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ASK Evelyn Home

For sympathetic help and guidance, write to her c/o WOMAN, 189 High Holbron London, W. C. I, enclosing a stamped, addressed envelope.

Dangerous Friendship

I am a schoolgirl of seventeen, and love a married man of thirty-five.

He does not say he loves me, but would like to have me as a friend, and to take me out occasionally.

Do you think there is any harm in this, as we intend to remain good friends only?

  I THINK there is a very great danger of this proposed friendship involving romantic feelings. They are already there as far as you are concerned, aren't they? And the fact that you have asked my advice shows that you realize the existence of this danger.

Be advised by me and finish this association before both this man's wife and you get hurt.

You will be much happier with friends of your own age.

Starting Afresh

One of my children committed a grave offence. Is there any country that will accept immigrants without such a fact needing to be disclosed?

Only in such a country, it seems to me, could my child make an entirely fresh start.

  You do not tell me the nature of offence, but most countries require to know if an intended immigrant has a criminal conviction.

You would need to inquire at each immigration office or consulate to know the requirements of particular countries.

Are you sure, though, that it would be in the best interests of your child to face life alone in a strange country?

Surely he, or she, has more need than ever of sympathetic parental guidance if a real effort is to be made to lead a better life?

Do consider this well before sending your child away to struggle alone against shortcomings and temptations.

Unfortunate Victim

I am twenty-five, and the only child of a very unhappy marriage.

My parents quarrel incessantly, and both make excessive demands on my affection.

My mother insists that I am her whole life and that she couldn't go on without me, while my father makes jealous scenes every time I go out with a young man.

I would have left nome long ago, but they rely on me financially.

  FOR the sake of all concerned, it would seem that you should leave home, at any rate temporarily.

If you are good at your job, it may be possible for you still to contribute a little towards your parents' home, but if they are capable of earning, they should be encouraged to be independent.

Should you decide to strike out on your own, make your plans and stick to them, without arguing interminably with your father and mother.

Endure their pained feelings, but do not be led into quarrels,. which hurt everyone and help no one.

A decisive gesture might make all three of you happier.

A Rift Between Them

My husband has, I know, been unfaithful to me, but because I love him, I forgave him.

Now, although he works all day, he has started doing late overtime and I am left alone in the house until the small hours of the morning.

I do a full-time job, and my housework in the evenings. This, and my unhappiness, is affecting my health. When I tell my husband how I feel, he just laughs. We have been married for only five years, but sometimes I feel like leaving him.

  MANY women can do two jobs and stay perfectly happy and healthy. But some cannot, and I think you are such a one.

Without realizing it, you have been so occupied with your chores in the evenings that your house has become no longer a home.

This was probably the reason your husband sought comfort elsewhere, first from another woman, then in the companionship that extra work brought.

Must you do a job in the daytime?

If you gave this up you would have less money to spend, but the improvement in your health would pay dividends in making you the kind of wife a husband would look forward to coming home to after a day's work.

And when the house isn't being cleaned in the evening, it would be a place for you both to relax in, and he might want to stay in it.

Change Of Religion

I wish to change my religion but, as I am only sixteen, my parents say I'm too young to know my own mind.

But I have thought this over for nearly a year and am quite firm in my belief.

How can I convince my parents?

  CHANGING your religion will involve  being received into some other Church. No responsible minister or priest would receive you without talking the matter over with your parents. He would probably be able to convince them of your sincerity.

My advice to you, therefore, is to see your nearest Church authorities and obtain their counsel.

Happiness Is Waiting

I am forty, reasonably attractive and healthy, but very depressed.

I have never married, although I dearly longed to, and have few friends.

Life seems so empty that I dread the years ahead.

  IF you'll forgive my being “Irish” don't be too depressed about being depressed! In your case, I would say that this is a sign of development, you are looking for deeper things in life than pleasure and satisfaction.

Don't tell yourself that all your glooms would vanish if only you could get married, The sort of feeling you suffer at this moment afflicts wives as well as spinsters, and men as well as women,

I suggest that you find something really useful and selfless to do in your spare time.

And read my Handbook of Happiness, price 2s. 3d (about 32 cents)?, from most booksellers or, through the post, from Messrs W. & G. Foyle Ltd., 119-125 Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.2, price 2s. 7d (about 36 cents)?.

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 It's worth remembering that overweight is bad for your health as well as your figure. Doctors will tell you that starchy foods like bread and potatoes are usually the cause of the trouble.

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TRY THE NEW Shreddies CERAL TODAY
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Woman's MIRROR continued on page 70

Woman’s MIRROR * True stories of real people

THE MAGIC was still there FOR JOY

Joy thought her dancing days were over, then suddenly into her

CAN I really go through with it?" Forty-three year old Joy Newton stood in the dimness of the wings at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for the first time in ten years. In a moment she must dance on to the brightly lit stage.
She bit her lip, and smoothed her costume nervously. Out there, beyond the glare of the footlights, was an eager, enthusiastic audience. Only five seconds to go.
Then, as she heard the opening phrases of her music, Joy felt the old magic return across the years. Almost without realizing it, she went easily and naturally into the mime and movements of the ballet. It was just as it had always been.
She matched her steps with those of Robert Helpmann and was lost in the perfection of dancing with him. She felt the warm response of the audience and the thrill of knowing she was dancing as well as ever.
The ballet came to its close. The curtain fell and rose again as the audience applauded excitedly.
A huge bouquet of white roses and , a bottle of champagne were handed to Joy.
They were from the man for whom she had changed her life, her husband, Walter, three thousand miles away in Bauchi, Nigeria.
Later, Joy Newton talked with me in the Green Room of the Opera House.
She told me how she, a colonial officer's wife in Africa, had returned for one glamorous night to the ballet that had once been her whole life
Round us willow-slim ballet dancers in brief practice dress mingled with solidly built, vividly costumed opera singers, snatching a cup of coffee hurriedly during rehearsals.
"Oh, I literally lived in this for so long, glamour and hard work and no time for the world outside. It's like coming home." Joy had to raise her voice above the clamour of loud, speakers transmitting the rehearsal taking place on the stage.
One day last year, an invitation from Dame Ninette de Valois, director of the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company, arrived at Joy's sun-drenched bungalow in Nigeria. 

Would Joy, who had danced in the ballet company's first performance twenty-five, years before, fly to London to appear in the gala celebrating the silver jubilee?

"I was completely taken by surprise. It was a tremendous honour, but I didn't know if I could do it."
For years, Joy had done nothing but bask in the African sun, order her household, tend her . garden, play tennis and enjoy the social round of the small European community.
"I hadn't danced, or even thought of it, for so long. It seemed incredible to appear at Covent Garden again. Then Walter said: . ‘Of course you must go,’ and that decided me."
Part she created
Joy flew to England to dance again as the Ballad Singer in Rake's Progress, a part she had created twenty years ago.
But her dancing years had begun long before that. As a child, she went to dancing classes near her home in Wimbledon. At thirteen, she joined a new ballet school opened by Ninette de Valois.
Then, in 1931, a new ballet company was formed under Ninette de Valois, and on May 5 of that year gave its first full length performance At seventeen, Joy was a real ballet dancer, earning the mangificant salary of twenty-five shillings a week.  
"Those were wonderful days, but so busy. We went to the theatre for rehearsal at ten in the morning and didn't leave until after the performance at night. I had no time for boy friends or parties. My head was full of ballet and I wanted to dedicate my life to dancing."
Joy was soon creating character parts. She continued to dance them when in 1941 she became ballet mistress of Sadler's Wells. Here was her chance to pass on to a younger generation her skill and enthusiasm.
Six years later, Joy left Sadler's Wells to start a ballet school in Turkey. There she met Walter, the man who changed her life.
They were married in 1949. When Walter was sent to Nigeria, Joy went with him to their new home, a mud hut with a thatched roof. She went without regrets, surprised to find how easily she adapted herself to the leisurely life.
Joy thought she had left the ballet for ever, until the letter from Dame Ninette arrived.
Incredibly, Mrs. Walter Postlethwaite of Bauchi, Nigeria, found herself greeted again by the stage doorkeeper as Miss Newton of Sadler's Wells. She sat again before the mirror in number one dressing-room at Covent Garden, applying the grotesque make-up of the Ballad Singer. She danced once more with Robert Helpmann.

Left: In her old dressing-room at Covent Garden, Joy tries on a head-dress. With her is Svetlana Beriosova, the lovely ballerina

Life had come full circle.
When it was all over, she said: "I wouldn't have missed it for anything, but I shall go back to Africa quite content. I never practise my dancing out there. I don't want to. Besides it's too hot. I'm absolutely happy doing nothing." ----  MARGARET CLEMENTS

Above: In Africa, Joy with Walter and a pet fawn

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dog in waiting

FRIENDS of mine were motoring through North Island, New Zealand, when their dog, Kelpie, asked to be let out of the car.
He bounced off into the bush, but he didn't return.
They called, and searched frantically through the thick bush, but in the end they had to give Kelpie up for lost.
Nine months later they traveled over the same desert road. There was Kelpie, sitting wistfully by the side of the road, at the very point where he had been lost so long ago.
What prevented, him from returning in time to rejoin his owners on, their first trip we shall never know. But it seems that he did get back, even if too late, and kept patient vigil throughout the weary months. 
We learned, this from an old Maori, who lived in a hut nearby and who had fed the dog whenever he was hungry during his long wait.
Mrs. A. N. McKellar of Auckland, New Zealand
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It was a real family birthday for May! See story on next page of Woman's MIRROR
 

sun-drenched, leisurely world came a surprising letter

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Woman's MIRROR continued from page 69

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Make sure you get Miraglo - it's the marvellous blue window cleaner. Only 10d (about 12 cents)?. or double size 1/3d (about 18 cents)?.

 Use it for chrome and mirrors too!
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MIRROR CONTINUED DOUBLE EVENT

May had a moment of panic, then chance gave her the courage she needed

IN only half an hour forty-one year old Mrs. May Burchett, became both a mother and a grandmother.
David, May's baby son, came squalling into life at two thirty one Wednesday morning. Thirty minutes later May's daughter-in-law Connie, aged twenty-six, had a baby daughter, Patricia, in the same hospital.
The two tired but happy mothers nursed their new-born babies and smiled at each other from beds side by side in Canterbury Hospital, Kent.
May felt deep gratitude to her son's wife. It was Connie, already the mother of one pretty little girl, who had given her courage.
"I don't know what I would have done without Connie beside me, ''May confessed in her home in the little village of Graveley, Kent: ''I'd been very worried about having another baby, David is my fifth, and there are eleven years between him and the twins, Rosemary and Maureen.
"People told me, wrongly I realize now, how dangerous it was to have another child at my age. I'd been ill for most of my pregnancy, and Arthur, my husband, had been out of work for months.
"I completely panicked about the baby. I thought I was going to die. Connie gave me confidence. Instead of mother-in-law helping a younger woman, it was the other way round."
Now May Burchett can look back on that time more cheerfully, although sometimes the strain and worry still show in her blue eyes.
"It was strange the way Connie and I went to the hospital together," she mused. "She had expected her baby a fortnight earlier. David wasn't due for another two weeks.
"Arthur was out when 1 first felt pains at eleven in the evening. I thought it was nothing. I'd had such a bad time that I was used to pain. Then I suddenly realized; my baby was on the way.
"When Arthur came home he phoned at once for the ambulance. We didn't know then, but Connie and my son Ted were already on their way to the hospital from their home a few miles away."
Glad to see Connie
"The ambulance driver got the" call to turn back for me, and was afraid that the delay might be too much for Connie. But when Ted told her it was me, she wanted them to turn back. I was so glad to find her in the ambulance. She was a help to me all the time. I was terrified that I wouldn't come through.
"We arrived at the hospital at ten past two in the morning, and David was born only twenty minutes later. When it was all over for me and I held my baby in my arms, I suddenly thought of Connie. I could hear her crying in the next bay of the labour ward, and I worried that I'd upset her. They told me she was doing fine though, and at three o'clock Patricia was born.
A little later the two mothers were in bed side by side, May with David, who weighed 7 lb. 2 oz. and Connie with Patricia, a bouncing 9 lb. 4 oz.

Grandmother May (right) holds her son, and he watches his camera conscious niece, nursed by Connie

May Burchett smiled as she said: "It's grand being able to share the interest of a new baby with my daughter-in-law. We'll be able to compare progress, and mind each other's babies if we want a free morning or afternoon.
"Things looked rather black for us a few months ago. Now everything is turning out fine. .
"Arthur has got a job as a window cleaner, so money worries are over. David is a wonderfully good baby, and the twins adore him so much that the only chance I have to look after him is when they're at school!
Thanks to Connie, I came through my moment of panic. Becoming a mother and a grandmother all in the same half-hour was a strange experience, but a good one." ---- BETH STEVENS

---------------------Consultants’ Casebook------

FOOT INJURY

 A PLEASANT girl of twenty two, she limped painfully into my consulting room.
She didn't have to tell me that her right foot was swollen and painful. I could see the swelllng and some dark bruising through her nylon stocking.
"Would you mind taking off both shoes and both stockings?" I asked. Surprised, she did so, and I explained that the best way to see if there's any thing wrong with one foot, hand or shoulder, is to compare it with its opposite number, in this case, the uninjured foot.
"How did it happen?" I. asked.
"I fell down three steps yesterday," she said. "1 was· coming off the tennis court and my foot slipped.
"It was very swollen and bruised this morning. My mother wanted me to stay at home and rest it. But we're very busy at work and I do all my work sitting down at a desk."
"Your mother was probably right," I said, "but let's see what has happened."
I made her sit on the end of the couch with both feet well clear of the floor. One by one I made her try all the different movements of which the foot and ankle are capable.

Her right foot moved in most directions, but the movements were limited and painful.

It was obvious that there was nothing the matter with her ankles or with her toes. The damage was in the area of the metatarsals, the slim long bones in the foot which correspond to those between wrist and knuckles.
I felt each bone in turn. Doing so hurt her, but not all that much.
"I can stand it," she winced, . "though I can't say I like it.
"I think you've been lucky," I said.
"I don't think there's a fracture. Just some bad bruising and swelling which will take a few days to settle. But we'd better have an X-ray to be safe."
Sometimes, through the swelling and thick ligaments, it is impossible to detect a fracture by clinical examination, but an X-ray shows it clearly.
Sure enough, there was no fracture. All she needed was the simplest treatment. I showed her how to apply a crepe bandage to make the foot more comfortable and better supported.
"Now morning and evening I want you to give this foot a contrast bath, half-a-minute under each tap, hot then cold then hot. Give it a full ten minutes, starting and ending with hot water. "
"Rest the foot on a cushion While you have breakfast or supper. Then put the crepe bandage on yourself. "

 I showed her some gentle toe-twiddling and foot-circling exercises that I wanted her to do, too.

"Walk on it by all means, but as little as possible. Whenever you are sitting down, put the foot up on a stool or another chair."
When can 1 play tennis again ?"
"Three weeks from now, if you're lucky and you do as I've told you." I saw her three weeks later. She waved her racket at me triumphantly when I was driving past the tennis club.

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Sandwiches for Summer
TAKE A FRESH SLANT
ON A NEW IDEA FOR SUMMER, for packed lunches or picnic teas, roll-ups instead of ordinary sandwiches, delicious with the cool freshness of Kraft's Superfine Margarine. Kraft Margarine's fine ingredients are specially blended so that it doesn't melt away even on the hottest summer day. It's a pleasure to spread and a pleasure to taste, and always very, very fresh, the double  wrapping sees to that.
 For picnics and packed lunches, for all your summer sandwiches and fine cooking, buy Superfine Margarine by Kraft, the nearest thing to butter.
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Summer Roll-ups
Take the crusts off the bread and spread thin slices generously with Kraft Superfine Margarine. Lay your filling on a slice of bread and roll it up. Kraft Margarine is made from specially blended vegetable oils of highest quality. It keeps cool and holds its shape even in the hottest weather. 
TRY THESE FILLINGS
Ham with a dash of Kraft Tomato Chutney
Cold scrambled eggs flavoured with chopped spring onion tops
Chopped raw apple with Kraft Dairylea
Grated cheese with watercress
Mashed hard-boiled eggs with Kraft Tomato Chutney
Stardale Cheese Spreed and currant jelly
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Take a fresh look!

TO-DAYS TIDE GETS CLOTHES EVEN CLEANER!   
TIDE Gets clothes Cleanest! A HEDLEY PRODUCT
 MAKES THE FAMILY WASH WORTHWHILE doesn't it? When you make up the beds with clean, clean sheets, cleaner than you ever thought they would be. Lovely to snuggle down into! That's the miracle of to-day's Tide. It gets clothes cleaner than ever before.
 The reason? There's a wonderful new ingredient in to-day's Tide that gives it even more power to get your whole wash clean, cleaner than you ever thought possible.
TRUST YOUR OWN EYES
Use Tide for your next washday. Then take a look at that sheet you've just washed. Hold it up to the light and notice how it's clean in every fibre, clean through and through, without a trace of dulling scum, scum that takes the edge off real cleanness. Yes! You'll see for yourself. To-day's Tide gets clothes even cleaner
TAKE A FRESH LOOK -get to-day's TIDE for even cleaner clothes

Woman November 28 1959

Content

WORLD'S GREATEST WEEKLY FOR WOMEN

Week ending November 28 1959

Every Wednesday 5d (about 6 cents)?  

EMBROIDERY * BEAUTY * COOKERY

YOUR MARRIAGE IS NOT LIKE THIS

Fascinating report on Eastern customs by Dr. David Mace

MARY BRAVENDER  Serial by Olga Stringfellow

Cover by John Dixon  

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Plus with the loss of your Homemaker Spouse, and with your family debit increasing, your family is at risk!

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In just 20 seconds busy hands can be beautiful
OUT OF WATER-ON WITH NULON
Use Nulon after every washing job, that's the rule to keep busy hands beautiful. Only Nulon acts so quickly, so thoroughly, It takes just 20 seconds for Nulon's richness to restore soft, smooth loveliness to busy hands. Time it yourself, you’ll see!
NULON'S RICHNESS PENETRATES INSTANTLY!
There's all the richness of lanolin, almond oil and glycerine in Nulon. They act together instantly; sink right into your skin and restore the natural oils that work and washing remove.
 In just 20 seconds your hands are cared for, soft, smooth and lovely, yes, even if you've done a heavy weekly wash. And there's no sticky feeling with Nulon. It disappears right into your skin.
NULON'S RICHNESS IS NOT EXPENSIVE
Although Nulon has all the richness to care for busy hands, Nulon itself is inexpensive, So use it always, whenever your hands come out of the water.  Out of water, on with Nulon, that's the 20 second rule that cares for busy hands.
NULON News! Regd
 Look an elegant new bottle! 1/7 (about 22 cents) and 2/41/2 (about 33 cents)
And look! A handy tube too! 1/10 (about 26 cents)
Nulon is specially made to keep busy hands beautiful
No wonder it’s the favourite hand cream today!

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WOMAN TO WOMAN
continued on page 4

Contents

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Highlights of this issue

Fiction

The Courage Of Hamish by Elizabeth Milne 

Mary Bravender by Olga Stringfellow 

A Certain Impulse by Virginia Lee

Special Series 

Your Marriage Is Not Like This by Dr. David Mace

Features

Expresso Service

Better Than Ever Christmas Gifts

Club-Together Presents 

Criss Cross Embroidery (embroidering)

Cashmere-soft Cardigan (knitting) 

Time For Sharing 

Cure For The Blues 

Temporary Setback 

Tapestry-The Fabric You'll Love 

Perm Now 

Junior Meals 

Woman's Mirror

Plus

PERSONALLY YOURS

How its done 

Show People 

Quick Ways with frozen food 

Next Week

A Countrywoman’s Diary

the extra minute 

Take a tip from model girl Bonnie Bea 

keep moths at bay 

ask 

YOUR STAR GUIDE 

Cover 

Woman

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Telephone CHANCERY 3344

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NOVEMBER 28, 1959 VOLUME 45. NUMBER 1172

© Odhams Press Ltd., 1959

Second Class postage paid at New York, N. .Y ,

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Cotton Memories

STORING away summer clothes can be rather melancholy sometimes. Sitting by the pile of light-coloured fabrics I have, in other years, thought of the little wear they have had, and perhaps of some special favourite that never even saw the sunlight-because there just hadn't been the sunlight for it to see. 

But this year the final storing away has been put off far longer (we were wearing cottons in October) and the good memories of blue sky and brilliant sunlight are still close at hand.

Some optimistic people are daring to promise many more Summers like this year’s what a wonderful thing to look forward to: But even if that prophecy doesn't come true, what a sun-filled year this will always be to look back on.       

THE EDITOR

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Be like Bruce's spider, really persvere and win your self one guinea (about $2.95 ) for a letter printed here (by Bruce Anglave)

WOMAN TO WOMAN

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Pop names 

Because a foreign friend, very proud of her newly-acquired English, asked a startled shop assistant for a "water go-macaroni stop," that's what we've called a colander ever since.-Miss S. N. ( Tenterden, Kent).

Points prize

Mummy could never get us to help her about the house until she hit upon the idea of making us earn our pocket-money by entering points for every job we did on a special list. 

For washing-up we  get six points, laying the table-two, and so on. Twelve points are worth a penny and a total of 180 must be reached each week in order to get one and three-pence pocket money from Mummy and a shilling from Daddy. 

Now both parties are happy: we get the money and they get the help. Miss P. M. (London, W.3). ; 

  AND there's some training in budgeting and the value of money thrown-in as well!  

Wiggly top 

I have a little secret  

That I'll pass on to you; 

Hope readers find it useful,   

It came out of the blue:    

One morning after baking,   

A pleasure to behold  

Was the cake that looked so pretty 

Baked in a jelly mould. -Mrs. L. H. (Allestree, Derby).  

 BEFORE you yearn to do this, too,  Remember, any mould won't do;  Metal-lined, or oven glass. Are the only kinds we'd pass. 

Miss judged 

After an argument my little sister, who is only eight, was crying. 

"Why do you always blame me for everything I do?" she wailed. -Miss D. S. aged 10. (Edinburgh).

Romance in class

I met my husband when he was teaching mathematics! . 

No, it wasn't a schoolgirl-teacher romance, my firm had sent me and several other girls to evening classes for which the firm paid. 

The unfortunate teacher was very new, very young and a perfect target for feminine tricks. My fellow-pupils and I made his life a misery. 

One evening I was told to stay behind after class. I forget his actual words, but the ticking-off I received was very effective.. 

Now we've just celebrated twenty years of perfectly happy marriage.- Mrs. E. V. (Sutton Coldfield, Warw.) 

   NOW what was in that ticking off, we wonder? A strong, he-man chat on the respect due to "the stronger sex," or just a request for a date? 

A cordial result, anyway!

For tidy scarves

Real scarf rings are too heavy for featherweight silk chiffon scarves. 

I thread mine through an old "sleeper" ear-ring, and find they don't budge an inch after hours of wear.-Miss J. B. (London, W.13). 

   A "SLEEPER," for those who don't know, is a very fine gold wire circlet placed in newly-pierced ear lobes to keep the tiny holes open and clean.

Feminine bells

At All Hallows Church, Tower Hill, we have two bells named after the fair sex, Dame Margery Haydok, a fifteenth-century benefactress, and St. Ethelburga, first Abbess of the Abbey of Barking.-Mr. C. T. (Upminster, Essex). 

 It was a French practice to name church bells after a lady of the parish, and as Jersey once belonged to Normandy it has retained some French customs. 

 Thus we have a bell named " Elizabeth la Belle" possibly a compliment to Lady Elizabeth Carteret, wife of one of the island's governors.-Mrs. D. (Jersy, C.l). 

 In 1956, twelve new bells were cast in the famous Whitechapel Bell Foundry to replace the original Bow Bells, damaged in the blitz. 

 The church of St. Mary-le-Bow is united with seven other parishes, and my father, churchwarden of one of them, St. Margaret Moyses, had the honour of naming the fourth bell Margaret,--Miss J. C. (Stanmore).

Other people's babies

To save up before our wedding, I baby-sat for three different couples three times a week for six months.

When my own baby was born I was so used to babies that mine seemed no trouble at all. 

So my advice to engaged girls is: do some baby-sitting - Mrs. B. L. (Bradford, Yorkshire).  

  THE very best example of earning and learning at the same time we've yet come across.

Double Consolation

When my husband came home every night just to sit and gaze at the television, I used to wish we had never bought it. 

But now I think it's fine. Why? I've taken up painting and am doing a portrait of my husband; he's the stillest, most patient sitter anyone could ever wish to have with his eyes firmly glued to the TV screen. -Mrs. I. H. (Huddersfield).

Don't Lose It 

A tip for girls who go dancing and just don't know where to put their cloakroom ticket. 

Fasten it to your petticoat with a safety pin. Place it high enough and it won't show even if your skirt flares out while dancing. - Miss J. F. (Merthyr Tydfil, Glam). 

  NO evening bag? What on earth do you do with your hankie, your lipstick, your powder puff, your comb. 

You can guess what heavily-laden dancing partners we are.  

Letter from Ethiopia

I am writing this from remote and relatively unknown Ethiopia. It is seventy-five miles to our nearest post office, so we send a man once a fort- night to collect and deliver mail 

At the quickest, he may get back within six days.

When we go on a shopping expedition all the children come running to shake hands, then follow us. By the time the open market is reached, we resemble the Pied Piper of Hamelin. 

Here comes the local witch doctor. First he kisses the ground, then our feet and hands. Afterwards he will graciously pose for a photograph. 

I could tell you much more, but I know your space is limited. If any readers would care to write to us we'd be delighted to hear from them, though we cannot promise prompt delivery of a reply!-Miss D. H. Lekemti, Ethiopia, Africa).

   ANY readers taking up Miss D. H.'s invitation, please write to her care of us, and we promise to forward the letter. We suggest air letters to Miss D. H. enclosed in another envelope addressed to our department.

 Bitter

They never scuff, they never stain,

They don't get soaked in heavy rain,

They go with all the clothes I've got, And aren't sheer murder when I'm hot,

They really are quite perfect shoes. But they're the pair I never choose! -Miss C. H. (London, S.E.26).

Save space and fuel

Anyone living alone, or who has only a small family, will find this tip saves space and fuel. Buy three of the perforated baskets used in pressure cookers and use them, in a large saucepan, for boiling potatoes and two vegetables together. - Mrs. L. W. (Filey, Yorks). 

  BUT do remember to pop certain green veg. on for only about ten minutes. Boiling for the same time as potatoes will spoil them.

The silliest thing 

The silliest thing I ever did occurred one dark night at a bus stop. Trying to sort out the good matches from the dead ones in a box, I struck them to see if they were alive, and if they flared I stowed them carefully in my pocket.-Mrs. J. S. (Surrey).

Considerate?

Waiting my turn to be served in a fish shop I was intrigued to hear a man ask for "Half a pint of shrimps please, and would you wrap them up well as I'm going to the pictures." -Mrs. M. C. (Lowestoft, Suffolk).

  GOOD gracious! But wait, we learn the first "smelly" film has now been finished, and that it contains fifty different scents. Cinemas will have to be specially equipped before we can experience this new delight.

Shrimps might very well be refused admission then and accused of sabotage. 

Bruce pictures it  (by Bruce Anglave)

 My cousin was telling me all about her baby son's diet. "Peter's milk," she said, "has to be boiled for two years. " -Miss L. M. (Coventry, Warw). 

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The average price of a new home then was $12400 about 2.48 times the yearly average wage of $5010. Which was about 2.28 times the price of a new car $2200. Today? 

Plus with the loss of your Homemaker Spouse, and with your family debit increasing, your family is at risk!