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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1954.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

FASHIONS FOR BEACH WEAR:

E clothes

VERY

earlier and

year

are

FOUR NEW TRENDS

W

London. each other's goods into the get holiday shops, and the dates launched pushed back a week,

two months, re- month,

earlier.

I

mentber when I shopped for mure. iny cottons in April and May.

Nowe January has become a big colton season, and you'll be wise to do a bit of your laying now.

head is newer than a button-up Horrockses better Jucket-like blouse of striped cotton on the

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left.

and

Yes, it's pleasant to see the bright colours, the airy wisps of stuff, among drab dark clothing.

It's all right by me, just so long as they don't push it back too far....and send

scampering In

Yes, there will be fresh supplies later, but if we get as an early sumber, you get caught out.

Why this pushing

of dates?

good reaso118,

There are

the

3 beaches in clothes which

are a year out of date!

back

WI

13

This year there will be four nus. Here are the lines to look for when you're shopping for beach things-

First trend WRAPS *Ph

BULKY

Story Of Missing Spoons Debunked

By Ruth Gmeinér -

Washington. ing twice with the same knife, THE White House says it fork, or spoon.

Tsimply isn't true that there's a shortage of spoons In the famous gold service used at presidential state dinners.

The story circulated year ago or more that the gold врооп had to be whisked off to the dish- washer after an early course so they could be used again later in the dinner.

The tale persisted despite de- nials from White House staff members responsible for main taining the decorum and dignity of service at prosidential din-

ners.

But a brand-new count of the pieves in the fabulous dinner- ware seems once and for all to brand the story puro fletion.

President and Mrs Eisenhower may have 104 guests for dinner and even the man at the fout of the table need not fear he is eat-

She Helps Herself By Helping

Others

By ANNE HEYWOOD

and cynicism forever. But not

There are 1,700 items in the dinner service, including some plecos which have graced pre- sidential banquet tables since the days of President James

Monroe.

'There's gold place enough to with 11 confront every diner pleres. Actually, no guest over sees that many pleces at once, but he may before all the many courses are finished.

A place setting includes: cock- tall fork, soup spoon, fish knife, fish fork, dinner knife, dinner fork, sulad knife, anlad fork, dessert fork, dessert spoon, and demitasse spoon.

And at each place there alw are a gold salt dish and tiny salt spoon.

Usually, there Bre seven knives, forks, and spoons along- side the pinle at the mealļs start. Confisci quests have no trouble deciding which to ust if they remember the old rule of work- ing from the outside in.

Included in the gold service is a magnißcent centrepiece which is a part of the original pur- chase by President Monroe 130 years ago. It includes a 13-foot mirrored tray decorated with ornately-curved figures of Bac- chus and Bacchantes and gar- lands of fruits and vines. There Bro matching frult epergnes, flower bowls, and candelabra.

These pieces along with gold NIJE longer I live, and

knives, forks, und spoons for 38 THE

Theresa.

guests were bought by Mourve the more life stories I hear, the more aware I am out," she told me.

***I sat down and figured things, from France. Some members of "After all, it Congress denounced his extra- that the blow which will was a relief in a way. On top of vagance until it became known send

manufacturer into a that, the whole mess was partly that the French ane wom

the one who made a mistake in the price Next, watch the trend for tailspin of tears and bitter- my fault. I was

bad married him, so i had nobody and the pieces were obtained CLASSICAL TUNICS. inness, will, to another, be but myself to blame in the last for two-thirds their value, America, there are swimsuits just a new opportunity for analysis. entirely pleated like short Greek achievement. tunics. The multicoloured cotton tunic here looks straight from some Mediterranean island, Theresa H. 11 is lined with black towelling, gues over black shorts. Spectator Sports.

By

Take, for

example,

with

The original pieces have been re-gilded several times. The inst time was in 1950.

"And I knew I would have to get busy, quick," she continued.

I had the three children

Former President Truman support, and no money in the

We had a big old-fashioned danger

used to joke that there was no No-Good Husband

bank.

Gome sticky-fingered extra apartment

three Theresa married 2 110-

rooms which I had planned to guest might slip a fork or spoon

into his pocket for a souvenir. rent out. But, of course, iny Third, the trend for TERRY good man. He never kept a TOWELLING: for

wraps, job.

was He was an alcoholic, husband's behaviour shorts. or pants. The giri

on the sand kneeling

In between drinking jags, awful that we were wears

whatever Spectator's belted over-blouse of he gambled with black and white striped towelling money he could get his over tight red denim pants.

hands on. And finally, he

on out Theresa,

wraps over a

to take people in.

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On the back of each piece, never able Mr Truman would point out, is the plainly stamped, if old- fashioned, Inscription, "Presi dent's House."

She Loves Children

"Well, I thought things over

carefully. I had no business skills of experience whatever, nor did |

Fourth, an important trend walked for STRAW (it started in leaving her with three FIRST, post-war fashion

Inly). A skirt of caramel-babies under five years of I have time or money to learn day me coloured takes a big look at America.

straw, surprisingly age. where there is an important fashion for short, mussive wraps light in weight.

Is carried over into beach wear. winter Holiday season. Spreially recommended for the From December on. thou wody English brach, where LA sands swarm to the sunny skimpy stole is not enough! The over-blouse that pulls over your Florida resorta.

SECOND, sheer competi- tion within the trade. Manufacturers fight to bent

white Jersey shoulder-bone Most girls would have gone blouse and shorts embroidered in home to the family, if any, and straw to match. By Rima, spent the rest of their lives thing," with a good excuse for bitterness being "that poor dear

Anne Scott-James

YOU'RE SMART TO BE DIFFERENT

CCORDING to *one By HELEN FOLLETT

Fath Comments A beauty specialist,

On Women

Designers

New York. JOMEN are bad fashion

ternationally signer-male.

known

de-

"A

woman should not be afraid when you use cosmetles. to be different from the ben copy-cat.

If you have thick lips, standardised type of today.

try to disguise them by using a

Don't

don't

them when often they are ønssy and piquant.

them. And the cost of someone to take care of the children, if I did go out to work, was cx- cessive. I reached a real low, and did I feel sorry for myself!

"Then suddenly, I began to realise how very many mothers must be in the same position. And that was the best thought I'd had!

"I decided to take in the chil-

dren of broken homes, children. whose mothers had to get a job,

Rhythmic

the eternal captivator ---

PARFUMS

MARCEL ROCHAS

PARIS

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a

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WORTHI

and

I knew I could handle their getting rid of their bulges

attending rhythmic Women are unanimous in their need for affection, and help them by

for this convenient, praiso dancing classes? And There is definitely a trend over the strain.

self-contained manicure now toward personality hairdos,

put an acty

advertisement in our

grand time they have

sential, Some women who have had newspaper, and I also paid a call permanenta for years have on the town's leading divorce leaping in the air, doing Some of the most striking light shade of lipstick. No doubt found that straight hair, beauti- | lawyers to get referrals, I talked whatever is being done women of the stage and your mouth conforms to other fully arranged, is wonderfully to our family doctor, and he the rhythmic manner. Also, screen have achieved dis features. If you had a cute little becoming.

helped me with the health and if these girls find that the tinction because

of a mouth, they de Cupid's bow

extra inches have landed on Nopects. would probably not be in keep-

houseful of viate from type."

Ing with your general facial ent, as our beautician urges. kids, I'm with my own as well, hips, thighs and calves, with Hollywood producers, seeking composition.

Brush your hair straight back, and am making a small but the torso remaining normal, If your eyes are narrow and do it in a chignon at the nape quite decent living!""

they go in for tap dancing. slanting, don't worry. If you line and take a good look at Sometimes the best thing tol look alike-same kind make-up, same hairdos, Бате bad big round ones," maybe you yourself. Maybe it's not so bad. do when you're in a fam is to clothes! They are seeking in- would look owl-like.

Maybe it's good. Maybe it sets think of the others in the same

go dividuality and personality. It's

worth trying anyway.

yourself by helping them.

of

Don't be afraid to be differ-

And freckles aren't any worry you

I

have

But you don't have to

to a dancing school

the hard to find. Keep this in mind either. Young girls grieve about apart from the curly girls. 1 jam. You might be able to help to trip the light fantastic

Paris Jacques Fath says only role a woman should have in fashion is in wearing clothes. The designer, in New York re- cently to work on his Amerlean collection for spring. contended that women are poor creators because they try to dress every other woman in the typo clothes they themselves like.

of

SEVENTY

WILL BE CONSIDERED

"Fashion is art," said the slim, blond Parisian. "Art In creative, and men are the crea-

YOUNG

tors. Look at the great painters, | TTS

fascinating fact

writers,

vigorously young and that,

the great sculptors. the great that middle age can be

women ilko it..

MIDDLE

By IDA JEAN KAIN

ap- machine.

Given

AGE...

the

right

along

road. the beauty Turn the radio to dance music and

skip around the living room by your self. Keep on your toes as much 28 you can. them. Come up high on

arrange your All of own movements. them

will make for grace.

You

can

a calcium deficiency because of failure to use enough milk or

Dancing is the most marked checso in the daily menur

example of graceful motion. It We have beco aiven

is the highest form of physical "The woman designer sces birthdays to the contrary, proximately twenty extra yours, materials, the body repairs itself. Fewer calories are needed as culture. That is why it la près- fashion as she likes it. But a man will see it as hundreds of We do not all age at the There is definite proof that the No machine can do that. The time goes by," Therefore the cribed for its prychological ap

same rate. Chronologically onset of the degenerative dis- foods which furnish the essential non-essential. wweets, starches well as physical benedia. of course, the years are the orders commonly believed

materials needed for repair and and fats must be lossenod. The Hero la a little danes exercíso "Take Anne Fogarty (the de-

de same. But some folks look characteristle of sting are not servicing are the Beale 7--milk, sonice are the highest authority that you can take ding at; do signer). Shouses that

inevitable. So let's keep pace 1

pint

dally for adults: or one on that score. Overweight is a mazurka hop aldewise, to the silhouette the tight walst und old when they are scarcely with

in our thinking, glass and an ounce of cheese, the big problem in the middle left, then forward, then back- full skirt. It looks good on fifty, while others twenty telence

and ceaso

to look upon the one citrus fruit or juice, plus period of Ile--and it is no help ward. Stamp three times, tako Anne Fogarty."

years older stay remarkably vogue achos and allments of one or two other fruits; a dark to staying young. Extra, pounds - throw glide steps to the left, Fath belleven

have young. Obviously middle age mludio age as evidence of the green vegetable, plus two or put a burden on the vital organs then waltz half a dozen turns boller business heads too. is not the same time of life machinery but instead regard berseri one of two esta a and that is the real reason excess and repeat. This is included in

liberal' menying of lean meat, fat is aging...

the programme of a well known He conceded there are excep- for everybody. It is not in them as disorders, which can be min er zowl, and whole grain or

figure-moulding salon, where ilons to his argument-that the conceivablo that in a. more remedied with improved nutri- enriched bread of those, many authokitiai-beliova, that this business of putting feminine '; corcal.. The But back to thinking young... dancing is an. Important part of and medical science. Our protective, foods; wolle have been highly success-will be considered young bodies are capable of teaching supulated amounts furnish out our best mental bag is after figures is, boter shopo,

100% without out, in any“,

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vital part. There Leabudant as well as vitamins, and,

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