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Acquiring Balance

TEORETICALLY, we always long as you can, up to a minute,

think of a woman as being then repeat with the ethor. leg.

Your next alm should be to do graceful, but actually, only a small

excre!ses while actually proportion of womankind are really other

as graceful on one expects them to balancing. Start with the lenst vio

waving. be, whether they are dancing, walk- ient, that is, gentle arm Ing, sitting, or doing anything else, Standing on one foot us before, talse Grace depends on a number of the arms sideways and wave, thei thing, of course, but one of the most lightly up and down. Change the fect and repeal. When you begin important is balance.

You may, at first, think there is to feel more certain on your feet,

Father foot, you can do or no connection between balance and vigorous arm movements, that is, grace, but anyone who has anything bending the arms smartly and touch- to do with physical culture will tell the shoulders with the Onger- you that an ability to balance with caso has a direct effect on the physi- Lps, then extending the arms again Cal movements of everyday life, smartly, forward, side,

since they lend assurance, case, and control to the whole being.

down.

Head Exerciser

Next Rome

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up, and

hend exercises. Alm at acquiring a certain amount of briance, and you may rest assured Balancing on one foot, and keeping that it will Improve your walking, your hands on your hips, move the dancing, and other activities. Include head, et first very gently, forward. Ute following exercises in your daily and up again, then similarly to the physical Jerica,

An Important Poini

aldes and back. As your balance becomes surer, you can move the head more vigorously. Then you can try an even harder exercise, that One of the first and most im- s bonding the head forward, then portant things to remember when all round in a complete circle and doing balancing exercisen is to keep the toes well turned out, The reue up again. Shaking the head, at first Rently, then move vigorously, is son for this is twofold. Firstly, the another thing to do, body adopts a greater come and a

Don't allow yourself to more airy grace when the toes, and

cannot steady therefore the limbs, are turned out; agitated if you wobble when doing you can prove this by watching the exercises. If you strace of ballet dancers. Secondly, it yourself, just drop the second Zoot is a fact that it is canter to keep one's and rest for a second balance with the toes turned out, you allow yourself to gel worried

bothered, you and hot and completely spoil you your subconsci-

balance,

hetuse the basis on, wer is it the above is poised greater

toca point merely straight forward.

The first and simplest exercise in will lose

become

or two. If WILE

our mind will become worried and confidence permanently. to stand, on one leg, with foot turned Keep enim ond assured all the time. Balancing exercises give you poise, out of course, and to raise the other

foot well and they are well worth Rule slowly, keeping stretched down and the bent knee practice. smartly out. Keep this, position as

the

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Youthful Married Fashion Notes

Women

AVENING dresses are on the whole as brilliant as butterflies. They in chiffon ot

H. looking to young?" I asked are frequently disferent colour, the How do you manlige to keep

married woman of my acquaintance bands of each being worked dia-

the has the other day. Although

genally across the corsage, and then been married for over eight year allowed to flare down the full skirt. has two young children, and runs Butterflies, indeed, are ultra-smart the hame with only occasional help, she does not look older than I re-this season, and they are to be seen member her in pre-marriage days, muslin, la painted satin, la chit-

She repiled modestly that she did fun, and in lage.

not know, and, quite frankly, di not think anything

Rainbow colours are worked in vertical bands of gradually increas nhout it. So I was left to ponder over the reason, in length on some of the new mo- dels, Green butterflies on a green having as a background, for my tulle frock are matched by bows of thoughts the fact that so many mar- ried women seem to grow older than green In butterfly form on a wrap to

many top the dress,

and Go warrant, the years single women retain their youth t

self-acknowledged riddle age.

But something boy friend let slip avo me a clue. This is my night

A cream dinner dress seen has a Ardle of straw and linen.

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Feathers add an agreeable note to for the theatre," she said. She went many ensembles. Shoulder-capes are on to explain that ever since she seen in ostrich feathers in two tones and married she had reserved one of one colour or in many colours.

Feathers of orange and white bor night in the week for her girlhood

most of whom were wider a striped transparent cape over friends. married. They spent this one night an orange gown. The cape is worn together.

During the winter months with a spunglass cap.

Train cad now be hooked up on to they went to an entertainment, and in the summer thero was tennis or the skirt or left down, as the ucca- occasionally golf or a walk in the ston demands. In some cases, trains country. She looked forward to that are abandoned in favour of dresses night in the week, and had scarcely which just clear the floor. This tossed it in all the years of her meurs, however, that the shoes are Just visible, and hence considerable married life.

to Morvelling at the unusual length utiention has been given to foot- match the ut such friendship. I became dimly wear in materials aware of difficulties. "But the child dresses,

I murmured." "Oh;

con.

my

husband known this is my night

the

to

How often, for example, we forgo companionship of those who before we were out and he tries to stay in, ond, at were our friends lio cannot, we get someone come in." I also learned that both married. Sometimes a bride invites tusband and wife arranged a night to tea or supper the companiona of out themselves each week if it her youth, offfee friends, girl nc- were possible, even if it were only quaintances, ostensibly to celebrate to have cupper together in town.

In a Rut

the occasion of the marriage. Some- times parties, for too often they are farewell to the youthful friends, occupations, and interests of pre- Perhaps there is more in this than marriage days.

It may be said that we cannot wo think. We married woman are оргоде to settle down. For the have it both ways, but would not I wo first few weeks or months we retain our home even be brighter something

even in were brighter ourselves? of our energy

Youthfulness these days is not so being entertained or in sport or in triendship and companionship, but much a matter of years as of one's

radually

tled to wo become

the attitude to life. And what may be honic. It is so easy to slip into ways felt within is reflected without Those which, while they may do justice to who feel young may more easily look the home, do not do justice to our young.

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 15, 1939.

Make-up

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Cut it out in gay cotton, wear it when

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IN these days of elaborate coiffures

and closefitting dresses, we have to make up and "do" our hair after slip- ping on our frocks. Powder and blobs of cream are likely to fall on nice new dresses, and hairs drop on to our shoulders.

This useful apron will provent all that. Its cape top will protect your shoulders and the pocketed front part will take care of your skirt. A supply of cotton-wool, cleans~ ing tissues, orange sticks, etc., can be kept in the pockets.

The upstanding neckband can be tucked into highnecked dresses so that the neck, can be creamed and powdered without any damage to the dress.

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What You Need

To make the apron you need 14 yds. of 38 in. wide checked seersuc ker und yd. of plain material. Seersucker washes like the proverbial rag, and does not lose its colours.

Cut the odd yd. from the checked material, leaving a piece, 38 in. square. Fold this in halves and cut it into a large semicircle, as shown in the diagram. Cut out a small semicircle for the neck. Open the mu- terial into a circle and cut a allt from neck to hem for the back opening.

Cut the 4 yd, of checked material in halves lengthwise. Stitch one end of one of the pieces to the front of the circular piece, matching the centres.

Mensure off nine inches from the remaining plece of material. This is for the pocket. Cut off an inch or two from the bottom of the apron skirt if it is too long for you, then sew on the pocket. The sketch will show you how this should look. A line of stitching up the middle will divide the pocket into two.

I

I Don't Understand My Son

AM bitterly disappointed about my could never accuse me of lack of enthusiasm, and the blunders 1 mode n child I When he was son.

were of commission rather than looked forward to his being grown up, I expected to find him a pal; emission, I imagined

we would have many interests in common. and that our companionship would be fun.

But the fact is I cannot get to grips with him. He is twenty-two, hos a worth-while Job in the City. and has never given cause for any anxiety, but as for my knowing what goes on in his mind or what his am- bitions are, or his being a pal of mine, he might just as well be a complete stranger.

Sometimes I begin to have my sus- picions. I feel forced to think that I cannot get to grips with him be- cause there is nothing to grip. Is he hollow, a sham, a man lacking in guts?

I suspect that my son gets along quite well because he has not suf- siclent character to go wrong, is too jackodulsical to kick over the traces. Apparent Lack of Interest

He indulges in most modern pur- sults has n car of his own, plays tennis, stays out late at night, but he does it all with an air of not be ing particularly interested.

The same thing applies to business and pottles. He never offers me u word about his affairs in the city, and when I ask him how he is get- ting on he replies with a "Quite O.K., Und," and that is as far as we get.

.:I have not any idea what his poli- tics are. I have never heard him drop a

a word of dislike for the other side" or uf Praise for "our side." The wrongs of this, that, or the other party or people do not rouse a leker of indignation.

Why, I would prefer it if he was burning red-hot for the side whose views are opposed to mine; I would feel then that he had some opinions and the guts to back them up. "Politi cians!" he ulters scornfully, when y even I broach the subject.

In my youth I was cast in a very different mould. I was interested in everything, and went full out for the interest of the moment. No one

And that brings me to the possi

blunder bility that I am making a now. Am I blaming my son for my not being able to get to grips with him when the fault is really mine? Is it not perhaps, the eternal prob- lem of youth never to be truly un- derstood by the old?

some

no

special Maybe there is shrewdness behind this apparent lack ot interest. Maybe he show sign of ambition because in his own way he is planning carefully for the future.

A Superior Philosophy?"

Is his refusal to shout for this or the sign of a that political badge superior philosophy which knows that the promised millennium will come from neither?

Perhaps he regards my political enthusiasms something rather pitlable and refuses to discuss them to spare my feelings.

&

as

I am beginning to think that after. all there is behind the apparently casual, lukewarm attitude of modern hardness and resolution youth which

are all the more valuable through their lack of outward show. Are we old ones wrong and the young ones rightt

Do they regard our enthusiasms as so much ballyhoo?

I am beginning to believe that my zon and all our sons would fight to the death, in the gun-pit and tretich if need be, for what they consider, their cold, logical way, to be right.

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Their apparent lock of enthusiasm is due to scorn of flag-wagging, drum-beating, and nil the ballyhoo of patriotism.

That is why I cannot get to grips with my son

He and I live in remotely dif- terent worlds, and this lack of com- panionship is part of the price the older generation must pay for having made such an oftholy mess of the world that was ours.

Turn under a in. hem all round

the apron and stitch it neatly, or else cut narrow crossway strips from the plain material and bind the edges. but This looks very much nicer. takes longer to do.

Bind the top of the pocket. Cut a crossway band 24 In. wide from the plain fabric. Bind the neck with this to make an upstand- ing neckband lin. wide.

Apron Strings

Attach apron strings of the plain material to each side of the skirt at the waist. A plece of tape should be sewn

to each side of the neck opening, and the apron is finished.

For visits away from home a special "best" apron can be made from a loss serviceable fabric, but

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sure that 11 will wash. It is only when you have been wearing an apron for a couple of works that you will ralise how much it saves your dresses!

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