LETTERS TO ROSEMARY
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TROPIC DECOR FROM
Mrs. D. Taylor, London, S.W.I5.
" When I was a schoolgirl I remember thinking the potted palms in my grandmother's house were terribly old-fashioned.
Now, in my very modern new home, they look ' just right.' And using gran's recipe of sponging with lukewarm water and trimming with scissors, they look as smart and crisp as I imagine they do in their tropical home."
Farmyard friend-from Mrs. D. Jackson, Liverpool
PHENOMENON
From Kathryn Turner (age ten), Fishponds, Bristol.
" I think you will like to know about the queerest phenomenon that I have ever experienced. On Saturday I invited my friend Sally to tea, and all went as usual until I showed her my shells which I had kept in a paper bag for three years.
"As I put my sea shells away again, I dropped one, which Sally picked up and placed on the mantel-piece, under which burned a roaring coal fire.
" After having stayed there for about two minutes it uncurled and crawled two inches across the mantelpiece, then stayed curled up on the edge of it.
"Sally put it on the lawn, and it disappeared in a jiffy, But what was it doing in a paper bag for three years?
" And what was it living on ? "
WOUND UP IN HOPE
From Mrs. H. O. Taylor, Middle St., Yeovil.
" What a wonderful sense of humour the old craftsmen possessed.
" I wonder how many of your readers have, seen the Watchmaker's Tomb at Bosover, Derbyshire, with the following inscription.
" Here lies in horizontal position
The outside case of Thomas Hinde,
Clock and watchmaker,
Who departed this life
Wound up ;11 hope
Of being taken in hand by his maker
And being thoroughly cleaned,
Repaired, and kept going,
In the world to come."
FAR AWAY PLACES
From Mrs. J. Mabey, Broken Hill, N. Rhodesia.
" When I have finished reading my copy of ' Woman's Illustrated ' I pass it on to an old lady I know. She in turn gives it to her houseboy's wife, who takes it to the African compound.
"The District Officer told me the other day that on one of his tours of the more remote African villages, which seldom see a white man, he saw an African woman looking at a copy of a 'W.I.' which had my name on it. " Your' magazine certainly travels to far away places! "
The calm of a winter's sky. Photo from Mr. A. J. Roberts, Bank Rd., Matlock
SHOPPING SPREE
From Mrs. M. Wanless, Heathfield Vale, Croydon.
" I had my mother, who is seventy-five years old, to stay for a week to do some shopping.
" She wanted, among other things, a new hat. After tramping round five large stores and trying on almost countless hats, she sat in the millinery department looking at herself in the glass.
" She remarked, ' Well! I certainly do look hideous in these new shapes.'
" The assistant drily replied, 'Yes, madam, it’s not really surprising. You've had most of them on back to front ! "
WEIGHING IN
From Miss Carol Armitt, Lodge Barn Rd., Biddulph.
" My friend received a card from a weighing machine recording her weight and fortune, which was, You will shortly have a surprise. On the back it said, The date on which you were last weighed was April 22nd, 1930. " She was not even, born on that date! "
EASTERN CUSTOMS
From Mrs. Cora Pal, Anmedadad, India.
" Indian Christians still observe the ancient eastern custom of removing footwear before entering a place of worship.
" The Offertory is the most interesting part of the service. A large piece of cloth is stretched out on the floor, and on this the people place anything they can afford to give-a handful of rice, a bowl of lentils, some wheat or a few coppers."
© The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. 1958
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PARIS LOOKS AHEAD . . . but thoughts are turning to summer fashions
HOLIDAY clothes figure largely in a Frenchwoman's wardrobe because most of them have a month away in the summer-and they spend it in the hottest spot easily accessible-if not the French Riviera then the Italian Riviera or Spain.
Designs for holiday wear are madly gay and tremendously exciting. They do not come from Paris . . . they are designed on the spot, in the Cote d' Azur, for the Riviera designers have earned a name for themselves almost as important to sports clothes as Paris is to haute couture.
The "Sack-Look" is very much in evidence in beach wear-belts are dropped to slot at the hips, and the line is loose and easy, curving from wide shoulders to narrow hips. Beach tops are almost always straight, hip-length and worn outside shorts or skirts.
Vivid colours are on white grounds to give a dazzling print that looks wonderful in the brilliant sunshine.
The name on everyone's lips in Paris at the moment is Pierre Cardin. He is a brilliant young designer whom everyone says will wear the Dior crown, and his last collection was greatly acclaimed, particularJy in America. He has a gay and original boutique, where it is possible to buy lovely blouses, unusual accessories and jewellery and the most beautiful ties in Paris for husbands and boy friends.
BRIGHTLY coloured fur pull-overs were a warm extra in the boutique. Some had deep ,v-necks, others shallow boat necks, and came in fire-engine red or kingfisher blue. They could easily be copied in nylon fur fabric for a luxury look over a plain skirt.
Madame Carven, whose dress designs have often appeared in “Woman’s Illustrated” has recently launched a new stocking for evening. She feels strongly that women do not change their stockings for evening wear, and to tempt us, has brought out "gold stockings." These are stockings woven with the finest gold metal thread and come in such colours as beige-gold, beige-rose and gold, palest blue and gold, palest pink with gold, black and gold and navy-blue and gold.
With such glamorous stockings, the evening hair styles are becoming more dressed up. Favourite hair ornament is a wired bow of matching dress fabric, placed upright across the top of the head. Another little Paris touch that home dressmakers will be able to copy with ease.
from our PARIS EDITOR
The new look of sweaters from Paris. Simple and casual
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The average price of a new home then was $12750 about 2.77 times the yearly average wage of $4600. Which was about 2.14 times the price of a new car $2150. And the future was progressive not regressive
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