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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
Criss Cross Embroidery (embroidering)
Cashmere-soft Cardigan (knitting)
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Woman
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NOVEMBER 28, 1959 VOLUME 45. NUMBER 1172
© Odhams Press Ltd., 1959
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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 secretThat I'll pass on to you;Hope readers find it useful,It came out of the blue:One morning after baking,A pleasure to beholdWas the cake that looked so prettyBaked 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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