1959-03-21 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1959.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

Ask Your Doctor First NOT FOR FAT GIRLS DON'T WORRY

ITH spring almost

W upon us, stand by fot

the inevitable flood of "won By JEAN GRAHAM

der'' diets.

I'm making no forecasta,

but I'll bet that the

much.

majority of them guarantee result of eating' and drinking too to melt

your excess

That may seem a statement poundage away in 'no time at the blindingly obvious.

But at all.

you'd be amazed how many women will not face up to it, And why? Because once you do, you're faced with a test of wil-power that too few ure ready to accept.

Bill want to go ahead with a diet? Right, the most important thing, then, is to make sure that your health doesn't suffer while you are dieting. So Arst of a

Beware of them, No diet will melt away your unwanted weight rupidly and safely, Rapid ines of weight may be dramatic. It can also be dangerous. And If you lose weight too quickly, the loss of bulk is not likely to compensate for tho almost your doctor. He can put nevitable nerviness, and de- yuu on the sort of diet which preasion.·

will remove weight at a "safe I'm not arging against rate-two to three pounds dieting But 1 do urge you to weekly. be sensible about it.

At the same time he will The first thing to remember make sure that your diet in AK that by far the greatest cludes necessary nourishment amount of everweight is the proteins, vitamins, minerals,

Almost certabily he will tell you to cut out high-calorie foods (fries, rich puddings, gravies, dressings). But don't despair. You'll be amazed a the amount of appetising food still available to you:

Don't, please delude yourself that you can carry on eating richly and loss exercise.

weight by Exercise alone will not solve your problem, At beat it will tone up your body. and use up some of the calories which would otherwise turn into extra fat,

safely

If you are going to lose weight

and rain yourself to the fact that effectively, then at is a long term process.

And foco this fact, too, I you want to stay rim and Itealthy, you'll have to chango your eating habits permanently.

But, please, make sure that you do to on adequate medical udvice.

It's Important To Be Corseted Below

By MURIEL PENN

A NEW Line in fashions demands new foundation garments to show it

off to the best advantage.

This is especially true of the coming spring and summer as fashion returns to a more fitted look after the loose lines of the Sack, the Chemise and the Trapeze. No one knows better than the smart woman that foundation garments are the foundation of fashion that "if a woman is ill-clothed beneath; the most elu- borate and costly clothing will tend to give her a bargain basement appearance":"

In other words, an inexpen- sive dress or suit wom over an appropriate and properly fitted foundation garment will look ten times better thon the most expensive outat worn over on ill-fitting or Inadequate . Eridle or corselet.

The Corsidress

the bodice, begun to cover the engellice structures of whale bone, steel and even wood, with block satin and edge thera with a bertha of laco-to eliminate the need for # camisole. At the same time, alzo "to save space" and obtain a smoother front it, they buttoned their puiflcoat direct upon the corvet. But the 1959 "considress" is a An entirely new foundation far cry from that primitive con garment, designed to solve all traption.

gure problems and eliminate that "bargain basement lock" is, *the "corsidresa" combining not cely bra and girdle but also a bouffant petticoat In one single Earment, or "first dress" as the makera like to call it,

The idea in not new.

..

The advent of elastic, nylon, perlon and all the other shoers at man's disposal today has re volutionised nothing more than woman's "Brst dress"

The new "corsítress”, special- ly designed to enhance the feminine beauty of the wearer's

straps is permitted. Although these are supplied with dayilma models 'It required, the makers. prefer the strapless versions.

From The Hips

A foundation garment should be moulded from the hips up- wards. When this is done cor- rectly, shoulder straps become superfulsus

The "cors dresa" is only one of a whole range of new models launched at a recent gathering of international fashion experts from Britain, France, Italy and many other countries of Europe as well as the United States and Canada,

Our great grandmothers, ia Agure while concealing any old orphan who, In company the taller 1870's, in addition to defects by perfect ft and fusiening their correta at the moulding, combines maxima back because front fastenings comfort with absolute flexibility, interfered with the close it of Not even the drug of shoulder

Modern Parents Have Strange Values

By Garry Cleveland Myers, Ph. D.

Dr Braun, son of a 20-year-

with a neighbour, Johann Spiesshofer, began the access story of the firm of "triumph", în a cellar workshop over 70 years ngo, in 1885, believes firmly that women should have a corset for

every occasion and every time

Actress Ray Kendali started the fashion-black stockings. In rold weather they're a boon, at other times they look very

ally-Beaterphoto.

KATHLEEN NORRIS

WRITES HER LAST BOOK?

ATHLEEN NORRIS, author of "86 or 87" novels, 300 short stories and more than 1,500 articles, has written her last book...maybe.

| of day, and changờ them is they She recently completed her autobiography, fat with telugu sustabdecdotes, stories and pictures, The yet-untitled Book

So in the new "first dresa" will be published in September, wardrobe, there

cotton

Bensslere and single combination! "I say this is my

for sports or leisure weit, a sold the 18 year old author, for more of them. smart high-busted corselet to off-but there's always one. sèt an elegant dress' and Jacket

ensemble, a "coralslip". for more in the back wearing under a sum cocktail mind.****

or evening'sheath," and "the bouffant version in day or even-

A MOTHER returning quest to be added in-siviriing skirts:

from her hairdresser's creasingly to avoid boredom. the other day said she saw Naturally. Hulda lice is take

CAPS AND GOWNS

Some private kindergartens

adults. Yet it

For Sport

She talked easily, informaliy

my and quickly, while soothing "Tammy," her excitable Pekinese pup who fussed about the room. BAGGY SWEATER

fria

A newspaper writer be Ing Rengtis to hold out full, for the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906, Ms Norris published her

Comfortably dressed. first novel "Mother" in baggy wool sweater and twood 1911. President Teddy Rookie, the author punctuated her sevelt, praised it so enthu- conversation with gestures. She atastically that 1,500,000 a young almost-80" with coples were sold.

long old-fashioned – gray braids. celled shout' her bend."

-

her time now, and Mrs Norris

Family occupies a good deal of uses a suite in a Hotel high on a San Francisco hill ne a city re doctor son's home, so keeps in treat, 'Here, block from her

grandchildren and eat grand- close touch with nieces, nephews,

tires:

a little girl there, about 4, parts in group retvilies which getting a permanent. When make them magia themselves For yachting camping, and she expressed surprise, the fantasy with them, for they lack new lights which are replacing actually all. Ideal for wear under the popular hairdresser told her: "I the age and maturity to enjoy sincks or Jeans in the teenagers begun giving my own little toy are led by the dress combination of ac phatic opinions about today's these activities as vehl experi- | wardrobe, there is a novel "ärst,

Kathleen Norris had some cm- girl permanents when she glamour and miss the discipline elastle pants with contrasting hocking school of Betion, with was only 214."

They get a warped sente of ace trimming and elastic ribot emphasis on sex: values.

sido fastening, and a deep diz ADULT VANITIES 2

clastic corsage.

"I belong to the generation Most breath-taking of all,ldn't glat over such tripe

before. Laat when young people havo their youngster graduate These recheious practices by perhaps, is a special bride I'm not easily shocked, but I am in caps and gowna, Formal grad children to very young would bouffant peticoat in while satin.

model with'n magnificent tiered;

cally disgualadiny Lak ating exerclass with all the not occur tart for the vanities trimmings are “creeping down and appetite for amitment of adorned with"lovers", knotz s the grades in come pubile their parents. What can be tho

Stars of the collection are schools.

measure of values for the "Merry Widow", brdo, girdles Dolls, almost life-cize, of mother who has her daughter and coraclets In delicato com- brides and grooms are on salo (3,9, or even §) get a perma-

binations of bilačte Ince trounted Mrs Norris, heroines are model. soon after her marriage to the today, and ñimal drotsCO for nont? Who buys bride and

20 while, pink line or violeteratos good, true, kind and Irto CG Norris, girls barely out of babyboot; I groom dolls for her daughter watin árið, elásite, and designish | Bekailtuk, obce heard a mailator"? "report (only 6 Tor even 12)? Who

to cater for the demands of the bowerfully that his little son, urges other mothers' to have of Had been a bridegroom in a partita with femal dressbe for, Ton Thumb wedding on the their daughters (8 of 10)?

Every garment in this colleg previous evening.

tion is a rest? Kushiloh price] What can be the measure of finished with lace NOTHING TO ANTICIPATE values of the school

attractive fi principal and parents of mixth-grade chil- Arw's'nto' cul lew What have these children fort dhon who sit on putting on Crosse tooten

dro látot stopallete

graduating" covercises that

new 1969 line." rykendal

to look forward boy How all cost identical to fuld notoolid high and dry sanctisista

Will the usual celebrations be for of even culo cxranencement? should with,

chi whexa they „APERONCIA

shanboogt tip wonder species When Will Achille use the corn- "goTE which cómm, will the" nid" of BGN

excitemente, much

KEE

MODEL FEMALES

Usually Mrs Norris writes in the book-lined study of hự country home in Palo Alto. P She started", writing, fiction

મ was lucky Tecause: K "But they have to get into married into a family that know some sort of trouble or till the ropes," she said. Her wouldn's bave à plot," she said. husband had been conected

ket grouble la resolved morals with the carly Sunset magazine, for Din Morris, a devout. His brother, Frank Norris, WAD

Catholic, he frois that a noted writer, pild

ven't changed during

ABOUT A BACKWARD CHILD

T Johnny falls in school, It may not mean he's a dull boy. Perhaps he needs medical attention.

d

Bo says Dr. C. Henry Kempe, a doctor and pro- fessor at Colorado Univer sity medical school.

"School foliures are a medical problem and should be treated as such. Kempe

Bald Basically, such failures are a matter of adjustment, he added..***

In grades one to three, failure often is caused by mental deficiency or "alow- ness or by undetected handi- caps such as faulty hearing or sight: Among smart fchildren who 'cannot read, there may be a mental block that makes a certain type of teaching result in a learning deflelency. The deficiency can be corrected by going back to the first grade level and reteaching by another method," he said.-U.P.I.

PLANTING

A GARDEN

care,

ROSE may not be a rose unless it is planted with

Choose planting spots reached by the sun at least six hours a day. Dig holes 18 to 18 inches apart, for hybrid ten roses, 20 to 24 inches apart for floribundas. Keep bare-root roses In water until ready. Spread the roots over a cone of soll In the bottom of a roomy hole,

The knob of the stem should be at soll level when the hole is filed. Pulverise the soil and rulx in one cup of granular commercial plant food. Surround the roots and pour in water, jostling the rose gently so that the water carries to all air pockets. The pull up slightly.

In summer, water roses often. Feed each plant a half cup of balanced plant food every third week, then water. Cut stems of faded blooms back to a five-part

Evening Glitter

Tycoon-Feder

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