1957-08-31 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL; · SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1957.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Here Is One Detail They Forgot About Prince Charles

By ANNE SCOTT-JAMES-

PRINCE Charles is going all the ghastly trouble of off to a boarding school having him), you are going near Newbury,

to miss him a lot.

WHEN you are going to look: forward absurdly to those de- manding letters. **Please send mero Krub

And in all the brouhaha WHEN the house is going, of should he, shouldn't he, to seem, unnaturally tidy it is too exclusive, too and quiet. common, too strict, too free, will he get week-ends, will he get tuck, is there hot water, will he be caned, no body mentions just one little detail. Nobody Alum.

mentions

pear

But I think I know what the Queen's going to feel. like.

Because three years ago 1 sent my son off to another boarding school near New- bury. It turned out a winner for him...but a loser for

mir.

He is well taught, well looked after, well fed, has swimming, football, school films and concerts, is sent cakes and sweets, has three Sundays off a term, is tho- roughly happy and much healthier than if he lived in a city.

But I'm not.

If you send your boy to boarding school, you resign yourself to seeing him for at most four months a year for the rest of his growing up-life.

That leaves 36 weeks a year when (after

It will be another tweedr

to

winter and we are going Бе lots of these square- looking coaís. Ronald Pater- 6011 Uses brown and grey. .stained

tweed and collars fi with Canadian baby beaver. Note the high-placed patch Pockets and shorter sleevo and skirt.

.. more:

plants

Inoru

.. more hair cream booles

and a long, full report on the health and morals of the budgerigar."

WHEN his Sundays off ដ going to be your red tetine days.

If you rend your bay

10 boarding school, your family life Is' going to run for ever after In jerks and starts. The terms wre too quiet and the holidays orgiastic,

be packed into a

As a year's pleasure has to few weeks, chemins, river irips, fishing, shopping, sight-seeing are eram- med into breathlesk, cver-ex- citing days.

, All boarders get spoiled in the holdass, and the schools have to waste the first week or two of term licking them back into shape.

LONELY CHILD

If you send your boy to boarding school you leave your younger children out on a limb. It may not matter in a large family, but it does in a small

one..

always had

My own daughter, who had a brother around, suddenly became like an only child. She has her own friends, ting dressed, but there are hours a day-get- bathing, having supper--which there's to other child to squabble with and talk 10,

No, I'm not a bit worried, for Prince Charles.

I'm sure he'll have a whale. of time, and will get as near as he ever can get to leading the life of an ordinary boy.

But I'm sad for the Brave Little Women left behind. Just two more victims of the extra- ordinary British system of breaking up the family, as fust

you can.

WANTED

.. A CAREER

"What are yoù going to do next?"

"Well, I can't make up my mind."

This is a time when thou- sanda of school-leavers of 17 and 18 are having a holiday be lore starting a career-if they only, knew what career.

Ive been talking to employers and employment experts trying to fld out the best channets.

JOBS for the young are plentiful almost everywhere, as the celebrated" "bulgo," when the birth rate jumped up after the war, is still of school age, and will not reach the labour market till 1981..

CAREERS which tend to be overcrowded are the arts, the. stage, tho bar, journalism, modelling. Only great talent |will get you in.

TRAIN AT WORK

IT'S YOUNG AND. NEAT'The pinafore dress is the ideal toenas dryer

than a shirt-dress, neater than soparates. This pina- foro is in tomato coloured tweed, by Piruuctio. Worn with a high-necked: yellow sweater.

THEY'RE YOUNG AND NEAT The Banday dress

in black and while tweed, with a good bell, (By Mins Spectator.) The cvening dress in a firm fabric, a grown-up colour.. (Lilao velvet dress by 'Polly' Peek.) The first-job sult with the shortie Jacket and knife-pleated skirt. (Paris designed, by Carven Junior.)-Pictures, by DAVID OLINS.

OUTDOOR CAREERS' wh

CAREERS which specially need recruits are a vast range of scientifle and technical jobs, the fashion business and secre- course. inrint work. A good secretary has the entree anywhere.

NEWS IN TEENAGE FASHION

NYONE would think (from the way you grumble) that

the worst problem in the world was buying teenage clothes

which THE DOMESTIO SCIENCE are crying for more women are, CAREERS (cooking and cater- Mary farming, poultry, and bed-ing)

All I can say in, I wish I were are not recommended by buying a dress for my Arst job keeping. The best method is to the experts for the young girl, spend two years on a farm and

Arst year at college ... as the work is too hord. Most or fest grown-up party. then

take # year's training big hotels won't look at you.

. The secret of good teenage JOBS for which you are too dressing is to bo gloriously not. young ore air hostesses,

dress where you'd most Bay * social service work, and beauty thought of getting separates. culture. Clients don't like very

Get hon-crush fabrics with young girls worlding on the old plenty of body.

Grow wrinkles.

Many girls want to be grooms

Some of the slentine jobs or kennel maids. But these are need a long training, such

as dead-end jobs.

rudlography, dentistry, dietetics,

but it's worth it every time.

| ព.

In many others, you can train

you work. Big industrial firms have, trainee schemes for technfch and engineering jobs. The Civil Service trains your

group for

of a range laboratory and hospital, jobs,

age

A French Party Plan

und

I

TALINA Labourdette, and tell them to cut off chunka

they fancy, pretty young French of anything atar, has started a new party give them plenty to do, a corner

butter their own baguetics. plan in Paris. She calls it for dancing, another for games, the Sur-Boum party, and sho quotes, deck tennis, skittles. A Eays "It's a cross between.n treasure hunt. Plenty of corn- fairground and a plenic.".

petitions."

For a Sur-Bourn you need And for decorations, Elina small garden, three borrowed, fills wheelbarrows

with pay handcarts covered with gully vegetables-tomatoes, red and coloured paper frills piled high yellow peppers, marrows, auber- with delicious cheese hage Elses, instead of Blowers. scarlet Edam cheeses, Camem- The guests wear jeans bert and Brie in gay boxes, big short, aquat on the grass slabs of cream cheese, lots of plastle cushions, and help them- cooked meats, and gay fresh selves to wine, beer or elder out. fruit cherries, pineapples, af, big barrels, perchon, apples, melons.

“You can havo Eur-Boun

or

do

"I find, guests, easier to anter- ienytime of the day, but if you thin when they' are left to choora the Bur-Baums do: Nult cartertain themselves, and, each then hang up plenty of coloured diher, so I silva, sech oba a knito lanterns," she added.

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kt. La DeliaTOR WISHI:

Now, for fashion jobs.

more about

The Feminine Touch Has Priority In The WRAC

the uproar. from White girls do much better than the

pressing

Thall that grented. Mr men she said, ran into

silent.

Sandya's recent move to my hand, streamline the Services, the From this I learned that voices of Britain's 4,500 there are as many na 50 Army WRAC®

which hove bcen were atrangely trades

suitable for approved as more girls, such es postal worker, For while Service Chiefs in mess steward, radar mechanie, Whitehall have been winding signal tradeswoman. clerk themselves in red tape over supervisor. :questions at compensation and Which "tzada has the most: resettlement,' the WRACY

in appet for today's young their chintzy bilfets throughout recruits? the country have been doing a

of celebrating. spot

Word has gone out that the Women's Royal Army Corps' (s

Learn about coloure out of the baby pinka and blues. the Get your eye in for grown-up

colours.

Modelling is a short, precari-

Wear beautifully neat: aktris, Sce that your sldrt is dead!

ous carcer unless you are one level.

See that your petticoats

of the 20 prettiest girls in are shorter than your skirts. Britain.

Take of the junk. See how

But dressonalding and design-, few accessories are worn by the ing aro a splendid field,

girl in my pictures

meen

Designing does not making pretty sicctches "because you adore clothes" "It means going into a fashion, workroom, where you may start at: £5, a week, and learning and working at the same 'time, ' Later, you can become a dressmaker, a cutter, or a designer,, with the sky, the limit

Fashion journalism is another [good field. „How to: wotn in? [|X′ cay, start" nga: socretary, and

get a job on a esagazine..

Selfing is another." The: hops from salesgirl to under-buyox. In

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"Delving is casily the most popular," said the Colonel. "A lot of the girls have romantic visions of themselves whistding

OPPORTUNITIES

Almost any hairstyła ta` acceptable.

the Colonel "But we wouldn't - want it otherwise. What, botter proof is there that serving la the WRAC doesn't destroy a girl's feminine appeal?".

In recent years the entire WRAC "top brass have been giving a great deal, of thought to the

"Teminine question of

appeal." The result is that the modern WRAC can now claim that, like the Queen, she is dressed by Harinell and capped by Ange Thaarup.

The latest concession to girl- Ish falbles is the abolition Issue underwear,

"Thoso awful wartime popiln drawCre!" The Colonel winged at the recollection. Nowadays, nylon

to double its numbers VIPS. around in limousines from quickly as possible.

ono top-secret meeting to the WRAC Training another." Depot in Guildford 1 discursed the nowa with the Camp Com- mandani, Colonel Gibson. Shn Con the 4,000 brand-new La one of the top-ranking WRACS that the corps bopes to offlecrs in the Corps-but no recruit during the coming year battle-axe.

expect good chances of promo-

underwear tion? GRACIOUS LIVING,

as frivolous as can be found in "Certainly," Bald Colonel, any West End store, is on sale Deaplie the masculino Gibson, emphatically. "There in the NAAFI. severity, of her khaki battle are endless opportunities. Dock- The vexed question of hair- dress, andi the business-like ground and education do not styles and make-up ling also collection of maps, charts and affect a girl's progress.

One of been acitied. Any hair-siyle graphs on her office walls, the our girls worked as a domestic but the brazenly Vamploh or Colonel pouring out coffee at servant in civilian life. She is wildly bushy, is acceptable on her desk, somehow managed to now # first-class shorthand duty and make-up la en- suggest a Belgravia hostess in- writer and personal assistant to cournged — provided 1 is terrupted in

reasonable. gracious living.

The Colonel's own nails woo vornished rose pink, and her make-up (11patick and powder) were applied with discretion,

moment of a general."

The biggest obstacle to pro- motion in the Corps la marriage,

It was high time, the Colonel asserted, that the number of WRACs was increased,

"So many of the girls leave "after all there are dozens to get married as soon as their of jobs in the Army which our three-year term is up," sald'

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