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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1957.
THE MODERN-DAY RUSSIAN MISS
Good Builders
Builders Or Doctors
But Terrible Housewives
By JOHN RETTIE
Moscow, May 27.
"As ́an onginoor, builder, doctor or athlete a Russian girl Saltor. Dusine consunication and excels. But ask her to knit you a sweater, cook your supper
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MUSICAL
If you are thinking in terms of hi-Adelity, wo SULLER Bulber's "Crueltion". Deblumay'a "Preludes" {Novaes). MORATA' "Requlean",
Madame Butterfly (Wass Angelos) etc. For than most compre- hesive collection of Clanstoní, de Popular recorda call at Fans & Co.,
or darn your sock—and she is lost.
A modern Russian girl regards housekeeping and everything asso- ciated with it as not only dull, but also slightly degrading. They are all right for "capitalist" countries where women are not really free to do anything else, she thinks, but in the Soviet Union a girl must have a
career.
In any case, there is no in oantive to housekeeping, which is still very dreary business in
Union the Soviet
Vdcuum other rich household goods are седств floor-polishers and
now fairly plentiful in Moscow shops. But in the country as a whole very few labour-saving devices are on sale,
Tow trouseTM.)
newing
Also, it sho is a working-class | irresistible. The newspapers At the same time, efforts are girl, her family will certainly began to explain that you could | being made to reach ginla to good her wage to be added to tell a "Dinamiska” by her "lack cook, sew and do things about -the family pool.
of spiritual qualities", not by the house thomsolved Shopa the amount of lipstick and pow- and fashion houses encourage der she used, or whether she | girls to make their own clothes, were a tight skirt. (The gameOfficially - sponsored went for "Slyngor" and narcircles are springing up, School- girls are being taught cooking and sewing, though knitting is "anti-dina-apparently still out of favour.
The
"Savieb Потерпрет Trude," in a publicity article about a cooling circle nt one Moscow school, asked: “Can sib girls who go out into the wide world to stam an independent life, prepare a lunch, dliner or light supper at home, or even make tea properly?
Depressing?
However, the mistka" attitude dios hard co- pecially at high schools. Attemple by a young girl to make herself look feminine and attractive is often regarded $5 gross affeciation.
One of the first comments of British mannequins who staged a fashion show in Moscow last summer was that judging from what one saw in the streets,
Kitchena, too, usually have to bo shared between several femilica living in the same flat, and to most women nothing| Soviet women seemed to have makes housekeeping more de lost their femininity. pressing than that. Few kitchens are fitted with modern oquip- arent, and many not have running water or gan though great efforts are being made to lay on these amenities every where, Cooking by electricity is
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So, the housework is often done by
"babushka"-granny, "Babiahan" cools, darns, ticans, stands in the shopping queues, Days the bills, and does all the other ohores which must
be done. This is very convenient for all concerned, for
with short, "babushica" almost certainly Lives with them 200 their families, probably in the same But the result is that TOUTIL many young girls are good their jobs, but useless at home, even after they got married.
B
or whether to buy it. with that,"
One girl in her late twenties, though undoubtedly an excep- NOTICE is hereby given ❘tion, did not even know how the that the Sixty-Eighth Ordin- | milk got into the house whether ary Yearly Meeting of Bhare- wwe delivered, holdors will be held at the someone went out "My mother deals office of Wheelock Marden & she explained.
Edinburgh Co., Ltd., 701 House, Hongkong, on Friday, 7th June, 1957, at 11.30 am. for the purpose of receiving the Statement of Accounta and the Report of the Direc- tors for the year ended 31st December, 1956, und to transact the ordinary busi- ness of the Company.
she
When she got married, she was asked how she would look after her husband, since could neither cock nor sew. "Oh, we shall live with his parents, and his mother will look after us," she said,
Yet in her job. this giri was irreproachable,"
Amazement
Another girl about the same her
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed fromage, no less successful in Friday, 24th May, 1957 until Friday, 7th June, 1967 both
daya inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directora SHEWAN TOMES & CO., LTD.
E. G. SMITH-WRIGHT Director
General Managera Hongkong, 21st May, 1957.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
"AGAPENOE"
Damaged cargo ex this vessel will be surveyed by Mesure, Pulze & Bayes-Dayy at Holt's What from 19 man, on May 29 and 30, 1937, and conalgosen are requested to have their appresentatives present during the survey.
BUTTERFIELD & BWIRE, Agents.
Hong Kong, May 31, 1567,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
muvayad by Messrs. Gloddret de Douglas at Holt's Wharf from 10 Buh.
signers are requested to havo theiE representative present during the
BUTTERFIELD & SWINE, Apsota,
career, opened
her eyes ព
Inability
"No," it answered, “very far from all. Inability to cook often brings young housewives many | bitter disappowidments."
But, as the general ease-up in life contimaxes, many Soviet women have launched a determined attack on the "die- Paments, and especially harda." They have decided that "abushkas" are largely re to look feminine is not crime |sponsible for this altullora. or a sign of moral degradation. The change is impressive,
Three years ago,
well-
wormon
dressed, well made-up in Moscow could immediately be Iderlined as a foreigner or star from the Bolshoi Theatre.
More Style.
Many of them mittored much in their youth, and they are deter. mined that their children shall have only the bost. As a result their children, or grandchildren, ane scanxialously spoiled.
One of the Soviet Clovern- mens great boasts is that do no other country is so much care taken of children by the State. A case can be made out for this claim, But at home it la corded Today, it is easy to make too far. Nowhere else do par- mistake. There is more style anal cuts, grantiparents, aunte and colour in women's clothlig, more uncles wait hand and foot use of cosmetics, more variety children, nowhere else is a child and Ingenuity in hair styles. In always the centre of attention. short, women are more attrac-But it is not always good
for tive.
the child---China Mail Special
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THE BOY SENT US BACK TOO FAR--TO THE AGE OF THE DINOSAURS! JONNY X197C --CAN YOU HEAR US 7 PULL US BACK
amazement when she saw FERDINAND
foreign' girl painting her own nails and knitting **Were you taught that at school. you take a course?” she asked With "inconcoated admiration.
or dia
This girl said that she always wont do a manicurist to havo her nails, painted, et 10 soubles à Ume. It must be said, though, that most Russian girls who use nail varnish (and they are still relatively dew) enn put it on theuwel voo. Almost certainly, however, they do not know how to knit.
The questione of cosmetics and whether a girl should spend time making herelt up dave been difficult for Soviet women. The genpration which grow up after the 1917 Revolu- tion had no tinte for such trifles. They were busy reorganising a country shattered by war, re- | volution and civil strife, and building what is described here as a "new socialist society."
Their privations were many. They hat malther the time nor the means to think of these Soviet industry, pro- | Luxurios.
duced hardly any cosmetics, and foreign currency was much too precious to be used to import
Not Frills
Thon, just when they might have begun to pay some attome tion to their appearance, ERESO the Second Works War,. and more privation. After the war, during came the
cold war, which it was frowned on 09 "how-bow-ing to bourgeois
amme make-up. Berlet girl de fotomested work, not drilla, was dho often).
Hong Kong, May 27, 1937.7
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"Argyone who did use commettos, spart dom pectreigos:* and kallopiana, - ses branded “as/s "Dinamieška": por dhuwite girl. the tomate, equivalent of A
“Stilyaga””, or “teddy boy.
When Stalin'died in 1969 and Abe7bold"weet emrod, she young Overcome -boredom, and dri
became
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BRITAIN'S 'COTTON QUEEN
Cotton Q
Angela Smith, 19, of London, who last week W89 elected Britain's "Cotton Queen". Bho re- ceives a cheque for £1,000, plus a wardrobe valued at £250. Display- ing British fashions, she is to make a British Com- monwealth tour, visiting New Zealand, Australia, South and Central Africa,
Express Photo.
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Algiers, May 27, A Nationalist rebel commando anealed into the Aiglem nircid before dawn today and killed an operator and wicked Dostly electronic equipmini.
The daring attack coincided with a flareup of city terrorism throughout Algeria, United Press.
By Leo Falk and Phil Davia
HOHOHAHA) |--| MADE A
MISTAKE
PANAMA ASKS FOR MORE OF CANAL'S TAKE
Panama City, May 27.
Panama's refusal to grant the United States land for Nike guided missile sites is regarded as evidence of Panama's increasing determination to extract from the United States a greater share of the cash and commerce derived from the Panama Canal.
I
Panama said, in effect, that the granting of any such sites was not provided for under existing treaties. Treaty arrangement would, therefore, have to be reopened as a whole if the sites were to be granted,
With
Teo United States, which hasį subject of consultations between had due warning of the claim the two governments which Panama "would prem in Panama
that no arguod any frosty negotiations, has threat of aggression against the made no effort to repeat the Canal exists at present and NU
request
the that the question of the Nike primary threat to the United sites was not therefore covered States regarded as lying in an by that treaty provision, other direction, the Panama Canal bas a lower place than hitherto on the Pentagon's list of deféneo priorities,
The
Hardening
Although it is fittle more than two years since the most recent treaty between the two countries was signed, there is
Panama no doubt that already asking for more, Bome of the country's most influential leaders hayo been talking of establishment of Nike Panama being entitled to vorne, sites outside the ten miles thing resembling the 10-60 split wide, United Stales-controlled which Venczucia and Arab | Capel Zona apparently was not
with the oil not countries hayo regarded as so essential, na to companies. As Panamą con- ba worth the diplomatic tributes no more to run the
running wrangling which would surely Canal than the Araba do lo Sasure. were existing realy getting the oil out of the provisiona brought up for ground, this would be a thorny review.
issue in any new treaty' ncgotiations.
have been based on a section
Status Quo
Panama Canal altuations.
But the lenas of the Panamanian reply to the United States request ого regarded here na at indication of the
United Blates policy seems Lalla Republic's hardening to be aimed at maintaining the atulude,
to and trying status quo, provent any apaloglën "being and It in rollably `understood 16 | drawn between." the "Bucz
The of one of the treaties between
very entesinoss of their efforts the two countries which says in the latter direction has that should
аду
of brought fallure. Colonel Nasser's aggression oxist which endan spectacular activities could not the attention pers the security of the Canal, help but attract. the two governments will take of Panamanians.
From the defence measures to protect
Unlied
States their comman interests. Any point of view, there is little.
be purpose
re-negotiating such defenco, mésagrúa to.
by onto taken
government
nothing of significance to offer which would involve fornitary existing treaties, as Panama has the the United States. Even the under the jurisdiction of other governaçat will be the Nike sites do not seem to have
been vital,
threat
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A MILLION
YEARS!
By Mik
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THIS WAS 1492
BEFORE
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Some observe here bave read into recent largo-scale manoeuvres held horo by Do United States
OVOT-BWO services an effort to Panama, Actually, plans had been mado
hold the It manoeuvres two yours ago.
coincidence that was merely a they should take place at this time--China Mail Special,
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