The Bermuda Recorder

              the bermuda recorder page threa wednesday february 4 1953 cuiiixmu : — * pages irom ber * luuiai hiawty 8 tones * cjuldxaoa family feature page * recipesh * special artichl * jokes * news^omnicnt * poetry inerviewing the teens working wives blamed for elegance and glamour j 11 new loudon styles parents called scapegoats for . emotionally 111 rise in divorce kate tive student and that was one of the reasons why she was selected from amongst the scores of girls to be a prefect about her intention to be a nurse sylvia says with typical tei-m-age pertness ever since i was a kid 1 wanted to be a nurse in fact when i was at harrington sound school they used to call for sylvia at the first sign of blood i was the unofficial nurse at the school the next day after i fixed up the children they used to come back and say flatterirtgly girl you're good you ought to be a nurse sylvia revealed in a light vein while she is only 15 years id sylvia says a great many people think she is much young t r i guess it is because i am so short she explained sh has a light complexion garnet eyes and often wears her hair in the bang and braid style for recreation she delights in putting on dungarees and l-oiii'_r roller skating she also likes dancing swimming net ball softball anld cricket she has no outstanding talents lik being able to sing better than anybody else or being able to get more out of a piano than her friends but she says in her delightfully humorous manner i guess that's because i can do a bit of most anything a*_em "* ' _■ "*" *' hb a h_^b_k dr clark contends lack of understanding results in sense of guilt and shame homemakers club founder says jobs also cause children's delinquency works she said adding the working job is considered more important because it brings in money the home job suffers because it is made up of in tanglli i ihat have no mone tary value such as the love of a fashion note by victoria chappelle fullness caught under a belt with raglan sleeves to accept the looseness above the waist as always this designer has every accessory dyed to match london fashions in corona tion year will be a pleasant mixture of down-to-earth prac tical but elegant styles and pure glamour but on loth century elizabethan or me diaeval influences arc shown anywhere at all these clothes by the members of britain's top-flight couture group un incorporated society ol l"ii don fashion designers are ou t h e contrary so forward minded that they are likely to influence the styles of next year and the year after that fabrics have had their in evitable influence on these new flowing softly draped nilhiuiettes and the silks silk and wool mixtures and pure woollens — mostly from nulls in britain — show new woven muted colour mixtures new lightness even the brocades are feather-weight and some startling pure colours which are dazzling n.v parents are the mod ern substitute for the ancient devils held to be responsible for children's erratic behavior dr kenneth clark told mem bers and friends of the league lor emotionally disturbed chil dren at a recent meeting by dorothy brandon washington jan m — the exodus of myootyooo am erican women from homes into business and industry has in creased the natiou's divorce rate and is the underlying cause of child delinquency dr ida bailey allen founder and president of the american hoineinakers club asserted recently * ma nd and wife the wise mattli introduces the sash tlnine ou many of the tailored suits tying it at one side je low tfc hip in the cavanagh collection collars and corsages siaml away from the body iu crisps folds ciiiitrived in his own particular manner with out a seam more suits have set-in si eves than of late but ihe shoulder line remains na taral qwt particularly lovely piece of workmanship is to be observed in his lace suits this il shown in the encrusted seams — a fast-dying art which takes weeks of highly skilled labour the result being that no join whatever is !•., ring of children time for family fun and a turning to cod substitution of private schools servants the hurried purchase of high-priced foods that can be quickly prepared the discarding of clothing that cuiild be made over or mended and the purchase of many armies of furnishings that are not needed were listed by dr allen as the high cost of wanting in the part-time home life of working wives too often we use parents m place of devils and sinners m ieapegoata for our lack of concrete knowledge dr clark associate director of the north side center for child develop ment declared a child who is emotionally upset becomes not only the parents responsibility but their fault as well he said this results in guilt and shame on the parents part and pro vides and more basic under standin at personality prob lems than did the old explana tion of demons and evil spirits few women can carry the burden of a full-time job and be efficient homemakers good wives and mothers and dr allen also warned delegates to the women's forum on na tional security at the may tlowcr hotel double-job home makers were undermining the security of millions of homes each year the forum is spon sored by the women's auxili ary of the american legion miss sylvia pearman it is fitting that we should resume this interviewing the teens series with a salute to l")-year-old sylvia janet pear man one of the prefects at the iris institute of arts and crafts whose greatest ambition is to become a nurse asserting that every per son in the united states is in debt dr allen said visible countless individual homes often considered prosperous are iu debt for their house ita furnishings and equipment the car and often clothing although the designers have not taken the coronation as their theme believing that smart women want clothes which do not bear the stamp of one year impressive and full of meaning to the nation as that occasion may be many of the evening clothes suggest the magnificence which june 2nd will typify magnificent nibroidery is utilised by very designcr — on satin on tulle . . poult normal ilartuell is showing a special and separate coronation collection of clothes likely to be worn in w st minster abbey others in clude such models in the gen eral collection but all of tl.i in are suitable for other oc the daughter of mr laurie and mrs sheila pearman sylvia was born in flatts vil lage smith's parish on decem ber 2 1!-'i7 but now resides at north village pembroke she went to the harrngton sound school until september 1951 when she left in the seventh standard for the girls institute dr clark who is also assist ant professor of psychology at city college lambasted the contradictory and sometimes bizarre statements too fre quently handed out by psychia trists psychologists and social workers lie deplored the lack of ability on the part of pro fessional people to communi cate with laymen adding that the treneral public is no longer awed by florid pronouncements masking ignorance with com plicated words and phrases the windswept look is very much in evidence but it is a nicely controlled wind which keeps up the collars of the jackets in the michael at lac hasse collection and forces the ri vers to jut out importantly nearly every house introduces the slim line with fullness con centrated in the centre front both for dresses and skirts but mr michael presents a line which is bound to have great intliience this is shown in the silk suits which he makes with a low-cut neckline and skirts cut without side seams thus giving a flat back aud a for ward sweeping front ; on theses the fitted jackets not only have a line which accents tho padded hips but dip violently at the back variations of these suits are shown with particularly rounded shoulders and worn with long organza boas shaped hats and long gloves — very reminiscent of the first decade of tha century a new neckline on some of his dresses shows a high collar out in front iu a wide shallow curve and forcing the wearer to keep her chin well up while at the back the collar is laid flat the extra income that work ing wives pour into the family bank account is largely dis sipated on substitutes for mothering and high-priced casy-to-cook foods she said family tensions are also ag gravated when wives work and result in divorce finan cial insecurity and child de linquency she said dr alien and 800 other de legates to the forum were re ceived by mrs eisenhower and irs hichard m nixon wife of the vice-president at the white house mrs kae ash ton national president of the legion auxiliary presented to mrs eisenhower a diamond studded auxiliary pin and plnlge of support from the members it wasn't my choice to go to that school the youngster said but having gone there i rather like it the teacher regard her as a most coopera the recorder salutes this am bitious young girl ami wishes her luck in her future endeav ours homemaking almost invari ably suffers if the mother we can m longer substitute impressions for fact dr clark stated we need con centrated social action in order to get facilities which will en able us to get facts about tional problems instead of im pressions only when the public becomes as keenly aware of the tragic waste mental ill moi brings about in our young sters as they are of similar waste in polio ami physical ill nesses will such medical re search be possible he stressed deeding kaisins and bag puddings woman sheds revised bible's critics assailed by methodist i .. i ns bl lardy amies has regal dresses both kort and full length of pure silk english brocade and silk satin with white and gold rayon nottingham lace re-em broidered with chenille john cavanagh introduces white ostrich feathers on stoics to be worn with brocade gown and embroiders a white organdie gown with feathers and rhine 100 lbs in year wins reducing a popular theme of mine has been the lack of smell iu a modern grocery store i re gret the package era wheu everything smells alike — a perfect blank that locked-iu goodness is a wonderful thing 1 suppose but to anyone who can remember how the old vil lage store commingled the fla vours of the world in one arti culate aroma the lack of smells today is probably a dubious improvement you might as well have no argosies today for all your nose gets of the world's assembled goodies tight package making the pudding was almost a problem iu trigonometry and the chance for error was great later when we cut the pud ding somebody always say_s what a shame and after the pieces have been distri buted around the table some body always tastes the pudding and says not fit to eat out of this mother gets her quota of compliments iu due time and protests overmuch that she doesn't think really the pudding is as good as common and this year during the ritual my sister edged in to volunteer wistfully that well led the raisins championship bishop martin at missions session lays attacks , to ciucago jan 30 — mrs margaret schmidt thirty-eight of milwaukee who shed 100 pounds in twelve months wm crowned today as the champion woman weight loser in 1952 religious racketeering stones bock hill falls pa feb 1 — methodist bishop william c martin of dallas tex newly elected president of the national council of the churches of christ in the u.s.a said recently he has received hundreds of letters criticizing the new revised standard ver sion of the bible and that many of the letters were the result of religious racketeer gems of thought coronation mrs schmidt mother of two sons has come down from 271 to 171 pounds since jan 30 1 !..">_., aud is aiming for a weight of 120 pounds within nioiithsb oreatness broadcasts only those men and women gain greatness who gain them selves in a complete subordi nation of self here as in other houses the redingote eoat is important in soft wool in crisp cotton in crisper wild silk never theless the full tent coat holds its own although its fullm ss has shifted rather to the sides buyers were interested in digby morton's slip dress — a single outfit that can be worn from morning to midnight and would pr o v e ideal travel clothes this is a topless slim dress often in fine suiting which is worn under a bolero blouse and fitting jacket an other variation hides the top less dress under a new type of stole with sleeves and pockets the bbc has now announced its provisional plans for the sound and television coverage of the coronation of her majesty queen elizabeth ii on june 2 so our family assembled for the holiday touched on this iu a round-about fashion as we dallied at the table after de molishing mother's bag pud ding it all started when my sister now a comely matron with her four children inter cepted some of the acclaim that was being heaped upon mother for the excellence of her pudding it's a ritual sort of with our family and the occasional visitor who eats christmas dinner with us thinks we have a left-handed way of saluting the cook mary baker eddy a really great man is known by three signs — generosity in the design humanity in the exe cution moderation in success — bismarck the contest was conducted aiiuoug the 2,500 members of a national organization known as tops which stands for taking off pounds scientifically dele gates held their annual meeting today at headquarters of the american medical association i don't know just how far back she reaches for that one the implication was that she should share in the glory be cause she had performed too a sister-in-law chimed in ing bishop martin who is at teukling the methodist board of mission sessions as a delegate said individuals ppcrating all over the country have been exploiting criticisms of the sound coverage on a s.-ale similar to that given to the coronation of the late king george vi in 1937 will be in operation but television cover age for his daughter's coro nation will be much greater with sixteen or seventeen tele vision cameras in use tha home sound prpgrannne will be broadcast simultaneously to commonwealth countries brit ish forces overseas ships at sea and english-speaking lis teners throughput the world and the team of commentators will include commonwealth re presentatives differences in time will not always allow for the sound transmissions overseas to be broadcast direct and some will be recorded for use later in the dav during the next twelve hewn the bbc's general over seas service will broadcast edited programmes in english containing records of the day's mos historic moments the normal evening transmissions of the external services mw include recordings of the morn ing ceremony descrptions of ing ceremony descriptions of the celebrations in london that night and interviews with well known visitors from many he is not great who is not greatly rood ditl you keep w hustling 1 mother said i couldn't whistle when i was a girl so they al ways set me where they eould watch me and then a grand ml asked what are you talking about shakespeare second place was won by miss irene l.epka thirty-one of milwaukee who lost 9\\'-z pounds to reach 171 the third place winner was mrs audrey schmidt thirty of milwaukee who shed 84 pounds to reach 90 great men are they who see tbat spiritual is stronger than any material fovce that thoughts rule the world continued on page 5 following this kind of diet — emerson breakfast — a half-orange sometimes a soft-boiled egg black coffee no sugar an interesting jacket shown in the peter russell collection is a foil to his usual classic style this is influenced by the tyrolean jerkin aud has front well tin whole thing may be loosely construed but it seems to me the general pic tun looks good if you stand back far enough there ia something nice about the eco nomy s d convenience aud orderliness we've put into our i s by keeping pace with im provements a package of seeded raisins all ready to stir in makes a good pudding too there is also something rich and rewarding about the inind's-ey picture of a pig tailed mivs her christmas dreaa nothing can be truly great which is not right it always starts when she rolls the imdding from the bag and it settles in a steaming cloud on the ironstone platter oh dear says somebody making as if a major catas trophe had just settled over mankind in general you'd think after 47 family christ niases that mother would get wise to our ways but she never has and she recoils iu alarm at this and assumes that some thing ails the pudding what's the matter she always says — johnson diet under doctor's care luncheon — small serving of plain lettuce small serving of vegetable three ounces of haii meat black coffee no club members lose weight by dieting under a physician's supervision they hold their national contest each year mrs schmidt the winner was happy to trim down her figure but said dieting is still as diffi cult as it was when she began how is it done sensibly by no man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life be longs to his race and that what qod gives him he gives him for mankind dinner — small scrying of dry cottage cheese plain lettuce slice of sausage or lean meat half-grapefruit or raw apple black coffee no sugar sugar brooke bond tea b economical — phillips brooks also be added to direct tele vision transmissions if it proves possible for the picture to be received on a crobs-channel link the procession and thotee parts of the coronation service that are televised will be re corded on film and so it is hoped made available within a few hours to viewers in west ern europe canada and the i'nited states the sword of truth then naturally we all act as if the trouble was so obvi ous that any dunce could see it a mile away and about then mother catches ou and sa\s oh get along with you ..." and the family joke is once more history the pud ding of course is bigger and better a 11 i gorgeoiiser than ever before and sh never tunnd out a poor one yet but she always has this negative if not pessimistic approach to the job and she alwa\s makes the pudding as if she expected to spoil it somehow forget an ingredient ma if lt all goes back to the early beginnings of such puddings when the ingredients were picked up pound by pound and there wasn't a bit of it came in a handy ( nomy-size air continued on page 4 o great lord with thy sword of shielding truth pierce through the heart of recreant youth let them honour their gift of life aud cud this wide curse of war and strife l tk^l to achieve world broadeast ! ing coverage on this vast scale a total of two hundred and fifty bbc engineers will man ■ the various outside broad casting points for its ownlan ! gua.gc service as well as for visiting broadcasters for whom the bbc is providing special facilities some eighty com imcntary points will be install ■ td along the professional , route and a temporary sound control room will be established inear westminster abbey let us no die for liberty as our forefathers of old for dead men have no power — for it — let us live and act in truth in this the world's most darkened hour humphrey witch hazil countries when overwork or over-emer eise leaves your muscle ch ine m^ukc them with refresh swltoi ha/el you'll find it htaaaja wemmmw wwm from simple neuralgic paint ioo buy • boiile of f=^2 marvelous hum some two hundred and fifty ( commentators and observ rs will describe the occasion to » world-wide audience and in ad dition to the broadcasts in english accounts of the corona tion ceremony will be broad cast in all the forty-one lan guages used in the bbc's ex ternal services arise ari*:e hear this cry of life divine spirit is stronger than war a power that is the towering strength like the world lias ne'er shown before u r btsth$fpwr the greatest progress of time must now be fought — not on fields of battle but on field of thought the grand victories of the future will be won through knowledge gained not the booming gun phreys witch hazel todiy nd keep it handy in \ onr home oininentaries in french and other european languages may