1958-03-29 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1958.

PRACTICAL

Easter Lily Trolley_Cloth

HOMECRAFT

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VERONICA PAPWORTH TALKING..

Well, what's wrong

with a good fake?

A

A

RE you a house snob? As one who dearly loves what There is Svend in Paris, there

MEMO TO SLAVE DRIVERS

#6 TTOW to handle

'H women,'' that's

what I want to write about having read Mrs Eliza- beth Pepperell, of the In- dustrial Welfare Society, on Women Working for Men.

Summed up in live and a half as delivered past week by her this

THEY'D RATHER WORK FOR ATEN."

Is tent of rural Britain I'd a dam is Auge Thanrup in London and ... A furniture snob?

sight rather see an out-and-out there is a third with one foot in A must-be-ye-old-this- fake built of old bricks and each capital. He is Erik-self that-or-the-other-at-all-costs roofed with old tiles blending styled "the hat man." #nob? You wouldn't have into the surrounding groups

I found him at Claridge's sur "reproduction" in the homes thap I would have i gins place? If you're not, you've find stutero iriangle on stilts--all rounded by heups of hats piled words the answer

le Corbusier and climbing plants high like French patisserie and

driving a blinding whhe wedge looking equally

preparing for his mammoth into the countrysida.

Continental architecture has show. out bright boys spellbound-bul it won't do here.

no doubt met one. There are plenty around.

It doesn't matter if the chairs are teetering on lop-sided legs, They're GENUINE,

its

Who cares if the bed feels as If it's stuffed with bricks? It's romoured Queen Anne orice slept on 31. It's GENUINE.

This snobbery reaches peak with houses. Just let any one try to build a country house to blend with the landscape, "Stockbrokers' Tudor!" ery the

purists.

Of all the words that hilari- ously funny man

Osbert Lan caster has written,

two these alone are no longer funnya.

ILL-CONCEIVED

to

They have been worked death in the past few years-ar epithet pinned on almost any- thing with a bit of timbering about any house, in fuel, not strictly contemporary

And that's another word that has me

"Contemp what the blazes does it mean-apart from "of the present"?

delectable

"You know," said he, "ave he hundred people are coming-all

customers all friends."

What looks dreamy on the banks of Lake Lucerne looks laughable sited on a hill above the Walford by-pnes.

isig

de- the

1 tackled him on the new hem- lines in relation to hats.

So I'd like to hand EL

"Oh, these new short skirts, bouquet to the chaps who

they are so exelting," said he. "So said the Berg House at

young. But the bats to go with Ideal Home Exhibition.

staggering them must be wide, The Interior is

not high and heavy. You-know-who binck upholstery scattered with

making a beeg mis- puce, cerise and peacock grem Paris is cushions and a floor covered In take, Pleassoesque composition trl- angles in the silling room! But the exterior is fine.

M

I has a large Cotswold stone chimney stack, pleasant brown pantiles on the roof and a first- Anor faced

cedarwood with rtapbourding.

All the same I'm willing to bet Mesers Berg that 11 won't be fong before some elever guy calls IT "Stockbrokers' Cotswold."

Don't worry, boys. For what It's worth-F'm with you,

WHAT A HAT MUST DO

Yet it is applied to a parti- eularly sickening shade of neid yellow (contemporary colour). rex in stacento at lusthin level (contemporary

and THERE theatre), any ill-conceived house that has plenty of glass about it.

Danes

world.

are severn!

In the

smoshing millinery

"I do not say wide brims, but something about them must modest width."

he

I asked if he could think back to any shape of hat that considered perfect.

"Next season's hint," said he,

with a grin. "In this business we always look forward."

Yes, sir--every time. Sur- prised? No, of course not.

Nelther was the Research Institute of America

when it discovered the same thing.

But I did like the directive

then

all male issured to

Business need praise in greater quantities than men."

J!

employers starting-Women in

Splendid, isn't it—and,, as any career girl will tell you, it's absolutely TRUE.

that

My advice to all employers is a little nole of apprecia- tion or a few shillingsworth of flowers is the biggest investment a businesa man can make.

of There are plenty

cracks be made about boss and

to

"And what must n hat do for secretaries but in this case the war between the exés doesn't enter Into 1.

a woman, Mr Erik?"

"It must cry 'Look at me, peo how pretty I am. It must take 20 years off her age."

SIDE-STEPPING

"But seriously, are you saying that a hat can possibly do this for any woman, MP Erik?"

"There are," said he, with a bow In my direction, "solne

women who do not need it."

How's that for a neat plece of conversational side-stepping?

Could he account for the suc- ress that he

his fellow and Danes had had?

"In

my case

ense, said he, **It was accidental.

"I went to France for a short entering my

hollday

before

I've known

very happily married women who would put In hours of "unpaid overtime" on the strength of a note_"I do not know what the firm would do without you."

My own experience is of A editor 110, slave - driving certainly not my present one- who had thin' whole relationship buttoned up.

arc

"My dear," he wired the day my son was born, "you Incomparably the finest woman columnist in England and the most beautiful mother, What more can I say?"

Small matter that his secre- fnther's mili. I fell in love in tary wrote the following mom- ing: "The editor hopes you will Paris and with Paris,

"Now France is my home. I enjoy your fortnight in bed and have a villa in the South-Just retum refreshed, next Monday around the corner from Winston week at 9.30 prompt. Churchill. (He made it sound almost semi-detached.)

Lush 'em up, then bash 'em down. That, 09 any caveman "I go there for inspiration." could have told the Research and Miss Oh, to be a mliner now that Institute of America April's nearly here--especially a Elizabeth Pepperell, is the way milliner in search of inspiration." to handle women.

Materials

<1 balls selected

or tr.fr into next ch or tr; bik--block 4 tr. plus colour. 3 tr for each additional blk Milwards steel crochet hook in group. No. 3. (Slack workers could

hook use a No. 31

and fight workers a No. 214).

Tension

5 sps and 5 rowa (2.5 em.).

Measurements

DIRECTIONS

Commence with 248 ch. 1st Row: 1 tr into 8th ch from hook, x 2 ch, miss 2 ch, 1 tr into next ch; repeat

from x 79 times more (81

16 in. ~ 24 in. (40.6 cm, sps). 5 ch, turn.

61 cm.).

Abbreviations

ch lain: tr-treble; sp space 2 ch, miss 2 ch

2nd Raw: Miss first tr. 1

tr into next fr (sp made

over sp), (2 tr into next sp.

1 tr into next tr) 12 times

(12 blks made over 12 sps),

x 12 ch, miss 2 ch, 1 tr into next tr) 3 times, 10 blks; repeat from x 3 times more, 8 spa. 12 hikes, 2 ch, miss 2 ch. 1 tr into next ch, 5 ch, tarn.

1 times (11 sps made over 11 biks), x 1 blk, I sp, 1 bik, 10 sps; repeat from x 8 times more, I blk, 1 sp, blk, 11 aps, 1 bik, 1 sp, 5 ch, turn. Now follow diagram from 4th row to top, turn diagram and 3rd Row: Miss first tr, 1 work from arrow back to first tr into each of next 4 tr "ow. (bik made over bik), (2 ch,

Fasten off.

Damp and pin out to measure-

miss 2 tr, 1 tr into next tr) ment.

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1 in.

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WE have heard so much of formal clothes from Paris- ▼Vbut witnt, I mård DEMACHY, "of the work-end, off-duty; look?" He has sketched a country interior. On the left bold cheeked tweed skirt worn with a bright Jerary and nisteling wool stockings. In the ontre "easy" tweed multanin with bright wool stockings, On the right triped Jarsoy, dress with a twisted chiffon wart at the neck repeating the colours of the stripea,

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