1959-01-17 — Page 9

I

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1959,

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

NOTICED THE TWIST IN THE OLD, OLD STORY?

A Mrs. with a Mister in the background...

BY SHIRLEY LOWE

wont like the well-rehearsed script of a play we had

ly

say, "to what do you attribute your success?" And U politician, or thus pop singer, or the actor, or the author, alwars replied: "I wouldn't be where I aun today if it i not been for my wife, her loyalty..." and so on.

2 "I linvest beon insulei 4,000,000

ten your.." Mary entring WCHOO

u shop for

Hits sal. "Richard the Martin 10% Wieta?chyut, script has been constierably chooses all my clothes. the revised. Nowadays, it is the colours, the designs, the jewels, wite who handa the verbal the hals.” bouquel to her husband.

B with Junk

care

After the pushers, the next most helpful husbands are the

Looking around at the well-advice giverS. known women in the world of

More and more husbands and

art and literature, politics and wives are going into the same business. entertainment and business. And the husbands In fashion. It is the married, unes who have made their mark.

T. 1950 career woman is no man-hating spinster in weeds and tough shoes, hacking a way through the masculine jungle, She is a Mrs with a Mr in the background whom she married years pra

DEDICATED

non

The helpful husbands fall wrte four groups. Bu art tv elfes Ca Andientele a tin as who give up everything to push the Title woman máu aminence.

SKOFIC

("My

this partnership are invaluable,

should

They know what you should write if you are a writer, howe you should look if you are an actress. and what you say if you are a TV celebrity. O people course, lots of other know, too, but no one is so un- afraid to be frank as your hus- band

to have some place to go that rald represents peace to you," ELIZABETH SEAL, Euccess of Irma in Douce at the Lyric, and wife of advertising exceutive PETER TOWNSHEND.

sustained effort, and with a bus- band and children i never get the chance to geż stale.

"I work hard when there are no men around and when my husband and sons are haine I "Some people find peace by do nothing except hang on tholy themselves. But most theatre words If I only had my career crowds I know it would be a crashing people are so used to that when they are alone they bore and I would do it verÿ

So, If you find badly.” are at a loss.

to you, the man who means th's

So.. whichever way you look ab 1. whatever kind of Mr you you are lucky,

got a husband.

y--if you want to get ahead

JENNIFER HOCKING. A leggy, toothy model, who has been plcked at the tops by John French, is phr.grapher marrie

drcs; to

designer NIGEL HOWLAND.

"When I started, Niget used to look at the pictures I had done and tell me not to stand in a particular porc, or that "My husband adores held ng my

arm in certain erres. It's just us well, because position was unfaltering she it's not

cozy thing being told me. "And, of course, he married to someone on the stage, now unlike most people, that No slippers by the fire, or any- modelling is hard work, not one thing like that." great big holiday."

UNDERSTAND

DR MILNO with belong, to the people, She is antional properly), gave up

LOLLO docloring to promote BRIGIDA.

Talan mona're GIOVANNI MATISTA MENEGHINI (''My wife is the greatest singer in the world") sold his building busi- ness Lo turn A fat Crock- Americen Into MARIA CALLAS. The so-nice-to-come-home- la

a great stabili Hellwood executive, NICH- husbands are

married ner for the busy career woman. ∙ARD HALLIDAY,

on unsuccessful starlet cichicon They do not know much about years ago, and produced the brash, boisterous and utterly professional MARY MARTIN. Richard Halliday not only nurses his wife's carder, he organises the children, fixes her hairstyle, makes her appointmonia.

her job, but they know every thing about her.

They are calm, understanding and provide a steady, home-life away from it all.

"The sings is such an rise cure, mad world that you have

PANIC IN

TEA

HAPPILY, some appro-

more

priate things happen. And nothing seems harmonious and right than that Mr John Betjeman, poet of ingle-nooks and be scones for tea, should concerned in a teashop.

Such opportunities to capture

the raro and original essence of

England should not be neglect-

ed.

Way

Bo I begged to be a waitress for a day, a request that granted with no surprise what- soever.

My train to Berkshire Was met by the poet's son, Paul, who kindly drew my attention to our destination"There'a Wantate glowing in the early morning aun."

Delicious

my

The fourth type of helpful husband is the ап who docen't mean to be helpful at all ..the man who likes his slip- pers by the fire and considers a woman's place to be the kitchen. It is my view that even these than no husbands are better husband at all for the wornan with a career.

Novelist BARBARA CANT- LAND

husband agrees. "My hates my career," she said, "But women are frightfully bad at

A POET'S SHOP

See For

M

ANNE SHARPLEY

The Man From Siberia Teaches

Me A Lot

BY HELEN BURKE

WHO

I

X7HO knows anything about food from Siberia?

the subject, though I have a number of first-hand recipes of Russlan dishes, including that delicious Coulibiac of Salmon.

The other day I had, a good alone, Sprinkle them with olive opportunity of widening my ull and add a little chopped knowledge.when I met a man non- and allced, skinned | who comes from Siberia: tomato,

Eugeny! Rudakov.

With

Endlich his

wife. Hilda, he was celebrating hia birthday, and prepared all the dishes himself for the celebra- fion meal.

Use Vodka '

I think that even conservative folk would like his special salt berring hors d'oeuvre. He would suggest vodka to go with it, but that is not everybody's tipplo.

That is all, They are delicious, For

hellosh salad, Ene usually cooks a lobster in beer. he Was " This time, however, pressed for me, and used

jn of, crab..

Ho flaked the flesh into minule segments and added very thinly allced heart of celery, cui acrum, very little onion, olive oil and really good, thick home-made mayonnaise.

This, with brown bread and butter, was excellent,

པ

The Rodakors: Coffee at to music.

the

(London Express Service),

"The best way to cook, I think," said Eugenyi ("Ent." for short), is to have all the blis

We then sat down to Bolyanku and pieces assembled together

as a ballet dancer, played the revolution days, and to with several glasses of spirit-Russian-style stew. "To telt

the truth," said Ene, "I did not balalaika and guitar, taking me haunting tunes they played and vodka, for preference."

intend to make this dish; but I

refugees in sang. meat that 1 back to Russian

the immediate post- bought so much found I could, so I rushed over Paris, in

and bought to the butcher

that marrow-bone.

"I was interested in marrow so I asked him to cut Buy salt herrings. They are the bone across. I bolled the the marrow obtainable in districts bone, spiked out Dasily where there is a Continental and added it to the beef which was cut into inch-sized dice. I population, Soho, for instance.

salted quarter. Hoak them overnight in plain also added a wator. Clean and bone them, cucumber-not one in vinegar... tsart mushrooms and then tut them into mouth-sized g 0. pieces so that, should they be skinned tomatoes. are easy to handle with a fork served in the living-room, they

WHEN SHOULD A

BOY GET A DINNER-JACKET?

ONE problem looms high let's steet with fashion.

on many

8

mother's AWAT with the old timid- with the nervous list. It is the problem of ties AWAY

to clothes. parties and the early teens. approach

with the notion that AWAY Every other mother I meet

anything startlingly new is only these days has great circles for the very young, under her eyes like a bloodhound.

She's been sitting up to all complete, clattering transforma-

hors, waiting to collect little Lion. We were lunch-obsessed. Wilhelmina-or Willy—from a Lanch had soaked to the very teenage party ending at mid rore of the rolld timbers over- | night. heut

Couldn't people

thosa se rhining, carefully placed rows of cullery? Couldn't they smell these thick, and sturdy drafts of Wurkey, steak braised in wine-

nd chirolata? It seemed the helght of obluscness to order coffee in this incense, this. In cantation of lunch.

*

"I cooked these very quickly for a minute or two in a little olive oil over a hot fire, then turned the lot into a casserole ctcair with 2 tablespoona sour and a little jock from bone," he said,

the

"I gave it an hour, covered, in

A fairly hot oven--375 degrees Fahr. (gas mark 6).

"The key thing of this dish 13 the cucumber and sour cream.

A pound of beef would serve four persons and it would go well with spaghetti for a light main dish.

"Try Pelmeni’

It was the

"Pelmeni," the next course, which was the dish of the evening.

I would say that it is a kind of ravioli, but much more in- teresting in appearance. Facu an al- Hundreds of thousands of little unit looked like women in their late twenties, most half-opened flower bud.

forlica are dis- "I came from Semipalatinsk, is now a university thirties, and

that soft, fun fur which covering bate, high waists, and long town, and 'Pelment is one of coloured legs can be exciting, our oldest Siberian dishes," said simulating, and oddly fatter Ene.

ing.

·Resolve to EXPERIMENT.

Add An Egg

"I use plain and self-raising four, half and half, and, for

"To this, I add a large eks. good batch, at least a pound.

ter of a pint of water I knend little salt and about a quar- und kneadthen wrap the dough in a piece of foll whne I make the filling

mixture want = "You

"I went to the cinema just to keep awake.":"I can't let Charles stay up to collect them be in by he does have to

out with nine."..."I'm wer

WAY' WEh the idea that the hours my children keep ”

All this trom the parents of there's something wholly admirable chat a who and 15- and 15-year-olda---*

Also, when doce a small boy mother with an unpainted face

and last year's hair style. next three hours were rate a dinner-jacket? Hik many intense experiences "Watt be dope growing”

Nó woman should ever be too -they seem in retrospect to was the answer arben: 1. Was kany, too bord, or too high- have scaled themselves. ft. young But nowadays, wherever minded to lock attractive (No.-

like a fashion half-beet and half-park-no fat They are an entangled maer I go, I'm sEctically tripping ponysly mor

Fashion plates are out at all-with two ontera of trips up and downstairs over tiny tola dressed like little falways having to bear in mind men and beating it up until all of date, and models are a race pepper and sali to taste.

meat and onions are chopped that Maureen, the other wait-hours.

apart.).

very finely. Half a pound

"Toll out the doth until it very thin-less than in. with thick. Stamp out rounda

rees, didn't like passing on the I'm bored in death with Bessiva to CARE about your meat goes a long way. stair because it unlucky), 13-year-olds in teeny weeny terrible moments of panic when dinner-Jackets...of exhaustedi. Kanken.

the year

YOURS

Fashion Personality of the Year ( undoubtedly "Coco"

Luisa Spagnoli

With its Original Roman Styles

as popular as ever!

Great selection of exquisite styles.

01

and The

of

in the most fashionable colors are

a water glass. In the centro of each place a fat teaspoon of the sling.

over,

The inspired amateurism of Here is England, I thought, whore everybody is really some I realised that I'd clean forgot-looking children in frills when thing else and they do things for ten an order or equidn't remem- they should be in 82000. fun. Where bus conductresses her what people had had when Besolve to rule tho arg always new that day and was making up their bill before they rule YOU

Herobe, of Wantage all quiz-winners will be a professional at anything is Elation when they said as they

"Fold the dough remember I King Altre always to be slightly unusual, od, "That was very nice." this connection 19 a friend Chanel. birthploce- fnet which seema

exactly like a Comish pasty, I was in no way out of ploer There were two vicars, I re- of mine, who staged a "Seats to, he holding its own very well here.

A top French couturier in the and pinch the edges closely atomber end the Lord-Lieuten- 'n' Jerseys, party

("That

'thirties, the became, fr

the together, then turn the ends it against the proximity of Tar Putting on a smart Llun augent of Witchire. Lord Herbert, way the boys won't worry"}, well.

he who had spaghetti and turkey. "Drinks mock I went down fu

'Polmeni' for papenta at 10 post-war world, no more than a to meet and pinch them well

a certume bottle together. Place the "Here's the cast," said the serve coffees and cakes,

n'clock," read the invitation. mATE CO

"Chanel No. 5."

on a large platter dusted with Training me was Mrs King. poet's son. It is named-not too,

"Party over at 10.30.”

flour. self-deprecatingly when one who was a real undisguised pro-

She had more curage than Z

Suddenly a couple of yeSTE

"When you are ready to cook bear in mind that Wantage i fessional, She had been

have.

but one staged a Cootstic them, bring stock from bones King - Altrel's hometown-King Nippy for nine years and at

comeback and now, in his 70's, and, if you like, vegetables, to Alfred's Klichen. Brick-built, Slater's for eight: Thla iz u strain them! "Just taste this

she is undoubtedly romponsible the bell in a large pot-it must for 11

"y" dressing be a large one. that be curvant high fashion.

LATE.

all is verticals reeling charm- piece of cake,” she said.

Ingly out of plumb. "the eaf is

a long, narrow buliding roughly patted into a barge-shopo occu- pying an island site of the market-place. It used to be bookshop.

Discovery

Et.

All Over

Upstairs, cries of "I've lost the sprouts, I was just going to

-wine sauce, I made it from the remains of John's claret.” Hava the skin of the rum

sauce for me, I adore it." Maureen darlly

Ꮀ

Do It Now

wine,”

Drop the Pelment into it. Now for sons coné resolu» die Kasolve timt 31 is never "EDO | You don't have to worry about The "regulars" were coming balanced plates of food on s

divy "I tell in. They smiled vague good the length of her arm (1-fad: mornings at me, but I really tried to do this earlier, but more marmored millions of doen wa think t was the Expresso King had warned me it took six taky seed isir land-son-filled

hoade from off the pillow.

machine they recognized.

Chief discovery from

years' practice first) this "Carry that third soup "en

at.

they the cooking time. When riss to the surface, they are ready, but I give them a minute or two longer,” said Ene. Inside, the rows of bome

You have no idea how Kynbeater hair style, lonk *mide preserves and piles of delicious home-made fudge 'and

"Never" another cigarette," long cerdigan jacket," briefest. tractive that huge platter of

actri thometvica thier 'trantert i possible)

and steaming Pelment was, with its rum truthion remind one that the phase of the day's work as your head, dear," pomoce aq-, trags: told

inga umywilk-aweep the ipacious stock, WA 14 were.

And Chanel is szegely | passed sour cream, green salad nicent way of experiencing how quickly plates of cakes dis vised. Me Beljenje mamilion phed their parched woguer dark nostalgia-ils to eat it.. appeared. Tremendous ladies in Fugely arrived for his lunces in over der los amoill take thore

Copies in

the word Chateauneuf du Pape, It is a teashop that is all woods quietly dabbing up the the middle of it all loading Concise : leke bin, more advice,

manner will be avery- 1963. Ingie-nook, for the log fire is remains of seven cakes, calmly. Pekinese tied up in a pint town, baba" "Food, Bot, Saxon-style, right in the ordered, more. centre-and any. caperienced A steadily staring man in wallness would have seen at bowler sipped his code, and enco that guiling past that with wondered if I was the ob'net Trays of food, was going to be one of thonë virus, conjec like doing #hula dance round a guening prova 1 bave night-washmap's, brazier, YƏN indulged is om?

Extra Hotjernin' was; twowgine solved,neven 13/342

Theo kilidimus The for lunch

kitchen was one of three mud- stand-lin

that are entirely and per which

Re-

Steak was off. Sprouts were off Spagwas oft. - Churlskro

I put, was off (a291 bed gue

rozmer at Jam What we kerke.

Flattering

The diabes, they use

now on sale at all LEADING FASHION STORES

An entirely

new

Electrolux

· FLOOR-POLISHER

who

ASX POR A DEMONITIATION

Dy this Lima, ATE WEB Wor but with cooking und Hüids pro- videt -à-tool and refreshing Pineapple and, bationės,

JEFORTLESS CONTROL

·Triple-brush-actioni two brushes revolveslocke, one anti-clockwise ....... there is no "pull SELKADJUSTING BALIKHES' Z cover all irregularities in itsø Door bur-, face, reach into all hollows, ensuring: - that the entire floor is well pulings.

.“ ÚKTE INTO CORNERS

with 'itä irfangular -alape:). Body. Rubber buffer pintașis skirting. 3-YENA GUARANTES

Bole Raunter.

FEEWAN TOMES & CO., LTD.

1. Ice Mini Strátu: Hongkong.