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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, · 1938.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

I TRACK DOWN THE CRAFTY CULT

By Veronica Papworth

THEY ARE BRINGING A TOUCH OF HUMANITY

INTO OUR MACHINE-MADE HOMES

REPORT on the cult of I took a swift look round

An the CRAFTY. Business their current exhibition.

atured arrogoni pottery cat Is booming in the small back from a corner, a sequin- shops dotted

round town embroidered tea cosy vied with and the Home Counties a bright needleworks picture... self-expression is in full spate the character shops

at the Craft Centre, specialising in craftsman- ahip. Hand-engraved glass, hand-thrown pottery (how Judicrously irate sounds) and hand-woven fabrica are nelling like hot cakes (hand-made cakes, naturally).

Now the kind of person who can be bothered to make a tea cosy look like a thing of beauty that always worth meeting. So I planned to tracks down a fow craftsmen and women,

It's a valle ince from a super- bundance of first-class production.

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Then I remembered my apron. I've had

for astes.

Called bought it from a placo the "Daisy Shop."

I ask you could anything sound more arty-crafty than that?

Yot In all the years I've been tosing round fla 16th-century showroom I've never seen any- thing on which I could pin the epithet "arty."

My apron

It's a litle treasure house of Good craftsmanship.

My apron-everyone instantly assumes it to be Italian-lus a gorgeous great cockerel the front, pecking into a casserole "pockel."

The rest is a riot of aubergines, mushrooms, peppers and similar succulents.

I discovered 11 was designed Miss Joyce and made by à Cilssold, of the Upper Butts, Brentford

There la Lady Bullard, who lovely ceramle makes quite Jewellery. "Arilliant," they told me-"and she does it all in the Aga at week-ends,"

There is Mrs Ursula Brock, who

at down wenver Tolleshunt D'Arcy-"she wove her own wedding dress.' A swift look

There in Michael O'Connel "In a setting that is entirely who designs and printy wall machine-made people are look- hangings at Much Hadham. "He the whole thing lag for something to HUMANISE seems to do their homes," says Mrs. Sheila with fat-irons and a couple of Pocock, the secretary of Lon- mangles. The results are wild- don'* Government-sponsored ly exciting and quite unique three Cruft Centre.

you must meet liim."

After five wrong turnings and circular tours of the district I found her—an absolute

darling in jeoma and a Colin Viliseni awantur,

Her tiny Georgian house has a fragile iron balcony with wisterda thick in the trunk ma a man's thighs-twistedi round it. I couldn't be sure which sup ported which,

inside, the rooms alow with colour.

the time they're mass-produced L'or: to: something. different anyway.

"I just love thinking things up and: the brighter the batter;"

And- T lava lo meet such Tenuine characters,

How different they, are from the typical "Telly" personality She showed me her pictures -how warm and friendly and crazy scones of plenics, parties above all. how, relaxed They'll and jumble sales-a mixture at never give each other the right fabrics, old-fashioned kind of pen in print. They'll cut-out

indigestiom "grape," drawing, painting and never endorse any

pills--they don't need them

embroidery.

Then men, in contrast, 100%

particular, COL splendid-kr Ralph Davies Cooke by Simmon Elwes AllA, sitting "easy" with and hand our hie kies.

As for "Bon Geo" by Janes Prudfoot RP- Ron looks smashing, a roal. "one,"

There he alls wearing an ok cloth cap. bis spectacles, a mutter and a zip-fronted jacket that won't quite meet.

That's the way to be painte Art that goes for the women,, too,

Better an old muffer than a what every pletured

Sho showed MTLO Aprons, cushion

P.S. ON CRARTS: If you, too, covers. scarves and.

quite there are studios in town where other bold. colourful and lengths of fabric-all with her feel the urge to "throw" a pot stolemyhich is unmistakable hand blocked you can express yourself for a wearing.

fairly small feo. designs.

In concrote Escorted by a Siamese cat and a dog, doing tricks-"he used to be a Punch and Judy player' we toured the studio where the printing is done"the flussian theso Ballet once danced on tables, they're bedded down in concrete;"

Also, one bright group offers oneter in. lurge - green

in potteryjn

"It's because the arms are ng-

suld a knowledgeable hat koliday clantes malting for children, A fine who toured the exhibition with chance for all parents who like me. "And if they can drape it

their to zee

offspring "doing over the hands it saves hours of something."

So stiff

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work.

There's one exception to all

doesn't wear this, one who stola, one who looks come fortable, beautiful and very, comes over

ix happy-she-

Lady woman when she alts for her very portrait? SUL, angular and Sebzight-painted by Anthony strangely self-conscions the Devas, ARA

"Now that really has corne girls in the Royal Society's curw rent Exhibition look as if they off," said my guide in the groon wish they were anywhere but hat.

I think so, too, By there.

I was looking for something to sketch something that could not be copied.

"Bketch anything,” said Miss Clissold. "Half my designs get pinched, but I don't worry.

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CAN WE CHANGE THE SUBJECT?

A Plea To Women When Friends Meet Friends

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by

JOY

MATTHEWS

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He's Human

By ANNE HEYWOOD

NE thing that we tend

ONE

to forget is that

ein-

ployers are members of the

not

draw on human race-even poten- tial employers! This may seem, so, when you're bare on a job-hunting interview, and he'll turn it into Shop." but the man on the other side of the desk is a breath-

carth

Day subject to the Shop

RONING

from between you and your bank bores who have to away

their capital. Poor things, noon to night the manager.

Mention Now the way you manage to three biggest bores have

or on him been having it their wheedie, seduce,

1957: own way In

Food, Into letting you get away will

is dinner party gossip. Money, Shop.

Politics, Art, Fashion, Once it was a nutter of de Religion even our old cent relicence whether you paid

super tax or not, friend Sex haven't ቢ chance once the Food boro Now directors of big com- gets the bit between his panies spend hours fascinating

Tell the oil wizard of the sleepy-cyed ladies with details teeth.

of the brillant come-back they terrible traffic jam in Trafalgar Squaro and he'll answer Before you can sy roust made to their accountant that proudly: "You should see the beef to the waller he tells you morning.

Jams I cause when I have a there's nothing

good Ilke

Once, ច lady who was refraction pipe sent down food; and the only divorced irled to hush English

it up. the refinery." place for a steak and kidney Now she bores you to tears,

that We all know pud is a dingy little pub in and even envy, telling you how

the for Gloucestershire.

terrible it is trying to make change ends meet £2,000 a year be interested in food: we all

know that money is scarce most of us work.

Talk of a play to a medical

bore and he'll point out howing soul, as you are. the woman in the second scene has all the symptoms of some fell disease he once cured 1943.

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multer

Before you can cheddar, the cheese champion alimony.

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tells you about the wonderful It's now noi

a matter of Camembert from the Charente, keeping up with the Joneses And I once ake delicious roast but of keeping down with the veol listening to a blow-by- Robinsons, and letting every blow account of how they cook one know just how much every- veal in butter, Marsolati, and thing costs-a8 If you didn't sage in Portofino.

know.

to!

It is a English to

These three subiects dominate On Ilves-50 for goodness' sakte let's drop them when we're having fun,

Let's go back to the lovely Опсе цреп time un over- And my biggest yawn of relaxing subjects-Politics, Arty draft wan 1 guilty secret Al Is for the hard-done-by Fashion, Religion, and Sex,

VERA WINSTON SUGGESTS

Gift List Lingerie

Resort Wear

Winter White

If you can remember this, you'll have a lot less trouble with job interviews.

Suppose, for example, you are an older woman, like Mrs Mel, who wrote me,

Mrs Mel is married and has

two in three grown children, college, onc married with E home of her own.

Years Ago

Mrs Mcl used to be in bus ness, years ago during the de- pression. She was a filo clerk in a large company, but she married after just couple of years and basn't worked out- side the home since then.

Now, anxious to get a job so that the children; can have ex- tras and so the family savings account can grow, she is having a terrible Lime.

"Nobody wants to hire the aider woman," she writes, plain- tively. "I've been to employ- ment agency after employment agency, and they are imposable,

Temperamental Older Woman Won't Be Eltred.

and won't blank card

even. talic to me. And I want to ex- plain that...."

No Explanations Well, nobody wants explar- tions, and when

woman goes

in with a chip on the shoulder, nobody will listen to her. Ws dificult, I know, but here to what Birs Mel, and warmery. Hiber her must de:

Get same kind at tem- porary job,

cretamission on sales. If you want to work with people, you have to, as the toen-agers say, "make me know it"

If you can sell cosmetlen or

·NDUROWANES on a door-to-door

even for д while

"I want a job working with basis, people, but they just look at my you are proving that you mean'

business, that you have courage and really like people,

Also, it gives you the all- important "recent experience."

Study Typing

:

Study typing at home or through your adult education programme. That will prove that

arc

open-minded flexible and able to learn now tricks.

you

and

When you fill out an applien- tion card, do it neally, and put down any volunteer jobs, you've done. After all, they are work, even if unpaid."

In short, the employer is hu man, and he's afraid: the older housewife is too used to being her own boss, too prima-donna- ish, incapable of learning, and hard to get along with.

If you can prove he's wrong. hơ'll hire you!

-{London Express Service).

ARPECK

TRULY EXQUISITE FRENCH PERFUME

also: MY SIN

. SCANDAL RUMEUR PRETEXTE

LANVIN PARFUMS

ARPEGE

EXTRAIT DE LANVIN

PARIS

Great, Great, Grandmother

welcomed it in.

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LACEY and lovelier

thank

ever, yet never more practical,

is this season's crop of linge-

PRINTED cotton for brach

tie, for the gift list or

WHITE is a favourite winter present to oneself. A dainty, wear is done in a modifed hue-perfect, of course, por re-

good spirit short-length nightdress is typi sheath silhouette. The sheath, sort wear, and 2

What Does It Say?

"For

STATISTICS about the Toe limen," be rigs, "an

and his habits are given in the Medical Presa. The figures have been compiled after years of research by doctors and child special ista.

Dr B. S. Illingworth, Pro- fessor of Chili Health at haa Sheffield University, collected them.

in. response to his mathes a overtures at, six weeks But one can observe froos two or that he watches three weeks his mother more and more in- she sparks, opening and closing his mouth and often bobbing his head up and down."

tently

-THE AVERAGE BABY' cun alt up firmly at sight to nine inthe, and walk wiiteruk. support at 13 manim. He will play with a rule at thoms Dr Illingworth, saya the

months, shid, 'ga' for ti. at five average British baby weighs menthe. At 10 monika, he will, throw objecti am between 7% and 7% poinda dellberaidy at birth and gains about the floor..

eight oures a week during

the first three months.

Hour' lasigh

*Tim. - másiker maith he will THE AVERAGE GIRL, at play pat-a-cakej add two

one year weighs 1816.

His frit tooth

THE AVERAGE BÖY walgha'

cat at the trend. It is of incidentally, holding is own, litter, for folks who can't get black sheer tricot laid over despite tho chemisc dress, away. It is the colour chome for pale blue sheer tricot, Black Tones of orange, pink and yel- & sim youthful dress, fine aub. He usually cuts his first, salin Hibbon at the necir forms low colour the white

bacic almost any daytime doings writ

months lacher in repeating porfatynähpek.. leughadh, st.,

THE AVERAGE BABY, Wellh turn, his heact to strich am obe

* DI MARCHÉ At thren zurtha. She dasa fect more an eight weeks, or sh a long streamer bow, and a ground. The line is broken by perfect under the fur coat. The Referring to mental develop chew at six months, but it is not unity unill he is 154 monitis almilor satin

half seaming on each side of the ment, Drhlingworth stresace that he can hold a tip without ham; both neckline-

tled he front. Seaming front is marked by two seif, that it is a mistaken, sio resani priting. At the age of one, ha hi are sparked with black lace as from, the neckline terminates bows poed vertically at the the so-called-fallétiones

snöpning. Well. And, for an extra touch in pockets at both sides. The walet. Zipped in back, the develops hores kit which can say three words with

band rims

the 。 higher-than-waistline and hem belt

of charm black velvet rosca dream clogs, with a zipper in dress has a plost for essa in

motion. bacic for perfect; ft. are focked onto the fabric

of

arh muddenly loaned in a sort

'of all-or-nobe" way.”;

--(Landon Bepress Beritest,

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