Friday May 4, 1979

QUESTION: How do you make fat people thin and thin people fat?

Answer - hand them over to the costume department of a theatre.

Members of Astwood Bank Group WI learned that at their recent meeting, when guest speaker Mrs Elizabeth A. Harthill gave a talk on theatre slimming techniques - much less painful than excessive dieting and exercise!

Old clothes were given a good airing too, with a demonstration of ladies' underwear of the past 100years and an exhibition of "clothes which grandmother wore" from each institute.

Crabbs Cross put on the best display and were presented with the prize rose bowl by Mrs J. Lennox.

Entertainment and refreshments concluded the evening.