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THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10,
Mother and
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Feminascope by JOY MATTHEWS
Party Season Stunner!
THE DRESS SMART PARIS WOMEN HAVE FALLEN FOR
E dress that is "tres snob" in Paris is today on sale for YOU to buy. It is the dress that some of the smartest women in Paris-and the richest too will be wearing at all the poshest Paris parties.
In
vreme de in creme who enter arcund £29. my opinion this dress is
It is made in snowy white nel. the most beautiful short evening tains the Churchills and whose
make all that lovely The high-waisted sash is in dress of the year and the folly
all wore It crimson satin set off with a crim- sel of champagne) champagne-and-sparkle
The Christmas.
rose. Ideally, satin Kreat sch satin The thig Paris thinki
150. 15 Princesse Charles Edouard de difference between their dress chees should be dyed to match.
If you must be more practical_ Jagne-Very pretty and very and the one on sale in Britain is popular hostess; the Baronne that their model will ensl them you can get it in black with a Cabral who gives the round £300-and the one white satin rose and sash, With and have int made for you to this dark stockings and black dances; exotic
Jacques Poi Roser buy in Britain's shops will cost shoes; not white, please.
ן זיין
Madame
1958-WOMEN'S YEAR
And The Man's World
Is
Is Left In Fragments
By SMERI GILES
Chicago.
LADIES shattered records, precedents and traditions more than ever
before in '58, leaving the "man's world" in fragments,
The only male sanctuaries seemingly left intact: the U.S. Supreme Court, and the men's bar "at-the-Waldorf
Seme 19,000 women were immortalised in the first edition of "Who's Who of American Women,"
The year produced Indy deckhands, lly boxing, referees, lady submarine decorators, a lady papryologist, lady construction workers, missile workers, paper hangers, plumbers, hog judges, and, much to the dismay of F.B.I. Chief J. Edgar- Hoover, the year produced more lady bankrobbers than ever before, too,
Despite boisterous harrumph- husband, another Swede. 1!
from menfolk, Britain's Selimidt. pompous old House of Lords oecame the House of Lords and
Lars
Throughout 58, wives defend- ed their mates when bard times Ladies, admitting four pecresses struck, Rachel Adama stood up in the Goldine A Negro woman-its Vel for Sherman
Knowland, Phillips,
of Wisconsin--became ense. Mr William
cf Califonla Senator the first national committee wúlle
tongue-lashed former Governor woman of her race.
Goodwin Knight when the two men had an election squabble.
A lady from Costa Rica was the Arst of her sex appointed to the council of organisat.on American states.
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Princess Margorel was enught
renaissance of the 20's long pearls and sacks. It ended with o renaissance - Empress Jose- phine gowns.
Most controversial style of the year: the trapeze, which hid folds of women in billowing cloth straight from the shoulder- bones to the kneecaps. Men groaned,
The "ahm-peer" (as Empire
And Mrs Hyman lekover was sometimes is pronounced). style, moved downright furious when her compromise
the the
husband, father of the nuclear waistline up under the bosom. submarine." V/CS snubbed at ceremonies honouring "Nautilus."
the
The Japanese marriage More women went to Congress, sweepstakes,
Crown up in new rumours about a re-
with newal of her Tomance with setting a new record of 18 mem-
Prince Akihito as first prize, Peter Townsend. A new book bers. Bertha Adkins was the first claimed she still loves him, woman appointed to a cabinet was won by Michiko Shoda. She will be the first commoner En- Margaret ended the year still under-secretaryship. She's
press
Japan's 2,600-year single.
der-secretary of the Department
history. of Health, Education and Wel- fare,
First Lady Mumie Eisenhow er played tireless White House hosters with me out for headline-grabbing
En
un-
Princess Margaretha, of Swe- At the 13th general assembly den, moped when hoped-for to- with A London Jazz there were 41 mance
the royal thumbs women delegates or alternates, planist got
feminine
A down. another
Iccord.
of the UN.. trip
Arizona for a beauty rest.
Opera star Maria Callas was Swede, Mrs Agda Rossell, was fired from virtually every in the Arst woman permanent portant opera
the UN. delegate, house m world, including La Scala in Milan. There, in front of the President of Italy, she trolled
of the stage.
☆
Brazil promoted a woman to Princess Grace, of Monaco, the diplometle rank of minister. gave birth to Prineu Albert. A woman is U.S. Ambassador to She Norway. And. for a brief me, male heir to the throne. later
with a woman was acting premier, of visited America Frinco Rainier. Queen Fre Sweden; the premier was vaca-
the Honing. derika, of Greece, loured US. to study atomic instalia- tions.
A Scotsbom widow is Lord Mayor of Dublin, and a woman
Forty-one US, states
Debble and Eddie Fisher's Idylike marriage crashed. Jayne Manelloid wed former "Mr Universe," Mickey Hargitay.
Frank Sinatra courted both Lauren Bacall and Lady Beatty, of London. Dennis and Lindsay Crosby married chorines. Father Bing took to the nursery to sing lullables to a new son.
Tragedy
stalked thrice-wed Liz Taylor. Mike Todd died in an air crash. Grace Metalous, pen.
IT COSTS £300 IN FRANCE-BUT YOU CAN GET IT FOR £29.
Household
Hints
Dress-up French dressing for fruit salad by adding a dash of cognac to your usual dressing mixture.
A drink in seasonal huc is .of made by mixing
During the year, "BB" cuine leftist is mayor of Delhi, India, woman of "Peyton Place," got a cranberry juice with a dash of
to mean more than what little
boys shoot out of guns. The new twist: Brigitte Bardot, France's gift to lmden.
formed
have
women In
п
Muncel,
quiekle divorce from her teacher lemon juice and 141⁄2 jiggers of their husband to wed a disc jockey. cognac, Shake well with leo and serve with cinnamon stick total of 300 legislatures.
The stork flapped his
wings in the giasz. Women now hold more than over roosts of Patrice half the country's stock, volc 70 the Peter Lawfords, Debbie Sister per cent of all stock, and spend Reynolds-Fisher, and two of the
the 80 per cent of all family income. Dlance Quins. Rocket Mrs Mary Rochling become the Drst women over named to the board of governors on The American stock exchange.
Petite and spirited
Scotus Dins
Minnesota Austin Society with a group of young sters.
Winter quash-acorn, butter- nut and hubbard contains about 20 times more vitamin A than summer squash.
*
Dress up cooked celery with and elivered D}- 'mushrooms
Women starred, too, In the To another, opera star Lily Pona, camo divorce after 22 sports world,
Greta Anderson set a new years of marriage to conductor mands, All of the women's headlines
e not happy.
woman's world record for swin- Andre Kostelanetz. Three nuns died in a Chicago ming the English channel. Sho that killed 80 missed the men's record by eight chocl fire children. A fourth nun died later minutes. of injuries from the fire.
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The world lost several of it:
When cleaning porcelain pinka, The hefty housewife leading women, Among them avoid strong, gritty powders
wife of the tato that may mar the finish Scour also set a work record by being Mort Taft,
Sen, Robert Taft; mysterying powders that have sudsing Fate and tradition split the the first
to swim California's novelist, Mary Roberts Rhine action are kinder to the sink Shah Patilevi, of Iran, and his Catalina channel both wayn,
The Shah heloved Saroya.
Tennis flatha Althea Gibson, of hart; and writer Dorothy Cabas well as to hands.
feld Fisher. divorced his queen because she Harlem, became the frat Negro male to win the Wimbleton Chain-
The had failed to bear him
plonships, helr.
con-
Coyn Knutron, blonde treswoman from Minnesota, had trouble with home-loving hus- band, Andrew. He waged a futile "Coya Come Home" campaign, claiming his wife's ardent poll- cal career, plus her malo scere tory, won ruining their marriage.
as evil thinks."
crushed
TWO DRESSES BY
GRACE THORNCLIFFE
LEFT: Corduroy is doing so well this reason that it has been treated to a helping of fur.
umprodletability of
Maico vegetables more inter womankind was in plain sight.
esting by topping them with a Mrs Marian Neuberger, wife seasoned butter sauce, grated of Oregon's Democraile Senator, checo, cauteed mushrooms or Mickey Wright claimed the la- appeared at a Washington fund-nuts, dies pro galf tille and, Anno ruining tamboree dressed in a
RIGHT; There's a hint of the Quast won the ladies' amateur bathing muft. Said she: "Evil in Wrap strips of most paper This muted brown, wide-wale romantle in this daytime dress
or Ughtly towelling crown.
T30 Lopped by a large shawl collar wool Bannel. A Durham, N. C., homemaker aluminium foll over the outside corduroy cult has a boxy jacket of groen belge or fawn-grey
of raccoon. An over-blouse of yolte tine is broken to form
aridi a matching plastron bodice tapering to: the 52 seconds, winnfog the will help make it golden-brow, bodo Jersey Winston and
beigto Jerney hat completo tho high waistline. Umpressed box Salem, N. C., as top writer in world's talking-record.
When substituting all-pur picturo. Good in town for or pleats fall from the centre, an annual porta-writing com-
Sold a lintersZU
pove four for cake flour, une dinery daytime wear, the suit The post of the dress petition.
Alwo tablespoons Hemiper, coup is ideal for smart suburban Jeorgy falling from a NAFTOW
[lite.
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A traditional male sirenghoki,
woman
She lost her reselection bid the baseball pressbox, tell, to a
with the selection of talked for 72 hours, two minutes rim of a double crust pic. This
and was last card Insinuating
at was the victim of Mary Barbor, that who. hutiabaloo mised by ter him- band.
Ingrid Bergman divorced Ital- Inn Alm director Roberto Rostel- Lin,
married her thinl and
Fashion on ever, was fickle In "Sha folked about everything 183, The year began with a but her age"-UFI
rowded
Pago D
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