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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1988.

Any thing

on your mind?

Zoe Farmar this week tackles the worries of those who live

alone-and hate it

ERHAPS it is the time of the year that brings in

Pso many letters from young women, who live alone

names). These writers sort themselves out into three types, and each explains the reason and answer to her own unhappiness in the way she writes of herself.

If only she would read her own letter objectively, as if it was from some other woman, she would see the answer pretty clearly. And that is what I hope she will do.

First, then, there is the girl of twenty-six who has u C3 10s. n week job, lives in a furnished roam, and writes pages about how futile and pointless she feels her life to be. Her family are quite comfortably uff, live in the north of England, too far away to visit often.

She has collected But her problem, she says, is not loneliness. quite a number of friends in London, goes out often.

MY worry," she writes,

"la, I suppose, a rather selfish one.

You

"Msco, most of my friends outside the office have more money

than I and I find myself envying their luxuries. It is not that I want to be with their homes and families. I have this awful feeling of instability when I am with them, and they, for instance, are discussing where they are going for their holidays. I never seem to know until the last moment where I am going..."

of the

The problem, you see, girl who is used to the intimacy of family life but who lives too far away from home to enjoy it, and

so loses touch with her own home circle,

There are thousands of young women who live in this way, in a sort of staceuto stale: sometimes very entertained, sometimes spend- ing Sunday in bed because they haven't been invited anywhere (and however much you like to laze it loses its huxury the moment there seems to be no alternative).

For this

kind of loneliness (and

it is loneliness; living un the fringe of other people's lives, seeing them only occasionally is not the kind of friendship that makes up for

If

home) the solution is to build one's own background.

Easy to say, inrd to do-but still not nearly 60

hitchhike hard s living. It means, In most cases, to stop using the place you sleep ns an address and muking it into a hame.

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Il means taking trouble with your leisure so that all of it is spent building up interests and friendships that will wear well.

And, since in most women the whole state comes of the desire, conscious or not, to get married, It means admitting for once that you can't make anything of life on "your own your're going to be quite"

a weight as a wife.

THEN comes quite

other kind

IC

30-

of letter- from women who live in and for their jobs. Their worries are pretty different in each case (and are be-

We are burnya Marshmallow

Rouce

and should love

you to come

A MARSHALLOW roast

Ever been to

Marshmallow

is a

Roast?

Canadian

idea for a children's party; makes a bit

of a change from the usual games, and the · children can kelp arrange it themselves.

Start by building up a big fire carly in the afternoon, so that by the time the guests arrive it is red and plowing. Turn out the lights, leaving only the firelight, and give each child some marshmallows (you can buy them by the pound at any sweetshop), a toasting fork or a long, straight stick whittled to a point.

The idea is to spear a marshmallow on the pointed end of the stick and hold it near a glowing part of the fire. Don't let it burn in one spot, but turn is slowly the whole time until it is a beautiful golden colour all over, The inside melts to a steect sticky liquid, and the outside forms a thin crisp crust.

Half the fun of the roast_lies_in__the amount of skill you can display in roasting. The children will quickly find that unless they're careful their miarshallows will burn or cise cook so slowly that they'll drip of the stick into the fire.

Ing answered individually), but judgment of less ambitious workers their real trouble is all the same. becoming a little sharp and shril) They don't have

any fun.

to cut out the sacriflee and go to a

In this transitory stage of work- music-hall occasionally.

ing women, when the sicken-

Ing self-consciousness of phrases. AND

like "the bachelor giri" has hardly

the last batch (of

whom there are the

died down. It is of course, difficult most) are the ones who blame their for a woman to make a reasonable jobs for their boredom and general

fe for herself on her own.

They

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connot make

the

be

unhappiness.

remedy can only Attain the casy contacts with other people as a man found by individual treatment, but it does surprise me that more of these who are without any kind They can, of course, Ko to women restaurants, cinemas, theatres and of interest in their work do not do sports by themselves, but not with something about it. A talk with a vu! a certain sense of loneliness, doctor or anybody reasonably And because of these women du quainted with human beings is so not join in the general interests obviously a first-step towards find-

Ing out your own possibililies

of other people.

Made

answer

ac-

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ok

I don't pretend to have a ready- interest.

to their problem. As As is also to overcome those false with all problems brought about by starts of interest by going for change of custom one can only find certain kind of job because you! Individual solutions-depending on have heard the "money is goul." A the circumstances and character of personally (and financially, for that the sufferer.

matter) more optimistic approach 1s But at a guess I'd advise all those to find out what you are interested| women who consciously "give their in first, and then see in what way Ife to their work" (and find their it can be made to pay.

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CAP & SCARF

in three colours

This chart shows you the striped pattern for the cap and scarf as it appears when the right side of your work is facing you. The black squares stand for . st. the white squares for p. st., the squares marked stand for the sess.

You need: Jozs, white 3-ply' wool; loz, blue 3-ply wool; loz, red 3-ply wool; pair of long knit- ting needles No. 11; 4 short kaltting needles No. 11.

Abbreviations: —knit, p-purl, s-stitch, el-st.———

slip-stitch.

The scarf and lower part of cap me worked in the striped pattern:-1st row, k 2, p2. 2nd row, k 2, p 2. Work the first and the last si of every row as al-st. The top of the cap is worked in single rib, k 1, p 1.

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But a successfully roasted marshmallow is delicious; try it yourself and see what fun it is to do..

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F037 (Don't Like. FT.

(Doh-de-oh-doh. F.T.

F038 (You Can't Swing a Love Song, F.T.

(Moanin' the Blues. Blucs,

NAT GONELLA'S ORCHESTRA. F940 (Moonlight on the Waterfall. F.T. (My Cabin of Dreams. FT. F939 (Little Old Lady. S.FT.

(In the Mission by the Sea, FT

BILLY THORBURN'S ORCHESTRA. F936 (You Made Me Love You. FT.

(Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go. F.T.

HARRY ROY'S TIGER RAGAMUFFINS. F942 (Dance Time. No. 1. The Waltz.

Selection of Popular Old Time Tunes. F941 (Moon Got in My Eyes. F.T.

(It's the Natural Thing To Do. Q.S. FD43 (Afrold To Dream Q.S.

THE SCARF

Cast on 51 sts in white wool. 1st to 102nd row: Work straight in the striped pattern, using white wool.

103rd row; K 25 sts with blue wool, and slip the remaining 20 sts on to a spare needle. 164th to 2026d row: Work straight in the striped pattern with blue wool on the 25 sts worked off in row 103.

Cast off the 25 sts. Pick up the 20 sts slipped on to the spore needle in 183rd row. k the 20 sts with red wool. 184th to 202nd row: Work straight in the striped pattern with red wool. Cast off the 20 sts.

TO MAKE UP sew together the narrow edges of both coloured ends, and sew up the side edges of the coloured parts to form roll. In order to make this sling somewhat narrower, sew up about 11⁄4ing, of it, starting from the white part of the scart.

THE CAP

Cast on 127 als in white wool. 1st to 20th row: Work straight in the striped pattern, using white wool. 27th row: K all sts with red wool. 28th row: Work straight in the striped pattern with red wool,

29th row: Work off the 1st st as cl- st (k 2, p 2) three times, k 2, p 1, p 2 tog kl, p. 2 (k 2, p.2) six limes, le 2. p 1, p 2 tog, k 1, p 2 (k 2, p 2) six times, k 2, p 1, p 2 log, k 1, p 2 (k %, p 2 nix times, k 2, p 1, p 2 tog, k 1, p 2, (k 2, p 2) twice, k ́1, work off Just st as sl-st (123 sts).

30th row: Work off the 1st at as si- st (k 2 p ), twice, k 2, p 1 (k 2, p 2), eight times, k 2, p 1 (k 2, p 2) seven times, k 2, p 1 (k 2, p 2) seven Ulmes, k 2, p 1 (K 2, p 2) three times, K 1, work off the fast at at si-st (123 sts).

31st row: Work off the first st as al-st (k 2, p 2) three times, k 2, p 2 tog, k 1, p 2 (k 2, p 2) six times, k 2, p 2 tog, k 1, p 2 (k 2, p 2) six Umes, k 2, p 2 tog, k 1, p 2 (k 2, p 2) six times, k 2, p 2 tog, k 1, p 2 (k 2, p 2) twice, k 1, work off the last st as slegt (119 sis).

32nd row: Work off the 1st st na i- st (k 2, p 2) three times, k 1, p 1 (k 2, p 2) seven times, k 1, p 1 (k 2, p 2) seven times, k 1, p 1 (k 2 p 2) seven times, k 1, p 1 (k 2 p 2) three times, k 1, work off the lust st as al-st (119 sta).

33rd row: Work of the first st as sl-xt (k 2, p 2) three times, k 1, k 3 tog, p 2 (k 2, p 2) six times, k 1, k 3 tog, p 2 (k 2, p 2) six times, k 1, k 3 tog, p 2 (k 2, p 2) six times, k 1 k 3 tog, p 2 (k 2, p 2) twice, k 1, work

(Sympathy. Waltz. (Jeanette MacDonald's new Film "Firefly") the last st off as sl-at (111 ste).

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34th to 38th row: Works straight in the striped pattern, with red wool.

39th row: K all sts with blue wool. 40th row to 40th row: Work straight In the striped pattern with blue wool. 47th row (round): Increase 1 st at be- ginning of row, divide your 112 sis on three needles, close to form a round, and p all sts. 48th row: Poll sts. 49th round: Change to single rib, k 1, p 1.

30th round; K every 13th and 14th si tog. Blat round: Work straight (Work ail following odd rawa straight.) 52nd round: P every 12th and 13th at tog, 54th round: K every | 11th and 12th at log. 50th round: P

every 10th and 11st at top.

$8 round: K every 8th and 10th at tog, 00th round: Povery 8th and 9th mi tog. 62nd round: K every 7th and 8th at tog. 04th round: P övery- 6th and 7th at tog. 06th round: X every ath and 8th st tog.

68th round: P every 4th and 5th t tog. 70th round: K overy 3rd and 4th at log. 72nd round: P every 2nd and 3rd at tox. 74th round: K'always 2 sts tog all around. Slip the remain- ing B is on to the thread, draw them together and stop the thread at wrong side of work.

Cut a circle of cardboard Gine. In diameter, and press the top of cap stretched over this piece of cardboard with a warm iron and damp cloth. i Bow up lower part of cap at faside.

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