1959-04-11 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1959.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

HERE IS AN EVENING

冊小

Pago · 7

DRESS THAT

PACKS FLAT!

By Veronica Papworth

THE trouble

with

Waist-deep In nettles i argued with them,"

here.

Three years ago, in the teelt

of opposition from the masculino being a keen gar- "Why level it out? I want members of my household dener is that while avata

. a group of to say nothing of the nursery- - great banks man I bought an Bft, almond jeverybody else's of rhododendrons on the for tree in blossom,

eide, and, please a little gazebo "You can't shift that now,"

they said.

willows there.

thoughts in springtime where I can sit and look across turn to LOVE we horti- the valley." cultural types are all too Just as well they didn't take often. preoccupied with me seriously about the gazebo, thoughts of bone meal I have since learned thật fertiliser, horse manure, gardeners never sit and stare. and digging, digging, DIGGING.

I used to believe I'd be mad for spring if only I had a real garden.

They're too darned busy,

1 had pictured un relent assistant in corduroys spitting and delivering on his hands himself of ancient sayings.

1 defied them

Mutinously i was dug up and transplanted.

"She"I am sure my almond tree "sbe" has never looked back,

scenie effects progress slowly.

Otherwise, after six years iny

of a

The only dramatic and sud- den change came when, of the wheel

fine new motor mower, I charged downhill well out of control and sliced a great DOWN went the outside deep swath through the outlying

Our first "gardeners" arrived with a bulldozer,

At that time my particular garden was a formal plot-al- Invatory John Piper-esque undergrowth before I came to most entirely crazy paved with structure anothered with Old rest.

a couple of crescent-shaped Man's Beard-and so paintable. "Cutting n vista?" said my beds, a stone nymph or two,

husband as he rescued me.

and a fine, big swinging ham DOWN went the two dead mock always unveiled at trees crawling with ivy that I'm just a dagsbody Easter.

My, how I dabbled with

"One day," l'a spread myself.

say, "I'll

lezned so protectively over the half-collapsed Victorian sum-

But that's

"Woodman, spare these trees," I wep!, finging myself before a cluster of pale green something-or-the-other.

It is well established by now that I am the Impatient one.

ttle light weeding. (It's ur- mer-house-scene, no doubt, of prising how decoratively dis- many a passionate wooing.

"You can't Dut the sields arranged one can get poring "Over my dead body," I under Nature," they crợ. over a small crescent-shaped

In fact, I'm the donsbody. stage. bed) Then I'd lie back in the cried at one

I don't know a darwinia from with the way a great many things in an exchscholtzle, but when t hammack and commune Nature.

my home happen.

comes to filing in the, holes the dogs win dig in the lawn...or raking the muck well in...or "deado" of the cutting the reses I'm sure of a job.

My reward comes at the end of a warm day when I wander round the garden collecting up the hundred and one things the children have left behind them -shoca and sweaters, books wide open face downwards, a footstool from the drawing! room and a couple of kitchen

"One day little Capabilly Papworth will landscape gar- den on the grand scale."

Somebody should have warn- ed me.

"They're suckers," shouted the bull-dozers, and swept on.

Finolly all wos fat

For the past six years I have Let's buy a tree ...

spread myself across four acres of the heaviest, wettest clay in Buckinghamshire.

"Now," said to myself the following spring, "Now for the

We're all too busy landscaping."

I wanted nnd I expected quick results, but I soon learn- What I'll never undersiend is ed that we plant and plan for why-since we live or the very posterity. top of a hill 600ft. above sea level-the land is always wet.

You'd think it would drain away somehow to find its own wretched level.

But no. Ours is a high, airy swamp, ours Is-in patchus,

When we first took over the

spoons.

The sun is low and the pole light has a speelal kind of magic in it.

This is the time when the rosen seem to open extra wide "Why can't we go shopping and glow with a heart-stirring for a group of flowering cherry beauty. The heady scent of the fresh-cut grass is laced with the cool damp scent from the ponds. still watching I stand qulle the early bats wheeling round the oak tree.

trees 10ft high?

"Why does everything have to be planted so small, and so for apart?"

"Patience," sold the sages, "What about those hormones

ancient and neglected wilder- they feed to bulls?" I pleaded. posterity and please, oh please,

sages said:

"There's "Can't we

ness the only one thing to do if you with them?

war.

dose the

We can 101.

Larches

Who

I have Know

decent garden, You must start from scratch. Drag Once and once only out the roots, bulkloze the lower challenged Those levels, dig and dung."

and won,

"All right." I say to the gar- "so I've Inndscaped for den,

may they be as happy as 1 am." -JOY MATTHEWS

Small Errors Can Spoil Perfect Picture Of You

Luz photo

WASH OUT White blouses, gloves and other accessories after each wearing so that they'll always appear mowy white, By JEANNE D'ARCY

WHO can resist a quiz? Hard-hot iron or replace it with new

jvelling. ly anyone!

error.

Ever taken the kind that asks 3. Not-so-white blouse or BO- "What's wrong with this pic-cessories. White things can't be ture?" Usually, it shows a group-gray or near-white. They must ing of objects one of which is be truly white. Blouses, gloves, for one reason or another.{collars, scarves and other ap- wrong. Your job is to spot the parel must be washed after each wearing to look white and right. Are You a Perfect Picture? 4. A bulging-out-at-the- Try this type of quiz for seama handbag. Your purse beauty next time you're dressed must be in good shape. It won't and ready to go to the office; abe if you use it as a combination club meeting or a social evening carryall and wastebasket, Weed You're the picture! Is it one of out extras. File contents neatly. perfection? Or is something Don't cram in more than your

bag was meant to carry. wrong?

Unlike most quimer, wo'TO 5. Straggling locks. Even one going to give you a few hints wisp of hair out of place can about some of the things to look spoil your colffure, Check hair- for in the way of errors: do back and front for perfec-

1. Duli-looking Jowellery. It locks in linc.

tion. Use a spray to keep stray

J

it's dusty. locks sparkle, jewel has little value as an 6. Powder traces. A dusting of accessory, Occasionally, give powder on shoulders shows up, gems a washing. Always store (so don't leave home without them in a jewel box or drawer, giving yourself the brush-off.

2. Limp velling. Velling should Use a strong-bristled brush on be crisp, have body. If it's not clothes and, while you're about eithor, place it under a piece of it, check shoes. They may need waxed paper and press, with a brushing, too,

IT'S a problem that crops

up again and again. when travelling "Shall I take an evening dress?" Which almost certainly means

extra sultenZO.

of

an

Mes Richard Nixon, wife the American Vico- President solved the proh- tem on her last visit to Lon- don by picking wari-and started

six-ounce

a fashion,

I've been learning how to make an evening dress in essy slagen from Prinores

Indian ન

dreas designer who is 1 rezlas with drapery.

Brential underpinnings s

walat - to - around - length

rayon

Jersey allp with.

elästle at the

alraptors bra!

walt, and

(X) Make six

AD

A

five-inch-

wide pleats at the beginning of the sarl and tuck them into thỏ top of the silp at the back, left-hand aldo. Pin them for BAToty.

across and

(2) Wrap the mark over and round the body under iko right arm ander left arm ... round Brain and fasten ander tho right armpit using liny, kt safetypia.

(3) Cross to waist at left and pleat the width of the sul until the two borders meet. Then maké a largo loop,

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arrange folds and secure with

big, gilt kilt pin sa in the big picture.

"An important point to ra- member,” mys the Princes, "is to wrap" lk, tight-really

tigat-when 'you

are doing

the waist folds. And never strive for an Eastern effeck with a piece over the bend Keep the whole thing entirely Western in AppearanOO -I's too fancy-dress.”

Don't Talk

Your Way

Out Of Getting Ahead

By ANNE HEYWOOD

TN The Prophet, Kahlil She mainta

Gibran says, "I learned action

clothes.

silence from the talka

tivp

also pay

Extra grooming und

The knowledge that we look Trumpy cen drive us into Liang--

If you watch talkative people, too much in an effort to divert drowning their lives in oceans people's attention from our ap of unnecessary words, you find pearanIDEL. The young girl who yourself becoming more and is not attractive, or thinks the more tacitum. Especially in isn't, sometimes develops offices is this true. The more compensating talkativene taliative a person is, as a rule,

the less apt she is to get ahead.

MANY REASONS

There are many reasons for this.

First of all; it is nerve-wrack= ing to be near a chatterbox. The worker who talks 100 much la

going to repel people.

too

Second, when you spend much time talking, it occurs to the oes that you can't be doing much work.

cofi-

Third, talkativeness -in nected, in most people's minds, with age. The talkative woman ia credited with being a good five years older then she 19t

Fourth, if you tall a great deal, you're bound to spy some things you'll regret later,

CAN'T STOP-TALKING

615

The Worker Who Chafiers

Is Annoying to Other

this

She can also train herself to But how can a talker break laten if she will make it a game.

Sho could protend, for e the habit?

novellat, Com of my readers knows she ample, that she is, talks too much but she says she writing a book about lær office at the people who work in it. can't stop.

"I've always been gabby," she Sho can begin a character dod- sler and see how much tho can welles, so I suppose It's a On

habit by now. I realles it isn't find out about everybody, Thin helping me, either on the job will train her to really look at her co-workers and listen to ofor socially. What can I do?""

I think this hung woman, flat, to ask them questions and should Brat have a medical ex- really care about hearing the amination to see if her poTY00%. #NEWMrs.

the

Who is following farhien? The Countres Harewood wears one. Dawa Addams too-and then there's Eva Bartok.

Take your chalgo at sariam and follow suit,

nem, might have a physical: It's a role that can cure talks.

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