1955-07-23 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1955.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Evening dress by Rubarka in midnight-blus clebo.

has tunic-style top, full skirt, and jewelled bodlce,

It

Food

Potato Chips Rated Most Popular

Among Toddlers

New Fabrics Launched Why film stars

In London

By Dorothy Barkley

London.

new ሰ

WHAT makes W

material become a sue- cess? Is it quality, price, or originality?

Usually it is mixture of all three. But with our newast, most talked-about materjal laikot is romething

more.

keep their long tresses

DERHAPS you are won- Ondine hairdo and the collar- length cut still popular, are still many film stars wearing tresses that fall down over their shoulders. There are reasons.

PER

dering why, with the

material with the appearance of As if that were not enough, a French-styis C#- silk poult, intended for evening he own wear. Illustrated here is an tourant i London, an inn near evening dress in midnight-blue Belfast, and has just bought a clelle. It hus unlesslyle top castle in County Antrim which and full skirt, and the bodice is he intends to turn into a dollar. embroidered with

Д jewelled carning hotel, He is a family flower pattern.

man-ho has a daughter, and Cyril Lord, the man who has girl and boy twkers and ales

every synthetle produced the fabrles, is well- home

weekend to known for his own versutlilly. Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, Beginning as an apprentice

Soft wavy lines about the face and neck are flat- chrning 12/0d a week, he is now one of our top experts en syn-

14 youthful The gadget of the week is tering, have and controls 15 thetle bres lextile mills. II know-how on designed for all of those who effect on the feminine face.

ex

Irora

flattens earring trouble. The movie camera technical development. In tex- suffer tiles Is such that he

was re- A sympathetic manufacturer has the face, instead of sculp- cently invited to

rub spend

six just brought out tiny feam

turing it. It exaggerates months as technical consultant

certain angles that aro with an American Arm,

made lcas noticeable by long hair.

For taito in common with ito two successors, tailoring tatho and clelle-handles like silk and washes easily at homie, All three are 100 percent rayon,

Tho "something more" that has made these materials hit the Jackpot at home and overseas is the drive of the ebulilent, pockel-sized man who has put them on the market. His name is Cyril, Lord,

Lnet week, appropriately wearing a suit of toffering tulho, he launched his two new synthetic fabrics.

Talloring (albo hos all the qualities that made talho a best- seller. 1 has the sanie Ane Blubbing, clik-like sheen and can be pleated. The difference is that it has more weight and body and therefore can be used for tailored sulls and coats. Be- ceuse of this, it will make a welcome addition, to warm- weather wardrobes everywhere.

Last week's show revealed talho's versatility. Its uses in- cude tailored suits, beachwear, even such accessories as shoes and hots. And, as Cyril Lord himself showed, it will be a popular summer material for

Sydney, fried fish, bacon, liver, corn- men's suits and shirts. average four-year- ed

Told child has furry car el beet, brains, stews, mince. In colour and print range it

cheese,

brightly-coloured foods and sages, and tripe; attractively arranged dishes, rice, eggs hard-boiled and and will eat "practically in egg pie aswell as beaten anything" if not forced, ae- egg-white; various sweets, cording to a recent kinder- vegetables, and fruits, both

pies.

in more than thirty confem- porary colours and printed with contemporary designs. In col- ours, you take your plek from pescock to kingfisher, ciron to muted grey-blues.

Perhaps its best use is for

in the

sult illustrated here.

garten experiment here. raw and cooked and meat soft tullering, such as you see Mrs Julie Solomon, of Potatoes were mashed, Michael Sherord hos Laken Mayfield Free Kindergarten, baked, chipped, and raw. citron yellow tallo and made who conducted the experi- All-in-ono faneles tried by it into a lown sult, with a neat

with mont

53 children some. children eluded such fitting Jacket and straight skirt claimed that a child instine- combinations as; chocolate ice and with a group of pleats at raw carrot,the back. It is trimmed with tively chose a well-balanced cream, frankfurt,

and prunes:

nes; tomato soup

with black velvet collar, cuffs and somewhat junket and a dash or boiled buttons. scrambled and back-to- egg; Ice-cream, tomato soup, a Cielle, the second new Jabric. front.

lettuce lear, and baked potato; is an iridescent, shimmering und green peas in custard,

diet, although

for

His first big success with ynthetic abres was his adapta- tion of the Irish linen technique to rayon.

ber pads to "take the peg They have an adhesive backing which ensure that they stick fast to the clip of the car

ings and are practically In- visible when worn,

Suit by Michael Sherard in eltron tailoring talhé. It has

a filing Jacket and straight skirt with a group of picata at the back.

Controversy

The children were allow-

SPINACH UNPOPULAR ed to select their own lunch

Only one case of mild bl- every day for a month from

came from the 9,292 a changing array of dishes llousness

meals and that in a boy who runging up to 61 varieties. over-estimated his appetite They were not helped or green lee-cream in tomato soup. advised, but were given an

chips headed "open go" at everything on popularity list of servings with

ono in 10 of 663 the table. Noles were kept on what each child also ate at home,

09

Potato

560 or about

the total helpings.

raw

CONCLUSIONS

the

London.

OTHER," as

Over

By ANNE

ex-

Exports Explain Hollywood make-up perts tell us that the line from the ear to the point of the chin is n trying one for most women.* The

camera picks it out relent- lessly. A high, moulded coiffure makes it worse, but the long, loose, fluffy bob breaks the line. Then, too, the casualness of this type hairdo is easier to keep in condition for photographic

The purposes.

Italian mode requires frequent trimmings, so does the three- inch cut.

Make An Adjustment

Nearly all women should have plenty of hair back of the cars, a spot that is not pretty to look at, appears more attractive when il's covered up.

All of which brings us to the question of how much conces- sion one should make to current beauty whimsies, how much be comingness one should sacrifico to be in style,

an

There can always be adjustment between what is flattering and what is smart. We want to look well-turned out, be stamped with the spirited air that comes from keeping in tune with the times. In between ex- tremes there are many pleasant possibilities..

-HELEN FOLLETT

GADGETS

SCOTT-JAMES

"Blights flickered rather a plg of yourself over minutes.

theirs.

I

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and she admitted the noise in the garden was car-splitting. "Come and have lunch

ended. "T I said by the time morrow," Jelly, with 681 servings, was out in our country cottage, those fresh raspberries I she'd got her mixer set up, done turns chilly, we'll have our of those next in popularity, then came The Dicksona

it down, and a log fire-none at the job, taken it brought out of the freeze are at orange (500), frankfurt and lee

washed up all the pleces,, I could flickering electric flames."

sho "No, you come to us," One day that place Easter." creum (both 487), prunes (402), again.

"All right," 9,292 HELPINGS SERVED

I said hastily, have done the beating with a

said "The strawberries aro biscuits (424)

sandwiches will go up in a supersonic grant you the deep freeze" fork and a bowl.

We agreed in the end that ripe and I'll be making a straw- Of the 9,292 helpings (315), apple (327), and junket bang.""

ONE UP TO HIER.

berry mousse in the mixer." it wasn't worth using a mixer

It all sounds so sensible, I served at the kindergarten (319).

For their cottage, half a mile Then followed baked potato,

to beat up one egg or to mash crackles with

why I'm anti- some toddlers asked for, and

down the rond, tomato, dates, raw carrot, every form of gadget known to

"NOW would we have a short potatoes for two. But that for can't think

big family, It gadget. It's emotion, not logic. got, as many as 18 different raisins, and tinned fruits.

attribute every talk about your washing a big job or

For if I saved more time, I'd Swedes, parsnips dishes at the one sitting.

and tripe man, and I

I said, "Last time pays. She said she could puree

to do five be able

more work. finished at the bootom of the little dificulty in our house to machine?"

your kitchen was a hare for a pate in

And wouldn't that be lovely? The only restriction was on ist, with only, 14 helpings noted the witchcraft that goes on in I saw you.

would minutes. flooded with water. I

WE ARGUED about pressure, --- the side of portions, of for cach, Stew was second lat

In the matter of gadgets, I have offered to help, but I wELD

I said I found it each dish

the and liver third last. going to

confusing having to master two children.

Spinach was unpopular enough represent the forces of reaction. sure you would have a gadget cookers,

is for sucking it up." to have only 20 helpings chalked My Idea of a clean house

one where someone has po-

"Oh, we've got the hang of quite different sols of cooking Meala chosen include against it.

1 times; and that I thought the lished every square inch by it since then. Now we use

margin of error was too fine. such mixtures

potato-

hand, and my idea of a divine for everything. It's a joy using overcook carrots by 26 seconds meal is one cooked on a chat linen that's been dried in the and you have a reddish mush. chips,

green jelly, sliced

coal Mrs Solomon said that the

farmhouse a range in

open air

and that ham's been We agreed in the end that orange, frankfurt sausage,

shredded by the laundry."

for pressure cooking is ideal prunes, В biscuit, junket month's eating showed the fol- kitchen.

lowing conclusions:

(Anyone who has calen

"I never want

a washing dishes that require slow cook mixed with raw carrot, and a date or two.

The average child, at a very too much hygiene is the death machine," I sold. "If I had one, ing like a casserole of chicken.

I'd feel I had to use it, and it

✩ would be just one more chore Mixtures were sometimes early age, had sufficient inilla- of flavour.)

tive to "try out" strange foods.

to break this camel's back. I WE ARGUED about chafing

Her pot gadget ilke eecing the basket go off to dishes. Most young children, given

of I decided to walk down the the laundry. I'm glad to got now American chaing dish free choice, would incline to road and argue the case for and the job done out of the house" copper lined with enamel, in wards balanced foods,

against gadgets with Elleen WE COULDN'T. AGREE. which she cooks dishes at the dining table, But I don't like about Dickton, who is editor of a To feel "quito free"

the smell of cooking in the Dlet authorities are not over-emphasis

food helped a child's appetite. fashion magazine and (in privato

of a champion ita Im-le)

"BIT noisy here today, isn't dining room. I like to cook in It?" I said, That

kitchen hrob- the

and carry a modernised home, in full agreement with Mrs portance only disturbed

She was pleking peas. "For bing reminds me of a road drill dishes in. Solomon's claim that such child's approach to food.

the deep frooze," she informed in Plecadilly, I suppose It's ono We failed to agree.

WE DISCUSSED the difficuity meals are "well-balanced," Conventional order of courses me. The first arop is at its of your fancy grass cutters por...

plut." I forming ite not-so-slient per- of using gadgets. We agreed conceded that they meant nothing to most children but

... almoet

that to use them with muccoËS would be generally nourish and was only likely to confuse.

wire noting vice

If you she said hand- you have to love them. "You look tired," I said sym

agree,"

of them don't treat them with affection,

one of the snaps. As with

esten in order, sometimes all lumped together on the one plate.

ALL-IN-ONE, FANCIES

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meat in New York knows that

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the

is a

the

ing, even if they lacked Scaled down to the family pathetically. "It's too bad lay somely. that some

Baturday afternoon garden gadgets maken a horrible auth You like a cur, out of Sald one of the experts: tactios could help mothers with packing food just drop them a matter of fact, the noise of trol, and a steam-iron can spit i

"Twenty years ago we con- sidered all nutritional

feeding problems.

ron

in that Mrs Solomon thought colour undoubtedly had a lot to

quirements met if calcium, do with a child's approach to Bho ignored mo, fron, and phosphorous wore food, empecially where strange there in sufficient quantitios, dishes were concerned. Brightly Nowadays there is a lot more coloured foods caught the eye. Attractively arranged dishas to it."

were in quick demand. Object of the Mayfield ex- partment was to. And if

"Records show that quite number of children ato

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"Rubbish;

cartons and pop them In

a vaccum cleaner is something water all over your dross.

UP tho DREAMED "They shell themselves, I that nets me on edge."

ONE UP TO ME.

like to have I gadges we'd

• admitted I would like one to you know to your advan

ent up all the rubbish (they tago, wo have frush fruit and

story in the have them in Amosten). THERE'S vegetablou all the year round. And if there's a cut of any village I said, that you wante a sort of minor lamp to thing is the shop, I buy some were clipping a hodge the other wear on her forehead for read pisch fronto it, so I think the day with your electric clippore ind in bed without, waiting har a thing will pay for itself in time. when you clipped the flexin harband

a half" she said it was true; b “onos a month we have

cooking day, and make pics ori

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....wald, "that you'ro natural instinct for balanced refused at home,” she said, eating, and the value of self- My Impressions to

wo want them. If I had to give having your water supply out that up all our gadgets but one, this off and are getting donkey to Introduction to foods which children will eat practically is the one I'd keep ke patio draw up water from might not have been tried, anything, provided they are not || 1% would be: wwicward in a 7: moore: 13 Woɑn: ak before.

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