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Cookery Club With An International Flavour
By PAT ROBERTS
[AVE you ever heard of stead of going out to work to International Kit earn morey for luxuries.
H
chen Club? There is one in
London, and Mias Vandenberg, a native Rotterdam,, Holland. me how it started.
Miss
Bul in the matter of clothes
they are stil ingging behind Mia women in other countries.
Far
WELL, HOW MANY
TOYS
HAVE YOU GOT?
London
By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
dependent on material of too many Dutch women go about dressed in dingy raincoats and hondacorves, I learn. It seems to have become almost a national
told
Vandenberg went
to London to work for the
EXOTIC RECIPES
drtas.
Still, the "marriage market" is
There
some
amusc
O you're a nice, quiet,
home-loving family, If he were to sell all his toys, If you own over 30 of these abnegatory Items, I'd say you are heavily are you, with simple for instance, in an
proceeds would tastes. So long as you've moment, the
a menis. (Any) reason why you got plenty of books and probably buy his wife quite
nice fur coat.
shouldn't be? None at all. This isn't getting at anyone.) But the children hog some music you're perfectly happy.
If you own 20 of them, you It, 63 la are probably a family of fairly YOU don't need a gold-plated juley tithits too.
are so well balanced interests. motorcar or a chromium cocktail widely quoted, they
happy with the simple
little
If you own under 10, you are (You
selves, why do Wo let them
cabbages. extort from us expensive, shiny
OUR family, did you my? Christmas), ballet outfits spoiling the children with extra-motor-cars (enormous sales last. Ah, this is a secret inquiry. vagant toys. (Everyone knows (booming), frog flippers and A NEW IDEA that children are just as happy jodhpur boots? with the little homely things)
as many un- are now
couldn't afford them, any-
of And you wouldn't dream
ות
~for parties
former
The drink of the house wine, which is handed from start to Bnish, though there are most other drinke for the asic-
you
the food is light supper dishes, which are handed round to you, wherever you happen to be sitting, at about 8.30. This saves the break-up of conversu low which happens at the nor
where mal dinner party. move into a dining-room.
Fleur Cowles herself has emmick I never
saw before. She sits on minute camp-stool (the seat, of course, made of silic brocode), which sho picks up and takes round with her as she moves from one group guests to another
P
of
,
Dutch Embassy at the end moving in favour of Dutch girls. bar to keep yourselves amused. things they have made them- either pure intellectuals or just of World War Two. "Soon married men 03 unmarried way.)
So perhaps women in Holland. my Kensington Hat got a reputation for Dutch tea- the girls of the Netherlands have she no need to worry about dressing parties and suppers,'
up to capture attention. said.
Even no, nobody need look
Tho startling photograph When AD International dowdy in rainwear these days.
average above represents
NEW sort of party has YOUR HUSBAND Kitchen exhibition was Like underwear, 11 has become a
British family surrounded by its
crossed the Atlantle to in fashion feature in its own right. London
Well, before you die of smug- toys. Before you say "Pooh, don, and I went to ono a fort-Don't grumble in organised
Rainwear is no longer strictly a
haven't got half thosa 1952, Mias Vandenberg
necessity, but an essential essi suggest you cast an ero we
over the children's toy cupboard, things," make an honest check. night ago.
10 you ever grumble even in The pioneer is Fleur Cowles the smallest degree, about fashion- was asked to take part.
to ucerssory
any
over the shed, the garage and There are 39 ilems shown in wardrobe.
New conscious woman's
York the cloakroom, and tot un just the picture. Maybe you don't Meyer, Poplins, the best of them come what you do own in the way have a dinghy. Or riding boots. hostess, editor and travelling your husband? Such as wish- from Belgium, Denmark, Swit-
It could Or a tape of aids to happiness.
for Eisenhower. ing he would notice the ashtrays But this ropresentative reporder. zerland and Holland! They are
picture does not include the She lives now in a large, elegant or be more helpful about chores?. You don't realise how lucky light, bright, modish and useful. be quite a shock.
Most families have far more normal run of children's toys, flat in cool eighteenth-century They don't look like ruinovate, money invested in hobbies and such as soldiers, clockwork mice, Albany, which she has heated, you
THINK of Mrs Mortimer but they'll keep you dry in the sports equipment than they've dolls' houses and prams, and plumbed and decorated up to heaviest shower.
ever admitted to themselves dolls. Nor any strictly useful American millionaire standards. Leigh, happily married for 83. years who discovered the other and I suggest the husband is the equipment, such as garden tools
I am told this way of giving day that Mr Leigh had had biggest collector.
or jigs and saws,
"Belfort and party to woll-known)
happy America, though I never went family for 10 years only two
ono there myself. Herd's miles away.
THINK how it works.
of Mrs Jenis, of Chicago, whose husband locked Instead of giving one crowd her in the house when he went ed party with all the guests to the office and nipped back invited for the same hour, there's a continuous-party from 0.30 in the small hours, run in out.
THINK of Mrs Thomas, of
York, who scraped Now You are asked to come before scrubbed all her life on so little upper or for supper or after supper, or, if you're lucky, you're given the choice.
"We thought the idea such a good one," she said, "that we resolved not to let it drop. We decided form un International
Now
Kitchen
Club.
to
we
meet at a member's house To every month, sample that person's native dishes and
Institun
there
exchange all sorts of exotic line mac of shocking pink poplin
RAINWEAR FASHION
show just how far the in rainwear has gone, Is a three-quarter
tunic
with Ny-away cuffs and a wide highwayman collar. Baddie- to the stitching edges the front, collar Only une drawback sehene: Miss Vandenberg laugh- and cuffs. hugly admits to putting on an extra two pounds of weight after each meeting!
recipes."
Another three-quarter length mae is made of tangerine poplin
with dolman sleeves and sloping pockets, and is again "It is just as well the meet- decorated with saddle-stitching Ings are only once a month," she
Yet
another drep bluc says. "Because usually the fare poplin mae edged on the collar, is no good that curiosity alone is cuffs and
pockets with
Deld
enough to make you forget your yellow. Also available in pink with pale blue edgir, the cont waistline,"
18 cut very straight and has a striped zig-zag lining of blue,"
When the fame of the Club spread, Miss Vandenberg was white and yellow. asked to appear on television, Felt coats, they tell us, are all her favourite the rage in Paris, I found a blue demonstrating_
Dutch dishes, Lator, more laurels felt cost reversible to pink It is classic style with came for the Club when mem- poplin.
bars were approached by a set-in sleeves, and flap pockets, famous publishing Arm for their
help in compiling on
national cookery book.
inter-
CLEVER AMATEURS
"The book is named after the Club, Miss Vandenberg proudly told me.
.
Household Hints
Make your kitchen skid-proof by using rubber-tipped laddera and step-stools that stand firm pressture, and fosm
She makes no claim to being under a professional cook or an ex- rubber mats: "that stay pul port, however. "Most Dutch girls study Domestic Setence before Keep the door clear of greasy, spills and splashes by washing
taking up careurs,"
she said.
** otted in bot, WORDJAZ water.
these methods,
They are almost always very You'll save many a silp-up by clever amateurs."
Speaking of Holland,
a col-
league of mine who has recently
returned from that country tells
Stubborn food-gi burns
me that married women who do examel pane may be removed,
two jobe are a comparative by clean
rarity there. Most marrÍNE
women, prefer to stay at
and spend as Inikh-finie""
barre
of: weak Bollin
*
to
shifts.
I, lightning quicks, "Please, I'd like to come supper. "
in another
several sure
times a day to make she hadn't found a way
and
that the children's clothes were -ragged and has furt discovered, at the age of 60, that her sald: husband has been a millionaire
to all the time.
...
09
THINE of
of the wife in Copen- hagen whose husband got mad when #ho #queezed the toothpaste' tube from the middle I felt this wort of party must instead of the end that he ba trebly taxing for the hostess, knocked her out with her own Long hours on the bridge; three hot water bottle.
THINK of Mrs Grigg in the sorts of catering; and the probe Tom of moving on any over North Country, whose husband enthualastle: guests who may was so crazy about emunges like the look of the incoming and mash that he ate them for shift better, than- their HOWD every meal for 17 years and was allowed (Imagine the behaviour of a none of the family.
a different dish. man who, as he puts mugier to leave,
See what I mean about youF mera the dirt of
husband? Doesn't he seem dreams entering alone)):
wise, kindly, falorant, gentle
his
(hin
But Your Cowles bells me it's
the best ort of party to give, and generous by comparison?
coming and points the tom
ever
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