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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1957.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Fifteen Items Of Easy Comfort
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-Look round and see how many
you have got in your home
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By Anne Scott-James
London.
HERE in England do you lind the worst
lowest service
and the longest walk to the bathroom?
In the houses of the very rich. One of the tow Happy Thoughts that is really true is that Comfort 19't a matter of money,
Comedy 12tude. For sheer rigorous dis- comfort, tead me to a winter week-end in the country We mulstunare.
Hent god ting to be found now in houses where the premis nga spall and the servants bilsfully few. Surprisingly, it reaches its peak umong people who work in the Hamire and the arts.
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I have been thiking to propte with Very standuvis of romfort Cory peopic. People whose hata me e sentiuity hospitable.
People who can make a glorious branfeast out of
a kas zupper by the fire,
Most of the comforts they suggest Rre modest TV A price. Loan Pound your home, and count up how many casy comfurla you are missing.
The two essentials
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"Most imitant is wundh," sho Buys.
"An delicious; but only if you have a radiutor at the other end of The roum, I can't start motlled shlus and frozen kitineys.
“Then, I demand a warm bed. This means
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Two hot water bottles,
slept in satin sheets ki
Holly
wood, I tossed CALL right. always have a boiling ring 11 ny bedroom for renewag bot bottles and making hot drinka.
"A warm bathroom
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"Then, 1 think no house comfortable where you can't do things which will 'upset this servants." I want to cat when I like, make pots of ten when I like, stay in bea all day if I like. Tu ne comfortable, one must do a lot for oneself—bal's why hul life is such a misery,
"One of the most comfortable LOUGU I know is Greer Gar- non's She and her husband have surmounted their money und do a lot for themselves,
"He even has a refrigerator
for
in his bedroom with food midnight snacks, They have sort of durmitory feasts."
Low lights
Decorator HERMAN SCHRIJVER says that a
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THE FASHION THAT WON'T LET GO
Of course the hood is a winter fashion, But women won't part with It does such wonderful things for your face. Look out for hooded dresses and beach clothes this summer. Top: A sweater and pants of Paisley jersey. Left: A raincont with explorer hood, Right; A scarlet coat with black fur hood.
pools of Biht where you want to sit,
the places
"never have an overhead ceiling light even in a kitchen. Here, I like one wall light over the stove so you can see right into the pots and pans; and one by the
sink. in my dining-room, I hove randies They are welcoming. beaiful, and frightfully wa7TH- IN 57. People were always faint- Ing at balls in the eighteenth
inon and quite unnecessary century because of the heat. cause of discomfort is bad light-
"My only fixed light is over
at
"I have two tables 1) the mare so than women. All these kitchen, one for working on, intellectuals who ought lo be one where the children have wrdling
and
painting busy their breakfast and tea,
marrying ladies of tile and geting round in society."
don't About feminism: think it makes much difference to married women whether not they are equal and have
it the vote, But
has revolu- tionised the lives of women who don't marry. To be a spinster was a dreadful life before."
the right temperature, As well
"Then, I do like my food
as the hot-plate in the dining room we have a heater in kitchen for keeping food at controlled temperature.
the
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"If we come in late, there is a simmering casserole all ready.
"The same goes for cold food. I have a cool cupboard outside the kitchen where I put hors Mrs STEPHEN POTTER runs a busy household
three d'oeuvre, salads, fruit and children and
and a
should the dishes which humorist, Joves
be
to cook, likes to entertain.
served cold but not frozen," insists that comfort depends on
ing. "In most homes the lights the side table when I curve." are much too high,
Low lights
are flattering and restfui,
"i never put fixed lights in any living room," be says. "Always lamps which throw
with
& methodical kitchen.
She
my
"Re every utensil in kitchen within two paces of the
& Round the World in 50 Diskien stove, Puts and pans, and IL (John Murray, 188.).
long row of cut-throat knives.
decorated with
"Technicolour", a big white clooke multi-coloured flowers and a red velvet bow, From. Rond Valois Spring-Summer Collection-Agence France-Prosso,
THESE THREE PEOPLE RAVE BETWEEN THEM SUG- GENTED 15 SPECIFIC ITEMS OF COMFORT. HOW MANY HAVE YOU GOT IN YOUR HOME?
It's tragic...
NOR five minutes I was fooled by the relaxing country house setting of chintz arni- chairs, sliver teapot and hót buitered scones, and
by the peaceful view of ploughed Belds beyond the bay window.
Then I understood, from the plereing eyes and eager conver- sation, why my hostess has been called " connoisseur of up- ruar."
Mil
and
REBECCA WEST conhoisstar of uproar,
OT
About travel: "I want to go everywhere. But I think my favourite part of the world la the
America countryside of You must go to Pennsylvania and then you'll love America."
About the famous editress of an American society magazine: for her
I had gone to sce Rebocch I shall never write West, politician at 20, world- famous writer at 30, intellectual again. Last time she was over and iconoclast, traveller
a friend and I had dinner with her and one of her staff in her raconteur, the stereoscopie e suite. Can you believe it, two porter of some of the
world's 'most horrible trials. I went delicious dinner for them, and separate dinners were served. A because she just published The Fountain
consomme and cold meat for us, Overflows *** her first novel for 20 years.
I shall never get over 11"
An intellectual with the good Miss West scored quite un- Icoks and charm of a woman of interested in this major event the world, a humanist with an in publishing.
ongaging dash of malice in her nature, Robocen West hus more
"Mother, are you or are you not supposed to know something, about clothes?"
"I suppose 190. But what on earth are you leading up to?"
"Then I would have Brought you would have known that it's Impossible ... absolutely impos- sidle for me to go to the in blue Jeans. square dance Only the most ghastly people
wear them,"
on
the
"But it says
Jeans invitation."
"Not blue jeans, All decent people gave them up years ago. All jeans now are black,“
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You might think it was female speaking. But it was my son.
I reflectori, as I handed over the money, that men of all ages are abject slaves to fashion, No individuality at all.
HOW TO
TO CURB BOSSY TRAITS IN YOUNG CHILDREN
THE
By CARRY C. MYERS, Ph.D.
bossy child is If, however, you and among
DO WOMEN LIKE
BEARDS?
coming
Ustinov traditional
By AMANDA MARSHALL BEARDsted in aspects of a beard, and he's he doesn't have to have his / ties betting on whether ono cleaned sa often. "They've particular beard will come stored calling me an enfant back on the handsome posi- terrible now I've a beard and tive jaw of Prince Philip. slipped dise--I've changed Into another gear. Keep it for ever? For mysch, and for every No-eure I were to right-thinking woman, beards Young Woodley-I'm old enough are surely a good thing if the and vain enough
Play
now--I don't them see the part with a beard...." Michael Flanders, whose gergrous ink-black beard & such a farture of the new two-mon
faces that lurk behind are strong and impresjive.
"Kinging a man without beard is like cating an without salt"-or so the beard-
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te, At the Drep of the Hat. conscious and experienced Edwardians believed. No beard
and makes him look like Ed- ward VIII crossed with Rerputin worthy of the name should be
in a sunny mord, saya ther (ddly a screen for a poor chin or a
enairth he didn't have Ümid and deflated ego.
heard in the Navy, but grew it Beards have had a chequerod
In hospital after being shaved history, from the days when no
A nurse, by sensible caveman blunted his "Twles Wal enough. After
aints precious
on. whiskers, that i grew a beard, in spile of through the Elizabethan, gentle- the fact that the matron said it man-pirate variety, the Vie made the ward look petidy." torian pateriamillas, the Ed-
TWO REASONS
wardian sort that must
hove
given off a perpetual, aroma of What makes a man take the cigar. down to the recent sad great decision to grow a beard" decline, when to wear a beard Flanders says: "It's either pure meant that you were a founder concell or laziness-in my case member of some strange rell-
rella bit of both, I suppose. Wemen gidum sect, a Frenchman with designs on other
are always looking at you and men's wives, a saying: I'm mad about beards' retired admiral, or
or the owner but perhaps that's just of sandals and an Joke."
of one pair
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rejected Canvases. Flanders says that beards are
were
around
and
of rej attic full
Peter Ustinov, comparatively now
everywhere recently bearded (he grew one "butchers have for an Italian film and kept it there's
them. for Romanoff and Jullet)
a bearded policeman, здуя
and BBC men (not just Third that he
once asked bearded p painter James
either). Proudfoot Programme producers,
and the other day I had a letter whether he thought beard-R
from bus conductor who had sporters
considered
seen the show and signed him- eccentric. Proudfoot replied self the beard of route 18.'" calmly: "It anyone ever sug- have always been a devoted rests that to me I say 'I'm not beard fancier, eccentric; you are--you shave
admiring par- ticularly
Compton Mac- USEFUL"
kenzie's (suave and silver), Sir Thomas Beecham's (brisit and
ious),
Robertson James Justice's (pratical, witty and arogant), and Michael Ayrton's (sliky, cloquent and wicked). matured Ustinov beard, said, I wouldn't dream of "Oh
of suggest- The beard ing that Sydney Sliverman, was a fixture for the film) and Philip Harben Moran Caplat for Romanoff and Juliet in (Glyndebourne's general New York.
Ustinov will keep his beard for a film be is about to make for Clouzot (who visited on don, looked at the beautifully
Sir
man-
ager) and nuvellst William to Sansom would be lesser
men without their beards, but all the same I love them just the way they are.
He finds a bead easter take off than to grow, but doesn't see it as necessarily 扫 permanent part of his face and life. Ho dods it useful though-- Beards are not for everyone. 447th commercial
negotiations, Not, I think for Mr Bevan, or people think you're going to be Mr Wolf Mankowitz, or any of tougher than you are. In other those promising Angry Young negotiations, they accept you as Men. But think of Mr Hex
to make a Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Sir
Tbossiest at home, as a his playmates опе who a more perious character-now, Harrison, Mr Osbert Lancaster,
rule, so a lot can be done tyrannies over your own child, if they want me
Lactfully curb this aggressor speech, they say, 'Don't try to Robert Boothby-just imagine there to correct this fault, and find ways to bring out more be funny if you don't feel like Certainly, any parent should self-assertiveness in your child. It"
-(London Express Service). aim to guide her child to be
a gracious host and not a hiy visiting tyrant over playmates.
One mother writes about her ten-year-old son:
Bwo heads
in 1л
"We invite children to spend the night in the pup tents our yard or to play there the afternoon. I let them buy. bottles of soft drinics,
to "The visiting child has drink two swallows and store the bottle away until my son decides that they should have another swallow (oach has his own bottle). Then this swallow must not be too long or 100 big or my son gets mad about it, runs to his room and pouts,
"This is just one example of his bossing. He pouts if he can- not be the leader in games. He is small for a ten-year-old and doesn't get to be the leader often."
It's One that you attract your boy's playmates to your pre- mises. One wonders if they come because of the material things they can
enjoy there which they don't often got else- where.
This programme affords you a good opportunity to study your son, curb his bossiness and guide him in
unselfsh ways.
It's hard for me to under- stand why you would let this lad wield such tyranny over any playmate right before your cybs. oth He probably tyrannics over
learn other members of his family
similar fashion. He must have learned from long experience that he can force others to his ways, however absurd, by run- ning off and pouting. He didn't form this habit in a single day,
Her mind has already ranged all-round gifts than any other pouts, ahend to the next book and the weman I have met.
next, one pequel to the novel,
Her talk raced over every
one a book of criticism,
Slaves of fashion
subject under the sun except
her own work.
M
Chastise this boy as soon as you see him ordering his play- mates around. If he runs off and spy nothing, show no feelings, have none. Step in and be a good hostess to the play- mates, guiding them in whole- some fun
OTHER, do you honestly Let me entreat mothers of want me to appear in younger children to watch for Of today's problems; "One of public looking a perfect freak?" overaggressive, bossy, traita
in
the most serious of all modern "Well, it wouldn't be the first | any of them. Not only curb problems is that of refugees. time"
The really tragic thing is that "Mother, can you honestly say to be refugee must always be that the expenditure of 22s. 6d. deteriorating. An exile is almost would send the family, hank bound to become difficult and neurotic. That problem than the jobs and the homes."
harder
About men: "What amour men are, don't you think? So much
"Mother, do you want me to caneel the party I have lookoa forward to for six wooks?"
"Of course not."
their bossiness, but spend a lot
of time and skill througly post- Live suggestions to cultivata. move unselfish ways
in them
whom playmates come to the home. For example, prompt your child to say to o play- mate, "What shall
wo lay next?" instead of "We'll do this next.
those beards.
are better than one
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