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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 $1988)

-add a flower or two

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Don't be surprised to see Our SOCIAL EDITRESS tells you where

floral dog collars this season.

Made on the lines of a wide and how to wear your flowers this winter

throat band, they will be

among the many new flower

fashiona demonstrated at the or a pure white gardenia, both country tweed or grey flannel

of which have a velvety finish sult. Convention of. Florists at to their petals. Torquay this month,

But dog collars will not be the only now use to which or flowers will be put during the next few months.

Also marigolds or any really simple garden flowers carry For chiffon, tulle or satin, out the note of the garment, choose lies of the valley stephanotis.

6Apart from materials there is the type of wearer to be Roses, it well mounted, considered. The exotic woman look beautiful on satin with "slinky" figure con Deep bracelets like those their dull sheen against the wear large orchida bunched on wide gold bands our Edwar- gleaming silk is n fine contrast her shoulder is she is not too -but don't wear a ray of tall, as this adds height and dian grandmothers wore, roses unless made by expert glamour. with one large bloom in the hands. centre, in place of the camco carried in them, will be the

rage soin,

Here are a few do's and don'ts on what to wear and how to

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wear them:

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These would be all wrong

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on a Дuffy debutante who

For tailor-mades or three-

needs flies of the valley, niep- piece cloth ensembles for hanotis or a small white orchid town wear, a very large mal- at her waist-ilne, just tucked maison in white or any colour in carelessly as though placed that tones with the costume is there and forgotten. hard to beat..

Or if you would be really

correct, pin a single gardenia. 8 Follage and berries only.

to your lapel.

in lovely warm tones, will be another new fashion for severe frocks and suits for

Small postes of simple morning wear in the autumn. Don't wear "fluffy" sawers flowers-cornflowers and Tiny feather quills ostrich on velvet. This is a regal wheat-cars with A poppy if feathers mingled with flowers material and calls for exotics possible look tremendously will also be a new feature of such as the large mauve orchid arresting and smart with * floral adornment.

Did you MACLEAN your teeth to-day?

NURSERY TRAINING

MANY valuable tegons of Mpsychological anture can be imparted by a mother to her child during his pre-school days. When planning his daily routine a certain time should be allowed for instruc- Live games that will afford an opportunity of developing mind and body.

Between the ages of two and five years the senses and nervous system. should be receiving their training.

To-night

Let's Celebrate Hallowe'en

Do You Worry Your Children?

MONG every group of children A there are come who do not smile as readily as they should. Apparent- ly they are in good health and are well fed, but their faces in repose bear a hard and worried look which will become axed unless we find a reason and a remedy,

TO-DAY, the festival of Hallowmas Eve is kept up in Scottish homes with as much enthusiasm expression in most cases is that the

TO-DAY, of land. To night, many parties are to be given by Scottish familles in the

for it the little one's faculties in Colony to celebrate the popular festival. observation, creation, and manipula- tion are allowed to le dormant at

this far land, we are trying to spirits of the departed were believed "Orgia," and "The Witches Sabbath" that stage, his potentialliles will keep Hallowe'en as they do at to revisit their old homes. The (all three, incidentally, available on never be properly developed. To one. But it is not quite the same, fairies, too, were "out"; in fact, the gramophone records.) A "witch" spae fortunes is a great acquire mastery over, his body, such for this is a town and the spirit of whole other-word was upset, and who can fents a balancing and jumping, and Hallowe'en is best preserved in the all sorts of unealiny creaturca were user:

light

and warlocks, The chlidren arrive in fancy dress objects should Le country. To-night, at Home, little released-witches carrying

And gyre and masks. After a grand porade thaisties. regularly practired.

groups of guisers saily forth after "ghoulies, Its senses must also be trained so dels carrying turnip lanterns or carling" (mother-witches); and it (with music), and much laughter- that accuracy, judgment, and love of candles stuck into a hollowed out was dangerous to go out after dark making speculation as to Identities. the beautkul become in time quite kali-runt.

unless protected by fire kindled at the unmasking takes place. Then natural to him. Self-expression and Embroidered by disguise, they go the sacred flame. That is why the follow the various rites, which are creation must not be overlooked, and from door to door with a "Please to children, at Home go about with fully described in Burns's poem, "Halloween," with the exception, these important factors can be eul-help the gulacrs!" and receive gifts turnip lanterns. tivated in modelling and drawing.

Hallowe'en was also a senson of curiously, at the popular "dooking" of apples and nuts and copper coins. If this training at first appears

The boys of the village dance omens and auguries, when glimpses for apples, the latter including recia difficult to the mother, she should realise that all games und occupa-round their bonfire and leap through of the future could be obtained, and Scottish country dances. tions which are of an educational the dames, and when it has burned specially by those who had "the nature are actually the simplest and down, they blacken their hands and sight." Apples and hazel-nuts were most economical to provide. Creative Work

many

Apple-Land

faces with the ashes "to keep the believed to have prophetic qualities, witches away." Then it's home to and the parlour comes of to-day are the big warm kitchen to eat the the solemn divination rites of earlier to obtain apples is in all probability

Now

Ecriness and Galety

The act of going through water

Druidie rite representing the pass- ing through water to Avnion, apple- land, the land of the immortals

The real reason of this harassed

children are worried in a variety of ways. One child is burdened with "the facts of life" whilst still on infant. Another is allowed to decide so many things for himself that the burden of it all is too great for his peace of mind and he shows this by the distressed look on his face when one of life's problems comes his way. - Another child lives in a home where discord rather than harmony reigns. He dully listens to hard words and grumbles from parents who little dream of the effect these are living on their small son. An- other an only child, han parents whe wish him to be a man as quickly an possible. He is missing his child- hood and is worried in conséquence.

Sheltered Lives

It is dificult in these days for children to live sheltered lives as they did in an earlier generation but Wo must do something to avold burdening our

our children with worries, unless we wish to see our

suffering from nervous. ills when

get older.

A box of bricks, for instance, is champit tattics in which are buried times. more than a toy, for it provides end-the charms, to duok for apples, bura

for the party. The iwo for apples at True Thomas and boys and girls

are the fruit of life. scope for creative work, and the nuts, dip into "The three luggies, valuable lessons may be and perform other traditional rites.

But what is it all about? Probably things to alm nt are ecrieness and

Electric galety.

light kilk the the Fairy Queen, on their way to learned with it, especially if used

#waded through waters The ideal mystery!

Hallowe'en Eldand, with an assortment of miscellaneous few of the revellers know; yet with articles. By providing sand for use knowledge it is much easier to cap- party is held in a big raftered abure the knee, and

kitchen, lit only by firelight and a out of doors and plastic materials ture the spirit of the festival.

string of turnip lanterns, the corners for rainy days that are spent indoors,

left in deep shadow. many happy and Instructive hours

can be enjoyed.

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and

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the work

Fairies and Wifehen

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Syne they cum on to a gairden

grens,

An' she pu'd an apple frue alt

n tree Tak, this for my wages. True

Thomas;

can "Jea."

Themes went and the schools

are doing much for the encourage- ment of physical finess, but only fathers and mothers can so arrange home life that the burden of worry. which is the main source of I-

health of their chi

children, health, shall not interfere with the

child shou

should not know the

It will gl'e thee tongue that eaning of fear, yet some parents

rible

Briefly. Hallowe'en derives from o A wooden tub, half-filled with It mistake, however, to try great Druidle fire-festival, and the water, stands on the kitchen floor.

make a

a child model something nicht o' tine" of which the guisers on the dresser is a pile of red-check- that does not appeal to him, and on sing means a night of fire. Druidism, ed apples ready to be tumbled in,

obedience by threats of ter- bea form of sun-worship peculiar to and beside it a bowl of the sweet- account must

slands

The hazel-nuts commemorate "the

A child ought to punishments. criticised. If possible, the object he the Celle peoples, was still the re- heart nuts. On the

be kept free from the knowledge of anligion of Scotland when, in the sixth potful of "champit tattles," in which maple tree that wizards loved" a creates might be likened to

Columbia arrived in are the "hirlden charms; or where the source of all wisdom; the grotes

tragedy, yet there are or fish, and if the parent century, St.

parents who animal tactfully suggests minor improve-Iona. By the end of October the the older tradition prevails these que masks of the guisers represent ments, a definite creation may be crops were in, and on this, the last are buried in a bowlful of rowans the uncanny creatures of the other discuss disasters and horrors in the

be day of the Celtic year, great bonfires or of cream-crowdie (whipped cream, whilst the bonbres, the squibs, and

world who are at large on this night; presence of small children. from what appears to evolved

A healthy child should be full of aimless moulding.

it on the hill-tops at nightfall, mixed lightly with toasted oatmeal), were

The Hallowe'en colours, black and the turnip lanterns are the last the joy of living and should smile as Every mother realises how early with full Druidic rites, partly as a

of the

ancient Bre-rites with naturally as the sun peeps out from the scribbling Instinct is shown, and sort of harvest Banksgiving to the orange, should be in evidence, and which our ancestors honoured the behind the clouds. If a child wear

masked provided this night with advantage be de- benevolent sun and partly for puri- cerle

a worried look or walk about with veloped by covering the lower part neation and protection from

the musician, for instance, might play n sun. Thus in the children's festival

flute or chanter in a shadowy cor. ancestral memories are enshrineda face as long as the proverbial fiddic there is something wrong in of the nursery wall with Americun

At this, the season of earth's de- ner. Some of the Hebridean melodies which link generation to generation cloth on which the child may draw powers of evil. with bold sweeping strokes. A child cay, the Celtle peoples remembered are particularly suitable and such right down the ages. Long may we her surroundings and possibly her 'should be encouraged, also, to draw their dead, and on Hallowe'en the music the characters in his or her favourite

stories.

Let Him Help You

A child soon shows a desire for

helping his mother, who will if she

is wise, cheourage him, even though

at first his efforts are more of a

hindrance than actual assistance, for

it

la really the paychological moment when the helping instinct should be formed,

the

An

excellent training for memory is to place a number of articles on a tray and invite the child to look at them for a minute, and, then with back turned, to enumerate what he remembers secing To will like this game, for a child has sharp ey ca and a quick memory, and therefore appreciates the opportunity of demonstrating them.

Jadi Ann Thorogood.

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Parents are

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of our little ones. faces responsible for the happiness of their connot children. Worried children be happy, so it is well that we realise this fact and let a boy's or girl's young days be as free as pos sible from knowledge of the ugly and of life, and from unpleasant sides anything else which kills Joy.

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