1957-08-24 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1957,

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Men are so awful in boats

-but I'll sail again

Says ANNE SCOTT-JAMES

their

we all know it. With doad- ly accuracy she exposes the

yrannies arct probes wounds of family relationships.

the

THE only time in my life. Women say it makes circle, aren't best sellera Be-

I did a

a real her in my sailing was 20 years ago, day, Instead of a time fur when I was in love with a extra werk. "I used to do young man with a bout! It all the cooking and chores was a great relief to when I fell out of love with him and switched to a young man with a nice little

car.

me for six of us" one woman told me. "Now we all pack off to our boat at Bosham, and the work is naturally shared. It isn't work, any- way-it's just a pienie."

I used to be sick when it was rough, and impatient. The

clothes -

jeans,

pút

True, she is not a kindly writer. There is none of the ciekly sweetness that has Angeln Thirkell at the top the family-comedy tree.

AUTUMN 1957... AND THIS IS THE SILHOUETTE

I GO FOR

Not a sock dross not a tight- fitted dress...but a line which

of

Just indicates. the body

But (although she would hate me for apving so) she is acultly funny and extremely readable.

though you were reading a next waiting for the thriller,

to fall out. of family skeleton the cupboard.

when it was calm, and cold sweaters, and oilsking You By through the pages, and cross when we got the most comfortable of any stuck on sandbanks. sports goar. (Think of the time it taken to dream for ski-ing, or to atruggle into riding breeches.)

The other thing I have against sailing is that men bectime HO awful when they're in charge of a boat.

"I have been sworn at by men who are gentle to R fault in ordinary life shouted at by Limid in- tellectuals

bawled ut by bossy mariners who wouldn't may boo to the office boy on dry land.

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Sailing isn't a million- modestly. aire's sport. You can do it

A good club

dinghy costs £150 to £200, a small erufsing bont in cheaper than a car, atul thousands of people now build their own boats for much less.

You can also cut your Ilving costs for holidays and weekends, as, If your boat is big enough, you sleep in But I can see I've got to it, and if it isn't you can take to the sea again. Be- take tents, or use the cheap cause smiling is becoming bed-and-breakfast Auch # fashionable sport which most yacht clubs that I shall be left by the offer. —~-~~-

lide if I can't do it,

I must admit that a mail-

As you

I have an

terms

chi see, the

ing boat is such a delicious chikiren have been getting sight, and seasickness pille at me. They've oven taken have reached auch a peak of me to a local regatta. efficiency, that I want to have a go again. Even I

ugly feeling can see great points in that this may be the last summer when I shall sleep Sailing is heaven for in a well-sprung bed. children. It makes them Next sailing season, feel adventurous and useful, be curling up in a some- there is the thrill of the thing bunk.

favour.

Occasional fright, and the

exhilarating sense of accom.

plishment us ench new piece

of technique Is learned.

Burnett.

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Jier novels are written almost. entirely in dialogue, and it is the through their talk that characters reveal themselves.

Here is a conversation be- tween two teilles who are about to receive guests and agree that "Lo make a difference for guests stamps us."

"Our ordinary china x cracked and mended. But it is old and good. I should think it is rather rare.”""

"Oh, then we will use it. 'Cracked and mended, but Tather rare,' That strlicen The exact note, It is like fue vid linen carefully damned. { suppose we havë not ап linen like that?"

bery much more true and subtle than U and non-U.

Here is a revelation of snob.

And here are some children talking in the nursery.

"War uncle like d man with a mistress in history?”

"Y" said Francis; "but when it is not in history, seems to be different.”

"And the

who wak father was the same

Than

"Yes," zald Alice; "bus when the mistress is Aunt

· Miranda, It aceme TOTC xferent stilt."

Lalk

Many clover children

unconscious irony,

this Compton With`exactly

Suiling, even in rough A new books by almost my weather when you have to just coine out A Father and favourite modern author has work hard, is the most re- ifte Fate*, by 1, laxing thing in the world. A boat isn't useful or com- mercial, or anything to do with your working life. It's there purely for your pleasure.

I can't understand why Miss Compton-Durnett's books, which are highly esteemed in a small

Gollancz, 133, d.

You may find Miss Complon Burnett's family diplogues too astringent fur you to swallow. Hul, like fresh lemon juice, once you've required the taste, you become an uädlet. -

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When I think of Garbo 196 hier high-arched brown that stick in my mind. Elizabeth Taylor. Those shacry brows, almost Jiko

The Duchess of Argyll7 Those very black brown, low and level.

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masculine approach to “worries”

WOMEN

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OME days (and I'll be

SOM

honest

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JUST ADD SOME LEMONADE

T's easy to be a summer........

Itime Hostess for while

By ALICE DENHOFF

appetites may be capricious 11⁄2 e, confectioners' sugor, 3 they are easily satisfied and tsp. buller, blending light food is the order of the Spread on top and sides of 18

on

I used to think most women were much more calm and organised. I didn't think this happened to anyone else until I confessed to two singularly composed-seeming chums and hoy both cried In unison "me

too."

"CONVERSATIONS"

"Darling," said the younger, just as much, cap SWITCH with them and then dismiss "I carry on conversations all OFF when he's done what ho them. Women have such rag- day in my head. Madly witty considera to be enough worry- bng minds that this is prac I am sometimes-or scolding ing

tically impossible. mydelf for my foolishness

Isn't that true of most men and how we envy thom.

guest, here one, Sun-Fluff

"The masculine approach "A couple of weeks ago I Coke, that should prové a hiḥ,

to major crises also allows To make a 10-in. cake, thaw was waiting for a bus and I

for escape. A man will-size 0-0z. in frozen lemonade suddenly said: 'nonsense it's ls there I wondered, any up a situation, say to himself well. concentrate.

absolutely out of the question secret? Could I learn to -I've done my best and Combine with 1 c. right, 2 and a dear old boy behind me "switch "off" a part of my there's 1 In. cupcakes made from egg whites and salt, took neveral paces backwards. mind? day. Then, too, there are your favourite cake mix. Roll

done. Then he more to be he'll simply STOP ever. so many conveniences okes in 1 c. flaked coconut beating thoroughly, Cook over

hot water, bösting constantly "I almost explained to him I've been talking to a pay- WORRYING." to make.cooking casy, such

For a super speolat lemonade, with roftry beater or ricetric that I was just thinking aloud chiatrist friend who was ~It sounds so simple doesn't na delicious frozen lemonade so easy to do, combine 6-oz.. in mixer, until mixture form soft but I suppose explanations A doctor in sabmarines concentrate. Add it to of the lemonade concentrate and peaks about 10 min.

would have made me soom special service during the It But It's no help to MEN various cake mixes, and you 2 (12-oz.) Une apricot neciur, Ada 34. prepared mammal more crasy than ever."

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over some dinculty whilst my other what their minor START worrying, ・・・ husland, who probably minds worries, make plans to deal

—-{London Exprean Service).

Pard 49

1957-

YOUR LEAN

YEAR?

Around about the end of December most of us began to show definite signs of schizo phrenia, sometimes known lunder its other name of New Year Resolutions.

Our partonalicias aplie' in two and the angel half wrote a long list of the acts of discipline, self-denial and charity it would accomplish In the coming twelvemonth.

?

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