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THE CHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 19677;

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

THE QUEEN'S SLINKIEST DRESS

by JOY MATTHEWS

Robo

THE QUEEN wore this dress

given by Mr John Foster Dulica,

Thirst

I'

you read rules about healthful living-and I hope you don't--you will see one that says everybody should drink six glaason of water each day. "What's that?" you may say, "I've Just Anished reading a book which says 10 glasses of water a day is essential,” And your next-door neigh- bour might immediately contradict you and say that he has just read in an thoritative pamphlet that eight glasses are required.

HV-

That's just why I hope you don't read health rules.

ing patterns you may favour better health, but

art

Mrs. TOPOLSKI DOES NOT SIT WITH HER GUESTS

---When be serven them with

her Polish dishes

Mrs. Tapaiski “¡ esjby sening."

by HELEN DUAKE

to

then adds the vinegar in which It rested and oncurdy bolling water barely to cover the meat, (This pan-to-fit-tho-meat is a good plan for all braising). If o large par must be used, half cover the meat with the liquid and turn it from time to time, In any case, it will require alx hours' alow cooking in a covered it has come to the pan, once

Frankfurter Uses, radishes sit down make "flowers,"

shelled shrimps or

pardey boil. prawns, and chopped and chives for the guests to help themselves. Also puts separately ametang

(sour cream) with,

bulk in yoghurt,

eaten into it, a quarter of its

PIECZEN PO POLSKU

The gravy will be greatly reduced and the meat soft and with the bacon. Finally, the gravy is tinged slightly pink slightly thickened with a little flour and water,

You can't be healthy by WHEN I heard that Mrs Feliks Topolski, wife of rule. By information and the exorcise of sensible Hy-the famous artist, was her- self Polish, loved to cook the dishes of her mother- that's quite another thing, land and serve them at her "Oh, yes," you say, "that's parties, but never sat down sileed

de all very

well, but don't with her guests, I What termined to meet her: dodge my question.

My information, us it furned about. that six-eight-ten-out, was only partly right. Mrs glasses-of-water business? Topolski, formerly Marlon

Korda They can't all be right, | Everall, a

"starlet," is can they? And yet they Irish-but she does serve Pollsh food and she does not cat with all authorities aren't her guests, "I enjoy serving my they?

guests," she says, "they would not be adequately looked after Well, first of all, I think it I did not wait on them." they're all wrong for being

Mrs Topolski is slender and specifie on a general topic. And tallish, with most expressive then I think they're all right, brown eyes and a very generous because some days you and gentle mouth. She wore beige- Mrs Topolski makes deepish and 1 holes in the meat with a sharp may need six glasses, some days) toned corduroy jeans

and forces 30, some days eight. Some days, Russian-lype aver-blouse while knife

unamoked bacon more. We don't she prepared the Polish dishes I maybe even

andi a good clove of gorlic need a rule on this matter. We watched her make.

into them. How much have a simple and sensible gulde Here is Mrs Topolski's cold bacon? As much as the meat -THINST.

take will

without losing its Cover well washed peeled shape. (I would say 4lb.). beetroots with water, Add a She then es it neally and both. little sugar and a little vineger sprinkles it with pepper with pepper and salt to taste, and simmer until the beetroots are cooked through. Strain and chill the liquid.

SAFE CUIDE

50

In all ordinary circumstances, thirst is a sale guide as to the amount of fluid intake. For the sake of simplicity, it is usual to all speak of water intake, bit fulds count soups, beverages, and the water content of food- stuffs, which may be consider able.

When a person has been de- prived of fluids, he becomes thirsty. At the same time, the amount of water in the body is reduced. But if the mouth s' kept moist, without swallowing liquid and, therefore, -without supplying the body's water de- helency, the thirst is relieved. And there

conditions in which thirst occurs when there, no water deficiency in the body.

are

Dryness of the moath is often a symptom of emotional disturb- ance-rage, fright, joy, surprise, shock.

An Oriental device to test the

innocence or guilt of an ac cused person is to require him to chow and swallow a bowl of dry cooked rice. If his mouth is dry, and he is unable to do

seup:

Put a litle Into each plate together with a small cube of Ice. Pasa, separately or on a large flet dish or board, small cubes of beetroot and cucumber,

THIS is Polish braised beef. For to servings one

needs 3lb. to 3lb. lern top. side beef.

SERNIK

THIS is a Polish cheese-cake, For 7 to 8 servings, fino o 9-Inch plo-lin with rich short crust pastry, Slove 12oz. cream cheese, Work Into it 40%. sugar,

the 20z, ground almonds and grated rind of a lemon,

Beat in 4 egg yolks, one at a butter. time, and loz, melted Add 2oz sulianas or raisins or Whip the egg whites and until they are stiff but not too

Fold them into the mixture. Turn it into the pro pared tin and bake for 30 to 35 minutes at 400 degrees Fahr. cr mark 0.

salt. Next, she places it in a dry. bowl and pours a cup of malt vinegar over it. Sho turns (t from time to time in this vinegar bath, then, it possible, leaves it over-night,

For 4 to 5 servings, I would Next she selects a pan in halve the ingredients and we a which the meat fits with little 01⁄2-inch tin," or no space surrounding it. Sho

--(London Express Scrvloe).

THE TEN WOMEN

I'D PUT

IN THE

HOUSE OF LORDS

THE Members of

the

House of Commons, bronzed and fit from their vacations in Brighton, Blackpool, and other holi-

so, ho Is regarded as guilty. The day centres, returned to

test. of course, is unfair,

since duty, with an interest- innocence plus fear could causa ing, though hardly novel,

the same reaction.

item on the agenda

Excessive thirst is a symptom for the next session: the re- of some diseases,

form of the House of

Now Peerossos

THEY SHOULD

GINGER UP

THE DEBATES

by AMANDA MARSHALL

of

Diabetes insipidus, not to be Lords. confused with diabetes mellitua {ԱՐՈՒ diabetes), is accom.

on in the world from the speeches before they delivered panied by great thirst, huge

Wollenden Report to Mira Dale them in the House, thus greatly Diary, Her conversation and her raising intake of water, and great out-

the general level put of urine. The

One excessive

of the proposed outlook have a bite and sparkle apoken argument and molding urination can be stopped by methods of putting some which would enormously help life more picasant all round as denying the patient water, but ginger into the Upper to keep the Lords awake, even well as more productive. then he suffers from thirst. The House is to mix in with if not all of them could under- (0) Mr Gerald Legge, be- disease is treated by injections

kland her point.

cause she is really so interested of a hormone from the pituitary the Lords temporal and

(2) Miss Vivien Leigh, because finally give her a happy niche in politics, and because it would spiritual a cheering propor- she is the Uncoroneted Peeres of her own. Dinisetes mellitus, too, exhibits tion of Peoresses--both one of the theatre (which is, after sto in clothes would give those thirst as one of its symptoms.assumes, those that exist all, the auticus

of the Now Lords who determinedly re- Here it is accompanied by ex- already and also some Aristocracy)

'mained Unreformed something cessive hunger, increased urinary a pocial Parliamentary has already made her maiden to think about over ten. output, loss of weight, weak- Peoresses who would be speech in the Lords, which is ncts. drowsiness, and other

micro than some of the existing symptoms. The distinctive created for the purpose. Members of the House have feature of this disease is the loss t

gland.

resulting in coma.

and because · sho

been ablo or willing to do,

(3) Mrs Phyllis Digby Morton,

Also because her

It's only fair

of needed sugar through the Now, in spite of the admir-

(7) The wife of whoever urine, with disturbed fat utilisable Lady Astor, Mrs Braddock, because she is the established happens to be Prime Minister tion in the body, and acidosis Lady Megan Lloyd-George and head of that very vocal body of at the time because It's only fair

the rest, I still feel that polities women, the Lady

Journalists; and would preserve a belter for women has been a hat that because she is as pretty as a balance of power all round, to so far has never quito Sited picture, and as powerful as a say nothing of jollying things up a too-big cloche, perhaps, pulled rocket-launcher; and because at home. down over those fearless eyes, or

(8) Dame Edith Sitwell,

DRINK WHEN THIRSTY

them seem to have

hum and

buzz and send out

Haemorrhage is often accom" i an honest felt that says: sunything she touches begins to panied by thirst, but observation I'm a woman but look how re- sparks within half an hour. (It because some moro magnificent af blood donors showed no 112 clination on their part to com-markably sensible and serious- would not really surprise me to background that lecture-halls plain of this symptom. A blood minded I am, too."

find that in fact she had been and poetry-reading platforms donation involving loss of a pint It is possible, of course, that secretly opted into the House of has got to be found for her, and Vatican or Chartres of a full-skirted ball dress for of blood apparently, is not the existing Pecresses may have Lords quite some years ago, and as the

Cathedral uro not available, the Tin Washington at a banquet a big occasion. The second time enough to approach the stage of something of value to contribule was merely biding her uma.)

she has dared to be different----| abocit, in which thirst definitely to polliles, though not many of (4) Mias Veronica Wedgwood, House of Lords is the only place and got away with fl,

does appear.

revealed the historian, because aho has a left where she would look in her

All living view of history, a strong element. The actual sensation of thirst much enthusiasm so far. And I feel that she is right.

trained mind of

(0) Mlan May Uro, because the same, it would be delightful intelligence a anil stender is due to dryness of the memfor the backwoodsman For both the sleek

peara, precision-instrument accuracy she is married to Mr John dressça she has worn have been of the mouth and throat, rugling up from the shines to and clarity, and no reluctance Osborne and would thus provide

which dry out when evaporation a great success,

accepting public' respesial- a ready-made source of fuel to from their surface in more rapid do their bli, to have someona for

decorativo ps Bay, the bully. Her intellect has done feed the furnace of his feelings then moisture can be replaced.

class system in Therefore a disturbance in the Duchess of Devonshire to look nothing to swamp a delightfully about the secretion of saliva may in itself at through the long, watches of warm and feminine personality, England, and thereby provoko

tedious debato.

which makes her a good sort of severni endra gratifyingly cœura» anodel for woman politicians to versial plays, have around.

It is sleek and shimmering and slender

of New MU 030 York's skyscrapers the slinki- est dress she has ovèr worn.

Even more slinky than the allver streak that stole the show izi Paris.

NORMAN HARTNELI, scalp. tured a dress of icy splendour, a pletening column

of aqua- marine-blue crystals that show- ed off the Queen's brûlant alda and outstanding colouring,

And. instead of the inevit-

diMoute-to-handis abla nud atate, the dress is joined to long matching scarf which the Queen wognd round her throat And which hung down the back.

be a cause of thirst.

It is apparent that so qimple

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Elegant

Mischievemily

a sensation as thirst may have. great significance. If these continuous thint, in spite of the Who then might profitably be

· (16) opportunity

Nancy Mitford the recruited from the ranks of to have #11

(5) Mrs Cool Woodham- (to be an honorary oversens water desired, there should be women outside? My own per- medical

blographer Investigation looking sonal list of Ladies Most Likely Bath,

of member), because she once said beenuse mischievously, 1, and blendly --n for possible causes. But To Succeed in the Lords would Florence Nightingale, ordinary everyday living, it is run something like this:

che is an elegant, genile woman wan't it to Richard Dimbichy? nosdicas to be cluttered up with (1) Mi Rose Macaulay, with a mind that can give order Of course I'm shob. Aras't

facts and a prase you?”

because of In the dress formulao. When you are thirsty because she has a lively tongue, to a M And the shoe under

crepe sandal | ~iako a drink,

an endlessly inquiring mind, the style so plearing that she might harplest among bilssful Poera, spirit of perpetual youth, and a be perranded upon to sub-edit even if unfornmately they aren't By W. W. Bauer,, M.D. Į passionate interest in what goes a few of the Noble Lorda rene.

.. It's a blue

stals to maļoti..

It is the second time the decorated with aquamarine cry- Queen has broken iha tradition

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