1959-01-31 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1959,

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

VERONICA PAPWORTH

I FANCY MYSELF AS A HOSTESS... BUT THIS IS ONE KIND OF PARTY I JUST CANNOT GIVE

A TRIC

TO BOOST

YOUR MORALE

no

DEPLORE the passing of big, billow-

ing, full-length evening skirta. When I see them crushed into car or dragged through rows of seals at Covent Garden it really huria.

Ent

I still think they are wonderful st home. Something comes over a women when she gets into a long skirt.

Seo her running upstairs holding her ratris high-s flurry of grace and femininity.

See her spread them around her as the ita down-smiling to erwelt at the picture she knows she makes.

And here is the perfect trlo- an absolutely simple black jersey top.

a scarlet satin sash and a white paper faleta skiri, 'black dotted.

This outfit (by Horrockaes), more format than the strapless knee- length embroidered tubes that, so many women are wearing for dinner parties, seems to me to be the answer to miany black-lis occasions—and much less kely to "date."

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The setting is to match, White din- Ing chair with washable white up- LipBiered seats, a-black-topped dining table with white legs, and deep red Venelian glasa dishes on white porce- lasn

MYSTERY AN

ELEMENT OF

FEMININE GLAMOUR

By JEANNE D'ARCY

WHAT is glamour? The dictionary defucs it as "mysterious fascination," but there was nothing mysterious or fascinating about the women we noted this muralng. Yet, it was abulous-much 100 obvious- that she thought cho was being glamorous.

REALLY KILLING

From head to toe, the was turned out to kill, though she was actually an aitractive girl. That is, she might have been dn: with a little guidance in the choice of codinetica und clothes.

Despite the current mody, sho wore her bair long, but really Топл. It was a thick mop that getually cascaded down hier Back to a mid-way point be-

roud's SUBTLE_méke-up, conner-

And vativo-' fowellery' simple chle dress give her".

glamour.

Can YOU ever

cope with the boys in grey?

BET

DETWEEN ourselves, I rather fancy myself in the role of hostess. No Perle Mesta stuff, you know. Fleur Cowles Meyer and Sir Alfred Bossom-both keen party types could doubtless teach me a thing or twe, but I do like to think that a good time is had by one and all chez Papworth.

There is, however, one kind of party that I just cannot give. When it comes to entertaining small boys I'm bewitched, badgered, and beaten to the knees in no time,

'What's more, I'd like to see rezolutely Perle or Fleur do better.

to refused organised, They FOUGHT

be

Flow, I ask myself, would No sooner had I separated they react to 20 small, grey- one pair than three or four, flannel-suited tornadoes shout- tightly pacited, hurtled before ing, snorting, sweating, and me, struggling around them at hip- level?

Time was-way back In kindergarten days when only 10 small boys in silk blouses and velvet parts arrived to celebrate.

Some come chaperoned by dragon-like nannica dis guised as elderly schoolgirls it fell pot hats, därk dresses, and Quelling looks.

Some came alone with their Libs and their slippers in a place of tissue paper.

Ten mail girls in frills eame too and what with Ring-a-rosco and grannie hammering out a polka and a prolongal ica and washings of hands and Here-We- Go-Loopy-Loo one ice-cream and balloons for everyone, seemed no time at all before they were all led up to say "Thank you for having me" and that was THAT.

I was licked

For a year or to there was ull, then suddenly we reached the grey-flannel stage.

I planned my first effort like nfield-marshal rehearsing for TV. Everything, I told myself was under control.

But from the moment the first four crossed the thres hold, I was licked.

They didn't want to bo.... they weren't going to be....they

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I stuck to my plan, "How many beans in this jar? There's a prize for the winning answer," I yelled-and grabbed E passing ear.

Sicadily they ate their way hrough the list, sandwiching Every course between rolls, rolls, and still more rolla.

Out into the van again 2 rushed them and off ie a hand- picked film.

In a welter of shooting and shouting, with ice-creams in the interval, the afternoon passed.

Then home to a swift ten and,

"I'm frightfully sorry," mur- mured the owner politely, "Is the last celalr went down, the honestly haven't the faintest Arst parent was at the door. idea," and he flung himself back into the melee.

Outwitted....

In desperation, I jostled them through to TV.

They fought-with one eye on the screen all over and under my best yellow satin chairs.

Tea was downed In 10 minutes gat and back wey tumbles— happy as larka-to the fighting

There wasn't a dull moment

and I spent the evening

Bat on my back with tranquilising book and two aspiring.

them Izst year I outwitted A well scrubbed group presented themselves at a rolly-

ing point at 12 noon sharp. Straight Into my utility van they went ("Little ones sit on top of the bly ones, please!"} and off to a local inn for lunch. In an atmosphere of absolute calm they studied the menus; "I can have soup any day

That went off pretty wcu, didn't it?" I said to my son as we closed the door..

"Um, hum," sald he. "Thanks awfully for everything, but, well, we never sprl of got going, did We?"

"That," said 1, "was general idea."

The sequel

the

in a few weeks time another

birthday is due. A similar bunch of lads, 12 months older, larger, stronger, will be with us. "Boys are small oniinils," enys a psychiatrist friend,

"Clear out all the furniture and let them fight. They love it. Put the tea on the foor and leave them to it."

But can you pleture 140 sequel?

"Did you have a good time, darling?

No

"Smarling, thanks. They haven't got any furniture. one came netr us. We fought all the afternoon and bad tea "Is there any of the floor,"

"Coffes

I think I'll have a smoked salmon."

stuffing in a duck?". extra-extra what?"

Bang goes my reputation as a gracious hostess--but I'll risk it.

My dog Twig sets

me wondering

True, was one

"It might interest you evening that could have eitible al minut pisto

bis life.

a cried my

Be old Twly. He's oul in the car; I'll get him."

dog Twig, "that the sug- gestion that people grow to We were drinking an aperitif

Seconds later ho charged ook like their pets has now in a pleasant cid pub at Aston

Clinton when suddenly my back with one huge whippet received medical endorse- husband stopped In mid- straining on its chán,

dentenco Into the bar como u

Ane-boned anall,

woman in Sadly, but pot surprisingly He looked down his long, lean tweeds and pearls and the blanx

well-bred couplo had noce and sniffed.

look that comes with centuries uiready downed their drints and slipped through а side of selective breeding.

door.

ment."

"You and your love life," said where it has noticeable every time she flut-1. "Just see tered a mascara-thick blue oyeed me." Jash.

Ile looked down his

Lipstick was a deep winb shade. Mandarin-shaped nails, worthy of Fu Manchu, were able Laited maleb.

noso

again, He knew what I meant.

For years I've sought a sult-.

spouse for Twig-the greatest whippet of Biom all.

the

Bebind her, an etiolated ift.

I Way too weak from sup- of horary checks and whiskera, and an even blanker expression pressed mirth to care. cling to a sky-bluto leash- and at the end of that leanh wat an absolute model girl of a whippet.

A snooty, slinky, creamy-coloured bitch.

Not long after that we met, a pot of a lurcher--the offspring te of a whippet and a Stafford-

shire bull terrier.

"Give them a minuto to order a drink and I'll make contact," and my husband with a gleam in'his eye,

So we bartered for a bride. Penny, a true-blue Stafford- shire, came to live with un, So IT, we have hod 11 splendid Lupa.

As might be expected, despite the early A.M. hours, shÓ XVAS «blazo with rhinestones, includ- lig drop earrings, a rathor

At one time I got together gaudy andant visible at ino open neckline of her coat and with Hy Hazel and we fixed up bracelet of rocks on one wrist. splendid match with one of her husband's best. Ho folo" Glamour? Certainly not by morning and in this case hot by phoned to confirm the date.

Darling, do you honestly "What precisely in his strain”? right, either, although evening asked he, and may I have his think they look the typol', tights would have subdued her appearance and improved it kennel nomer"

somewhat.

IMPORTANT WORD

all

We counted on them all having his brains and hhr lookbai, ss Ò.B.B told Isadora Duncan, pom't always work out like that. Some--have-long-leg-ad blunt noses; pote, have short legs and sharp noves-a regular, crazy, mixed-up bunch of pupe. But to return to my problem. "How do I know,"! selit to Twix, "that I'm not solve to grow to look like a Bladfordstro bull terrier now?il

"What do you metri 'type'-- Alas, poor Twig, bought they love old Twig, Can't fall,

should be a splendid match.” Forpa-wheck in a Yorkshire. Village —— namblepa, but, up- doubleday of aristocratic descent. As the dictionary says, glam

"He's got bugs of personality." Ho riralled up, introduced r Is "mysterious fascination."

hor The word "mysterious ail pleaded fa's forribly klik himself, and told

about Twig. Emotion playpl in portant. It Implies ubile and and awgut temperod." aferet wiles that make a woman it like a poor old widor havoc with her face. Surprise, scem alluripar.

pleading with the Lord of the constiment and utter inere Too-long hair too-loud Manor "He's a good boy, air, duilty gave place to ley horror. make-up pro neither subtle portio is really." But M'Land was

It was her husband who "Perhaps souit grow to togh like one of the pipe," sald They're bajoved by my piens, “ vceret nor alluring.

spoke, "I'm straid, entd he

TWIE, glaringly obvious,

"Tyla's bride' found another "that we're not at all interested

At lowah "I think bọ die-and The way to glamour la via Janáte,"

that sure of thing." Eye.ahndow way that in name cemetics and clothes that wabiky

The like blich Jacked out I'm all wondering which ope

ho'micht. ly more was Hothing shade hades the ropearance, prom a ditch up to me the hondur

swear she winked at me.

tween shoulders and waist. It with hair that goes to much

Va bushy, untidy! The only lengths. thing It popired was a sincere wish to get a pair of shears and do some serious dippinig.

Glamorous? Not at alll Nobody, not even a movie spalders. Who,, Becording, to plot, 2. We a closer

land for two years, is pictured

fer make-up matched her roiffure. Brows were drawn in with heavy pencil." At's glanco, you could tell her brow lines

hiked or at night.

ivy about the bright blue lids the effect of natural beauty.

character.

.....

-{London Experia Herošča).“

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