1954-10-09 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER

1954

New Trend In Furniture

Pink Tops Subdued Colours

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

DANGEROUS LIVING?

I say even mothers have the right

to take risks

SHOULD a woman risk her life if she is a mother?

woman who decided

A

Mrs Phyllis Mount.

NO is blonde, 37-year-old She is a stock-car racing driver-

and the mother of three children.

For their sake her husband asked her to give up her

"She must think of "our

dangerous job. future," he said.

Although Mrs Mount loves her work and does not believe that it is as hazard- ous as it looks, she has given in to her husband's request and told track officials she will race no more.

A Woman who decided YES is brunette. 36-year-old Mme Jacqueline Auriol. She in a fearless test pilot and the first French woman flier to break the sound barrier. She is also the mother of two young sons.

"Our Jackie," ns she is known to the French Air Force, has continued flying in spite of an accident that led to 16 plastic Burgery operations on her face. After this her husband, also Д pilot and son of the ex- President of France asked her to give up her test of pilot's job for the sake their two boys.

But Jacqueline Auriol be- leves that even A devoted mother is entitled to her own

fe.

"I fly because I like it," she saya simply, "because i should And

not be happy if I didn'l,"

she adds: "I won the women's world speed record in the air for France. Doesn't that justify my flying?

Separate cars

Unlike these two young mothers who both chose danger- ous jobs, many of us ure faced with the same deciston on how Inveli we have a right to risk.

Many parents will not dy in the same veroplane in case there

I crash. couple car for the same reason.

Personally,

tgree Jacqueline Auriol.

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know one

Who drive la sparute

with The spirit

children's

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by

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TTRACTIVE for the slim figure are the new suits with boxy Parla fackets. One of the most useful in the hip-length jacket, photographed here in a camel-hair and wool mixture. It looks smart with ocelot for fabric collar and cuffs or with saddle-stitching. It can be worn, over lis own skirt for town or drainpipe pants for casual week-end wear.

I have known elever, Intelll-

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children.

do not belleve

that

u mother-of-pearl in the

real ermine tails..

tiwny

High Point, N.C. TOMEY" tones In

"Hish and colour,

notably pink, are style high- lights of new furniture being offered the buying public for the last half of 1964.

The theory is that with design taking on more and more of the softness of traditional feeling, more subdued colours are prefer- able to the former dovice of shocking. Thus the pink of milady's boudoir is seen in kitchen tables and chairs.

· MATCHES ANYTHING. Among the colours pre- sented at the annual Sum- mer Furniture and Rug market here ware cameo pink, lac pink, rosa pink, ice pink and even a dusty pink. Ono manufacturer came up with a pastel bluo finish in kitchen and other furniture.

"Pink can be matched with almost anything," one manufacturer said.

The hues and tories In- troduced in wool as well as fabric are products of re- search for what WAS described as “exciting and satisfying as well as free from any effort to attract attention by the device of startling or shocking."

WIDE RANGE

to pastel tinta and off- white.

The new tones "put the Monsieur Laclocho, first Paris furniture industry into the gent women give up interesting jeweller to enter the perfume position of keeping pace jobs because they felt it was business, has launched a scent with growing colour con- expected of them.

And their bell container of pure gold. sciousness of today's home subsequent frustration with lite became apparent in the

Earrings for autumn are maker," a market review nervous peevishness of their shaped like dahlias in plastic said.

Wood' living room furni woman who enjoys her career shades of the flower. Another ture runs the range from needs to devote 12 hours a day carring novelty is made from greyed tones on through to being a good mother.

Many women, however fond they may be of their offspring. are unsulted to be the constant

Southern furniture companions of smoil

makers are introducing And the children

themselves Paris has started a crop of some of the largest case would be happier and healthier ribbons and bows on winter goods (storage units) ever in the care of a more placid, dresses. They tie collars, span

individual. mod much sucrifice-whether winter parahamely true in the lower priced walste, stress hips in velvet, shown. This is particular-

of achievement--can often be as

mency time or personal - Balenciaga features black and modern range where Holly- red sailn” ribbon belts and wood headboards and triple bad for the children os for their

organdie blouses striped with dressers are gigantic. mothers.

narrow figured ribbons, threaded Oriental influences were

Batin

in strong throughout

Even of adventure can call us strongly

the must hard-headed to a woman as to mon, and planning cannot decide

better sudden emergency. Would any in probably she

she one seriously hesitate to help a example to her childen it follows it.

child in danger of drowning because she had children of her own?

Another difficult decision that jungles or fly faster than sound, many women have to make is

Too. And it is all too often the over- whether they should give up o mother who career they love to look after cautious, fussy

their children. rears timid, nervous children.

No one calis a mah towards his children if he wants climb mountains, explore

to

THAT BATH TUB RHYTHM

CAN KEEP YOU FIT

By Joseph Edmundson

TISS ZIPP. the fun-to-be-fit girl, Mares takes a hot bath and never

has a cold one! Strange? Not at all,

She knows that too many really hot baths sap away vitality and that feeling of zast and vigour, while the only real value of a cold bath is the doubtful pleasure of being able to brag that you've had one.

Yea,

But tepid-to-warm baths? Every day, with the tonic and invigorat- ing addition of a brisk rub down followed by five minutes of her fun-to-be-fit activities.

Le DOWN

Then she is more than and give them a little dick back

to stretch the shoulders.

rendy for what the day may bring,

Do about half a dozen' com- plete figures. of eight, frst. In The Try these other.

Bath time should be. Zipp one direction and then in time for YOU too.

simple exercises in te warmth

of the bathroom and start tho

day well,

STREAMLINER

Now for a quick and easy

First log on the same spottreamliner for the hips and

with the whole body' na looso

and relaxed as possible.

the tummytona jes Crouch down and put ono leg

Lát the arms - flap loosely dut, sideways. All you have to about for a few moments, then, do is to reach out sideways'as hardly moving the feet, liggie" for me you can. Do this at least the whole of your body; shrug alx or seven times to each side, your shoulders; strake... -- your arms, and legs and flap cach change your leg positions and the activity. Finally, - £f

foot, shout as if you were try you've room to lie down, try ding to shake off, a pair of this tough" öne for the turnyalt, doesn't matter. If you can't do it; at frif;, trying dön

lmost as much good,

lippers.

Next try the Figure Eight":

Hold fhands apart and

Bow quito

(your backý aus rolaže

"From this position?

to that chosen÷11)

children.

Slave bangles

16

Ribbons and bows

with gold.

Fath uses huge black

the ribbon bows to fasten coats or medium and upper price French girls are still entis- stoles. Dior is showing evening brackets but a switch to siastic about the black jerseys scarves made from ribbon strips traditional lines appeared they wore all the summer with of bright coloured flowers on a full cotton skirts. For winter white satin background edged solidified for the autumn they are substituting flared, with royal blue velvet, And and winter trade after early skirts of heavy pebble tweed London dress maker John American and French. pro- Newest accessory. idea is an Cavanagh puts small demur vincial received favourable armful of slave bangles, in ribbon bow fastenings." at the oxidised metal, studded with back of the neck of afternoon acceptance glittering stones.

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