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EVERY SATURDAY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1948.

WOMANSENSE

WHEN A CHILD HAS FEARS

CHILD can't be "reasoned" out of his fear, yet grown- ups try it all the time, "There's nothing to be afraid of," we say briskly to the shrinking child; or "You're too big a girl for that" or sadder still, "Only sissies are afraid."

Even loving parents do this, not knowing what else to do,

Fears in childhood in a large sub- leel, and it offers pitfalls for the commentator. There in the possibi- Jity that in a moelety on Jittery as ours-parents may needlessly get the

most wind tip. After all, children go through one or another phase of fearing that the goblins will get them. Sensibly handled, the phase passes. Also, because a child's fears are highly individual, concrete mic- gestions on handling are especially hard to convey in print.

In this department's opinion, an Important contribullon on this sub- Jeel has been made in the newly complled pamphlet "When Child Has Fears." prepared for the New York City Committee on Mental Hygiene of the State Charities Ald Association.

By CATHERINE MACKENZIE

together the thinking and experience

Self-confidence is see! as "the of many specialists working with real fortress against fears." Build it young children. It le skilfully plan- up, don't knock it down, parents are ned and written in plain language. counselled. "As riäteulous and foolish child's fears may seem to an adult. they are very real to the child, and therefore must be respected," is one comnient. And again,, "Remember. a child cannot be forced or reasoned into giving up a fent. He can be led up to it only when he feels safe, So don't hurry him let him take his ilme." Our opening examples are lifted verbatim from the text.

Among concrete suggestions there:

are

Never let anyone, even na a joke, make frightening threats to a child such as bat the bogyman, police man or some character in a story will get him, or that he or anyone

else will get sick or die.

If you can help it, don't leave the child with a person who dislikes children, who is insensitive, or the "user" who worries over cvery Hitle thing.

Avoid movies, radio thrillers, ex- citing stories, hair-raising gomles, for children under 6. Some chlidren are more sensive than others.

This pamphlet reßects newer and ings on the part hospitalization may play in childhood's fears. 1 under-

scores the importance of leaving young child only with someone he

Clearly, and with reassurance, this text outline the feats- common to or often Youn"

in the age group knows. timler ; points out Hut, by under- standing what 19 bobind tlum, parents and teachers can do much to prevent some fears:

There are normal, everyday fears of loud noises, sudden movement, strange people and objects, Inter of animais, fear of the dark, of pain, nf being left alone, (Parents know that there is a long list.) There are fenrs equally normal though hard to pin down in causes. And there are fears apparently unrelated to any thing, expressing the uneasiness of The anxious child. (We are over- simplifying here, to save sture.) the latter

the text group, part:

To the anxious child any thing. everything is a possible danger, He cannot take in his stride the nornul frightening experieures of childhood as can a better adjusted chlid. He seems to be afraid of some particular thing but what he is really expressing ka his own inside

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OGLING ORGY

IN

JAPAN

Baby

CHAPMAN

(1) When a baby first Boys "Mama" it is recognising its mother. Is this true or false?

PALSE. Mit happens to be the first babbling sound the average infant makes. Because mothers are the first to hear it they assume the baby means them. That is why in nearly all languages the baby word for mother is the same.

FULL-PAGE FEATURE

She Wins A

"Princess

Frock"

By PATRICIA LENNARD

her wedding day, and a white even- Ing cloak.

"Help him to become skiiful, out- going and friendly, so that he will have the self-confidence necessary to TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD buckskin sandals that she wore en face and deal with the frightening Everything he things he meets. learns to do for himself, to his own new friend ke satisfaction, every makes, takes him one more step on the road to independence."

FATHERS and mothers are advised to watch the things that destroy confidence, among them "repented fallures,

Mra Anne Collins has a success story any young bride would be proud to tell. She and her husband have a new bungu- low, and she has a new evening dress from Princess Elizabeth's trousseau.

She is one of the lucky girls who one of the dresses distrl- buted by Princess Elizabeth from the einthes sent to her by the New York Institute of Fashion as a wed- ding wift.

too much competition, received eglect, crittelam": never to try to shame the child out of his fear; and finally, "Don't be afraid your little boy will grow up to be a sissy just because he shows fears at 2, or 3 He will be much more likely and 4. to grow lato a confident, independent young man at 14 if his fears are dealt gently with at 4."

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(2) All babica inherit a fear of the dark because our ancestors were most afraid of being attacked by wild beasts jat night. True or false?·

FALSE. The only inherited fears are of loud noises and of Three hundred Japanese men nævt !being dropped. All others are womens recently carefully appraired į lenrned..

e another ne marriage prospects on the banks of the Tama Illver,

The marriage fai

True or false?

(3) A new born baby can was spot-support its own weight either sored by a popular_matozine,

Procedure was:

Bath

hand. women registered at the entrance to TRUE. loat can do this the river, obtained a number, which until they are about 17 weeks they pinned on their clothes. 1914

und

..

Then_f

_they_walked_up_and_down.

the river bank ogling one another.

On spotting a likely prospect, they

ran to

registration

the

desk.

(4) No child ever develops any new brain cells after it is born. True or false?

This recalls De George H. Preston's views on the "Judicious ሃርቦ of pralse," Count the "don'ts" and "stopa" and "quits" in the ordinary child's life, he has said, and com- pare them with "That's "My, you are smart" and "Try it; 1° think you are big enough. He holds

and

that "It cannot be any fun to he little and weak and always wrong

and to have it rubbed in,""

Quiz

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FALSE. The reverse is true.

(G) A baby cannot except to distinguish light from darkness until it is three weeks old. True or false?

TRUE. And the average

cannot child

recognise its mother by sight until it is three months old.

(7) A child who walks at eight months instead of at the usual 15 months is likely to be very intelligent. True or false?

TRUE. Many geniuses have walked at eight months.

(8) A baby is blue when it is born and immediately turns pink. True or false?

TRUE. When the baby starts to use its lungs the increased Oxygen supply turns the blood from bine to red.

(9) A young baby puts things into its mouth because its teeth are pushing through the gums

and irritating True or false?

it.

FALSE. It does it to examine consulte it Fürd Ale giving the

them, While the sight is prospect's life history, bank balance. TRUE. The brain as a whole poorly developed, a baby's lips Then they proposed--lait this was enlarges, but a baby has its full and tongue are its chief sense done through the magazine's re- presentative, who got a commission.allowance of "grey matter" at organs,

Said the Tokyo newspaper Amal birth. "A considerate number found mates. "But some of the women brought

their mothers--which probably did

not help."

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(5) Boy babies develop mentally earlier than girls. True or false?

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or letter. messake with it-and it its me prefectly!"

First appearance

Her husband, 25-year-old Michrel Callas, a motor mechanic in Brus ley, Kent, says forthrightly enough: "It's a lovely frock expect it's the best dress you'll ever have, and we'll have to go out and celebrate in it."

It is made of cream silk, patterned with drifts of pink flowers, and the flowers on the debt and bodice are sequinned in pink.

"Do you know," Mrs Colllus said, "it must be hand-made; there's a peterslam band under the frock that keeps the waist to, and over the hips there's padding under stiff Canvas so that the frock stands out." Round the waist goes a long pink velvet sash. and Mrs Collins plans to wear with the frock the white

'It fits me perfectly."

From food sack

to ball dress

Belleve or not picture.

The material from which this dress

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Is made is ratton, pleced together from our bans some American manufacturers..

Simple Fare for Gourmets

By JANE NICKERSON

browned, Weld:

or six

your palate Is (3) Halve the ice cream and put homesick for the simple foods a portion into each cantaloupe half, of childhood-a baked potato rounding it up. Top with remaining with a dollop of butter or home- fruit. made bread and a mug of milk, (4) Completely cover top of fruit Other days the gastronomical mood and cantaloupe halves with merin- Bake changes, and you think with good gue, heaping it generously. appetite of the shrimps with lobster

obster in a hot oven (450 degrees F.) till Chinese restaurateur meringue is lightly sauce that a

Then comes the evening about four minutes. turus out. when dinner must be straight servings. American, substantial, well seasoned.

Then there ure the Penguin Simple yet skilfully cooked-calves

one' axcellent spareribs, certainly liver with bacon, perhaps, or broiled

excuse for the restaurant's being. spareribs.

It's hard to find them elsewhere in New York as Chet Le Goff presents them there-crisply coated from the broiler,

a bint of with

muslara flavour under that delicate crust. How does he achieve this delicious effect? The recipe:

Here are some novel suggestions, developed by New York's new res-

Town taurant,

Peryum, which specialises in good, plain, but not dull style of meals.

COUPE LENA HORNE

1 quart coffee lee cream

cup heavy cream, whipped

•

1 cup creme de cacao. Place lee cream In parfail ginsses,

top with crean and then add creme

de cacao, Yield;' six servings.

Like all Kood restaurateurs, Mr Cowles, manager of the .New Penguin, has a good chef, Yves Le

BROILED SPARERIBS

3 pounds spareribs

2 teaspoons salt

1 cup oft into which two to three tablespoons of prepared mustard have been blended

Sified bread crumbs..

(1) Have spareribs cut into in-

till lender,!

Golf, one of whose contributions to dividual portions. Cover with water, summer dining is his baked melon odd salt and simmer Alaska, It makes quite a splash, about one and a half hours. but here again the talents of an. Escoffier are not demanded.

BAKED MELON ALASKA

cantaloupe, chilled

cup crushed fruit (peaches, ber ries or other variety desired)

2 tablespoons Cointreau

4 coo whites

14 cup sugar

(2) Cool in cooking water, dram and dry with paper towels. Refri- Kerate till ready to broil, (Mr Cowles insists spareribs improve in flavour I allowed to stand a day before final cooking).

(3) When ready to broll, dip in Bro!! oll, then in the crumbs. about three inches from the dame, turning to brown both sides. Serve': with a mustard sauce, it desired. Yield: four portions.

34 pint vanilla ice cream.

cantaloupe in half, re- (1) Cut move seeds and peel. Put a fourth of fruit in each hollowed-out portion Mr Cowles is opposed to the fix and a tablespoon of Cointreau in and fuss, funs and fx school of ench. Arrange halves on a fairly homo cooking. The peach half large heatproof platter with a sitting on a leaf of lettuce withK generous space between.

whipped cream

a marvellous (2) Beat egg whites. till foamy. curlicue on top is not his idea of Add sugor gradually and beat till a salad. But this one, smacking of meringue-holds-up-in-sharp peaks. trogrant country kitchens,.is:

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GLAMOUR HATS

Beaver felt in neutral makes this autumn hat. heads

Kroy Mink

для feathers decorale -brim and crown.

Glamorous ink faces the el- tire crown of this gold felt model and (once again) mink heads and feathers emphasise its bold width.

STILLMAN'S

Freckle Cream

'FOR CLEAR SKIN

Stillman's Freckle Cream contains certain ingredients which act as * temporary "black-out" against the formation of pigmeat. Next it favors the retention of fat glob. ules in the skin which helps to smooth out lines and creepiness. It's easy to use-justamooth on at night before retiring and let it work while you sleep. After using just one regular sized jar you will find your complexion 10 improved that you will need no urging to continue using Stilfman's Freckle Cream.

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After one single, treatment you can see and feel the great difference.

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1. Pond's Cold Cream

—to cleanse and soften

Dip into a big jar of Pond's Cold Cream with fingers of both hands. Smooth this Aluffy satiny cream over face and throat. Pat gently to help loosen dirt and make- up. Then wipe off.

Now slip on more luscions Pond's Cold Cream, and stroko it on spinning your cream-covered fingers over your face in little circles. Wipe off thoroughly. This second, extra, cleaning is to make your face extra clean, extra smooth.

Uso Pond's Cold Cream this rewarding way every night and every morning. It will help keep your skin beautifully clean, soft and smooth.

2. Pond's Vanishing Cream

—to hold wake-up and to protect

As a Powder Base. After your morning Pond's Cold Cream cleansing, elip on a light film of Pond's Vauishing Cream. This "powder base" will help make up go on evenly, lost for hours. And it forms a delicate covering to protect your skin against dirt and exposure.

Asa I-Minute Mask-Help smooth, lighten and brighton your skin like this: Slip a thick coat of Pond's cool white

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Vanishing Cream, over throat and face (all except eyes). Leave on for one full minute. Wipe off. "Keratolytic” action of Pond's Vanishing Cream loosens and dis- solves tiny dirt specks, flocks of dead skin that make your complexion soom rough, dall and drab.

Now powder over your smoother, lighter skin. See how ovcaly make-up goes on, how long it lasts! Give yourself a 1-Miauto Mask 3 or 4 times a wock, and · before all special occasions.

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