1961-09-09 — Page 10

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1961.

WEEK-END

WOMANSENSE

THIS IS WHAT I CALL A DREAM CAR

The longer, lower, faster

line may have 'woman - appeal' — but

it is NOT for me

THERE'S something wrong somewhere, Here are all these

splendid, lantern-jawed Englishmen turning out one bit of blindingly beautiful machinery after another to please us women. And here are we-well, here am I, anyway-dissatisfled.

I don't like what I'm getting.

Could be I'd be delighted to be asked what does delight me. Especially when it comes to motor cars.

Take last week, for example. There was 1, along with some 50-odd tall, short, thin, fat, and medium- shaped characters known to the d-men JA the "ladies of the Press,"

Not one!

Called together, we were, to witness the first presentailon of the latest motor car. A cor designed with a greater-than- usual appeal to women."

Since the general manager of the company kicked off the party with

a reminder that nothing about his baby should,

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'It looks like a cross between a hearse and a four-poster bed, said my son looking over my shoulder. The only thing in its favour is that no one would want to steal it.

appear in print until mid- September, can only report that I talked with the designer, asked him Just low many women consultants he employ- ed, and received (with a fairly !Iosty smile) the answer: "Nuie."

Fool that I am, I will there-

.

maximum hend room for hats. Something, rather on the lines of a London taxi with twice the acceleration and cruising speed of 50 m.p.h. (Un- like every man Behind the

а

wheel I'm not in too much of a hurry to be up on a cloud, harping.) I aim

be able to turn in a one-way streel (well, any- one can make a mistake, can't

of feet

fore step in where experts fear to tread and offer him the ex- perience of 17 hard years as a she?) and to park in my own owner driver, wife, and chauf-, length plus a couple feur, roundswoman, and child- with nobody to guide me. deliverer, dog-owner, theatre- For preference, I'll take fan, race-goer,

and mobile car that parks itself in mather.

verigs of sideways jumps.

Brighter

I am in the market for a new car and I have looked

at the lot.

They

longer, dre faster, and brighter.

lower,

Their splendid Colour-com- binations defy description,

But they are not for me. Why is it every cor sales- man is convinced

that what:

every woman wants is ឆ raspberry sunday effect? With shrieking pink top, whipped cream base, and silver balls on.

I'd like them all to know that a motor car-like a inan....... Is a background to us. And the best background colours elerical grey, off-white, black with pinstripes, or fine bronze "sunton."

What I want is n thick-set motor

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VERONICA PAPWORTH.

MY MEMO TO DESIGNERS

1. Back for skis, Nah- for rods roso bushes, olo.

2. Hooks

strong.

enough to owing from.

By the company he chooses" was written in thin downward sirokes all over her face.

To continue," I must em-

go strap-hanging to parties, Come on, Big Brains hounds or sir teenagers (three long evening `dresses I plan to phasise that my dream cur

what's holding you back from In stick-out taffeta skiris) going

to a party.

that?"

Sure I know, for didn't they tell me that the maximum con- centration of grey matter in the industry has

been

bent

the

back with hat boxes under the

be

3. Curtaisis for privacy.

1. Banquette seats- children squash up tight.

5. Heavy gold-plated

Öttings.

6. Plenty of hat÷boxes: -

7.' Back.steps-remom-

ber it's a high car..

8. All mod-cous...

§. Combined wardrobe. chest of drawers.

10. Folding full-length

looking' glass,

11. Rall to take hanging

dresses.

12. Folding double bed. 13. Sun-blind like the

peak of a cap.

14. Strong hands to

hold me back,

15. Games' chest

long journeys.

10. Bookshelf

traffic jams.

for

for

17. Gold-plated cad

lamps.

10. A gold cap-sce at a glance if the water's

low.

My inspiration, which I gind- acknowledge, comes direct from a recent Casino đé Paris costume, I have rarely scon woman look“ more comfortable this be no would

100 per cent or more contained than

statuesque blonde wearing tour A long dresS

into a low car Rility oufit.

black velvet hands. In her case ¡just won't go, and even it it My ideal car would have docs I won't come out again, with

It would

black-topped that was all she wore--but it's rack on top for ushing rods or deil, not the way it went in, sides, huge gold plated inten

imitation basketwork the IDEA that counts. skis, banquette seats In

Another tung I insist on It is several years since I lamps and door knobs to match. having would be stick-out in- seats, a full-length looking-glass arrived at a ball in, a long, lean Just the job to impress the folding up into the roof, a fall A.C. driven by the man who is theatre door-keeper.

dicators reading "RIGHT... to take

thean LEFT," and vice versa. upholstery would be dresses, curtains all now my husband.

I edged my skirts out in the spongeable, indestructible, all- round (for quick changing),

leopardskin-pat- pull-out bed (for catenaps), a usual half-crouching poslilon, con-proofed,

on terned PVC and 1 wouldn't say straightened up standing who has chest of drawers, and a set of the front four layers of my "No" to a genuine leopardskin

hooks in the roof

skirt, and fell flat on my face pullover to match it. Just as "the dean of the univer- As for anfety belts-I want sity and his wife, whose guests no buckle and harness to crease we were, drove up beside us, my clothes, ..... Just give me "You can tell the man who four steel hands in velvot

boozes,

gloves.

backwards in an effort to pro- duce a new car with "an over all shape appeal that la going to set a trend."

Bravo, and again bravo! But any mother driven down Bond-street to the shrill cry of "Stop, oh stop by some bushes" will swop oye- uppeal for a certain elementary home-tting no designer has ever thought to add.

All this, of course, is just a wild, wild dream, but wouldn't it be wonderful to find with one front entrance

A fell fat just as the dean's wife arrived...

Cosmetics

a car

only

and wide-opening doors at the back, with a lock and key to keep children in and interlopers

out?

A car that would take a couple of bicycles or four grey

WOTAN

for carry cots, ice-buckets, game, or wet fish.

Come to think of it, there's yel another use for a strong set of hooks. With the return of

My

· Come to think of it, all I've forgotten is a small fridge and an electric grill.

Let some genius fit these two and I'll move in tomorrow.

What's more, I might even scrap the wheels and SETTLE. Preferably in St Jame's Park.

It's, sa handy for the wild- fowling and the theatres.

to lull suspicion

gipsies to lull

A charmer from the gipsies

ON

IN the whale, a man is a courageous creature. Confront him with the

"What's

You

by JEAN SOWARD,

now rather full saucepan, sprinkle with grated cheese and cook for 20 minutes in a hot oven, making sure the cheese top goes a crisp brown.

This dish is very good on its own and you can 'cat a lot of it.

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roar of water gushing down- stairs from a burst pipe in winter timo; xat him, armed with one small rifla, bofors

the use," she asks, a smoll stick of celery, a eggs, "when all my husband really 2oz. grated cheese, olive oll, When I first sampled it in a stompeding elephant; sug- seems to enjoy is a cut off the parsley, thyme, salt, pepper, and the South of France my friend gest, oven, a trial flight to joint and two veg?" Mars--and what do you

a coffeespoonful sweet papriko, preceded it with HAMCÓRNETS can, of course, give in TO MAKE: Chop the shallots, a slice of ham wound cornet- sce? A calm, resourceful, and spend the rest of your seel and, despip the tomatoes; we found a filling of Russian salad. Then came the Gipsy's practical hero; the Bort of cooking life roasting, conven- then cook those together in a Cheese Dish; and, finally, PINE- man whoro "ittle woman" tional cute from cow, sheep, and saucepan in olive oil until they APPLE BASKETS.

plg. Or any girl is proud to be.

you can take A Bold become, a

Add the purec.

These, like many first-rate But set this same man before he thinks he wouldn't like in pepper.

Step, combine most of the things paprika," and thyme, salt and dishes, are almost too simple.

Allow one small pineapple for one delicious, unrecognisable Clean out is extra dish-and convert hlm.

Cul it in half, and. cut up the two people. peppers and celery and add longways; scoop out the flesh, I think you stand a pretty these to the tomato puree.

taking

care to keep the case good chance of Buccess with Leave this mixture to simmer whole, and chop it up into small- THE GIPSY'S CHEESE DISU. while you cut up the aubergines pieces. Whip fresh creant with Whenever I have made this into rounds and fry them sugar and a little liqueur, mix strange combination of eggs, quickly in olive oil to a golden the pineapple pieces with sheer blind fear of the gastrono- cheese, exotic vegetables, and brown; then atrain them and stiff cream and return the fill- mically unknown has turned a herbs, no one has ever known pop them in with the peppers ing to the scooped-out cases.

what it was de falled to comme and tomatoes.

.Serve these on long dish: state of back for a second helping.

each person takes half a ping- Bent up the eggs as for an YOU NEED:

and eats apple

the contents Womani

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gines. 3 shallots, à cloves garlic, it- with tho contents of your

a new dish and, nine times out of tea, thechange ordinary.

CONVERT HIM

He mis suspiciously; he backs away from it; ho scowls. In the apden of half a minute

hero into a coward.

This disheartening

things stops many

trom indulging

Bights of fancy.

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