Between Friends
JUDGING by our post-bag, the ambition of many girls is to live and work in some big, busy city like London. Every week we receive letters from readers in the provinces asking our advice and telling us their plans. These letters have certainly made us stop and think.
Only a few years ago, it seems, a girl who announced that she wanted to leave home and live in a city like London threw her family into confusion.
Her parents, imagining the worst, pictured her living in miserable lodgings, getting into debt, meeting unsuitable people and not having enough to eat.
A room of one's own
HOW things have changed! Today, London seems full of career girls living in bedsitters or sharing furnished flats with girl friends.
They have plenty of fun, too, eking out their pay packets to cover expenses, adding their own decorative touches, and feeling joyously independent.
And their parents have forgotten their anxiety because they know that if a girl has her fair share of common sense she is quite able to look after herself.
We all agree that there is nothing like living at home and sharing the joys and squabbles that make up family life. But if a girl's job takes her to a large city, traveling can be a headache. Then, it's only sensible to find a room or flat there, and go home for week-ends.
A happy idea
OVER half the junior staff of WOMAN'S OWN are doing it and loving it! Many girls come from the provinces, and find living in town both practical and economical. .
One of our secretaries, who comes from Nottingham, says, "I wanted to get a job in London, so it was a question of having to find a flat. My parents weren't keen on the idea at first, but now they're perfectly happy. I share with two others and we have lots of fun, it's good practice, too. "
"We take it in turns to do the cooking and shopping, and we share the housework and all expenses. As there are three of us, we can afford quite a spacious flat between us."
Red haired Maggie Smith, a talented friend of ours, has just moved into a new flat. Maggie is the hit of a West End revue called Share My Lettuce (the show Princess Margaret enjoyed so much), and has already appeared on America's Broadway with great success.
Loaded with books
When we heard she had moved into a flat near the theatre, we went to see how she was settling in.
We found her staggering up the front steps loaded with books, boxes "and a huge wicker lamp- shade. Her brother, Ian, and their friend, Peter, who lives upstairs, were hovering helpfully. .
The flat is in an old, renovated house full of Victorian furniture. Maggie's flat, however, is already reflecting her own vivacious, lively personality.
"You can soon make a place your own," she shouted, while Peter played the piano that occupies much of the sitting room. "Already this feels like home."
After talking to Maggie, we asked our Home Editor, Ann Lennox, what she thought of girls living on their own.
"I think it's excellent experience," she said, "although I think a girl has more fun, and her family has more peace of mind, if she shares a flat with one or two other girls. Independence provides useful training in economy (one soon remembers to switch off lights when one has to pay the electricity bill!), cookery, and interior decorating."
Look before you leap
FLAT-HUNTING, Ann warns, shouldn't be hurried. "My advice is to make sure you will like living in the flat before you take it. Remember to check up on bathroom facilities (and make sure there is a basin in your room). And if you're going to share a kitchen with others, try and meet them first, and arrange a timetable.
"If you take a furnished flat, find out first if you may make minor alterations. For instance, a square room can be made interesting if you paint the wall opposite the window a darker colour than the others. A low ceiling can be made to look higher if you paint it a pale colour and hang pictures low."
Finding a flat or a pleasant bedsitting room isn’t easy today, unfortunately, because they are in such great demand. It needs patience, persistence and a certain amount of luck, too But it can be done. "
Daring to the rescue
SO we'd like to tell you about two young friends of ours who rented an unfurnished flat. Neither of them was earning a very large salary, and they realized it, would take about a hundred years to furnish the flat on their budget.
But they weren't discouraged. Imagination and daring came to the rescue.
They couldn't afford chairs, so they picked up a couple of hip baths at an auction and filled them with brightly coloured cushions. The result was unconventional, but comfortable
Imagination wins !
THEY couldn't afford pictures for the walls, so they bought an old tennis net, cheap, and draped it artistically across two walls. Then they hung their brightest, most glittery jewellery here and there.
We're not suggesting that other girls should copy, but it's a funny story, and true, and it goes to show that the girl of today has got what it takes in imagination and spirit. Agreed?
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Cover by Mead Maddick
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JUDGING by our post-bag, the ambition of many girls is to live and work in some big, busy city like London. Every week we receive letters from readers in the provinces asking our advice and telling us their plans. These letters have certainly made us stop and think.
Only a few years ago, it seems, a girl who announced that she wanted to leave home and live in a city like London threw her family into confusion.
Her parents, imagining the worst, pictured her living in miserable lodgings, getting into debt, meeting unsuitable people and not having enough to eat.
A room of one's own
HOW things have changed! Today, London seems full of career girls living in bedsitters or sharing furnished flats with girl friends.
They have plenty of fun, too, eking out their pay packets to cover expenses, adding their own decorative touches, and feeling joyously independent.
And their parents have forgotten their anxiety because they know that if a girl has her fair share of common sense she is quite able to look after herself.
We all agree that there is nothing like living at home and sharing the joys and squabbles that make up family life. But if a girl's job takes her to a large city, traveling can be a headache. Then, it's only sensible to find a room or flat there, and go home for week-ends.
A happy idea
OVER half the junior staff of WOMAN'S OWN are doing it and loving it! Many girls come from the provinces, and find living in town both practical and economical. .
One of our secretaries, who comes from Nottingham, says, "I wanted to get a job in London, so it was a question of having to find a flat. My parents weren't keen on the idea at first, but now they're perfectly happy. I share with two others and we have lots of fun, it's good practice, too. "
"We take it in turns to do the cooking and shopping, and we share the housework and all expenses. As there are three of us, we can afford quite a spacious flat between us."
Maggie Smith, star of Share My Lettuce, finds moving into a new flat is great fun-but hard work!
Red haired Maggie Smith, a talented friend of ours, has just moved into a new flat. Maggie is the hit of a West End revue called Share My Lettuce (the show Princess Margaret enjoyed so much), and has already appeared on America's Broadway with great success.
Loaded with books
When we heard she had moved into a flat near the theatre, we went to see how she was settling in.
We found her staggering up the front steps loaded with books, boxes "and a huge wicker lamp- shade. Her brother, Ian, and their friend, Peter, who lives upstairs, were hovering helpfully. .
The flat is in an old, renovated house full of Victorian furniture. Maggie's flat, however, is already reflecting her own vivacious, lively personality.
"You can soon make a place your own," she shouted, while Peter played the piano that occupies much of the sitting room. "Already this feels like home."
After talking to Maggie, we asked our Home Editor, Ann Lennox, what she thought of girls living on their own.
"I think it's excellent experience," she said, "although I think a girl has more fun, and her family has more peace of mind, if she shares a flat with one or two other girls. Independence provides useful training in economy (one soon remembers to switch off lights when one has to pay the electricity bill!), cookery, and interior decorating."
Look before you leap
FLAT-HUNTING, Ann warns, shouldn't be hurried. "My advice is to make sure you will like living in the flat before you take it. Remember to check up on bathroom facilities (and make sure there is a basin in your room). And if you're going to share a kitchen with others, try and meet them first, and arrange a timetable.
"If you take a furnished flat, find out first if you may make minor alterations. For instance, a square room can be made interesting if you paint the wall opposite the window a darker colour than the others. A low ceiling can be made to look higher if you paint it a pale colour and hang pictures low."
Finding a flat or a pleasant bedsitting room isn’t easy today, unfortunately, because they are in such great demand. It needs patience, persistence and a certain amount of luck, too But it can be done. "
Daring to the rescue
SO we'd like to tell you about two young friends of ours who rented an unfurnished flat. Neither of them was earning a very large salary, and they realized it, would take about a hundred years to furnish the flat on their budget.
But they weren't discouraged. Imagination and daring came to the rescue.
They couldn't afford chairs, so they picked up a couple of hip baths at an auction and filled them with brightly coloured cushions. The result was unconventional, but comfortable
Imagination wins !
THEY couldn't afford pictures for the walls, so they bought an old tennis net, cheap, and draped it artistically across two walls. Then they hung their brightest, most glittery jewellery here and there.
We're not suggesting that other girls should copy, but it's a funny story, and true, and it goes to show that the girl of today has got what it takes in imagination and spirit. Agreed?
------------------------------------------------------
Cover by Mead Maddick
-------------------------------------------------------
GALA PERFUME STICK
The only perfume that cannot evaporate!
GALA Perfume Stick has just about everything. It is solid essence of perfume and because it
contains no spirit, it simply cannot evaporate. It can't break. . . can't spill. . . is blissfully easy to use. There are four divine perfumes to
choose from. . . each a different pastel shade.
Obviously. . . the perfect Christmas present!
HEAVENLY - BALLET - BLAZE - SEQUIN
GALA OF LONDON
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