the Russian Government insists peasants of the most depressed upon a valuation rate for the kind. They wore rough, dull rouble which is at least six times clothes, selected mainly for too high. durability.

A juster comparison is to take When the revolution came, the average wage of a Russian education and the development woman worker and set the prices. of the country. was of more she has to pay against it."

than giving urgent Importance

feminino attractivenes to women. So the drabness, con- Iinued. There was nothing in

children.

Women's wages

great social change have considerable

consequenceR,

that may political

A middle class is rising. It tends to move out of the towns to apartments in the suburbs. Social competition begins. Mru does not go to work any more. Mogalov sees that Mrs Corky so she decides to give up her job and be a lady at home.

Pressure goes on the husband to got a I better job to make more money, and buy a car. It be- comes important to get Into the circle of people who can help you to satisfy that ambition.

Social standing

It is now possible in Russia to accumulate money, invest it, and even inherit it. So the children of these familles start on a

class middle

basis. Social standing becomas Important it ensures because

the right future for thom.

women now

of to

married work in

If Mama and Dads know the right people, the children Con got to the right school. It is now important to get into the right the few State shops, to encourage does normal heavy work is about

The wage of a woman who school in Russia as it is to get

into the

right school in Britain. or teach anything else.

300 roubles a month; the wages. stands more chance of getting For from the right school the son Then came the war with its of an office

girl 600 to 750 the right job in the most at- tremendous strain and loss. The roubles a month. A light sum tractive part of the country. women needed for industry were mer dress would cost an office

So the family endeavours to swept off to the Umis or the girl 250 roubles, which is slightly cultivate the State-directors labour less than half a month's wages, social. It's just like electora The fear and Joneliness passed, to be replaced by other moods.

harci in order to keep their A suit would cost 300 to 000 home. One moment she would feel

country strong. They ceased to roubles, But what makes a woman

I am assured that roughly the exalted,

Shoes aro 150 to 300 roubles swept

away

be women except that they bore want to sail the Atlantic single-

and exhilaration.

OVIET RUSSIA to- champogne - 18e

same proportion very heavy, clumsy, and handed in a cockleshell? How Next moment she would

poor in quality they are. indeed Russia as in Britain. And, as does it feel to be a woman and despondent and depressed. The

day is a woman's

them back to i have never seen such badly in Britain, the proportion varies Peace brought alone on the grey wastes of the least small hitch would arouse

country. In a senge the towns again. But still the shod women world's second largest ocean, her

with the social grade. the only labour and the austerity had to to fury.

perhaps with only sails and a 5-h.p. She reported engine to carry her across nearly petite and dumping

losing her up- | woman's country in the continue to repair the ravages roubles for stockings-again of we would call the wives of the

tin after world. For Russian women struction of the new Russlu.

of war and speed up the con- a heavy and poor quality of working class mostly go to work.. 9,000 miles?

State-made

Middle class and top class ones nylon. tin of foodstuffs over the side.

don't, unless they have special Hairdressing and beauty shops, professional skills, Only within It was four years ago that Mrs until finally she was living on stand in absolute equality

the last few all State-run, Davison, who had never salled one small meal day-scrambled with men.

of course, are beginning to boat ut all--and,

develop in in fact, she eggs and vitamin plita taken in They do the same work months has the austerity been just

Now those things dear Russia. cused. never did all one alone until she double doses.

as men plus the extra job to the hearts of all women are are packed to overflowing from set off in Felicity Ann from

of bearing childrenan coming into the shops. Already early morning till late at night, Plymouth on May 18 last year

You can't book appointments, I who do not go to work, which There are now even daughters extra made her resolve.

am told, and therefore may have is quite a revolution for Russia, to wait for hours. They open on and does not seem to square with Bundays, like all shops, and even the all-giris-are-equal theory. at ten o'clock on a Sunday night

What

happens in the top you can see rows of women sit

grade of all? ling with driers on their heads. I cannot say.

Neither could There is no privacy in these anyone I met-even the most rather'austere salons. You see knowledgeable foreign diplomats through the and their wives. For the secrecy

She and her yachtsman hus band set off in their 70 ft. ketch to sail to the West Indies, but the rudder failed. Mr Davison went over the side to repair it, wad swept away and drowned.

"made any mind up then, said Mrs Davison, "that what we meant to do together I would do alone."

She

She slept for only a few hours, usually from dawn to around 7.30. The days passed writing her log or trying to une into music on the radio.

Sharks followed

Then between Las Palmas and

to which, judging you can see the effects of it. from the fact that there The crowds in the clothes are many families of ten shops are for greater than any and over, they apply them we ever knew in Britain even in selves with healthy vigour. the most austere of the wartime

And of course they are paid queue days. the same wages as men.

Our ardent feminists will no what an admirable

Limited choice

You have

A Russian girl pays 20 to 30

What

The hairdressing shops Kremlin secrecy

the whole works

the street.

Barbados, after bowling 70 to 90 miles a day "downhill on trade winds, she ran into a calm that doubt say tasted 23 days. "At times there and splendid thing that is. Well,

to fight your way open windows as you walk along that surrounds life in the Krem But to me, into the shops. And fight your roubles, and it seems is me to be which the Kremlin families go perm costs in, and the country dachus to set about it by taking a was not even a creak from the up to a point it is. job in a boat yard and learning ship and the silence was terrify-there seem to be some rather way to the counters through

undesirable

trying job. A sot and trim is for relaxation

strictly to sail among England's Devon-

ing, primeval."

three to five roubles.

forbidden to gil. sther travellers. shire-coast. Then-sho set about

pressing sex.equality to the point shrink....

**** "The beauty — shops~nru~~ is far

than the secrecy choosing her craft, and this is

of the absolute.

When you get there, from our tremely well-patronised by the that rounds and royal family what she has to say about that:

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Vegetables which she had taken aboard ripened and rotted and had to be dumped. She had

rationed herself to a pint of

a day.

consequences

in throngs

that never seem

Heaviest work point of view,

10

areas

Kremlin wides and children

style

and cut of the dresses is soaps are very good, though the For example, Russia do not merely do the Ught dressmaker

the women of lower than our

worst village packaging of them, which is of re never seen. How they live, and what they do, is as little level, For our so much selling importance in imown as, the daily life of the and decorative jobs or hold

in Lhus. Theirs

sharks administrative posts that demand bone dressmakers have fashion the West, is nowhere near our Grand Lona

and dresses on sale

Russin has

No suds

A

close

I bought, a packet of State, then the busband of one of

no

if she had been her closest

She would have liked to have taken a dip over the side, but dared not because there were. always two

or three following her.

magazines, women's pages standards.

a sost of purdah existence in special qualities.

in newspapers, attractive But she had plenty of fresh

Into which no out- circle, They do the heaviest work as advertisements, and even the fish-flying fish that hurled

con penetrate. well.

cinema films to give them ideas themselves on Felicity Ann's tiny dec

They not only sweep the roads, and set standards, deck.

fails into deep disgrace Then at last calm broke, she but they make them, digging, none of these women-helps.

produced soap flakes sold for like Berla, the consequences for picked up the trade winds again, heavy barrows

drilling, trenching, and wheeling

The The quality of the materials washing nylons. about, like the

flakes his wife and family must be and one morning at dawn, navvies in Britain-with the Moscow is pathetically poor by board, smelled horribly, and did would dare to console her, even

even in look like thin slices of card- terrible. For

other wife days after leaving Las Palm, difference that, like all people in Western the dim smokey silhouette of

standards, though not the Russia, they work a full eight- Russian girls, who have never Face powder, still not very ex- friend.

a single sua. produes a Barbados appeared on skyline.

hour day, with one break of 45 knew all Colombus must have days a week.

She was to write: "minutes for a mid-day meal, six known anything so good in their tensively used, costs half a rouble

lives, think It is wonderful. for a small box, and lipsticks, Unknown wives fell-a moment of splendour and

They seem to me to, do most With no fashion guides to help tractive holders familiar to us, triumph."

of the housebuilding as well, them they have to feel their way from one to tea roubles,

The husbands appear at: mying the bricks, wheeling them forward to feminine attractive-

Nail varnish is just beginning offelal functions, but never the about in barrows, and monning nese by instinct. And there are to be used a little, and it is odd wives, If they go into the shops, the cranes just as men do. I find signs that instinct is begiming to roo an occasional woman with to the theatre, or to the more She was swept to windward that takes a bit of getting used to work. to make the Island

of Saint to. Lucia, but the ocean had bóen

-Yet she wILS DO conquered. more anxious to go ahore there enginos, pilot passenger planes,

Arrived blushing

from

They tend the parks, lay out the flower beds,

drive train

No beauties

£23 dresses

small and without the at-

lightly varnished nails digging exclusive hairdreading safons,

In

the strocta.

they go unlmown. I did not see

It half

is indeed not even generally a dozen women in Russia woaring neck- known whether BOMG

at the

3605 at

wear

tham-she was when she arrived and so far as I could see. run For the first time they are laces, and though a few we loading figures in the Govern

Miami "tootling under

yesterday after Moscow's excellent British-made starting to make their own cars, there was none of the ment are mamied and have

engine power

dresses. The shops are now full tile decorative accessories like families, And what happens to underground rallway. across the placid 150 miles from

of summer cottons

the wives when the husbands and prints, brooches and lapel Jewellery Nassau in the Bahamas,

that atie the colours and Incidentally, few married wo- and, although

home, dia is c

is equally She arrived blushing

a mystery. designs would som crude to men in Russia seem to

For all one knows, they may running aground on a sandbank

bo British giris, already one can g

cremated on when putting about to meet the One gathers the impression see in some of the home-made wedding rings.

13ko Hindu widowing shuts But it is police. Caunch, and she was not from romantic novels written by dresses worn by the younger A few years ago every woman more likely that they are ade- prepared for the crowds and re-mon - Fusions

that Russian girl the first (lile; original in Russia had to work. If you quately persioned and put out porters and edimeramen waiting women are slinky, dark-eyed, toucher of experiment from did not work you did not eat, to grass in country.

which could be highly incon- which chle will came.'.

I have feled to find out what But the away from alluring, and passionate.

- » it – all

venlent, Perhape that type has gone out

has happened to Stalin's widow woman had а very normal since the revolution, swept the But prices are very high. Fow Now, I am told, there is an ană daughter, though without, fer nine reaction. She ducked countesses away. So far as I girls appear to have more than Increasing tendency among mar- the slightest success. But his down into her cabin-to brush-remember- they were all one change of clothes, a light ried women not to go to work.' con, I um told, is abili des the cir her hair and fix her make-up. countesses.

summer dress and a suit.

That marks the beginning of, a force.

to meet her. 1

JOHNNY. HAZARD

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