Flattering Classic
Pleated frock of red.
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE
HERE
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1951.
WOMANSENSE
CUCUMBER
SAUCE "FOR · FISH"
CUCUMBER GOES NICELY
WITH FISH, DEAR - HERS ARE 2 SAUCES
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THAT'S ALL!
Singapore Heiress Takes A Sober View Of Malaya
LONDON.
SINGAPORE heiress Miss Kitty Meyer, visiting London -recently takes a sober view of Malaya. In her opinion the troubles there are likely to be protracted. She be- |lieves European women should leave the peninsula unless
There is some pressing reason for remaining.
"Many women sleep with revolvers under their pillows," she said. In the rioting last year. Miss Meyer could not reach her home four miles out of town and had to take refuge in a flat.
The Meyers were among the merchant founders of Malaya. Miss Kitty Meyer is the only child of the late Mr Jack Meyer. He was among the colony's wealthler men.
But the old families have ull their wealth tied up in Malaya. is a dress calculated So Miss Meyer, now in her late
Tu score no matter where, notwenties, has no intention of
matter the storeti,
what
which is leaving.
-ong expects of a classic now. model, The froek is of light
rel fine rayan crepe and is permanently picated from top
Her mother is there
in
Miss Kilty Meyer, Singapore heiras, visiting London recently was photographed tu ker Grax- rener Hue suito, Her elparette Tighter is a future telephone,
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ADD 1/2 PINT WHITE SAUCE. SALT, PEPPER, 'NUTMEG AND
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Home Smock-Flattering and. Practical
IF YOU work at art or writing. or if you like to be informal at home, but not in negligee, try a smock such as shown. It's Australia as the Japanese enter-easy to make, to wear and to ed Singapore. She had no in- launder. It's also easy on your come, and she quickly got a job purse because you can make it out of 2li, yds, of batiste or cot- In her Grosvenor House suite tan challis.- Miss Meyer has some odd
to hem. It has a simple, round
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are the rich men neckline and short sleeves, The Stgapore today? Not the Euro- unly relief is in the black surde peans," said Miss Meyer, Tower- cantour belt with a rhinestone ing over them in wealth re buckle,
the Chinese. And if Europeans have to sell out their property,
ily the Chinese can buy.
What about
the European families who lived in splendour It is always best to have before, the war? They have re- sitk
prints dry-cleaned if you trenel. Those who had 20 are not sure they are colour. Servants now get along with fast. Once the dye has run inin. three or four, Big houses are the silk, there is nothing that given up in favour of flats in souvenirs. She collects curious- will remove it,
Household Hints
Select a dress for hot worl; that allows plenty of freedom for reaching and stooping art; Ja easy to wrth and iron.
the
Bed pillows may be washed without removing the feathers. Rip an opening about six inches long in both ends to all
allow air to circulate: otherwise the pillows will flout, Pin the openings together with safety pins, so you won't Jose the feathers, and wash in luke- warm suds.
When drying, shake well to restore the dut ness to the feathers.
BOYS'
town.
Miss Meyer worked hard for her living during the war. With her another she was evacuated to
as secretary.
ly shaped table lighters. One is miniature typewriter. Another a tiny telephone.
THE HIP
--[London Express Serolev.)
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A Flying Wardrobe in black linen has a classic suit, jac- ket. large evening skirt, sunlop, loose shirt which can be worn in or out, briefs and bra., and short top coat.
Ballerina-length dance dresses with stoles. in waffle pique, pack beautifully, and to give the appearance of full petticoats beneath you can buy a Tiny whale-bone hip cage which clips round the waist.
Make it of taffeta if you want it dress-up, or rafon sheer if you want it cool for summer. It makes an attractive maternity smock, 100.
Fabric for Steaves
Take 2 yds, of 42 fabric. Cut or tear off crosswise 2/3 yds. for sleeves. This piece you split in half lengthwise to make two sleeves. From the remain- ing length, tear from each sel- vage a 4 strip and cut the re- maining length in half.
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AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
A Very Exciting Expedition
-General Tin Tells How He Hunted a Dragon-
By MAX TRELL
NCE," said General Tin the tin soldier, "I went hunting for a dragon."
"ONC
Knarf
and Hanid.. the shadow-children with the turned-about names, stared General Tin in amuizement. "A dragon, General?" cried Knari. "You really went hunting for a dragon! Where? When?"
"I hunted for a
August," Goneral Tin saldi, looking
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though
dragons, and even
there tren't
any?
though I
knew that there couldn't pos
sibly be one left."
"It was like this," he sald. "As you know--as everybody knows-I siny awake all night, Awarding this house with my Trusty musket. I stand in tho children's room. I keep out all wild animals like elephants and tigers. People wonder, I pose, why wild animals always keep away from this The reason
is that I'm here. But that's another story -- [ mean, about elephants and tigers.
I don't
suj-
house.
allow
"Well now, little sad as he said this, "evel, dragons into the house, either. Hut I never gave the matler Buch thought on account of there aren't any dragons. Nevertheless, I heard a strange Knart and Hanld were both round and I saw
o strange sight from the window lot the weren't room where I was standing on said guard. It happened in the mid- dle of the night." General Tin lowered, his voice and said in a, "And yet," said Hanid, "you mysterious whisper: "It sound went and hunted for one?" ed and looked Just like a
dragon!"
puzzled at this.
"You knew
there any dragons, General?" Knarf.
They begged General Tin to explain,
Rupert and the Coughdrop-10
you
Outside the house Rupert then, Would you like me to met Mrs Pig. "My Podgy, help you search for him?"
"Oh yes, I wish he's gone." she quavers, "I
would." left him with you. He was
Mrs says
Pir. going to make toffee. Where Meanwhile the litlo dog Is
looks Rupert hey"
Floppy has been behaving astonished. "We did try to in a very odd way, jump- make toffee," he answers, ing up at Rupert and "but it turned out cough anding excitedly. "I won- drops, I left him al your der what he wants me to
He was all right house.
do," mys Rupert.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
mistake. But they couldn't help thinking also that a train and a dragon were very much like. They both puffed and a roared and morted. They were off both long. They both looked It and sounded angry and fero-
General Tin nodded and smiled. "That's what it was, "But how could that be, Knart! It was a railroad train, General Tin?" Hanid demand. I didn't discover that ed.
Inter. It was a train with locomotive running, fan "Yes, it was late at night behind the hills. I know when first heard it the couldn't be a dragon, but on cipus. General continued. "At first ito other hand I couldn't sounded just like a clink-clank- Imagine what else it could be, clink-clank, but very faint and particularly as the next minute far away. Then I heard a logg i saw that it was pulling out toot like too-oo-ot..............' "
smoke and sparks, and snort- ing.
"Do dragons toot?" Knarf Interrupted to ask.
or to join together in a French- seam suck to make two pockets, one for each side of the smock,
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make, first stitch the sleeves, using a French fold seam. Begin 4 of armhole from top. French-seam each side seam of smork, beginning s armhole down from top. Joln steves to the smock, under- arms of sleeve and smock meethig,
using
scams. Gather top of smock and sleeves, using elastic sewing thread in the bobbin, all way around.
Put smock on to see that full- ness is as you want it, Re- member, smock will come to tip of your shoulders and be low because yoke is yet to be added. If gathering line is too full, pin in fullness and then stitch gathers above.first row of shir- ring to amount,
take
up necessary
To Gathered Edgo
Add raw edge of yoke piece to the gathered edge, making seum, Place opening of yoke to come at centre front, as detail A shows, or on left shoulder. Turn selvage edge of yoke piece over to wrong side and make a to run a ribbon to draw up full- *-wide casing through which
ness. (See B.).
If you want a low neck, make yoke shallow, If high, make cus-
ing and top hem less wide. Bot- tom of sleeves (C) are finished same as yoke. They may be any length you desire.
Make a hem in bottom, narrow or wide, according to length you want your smock. Stitch slipstitch this hem to place,
or
Expert's Advice
On Hair
An authority on hair culture offers on Iden. He says that after the shampoo there should be an alternating hot-and-cold rinsing. This treatment brings an extremely strong reaction of the blood streams. It will do all right for straight hair, but cold water should not be used on the permanent; it relaxes the coil quality and ringlets go limp.
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Sacrifice Bids Can Boomerang
By OSWALD JACOBY
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ment, South telt justified in sacrificing at four spades when his opponents bid three no- trump. He was right in sup- posing that Fost would have. made
three no-trump. Sinec that
worth
points, South hoped that he could get away with a loss of only 500 points at four spades.
Was
600
The defenders, who were export- enced tournament players, saw that they had been robbed of a chance In eare G00 points, it would do them little good to collect 500 frem South. Hence they went out to col- lect 700 points,
West began by cooling the king and lack of diamonds. East dis- oarded the deuce of clube on the second round of diamonds. West then fled to the queen of hearts, holling ihe trick. After nome thought, West cardiod
ace of clubs before leading the Jack of hearts.
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The defenders took a club and two tricks in each of the other sults for a total of seven defensive tricks. By setting the contract 700 points they scored a "top,"
Page,
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
TEST Match status for the it is_my_ hitaband's."* **Elvira
104.
cried Bir Barliey. "I never met oyen true," retorted Al wife, "but all the on the nag in" my lifeƒ" ""Thai in same he is your home. Have you forgotten that today in your blitij- day 7 Dandelion was my prepent to you. A surprise I arranged. But pontething went wrong. It cer tainly did." mapped Malpractice,
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pitiful sight," says a writer.
Bashkirs ls my cry, I noticed a letter the other day about cricket as a preventative of war, saying that it is not too late to teach the Russians,
Long as I diagnosed the Russian restlessticks as being caused by Jack of cricket. This in particularly noticeable among the people of the Jaunesse n'a qu'un temps Tundma, But even in the their pitches are primitive. There
"AN elderly bohemian to a are not enough collective rollers to That is true. Bolemia is for the go round. As for Chinese cricket- but that is the British Council's Murder at Muckhurst (X) MALPRACTICE'S voice way smooth but deadly. "Perhaps, Lady Gigglesworth," he said, "you will tell us how you came to know thin horse, Dandelion. You admit to having entered this room to ad- minister poison to rats. Here is a horse, known to you by hame and recognised by you, killed on the same night by this sane rat poison, Yet you say you know nothing of the inaiter," Lady Olgalesworth drew herself up with dignity, "What I trave nald is true," she replied. "I know the horse, but I cannot explain its death. It was not here when I was in the room," "Does the horse belong to you?" "No." "Whore horse is 117" "It la-well.
Young, and Murger understood that when he wrote the cloning wordi of the Scenes de la vie de Bohemie. Let us," says poor Rodolphe "EG dine for 12 sous in our okt relaur- ent in the Rue du Four, where they have the cheap crockery. and where we were so ungry when we had finished our meal. "Not I." crtes Marcel. "I'm quite ready to look back on the old days, but it must be through a glass of good wine, and seated in a comfortable chair. What do you expect? I'm corrupted. I now only -like beat." How sad are those words to the young! How Wine and reasonable to the middle-agedt And I reapm- mend to all who think to recapture the past, the immortal passage in "The Faur Men," where the allor refuses to return to the Irn st Cromber.
YOUR BIRTHDAY·
THURSDAY, MAY 3.1........
the
By STELLA
this,
IF you are born today, diplomacy your own happiness. By nature i ono of your chief talents you are drawn to friendship with ord this, combined with a native members of the opposite, sex, but cleverness and magnetle per wil oflen refuse to admit sonality. maken you an individual even to yourself. of considerable charm, You are highly intiative and know before- and before a friend peaks his mind. This can make for excop- tent happiness in marriage.
Iather conventional in your re- Klous views, yo Sunt Kurd against becoming narrow-minded Dis regard. Stand firmly, by your own convictions-hut permit others to do likewise, Fund of the mya- terious and the occult, you may be inclined toward an ivestigatib of spiritualinn at some period Sta your life.
Many women born on this day who do not wed at an early age will become interested in teichtg or social service. Their natural inatbicts are to help others, but since they are highly they may be too particular when it comes to selecting a marriage pariner, Seeking perfection T othere is a good ideal-but some- thues brings heartbreak or disillu
kor if on Idol's feet prove to be of clay.
And what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select your birthday star and rend the corres
Although you are highly Co- Ilonal, you my never show. 11. suppressing your natural instincts ponding paragraph, Let your birth- to a degree which is harmful to day star be your dally guide.
FRIDAY, JUNE 1
GEMINI (May 22-Juno 22) full advantage of freakm Plan a trip-perfisps an early vaca- worry. tion. The meeting of new acquain- Lances or visiting new scenes cats be stimulating.
CANCER (June 22-July 23)- Make the most of today's sudden Arxi even unexpected changes. They can defnitely Do--for the best.
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23) A delayed
mezage ny change your affatrя and alter previously made plans. Can be for the bat ter. too.
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from SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)— Your personal Ha should be elimulated by new soenen and now friends. Enjoy yourself thoroughly, CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)— Don't let over-enthusiasm
cause you to burden yourself with 'too many activities all at once.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb, 10)- A good day for marriage and to begin the wedding trip., Look for Hard to happiness now
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)- VIRGO
(Aug. 24-Sept. 22) You may meet an exciting naw An unexpected opportunity
may friend on a journey, Romance may beckon. Be prepared to take full be offered, too. Anything can hap- advantage of it to further success. pen.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-0°C
ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 201- Everything looking up these Good fortune may be yours today days. Love, marriage, business and through a new friend or an un- social events all look very pro- expected trip or adventure, _grafskong..
FAURUSLAPE. _Z1-May... „21)--- SCORPIO (Och El-Nov. 22) Marzung hours are bent. They are An interesting romance may be to- full of activity, day's reward. IF vacationing, take comes, you сать
CHESS PROBLEM
By J.'A. SCHIFFMANN Black, 10 pieces.
White, 8 plecés. White to play: mate in three.
Solution to yesterday's Problem
CARD Sense 2, KIXKIP (ch); 1...PXBP) I, PQB4. 1 ...BXP, HKB),
2, RXP (ch).
Q-With neither side vulnerable, you deal yourselfone cardis Spades K-7-3, Hearts Q-10-4, Din- monda A-Q-8-3, Clubs A-2. What do you do?
All one no-trump, Your hand I as ace and queen better than average (an average hand contains ano.ace, ono kink, one, queen, ore. jack, and one ten), so you have the' proper strength. The five-card suit is an asset, so don't let it dissuadé you from bidding no-trump,
TODAY'S QUESTION
With neither side vulnerable, you deal yourself these cards: Spades K-Q-J Hearts A-0-3, Diamonds A- 10-4, Clubs A-J-0-2, What do you
do?
Answer Tomorrow
When afternoon
rent
BARBS
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little.
By HAL COCHRAN THE easiest things to get and the hardest to get rid of are
THE
a sour disposition and a bad re- putation,
If the shortage of metal af-... fects coat hangers, thoughtful husbands can continue to toss their coats over the backs of
chairs.
You don't realise how foolish you are to stay up all night
Check Your until it dawns on you. Knowledge
1. Where is the Horn?
2. What people are named "blue noses"?
Three valuable cats
were
Golden stolen from a New York apart- ment - coming under the bead
nick- of a feliny.
3. Name a bird which can for- fly backward as well as ward.
4. What is a muezzin?
5.
CROSSWORD
Name the ex-vice-presi- dent of the United States who
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6. What is a cured herring, called?
lather quickly should be avoided. POCKET CARTOON died recently.
liquid
soap or shampoo cream should be used. TO pass a bar of soap over the head means
no
that particles will cling 00 closely to the shafts that amount of rinsing will remove them. There never was a time when a woman had so wide a choled among reliable shampoo mediums.
Hair, Excrcito Brushing the hair exercises it in a way and massage of the scalp hustles up the blood "The only real difference." streams upon which the allicy cald General Tin, "between Д threads live And thrive. dragon and a railroad train, is Beauticians say that most of that a train is useful and n their patrons never use a brush, dragon is—well, a dragon isn't fearing it will weaken the useful to anyone but himself. permanent WAFC, which
IN Hunt It Down
A train carries people from nonactive. Brushing makes the place to place. A dragon only undulations more fuld and gen- "Dragons," said General Tin, "So I decided "can do anything, I mean, they down and chase
to hunt it stamps around looking for crally attractive. it away. I something to eat.” can do anything if there really loaded my musket and ran out
Hair is benefited by ventila- were any dragons, which there to the hill at once. And it was dragon is. in a story book," said an evening alone at home, run "I think the best place for ano, give your hair the air. now and then. When you havo aren't. This one tooled."
only then-only when I reach Hand. And General The said your fingers through your tresses "Railroad trains also tooted the tracks that I saw it That's absolutely right. imtil they fairly mand of end. cald ICharf. "And they also go was a train.” ...'.
Dragons are fun to read about, They'll like the change from the cilak-clank-elink-clank when Knarf and Hanid couldn't but not to meet, about." Then ever-present General TEA #aw w strange sight, the wheels go on the tracks." help laughing at General Tiny He smiled.
plastered-down
"You'll be glad of IP, when we
thu Rest-and-be-
Thankful!"
(Answers on Page 10)
INTELLIGENCE TEST
SPORTS CLUB
-By-T. O. HARE LAXBURY has one of the largoat of sports clube. founded many Joara não to encoungs, the local football
A and ericket tears. Originally mil its members played at lon one of those, zamm, but, a number; +of• • non-pisying members have recently been mimited.
A recent "census," under- taken by the secretary, showed that 40 per cent of the mem hers played artcket: that 38 per cent played soccer and that 23 per cent played russer. One orloketer innrein s ruggar player; and one-third of the erlakebers who don' play rugger play soccer,"
The non-playing•, mémbers number 620,
How many members af, the. stub are there who piny feet» ball: but not usioket?
(Solution' on Page 10)-
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13. Weapon, boy, and bird Included.
(B)
18, Longing, (9)
16. Some other 17 Across; (3)
17. Bee 10 Across. (4)
10. Shortly embodied in the 17.3.4. 19, Game, (4) 29. domperod in on KILES
dransdiars. (0) -
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1. Usually on sideboard or tubig, (W)
The power that rules.
Announces friends, (un (#), You don't do this, as aHOORST, Delighted to put it mildly,
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