One day she is a sandal-shod schoolgirl, full of adolescent enthusiasms and given to giggling; the next she is a poised young woman with a highly-developed dress-sense and an assured and instinctive understanding of make-up it has taken you half a life-time to acquire. It is surprising that you sometimes gaze at your daughter of yours in goggle--eyed wonder. Because, make no doubt about it, the emergence of this female child from adolescence to womanhood is one of the miracles of nature. Throughout her childhood she has been content to take her time from you, to listen with respect - if not always with acclimation - to the wisdom of your adult experience. Then, suddenly, the picture changes; the order of things is reversed and it is she who takes over the lead, leaving you to pant breathlessly in her steeple-heeled footsteps. Of course, being a kind-hearted and affectionate child, she is careful to conceal this fact from you; and you, being a sensible mum, contrive to preserve the dece