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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1937.

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Five Simple frocks

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MASHIONS straight from Paria are generally a bit

too exaggerated for you

wear around every day.

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Here are all the new

We've carried that idea into DON'T EXPERIMENT

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fruck_for_all.occasions,-cut-to-look-!-

Believe In Your Children

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By. Dr. Marlon Mackenzle

E io a bad boy, doctor," is a phrase I have heard almost daily from mothers. The fathers 1 have had little opportunity of seeing. though hear a greai ical about them, and and that the mother who believes in her baby usually believes in his futher too. "The happy family" la no mere catch phrase, but

very living reality. In o happy family the laby usually conies uff worst as he cannot defend him- seit

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This anall

scrap of humanity understands an angry voice when hir is a few days oltl., Later, when bis mother brings him and says he is "n bad boy," I have seen his eyes fult of resentment before he could either talk or walk-just as a foreigner is able to understand a language before he enn speak it.

on.

The problem Res in the varenia. The child is brought because he is naughty or I, will not eat, or camol sleep, is bad tempered, and so The parent should come instead and say frankly. "What is the moatter with me?

I have made a mess of things. WILL

out. You help me to straighten them Fathers should take then selves more seriously, too. Indirectly, by helping to create the atmosphere of the true, they can contribute enormously to the stability of ther children's nervous systems. Just be- cause he is not always with thein, father often shows an extraordinary understanding of the child's difficult- les, bui, unfortunately, he is apt to l think it is "not his job."

Three Typea

No hardly healthy child is "bad, though his environment often makes him so, hfs environment being

Jits parents, his nurse, his teachers, &c. There are, however, three types of children we become problems-the pampered child, the child who is not wanted, and the child

with some form of physical Inferiority.

In each type there is traceable the seeds of the child's disbelief in him- self. He fails to believe in himself, when his parents do not believe him. The pampered chilet

may get a rude shock when he gets out of his protected situation where he is po longer pampered. Even where the parents have pampered him it is dilicult for them to continue in be Neve in him, as the spoilt child be comes such a thorn in the flesh they are irritated with him. The result a #feeling of uncertainty. us one moment he is spoilt and the next le is scolded or punished..

Children need a stable background They need to know where they stand in their parenty regard. Obviously the child who is not wanted is nul believed in or he would no the dis fiked. The unfortunate child may be the favourite of one parent, the other parent having been dethroned for the child to take his place. Parents should murd orginst this and catch themselves up when they tend to find fault with the child of whom they are jealous. Their very attitude towards the child will make him naughty.

The child with any physical inferiority-will-need-more-than-ever

like a suit, with a waistcoat bodies. WITH YOUR STOMACH to be helleyed in by his parents.

The skirt gets reasonable fulness from a front pleat; the high

песк turns over and is ined to match the belt.

ideas for day dresses. We 4. Paris gave this suit a fur panel

took them from the Paris inodels you see at the top of the page, simplified the de- tails to give you the sort of smart, practical frock you can wear anywhere. |||||||||||~|~|~|~|~|~|~||~|~5~5~8

running across the back and shoulders, put strips of fur in the make-up of the coat, and pointed out the back of the jacket in a sharp busque, Skirt

Was accordion, pleated.

could make up the jacket the same Taking a leaf from its book you But if you use the ideas and avoid shoulders made of velvet instead of way, using braid kustead of fur. Cut the eccentricities you can suit, your seal. The neck has been draped out self as well as the fashion.

the barque altogether (it's Train with a changeable scarf, the braiding eccentric anyway) and have an inlet your eye to pick out what is essential in the skirt has been replaced with belt instead. And make your skirt in the new line and what is merely a double box pleat. A good detail in a fine striped material, it'll give trimming.

the side-fastening, repeated in the You will see how we've done this sleeves-appears in both frocks. the same lision as the plents and here. Look at the little pictures Arst, then

compare them with the 2 The Paris frock had a very high corresponding ones below.

neck. rounded yoke, draped budice and skirt, moulded waist.

(unlike them) will stay put.

5.

Our frock has a high neck lou, but

with

scart side, and fulded

LEFT TO RIGHT: mode

now

Model coat had high-winged guarded lapels, buttoning each a straight front panel (always easier to wear). The round running all the way to the hem. 1. The model frock was designed yake has been squared, and Why not use this idea for a coat

with an elaborate backwardsizung Into a straightforward pleated movement. The shoulders were ne- bodice. Skirt becomes straight, frock? It could take just one of the lecnted and built out with scal; plain; waist is defined by a broad wings, buttoning down

the side. braiding let into the back of the draped sash,

Never mind about the front panel: skirt swung out in tail.

2 Casual young suit with set-in just have a straight skitt and carry Simplified, it becomes a straight- V. sleeves, slashed shouldera and the line over to the side by a buckledį cut afternoon, frock, with Buttened straight, pencillight skirt.

belt.

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the nails look long and portions of rosewater, witch gloves will do, and you'll be sur almond-shaped tako

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to them.

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There are compensations for chil dren even when their parents are foolish enough not to believe in them, Their

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A child who stammers is n dis. couraged eild, but there is no rea son why he should remain discour aged, and I rightly handled he does not: I might say that

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The delinquent child, that is the child who is a misfit. is not locking, in intelligence, but rather his trouble is that he has not had his emotional life satisfied. He is also the couraged child, who is not believed in. The small boy who is continual-! ly being "nuggçd" and called bad wil}| certainly not be an easy person to deal with.

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Fear Arises from Wrong Suggestions A small boy whom I had known for years came up one day for his dnal

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had vanished--and mothers are very began to sob, "No, I am a bad one," loath to believe their children oflen he sobbed. In the meantime his behu ve better in their absence-o mother had been begging to come In becarne quiet. · He looked at my as she was sure he must either be stethoscope with interest when I told dead or under chloroform as he was him my little girl Hatened to her so quiet. What chance has a child doll's chest with it. When I hnd with a mother, with so little self- Anished examining him I told him he control or who believes so little in had been a very good little boy, He her child?