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WEEK-END

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1958,

WOMANSENSE

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Helena Rubinstein

The Cost Of Having A Baby (In 1958) DEEP CLEANSER

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NEVER realised until last week that baby talk could add up to so much in hard cash £148 to be exact, writes Mary Hamp Hon.

I have just heard from a Liverpool wife who went to the United States three years ago and has had her first baby in North Caro- linn. Altogether, ante-natal cure and the delivery the baby cost the proud father £148,

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That's a lot of money bul Mrə on to quote the advan- Iago (airicily of the cash basis) of having a baby in America.

"My doctor, in common with most doctors in these parts, dues not favour natural chlidbirth, preferring to give local anaesthe- fien aud pain-relieving pills until the barty i imminet, when you are sent off to steep,

"I wake up in bed feeling fine, and the same day was helped up and out of bed, in all, I slayed in the hospital five days.

"Very few Amertean women have their babies at home, and

with such cheerful, plensmit hospitals, who would want to? "On the whole, having a brby wonderful 1983 1 experience. A happy and enjoy- able event, and if it cost a lot, well everything has its price, ut he is our son and heir,"

"We did not mind paying to Amerlei much. After all, he is our son and help," she wrote,

But I can think of quile u few sons and heirs who would

have nothing to inherit if the

arrival cost so mueli

It is obvious that mothers in America face exactly the same

OVER THERE.

Over here

COST OF HAVING A BABY

THERE YOU HAVE IT, THE

Britain. We prid order thing differently, 05

certainly

economically. answer to tho Listen to the American baby, from a mulher in Manchester;

minar problemis mothers elsewhere. If you're a workin mother, for instance, when to You tell the boss?

Delighted

"I had a stood job," wacte Mrs X. "oud the đột thing I learned so far as Amerka ta concerned anyway is that employers much prefer to know nt the beginning, even the first member of the fru to know.

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They hate to find out through the eflce 'grape vine. As son ns I was certain about the baby, I let the boss know. He was deligsted, and toid me at once that my job would be there long as I wanted R, and would be waiting for me later,

"But I decided that i world atay at hin I was my fr baby and I wanted to enjoy hin or her.

The cost of antenatal vs and the delivery of the baby. which is carried out by your wwn doctor in the equivalent of About £83.

The Bill

"I had an Insurance willin 1 hand kept up after getting zurried, and is covered some of these costs, though not all.

"My hooptal bill, apart from the anle-nato} visits, rend: Semi-privato room and hoard; 12 dollars per day,

Nusery: Five days at dollars per day-30 dollars.

Delivery room: 20 dollars, Baby (presumably for attend Ang lum after birth): 6 dollars,

20 cents.

Anaesthetist: 10 dollars. Special laboratory; a dollar,

1 dollar,

jl ceuls.

House drugs: cents.

Special drugs: 19 dollar,, no ctats.

Dressings: 3 dollars, 60 cents. Telephone: 10 cents.

Baby's identification bracelet, birth certificate and odd items:

dollars, 50 cents,

more

"I don't wish to be unkind." the sold when I told her, "bu sometimes I have the idea that In Amterien it is assumed that the more you spend on bringing J baby info the world, "the healthter and happier the offi spring will be.

"High: at his moment, the

toveliest baby girl in the world insuring away in my home in Manchester,

She Is benurut,

and she didn't cost us a penny. in fact, Paving cut such things us prams and cols and cloth she was quite a profitable pro position.

Tax Relief

"Late the American mother, I min qufle convinced that my

baby and I had the best medical treatment anyone could wisth

"The first Ume

she cost us

78. Od.

"So you see, I found buy via every mother in this country can, that my baby ak i nd пvery cam ln the world for very inal cost. But far more im- polant was the absence of any vorry which money problems would have brought.

is

"We didn't have to think of nance when thinking of having

Blonde "Betty” Bacall Is Prettier Than Her Pictures

baby, and this peace of mind By JEANNE D'ARCY

worth all the pounds and

dollars in the world."

I wonder what other mothers

THEY sent a girl to do a Job day man would love

would say. China Mail Speefal.Interview Lauren Bacall,

Electric

Plate-Warmer

Shown By

Swiss At Fair

By Ida Bailey Allen

WE were visiting the VV World Trade Fair at New York's Coliseum, when the Chef said:

who was in New York TO- contly.

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The striking blonde flash- ed into Manhattan's famed 21 Club, waltzed out of stole, removed her dark glasses, brought hucheon hubbub to n standa.

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Even sophisticated New Yorkers turned around for second glance, And Betty that's what everyone calls her know everybody. She threw a greeting to a famous author, ex- tended a hand, which a British nelor klased, had a few words of French for Uie head walter.

"Restourant French," sho cx- ptained. In a smoky voice that could melt steel.

Prettier Than Pictures

F8th Century Fox

LAUREN BACALL appears cool and sophisticated in movio roles but face-to-face she has a warm, vivacious personality,

You expect lo meet a cool, sophisticated blonde. But Beby's Ho cool, she's warm, friendly, "The most Interesting animated and far prettier than item at the Swiss Pavilion any of her pletures. She photo- is an electric table plate graphs gaun und glamorous, warmer,

She's glamorous, all right, but Switzerland has her face

a wife, for the Arst is soft

and prolly woman,

ilme." the world round. introduced

Now that she's back before many fine gadgets for

Beauty secrets? Usc in the home as well is in

"Don't have any." said Bety, the cameras after a three-year restaurants and hotels.

"I'm, a soap-and-water girl."

absence, Belly's looking forward She pulled out an inexpensive to making more movies. der, fluffed some on her nose, plastic compact of pressed pow- checked her coral lipstick.

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homemaker to stay at table with *This one will enable any

her guests and, at the same time, serve the meal Di hot "Clothes plates. When the table is faith put the plate-warmer on it or on the hostess carl. Plug it in

anything wa on the day she was born. It cost us for the taxi to take to the bond the plates keep hot." pital.

"Ante-plat care. I'm

Variety of Soups

con-

else in the

vacxi, is as good in this e- "And here is a wide variety I of powdered Swiss coupa," Added.

"Let's them"

ry As anywhert world-and free.

"In and cash, our baby cock us nothing she put money in our £12 10s maternity al- pocket? lowance before the baby

was green pea bor, and the weekly allowance mushroom of £3 10s for 18 weeks..

excellent and

The

are imporant

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beauty," she said. "A woman has to know what the can wear. Now me, I'm not the fluffy type, Keep it simple and sleekl

Chemise Is OK

·

What kind of roles does she want to play?

"It depends on the scrip1," rald Betty. "If it's a good part, well, I guess I could be a stren again,"

Use Ingenuity For Centrepieces

New York.

Vera

taste-test "The chemise? | It's OK, has USE what you have on hand to make a handsome dinner appeal. Men wonder what's in- Chet chose ham and side, I'm going to have a few table, says the designer

soup, while i had but not a whole wardrobe of Neumana,

They're divine 'em,

To wear. in comfort inexpensive, You can sit down

without feeling nipped in at the waist or tight across the hips, and no wrinkles!

soup.

Both

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the Americans get tax relief ealling only for the addition of but no do we. My husband boiling water.

hair- brings home an exim 15a a week

In his pay packet since the baby rame.

The line includes a dozen variglies,

Vera, long known in the home decorating feld for fabrics and in the fashion world for serves, suggested these table tips:

"Don't clutter the table," eld

Vern. "Use candles if the oc cosign is after eeven o'clock. "Avoid Jamey cardica larey nut acut exly Jolders.

old, Forgotten Maybe

smoll dishes from your cupboard will do the trick.

"After all, the food is the mont important part of the occasion." Fill a handsome water pitcher Vera, however, is an advocate She pointed to the midriff of with pines and other leaves for of bold colours for table covers There was also an impressive the colon sheath she was wear a centrepiece. Or, a teny in place One of her favourites is a bold "The American that she prefers to have her baby which we are

woman says display of fine Swiss chocolate, It fitted her shapely figure of m elaborate bowl. If you have ned Ben cloth, with border of like a cont of pain!, was sure to no tray to show off, cover a printed metalic gold antique suggesting for in hospital. I dighgree. Now

show sit-down creases when she altchen one with Jayers of red colna. With this, she uses polished dcasert in our menu

for slond up

carsdirlabra or green pliofoam. Then heap il bro

and a long know what it's like to have a

tomorrow,

led with Baby, the

"But this above-the-knee alt, with candies and fruits, which shallow brasa bowl next one will be at home,

"I will the at least three's crazy," said Betty, crossing have been wrapped in various low-lying sprigs of fresh pine. afternoons for us to cover all

n lovely leg and 'archlug a well-coloured Soil papers. and with red heaped with assorted the food displays bere in the shaped brow. "I like legs to mute in their shells. Coliseum," nmarked the Chef, show but enough's enough. Who "Let's visit the Israel Govern has pretty, knees?" ment Pavilion next.

Every Care

"say this because I now knew I would rather have my baby "Add that to the £83 for the where everything is familiar end doctor's fee and the ante-nata where my family and husband visits, and you get a bill knock- can be with me right up to the ing on for £148. That's what time of the birth. (Not because it costs you to have a baby 1 of the extra 45 we have fou everything goes smoothly." having the baby at home!)

Make The Time

By ANNE HEYWOOD

5 the poet said: "Of all portimity. But they managed

A sad words of tongue.or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been'!"

In addition to being sad, this kind of regrel can be.a great drain on time, energy and talent and a great bore conversationally.

For example. I know Iwe women who wanted to write. Both lave small children and no help with their housekeep ing.

One does nothing but talk about the fact that she could bo welling best cellors if only she had the time. She will prob ably continue to talk like this as long as the lives.

The other finds an hour every day to sit at her typewriter. It has meant giving up, all rinds of recreational activities, but i is worth it to her because the really means business

GIVING IT A TRY

Perhaps she will bucceed and pethaps she will not, but, in any event, she is giving it n whole-hearted fry. If it works, well and good; it it doesn't wark, she la sensible enough to give it up after a decent uy, to lay the ghost aside forever.

attention and ant put her energies into something more opt to succeed.

Most of the women I know who have succeeded at writing, haven't bad time

or

op-

lo squeeze in a little time by everything elst,

giving up

because they

were serious enough about it to want to.

A perfect example of this is Anita Rowe Block, whose book of collected short stories has recently bech published,

HONEST WRITER

Interesting Packaging

"What

packaging

Interesting, modern

A good question!

Began As A Model

this progressive

Miss Healt khaws fashion, young country uses Here are

sushroom and barley dehy- was a clothes model when the drated soups and all lids of movies spotted her. She's tail, canned goods from Israel feot, 7 inches, with gray-green mcion sections, very fine plekk-eyes that she seldom

les, wafers, balva, vegetables, wide, She's mastered pato de féle gras, turkey "and glance that's havoc. goose luncheon loal-İ COO they will be sold throughout the country."

Tomorrow's International

Dinner

Turkey and Grouse Lamcheon Lait Israel

on Lettuc Swiss-Style Veal Butler-Fried Potato Mixed Vegetables

Tall Glasses Frusted Coffee Swiss Chocolate Croquot

to o

All measurements are level;

recipes for

Swiss-Style Veal: Cut 134

opens n half

Her throaty voice commande immediate attention.

"But it's been a drawback, tec," she said. "They never cast agiri Baritone in an ingenue part. Usually I'm a femme fatate. That's one reason why I liked The Gift of Love, my Itot picture. I played a real

THEY SAY

Most any girl is sweet enough

lbs. tender veal into very small to cat-and will at most may

2

hit strips. Ada 1 tsp. salt,restaurant a fellow will take her

tsp. paprika and 1 tbsp. to.

Mrs Block is one of the flour. honest wilters who doesn't

claim any particular inspiration c. butter. Add veal; and doesn't believe in working | saute about when the epleit moves her. treat,

In a large frying pan, melt

2 min.

Antiques often are popular fast-

with the women andt Remove fashioneds with the men.

butter to pan

old-

Every morning Mrs Block Add 2 thep. Elts at her typewrller for. and 1% (bsp. slived scallions Quite often a mother-in-law's given number of hours. Ifor minced onion, Stir ta anime starts out being "Say" and something comes out it comes; seant c. white grape juice winds up being "Grandma,"

If it doesn't it doesn't.

(the Swiss use dry white wineja Simmer 5 min., or until hall-

She has been doing this ever since she was a young bride evaporated. during the war,

An Ohlo giri had a man ar- rbated because he huggoð hér. up in arms over boing up in "AddCITOR

Each your that birthdays keep

Stir in 1 c. homemade brown While her husband ·was ! sauca or med, suVY. stalloned of an Air Base invent. Hiding to

boiling point, Tennessee, she began her ex* As

dcompaniment, perve periment la writing. Sud butter-fried potato wrole exactly G4 full-length Frosted Cofres: For each peron rolling around they seem to

0 oz. ( c), quick-pick up speed. chilled, strung, freshly-conde coffee, 1 tbsp, cream, 1

or 2 tp. sugar or to taste, and

a tubby during the distressing scoop vanilla ice cream,

Combino in a cocktail puder dá last a bacheler ever des

short stories, the first 53 of son usa which were rejected.

MAKE THE TIME

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Thinle about Mrs Block the next, ume you and yourself | Shaled unlii Ice croom almost wishing you had time to write, dissolves, No matter how busy you are, Four into tall glasses. Servo you can make some time every with sippers.

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A wife is a giat comfort to

A house without books is like 200m without windows.

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