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How

Friday;

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

do you stand

with your FAMILY?

HAVE you ever thought what it would be like if you occupied a different position in the family series?

If instead of being, say, the youngest, pan were the eldest or the middle onr, do you realise that it might affect your charac- tes in all sorts of unexpected wups, might even alter the whole Course of your life? It's a speculation which may throw some mid lights on your present "behaviour. This is an article on this question.

Are you a girl with

two younger brothers?

UNBRELLA WOMEN

found she could goin plenty of up- proval.

By the time ber second brother Christopher was born, when she was six, she had acquired a reputation In the neighbourhood as a wonderfully unselfish and sweet-natured elder sister.

As the Brighton children grew up it became apparent that Mörk had an exceptionally good singing volre. it was still more apparent that Mark was his mother's favourite.

Mabel, after she had left school, found tint she had a gift for teach- ing mall children. To get a good past, the needed training. There

January 27,

1939.

Good Company

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

Now Is the Rioment to assess the uality of your company; what do you

ovenlng's contribute to the entertainment and the hostess'y ease of mind when you are asked to a party? When you receive an in- vitation do you reply within a few clays with a dennité acceptance or refusal? (You should.) Don't pigeon hole it until you see if some more exciting "date" turns up, so that an exasperated hostess has to ring up to discover your intentions.

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

As you slip into your chosen attire, let yourself gradually become en- veloped in a joyous spirit of antici- pation. The worries and depressions et daily existence should be banished from your mlad as you dab the last spot of powder to your party self.

Having a due regard for the Im- portance of being naked ont, you are sure to arrive up to time and at least ive minutes carty for a dinner. You cannot be good company it your tar- diness has ruined the coolt's temper.

Cultivate the Party Spirit

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

SOME of the difficulties was lite spare cash in the family, show off your wit, your intelligence,

you have to-day may be but Mabel had a perfect right to ex- explained by the difficulties on her,

pect that some of it should be spent

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

INSTEAD, not out of love of Though you may long ago

Mork, but in order to have broken away

the from

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, he 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 Tact. She of a girl whom I will call Mabel had penetically no friends of her Brighton. You will see how her own age. She was popular with the whole life has been affected by the okler generation, who compared her, fact that she once played, much ino her advantage, with "those dread- the part of "little ful modern girls.” But her school friends had long ago drifted away mother" to two younger brothers.

Mabel was the only child in the from the small town into professions Brighton family until she was four or had married. years old. Though she was on anyi- thle and unexacting child, it was a shock when a rival appeared in the form of her brother Mark.

qUIREE dangers beet us in win- that the rails is dowending an straight successfully,

Cold, drenching as possible.

tor: (4)

Bet

showers eatch us unawares, and Protection for Handbags up chills (2) Pavements become slippy, and we sit down violently and unexpectedly. (3) There is no Inw against women using umbrellas of handling an umbrella may be chi tund, I fancy, in the portmanteau

The secret of this eccentric man-

If, unluppfly, a next war comes, that every member of the fale sex

the finest military machine in world,

the

She was by no means unaltractive,

but she wore the dowdy clothes her unther's friends approved of and did her hair in an old-fashioned way At first she became sulky and in- berate "that's how daddy likes it

attention to herself. But this was unsuccessful. to attract her another's Mrs. Brighton grew inpatient and Bitterness Grows made it clear to her small daughter that the new baby was now the most important person in the house.

Mabel is nearly thirty now.

it can be settled speedily by sending carries to-day. She calls it a hand- a buttalion of British women, armed bag. What is contents are, apartlined is relapse into babyish habits, best." with open umbrelins, to the front. One charge by them would scatter from something the size of a grand plana. remains a mystery. They inn be very valuable, because the first duty of an umbrella is clearly A woman with an umbrella is to protect this portmanteau. Jaw unto. herself. She think scerningly, that she has been armed If the rain swamps in from the with a wenuon with which to des- right, the handbag is sipped under troy her fellow-creatures; if not ex- the left armpit, and the umbrella is! terminate them, at least cripple as held facing towards the left. If the

Jain comes from the left, then the! many of them as possible.

manoeuvres are carried on towards the right.

As a Shield

With bend down, and umbrella

bok before her like a shield, she

their

There is scanething else that makes wooonm use a umbrella somewhat You may have noticed * launches herself upon an unprepared freakishly,

mankind. Like the river, she takes that, when the sun is shining bright the line of leant resistance. If that . ny women carry umbrellas. It Une happens to lead the point of her must be admitted that, owing to the

of our umbretta into the eye of someone, exigencles

British climate, approaching, so much the worse for gesture displays considerable the eye and its

perspicuity. A few minutes sun any owner. Women with umbrella flop about time in Britain is usually the signal all over the place. For some extra- for an immediate downpour of rain. ordinary reason, they do not use um- ft, ven if the sun is shining, she And so, when a woman wears a new brellas primarily to keep the rain off themselves.

Firstly, an umbrella takes out

way for its blame her?

Is employed clear

to

holder. Secondly, it appears to be s

of service to keep its owner balanced

an umbrella. Who can Not this admirer of her

in a windy rain. Thirdly, it is pre-pressive Spectacle

sumably brought out just to show A woman protecting a new hat

proprietrix has one.

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

At

5-A Discovery

SHE is still nice-looking,

still has the reputation for being sweet, unselfish and won- derfully domesticated. But under the sweetness she is becoming aware the time she was five, of a strong undercurrent of bitter-

covery. Finding that being naughty home, for, being without certificates, only made her position worse she shig.can only pick up small tenching tried being preternaturally good, jobs in the neighbourhood where she This was a great success, By run is known. She begins to feel that ning errands and helping to look her only escape is marriage,

1 seems hard that any anitise baby Mark, she Certainly, after and

one so good in the home, ap admir- ably with small children, should be pucts is not as great as they then-Unable to find a husband. But Ma- bel is going the wrong way about it, selves would inäke out,

Indeed, she is

A man has only to take the least a moving night. She moves all buman beings within notice of her for an expression of considerable distance out of the like devotion to appear in her bell in an attempt to keep even re-he flies in terror.

They being what way as she juggles with her um-yes. And-men one drop of rain from touching the You see, she cannot learn that the creation which sits jauntily and pre- teclmique of pleasing a contemporary cariously upon her golden nir. Is entirely different from the terhai- Women need not have their um-que of winning parental approval or wellas 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 are entering or leaving bus or tram. live on an exclusive diet of mild ap- They jerk them under their arms, provat and unsatisfied desires. point upwards, just so that they wal firmly prod anybedy following.

Douglas A. Scott

Babel made a great die nuse e an nerer fet away from

Soups With Sprouts

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

Rather be ready to appreciate other's attempts at wit and to en- liven the conversation by sparkling vitality with the objective motive to making the party go, and not merely to satisfy your own ego. An intel- ligent woman has often a flair for sensing the atmosphere of gather- ing and chameleon-like she can hould her mentality to blend with the prevailing background.

Don't embark on long and boring anecdotes, nor tapse into supercilious Filence. Be SO interested in the other guests that your interest draws them out to make the best of them- selves, You should not push your- self forward unnecessarily, but if your hostess is appealing for ideas, be quietly suggestive.

When it

comes to caling, if per- chance you are on a diel do not draw altention to the fact by exclalming that "you daren't eat that" or "you imply mustn't touch this," Your obvious enjoyment of the whole af- fair will radiate through the assemi- bly and the party will go with a swing.

You step out into the night as the doors close softly, behind you leaving au impresion of the quality of your

company.

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

C. R. M.

Apple Mould

DEEL and sitce 1 th apples and put them into a pan along with 1 gill water 'and 4 os sugar. Cook the apples till they are tender, und then rub the contents of the pan through a sieve.

When this is done whip up the pulp and juice till light and frothy, ind add to it a pint packet of lemon or red currant jelly cut up into small pieces,

Stir till the jelly is thorougly dis- solved, and then pour into a mould. Leave it to set, and when required turn out and decorate with whipped and sweetened cream.

D. M.

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UFS

SOUPS with Brussels sprouts have

remediul value, as well as being good internal heaters and energizer's, at the time of the year when com- plaints due to inspure blood are com-

inon.

Several varieties of soups can be made from the same foundation, which includes half a pound of | sprouts, steamed tili tender, chopped and added to a quart of stock with sensoning to taste.

Chopped fried onton cant be added, or parsley, elther 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 slove if a purze is desired, and thicken with a tablespoonful of blended corn- flour. A gill of boiling milk can be added, eller to the puree or to the unsieved soup.

Serve with fried or tousled croli- tons.

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