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HERE ARE IDEAS FOR YOU THIS AUTUMN...

THERE is no city to com- THERE

pure with Paris for IDEAS and there is nỪ street in Paris quite so packed with ideas as the Rue du Faubourg Honore.

St

Each stop window is a treasure

box filled with talent.

Window stopping for you.

haye skelehed above a bunch of bright boulique ideas to Ponder now and to curry You forward to the autumn. ON THE LEFT: A lower waist and bloused back ou a dress of fine charcoal grey Danuel, worn whE A wide belt of leopard

IN

THE "CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1950.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

The VERONICA PAPWORTH Page

DRAWIND BY VERONICA PAPWORTH

When a teenage

girl starts to

step out...

fantastic to sug- may weem Erst that Mila arts arr fanlionable. But after Audrey Hepburn appeared at Dlorin Д Aleeveless dress lender, fragile und bicep-free-It

seemed everybody was look-

bug likewise.

HILDREN are small, cuddly, and comfort ing

. to begin THE BACKGROUND: 1 couple of evening French with. Children are all star coals are under consideration. shaped groping hunds und The st

anoke- scented sweetness... in brown satin with white fox

a short time.

the second is Jame with leopard.

for

Chlidren can be shut away in and high-barred

skin that is shaped Trench plate are a "uslural" for proms, pens, down over the hips. Notice the kair wrapped

found a "beclive" shape,

THEN THERE IS the brief summer prraing Jacket in double nylon organa, This one, in turquoise blue, was inalched - with a simple; inack •

less summer dress.

fabric is The

A gribs. good stiffened sash bell can gather in multitude

A doubtful seamą.

1ho home dressmaker.

Di

TO THE RIGHT is the simple and quite the most copyable cvening dress. Almost every boutique show.

a similar verslag, The skirt is in two Liers of kauslii. Splas embroidered of the in Parla ** long-stemmed blue

prettiest prints

one

tions on whito pique.

་

IN THE FOREGROUND the

But not for long enough. Nostalgically I look back lo the days when the very thought of a baby led me with fonging: and downright impatience to be off shopping for a pound or two of yellow knitting wool."

either

(Yellow? Impulzivė, gambling The under one le absolutely typu that I am, I never bet oi straight.

an even chance, Well The top one is dorted and it's one or the other. So why gathered -- full sad rounded foal around with pink or blue?) over the hips. To bodice is quilo plain.

Seems to me 1 was once what one in while em- they call a well-equated parent broldered with primrose yell tool

nalesgir) framaculate

ht

savy linen with white facings

-holds a fur pillbox and long narroW choker to worn twisted 1wo or three times round the neck.

A Tils

be

low carries a moss green. I felt "secure" "protected," Katin sash and a yellow fośc.

"bultonboles" realetle "wanted," and so on.

(Straight out of the what-to- The

do-with-your-old-furs depart-

ment, this one!)

See her narrow "pipe cleaner"

打算

horse chestnuts bursting from their abella-are în aptumnal touch from the boutique of Pierre Balmain.

NOW I KNOW HOW

IT'S DONE

The depths

Suddenly I find myself with One foot in a teenage world. I rise to the heights and sink to the depths

Am I, I wonder, maladjust-

ed?

"Well, lend me your Alice band."

young looking."

and experience.

"O.K---but it's awfully

At Jast they are ready- bounding lightly downstairs with a rustle of stim petticoats a last-minute appeal to

“Darling, do we really took right?TM "You promise we're not overdressed or anything, ghastly?" "I feel such a foot in Upstick it doesn't show,

does [17"

With assurances and reassur- auces I whisk them away.

My old shooting brake is as full of perfwine and colour as a basket of rosca.

Layer after layer is packed in avold

with Infinite cressing.

core

to

And I return to chaos.

bathroom is a steamy, The scented sphere-knee-deep in talcum power.

They la across the back sat like dolls with half the stuffing shaken out.

It was "dreamy" ... "deadly"

"divine,"

I do the Inte round of good- night kisses, and chaos has! related.

TWO OF three inyerg of petticoats starched

'sploco

mako a riot of rumpled uns

diness.

Their cheek are soft and worm

a

One sucks her thumb second is smothered in "hour-

Absurdly I am reminded of those old-fashioned "snow" ishing night cream' storm" globes,

third hugs a Teddy bear.

How old-or young are they?

At tuny moment someone Just 10. might take me up and shake mo and the great "white scented fakes will whirl.

But nobody shakes me, and I search for a floor cloth.

Their bedrooms surely have been hit by a cyclone.

"Well, shut the door them," argues repsom.

on

"But they can't come home to sleep in this." I argue buck, as I retrieve u stuffed leopard,

powder-pult,

nal) files and a copy of Jane Eure from one bed,

So 'dreamy

wo

It is midnight when collect them.

Ridiculous, but they would rather forgo the party than leave early.

Weekend menu... by Helen Burke

OFF THE BONE-IS

IT THE

THE BEST?

WHY do we always believe that meat on the bone

is better than when the bones are removed?

Meat on the bone is difficult of the rolled lamb, in about four to cut into slices and there are places, few home carvers who do the Job economically.

Brush the most with a little melted lamb tot and sprinkle it The very nature of any joint Place it in a small roasting in with pepper, salt and flour, means that, by the time tho I am caught up in a flurry of thicker part is properly cooked, for it (the smaller the pan, the

or oven dish Just long enough | tennis parties, barbecues and

the thinner parts are overdone. less splashing of fat) and bake dowy|informal dences that matter....

My main dish this weekend it. and honestly it may seem like absolutely nothing to you that will be rolled boned best end of One hour with a really top muscles underlying the skin my hair's all sticking out alue-neck of lamb. notch American model girl in again and again.

Ways of the back, but if it Paris convinced me of the sound- She mixed her own face pack doesn't look right I can't go and nese of my arguments. Her fuller's carth, lemon juice, if I can't go I'll die."

FOR

MOR years I have argued that the sweet, fresh

look is the hardest possible to achieve.

hair had just the suspicion of a fresh cream, and olive oil. natural "flick" at the ends. Her Certainly she used it every checks ghone very, very slightly day, with soap and water -- of some- thing!

Her beauty was so breath- takingly "natural."

But how natural was fi? She was late for our date- because her hair was still damp. She'd fused the hotel Ughts with her drier too and they'd been about it. rally burned up Imaginet

Sure, the washed and set her hair every mominu. "After her batlı?

Well, after her morning ball, Generally she liked to take a second both to relax herself in the early afternoon. And ames Umés a third' for a really frezi feeling in tho, ovaning."

How did she get that splendid-

She dyed her eyebrows and her eyelashes too. Lasting? Well, she reckoned to do it every weck.

She wore a king-size engage- ment ring.

I asked if she intended to continue with her career after marriage.

She sure did.

K

Suddenly, crisis after crisis Dils my life. The house is packed with legy Lecpaga ziejų called together to stay the night for soms desperatiły Importsut evening event. Freparations begin at lunch- ime,

.

Try this.

1 suggest the following dishes for Sunday's dinner

Beetroot and onion salad, olled boned best end of

nock of lamb, Flogcolels or runner beans, Polūtags armi grilled

tomatoes,

Apples Geraldine.

FLAGEOLETS, — The deled beans, if used, need to be soaked overnight, then gently cooked Better for at least two hours. buy them canned and ́olyeady cooked. And do not drain them. Lift out the tomb. Pour oft the fat, Turn the ean of flugco- -Jois (all green haricot beans) into the fin or you dish and heat through for a few minutes.

APPLES GERALDINE- Peel, bore and balva na moŋy as The afternoon is passed in s

required and place them in an THE BALAD........This is simply oven: Aish Just lüarge enough for welter of monkeyding and

Cover with sweet elder yarnishing, curling and securi-thinly sliced or small diced them." ik ****

four people, sprinkle ing, starching, pressing, and cooked beetroot with rings of and, for

blanchot onions to the family's them with two lublepong Bugur. Of course there's nothing a skonising equina.

Uking, dressed with three to four Cover with butler pipar and man likes better than frost),

"Truly you're certain'ii Įpoke party sh and one part vinegar, cook with the meat, When they natural beauty.

But what with all the washing all right curled under?" I hoor Sprinkle on top the coarsely are cooked but not mushy, drein wieved yolk of a hard-boiled egg, or the "kyrup. Add to it two and setting, massaging and mixe one cry to another,

the thinner strips of the white tablespoons apricot Jam and the Ing, lathering and renging, und

"Tam not sure. Turn it gut and plenty of vitamin-charged juleo and grated rind of a modelling as well tha wondering and 17) 400,0

lemon. chopped parsley. where this particular haukanis

Simmer these topeltier for two hopes to get a look in.

THE KARR—I; a faint whir to three minutes, siren over the -apples, 2 sprinkle with Zinkank of marile, ja appreciated, cut a

goddag-clave of it into sitips 9anched almonds, 15 laste, nad slip Easm into the Inst Dart

qut - in the – sunshine - dimnost' There's an awful lot; to bà |

-make-up-free Complexion?

Bali for he average woma

“But I'us diready done it out,”

S

[Wol," do it. adala. Le you

She believed in quemillice of who shape on a bit of make-up want my frank optilen you look soning lotion-working over the and gets on with it.

LADY LUCK

your

CHINA MAIL

horoscope.

SATURDAY, AUGUst 22:

AQUARIUS (January 21,

February 19)! Your stoic- acceptance of a recent dis- appointment will prompt your friends to try and

make it up to you. PISCES (February

20.

March 20) Since you pra confined indoors at your werk all week, you ought to get out over the weekend' and enjoy a long walk in the country.

ARIES (March 31-April 19); Don't be discouraged if at Arst you meet with a luke- warm reception to what you consider a very good

Idea. You will find greater in- appreciation in

mure

fluential quartara. TAURUS (April 20-May 20); Tonight you must try and look your very best sinco you are sure to be judged by your appearance on this rather important occasion. GEBINI (May 21-June 21); Although you feel an urgent desire to make a certain purchase, do not be too im- pulsiva but usk yourself once again! "Do I really peed it?" CANCER (June 22-July 21);

When

you have foy momenta you ought to sit down quietly and, delve into the cause and naturO of your recent set-back. LEO (July 22-August 21): You will have ampla op-

A

portunity tonight to observo the follies of ethore and bo prompted to reflect on your-

nwn.

•

VIRGO® (August 22-Septem

ber 23): Remember that pedplo with different back- grounds

different hayo slunts on the same problem "and don't condemn those who do not share your views.

LIBRA (September 23-Octo- hor 22) A longiowasted party will take place to- night but you will. Jonve It feeling inther 'disappoint- ed and let down.

SCOPmber 21) Try to let

(October 23-

yourself go a bit and for get your troubles tonight. By the morning you will foll ready to resume the strug gla

(November SAGITTARIUS

22-December 21); Beware of excessive flattory. Pepple who mean what they say don't usually deal in super- latives.

CAPRICORN (December 22- January 20): An old friend of yours will shortly be arriving and his company will bring back many happy memories of years pssk LUCKY ENCOUNTER: If today is your birthday, a meeting with a man named MICHAEL may have some special significance,

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