THE CHINA MAIL, · SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1968.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
VERONICA PAPWORTH ****
WHEN ALL THE EXPERTS' DISAGREE AND EVEN NATURE, IT SEEMS, NO LONGER KNOWS BEST
Babies! Just what CAN you believe?
Spring bats will be BIG bata-
important" is the word the milliners are bandying around.
nud
Deep cloche kata, sailors bretons with large and generous brims, high-crowned hata to en- compass high bair styles—all are on their way in.
From Jean. Barthet in Paris
comes this big- hended bit of
In white nonsense
with black trimmings.
The smaller picture shows Marie Laforêt in quether black and white number picked for her by Barthet. (Remember he coaxed Bardot inte hats ?)
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My six regrets—by Helena Rubinstein
personal manager, and Kay, her cool and efficient secretary, were quick with their protests....
AM fuscinated to find that beneath the be- Jewelled, Balenciaga bro- "But Madam, you have done so caded bosom of Helena much with your life." Rubinstein there lurks a "How many would you have longing for something liked?" I asked. money cannot buy.
We took Russian tea together
in her splendid hotel suite in London recently.
Six, "six more at least.
wald Helena
"A family
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WITH babies so very much in the news, now seems a particularly good time to consider the fearful decisions facing the mid-twentieth century mother.
From the first fatal moment when the doctor's casual nod sets the seal on her pear-shaped future, nothing...... but nothing-barring the bare fact of her pregnancy, is certain.
Is she to spend the next nine montha alternately exorcising and folaxing in preparation for a painless party-and to blazes with anesthetics? Or is she to leave it all to Pentothal and Trilene?
"Don't try to harden yourself, for it is quite possible to have too much sun and ale and exer- cise," anys Dr John Gibbens, whose textbook, "The Care of Young Bables," now in its tenih edition, has been a bible to so тапу.
"I always advise that smoking should be stopped and no al- cohol laken during pregnancy," preached the late Grantly pick- Read
Me?
After four confinements I in- sist that nothing, within reason, makes the sightest difference:
Champagne
I have exercised like mad relaxed until I could practically have been spooned off the sofn ... skipped anything us intoxi- cating as half a glass of cider.
Alternatively, I have Inzed around, refusing to walk th extra inch, lepping up cham- page wherever it was offered as compensation for my vanishing waistline, and driving myself everywhere. Even to the nursing home.
The end products were re- markably similar-six pounds- odd in weight, lighi pink sad simlan-eyed, with fascinating Hittle star-shaped hands and a regrettable unreliability al eliber end.
The one thing that matters is that you go on a first-class dlet and watch your weight.
To feed or not to feed the baby yourself?
"Clearly a young child who has recently undergone great hazards of birth should be
:
And that is something today's children do not get.
They may get spoiling.
talked
Oddly enough, I've reccatly to a couple of child psychiatrists who subscribe to: They also get a darn sight my cd-fashioned point of view. too much shatting away with But then these days you can The television set and an always find an "expert" early banishment to boarding back any theory. school which is equally re- Which is kind of comforting, grettable,
isn't it?
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his excellent book, Expert Game," British ex-
spared the risk of breaking this pert Terence Reese points out
natural sequence of events and not be brought up on an alien milk never intended by Nature for him," saya John Gibbers.
But today there vital considerations.
Ghastly
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that declarer should remember the bickling as a prelude to his play of the hand.
South ruffs the second heart, draws trumps and if he is a careless player proceeds to lead the queen of diamonds from dummy and finesse.
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You, South, hold:
4932 954 4A87 4AK743
What do you do?
A-Pam. The hand may pro- duce a club alam but the odds aro ngainst it:
TODAY'S QUESTION You are the dealer and hold: 40132 954 $A87 JAK(3
What do you do?
Answer on Monday
New York Favourites
SAUCE FOR CHICKEN Will feeding a baby herself
The way the cards lie West Here's an easy barbecue sauce help a woman to regain those win win with the king and lead for chitken using very little oil. hour-glass curves?
any
diamond or club Put 4 cup prepared mustard "Yes," says one side. "No," back
whereupon South will be heard in a 1-cup measure, Add 1⁄4 cup says the other.
"Doesn't make a ha'p'orth of bad fuck of finding both
complaining bitterly about his unsulphured molasses and stir theto blend. Add 1⁄4 cup leton The launching which was difference," says having diamond lang and club
juice, 2 tablespoons cadik salad proceeding happily on a high fed one baby for three months wrong.
oli and Worcestershire sauce, tide of champagne, was, she and another for three days.
Labasco and teaspoon told me, In honour of their
teaspoon each Kait and Jatest.
monosodium glutamate, Mix well. This makes enough sauce for 2 broiler-fryers serving 4 persons,
"The slogan that accompanies this one is terrific—'Even in the firmly dark he will know it's you'
"Goes straight the heart wonderful of the matter, doesn't it?
mistakes....bad
Whenever a man mar smells it, no matter how many ittle years later, it must bring every
thing back in a flash.
thing. Looking back, one sees "A woman's perfume should Lying on one of their deepest, zo much. One child alone be nostalgic. poftest sodas, Madam wore yet makes another version of her favourite ringes....la always OL Chinese-style tunde in silver and Insecure........But with many white. A slivery furred rug together there is strength and covered her legs.
courage and certainty,"
There were diamonds the
size of harci nuta in her ears,
rows around her throat, F
Thwack!
"Our new pertume is going to be one of the seven great per- fumes of the world."
A1 278, 61 (HK$22) for four ounoca, I reckoned as I left the
"nos
bird's-egg-size pearls in three I thought back to my elder parly, we can all afford to be riant ruby on her left hand son when he was small puramel- reckless will that vid and more diamonde on the ling his sister good and hard,, talgia."
right.
Still her small dark eyes, set in a lively little gipsy-ish face, blazed brighter than any jewels,
Off again
then turning suddenly with a hearty; thweek across the car for his friend who chose to join in"Leave her alone. She's. my sister.”
Families undoubtedly have something.
But have they enough to out-
-
What does matter is never toj Ference points cut that South drink all that ghastly milk some is a victim of bad play; not bad "experts" insist on ordering.
With one of drank the lot.
luck.
babies I
South
the should Icadi diamond from his hand toward With the next I poured it dummy's queen. Then West cza
take his lang of diamonds, duck down a convenient drain. Both did splendidly.
or whistle "Dixie" but he can But neither did quite so well not beat the hand, know (not minel) who started as the toughest three-year-old I
Suppose East folds both the
FOR FRUIT SALADS Dressing aa cognac is made to order for fruit salada. Simply add 1 teaspoon each of dry white wine and cognac and 1 table- ace spoon whipped cream to 1 cup on solid foods at a FORTNIGHT. king of diamonds and the
Blend well, Which maybe proves that Na of clubs. Then South will go basic mayonnaise, ture no longer knows best,
down but Reese points out that chill and save. What matters most to a baby: I think, is a very great deal of loving continuing into child- hood Loving and hugging - unlimited)
DON'T BREATHE A WORD
-IT'S HERE AT LAST!
We talked of her trip to weigh the delights of a fabulous IVING and Russia ("but I have been to art collection, glided great
so many places since then") apartments in Paris and
New
L'Y delight learning as
the painting purchased on York, a ranch in Australia, a discovered last week.. her behair in Parts ("a Van picture-book mili
near Fon-
unlimited, plus
for next autumn and winter.
largely
responsible for tils are scly
seama
"FOR
Peel, of British Nylon Spinners,
• "Buddenly it's 'square to wear Dongen I've a photograph of tainebleau, jewels, furs und THAT a new wylon suede
short skirts have it here somewhere"), her clatheg
"Maybe the fabric is to be made up into something to do with i portrait bought by Brazil's
coats ambassador in London to hang atisfaction of being the second singularly anashing car
iny part I feel raildly in his country's fantastic new chest woman in America?
"What is real?” she 'had said. Amid the empty glasses and cheated if I don't woo a seam." capital of Brasilia.
I'm a seam-free fan myself, Any woman who is entirely after-lunch bonhorsie at the We talked of the carrings I honest with herself may be for- British Nylon Fair I was helped
THAT: nylon sweaters need was wearing Five hundred given for thinicing twice before into the Very First Cont * heavy handing when washing. old-style francu from the
"The trouble with you giris Prixunic and
This is definitely the is that you won't treat om Secret ist Comething," said 1.
said Mr Michael, rough, sold, Arthur Carrington, who made it. ... ....
а Lancashire yarn salesman.
roal brass
or
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been
over in anal brown hands in the launching of a now you can launder it in a wash-
She took one and turned it RIDDEN to a party to aglat "It won't sub, it won't fluff, "You want to hammer the yarn.
"Mort wornen haya heavy with Jowels,
perfume, I could not help ring machine and it'll never wear taught the quocze the sweater Пlecting that the celebration
cut,
"Real what is real?" said Helenn. They sult you and that is all that matterB."
might well have been confused "Ot courro, “tako furs' with a mildly hilarious wake.
been our speciality until now,
one morning
Wo. talked of me and my Almost every woman and But Mr. Alfred (his brother)
family for a moment. Then suddenly atwould have bod more children," said Madais Yes, I have had two cons; bur 1 know that I should have had many."
Patrick, the fall, good-looking young American who in her
there were easily a couple of woke up hundred present-wore BLACK thought 'Suede'!
I wish we could break away
- from this six o'clock uniforms.
noncon
· (One of thes' fow
formers in a crenin and gotā
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and
"Now here it 10. Smart work, Mr Alfred.
in lukewarm suds" -technique.
"Fills them up with soap or detergents, and no wonder they
go hard and woolly.
"Wa give them a, darn good go in a washing machine, I'v oven boiled a heavy nylon' sweater in a non-kettle,”
Be bold, henceforth,' with that
THAT. the percentage of washing machine....or the flah
Jumper (sal?,” shuno Team-free stockings sold. today kottle. mlar.)
Ja staadily rising?”
(London Express Service).
Air-wick
the scientific odour-killer
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