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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1954.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Don't Let Your Feet Kill You!
By Helen Follett
O your feet hurt? When
Dyou come into the house
after a day of shopping du kick off your shoes, you wish you could learn walk on your hands?
to
burning, twinging toes are getting back at you because you abuse them. If feet are in good condition, you don't know you have them, but if they're in poor condition you're well aware of it!
If feet hurt, you hurt all much over. If anybody so
as looks at you, you want to snarl at them. This is not a pleasant state of affairs. Why don't you do something about it? You spend plenty of time on your complexion and hair. Give your feet a break, too.
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Smart Travelling Outfit To Suit Many Occasions
By DOROTHY BARKLEY
LONDON.
The popularity of the bal- NOOD news for travellers. Ierina evening dress is assured It
Guron doigners are
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championing And they choose clothes for as many possible.
their
cause. suggest you that will do occasions a
They prosent a crop of back- to-front sweaters, tumabout that ro- skirts and day coats verse to a coloured ining for evening.
For holidays in the run, there
Is a three-piece outfit in popiin, consisting of Ekiti and two tops, which can be both beach dress and evening dress. The skirt reversible, brightly palternec For one skle, black the other. the beach it's worn patterned side out, and
with the Part-
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nered with a matching sun top. For the evening you have the black side out, and there's matching blouse sleeveless, neckline-to go with 4 boat
with R.
Newest housecoats are beach- coais ng well. You wear them around the home,
then pack,
and
take.
them to your bag them to the seaside, Favourite material is morse-stripovi cotton
colour -the stripes white ground.
In
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and for good reasons: ilustrate both
get dirty. It can't be frampled and get torn. It is right for cockfalls, dancing, dinner and
theatre.
There's the other alde to the picture, however, Though the full length ovening dress plays second fiddle to the bollerina dress on most occasions it's still
the
Arst choice for the gala ball.
Tho designs pictured bore illustrate both mvies. For a full Victor Stiebel chooses black satin, makes the bodice strapless and trims bouffant skirt with cabbage roses. For a short evening dress, Hardy Amles chooses shot silk organza Chinese bluo shói with brown and emphasises the dress's hip Which yoke with embroidery, is your choice?
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Feet will be less sensitive you bathe them in warm water every day. Use a heavy brush to Massage hustle up circulation.
fret and ankles with minerul oil. If you are beset with corns, soften them with the oil, then use a toilet pumice stone to rub Put The hardened skin. wway tout powder in your shoes.
And shoes are important, more cisc. important than anything
Turk your feet in the right kind, those that have leather soles and leather uppers.
are big enough litted.
When cutling
See that they
and perfectly
toenails, clip
them straight across. If you have Ingrowing nails, do not fancy that you are capable of correct- ing them by gouging at them
Seek
A black satin full-length evening dress by Victor Stlebel
The Secretary Who Can't Stand Inactivity
M
the
Those holidaying in cold eli- mates haven't been forgotten, cliber. There's a travel-coat- cum-travel-rug. It's made from a thick tartan wool rug, and is cut so that the fringing forms
hen
According to its inokers, it's a good buy because you have two articles for tho it price of one; it's warm and
won't crease you fling it in- to the buck of the car."
Accessories which don't take suitcase up much rootn in a have been thought up also.
One new idea is to have coi- lar and cuff sets of stimy star- ched white poplin like a man's shirt. They are wor with 77 black sweater to give the im pression of a shirt-blouse.
to wear
[ANY a secretary, in a And the secretory, after think- small office, has been "Gee, he's nice," does one of two things. Either rhe takes bum Halling actors told by her buss, "Things him up on it, and does crossword with
The services
now, but don't puzziva of a foot are stow
or whatever. Or, she specialist. If you wear the same worry. Later on, we'll get waches the pot where the shoes that
them, they busy. raised
Another new idea Meantime, you can idleness drives her crazy, derides will stay right with you. It is
she has to get a job that keeps pressure that brings these for- read your
her busy, and leaves. knit." ments in the first place.
magazines,
ALL FUSS AND
FEATHERS
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London, because she never goes anywhere moral without her military badge, she
PRESENTING a mornt without her military
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SECOND, there is Bliss news the hat that turned up on so many celebrated Trice-too-Hard. She adores
bat that is alluring. She likes heads recently, from Prin- clothes that "do something" for Margaret to Mary her. She knows that vells are Soames, from Lady Chur- flattering.
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But occasionally, a very bright girl makes this kind of inm activity pay, and gets a jackpot.
Utilised the Time
Jeanne was In that position. She decided to stay with her buss, who was in a new expert business which he and do assistunt had started. Instead
of knitting, or eru sword puzzles, or inagazines, Jeante Look up some studies.,
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The firm was trying to ende • contract with Big South American company, Jeanne got good basic Spanish text, and went to work learning tno language. She studied it like mad in the office, and then found tutor for one evening a
a
who taught wook.
When her boss
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of fur a choker and bracelets with long-sleeved sweater.
This is one accusion
when it (This
to be mink). Fur doesn't have Dabric is catching on
tho smart trimming, though if you feet like spending more money there's nothing to stop you hav- Ing the real thing.
Hardy Amles' ballerina evening dress in shot silk
They Exchange
organza.
Notebooks
For Wedding Rings
London.
7HAT are a secretary's Wchances of marrying
her the her boss? Pretty good, it Anally landed the South Ameria seems, judging by the men can account, he asked her to in public life who do pop and a part-time girl who could the question to the girl be handle Spanish correspondence.hind the typewriter." "I can," she announced, and got a ruise.
chill to Yvonne de Carlo.... She is sure she has a talent pronunciation.
We mirror today the
sad for transforming on inexpensive spectacle on view whenever the beret into un immensely chic hat. average English woman buys a She is sure that a clever women new hat-the spectacle of her cau make one hat do the work
ruzin hastening to
It at the of five. She is certain she has trimmings counter.
You can the formula for looking ke a the West End million dollara her in any day
aho hurrica to
So she buys a yard of velllag, spoil the simple becoming lines with a vell or a feather, a pin test round her bene, and wears
the result for cocktails. or a clip.
Excellent, too,
according to one woman who is in a position A Second Slow Period
to know. The head of an agency which places many of London's Several years later, when an-
recretaries in posts each week other stow period come thy this gives four reasons for the high time she had an assistant who marriage rate in the accretarial bundled the typing and Aling.orld. she got a good book an export, handling laws, money exe anges,
By EILEEN ASCROFT
Many a
Selwyn Lloyd, QC, MP, who married Miss Elizabeth Marshall after she had been his secretary for 18 months.
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valuable secretary finds her boss's flat, engages.bis lations and often plays hostess writer Captain Liddell Hart, much buys presents for his re relationship is that of military at his business lunchoons or who married his secretary, Mrs dinners. She makes life com- Nelson fortable and easy for him and One of the most famous of ali what better beginning could seeroinrics who married the bows Century Notebook (mall) (large) there be, for romanica?
of course, lovely Frances Lastly,
most secretarial
Stevenson, Louise
Lloyd attempt to George's secretary
ever since Challange. Receipt books agomele make an
Duplicate books place girls with bosses of similar his daughters took her home 19
from school in 1913, interests
Appointments book Three Gifts
Beautiful and talented, she THE HAT IN THE NEWS IS ● THIRD, there is Mrs Got-It
was his friend and helper for Basildon Airmail Envelopes THE BERET. It is round and Wrong. She is a housewife. She
TWO recent secretaries who many years. After his wife's small, and one should wear it wears beret straight on top, but
mado headlines by marrying amih
his second she became
Churston Deckle Notepaper is propinquity, the their bosses were Milas Judith wife, FIRST simple and neat.
with a hopelessly wrong hair
Envelopes **To be a good secretary," said But I can list tree types of style. She has been told to stab and so forth, and studied It recretary-boss relationship being Bail, in her early forties, who women who each buy the same a beret with a long plack quill thoroughly, That information closer than any other businces married her former employer, this wise woman in 1981, "One
Bridewell Bond Notepaper beret and ruin it in their own feather, but she has had to put a was very handy before long,
Lord Ruthven, and must have gifts of tact and Milse Alex Hockly, understanding,
Intuitive да individual way
pin in it to keep it at the right in time, the was put in charge
of people and of the correspondence depart anile.
pelition is koon for the pium who
Nunburnholme after working character," She has read that smart girment.
six months.
As these are also the most cars with gigantic Jeanne now has fourteen girls secretarial jobs. A girl has to "racing type," She wears her load their
Romances that bloomed in important characteristics of the She has noted in her department, and a very be emetent, smart and of attrae for him for beret to keep off rain at race ipsy corrings.
Live appearance to land a good
Parliamentary circles include rood wife, it may explain why meetings,
She says she's not that a patch of purple close to large salary.
But more than that, she has job and keep it
those of Mr Woodrow Wyatt, so many eficient secretaries much interested in clothes, and the throat adds more than
learned the first requisito of an
THIRDLY, bachelor bosses MP, who married his secretary, exchange their notebook for SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. likes a beret simply because you finishing touch.
executive--she knows how
Nom Robins, and Bar wedding rings. But she lumps the lot on
bocomo dependeat do not know you have got it on,
make herself work.
secretaries for duties outside She wears her baret with together and looks a
a. duffel
ANNE HEYWOOD office hours.
• FIRST, there is Allow Couldn'i-Care-Loss. She is the
tweeds,
coal-ond,
fright.
-(London Express Serulce)
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and partnership.
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SECONDLY come locks, Com. 49-year-old Lord knowledge
on their Miss
THE PROBLEM MEASUREMENT
"ITH fashion's emphasis
Wor the bustline millions
of dollars are spent yearly
By IDA JEAN KAIN
Since weight is a factor in diet, will improve the bust and
your health as well.
are
palternat after the now old fashioned swim stroke, is the groove. "Swim" it out of the water. Resistance exercises Excellent; first raise arms to on brassiores. The bustling size, there is the cue to dimin
horizontal position in front of appears to be the problem ishing or augmenting the bosom, Wo are prone to regard the chest; band elbows and, with measurement and for all General reducing, through diot, bosom as a problem unto itself right fist in the palm of the
will lessen the size of the bust, instead of in relation to general felt hand, push
Vigoromly On a gaining programma that health and well being as well to Wo inherit the contour and builds strengih, not merely piles as muselo tone, skin tone and to the left, resisting", strongly }
on fat, the thin girl can deve- posture. This brings us to the with the muscles of one arm,
ages.
general shape of the body, and when excer pounds pilo
while puding with the other. role of exercise in bust beauty. This okt favourites le good ex-| Exercise cannot reduce the size, arelio.
on lop her bosom, they will acid to one's general shape. The boɑoin my be over- The bristline, more than any ly large since the issues there other measurement, is influenced for the breasts are composed of are susceptible to fally deposit by the general state of health glands, not muscle. But the With the overty largo,
pectoral muscles
underneath aging bosom, it is bort
In most cases of overdevelop One laddr inadequate diet, help support this measurement wear supporting bra white ment, the trouble is not caused weight can be lost, but the The sagging breasts, is invari exercising with
the
·'suppor
by the gland, but by general effect on the bosom, can be disably due to lack of muselo ting from underneath-but
I under- nstrous. Too abrupt weight loss In the supporting, muscles and loose to allow, for freedon
con- ligaments.
overwelent. Wow vital- given the skin rio, chance to
arth-motion, her
Tinkerto initentious"
today, Mimo)
weight, coupled Its the burline Afis often ex- tract and when the allot falls to To effectively tone these supers, tremely underdeveloped some meet the mood of the body, zight, girls, with bunyant health witfalley Ay lowernios-fers graduad, borting (pectoral muncles, raise besaul testo di hot and lovely postares, have well, weight loss at 2 to a pounds karma fret to horizontal position, bosom, bras developed, busts,.
weelcyon a highly protectiva) thao (exercise. The best, stroke control.
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