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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1949.

WOMANSENSE

Serviceable And Smart

Ver.3

Report on

M

sex talk

By ALAN CLARKE

the

a

school

frightening natural phenomena which occur at puberty.

But, perhaps, as important as what Dr.Vincent ways is how slic says it. The neerel of her success lies in her personally.

Neat Look for Teen Agers

She is the wife of a Shel- with a 23- SHEFFIELD. with the biological story of re- field Civil servant, OTHERS of. 52 11. production from simple- year-old son. She is short and year-olds West Rid- to the more complicated manner hair, and

division method of the amoeba slim, with a mass of curly Titian brisk, animated man- ing schoolgirls, two of rabbits. ("Tell me, girls, du her.. unmarried teachers, myself, rabbita lay eggs?" "No,

Every year she delivers about and a toddler sat on plain piss!") She continued: "Rabbit-450 lectures, averaging over ten wooden chairs in

week a large any of you girls who keep pets know, have their babies in classroom of the Hill Modern a little pouch called a womb, throughout tho West Riding. School, Thurnscoe, to hear Actually the female rabbit, has which has 1,300 schools. 47-year-old Dr Elsie Vincent two wombs. Humans, of course, I asked her if she ever gets demonstrate her method of have only one."

tired of lecturing "Never," she teaching sex,

Later Dr Vincent outlined the Enid. "It is a pleasure to see rest of her course to me in de- new, fresh young faces; to know If you don't want to carry your houd bag, this bill fold is ideal. It has ...

mirror and comb; space for bills, coins, keys, photos, and lipstick.

during term tine,

I was there with the per- tall, Let me say, as a parent, that that one is clearing, doubts and mission of the progressive there was nothing in it which I fears from young minds." West Riding Education au- son to hear. I do not mean that

should not like my 12-year-old CHILD'S QUESTIONS thorities, as the journalist any vital fact is shirked. father of three children, to discover how

expert handles the subject.

ап

For more than an

hour

Let me record again as a For example, the knowledge parent-that the main questions imparted includes a brief state- children ask are: (1) "Where ment of what happens when a did I come from?" (2) "How did man and woman mate, and of I get out!" (3) "How did I get these mothers sat quite quiet the changes in the man which in7" as still as the potted tulips and enables this to happen. This is | hyacinths on the window-sills followed by the story of that blue-and-cream decorat- development of a child and the

method of its birth. ed room. Only the toddler got bored and had to be taken oul. -

of the

While she talks, Dr Vincent wrlies the more technical words on the blackboard, and draws chaik diagrams showing the re- productive organs of birds and plants.

By HELEN FOLLETT

now

the

Courtaly Lady Burton

knows

N the subjects of dress and clusion that "daughter ON

grooming, the teen-age con- best”. tingent has had a change of Our young ladies are going mind. Whereas, in the past, it in for pccessories to brighten was considered culo to look appearance smart belts, Lipel sloppy,

decmed pins, even lage collars. They to be attired in smart are making it a point to carry correct garments that are only partially pocketbooks and wallets that Dr Vincent, in her running casual. This state of affairs is match the coat. Considering all to jug items they want commentary the lectured with giving joy to the mamas and is

with on tho around

them, they are a flow developed through years much less of a strain of

fussy when making a experience-answers these public eye. Little brother has pretty questions in thair natural inherited the blue jeans and selection..

A popular item is a billfold sequence. But she embroiders the shirts

that actunily holds all that any the story with a fund of homely

College viris are actually girl could expect it to hold. simile, idiom and fun.

setting styles. Every woman of Mirror and comb are included For example: "You girls slim üres, if she is smart, will with fittings for lip-stick, bills, probably think that the croak wander into the Junlar depart- coins, keys and a photograph ing of a frog is a beastly noise. mem when looking for a frock of the best beau. The photo But the Indy frog, who has got, or a cont. She will find little windows In this wallet are a lot of eggs in her body waiting. numbers that have to be fertilised, thinks he has definable

that in- dolachable. All the equipment is arranged on the

Crosby or Frank Sinatra."

SCIENTIFIC TERMS

By VERA WINSTON

"TELL ME.." THERE'S STYLE and charm to spare in the new little casual

After the lecture the mothers daytime dress. Shown this year, including wives of miners in are neat little numbers that the nearby pit-thanked Dr Vin. have it all Over the old-time cent, voted unanimously to ask utility dress, for thene frocks her to give them a further talk in a fortnight. (Before beginning can fare forth proudly and go Dr Vincent had said: "Let's places. Navy spun rayon is used pretend you are all 11-year-old knowledge should be gained be- lovely volee, just like Bing "makes it and has the magic son of the chango purse,

schoolgiris").

for this one which is enlivened by

drawn

work and white

Dr Vincent divides her sex- stitching on the bodice. While teaching into four talks the piping edges the neckline and fourth usually being devoted to the bodice closing. White recapitulation and oral or writ- buttons make the neckline to ten questions from the children. hem closing of this swell new version of the house dress.

The talk the mothers and beard-It was the first dealt

New Fibre Combinations

Create New Fabrics

CHILD'S SHIELD Every biologient aspect of sex is covered, on the ground that

fore boys and girls are affeeled by the emotional disturbances of adolescence.

something

that

Compactly

of the billfold with the

Од

to drop a

n fow years from her birthday

the record. There are no convertiently

Paccel longer any fights between outside for easy accessibility, mama and daughter on the Grand! You don't have to paw The course Includes instruction The journey from the amoeba question of clothes Many a and fumble through everything

come to the con- when you need bus fare. on methods of personal hygiene. to the rabbit was marked by mama has The only variation Dr Vincent scientific terms written and left makes when talking, to boys or on the blackboard, which at the girls is in this connection. With. end had eight words on It, In- girls, for example, the simple cluding cell, egg-cell, ovary, explanation of menstruation- testes, sperm, and fertilisation. given to both sexes-is ampll- Acd.

This complete factual biologi- cal groundwork is the essential basis of all sex education, Dr Vincent explained to me.

She believes it is the founda- tion on which all later moral

Her account had fascinating! littic asides to keep the chili dren's interest about her "baby son" who is "now as big as that" (pointing to the ceiling), and a toddler named William, who lives in Fill and likes to climb banana, trees.

NEW YORK, able. Glass drapery fabrics are Tand

THE wartimo dreams of glass in evidence in increasing quanti- plastic dresses that ty. They still have a window-

But these asides are not allow- could be cleaned with a damp glass shine, but new treatments teaching about sex and the per-

and would last forever and

other sonal Christian attitude to mar- ed to distract from the natural combination with

unfolding of her story. Natural- have vanished in the practical fibres are expected to make them rage must rest.

Such knowledge is a child's ness Is the keynote of Dr world of peace and business, it us attractive as they are fire-thiold against the otherwise Vincent's teaching.

cloth

appears.

of

Few of those "dream" fibres

proof and casily washed.

Measures To Aid British Family Shoppers

1

Let's Eat

BY

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

How To Make Good Pie Crust

SEE you're using the new Then with a light even pressure. free-wheeling model!" I ex- roll the dough away from you. claimed, as I stepped into the starting at the right side, rolling

directly in front, and ending" test kitchen.

"You mean this, new rolling with the left side, Gnally making. pia?" grinned the Chef. "t a round of dough on eighth goes very well. It has the steel an inch thick, and 2 or 3 inches The majority of new dress turned up in the 210 examples fabrics in the museum's show

ball bearings so not much pres- larger than the ple plate. Dunt

ure is needed."

with a very little flour, fold tion recently on display at the tried and true fibres. Silk and contemporary textile produc- arc the result of combinations of

"But Chef, you're not using lightly into fourths, transfer to Metropolitan museum of art wool, celton and silk, rayon and

the shirt, the little jersey jacket the pie plate, unfold and ease Those that did were upholstery, fur and acetate and

that slips over the rolling-pin.", the crust into place.

Dinner "Oh, it works better without. drapery and industrial fabrics rayons are teamed with com-

Grupe Fruit and Tangerine And most of them were more

encumbrance on the rolling-pin.

Cup "There is a Maiden Form for Every Type of Figure!' commendable for insitutionat plete assurance among the puree shopkeepers in the charm governing them was passed 80 was never taught to put any

silks, solid cottons and, 100 per-ing old town of Lavenham, years ago.

Boked Liver with Tomatoes use than for home hrauly.

cent, wools. The mixtures have Suffolk, England, which count Mr Turner who is to repre- And I also do not find it neces-

Diced Cooked Celery and young Mrs Margaret Turner sent the consuming public, willsary to use the pastry cloth on

Cole Slaw The gloss fibre prople said added strength to beauty

Pickled Carrots and String. they have decided-it never-will-achieved new colours and feels, among their customers treat her have another woman with her on the table. I prefer the simple

with more than ordinary re- the committee Mra Rosa-Pear operation....

Benns on Lettuce be practical for clothing because

son of Gateshead, Durham, who

Pastry Cloth

Old-Fashioned Custard Pie is active in local government and "That's all right for

Milk (Children) All Mearuremente Are Level Recipes Serve Four

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Hon. Treasurers:—

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NANNY

viscose

you,

Flaky Potatoes

it's non-absorbent and unstrotch- Tops for luxury among them spect.

is a slik and cashmere combina- tion which comes out with "weights and measures which sho tions. Incidentally last year, she homemakers it's a great help to heavy silk back and " dark

thinks should benefit the family was National President of the use a shirt' on the rolling-pin, cashmere pile surface as soft shopper. What is more, she is Women's Co-operative Gulld. The and a pastry cloth on the table. Baked Liver With Tomatoes

Purchase 1 glassy as one could wish.

lb. beef, pork or likely to be able to have them recommendations of the commit- Much less flour is needed in rol-

be far-reaching for it

Four itling out dough when they're used, lamb liver, sliced thin. put into effect, for she has been tee-

may A cotton and nylon combina-appointed by Britain's Board of is not impossible that they may and the dough doesn't stick to over boiling water; remove the apparatus like petrol either the board or rolling-pin. liver at once, and pull off the tion comes out a crisp, washable Trade to a committee which will suggest that

and penny weighing In fact, a pastry board is not outer skin and tough mem taffeta which should be almost find out whether the regulations pumps

Brush the liver with impervious to wear. Cotton for covering weights and measures machines-unheard of when the needed at all, for the cloth can branes.

pasted should be as be spread on any flat surface. melted bacon fat or shortening, strength and rayon for gloss are all they should be. Moreover, Act was

the This is great convenience to salt, an effective upholstery fabric it is the first committee to dis- regularly inspected as are

kitcheneers who have no room to a pepper and a little thyme. Place in a well olled baking combination.-United Press. cuss these matters since the Act grocer's scales.

store a pastry board, and don't utensil and cover with fine own

a kitchen table."

bread crumbs. Around it put That is all right for the be- the tomatoes, from 1 (No. 24) Rinners who live in small quar- solid pack in. (Save the to- ters," argued the Chef.

But

mato juice for soup or gravy.) they must be careful to keep the Dust the tomatoes with 1⁄4 tsp. shirt and pastry cloth very clean anit, 1⁄2 tsp. pepper and 1 tsp. and sanitary and away from the sugar, Bake in a moderate oven, dust. You know these materials 350 to 375 F. about 45 min, or absorb fat from the pic-dough or until well browned and fork. cookies, so it is necessary to put tender. If desired, scrve from on a clean shirt often. For my the baking dish.

American Piecrust

For she has ideas about. in working women's on

women's organisa Chef, but for inexperienced Coffee or Tea

By SYLVIA SHANKLAND

IN OS

TN Oslo the other day, 1 called Norweg'an triend. Knowing she was midless and had three young children, I ex- pected a disturbed morning with an overworked, tired housewife.

Arriving at her fat, I found coffee and cakes, prepared by a far from harassed lady of the house and not a child to be seen. Where were they? "With the park-aunt," replied my friend.

Nannies are a thing of the past in Oslo. The Norwegian higher-income-group muther can seldom And even a mald, unless she imports one from abroad (Danish, giris can be found). She con,

however "park" her under-school-age children every week-day mom- ing between 10 and 2.30 (lunch lime in Norway is between three and four).

No Overhoads

A young woraan calls, collects the children, takes them with a You? dozen or so other children from the neighbourhood into the nearest park. For safely, the children are conducted through the streets holding onto a long tope.

Hon. Trassurars Lowo, Bingham & Matthews Mercantile Bank Bldg.

In the park, the children play while their "nunt? Bilson à bench, sometimes with the youngest in a pram.

This corvled costs mother be tween 15, and 25s. a week.

A "park aunt" has to have a first aid certifiento, No other qualification is necessary, but, of course, she must be good with

children. She has no overhead expenses, for Oslo's parks are free to all.

London Express Service.)

NIGHTIE MAA frillert wing should. er matched with a five- inchi [ril) round the hen, ElastIO tread is woven in at waist and under a levels,

NOW FOR NO-IRONING

UNDIES

-THEY'LL BE IN THE SHOPS IN FOUR WEEKS TIME,..

NO-MONINO undies-a-smash-seller in America-are on their way to the shops at last. The first of these new nylon-mesh undies, which dry in a couple of shakes and need no press ing, will be on sale in four weeks: time-and not for millionaires

only,

Nylon mesh is in very fine material.' as transparent ma tulle. but very strong.

Main colours are peach. blue, and wory. ROBB has drawn the new one-

NZC versions of Live

mesh

undles. The

maker claims that a ane elastio thread Woven into the material B

strategic places

makes the war..

ment t

tup size Trom 32 inch ta 40-inch.

Drawings

by. ROBB

anv

upda

Jo, de

UNDIESET has goingtle :- thread wovement two-inch intervals on the pants, and below bust on the brassiere They' can be washed out and dried overnight.

=(Lowton Express Service),

n

self, I

I simply wash the rolling pin and pastry board in warm

Sut together 2 c. flour and ta water, and it is na good as new. tsp. salt. Add c. vegetable In rolling puff paste, which must shortening or 2/3 c. Inrd. Chop be kept very cold, i like to use in with a pastry blendar until

a metal rolling-pla that holds

the mixture looks like commi the ice-cubes; but for making makes. Add 2 tbsp. cold water American plecrust, all you need and mix in lightly with a fork. is a plain wooden rolling pin Then add a second tbsp. cold like the old one I brought from water. More may be necried to France. He pointed to a der, smooth red of wood about make the dough stick together,

but use 18 inches long and 2 Inches in Put the dough on a large sheet as Uttle as possible. diameter, with tapered ends of waxed paper, fold up in ci- "It is very reliable for biscuits,

alen-

cookies and plain plecrust, he velope shope and pat to make it stick together. Chill 30 min, it. added, running his hand over

possible before rolling. Use in the smooth surface.

: Talking about old reliable, making any kind of ple. here's something." I said, open-Old-Fashioned Custard Pie ing the closet and taking out my Use homemado piecrust.or.o treasured curly-maple rolling mix. Roll to 4" thickness; with pin. The Chef's eyes. gleamed. it line a'deep ple plate; build up "This one has done very great the edges by fluting with the service," he remarked, examin- fingers. To make the filling,

beat, 3

CERS, odd.1.c. Continue Roll Out Piccrust and V tap, nutmeg. "My grandmother taught me to beat until well blended; but how to roll out plecrust with Add wild mo become fully.

2' c. cold milk. Pour this, and she claimed it had been in her family, for throw custard mixture into the uned generations," I explained. "We ple plate sprinkle over 1⁄2 tsp. ด have several kinds of rolling utmeg and bake 10 mine in

hot oyen, 400 E Then reduce pins, now and old, here in the the heat, to 350 F. and finish test kitchen. But the rules for buking, allowing about 30 min making and rolling out; plecrust When done the custard will be remain the same.

ing the wooden handles almost, granulated sugar, 14 fap. salt

half, worn through.

.:

Keep the dough undry golden brown on top, and a knife possible. Roll only enough at when inserted in the centro

comes out clean.;

· ónotíme to make one crusti

Use only very little four. To keep custard ple dilling

Trick Of The Chof

Put the dough in the centie from soaking into the crust, first

the board and pin.

of the board, dust with a very brush the crust with unbeaten little flour. Press lightly with egg white, then pour in the rolling-pin until it is flat." Alling.

the