THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1960.
WEEK-END WOMANSENSE
Exoticism plus!
A STRIKING way to be sophisticated in the
· rain—team a shower-proof frock-coat with
a turban to frame the face:
"DOQR girl," said my companion, looking at a ravish- "po
Ing creature who lay basking in the sun at Cannas. She had golden akla and copper hair and wore noth- -ing but two narrow strips of cloth and curiously
ciumay hearing aid,
"And the boy lying beside her. Look! He's deaf too." We could see the little box strapped to his head and the wires and things that disappeared into one of his ears. Despite their affliction, both girl and boy wore besti- fic expressions as they lay, wordlessly, digging their toes into the white sand beside the Crolsatte. And then, aud - denly, the boy sat up. Casually he unplugged the wires from la car and took the box off his head.
He spoke into the girl's free ear, and she sat up. anatching the wires, out of her other "ear and removing the box fastened to her head. Then she and the boy ran into the sea.
"Good heavens," said my companion. "I wonder if de Gaullo le responsible for it."
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Susan Barnes
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HAVE the faintest a store cons
AVE you the faintest idea whether a store considers despair of getting you to pay your bills within a sonable period?
Do you know what is a reasonable period? I didn't. To find out I went to the credit manager of a well-known department store.
"A lady will accopt, from strife. But in a suitable ense man what she won't accept we'd write
very discreet letter from another woman.**
to the husband, calling the I murmured
my agreement situation to his that this might be so.
attention and
"In our credit office wo have king him if perhaps he would
women 10 deat with like to remedy."
two straightforward matters; the "We
opening of accounts, and so
Women
•
probably would
It
I shifted my weight on the burd clustr.
forth. We have two men to mention fi to her." "What," I asked, "end to be The credit manager motioned deal with the delicate matters, the habits of your customers in to the four unadorned walls They even have differently settling their accounts, large or which enclosed a desk with him styled offices: the two anall? Do any of them really on one side of it and me on the have semi-open offfees; the two
"Are you sometimes asked pay any attention to these neut other. His chair looked con men have rooms that are com how husband has run up a Itile words on the bottom of siderably more comfortable and pletely private, like this," large account with you?" the bills saying that accounts are certainly less precarious than The eredit manager con- to be settled "monthly?""
mine.
them
tinued: "When we've got the HYM
We're very
cautious
"I would say that 70 per cent
"When we see the customer's customer up hore, we point but then. Indood I was subpoenaed pay within a week of getting the card has a warning dash on it," to her that it would be advisable on an occasion in a divorce bill," said the credit, manager. said the credit, manager, wef she settled her account before suit. We're always very, very say, another £10 cagey. If the account is in the Those that give us trouble, I send a slip down to the sales charging,
We can tell usbands's name and the wlie mean real trouble, are less than person. We like
to be worth of goods.
pretty quickly from her attitude
asks for details we refuse. We 20 per cent. What I mean by very tactful about It," real trouble is where we have
"How can you be tactful with what the situation is.
I'm 459 the ball back." to consider legal action,"
a customer about that particular for example, should say:
not going to be told what to do The credit manager problem?" I asked.
by you! we'd know you were "Oh." explained the credit embarrassed,
In that case, we reflective, and a manager, "the sales person can would try-what shall I sny?— '
"One of our Bccountants to calm you down.
Flash system
course,
If you,
looked
trife wistlul.
"I think," he said, "that hus- bands who charge to their necounts presents for their girl
would Wo
"Short of the low courts," was wondering whether you I asked, "how do you deal with could spare a couple of minutes probably have to refuse sanction friends think these men are the people who simply don't to go upstairs'."
part Do you take note of their unpaid accounts and wait until
they come in to charge some- thing one day, and then grab them?"
The horroni,
of your now purchase of twin stupid. If they want a girl stis. But we would be as help- friend, they ought to pay cash ful as possible. We might say, for her. I think vanity comes Would you like to clear your into it. "Oh, I've got an account **What on earth is the eus- account by spreading the pay at X they like to say to her."
Д couple tomer's reaction?" I asked, fair- ment
ovor
Very delicate
"We don't du it as brutally as ly riveted now by the horrors of months? *** that," said the credit manager. the situation. "As you know, we have t The average person, unless pneumale-tube system which she's trying to catch a train or sends the citomer's order up to something like that, comes up." the credit root, We have a said the credit manager. flash system on the credit cards. "Once you have got the cus- A particular coloured flash tomer on to the fourth flour, who
is a bad buttonholes her?" I asked. one. We always, of course, seek The credit manager smited "1 have al- to avoid embarrassing the cus- sympathetically. Lomer before friends or rela- ways felt," he said, "that it was Lives. These offices are provid- a man's job to deal with a lady ed for that purpose."
on a subject of this nature..
means the customer
"For what?" I asked.
"For so many of the French being prematurely deaf." She was looking at two more fetching numbers sashaying past in their hearing aids.
We were interrupted by the Frenchman occupying. the two square yards of sand adjacent to our own.
"Please, mesdamce, pardon me, but I could not fall to overhear you. The young people of France, they are not deal. They like the music."
And then we discovered about the little boxes with the wirea. They are not hearing aids at all. They are iny translator radios which send private Jazz concerts Into the wired ear of the wearer.
In France music. has. literally...gone, to their heads.. But have you ever imagined walking around with
the Light Programme attached to your head? Eeeeeeeeds.
SUSAN BARNES
Be sure-grab
opportunity
WISH
By Anne Heywood
upportunity qualifications for just a couple
"I would make an ap
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of hours.
pointment with me when One day Jane was at her doc- it's planning 10. come lor's office for a checkup, HUT [knocking," humorous doctor's office is located in a Woman I know remarked large professional building. the other evening. "Too often, I'm just not there man outside the door of the when it comes."
On her way uut she saw a
accountant's office next door, It was one-thirty and there was The more I thought about a sign on the door: "Out to that, the more I agreed. It we
lunch-Back at iwo,"
Reading it with irritation, the
don't wam to miss a good op- man muttered, "Okay, if you portunity, we've got to be alert -"all there" all the time.
Favourite example
One at my favourite amples
of that involves
charming young mother works for my dentist, never
met Jone because
appointment are mostly early
don't want my business I'll find tomebody who does"
foorning ones. (I'm a cowan went through
gnames from
of
Bad risks
The credit manager informed me further.
"How do you dral." I asked,
"People in-shall we say the "with the wife whose husband has informed you he won't be unreliable professions are bad credit risks. You know. People responsible for her' debts?"
torrisé earning
Incomes "Very delicate thing, thut. temporarily. It is tricky, be- cause if they have money in We try to pass the ball back to cat
the bank we can't refuse them the husband,
"When he first writes us dis-eredit. But we know that their that claiming responsibility for his existence is precarious, wide, we acknowledge the letter, their income can be brought to. adding: "We assume that you a close rapidly and their bank hayo told Mr Thing-A-Me accounts emplied. Bob of your instructions to us, Why shouldn't we assume that
"Such people tend not to put husband
the moral away has
Пок д rainy day. It's to tell his wife
him cult.
them We can't turn Otherwise, we havo to dawa, but we know that some tell her, and that is a shocking day they won't pay." thing."
0
courage self?
wife has her own account with you and her hus- band asks for details of it, do you supply them?"
"Even if her account is long overdue to be paid?"
Overdue
Theu, presumably, are among the less than 20 per cent who give the credit manager "roal trouble." Are you too?
you are, you might be interested to know that scarcely
So Chic -and-
any of the inreats of "putting of course
the
matter into solicitors'
hands" ever are actually put
into effect. Unless your bill is
The credit manager brushed very, vory Inrge, the store speck of fluff off his discreet seldom finds it worth while to grey suit
go to court. Probably your only "We always avoid trying to costs will be those of an uneasy cause--shall I say. -domestic conscience.
THE
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from
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Presenting
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and jacket from Paris.
The jacket, in a fleck-
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round neck that can be "dressed up" for par ties.
RUSSIAN WOMEN HAVE
COME BACK TO VANITY
BEAUTY PREPARATIONS
COME INTO FAVOUR
Russian women are awakening to beauty
www and
the cosmetics, drugs and other means of achieving or preserving it. Aline Mosby reports, in a three-part seilas, on what Soviet women are doing and using to more attractive make themselves younger and locking..
Doctors try to erase time with youth liquid
The doctor, a woman as are
The hospital trips are frea, Moscow. and American docbors issued "I remember thinking, that: was pretty unreasonable, Jane OR 60 cents in Moscow model or saying they had most doctors in Russia was a even to foreigners,
no proof that H3, as it's called, heavy, handsome blonde with 'a "We've been giving these shots "Then I began thinling you can buy a "liquid is other than a good anesthetic. white kerchief over her hair and since 1933, the doctor said. cx- said,
for these pro- of youth” that some how dily it is
Rus But doctors still are giving the «П fessional men to close their sian
But who
doctors hope might H3 shots here and looking for a white untiorm aver her print "Emankly, we haven't received as at lunch when closing take years off your face.
some results,
dresa, She tested my friend's good results as we hoped. hadi. offices
my might create such ill-will,
blood pressure, took a blood test blood pressure, circulation and
skin tone improves. *Right 'then and there, I
I visited the the "fountain of and gave her a prescription for Many doctors both here that building.
youth" polyclinic with the wife of
"Many Chinese women come abroad are doubtful. on Italian diplomat who was a. M3, You can purchase the cap here the minute they got off the and if I don't get it done when we were about forty. But nonetheless Russian patient. I'm barely awake, I agoniso alt doors,
ways to three! I wrote a letter asking women-und, many foreign day and try to azure
if I could do lunch-hour relief, females who hear about it concel.).
telling my qualifications. I got are eager customers at On this ute occasion I went several offers and I took Dr in a twelve-thirty just to have A's (the dentist). I work for Polyclinic No. 6 on Herzen my teeth cleaned, we passed him from twelve to one and for
of day and I liked a lawyer from one until two. Perfect arrangement
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the time Jane.
Later, tho dentist told me about her and how she got the job. Her story is a fine exam- ple of being "at home" to op portunity.
"It's perfect for
Polyclinic
"I heard about this from an
BTC
St. in expectation of dia- Intourist guite," she explained. Bolving a few years from "Many Cnbagur wives
going." their looks.
The polyclinic looks like all Fussian clinics, or hosptials
The "elixir" actually is a solu- mo busy ten hours a week and says the box, borrowingt given mo
Rejuvenate
#
sules at any drugstore for six
rubles, or 80 cents on the tourist plano from Peking." exchange rato. You take the
to the hospital to be
ecpsules
given the injections,
(Monday: Cosmetics Galn In Favour).
Dialogue at Balmain
THE SCENE: Plorra Dalmain's salon in Paris recently. Nicole Milinair, the woman the Duke of Bedford has dresses.
me, koopstion of "3 per cent Novacain, housed in it simple yellow-and- varlay fun and wastor brand name for the drug white building on a busy busi money. Also I find that by procaine, the local anesthetic nos street. Only a small black married and my coleague Nancy Spain were trying on It was difficult two I'm not so very ravenous you take in the dentist's, chair, plaque saying "Piovelinie No. 6" distinguishes It from surround- for lunch. I've Iost four
ing shops and offices.
Madame Milinair had climbed into a towny brown and Jane wanted part-time work, pounds already" just two hours a day ỚT BÒL There's an example of stay-
Inside a few young girls in gold sheath with a pattern "like the eddies of a river" on Because she didn't know bhorling wide-awake when opportu This is one invention the Rus white uniforma clustered around it, which looked suspiciously like a wedding dress,ONA hand it was dificult, No speed nity klocka of belog able to sans don't claim. A 12-year-old a reception table. They directed Sho told Nancy!" "Ion called me on the telephone demon, she could type, do sim- take a hint from doing so to Rumanian woman professor, All- us to the use doskroom where just now and asked what it is like. I replied: fit will go ple bookkeeping and had a speak. The person who wants ng Asian, began using the drug, you must check your cout, Then pleasant phong manner. No a part-time job has to be in-nibe years ago in Bucharest to we were led down to a splendidly with the cellings at Woburn,
She was being utterly serious, body, however, wanted those gattious,
**smilveriate** patients, European 'doctor's office;,
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