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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1954.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

In

New London hats can be in any colour er material, pra-

Above is one vided they are well and head-lugging. jewel-toned bors, drar ke a scarf and finished with a bow on the heel.

Snatch five minutes from housework and

KEEP FIT THE ZIPP WAY

By Joseph Edmundson

TALLEVEN O'CLOCK

For the second exercist, it 1" and it's time for your Letter to try in it astride your bale c stul. All you now have eleycasc

And

the 18141

to ɖɔ is but wing Castly from 14 time for five minutes of to side and try to touch the exerce at will keep you floor with your handle as you clo At the fun way like Mist an Zipp).

You By hot get that Car Jewa; tha! don't maller

Paris - The City Of Paradoxes

Not a bit

By DOROTHY BARKLEY

1 spotted three paradoxes, First, the fashion paradox. Paris is the city where fashion is taled to the level of a fine art, so it was to be expected that there Dior's new H-line would at least be treated with respect. An elegant woman, wearing

creation obviously inspired by Dior's line, and only two weeks after he had launched it, passed com- the crowd. pletely unnoticed It happened al « Cezanne ex- hibition. The women there were too interested

in the painting to take is this startling piece of

from

Dior's H-line

Treatment For Dry Skin

The woman who has such

London, Food was also true fishing, English visitors were few, but THE last time I saw Paris village style. For a salad we everyone will remember tho hoariled just three weeks agts had a mixture of fresh fish and enterprising Briton who, horren NE of the biggest beauty. 0 problema la dry skin. It mustard mayonnaise and served umbrella with him. He paddled cold on an scallop shell, Sardines himself out into the middle of rebels against powder and came fresh from the soa and the boy, then proceeded to open | rouge. Instead of looking were cooked in criep batter. his umbrella, hold it up and use smooth, It's flaky. Mussles, crab and lobster were it as a sail, cooked, Spanish-style, with rica and pimento. This is an idea borrowed by the French

their neighbours The Catalans, over the border in Spain.

As for fashion, popular choices In my "adopted village included rainbow-striped Jeans, while pique dresses and bathing suits in tartan coltan, Fashion also tended to go nautical; some girls topped their blue jeans with a matching sailor-collared blouse, They believe in cemferi and most of them took a beach mat, complete with built-in cushion, down to the beach with them. Corset manufacturers, anti-

fashion'

-

Second, the enldren paradox. children for play in sendible denim shorts or dungarees. But

Parisian mothers dress their

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a complexion should get to the source of the trouble. She Back in London for the first must

keep her skin show of the autuma, I found that lubricated. Cream applica Dior's sandwich-board look...

inner-bean line, H-line, call it tions and brisk friction will what you will-had arrived, help. Models looking like reeds, tall and straight, drifted in and out at Frederick Starke's show.

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Follow the throng

to the

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Starke's adoptation of the Dior line featured a high bust and a of skin dryness,

Skirts wero low-placed waist. full.

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Third, the coffee paradox. Way do the French muken such appallingly had effee when they can make such very aur colles? Why is there so much difference between the aces-and-waler brewerved up as coffee in the bistros and the excellent enffee in the expensive restaurant."

Artists' Haven

Puris during August is taken

over bi the foreign tourists.

Most of its inhabitant: are eff on their anuni belkday and some have escaped to oul-of-the way spots like the village

the Mediter "discovered" on

ranean.

A little fishing poet near the Spanish frentier. It proved the haunt of painters, Many of the would-be famous famous and

As

No need to give up your coffee, all, it's the effort you put into itpend the summer there.

No need klou, of your chair You can still have your "break," and keep it the same time.

Har

a rela 11 o'clock routine that you enn des in the minutes thatened from houshold chore.

Ready?

in

the

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Then simple excise for the teet ani the ankits.

SI ermfortably upright your chair and put one leg uves the other, Grasp just above your rub nak with both hand and tell your foot "ound! round in as big a circle as yo con. (Fig. 1.)

Do this several thines se irection, then the rang number of times in the opposite dire- tion, afterwards moving fent unckwis and forward and alretching it as far as it will

FOUR IN ONE

Now an treis thus four thing. In one (Pup 2); tuale+ up the lunath, helps to keep the spine exible, strengthens the back, and Joons the shoulders

You sit with the lests and knews slightly astride. Flop down loose- ly to touch the toes with the hens between the knee Fron here swm up. arch the back slightly, und at the same time. wing the arms above the hend,

While they are still in position, give them half a dozen ile preasca flicks backwards. Repeat the whole exercise five or six times,

TWO FOR 'TYRES'

Finally,

(wo prore simple exercises that help to

reduce "tyres."

For the art one (Fig. 3) sil with the legs comfortably

astride. 1 the

loosely in the lup.

hands rest

Now twist

the trunk sideways to the left and at the rame the swing the left arm midway upwards,

Look up at your hand as you awing. Returi to your original position and do the inme move- inent to the right, Bulid this Action

up into à nico cast rhythm, and as you get warmed Up to the movement try to turn Just that little more each time.

that counts.

(1) Roll your foot round.

(2) Swing the arms...

result, Every restaurant and streat cofe is a potential art gal- lery; walls are covered with paintings which the artists hope io sell before the season is over. The visiters may not buy, but they certainly study the paint- ings as they wall for the next

|course.

Our hotel was decorated in

One true Ashing village style, wall of the dining-room was hung with a fishing net spiked with crab, lobster and star fish; the other three walls with local paintings.

HOW YOU

ARE

time.

Another new hat in peaked beret shape. It is in white prachbloom.

HAPPY

cold weather discomforte, Soap should never be used on this

Instead, of a wonderful variety of the very latest British and type, Bubstitute a cosmetic men! | American full fashion 1954/1955 and winter woollen dress that has soothing as well as and coat fabrics, conté, handbags, knitted went, novelties cleansing qinlities. Such and all dress requisites designed by the world's leading skin must ho protected from fashion experts and selected especially to commemorato extreme temperatures.

the opening of our new branch.

are

Some complexions only moderately dry. A bland soap can be used on them. Before the lather is applied, a thin bil should be used. After a tepid rinsing and gentle drying, a heavy cream should be massaged into the flesh to normalise the functions of the skin.

BEWARE OF SUNBURN Particular pretestive care maut be taken against sunburg- ing, dry skin. Ekpature to the sun's rays, often beneficial to the oily complexion, may be demeging tor dry skin.

If a golden effect is desired,

it is betler do attain it by using

a dtcp-shede seundation cosmetic rachelle powder. It's

ada

a rich

always who to urć o sunburn Zotion.

The plump woman who goes through a speedy and beetle diet- ing programme, deleting nearly all fat-making properties should realise that her facial surface is likely to become dry. She must be sure to use nourishing creams, applying a heavy one at bedtime with light tapping of the finger- tips, using a cleansing cil oc- casionally during the day.

-Helen Follett

YOU WHEN

GIVE A

A

ARE

PARTY?

MRS. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS

A small dinner party first, then another 20 people for dancing,

By EILEEN ASCROFT

you A

best form of less, the woman who worships happy parties and the

has her household gods, She hostess? Or does en- adult entertainment is stil con-

versation.

eyes in the back of her head, tertaining cause you an-

2 ? -- MUSICÁL CHAIRS. The checking where Eucrts put their xiety and distress?

restless hostess

rushing to empty who never glasses, and

and put protective Some women. possess a na- gives her guests time to settle ashtrays, tural flair for entertaining, like down to a conversation can be mats on the furniture,

The timid bore, "You must

hostess will goin awful Mrs or the Duchess of Beaufort,

ideas from entertaining. Susan Ward and Lady Daphne meet everyone," she cries and confidence and

pub- Straight. They, make

drags you off just as you are book on Miests

lished recently. making the

best point. feel waim and welcome

your

party-giving." "Successful 3-DISPARAGEMENT. No- moment they walk through the front door; they know in-

thing is more embarrassing to says authoress Ethelind Feara, brities, ana

attention to the little things Queen to a private dinner party -even had tho stinctively how to deal with guests than disagreement

and hostess. rather than the great taking in her house in The Boltons.

bos or tween the host every crisis, be it culinary

and disagree infinite pains for the comfort of they have Private griefs conversational, and

Her dining room is not spa. never be aired your guests, and thus ensuring clous. So when Mrs Fairbanks the intuition to mix the right ments should

that your mind is placid and wahls to throw a large party human

for a suc before guests. Ingredients

tidy and you have the leisure she has a dinner first for a cessful party.

GUILTY WOMEN

and the confidence to enjoy your dozen of the more Important or own party."

Amusing guests, and invites This is decidedly the very about 20 more to come in after but never really enjoy it.

Wemen are probably more worry just as much about having a few neighbours in for guilty of this social crime than ingredient of good enter wards for dancing and after

relaxed and sandwiches and coffee to watch men. We've all met the wife faining. The hostess must be supper.

happy, There's a who takes a perverse delight in nothing more depressing for The smaller the dinner party ruining her husband's bast

the guests than fooling that the more care should be taken are causing anxiety, extra in choosing the right guests, who 10ll that again," she cries when he's just beginning to expand. Co Even the worrying kind can another HOME CHAT. She may cure herself by advance plan- Every would-be hostess should be a devoted mother and. aning, g beware of the Seven Deadly wonderful mistress of the This is one of the secrets that Sins of Entertaining Any one house. But endless talk about makes the Duchess of Windedr is guaranteed to idli a party her children's talent and her a hostess of genius. stone dead.

1OVER ORGANISATION, make for sparkle at the dinner

table.

Others are not born hostesses, They feel they should

They

enter-

television as they do over

።

•full-scale family dinner party. stories. "You're not solhetork, or trouble to the hostesa, will interest and; stimulate one

SEVEN SINS

domestics devotion

do

not

USE THE SPACE

BORES TOGETHER

Mr Herbert Agar, Billy, Wallacozmother, and another Alccerful London hostess, hai n tiny fat in Hay, Mows, where Rho Five, amusitigi supper parties an

been.

No host should dames FLIRTATIOUSNESS,

eats into playing

This Women often say to me, "I'd against their inclinations. Par kind of hosters is usually the love to entertain, but our fot Princess Margaret haj (3) Do 20 swings to each side. Your games belong to children's wolfish feather-brained type. is so small." Space has very guest at several

She uses her privileged poslittle to do with happy enter Guests are few becs

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Don't let etumbs, coffest fir meal for an electria toaster, or a vallørt revouri bircuit may result., Uss agreft crucipei brush to remove larm

in your lyon

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on of hosteractive ballistaining. The set is to make

attractive male, the most of whatever, spach

Vind pays” no," ditchtioni available, eldarin

edor, lonely members space in the upcom

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