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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1933.

IS IT FAIR BRING CHILDREN INTO

FEEDING THE YOUNG BABY

A WORLD LIKE THIS?

BOTH SIDES OF THE CASE REVIEWED BY

CAROLINE BROWN

most of the children have wealthy parents. The health of one of the pupils had been ruined by being left entirely to the care of a harsh,

cruel nurse.

By Nursery Expert

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There is only one perfect food for baby, and that is milk. There is only one perfect milk for him, and that is his mother's. The soon-ple in London were those er we realise these facts the better spent the afternoon at the Theatre far the babies, and so for the race. Royal Open Air, Regent's Park.

Baby should be given his feed four times-that in every six hours-on the first and second days of his life; five time, that is, every four houre, on the third day. After this he is fed either every three hours or every four hours.

Three of the girls were "children of divorce," and the home in fluence of each had been so definite ly bad that these girls, at thirteen, ware already blase and cynical.

Another played a sor of shuttle- cock existence between indifferent

With the former system be has Young couples want such a lot parents who could not get on.

There could be no comparison be six feeds a day, which begin at 6 when they marry nowadays. Life tween the advantages" of these n.m., 9 nim., 12 noon, 3 pm, 6 is incomplete without

parties, poor little rich girls and the adp.m., and 9 p.m. With the four sports, cars, airplanes and endless vantages enjoyed by a child in a hourly system be has five feeds, other things. The young people's united and delightful, even it hard which begin at 6 am, 10 a.m.,

pattern for living" is chiefly up, home, where the parents loved p.m., and 10 p.m. design of whorls and speed. They each other and enjoyed Life with are always dashing about from one their families.

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Just such a young couple have written me this week. They have been married for two years, and have loved it... the little fat, the car, the fun of working," the party occasionally...

But lately things have not seemed quite so amusing, nor such fun. There has been a sense of staleness And now crops up this question of family. The young husband would like children, or at least a child. The young wife--" Well. is it worth it?" she asks. We are happy as we are, just with each other. And children cost such a lot. Honestly, don't you agree that this is a rotten world to bring children into unless you've got lots of money, enough to give them everything they want and all the advantages !"

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You cannot tall young couples to day that it is their duty to the State to have children. They do not care about the State. But they do care about themselves and their own happiness. That is why I urge this girl who writes to me to readjust her ideas.

"How can we afford to have children?" she asks. I am think ing only of her happiness when I answer that they cannot afford not to have children.

They may have to scrap a few of their luxuries, some of their free dom, a little of their comfort. But the things really will not matter once they have a child of their own. For life will take on a new meaning and stability...

There is a sense of progression about a home where every day children are waxing stronger and thriving, growing more interesting and intelligent. As a mother this girl will know a deeper joy, a more profound happiness than anything she has yet experienced. I tell her it is worth it!

All the other things that seem important now will shrink into insignificance when she holds her own little son or daughter in her are.

I would point out to this girl that the happiest children are not those you see being wheeled out in expensive prams by expensive nan nies in the Park. They have every thing, if you like: lovely nurseries with their own specially made niniature furniture, beautiful clo thes, and toys galore. A baby can be quita happy, however, if a mini- mam of money is spent on it. But it must have a maximum of love. It is because I have seen so many I have seen a working woman's young couples putting the wrong baby that could give points in be things first, waiting and waiting. auty and vitality and rosy joyous till they were too late that I write Dess to many a Mayfair child. As as I do now. I do not agree that for children being made happy by "this is a rotten world to bring getting everything they want, the children into." reverse seems to be the case. In The world certainly is pretty bad the home where the father and mo- at the moment, but we ther are busy, the children learn working towards something better. early to look after themselves and an ideal. And unless you have each other, and to be helpful and children there soon ceases to be considerate.. And character de any point in working. Anyhow, velops accordingly.

whatever the state of the worl children are, always have been, the best thing in it.

OF CURLS

Lately I talked with a teacher in a high-class girls school where

THE CHARM

If you have not got curls at the back of your head by now, arrange to have some, bought, borrowed or grown, summer hats insist on eurly back-ground."

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This year hats grow more am- bitious, and the mid-season ones are holder than ever. Their plan is to make the back of the head a attractive as the front....

Smart women in London and Paris have been quick to take up this show your curls" fashion.

The mid-season hat shows were full of news. One designer is using hatter's plush for holiday hats, be cause every one else is using fins straws. Other holiday models have bows of horschair lace, and the gloves worn with these have cüffs to match.

The new holiday caps are the Circassian, round, shallow and tassel-trimmed, and the imper tinent Folly," another version of the stocking cup, the top tied in a small bunch on the crown,

New straws from Paris are cel tagel, a mixture of straw and silk, and the new swansdown, made of straw and collopiane Another de

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gloves to match, and printed silk sailors are designed to match pat terned frocks somewhere eine

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The question whether a baby should be fed three-hourly or four- hourly shiuld be decided not by rale, but by consideration of the particular baby in question.

Here Mr. Sydney Carroll in his production of "Twelfth Night," showed us the ideal method of playe going in the bot weather.

Imagine yourself stretched in a gently swinging deck chair, in that corner of the old Botanical Gar- dens which forms a natural amphi- theatre. Around you are towering trees and in front a grasy platform on which presently, the actors will appear.

The play begins.

Short pageant, both stately and amusing-of Olivia and Viola, alvolio and Orsino, naughty old Sie Toby, mischievous Maria, and the rest of the immortals-passes before your eyes.

And do not think that because this is a pastoral play it is done with any less skill and charm than at the best West End theatre.

Speaking generally, babies who weigh more, than seven pounds at birth should be fed four-hourly, those who weigh less three-hourly. The latter may be changed to the four-hourly method as soon as they exceed seven pounds in weight, if they are gaining five or more

This open-air theatre will be the ounces a week.

Mecen of playgoers this summer. The four hourly method is much In the evenings flood lighting will better for mother, and should be add a new touch of magic to the used where possible. But some scene. young babies cannot wait so long. and some mothers cannot provide sufficient milk to last for four hours. and in such cases, of course, thres hourly feeding should be adopted.

Where the milk supply is de- ficient, it may often be increased. and the Doctor will always advise. mothers on such questions.

In some cases it is essential to give artificial feeds to supplement a deficient supply.

A satisfactory food for use with their birthright of breast milk is young babies who have to be denied pura Dairy Farm milk which has beer by the addition of Somerbys Sugar of Milk so as to make it as sible. Dearly like, mother's milk as pos

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sevaral makes of humanised" dried milks of merit

obtainable from your chemist; they are prepared by adding two level teaspoonsful of the powder to Joz. of warm boiled water. No added all sugar is required.

Looking at the hat shows waI' rather like watching non-stop variety. Crowns were up in the air one minute and flat se a pantake

the next.

Brims were wide and shady, then tiny and trim. It was easy to divide the hats into two portions, tall-crowned town hats and hats with wide brime and shallow crowns for holidays and the races,

These are much easier to wear than the "skyscraper" ones for town. But they all tilt forward to show the back of the head, and they all seem to echo the same ery "Curls, please. "

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The white hat is easily the most popular for holiday wear. We have spen it already in town White paper panama is the sort of thing that would be useful on holiday, It has the fifty-fifty crown, half high, half low, and the" slouch " brim. Choosing a quite distinctive shape is one way of making sure that, although there may be many. white hats about, yours will not look like one of the crowd."

Hats to be worn with silk after noon frocks for smart holiday afternoons are bursting into blos They may have small gar denias round the crown, or they may have crowns completely cover- ed with flowers or leaves, like, the fine straw hat in the larger picture.

Sometimes the "flower" is just a ribbon rosette. For windy day. when you would rather have a small brim, you might choassa coarse- black straw. This tilted that it has to be kept in place by two bands „of the straw.” This time the Bower' trimmings are roses in two colours." Little caps that pack Basily and do not crush are useful with sports shirts for golf or tennis, and for seaside or country in the mornings. You can vary these from the plain, mannish beret, like the one the in imitable Marlene wears with her "suit" to Joan Crawford's quite smart cap of woven grosgrain,-or the amusing" dunce's cap." But always pushed well forward over your right, eyebrow, showing curts at the back of your head.

Cow's milk suitably diluted and with added sugar, is less readily digested than condensed or dried milks, but it is a very satisfactory food for infants of three months

WEDDING CUSTOMS--

BRIDESMAIDS

The bridesmaid dates back to Early English time, when the bride was led to the marriage ceremony by a matron called the brideswa- man, and her maids followed in procession carrying garlands and bride cakes..

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LACE COMES INTO ITS OWN AGAIN

Lace Dresses In Vogue

BERTHAS AND COLLARS OF LACE REAPPEAR IN

THE WORLD OF FASHION

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The Romance Of Lace

By Lacemaker

From the beginning of time man at first they copied the old Vene- has made laws of prohibition, but tian designs, their vivid personali- they have seldom proved satisfac- ties soon began to show in their tory. Unless people and nations work. The two Alencon and Ar- see for themselves that such and gentan, Later on, in the 18th, such things are not good for the century, Valenciennes became commodity, laws of prohibition Tamous for its bobbin lace. The" only tend to cultivate tastes in an early Alencon lace was difficult to unhealthy manner, but they do not distinguish from the Venetian prevent the evil

Point. but it soon developed a French personality which horrified the Venetians. The old designs be- came much lighter, for the French- women hankered after change, and introduced flowers, crowns, ani- mala, musical instruments, ships, sprigs, dots, men, women, arms, anything they fancied into the lace they made. Many people consider that the French lace of this period ii unrivalled..

When the importation of Vene tian lace threatened to ruin the French nobility, a Royal edict was passed forbidding the wearing of Flemish and Italian Isces, and this only increased the price. Men and women insisted on having their lace collars and cuffs. which cost a small fortune and many months of fabour, so the luxuries were smuggled into France, and the law was fouted

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Tt. is difficult to say whether lace influenced dress, or dress influenced Imported Lace-Workers. lace at this time. Flounces, fills. Then that great statesman Col- jabots and handkerchiefs became the bert had a splendid idea. In or- rage, and for these things the ex- When in "due course fashions der too keep the money in France,quisite French lace, with its light altered, the office of brideswoman he decided to import Venetian scattering of design, was perfect- Its strength was lace-makers to teach the French yuitable. was abolished, and groomsmen e the art. It is said that he could amazing, and its price-even then corted the bride to the church, a only get thirty needlepoint workers duty of the bridesmaids was to from Italy, but he managed to conduct the bridegroom there.

indues two hundred bobbin lace makers from the Netherlands, and from the moment France not only competed with Italy, but actually made more lace

BRIDE'S GARTER

But the bridesmaid's principal office was to attire and bedeck the bride and to lend her the support and attention necessary in those rough days when horseplay, such a-an the struggle for the bride's gazter, would take place even at the church

They were also called upons: collect for disposal all the-pins bride's

Red to

rious

Julfilment of which was

the necessary

her future

The French took to lace-making like ducks to water, and, although

corresponded. No woman to-day has the patience to spend the best years of her life maing lace which would be too costly for any but the very rich to buy. It is said that a lace-maker, can only work for fifteen years at the outside. Before that she is learning her art; afterwards her sight fails and.. she can only make coarse Isoe,

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