WEEK-END
Now, does your figure feel IT'S SPRING?
ST
By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
London. NTOP EATING SUGAR. That's the one simple way of getting a good figure
that supple spring sult.
for
All diet ideas look good on paper. Very few them work, report The new sugarless Liftje-and-Often die with con- tience that
For dinner: A little loan theat With a large mixed salad, rye biscuit, and a little cheese (415).
SECOND DAT
For breakfast: An orange. fonat and butter as above (318).
For lunch: Welsh rureblt and grilled tomato, baked apple or raw frult (310).
For dinner: Fish (not fried)
For tea: Wholemeal brend and not only butter and some sliced cucum- stari it, but will Carry ber or lettuce (325), through. Most diety fall down not beenust There's anything wrong with the scientifle prin ciples on which they are based -ally chump せいする ark enlories.
But because they don't de in with the way in which IROKI peoplespecially women-live.
Many are based on American caling habite, where rare stenks
and black coffee are a normal
with two green vegetables, frult saind (330).
Signs of Spring
GOOD. It's officially spring.
And the sunshine cujotes you to wear something pretty. 10 doll up your house, and cook something new.
to
I've been out and about,
worlding girl's lunch. where nothing the signs of spring. fruit julers and raw vegetables can be ordered at every snack bar, and where nobody
tea.
eats
Many others are based on typica man's way ut cuting: three meals ft duy, with 4 whackding tuck-in in the evening and no snacks in between,
But women don't like large meals, and they do like snacks. This diet allows for their vices.
That coffee
THEY like a light breakfast. THEY can't live without coffee in the morning. Eleven o'clock coffee is often a social
occasion.
•
A Sign Spring: The candlel hat, the off-face halo that's new RA Д bird's g Mrs Vere Harmsworth was married in one
a fortnight ngo. Blonde model Nola Rose har bought a
huge beige linen sou'wester, and 19 turning her old hats back to front. Even I have bought one In white fell.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1957.
WOMANSENSE
chiffon dress has lavender
CHIFFON, first sign of spring. A flying white
polka dots; by Polly Peck.
A Sign of Spring: The energy with which people are pointing and prinking their houses.
The news here is less paltern (e.g., wallpaper and chintz) and more thrilling colour schemes, Best A Sign of Spring: The way especially dork colours, everyone's going for blue. "Mrs scheme I've seċu is a 'charcoal John Wyndham (our Best grey carpet and walts, lime Dressed Woman by miles) likes
green curtains and cornice, several blues at once, wears an
white lampshades. and a coral organza hat in two blues with
Estelle Brody has dark navy blue coat. Maria Landi, chair. the model who slepped int, the green curpet and walls, scarlet lumps in i Barbaro Bates' lead in Across cushions, white the Bridge has ordered a charming mews coltage, summer suit in pale blue wool. THEY jike a very light lunchi,
More news! modern mosaic If they are working they don't
A Sign of Spring: The chiffon tiles, in wonderful colours
is table tops. clouds. Mrs Henry Shorek
And glowing shan- want to spend much money. and If they are at home they wearing a blue and white spot tungs for curtains and chales.
chiffon blouse with a blue to bother with ted
Alicia Markova has linen ull.
A Sign of Spring: The electric that it-Girl hair-do, a detachable white chiffon cowl effect of which fits into the neek of her We showed it two weeks ago. dresses. Mrs Wyndham's fav- Four models had their hair It- ourite new evening dresses are Girled next day. Pat Goddard, June Clarke, Yolande de Don- chiffon, long and short.
vouloir, and Pagin Grigt, A Sten at Spring: Spring ebleken. It's the top dinner- party dish.
don't want cooking.
THEY need something for tea, especially with children around. To sit and watch your lover rating watercress wiches anchovy toast and not Join in against nature.
ETICS
зала-
THEY like a cooked but not havy supper. Probably courto less than they prov for the man of the house.
Sugar-out!
The Little-and-Often diet based on two principles.
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Une: You ent four small meals a day, and as many ode etips of tea and coffee as you ilke.
Two: You completely cut out sugur.
A total sugar cut is the best way to diet, Most people eat
far too much of the stuff.
CAIN
The average person nearly fivo ounces of sugar a day, including the sugar In marmalade, Jarn, biscuits, gaken, sweets, That medie 600 daily calories from nigar alone.
For the next four weeks, try eating this way.
Ent a small breakfast, lunch, teu, supper (menus for two days below), and have tea or coffee whon you want it, without sugar but with minc.
Try your drinks unsweetened for a fortnight, Instead of taking sugar substitutes, 'The chances are that after that, you wilt prefer them not sweet.
Vitamin B
Take half a pint of milita day, an ounce of butter, always frult and green salad. And_get the Vitamin B which is cssen- tial If you are on short commons by cating only wholemeal bread. Here are two days' semple menus, allowing, with milk, for 1,500 calorica a day,
FIRST DAY
For breakfast: Half a grapes fruit, two silcer of wholemeat toast with butter (about 315 enlorica),
For lunch: Posched egg on spinach, a my fruit (about 250. calories),
For tear Two to three allcos of wholemeal bread with butter. and waloreJÖSE
radishes or (820),
Helens Cordet grills them and Serves them with a Greek rice dish,* plus sinall pol of
n
for
Make some stock with fecits, chicken bones and giblets, cur- rols and tomatoes, simmered for about three hours.
Every Bride's Most Important Man
Landon
THE brides are botting the full
treatment from the stores, the make-up experts, the florists, and the hairdressers, They all offer free advice and freġ sit- tings. They all prepare the leading Indy for har tending pari,
that
But they forget to achi
it is not the groom who must be sent into a whirl of delight at the sight of so much beauty-- It is the photographer.
the
Sald John French to me other day: "The most important thing about bride's dress and
head-dress
that it should photograph well. After all the and all her family will probably have to look n it for at least 50 years.
MISTAKE
"The biggest mistake that most brides make 19 to look smart on the great day. Parla dresses may look wonderful in 1957, but even a year after they The are madly out of date, bride should try look elegant, If she is tall and slun a straight skirt is best.
necklines always
Ph badly. So do rows
of tiny. buttons and bowd. Bouquets should be small. Those enormous affairs just blot out the bride. Anch oh, those weeping trails
leaves and ribbons!
of
"Head-dress can't be too simple for photography, and that goes for hair-styles as well. As for those masterpieces of fresh flowers, 1 foar they are almost always oil of dale even before they get to the church. "Shiny sath does not photo- graph well. Unless it is the very beat it gives that shining armoured look. White 'net is good on a very young bride, and coarse white lace photographs like a dream,
"And inst of all, it is difficult to stop Victorian, Tudor, Mediaeval, Japanese, and Edwardian brides from looking anything but ready for a fancy-dress party.
- JOY MATTHEWS
When Queen Elizabeth_visits Paris next week,
she will see a city of flowers
M. Joffet Likens
Well-designed
A Garden
To A Woman
Paris.
by later blooming Bowers, trans- type of flowers used to obtaini
through the overall effect. DARIS in the spring as planted progressively
the months and culminating in o II Queen Elizabeth
colourful display of chrysan- will see it this month is a themums in the autumn. veritable city of flowers.
The formal gardens in Paris are generally stylised, following many of the original themes flat The master planner, the man planned by Andre Le Notre in controls and directs the 18th century. A sculptured The 7,500 acres of public who
great landscape. gardens and parks, the all the gardens and botan bust of this
leal displays throughout Paris architect appears in the Tulleries near the Louvre blooming and the trees Fry three cups of rice in chestnut
Department
of the Gardens, yoghourt for each person. Lord butter in a casserole until it has along the wide avenues, and Seine, is attractive, grey-hatred Museum. May. the Man Who Knows Just changed colour, stirring all
In private gardens, Bays Everything. grills
and the time.
When it is just done the perambulating barrows Mensieur Robert Joffet. Decorat- ed as an Officer in the Frened
ne Monsieur Joffet, teste tends serves them with a large dish add two cups of stock to ne piled high with cut flowers, Legion of Honour personally by of Provencale Ratatouille. cup of rice and cook until the all contribute to in the former President, M. Vincent more towards the English style of informality, with irregular tangible charm of a city. Auriol, Monsieur Joffet has his paths meandering among grass- which attracts millions of offices in the midst of the lovely covered slopes, carpets of flowers public gardens along the Avenue foreign visitors each year. of the Ports d'Auteuil.
The Rice Dish.
them
liquid is absorbed. When done you can real the dish with folded cloth and keep it hot.
A THE HALO, sure sign of spring. Otto Lucas's Canornicus...aff face hai la of fine amooth-hlus straw,
the
The average Frenchman
is as fond of nature as he
is of food, and Paris spends
PAINTING A PICTURE
In addition to his numerous
hs
and
tow borders.
growing herbaceous
A central theme is usually eliesen for displays of flowers, caluring, for exemple, a sym- a milllard and a half francs literary manuscripts cud
phony of current blooms-tulips in the spring, azaleas in the early (some £1,500,000) each official
20 work for the past
summer, and chrysanthemums Chief of the autumn.
A fow verses year on the upkeep of the years as Horticultural
Monsieur Joftet Ands time Paris,
of
be municipal gardens and
to plan many private gardens, special floral displaye.
including
those of the British Embassy in Paris and Maurice There are 310 public gardens Chevaller's "Open air theatre within the boundaries of the old on his country estate. walled city which constitutes the Monsieur Joffet llltens laying heart of Parls, and outside.org out a Banics in
to painting a plc- the large wooded parks of ture,
colour and Boulogne, Vincennes and on are important as well as a carefully thought out plan which
Secaux.
!
Victor Hugo's poetry may truslated into a pastoral scene with banks of flowers, a pagoda and exotic tropical birds grouped round the 110 aruacial lake, where childres are asked not to feed the greedy swans.
SHAKESPEARE THEMES
The Grands Boulevards alone will include constant masses of Three years ago, Monsieur are lined by 80,000 trees, of over blooming flowers throughout the Joffet 150 different varieties,
STAFF OF 3,000.
Until the 18th century, when Paris was relatively small and concentrated, the open country was only a short drivo away. As
chose, "તત executed,
SeLions, to avoid any bare spots garden themes from five different or "holes." A well designed Shakespeare plays at the Pro garden, he says, should change Catalan, in the Bois de Boulogne, its aspect continually, much as a Thatched cottages and elaborata women, while remaining funda- atago settings were built to show mentally the samo, creates dif- off the brilliant arrangements of ferent effects with a change of flowering trees and flowers. make-up, hair style and clothes. More than 60,000 people admired this particular display during. the capital grew, architecto de TO SUIT AVERAGE TASTE the fortnight it lasted. termined to bring the country. which was rapidly becoming leis accessible to the average family, Public taste is an important piso into town. Most of the parks factor in arranging the numer Joffet's jurisdictions. The enorm
Porte ou bouquet in the entrance to the which grace Paris today were ous displays at systematically created at strategie d'Autoull and the Bagatcile in the Presidential Residence at the places in every quarter of the the Bois de Boulogne. In Eng-Elysee Palace, replaced twice, city, during the Second Empire land, people are more techuleel a week with fresh flowers from
Bo ly Interested in ra unusual or the hothour at Autoull
Cut flowers and Indoor plants come under Monsieur
by the landscape artist, Barnow variety of rose' exhibited at fween 80 and 100 dozen roses
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