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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1987,

1.

The

Five rules for

happy

marriages

REALIST

The

BACHELOR

DON'T start by expecting AS a single man I have done too much and end by a bit of puzzling over the expecting too little. Make allow- reasons for the success-or ances for human failings and failure-of my friends' shortcomings.

.

2. Be sure that you are doing your shire in helping to achileve happi- 11e93.

3. Don't treat marriage from a

riages.

mar-

As far as I can see these are the nve rules that should make a mur- riage happy:-

1. Both husband and wife should

purely idealistic point of view; be adaptable and good-tempered. There must be some good practical sense and plenty of hard work.

4. Remember your manueri" and don't get slack in your home.

coutine

5. Don't

your marriage

2. Both should still go in for the recreations they enjoyed before they were married.

3. Home life should be the wife's husband the

to things, only inside The home, main Interest, and Husbands, take

interest in should remember to compliment her

your

some

our wife's bridge und in her shop on her good management.

4. A husband should lend a hand ping, and, above all. In her clothes,

Wives, don't go to sleep when your in looking after the children,

husband is telling you about

golf or shares.

his

5. Both should avoid petty argu- menis,

-AND

JUMOUR, tolerance, comradeship, love,

the best for a happy marriage.

Without a

sense of humour life is hardly worth living. Unless each is tolerant towards the other littlenesses of life loom unsurmountable.

If a couple have not a happy comradeship in all things it is difficult to steer clear of petty jeal- Ousics,

The

SENTIMENTALIST

HAPPY MARRIAGE CAKE

Ingredients

1. 6 oz. LOVE.

2. 6 oz. FAITH.

3.pt. LOYALTY.

4. lb. HOPE.

AND

5. KIND WORDS

LOVING THOUGHTS,

Method

The

CYNIC

AM a married man, and in I

my opinion the five following things are essential for a happy

married life:-

1 Cultivate a thick skin, be- cause you will have a lot said to you that you don't like hearing.

2. You will certainly need a .sense of humour.

THE SEASON'S DRESSES

Emphasises Line

Of Diaphragm MOST dresses this season give good diaphragm line.

Soft woollens in dark, high, defined bust lines help mellow colours, made with the fashionable effect.

One smart now example is cut from striped frog-green- and-holly-red wool, the colours being mixed in a broken stripe design.

The stripes are used on the reverse way from the fitting section from hips to the bust, and they go in the same vertical line on the deep hem of the skirt..

Tipped With White ANGORA materials are attractive frocks made on Atting fines, with

narrow bindings of light, smooth material, at all the hems. pockets and belt of a rust-coloured Cream cloth edges the hem.

angora frock.

A bolero dress which would be very cosy for chilly days is mode from black angora cloth.

Here

the edges show a white line. At lenst, this time the white is not sewn at the extreme edges, but a quarter- of-an-inch in.

The

judicious use of coloured edgings increases the interest in the line of the frock and on skleis

3. It's a good thing to be a bit of an actor, because there are of times when you really must

conceal your feelings and inten-the bindings are sometimes continued

Mix equal quantities love and faith, add the loyal- ty. Sweeten with hope.

tions.

:

4. Marry as young as pos-

Bake in a moderate tem- perature until firm. Decorate sible. with kind words and loving thoughts. Serve any time.

OTHERS

I

SHOULD say that the five rules that could make a marriage happy would be:-

INTELLIGENCE enough to be TACTFUL enough to use a SENSE OF HUMOUR to keep one's TEMPER and OPTIMISM.

If only there were a person in the world in- telligent enough in the first place:

A deep love is necessary to maintain the ro- constitute the foundation of a lasting happy mate

mantic side of marriage.

riage:-

5. Have a small family, if possible.

Watch Your Tongue!

The state of your tongue is a sure indication of the condition of your stomach; it should be red and clean. If it is furred or yellow it is a sign

down--the side scams from the waist to the hem.

Velvet For Cravats

A CRAVAT is the thing to enhance

the warm and cosy suggestion of your winter coat.

If you are thinking of making one

at home, remember to shape it o ittle so that the

ends are broad

and pointed, and if you have no malerial by you for the purpose, then buy creast-resisting velvet.

A very delightful velvet cravat

seen

with an exclusive model suil was navy bluc

and sewn with eight

braid stripes, each pointed in the same line the ends of the scarf, and each of a different colour.

ay

If, however, you are following the fashion and wearing brown this season, then have the velvet and the braid of the same colour.

Satin Is Reversed

remedy to put it right. Pinkettes A favourite rock is still a great

years, I believe the following five rules and you should at once seck a

for smart afternoon are what you need!

occasions if both sides of the material These ideal little laxative pills are used decoratively, 1. With a good temper learn to make the dispel constipation, gently tone up A pretty new frock had sleeves ald digestion, banish made with the dull aide out. They The four rules mentioned above are useless best of even the very worst, and be content with the liver,

biliousness and sick headaches, clear, were set into the bodice in unless there_is_loyalty as a background.

your lot.

-2-Be-forgiving-in-marriage-there the skin of pimples and eruptions, vandycked line so that the stitching "ensure regular elimination, pure stretched far-across-the-front-of-the- is no such thing as "pride."

2. Remember, a man nude-cath and the bright eye of health. frock, and low under the

Very Liny buttons fastened this Ling, not dragging:

BOOKS IN EVERY ROOM

4. Always be dy, but do not occasional fick of

There are some excellent modern-object to the

FURNISHING fashions|„

Istyle bookcases designed

on

the cigarette ash on the hearth or per-

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to-day are marked by a combination unit principle for plac-haps accidentally on the carpet. It LAXATIVE LIVER REGULATORS cult of the book cornering round the walls. One of the does no harm.

simplest consists of just two units. 5. Do not neglect each other for Life to-day gives a special but it can be grouped in a surprising the children; they like to see their attractiveness to the cosy, bookcases

number of arrangements. These

may also be combined parents affectionate.

conveniently-lighted corner with cabinets

and sideboards, and

lined with bookcases, where the proportion of cupboard accom-

modation to bookshelf van be you may at any time be modified, in accordance with chang- sure of comfort and a quieting needs. hour.

Morcover, the book corner is

Building Them Yourself

on

sheet

FIVE

IVE rules for a successful!

morrlage:-

1. 'You must keep alive the affee-

tion you have for each other, as this

is a shock absorber.

2. You must have confidence in your partner's ability to meet mis- fortunes with a smile.

not confined by any means to A NEW idea is expressed by very the study or the sitting-room. deal, supported

simple bookshelves in ouk O

melal One finds it just as frequently standards.

3. You must keep your sense of This effects a Kreat in the informal dining-room, economy in

cost and makes the humour to laugh at yourself but with your partner. where bookshelves are Bome- shelves as cheap as those put up as

while at the 4. Be tolerant so that loyally shall times included in the pedestals fixtures by a joiner, of the sideboard; in the bed-same time they have the advantage not fray and break on the ups or

of being movable and extensible.

downs.

room, where there will be a

of this plan is: feature A novel

5. Put all your energies into bookshelf at the bedside; and that these bookshelves are obtain-making a successful business of mar-

able even in the kitchen.

in cartons, each carton contain-riage and refuse to let it be a ing three. At each end and at the fallure. Behind Sliding Doors. centre of the back, the shelves are Krip TN a well-furnished sitting-room grooved to receive a metal

wonderful effects may be ob- which keeps them in position. The tained by combining bookshelves metal standards project a few inches and fitted cupboards in clever and above the top shelf so that they act unusual arrangements; and in

suitable

☆

THESE are what I consider to be the five primary

married life:

small and the only one.

Exzema

性

arms.

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frock from a high collarless neckline to the hem.

Another satin frock showed yoke of the dull satin. This time the Join followed a battlement Inc and down the sleeves a mere twe Inches of the dull material was inset In the same way from the shoulders to the wrists. The rest of the frock was shiny and black, and a sash ot the waist was trimmed with an inset of the dull material near the hem.

-But One Skirt

ITCHING DESIGNERS of evening frocks do

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Safe Absorbine Jr. is stainless, greaseless” and has a pleasant refreshing odur,

-Keep a bottle handy.

No. 1: LOVE. The foundation-ABSORBINE JR.

aas book-ends, enabling every shelf rules for a complete and happy house seen recently the dining-room to be put to practical use. Included a largo. sideboard, which| In many ways these shelves are

" for combined with tiers or book-especially

No. 2: LOYALTY to each other; shelves behind glazed sliding doors. home, but If you have valuable

The old practice, too, of recessing volumes, or, perhaps, a collection never discuss or criticise.

No. 3: TOLERANCE. Our varied bookshelves on either side of the of first editions, you will need at fireplace can be done in ways which least one small bookcase with glazed shortcomings need this rule.

No. 4: impart new

BROAD MINDEDNESS. and original char-doors, to keep your library safe and

БСО СДСМ neter in keeping with modern de-free from dust. This bookcase Suffelent to be able to

which enables other's point of view, coration. Bookshelves. In this post-should be a type

No, S CONFIDENCE. Knowing tion

irresistible every volume to be seen easily when Bre certainly an invitation to a fireside evening.

that neither will be let down. the glass doors are closed.

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A skirt of black velvet with a halter top swathed around the walst and finished with sash ends at the back has the effect of a complete frock.

A distinct change of line takes place when the halter top is dis- whose pensed for's velvet blouse, neckline is high, sleeves bebe length, and with raws of copper-coloured sequins in four horizontal lines trom bust to hem.

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