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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1955,

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

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"I want

ORANGE

LINON

QUALITY

CORDIALS

ROMANCE IN THE AIR?

Few Cases Of

'Love At First Flight'

Montreal.

years ago this month, a Cali fornia. nurse hamed Ellen Church made her first flight in a United Airlines plane

TWENTY-FIVE

as the first air hostess.

than

Today, there are more 10,000 air hostessts on American airlines and Trans-Canada Air. lines has about 300,

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New Beach Clothes Are

Soft And Feminine

By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES

London, striped cotton sweaters to wear straw hair are amusing-and

a wonderful year for over your shorts or skirt, rather fashion, the

than tucked in.

news

in

There

beach clothes is plentiful and inspiring.

The new holiday things are as delicious as a ripe water melon tri a good season, for water melons.

softer.

The big trend is for beach more feminine clothes, with the "miniature dress" the newest Itne.

This is a summer dress cut short above the knee, or shorter still. It's usually in cotton, and you wear it as a newer altera- tive to a shirt and short shorts.

If you prefer shorts or trousers, you'll want one of the new shapes in tops to go over

them.

There are overblouses of all blouses to sorts, from middy

are stiffish standaway jackets of the coolic, smock, or tunic type.

old- fashioned blazers.

There

are

Тасте is much more сп tho beaches this colour summer, much less white. And there are new fabrics for beach things, including wool jersey.

I report this as news, but don't take an enthusiastic view of it. Cotton in all its farmis seems much more practical to 20-2.

Hets are the only crazY beach fashion that I would spend money on. Eccentric pants look

(Personally,

Tever dated. wanted to look like a pirate.) never really Exotic wraps are comfortable,

But Italian straw hats in out- landish shapes ar with flying

cheap.

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com-

Two versions of the beach story, Lert: The miniature dress

of striped cotton, with bloomers underneath and a separate calf-length skiri. Above; Cotton coolie jacket over shorts, in

striped cotton.

Swimsuits are cut in new ways: they are properly structed jobs, rather than scraps

of cotton

Most of them are bored, many of them have kilted skirts; some are in wonderful prints.

fidence, who need to be helped ajorig.

And I think we have a better knack for this than our parents. The agonies of shyness wo used to suffe

are rare among children.

and magistrates, who never tire of telling parents that we do everything wrong.

In this respect I think we are being quite clever.

New models

how they have helped their Mthousands of English girls

I have been asking parents

children to feel as though they Atted in:

Most gave quite simple, prac. tical solutions.

"If they are with us when we meet grown-ups,

always we

introduce them properly, as though they were human beings. not nuisances."

WEMO the thousands and

who want to be mannequins.

Two new models made

London last

resounding hit in weel

BOTH WERE AMERICANS,

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Diane Chadwick hasit strictly beautiful face. Barbara "My daughter does most of Roth hasn't got perfect model

shopping.

measurements. But both made the clothes they wore Jock superb.

Her

WHY?

Sun-tan will be lighter, the household

flust real friend was the Sun-glosser will be smaller.

butcher." Hair will be longer and tidier. All symptoms of fashion turning" "They go out and entertain a away from the little-boy look lot. I limit the expense strictly, They were one hundred per

something towards

more, but not the number of outings.' feminine, even on the beach.

"I keep them as well dressed cunt professional. They smiled and looked tremendously happy. as I can. Bad clothes can cause They knew how to move to terrible shyTEINS.TM*

show off each dress. They really let them pay bus fares, sold those clothe

The answers

DECIDED that the best possi~ small purchases and tips.”

If there's one thing I admire whether you're a minister, a manufacturer or a model.

-(London Express Service)

ble gift varents can give "I was brought up in a nur- it's the professional attitude- their children is poise. I am sery. But our children live with sure that for every child that us.

So do stop gunning for us, wants squashing, there are half

.con- you bishops and schoolmasters, a dozen who want more

BRAVING THE JUNGLE WITH Remington

LIPSTICK AND

Girls aiming for a career in the air often picture themselves marrying a handsome million- sire, but TCA chief stewardess Billic Housman says steward- cases rarely marry passengers. Miss Housman, a native of Cer- Iral Butte. Sask, says she can nails, and a jade-green knit remember only eight or nine

of love at first fighted dress which clung to her

uses

London. "I had that from a baby too. CHE had orange hair and I reared it on a bottle.

"Crikey," I said, "the bush tawny eyes and silver must be full of orphan cubs.

ever caught Have you elephant?" "Oh, yes," she said, a little lost elephant in one of the National Parks."

during her 11 years with the well-curved figure.

airline.

two She

fondling WELS CREAM OF WOMANHOOD

meerkats which scampered However, 40 percent of the out of her hands and made a giris every year trade in the rush for my ankles. job for a wedding ring.

"Mind your stockings," said

"It's probably because we try

as they clawed my feet,

of

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"Poor Jumbo," I said, "was it difficult to catch?"

"Yes, terribly. It fought Hike a wild horse or a mad bull. It had tremendous strength."

"Heavens," I said, "then how ever did you get it?"

BY PERSUASION

"How

I

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"No, they never

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"And snakes?"....

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"I'm very fond of them." "Have you ever been chased "Yes, many times. By herds by big game?" of elephant and by rhino."

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marvellous," } "that you are here to tell the tale. How did you escape?”

"Well, when elephants charge you, the thing is to avoid them; with rhino, I try to get up a

tree.

"Whews," I said, "it would be awful it there were no tree handy. How do you dress in the jungle?"

to pick the cream of Canadian Michaela Denis, traveller, pe: womanhood. Miss Housewn lover, TV star and author said in an interview.

Leopard in My Lap. "The little She Mid TCA has to turn creatures just can't resist nylons."

"Well, I took its little tail and down two out of every three "Naughty darlings," I said, applicants for the job. But re-

Armand took its little head and gistered nurses who are single,

the rest of us surrounded it and

"Well, I always make up fully between 21 and 28,-between Mrs Denis and her husband, we persuaded the title creature Ave and five-feet

every day, I look just as you eight and Armand, are just back from a into our truck."

2nd me

now, lipstick said, ste thrilling," who weighs no more than 130 breath-taking safari in Africa, pounds, are encouraged to apply are here for a month for books, "Have you ever been in mortal mascara and powder, but slacks and shirt instead of a dress. at TCA interview centres. These lectures, and films, then off on danger?"

And I always take evening at Moncton, Montreal,

danger-laden journey

with me for wearing Toronto, Winnipeg and Van-another

through the belly of the Dark "Yes, often. I think the worst clothes couver,

time was when I was photo- when we arrive at towns and Jean Pelletier, of Kirkland Continent.

graphing crocodiles in Uganda. cities." Mrs Denis showed me Lake, Ont., assistant supervisor

I was sitting in a canoe in the a charming bouffant strapless of training, said if a girl is

of green picsfed middle of a deep river full of dress made selected she goes through a intensive five-week

They will be away a year or crocodiles, when a baby croe.got nylon. photographing and caught in my photographic net. She learns about meteorology, more, geography, aircraft recognition timing wild animals. They will I tried to free it, and the cance and the theory of fight, as well take tinned food and cosmetics tipped over. I fell in the river as psychology and good groom- and colour film and a caseful

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ing.

JUST A HAND

Course,

im-

Miss Pelletier said hand- grooming is especially portant

a distracted passenger;

NO GÚNS ...

of evening clothes but no gun,

For it is against their principles to take life.

AND I CAN'T SWIM."

.

"Go on, go on," I said, "what happened?”

"Please tell me," "I said, "First I liberated' the little "how you capture big game creature. Then I thought I was You don't shoot and I am sure going to drown-no use calling she explained, "the stewardess, you don't approve serving a meal or offering a ping. It magazine, may be just a hand." dangerous”

serve meals at lightning speed, until she can get out 40 pre- cooked meals in less than 18 minutes

when

"How pretty," I said "What: you do not hurt your food?" do you live on in the jungle,

"We barter with the natives, and we take lots and lots of tips."

'AWFUL LIFE'

"No tinned meat, of course

of trap for help, for my husband was said. "But one more thing must be frightfully half a mile up the river. But I've always understood the at that moment I was swept tapping is much more cruel

ebout-catching the tures?"

he student hostess learns to Well, we and the creatures under an overhanging branch than shooting How do you feel

they are bables," said and I hauled myself to safety." Mrs Deals. "I caught and reared "Just like Pearl White," I said. a lion cub, for instance, and it Were you unscathed?" On graduation, the students grew very fond of me

uf "Goodncas,"

I said,

choose their runs in order

"where their TRTKA.. The popular was the lioness when you took transatlantic run, for which they the ubi pay is $385 a month, goes in order of seniority.

Starting pay on domestic runs is $234 a month. The domestic maximum is $376 after seven years service. Maximum flying time is 87 hours a cuth United. Presi

"She wasn't there. The poor

ONLY DAMAGE

"Yes, the only damage was to my shoe. A crocodile, zapped

little cuddly thing was wander at me and tore the sole of one

ng about looking sc, so lost.

shoe slemi away

"It's quite #11 assured me, "if yous catch carefully

"And what aberat 2005? Do you mind seeing wild animals *in captivity?*

meny - animals and bapodes in

Not if it's a good zoo, And

"How awful 1. said, Hand "A-narrojo", squeak said. instance, wils E OREDİTOCES what about your leopard as "Tell me about the Insects in bout, they hire an armed 105 one that's in the Manchester Africa do they drive you Zoop

expect you will be glad to get back to Africa."

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"Yes," said Mrs Denis, Gilbert must am afraid missing us."

"And who I said, "might Gilbert be?"

"He's our baboon. We had him from a baby,"

As she opened the door Handsome Hogan, one of the meerkats, scampered into the room again and nibbled my feet.

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