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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

How do you stand

with

your FAMILY?

found she could gain plenty of ap- proval.

By the time her second brother Christopher was born, when she was sis, he had nequired a reputation in the neighbouhood as a wonderfully unselfish and sweet-natured elder

sister.

As the Brighton children grew up I because apparent that Mark had an exceptionally good singing votee. It was still more apparent that Mark was his mother's favourite.

Mabel, after she had left school, found that he had a gift for tench- in small children. To get a good post, she needed training. There but Mabel had a perfect right to ex-

January 27, 1939.

Good Company

NOOD cheer and good company.aro the highlights of any season, By the quantity of your invitations may the quality of your company be judged. Perhaps that is an over statement, but certainly "good com- pany" is always in demand.

Now is the moment to assess the quality of your company; what do you contribute to. the evening's entertainment and the hostess's case of mind when you are asked to a party? When you receive

an in- vitafion do you reply within a few days with a definite acceptance or reftisal? (You should.) Don't pigeon hole It until you see it come more aij exclling "date" turns up, so that an exasperated hostess has to ring up to discover your intentions.

to

Dress contributes. materially establishing a popular reputation. You should study the wording of your card and, remembering your hostess'a social position, decide on what is absolutely right. Don't at- tract questionable attention by np-- pearing in gaudy raiment, when it is obviously an informal affair, nor dis- race the hostes by making do with any old thing.

As you slip into your chosen altire, tet Yourself gradually become en- veloped in a joyous spirit of antici- pation. The worries and depressions of dally existence should be banished from your mind as you dab the Just set of powder to your party self.

Having a due regard for the im- portance of being asked out, you are least sure to arrive up to time and Ave minutes carly for a dinner. You cannot be good company if your tar dliness has ruined the cook's temper.

Cultivate the Party Spirit

You should alight at the door in a party spirit, not necessarily in a mood of noisy hilarity, but in a re- ceptive frame of mind prepared to be anused, delighted, entertained, and definitely not bored. Do not come

HAVE you ever thought what it would be like if SOME of the difficulties was little spare cash in the family, show off your wit, your intelligence,

you occupied a different position in the family

series?

If, instead of being, say, the youngest, you were the eldest r the muddle one, do you realise that it might affect your charac- ter in all sorts of unexpected woys, might even alter the whole courer of your life? i's a speenitation which may throw some lights on your present behaviour. This is an article on this peration.

Are you a girl with

two younger brothers?

UNBRELLA WOMEN

THREE dangers beet us in win that the rain is descending as straight

ter: (1) Cold, drenching as possible. showers catch us unawares, and set

The erret of this eccentric man-

up chills, (2) Pavements become Protection for Handbags alippy, and we sit down violently and unexpectedly. (3) There is no law against women using wabrellas.er of handling an unbrella may be found, I fancy, in the portmantenu If, unhappily, a next war comes, that every member of the fair ex it can be settled speedily by sending carries to-day She calls it a hand- a battalion of British women, armed bag. What its contents are, apart with open unbrellas, to the front. from something the size of a grand One charge by them would sentter

plano, remains a mystery,

They

tile finest military machine in the must be very valuable, because he first duty of on unbrella is clearly

world.

Jaw

A woman with an umbrellas to protect this portmanteau.

unto herself. She thinks, seemingly, that she has been armed If the rain swamps in from the with a weapon with which to des- light, the handbag is slipped under troy her fellow-creatures; if not ex- the left armpit, and the umbrella Is termate them. at least cripple nu held facing towards the left. If the rain comer from the left, then the many of them as possible.

manoeuvres are carried on towards the right.

As a Shield

and umbrella

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you have to-day may be peet that some of it should be spent explained by the difficulties on her.

of the position you once held Don't Worry" in the nursery hierarchy.

.

Mark, but in order

Though you may long ago INSTEAD, not out of love of have broken away from the keep up the warm, comforting glow family circle and be leading of approval in which she had basked your own life, you may still, since she was five, she said brightly, without knowing it, be re-enact- "Don't worry about me, mother. ing the dramas of your child- I'm perfectly happy at home.

make daddy fork out for the best lessons for old Mark."

hood.

You

If you happen to be a girl with When Mabel was twenty-five she two younger brothers, read the story awoke to a distressing fact. She of a girl whom I will call Mabel had practically no friends

of her Brighton. You will see how her own uge. She was popular with the whole life has been affected by the older generation, who compared her, fact that she once played, much too to her advantage, with those dread-

part successfully, the

of little ful modern girl." But her school mother to two younger brothers. friends had tong ago drifted away Mabel was the only child in the from the small town into professions Brighton family until she was four or had married.

years ok. Though the was un mini- She was by no means unattractive. able and unexacting child, it was a bit she wore the dowdy clothes her shock when a rival appeared in the mother's friends approved of and form of her brother

did her hair in an old-fashioned way Mark. At first she became sulky and in- because "Dat's how daddy likes it clined to relapse into babyish habits best." to attract her mother's, attention to Mabel is neurly thirty now! herself. But this was unsuccessful. made it clear to her small daughter Mrs. Brighton grew impatient and Bitterness Grows

that the new baby was now the most important person in the house.

At

5-A Discovery

CHE is

still nice-looking. still has the reputation for being sweet, unselfish and won- derfully domesticated. But under the sweetness she ja becoming aware

or the height of your social position. That simply is not done.

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Rather Be ready to appreciate other's attempts at wit and to en- Hven the conversation by sparkling vitality with the objective motive to waking the party go, and not merely satisfy your own ego. An intel- light woman has often a fair for rensing the atmosphere of a gather- ing and chameleon-like she mould her mentality to blend with the prevalling background.

can

Don't embark on long and boring anecdotes, nor lapse into supercillous silence. Be SU Interested in the other guests that your interest draws them out to make the best of them- sulves. You should not push your-

if

self forward unnecessarily, but your hostess is appealing for Ideas, be quietly suggestive.

When it comes to eating, if per- chance you are en a diet do not draw attention to the fact by exclaiming that "you daren't eat that" or "you simply mustn't touch this." Your obvious enjoyment of the whole, af- fadr will radiate through the assem- Bly and the party will go with a swing.

You step out into the night as the doors close softly behind you leaving an impression of the quality of your cmpany.

Will hostesses say of you, “Let's have So and So, she's such good company"

C. I. M.

By the time she was live, of a strent undercurrent of bitter.

Apple Mould. Mabel made a great dis- niss. She can never gel away from Kovery, Finding that being naughty home, for, being without certificates, only made her position worse she she can only pick up small teaching PEL and see i ib oppies and put

them into a There is something else that makes tried being preternaturally

pan along with 1 With head down,

good, jobs in the neighbourhood where she

gill water and By run is known a shield, she wonnan use an unbreile somewhat This was a great success.

She begins to feel that

2 ozs sugar. Cook held before her like

may have noticed ning errands

the apples till they are tender, and and helping to look her only escape is marriage, launches herself upon an unprepared freakishly. You

then rub the contents of the pon amuse baby Mark, she mankind. Like the river, she takes that, when the sun is shining bright after and

Certainly, It seems hard that ony

through a sieve. one so good in the home, ao admir- the line of least resistance. It that y. Bany women carry umbrellas. It

oble with small children, should be Iine happens to lead the point of her must be admitted that, owing to the British climate, umbrella into the eye of someone exigencies of our

Reature displays considerable poets is tot as great as they them-unable to find a husband. But Ma- approaching, so much the worse for their

bel Is going the wrong way about it. perspicuity. A few minutes sun any the eye and its owner.

Indeed, she is a moving sight. A man has only to take the least Women with umbrefins flop about time in Britain is usually the signalShe moves all human beings within notice of her for an expression of all over the place. For nome extra for an armediate downpour of rain. In considerable distance out of the doglike devotion to appear in her ordinary reason, they do not use um- And so, when a woman wears a new brellas primarily to keep the rain bat, even if the sun is shining, she as she juggles with her umeses. And-men being what they

brella in an attempt to keep even are-be lies in terror. off themselves. Firstly, an umbrella takes out an umbrella. Who can is employed to clear a way for the blame her? Not this admirer of her holder. Secondly, it appears to be ex

of service to keep its owner balanced Impressive Spectacle In a windy rain. Thirdly, it la pre- sumably

out just to show A woman protecting a new hati that 15 one.

with an umbrella is a moving sight, If, by an amazing chance, a wa- Poets have burst into erstasies over man holds an umbrella over her mother love, and suchlike matters; head, it can be taken for granted but none has ever written an ode that the rain is lushing upon her a women keeping the wet off her from the front, back, or side. If the latest headgear. Which rather goes carries it at an angle, it is odds-on to show that the depth of feeling of

French knats to match are embroidered on the little Bas- que-like jacket in this afternoon ensemble of toast-coloured silk | crepe. The sombrero hat has a brim of matching straw with a royal blue fallle silk crown and fringed tassei

i

Felves would make oul.

one drop of rain from touching the You see, she cannot learn that the creation which sits jauntily and pre- technique of pleasing a contemporary carlously upon her golden hair,

is entirely different from the techai- Women need not have their unique of winning parental approval or brellas open to be a threat to the of being motherly and indispensable welfare of their brother-and-sister to two small boys hardly out of the beings. Watch them with these cradle...

But no healthy human being can stumpy affairs of theirs when they ure entering or leaving bus or tram, live on an exclusive diet of mild op-

proval and unsatisfled desires. They Jerk them under their arms, point upwards, just so that they wil Brmly prod anybody following.

Douglas A. Scott

Soups With Sprouts

NOUPS with Brussels sprouts have remedial value, as well as being Food internal heaters and energiser's, at this time of the year when com- pialnis due to limpure blood are com- mon.

Several vorletles of soups can be made from the same foundation. which includes half a pound of sprouts, steamed till tender, chopped and added to a quart of stock will seasoning to tusle.

- Chopped fried onion can be added, or parsley, either raw or fried. An- other tasty addition is n cooked rusher of bacon finely chopped.

Simmer the soup for about twenty minutes. Rub it through a hair sleve if a purce is desired, and thlaken with a tablespoonful of blended corn- flour. A gli at botting milk can be added, either to the puree or to the unsieved soup.

Serve with fried or toasted crou-

W. D.

tons.

ACCIDENT Season

UIT SAFT RANDAGE GAUTEX & De

now self adher Ing GAUZE bond. cya for run, aprašos. broadhesize

kopa' needed.. Keep d roll in the medicina cabinalone in the car,

GAUZTEX

The BANDAGE That T'ES ITSELF

When this is done whip up the pulp and juice till light and frothy, and aid to it a plat packet of lemon or red currant jelly est up into small pleces,

Stell the Jelly is thorougly dis- solved, and then pour Into a mould. Leave it: lo set, and when required turn out and dcorate with whipped and sweetened cream.

B. M.

A suit of heavy bengaline silk completed by a lingerie blouse with a bow tie. Very trim looking in black with white or pink blouse.

The

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Chic!

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Dresses,

Also

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Gowns

Evening Bags.

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the season they are being offered--

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