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THE CHINA MAIL, - SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1954.

Christie's - Barometer

London.

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-OW does ni aue- tioneer dispose o Oliver Cromwell's baby clothes or Fear half-smoked by Ed; wurd VII! Does he bawi and bang? Does he say oing, going, goue to the de in the blue hut for

4 xxxx pounds?

Of Fortune

GASKIN By WINIFRED

a contineants,

is is the only Hveliness Not if he is at Christie's, in the room, The buyers Looulon's famous salon of themselves

.

its salesroom and much of it

went back fur disposal there.

During the French Revolution,

HOW TO LIVE TO

BE TOO

NNE ten

WILSON looks years

younger than her age.

has

from face to face, catching He knows them all. They the firm cold the art treasures of first time, you might think If you met her for the a raised eyebrow, a barely are the connoisseurs of two the aristocrnis. The famous she was a young married perceptible nod of head,

They ΠΡΟ

as Madame DuBarry turned her woman with one child, and wordless motion which familiar to him as the local royal gifts into gold at Christie's lived in the height of luxury signifies that someone

has rustomers to the grocer, When Rustin's turn came, with a living-in maid, say, furthered the bid.

This is because Christie's hos Christie's did the same for the and a nannic. 143277 the kading clearing princely exiles.

But Anne

Wilson Peare for the treasures of the Its history is Western world.

One of the most interesting no living-in maid, no nannie. that my of the wealthy and

relics, and one which the firm True, she has help to do 10 led 1. Evrops appar

and America, Ouly the steady Beneath

letter from Lord the cleaning three times a has kept, abbreviated ham-

Nelson to Lody Hamilton saying❘ week. Apart that he was "agitated becuase from that, she Christie's was planning to sell a does her own ple.ume of her" He bought it housework, looks binett because "1 cerdd ma after

her three Devon If should be pul up to children herself. but: kn. RATED 1 21 ha et me 1 300 chopf blood. I would have given it with pleasure,"

cimulant.

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A crowded day in the auction room at Christie's.

A Virslie zuelavn Fina'.

Rome!

1

und

national

Lake a barometer of fortune,

Big Business

THINGS like these

nro

thest

counted in small change. of s taost

ot one

clays, Chr#te's sold

wrth of property. portrait maR

How does she succeed in pre- serving her looks, her figure. her youth, her great enjoyment of

tore vp. (A) I

YOUR THREE-MINUTE CHECK-UP

★ The housewife: Age group 30–45

If you are a housewifa aged 10-45 tick the answers applicable to you and then read the key below.

nove: muffer from backacho. (b) 1 have backacho whan I do some hourshold jobs.

(0) I have backachio mori

of the tinse

2

(a) nover catch

cold. (b) throw of coldi

quickly.

(0) 1 get cokla which

finger.

3 (11

hardly ayor cough. (b) I often get coughs. (0) I have chronia

cough.

*

4(n) Only

violent

exercio minkes me breathless. (b) I get breathless fairly

quickly.

(0) The slightest exertion

makes me breathless.

5 (a) My weight never

varles

(b) It is reasonably

steady.

(0) It goes markedly up or down if I don't diet.

No. 1,

FAULT No. Mrs. WILSON,

And life?

Let's look in 16,00m Wilson's working day.

is that

make-do meal

al. Anne always a substantial meal, unless Mr Wilson is not coming home, do with another tight meal for To that ease, Anne Wilson makes

herself.

A Remy differs a few details from 40.900. that of the average midie- and six yen a age one of Wilom elasa huusewife, But the Blake' water culeurs changes | details in which it does

During hands for £7.770

the differ are important. They Wa bottle Jamasce

could represent the differ bettled my 1745 was wurtionel

ence between 15 long and Jor $20 xuntas

joyous life and a miserably harassed one.

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The firm takt: ten percent of

a gle Anl with ese type

1

Wilson, like so many other wives, makes do with a shack,

Wilson to be out to dinner.

Fortunately, it is rare for Mr

If

It happened more often, and Mira Wilson persisted I not bothering about her own meals, is it would be serious.

In that case, she should cer

They usually spend a domestic

if her evening.

husband reading.

Mrs Wilson may get out her drawing-board und

meal.

65 (a) My digestion is

Kond.

(b) 1 sometimes have irull-

gestion.

(0) 1 suffer from chranie

dyspepsia.

7 (3) 1 sleep

Moundly.

thy I sleep fairly soundly. (c) T suffer from

somnia

8 (*) 1

in

сал relax CARLY. (b) I find it hard to relax (e) I cannot relax.

a m

very

9 m 1

pallent. (b) tend to get irritable

(0) I are up at

slightest thing.

10) um over de

pressed. diam pecasionally de

pressed.

te) am often depresnett.

tal took,

11

younger than is Age (b) lank my age.

feit lank after fan my

age

12 (11

(b) t

have

regular

outside interests. have a hubby ke which 1 •ometimes #ive time.

te 1 am inken in exch

sively " with doinestie detalls

THE KEY TO YOUR

HEALTH BATING

Count two point for EASYCTI, one potal for (hi unawers, and nil la 19). Total up and lind your rating bolaw

Ovce 18 paints Good. 2.18 points AvAZORO. Under 12 points ↑ Podr. If your answen „A to questions 1 3. 4. 5. 6. 10 are tel, you should see a doctor

paint.

all Painting is a hobby in ently prepare herself a cooked

many housewives which she is mure Belent.

than pro- innke do with o light meal in Occasionally they go the middle of the day, when the Gut. Bedtime is "any time be- children are lunching at school, tween und midnight, according and the same sort of sunck in Her working day starts to how I feel."

the evening, if their husbands restant, when she makes breakfast It as a ling sy frean the doma, T. bersil and her three little fault to find with Anne The Medical Board have very Theli drat year-old son. Her hu. Wilson's regime, Indeed, their "Fryquy,} band's breakfast-he leaves finding is that Anne Wilson has December 5. 1766 and on that home early--she has

found the recipe for happy married life.

el solea, that's big ina: lucas,

$24

caturkojne

day.

15

Materi

for 10

pre-

pared the previous night. piler two daughters make

their own.

sold "Fryday they stilinga

breakfast AIR rise of the bars indientes

bascos and plate." that fortunes have changed hands, wanel First, a discreetly that sempete

Now, International buyers mix worded advertisement will GENTLEMAN'S spoon. Christie's hus reflected Be with the

τις art

After breakfast she goes shop- "Beentative goes for 126. And the nue. emanging conditions of the Eng- beauty. the dispossessed,

the pink

On one morning week, Furuture. Porcelain and tioneer makes an ivory tap tot Tand-ow.oung classes, th

17201Ì the kind of mat and does her housework on the writh Pottery, Antiquities,

on the rostrum.

of Americans. Ob-

who whispered to me; "I come ethers. 'Th

Kreat Perjant Morgan peets of Art. Old English In this gathering he doe-

Une collection I t and furniture here at least once a week. Pulver, the property of A not ask the buyers' muDIES. was largely assembled through meets the nicest people." GENTLEMAN, ON VIEW."

ON-

And thus without tentation og flourish, with the subtle ust of capital leiters, the keynote of the

auction is set.

Sales tart precisely

at

I o'rlock. But there are sin sumurs, to crowds, no bur- gain hunters, for largains

ast Christie's are rare.

The salesroom has the solemnity of a cathedral, Around its walls hang pic-

THIS ENGLISHMAN IS POPULAR IN CHICAGO

tures by old musters awail-broken with its ng their day of reckoning-hating tradition Viewers mss silently

J

and

By Basil Hull

A

Vacuum eleaning. Tronm dusting, making beds, washing up, cooking--these are all very day chores.

Drudgery. never

For the housewife, it is also the

Treipe for healthy old nge. The first rule-almost the oily rule-1s; avoid drudgery.

Observe how Are Witson will

work and go into

Occasionally stop doing house- because "she feels like it."

the garden

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That is not A confession of But there is no fixed and rigid weakness, but

strength, tirnetable. She admits, with a Strength that is symptomatic of slight look of gwk, "when the Anne Wilson's outlook on life.

She herself puts it this way. weather

beautiful, I look after the time

Is really let the housework itself, and spend gardening."

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with the get Impatient constant ery of 'poor little woman chained to the sink,' After all, she has chained herself of there.

And sometime instead getting on with the dusting, she

never

"I bet the children will spend minutes deciding if asked her to spend her life pre- rusel apples look nicer in

pering meals for them and wash- wooden bowl or a yellow ing them up. Her job is really plate.

such a nice one; it only really consists of keeping her husband

011

Fireside lunch

New York. from the heart of Colonel to Rutherford (the R in Rebert CHICAGO, the citadel McCormick's "Empire" at that. H. McCormick) and Berkeley.

And now the

Colonel and of The isolationist

Certainly nobody in

the the diplomat have another link. Middle West, has just Foreign Office can have envied I've just changed

my tailor British ave polished Gage-50 next to his," says Goge. "He gets birthday--when after a distin- all his clothes mude in London push,d career in Rume, Peking, be tipperl JLx hat to A Chunking and at the Dumbar-

as you know," fore them, examining each Englishnan.

of the Har Gage's conquest ton Oaks and San Francken Middle West always been so Mrs Wilson gets lunch for critically. They give a nod

conferences he was transferred smooth? "Well, there was a herself und ber sun. here; purse the lips there,

handsome from Charge d'Affaires at Hague Fourth

meeting at of July

of lunch? And that is all the appre-Berkeley

Foley to Consul-Cieneral in Chicago. Bedford, Indiana-really shell- vintien

Eton an!

there when back Isolationists allow them-Gage. they

Не wns one of the Ørst the local editor, Spokon Trinity (and with an accent experiments in the integration selves to show,

a very nice wards that leaves no doubt about or the diplomatic and cortion chip, achly introduced me as a

tiescendant of General

Comment would be rude.

Main Drama

over

Tall.

dark,

CMG,

Everard

What sort

"My own tastes incline - brown bread, butter,

it) was given the first taste services, and it looked as it he the Governor of Massach, cheese, tomatoes, fruit, and.auch

and her children as happy and as healthy as she possibly can." Observe, too, that Anne Wilson has cultivated interests outside the domestic routine to Docupy her mind. Instead of spending every night mending socks she

She points.

works

irt the garden.

And In

so doing she goes a a meal doesn't need washing up. long way to ensuring that she of the send-off he will re- had been unlucky in the draw, who led the Brilish at Bunker

wlt maintain her present health "If the weather is nice, we eat and good looks for many years ceive when, on January 21, 131

Hi Well, I thought fast and Gage cheerfully packed said: 'Well, anyway

every possible meal in the gar- to come. he quits his post as British his bags in April 195it, left the him!

you beat true, Not strictly

of den, you don't have to brush up Consul-General to become international Hague for anything course, and hardly fair to the crumbs. If it's a nasty day, a Her Majesty's Ambassador but international Chileage and a old General, but it put every-tray by the fire.

territory of twenty million Americans, most of whom could be expected to distrus! almost everything he stood for.

His armour was a Savile Row

body in a good humour."

show

liko

them

Mr

"But don't get the iden," adde Wilson, "that I advocate this haphazard approach to meals always; sometimes I bako all morning or spend hours and endless troulile preparing really glorious meals."

Mrs Wilson scores more health points by distributing some of the household duties to the children,

Two faults

Sho shows sense not often enough seen in mothers by realising that it is far kinder to In the afternoon, Anne Wilson the children to give them some- Kartions in fine weather she thing to do than to do every loves gardening.

thing for them, and end up by providing them with a mother The girls are home for tou, who is a nervous or a physical and she has it with them.

wrock.

Afterwards. she helps them

S the centre of the room

the man drania goes on to the Court of the King of unherding. On a rostrum Siam. stands the auctioneer, his hand closed

a liny ivory hammer that is un- like other hammers-It has

suit: his weapon.-pharm and Now, any tips for the man head bet no handle. · Be-

unquenchable good bumour, his who will be filling his shoes Say the Chicago Sun Tunes: determination to go on being art and advice for other diplomats hind him are green- "There are many here whe have Englishman and "unashamed.

who may be finding Britain aproned acolytes the at- falways been strongly suspicious

hard to sell In other parts of tendants who hold up the of Britain's alens and antives in Soon, with

the world: "Get out and meet Bentley and cocker spaniel, reversed antiquities" for world affairs.

{rugh Chlonɖɔ cups were soon many people as you can on all buyers to behold.

"As a consequence, Gage's job recognising him and waving him levels. It is not your speech has not riways been an easy on ("It's an Austin 10 and a red that matters so much as what Before him in horseshoe one. But for his part, he has retter now"). His door was you say and do after it. If you

open to anytne who entled

Yet there are two faults in the formation sit the buyers: always been a staunch renter for

people you

hem with their lessons until it is time Wilson plcture. Minor faults in Chicago and the about twenty

Mid-West. him and he never shied from a they will like you, and through to bath the three-year-old. Then so far men and

Bemuse he likes the Amerleen speech or a social engagement. you the country you represent. she gives the two girls their Wilson.

as they affect few women. Up to 1937. people as they are represented And he invaded

have always found,, even supper and packs them off tu they had sat on the original here it has been easy for them when Britain was criticised to

with knolly Isolationists, that bed.

ones in a woman less basically Ot discover

less mentally placid, (and uncomfortable) cane to like him."

put the British point of view,

once they

we Are forms with which the first

pretty, much the same as they And sho And the Chicago Tribune, voice

sces to it that they For fault number one cast nto, and have the same hopes are in bed by dinner, which she your mind back to what happens James Christie opened busi-of peppery Colonel Robert R.

and beliefs, they begin to has with her husband, after ness in 1766.

on the night when Me Wilson is Now they McCormick and mail viclently anglophobe of any, newspaper in

soften, if only just a little." cooking it herself, Dinner is not dining at. home. Anno have modern chairs and sit America, gives him a whole around tables covered with feature on its social page.

Ho found that ho and Colonel McCormick shared the site of red baize.

"We are sorry to lote you," is the British preparatory school, its theme. The.

Landgrove. auctioneer calls "Lot 9." The buyers check

No other British official has They met--to become friends for pedigree with their come to part with the windy in private while agreeing to

city on such glowing terms.

catalogues. It is a single, silver spoon-period Charles 1. It has lost some sheen mel been slightly dented with wear.The five and ten cent stores could pro-to duce a brighter and about battered article.

differ in public.

on

newspapers

How has it been done? How For three years in succession bas + Consul-Genera?, though the second enost important Christmas party by singing the even they enlivened the Colonel'a the US., leaped over half-a- Elon Boating Song together, and dozen diplomatie hurdler straight would have sung it together

ambasadorial rank?

again this past Christmas `but Gage could not be present.

When Elleen Wu, daughter of Dr K. G. Wu, former Governor of FoC, married a Chinese student in Catergo, the Colonel gave the bride away, insirung wall dosagen igende med for that Cage be the best matky z

There is to or no mystery The man was the right man But the bidding starts for the job. The Ambasador £5. No one speaks. Only ship the reward for this job

the auctioneer seems in-what a plessure it is to report in their honour the brides terested. His eyes dart British success story, and right groom changed his first names

JOHNNY HAZARD

THE WAY, ALLE, POLESON..... I SHALL SEAT YOU AT A SEGLUDED

TABLS

intens

+

Anna They could be major

are late home.

Change is needed

eventful. It may be a visit to friend: it may be a meat at a er a gead at the theatre or celnemn. It should be Atted

And the expense? In Anne Wilson's case, ber husband, a lawyer, can well afford a meal

hus-

Fault number two liea in that for two in Soho. But even if "occasional night out.

When he could not, there are few Occasional bands so poor that they could pressed us to what mount, Aune Wilson admitted not afford the local cinema. that although she lived only

Even the few shillings spent 22 miles from London, her last in this way will be sound in- vestment, paying good dividends visit to West End theatre was

in the future, six months ago.

That is not good enough-not even for Bomeone healthy in outlook as Anne Wilson.

For the wife and mother, who spends all her uma in the home, n regular "evening off

As MLLEÏ. PÖRSSON PRESES JOHNNYS FTABLI, HER - WINGERS TUS UNBEIN AT

HER PEARL NECKLACE..

ON...MY PRECIOUS PKARLS

13

NEXT SATURDAY: The Grandmother

TO-DAY

ANNE WILSON

Of Over 60

Anna Wilson. Age: 37. Occupation f

wife.

House-

Family: Two Kirls (14 and 12); ono son (theau).

Outside Interasts ?

Painting, gardening.

No illness since child-

hood. Health rating: 19. Cigarettes: Nona.

keeps husband and children hoppy and healthy,

By Frank Robbins

this situation

calls for

San

Miguel