1958-05-31 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1958.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

VERONICA PAPWORTH'S MID-ATLANTIC CABLE

PARTY PIECES

It's Just Like A Film At The Purser's Table

AND THE STAR IS DIZŻY ETHEL WHO SENT HER DOG TO A DOG COLLEGE

ABOARD the Britannic. telephones, no telly, no

"per-

No, no noise'n a negative

list for positive bliss in my case..

Picture all this nothingness in the old Britannic and it probably won't surprise you to know that my friends have been making round eyes for weeks and crying: "But why don't you FLY?"

I used to have evasiveness worked out to a nicety: "Not on the same plant-because of the children, you know" .. "So much fog at this dme of the year, Isn't there?"... "If it weren' for my defective car drum."

and

How I come right out into the open answer: "Because I'm scared STIEF." And I can't think why.

Statisties don't help. I know how safe it is. But just let me art fool on the runway and my innards are on the bell-my mind racing towards

disaster.

My past life rushes before my eyes--always the cullcat bits too.

flave I paid the butcher's bill? It don't come back will "they" give him his £14

15%. 40.7

What have such characters as Eva Bartok--- and Norah Docker gos thai I have not got? Eva files out (in backless dress, pot hat, and Bilpper") looking ng if she were just daslung

round the corner to buy the baby a bib.

North returns (in white without a crease in

it) looking as if she had just left the hairdresser's.

I'm yelling inside

Me? What with latening for a changing note in, the engine, watching the propellers, and keeping one eye open for any sharp moun- tain peaks that might loom up 1 arrive a nervous wreck.

Al to these ngoings" that (erful moment when the cap- tán cothes round to chat: "Do hope you e having a goed

"Get back. Get back. Who's watching the dials?" In yell- Éng talde me as I suste ign watery gris.

daw people are so nonchalant Smid-air.

*I've watched Richard Dim- bleby lying back with his shot- Inces unfastened-talking (n- turally)......Charlie

Cheplus

writing letters....Ekberg loop- Ang

Not me..

Fil take the, sea any day. Hero, In this beautiful blue nothingness, we laze--looking, if only Drk Boga.de were with us, extetly like the cast of Doctor at Sea.

As for the Hanelent" Britannic she is a perch of a ahip. Not plushy like some of the italian boats, bus "co]," Gently the roils, like an elderly porpoise, and in this little world of 1,200 souls on our to New York we friendstilus to last a week,...or a Ureilme,

Way

Dizzy

You want to shout at him.*

form they told me.

At the purser's table the feeling that I am taking my port in a Technicolour film persists. The pursery Jack Hawkins, with a. Ettle more gtay above the ears.

"Finally they suggested 1 Ket him psycho-analysed."

"And did you, Ethel?"

said she, with a "Aw, no," grin. "I just gave his little That straightened him out, fine." behind a good belling.

Yale tales

I've been introduced to Yale tales stories with a kind of

I give

Then there is Ethel, i de liciously dizzy Americal; Tum from Yale: Andy, the Biscuit hanging hamour in them, sach King; a bearded surgeon who as Yorkshire folk love. cquid stand in for James you a simple, Robertson Justice; and myself.

"Dad, why is little brother

We are a fine cast. All we running artrand in circles?" Wek is a Brigitte Bardol.

we-Ite in the suh, We faukta "Quit grumbling, toili ya, or and do nothing-making Arm I'll all his other foot to the resciations to swim, walk the floor."

decks or fidulge in, vidjent "Elfer it aloys you or t „gynindallės tomorrow..

leaves you coll," says Tom.

Petre be not BÖưu.

A KEEP-COOL SUIT FOR SUMMER DAYS'

It's so "easy," so cool, and no pretty to wear this Moy- gashel salt in pastel linen

The facings are of dotted Talho and there is a brick matching blouse.

You can buy it complete for soven guineas,

And I've been talking to soma

My guess is that most Dails

of the homing “American would rather go fishing OT couples.

sailing.

I asked "Pop" if it had been

I took drinka with a couple last night both of them well into their sixties, I judget, and his idea of a perfect holiday. both as excited as a couple of kids at all they have seen.

didn't enjoy it.

"It was for Mornma," he told "Not, mind you, that 1 But for years told her: 'One day, Momma, we'll gʊf

What asses we are to laugh me. at the coach loads "taking in"

as they told me they had I've taken in the Shakespeare country, Windsor Castle and Oxford College" in me day.

Would we?

At least they've seen it having saved hard for it, If only we could do the same But would thing in reverze,

we?

"I guess she's seen practicnily Everything cultural there was to be seen.

"Momma's a whale for cul- ture. Paintings, ruins, sculpture ~~wo've viewed the lot,

"I've worn out two pains of thin soled shoes and got myself a must neek-but she's happy?

"Wompil's country" all right,

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to

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

If your kitchen strainer is, formed at an angle to the crosÏ» rusted, it's time to throw it out, wise yama. Strainer wire that in thinly wear conted with will

You can cook more efficiently

Dancing at an angle of 25 The Biscuit King has told me degrees is exercise enough for all about golf.

"It's not a game-It's a whole Ethel Is my darling. She is philodophy. They say cleanli- ch, bir way to her daughter's neas in next to godliness. I'd put through and rust, so it pays to by fixing all the fresh vegeta- wedding the kide both have a golf next. You've got to have buy quailly in this, as in other bien, garnishes, and mlad malz couple more years at school, but a grip of yourself, you've got to kitchen They figure, it'll be cheaper for know when to apply power-but tile-boarding out,

controlled power. Oh, I could

Bhulgas, well-informed, go on about it for hours,"

He does.

yet mbèclutely many. 1 delight

equipment.

The instruction booklet ahy major appliance should be ready kept attached to 1, near it or

the

rials for all the day's meals af me time, The refrigerator will for keep them frem until you're

them. Our little world includes 40 in a pince reserved for several Skirt afterations are easier to in die touchs of an Americk surgeons all travelling to Con- much struction pamphlets. make than alterations on prosted wilk kahets, the ha

ference in Washington. Was If you have lost one, a new top of a dress, No it's wise to basso falling me haber there ever such a profession for one can usually be obtained by elect a sewing pattern by bust-

al, father than according pranešimo velitgt telding thop? Siding, with my writing to the manufacturer, Liang college, Rear, naturally, ears pinned well back, I've

1x MÍDR Dr Walsh, b wel keve, hita à six weeks leamed so much-ingure I'll A twil wenye in a malerfis Also, 17 calls to alter

know how to mew a woman in will drape better than path wadeliries Tribe hip line, to t Dʻyna; know when with peck for that sawy -hơ hair and now her togellir ein wenyn Tully wegveen Niamey Howtowering to at

by the time we dock. was unproved in any?

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FOR summer parties or week-end cocktails, make yourself a Paris ribbon frippery. They are also pretty with cotton frocks.

Easy to contrive yourself. Cheap, too. And French girls you can match them with each dress. love these party pieces that give a dressy look, yet leave their hairstyles gleaming and unruffled.

☆☆

Rix has sketched four ideas, all using ribbon, For the teenager, who wants to keep her fringe out of her eyes, there is the forehead band, passed under the hair at the back and fled in a rosette bow at one side. It takes a yard of satin or silk flowered ribbon and if your face is small you can have à bow at each side.

The more sophisticated girl, with good features, can wear a broad Alice band of velvet ribbon, pin- ned with a brooch or a flower. In the centre skatches you see how effective it is either with a fringe or a swept-back hairstyle.

This band takes half a yard of ribbon and has a small insert of elastic under the hair to give it a firm grip.

Glamorous touch for cocktail parties achieved by attaching a brief matching under the band.

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can be eye veil

Doctors Debunk A Few Food Fallacies

by ANNE GLIDEWELL Wovery woman aunt. So long to they take

HAT

ample,

food-is due to hit thee having as good a diet as the meat eaters. The kibustion la grocery counters in booklet different, however, for those who form fext week.

eat no animal products what-

who "More Fun with Your, Such people,

called Vegas, áro Foul" in, a hook put out by having an fhadéquate diet, the British Medical Associa-

ATE

jolly

tion in which a group of Slimming & Fattening

dectora debunk

all

the

popular fallacies about diet. TREND are no such things The medical profession is so e climming foods or fattebing worried about the bad effect

has

fois. What matters in loding

Incls of variety In British diela of gaining weight is whether you is having on the health of the eat fewer calories then you use, country that the B.M.A.

or more than you use, Eat foo spent £80,000 having 3,000,000 few and you lose weight. Ent eoples of this book printed.

In It, nutrition experts mix a host of out-of-the-rut reelpes with some sharp, pithy medical comments on common food mis conceptons. Some extracts:--

Fats & Thrombosis

more and you put it on. So from this point of view what muters is how much food you cat rather than what food you eat. Usually, it you want to lose weight, you must cut down, en carbohydrates. So you can say that, on the whole, foods which contain little or no carbohydratog ors slimming, and foods rich in MANY people believe that carbohydantes - which means

diszase coronary

caused starches and sujRIS-Aro by eating 100 much fat, or too likely to be fattening. But they much animal fat, for example, have the fattening effect only butter,

eggs. meat. Or too if you eat too much and ìituch much buller-fat from

milk, too often. butter, or cheese. Or too much "hardened" fats-margarine and some of the cooking fats. Con- trariwise, they believe that eat-

15

Sugar

more

inx vegetable, fat is procetive THERE is o peculiar holion end lessens the chances cor that the mucky skuit which is uniary disenie. But it cannot be auroine± sugar is in some way thown comparing statisties ghly nutritious. It is true that In different countries that tooth a trace of some things much fat cquals more coronary is iron and a vitamin or two, disease. There are too many The amounts, however, arn von exceptions, So do not let any shingly small, and you could theories about coronary disease not possibly get any worth- spoil your enjoyment of your while quantity tiless you ato mopia.

Enjoy all the fats-in ridiculously large quantities ot moderation.

unrefined sugar.

Vegetarians

Take It Easy

● A PROPER vegetarian diel HAVING at least a few can be just as good as ong con- uninules rest after meals La taining meat. Most vegetarians certainly one way of making In this country are really lusto- digestive troubles less likely. If vegetarians. They will toke milk you cannot apare 15 minutes to and milk products such as take things easy after the main cheese. Often they olso eat eggs. meals you have twice odzy, Here the mutritional answer is yours is a badly ordered lift.

Large tailored bows of nylon or taffeta vare charming pinned on a fringe. Set it sideways as in sketch on the right, aftached to a curby-grip. or wear it straight across the head just above a wispy Aringe.

-(Londom Express Service).

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THE CRACKER LINE

NOW there

chance of fine weather We dre all looking for a dress to suit that Saturday night party.

It must be fashion. conscious, in furie with, the new mood, cool to wear, pretty to look at and budget-priced to sult a slim, young ... purse.

Here are two Sum mer Stáis in the £5. price range.

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For the short girl, a cracker-line dress in Balt-white pique, sperk- ed with gold, trimmed with

three large, rosettes, Price £4 14s.

6d.

Her taller companion wears flower-print shantung "cocoon" dress, with a dramatic draped back. In green, yellow and brown floral print, it costs 5 guindas..

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