THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1951.
WOMANSENSE
MARG
SEAT IN THOROUGHLY A WELL WHISKED EGG, BY DEGREES
AND Í CIZ CURRANTS
MIXTO WITH POR GROUND RICE,
LIGHTLY
AND
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• JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Play Out Your Hand Before Boasting
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MAKING JAMA TARTS, MUMP
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ADD A FEW DROPS ALMOND
Anne Edwards SAMPLES LIFE ON PRINCESS MARGARET'S SPENDING MONEY··
and finds the difference between a 1937 promise and a 1951 payment
£6,000 MISS
1937 You had
your car-AND
the champagne
YOU'RE & single girl
with £0,000 a year of own. The year is
your 1937..
It is the year of the Corana- tion, the year of the Paris Ex- hibition, and the news about in- come tax is bad. It is going up from 48. d. to 55. in the £..
£6,000 all you
And of that
have left to spend is £4,280.
#You
can buy your
nut sthi... Your car: self the most luxurious and
latest Jaguar model for £383, and that still leaves you more
to
устаре
than £70 a week
along on.
Your flat enn be the most comfortably modem in o West A End block for £0 a week. Arst-clars West End firm of decorators will do li up for you rouin, in high style for £20 a You can get an excellent cur- pet for £1 a yard, and an ele gant velvet for your curtains at The ning is Ds. Gd. yard. 25. 94. a yard.
£18 A Suit : YOUR dresses and hats put you among the world's best dressed. The
man who years later is to make Princess' Mar- garel's clothes charges you £18 for a suit and £30 to £45 for one of these elaborate, embroidered sparkling evening affairs.
And you can afford a dozen new hats a year at five guineas each from a milliner with the royal coat of arms.
And pure silk nightles from Paris, at two guincas each, are your everynight wear.".
Your dinner and cabaret - supposing that you ever paid for it yourself-is 15s. Od. For that you go to the Dorchester dance 2 u.m., ent steuk, ond see a first-rank cabaret.
Afterwards at the night club there is no entrance fee. You buy a 12s. Od.. bottle of gin, have bacon
1oxi and cigs, home, und the whole night But. for two is covered by a fiver.
£70 10s. Cruise
YOUR holidays: You man- age two or three a year in the best hotels. A 10-day cruise- to break the early summer-sels you back 10 gulness for a first- class trip in a Cunard White Star liner.
Your fare to Nice is £11 95. 3d. and you can save on that the
50 percent, reduction offered by French railways.
JANE POWELL
-A 171b. SON
"" a line" meiress":"Jano Powell
has given birth, to a 7th won la Hollywood, He will ghos "named, after his, father, Gitary „Haflon“. Insurance (dgona ana Hormer: Ice skating barter of Bönih, fienféMin Powell and
November 1949;::
· Expreén, Harvies).
THIS IS A BACK-DATE-
Bonja Henlema slippèse from a 1932 par forserkwhich reported thanaation ki That this autory from het te doen (INS have opel Hip Plante = di KUIN which
141 soray at ourale orhide marsund that low abe pas daring £6.00 for an HOUR in lociskstas.
Your notes to friends come on the from swagger hotels
£2 Continent where you pay or £3 a day.
If you fly over to Paris and stay at the Ritz for, the week end the bill is £5.
Paris reporter.
1951 You have your car-OR
the champagne
YOU'RE a aingle girl with £6,000 a year of your own.
YOU'RE
then you pay, dearly for drinks in rounds from 4s. 63, each.
£148 Cruise
YOUR holidays-That cruise ls £140 for 20 days, Your fare to Nice-supposing you can afford to go £24 11, 94.
If you fly over to Paris, the return fare is £14 89. Gd. At the Aliz a single room and bath is
£20 per day.
ST
You can't go to Russla any It is the The year is 1951.
more, but you can get to America year of Princess Margaret's
dore, touris class, £110). (return twenty-first birthday, the year
And
for. those three of the South Bank Exhibition, emblems of wealth-the mink is and the news about income tax £2,500, the champagne is 30s. a
Is 255. is, once again, bad.
bottle, and the orchid So
feel, that in bad,
some
And the Princess used her people wander why the Govern first year's allowance on just thre: things--why, the mint makes any fuss at all about those wvoting the younger Princess Gavernment would have half of £6,000 a year since £8,000 of her spending money back again. it can go back in tax anyway.
the modern £0,000
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So you, Miss, have exactly £2,000 left to spend (unless, like the Princess, your job entitles you to some tax-free expense allowance).
Your car-if you still fancy that Jaguar it will more than cut your year's net income in half;'
£1,538 is the price.
And that leaves, you £22 week to gel along on....
£70 A Suit
YOUR dat—if it is in Mayfair and the kind they call luxury will be a two-roomer at £8
will
week. A first-class firm
(London Express Service).
Lavender cotton frock.
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE TAFFETA weave cotton in a delicate lavender shade makes a charming daytime dress, a nice from choice for general wear now on. The bodice is simple, with a rolled collar and short because it pleeves, modish, leaves all the interest and eye̟- appeal for the skirt, Triple lace bands of matching cotton.
Another Switch dress up the skirt, with neat,
In Furniture
Design
Another switch in design is tho console-type chest that opens from the front to disclose solid cedar-lined aeries of
located drawers. A drawer is in the top of the chest.
Cedar chest designers have also done a swell job of fitting
Your dresses and bats you / we tables
they EZTVO 01
vertical pin-tucking on all but the bottom fange.
Stimulating
Hair Growth
There were many arguments as to the effect frequent cutting would have on the growth. •
It is believed by some hair specialists that trimming may aid the rapidity or the growth the chest beautifully into
any to a certain extent. Certainly decorate it for £35 a room. The room, even the most formal of the short-haired girl who has to have permanents knows only too Dinner at the British pavil- velvet that Miss 1997 bought for living rooms. Chair high chosis
99. Ud. is now 40s. a yard; the make ideal window or dressing well that the two inch, cut lion in the Paris Exhibition is
They also fit well into becomes a four inch length in 10s, and includes smoked sal- lining is 8s, 9d. The carpets that seats. mon, cold lamb and salad, frult were £1 are now, £2 6s. yard. foyers where
almost no ume at all, and 'she 13 well ре ple, with lager (and big help-
Of course the good old must toddle to the beauty shop for another waving session. ings), says the Daily Express go to the Princess's dressmaker traditional chests, double smart-
a small fortune each: ly as buffets or servers, while The average growth is six inches You can even visit 'Soviet cost you
now a year, console-type chest £70 for a sult shỏ up to £150 the
the Russia-10 days for 40 guineas. for a dress,
The sensible conclusion is that Hats?Ten to 20 serves a new function ns. If you want those three tradi-
Silk nighties are location for the family televi- long and short hair will survive. tonal emblems
wealth: the guineas each.
sion set of the table type. slay in normal condition if it £500,
the 12 12s.
All in all, it's a bright out- recelves proper care. There look for safe storage that is should be a weekly or fortnight- the 400 according to boot, and with ly shampoo footing handsome to
growth, whether summer weddings mid to be condition of the growth more numerous than ever, sucht is dry or oily. A nightly a chest offers about as sensible brushing is a wonderful stimu-
place,
mink costs you champagne 08. orchid 39. Od.
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bottle, the
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that And with all
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Your dinner and onbaret-sill supposing that you are the the bill-is 30s, baste charge. If world outside, Parliament you are well enough known to agreed to allow Princess Mar- get a steak-that will be an extra garet £6,000, a year but not. 10s, cach. The night club lakes and handsome" a gift as any lant and nothing will take-its- until 4051.
£1 off you for each visitor and bride could desire.
GIRLS MAGAZINE
BOYS' AND
AND GIRLS?
A Visit to Alfred the Mouse
-His Tin Can of a House Was a Little Bit Rusty-
By MAX TRELL
was a
wonderfully con- venient thing that Knarf and Hanid. the
tween a thistle and a netție, Alfred himself was sitting on a front
little bench outside his door smoking
a. pipe, "De- shadow lighted to see you, friends," he
children with the turned-about sald. "Well, what do you think
names, could make themselves of it?"
small because they could nover have
visited thele
Alfred otherwise,
the He pointed proudly to friend
house with the stem of hig
Alfred, as it happened, was pipe.
Alfred, as it
a mouse. And
also happened, lived in an old. empty in can that someone
"It's lovely," tid. Hanid. "A bit rusty here and there,"
had th. own in among the thick said Alfred in a tone of voice
weeds that grow at the
of the ditch.
toni who only a lin
of a
proudhouse,
bol
con
but Alfred was as
It as if it were palace. "It's the finest
that this that meant
hardly mattered, "I'll give it a coat of paint as soon as the ther turns cool again."
wen-
Knart meanwhile was walk- house ing round and round the house,
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By OSWALD JACOBY THE perfect bridge player
never crows about his ne plays. The rest of us poor human beings do lots of crow- ing, but it's only good sense to wait until the end of a hand to pat yourself on the back. the West learned this lesson hard way in today's hand.
#
West opened the five of spades, and that sull was continued unul Bouth had to take his ace on the third round. Bauth-then led the three of clubs, intending to fineme dummy's nine.
If South had been permitted to make this play everything onese would have been fine for him. would lose, of course, but dummy would be ready to win four club nicks. Those wouhl be enough for game when added to South's five top cards in the other suite.
As it happened, South was not allowed to aneme the nine of clubs. Went very correctly put up his Jack of clubs ai 10075 25 South led the sult.
Now South was on the horns of
■ dilemma. If he let West hold the trick, the rest of the sosdes would be taken to set the contract. If ho trick in dimmy. won the first club the low clubs would be Worthless unless the sult luckily happened to break 3-3,
Declarer thoughtfully won the trick in dummy with the queen of elube and cashed the ace of clubs He 10 see the ten would fall. was 'about to cash the king of clubs also when West spoke up.
"Wotta play, wolta man," chortled Well. "If Td played the low club first you'd have had four club tricks, Now you've got only three."
"You don't say." South comTM Instantly He mented quietar." changed his mind about lending the king of clubs. Instead he cathed the four top cards in the red suits. When West dropped the jack of hearts, South guessed the distribu Won. He led a third round of hearts, giving the lead to East.
At this point East could" cushi·his remaining heart but then had to lend club. up to dimmy's king nins. Hence, declarer managed to ful his contract by winning four club tricks.
· KOSTORE PRESS REÁVÍCE, ING.
"She wants me to give up-golf! Says the fresh air. and sunshine isn't doing me, any good!",
BY
by
UE substitution
men for
THE WAY
Beachcomber
of two feel sleepy that he burst his braces.
The second mon
complained that a racehorse, an: before being doped, h friend had
got lot of hay in his mouls wh Asked what had become of the tail
boy forged the "horse" to eat,
unusual form of "ringing" is to be inquired into. Foul play was suspected when, in the Dungeness. Cup, pair of braces fell to the ground, and the front part of the favourite supposed began to waddle.
the second man said that he had cut it oft as a souvenir for a girl he had met at Bogner. When the first man
came to he thought he was stil to be a hores, and ba
lashed out angrily - with his right
It was discovered that the "horse" · "fool, and caught a steward a crack had been doped and the front part on the mazzard.
a longshoreman on leave, had got Borax" explains the dope. While struggling to free, himself from the "horse he lost his
braces, and his breeches,
falling
over his feat, impeded him. The rear
· part, în trying to retrieve the aliua- tion, got his foot. In die breeches, and the whole horse collapsed, half, way down the coures. Omeals were quickly on the spot, and the "horse was diaqualfiled."
Preliminary inquiry
BA famous wax says:
for his mili writings during the last Nobody can understand the fight- tng in Korea unless he reallads that where there are no roads, mechani eal petransport becomes a major problem. The speed of convoys de perida, to a 'pertain extent), on the dagree of mobility, posible-in, the-- circumstances. That, da to. may, that, other things being equal, gród, dry AT the preliminary inquiry
doped man was too dazed ta roads are an assol. No torda," of say anything, His confederate told impassable reads, are, conversely, a long story about a gong which disadvantage cumulative in its effect; offered a sum of money and put the The use of the air for supply 1 two of them inside a pantomime horse, conditioned by distance, wegiler, and But on the way to the courm a rival the nature of the terrain. These ara A gang tot into the horse-box, and did lessons which must be learned. the doping. The man in front got it bad road in better than no road, but all, and it was when he began to a good road la best of the three,
the
YOUR BIRTHDAY........BY STELLA
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3
BORN today, you are one of these energy which could be far better frank, outspoken individuals who spent. Also beware of • criticising. says what you think without much without making suggestions for de....... reservation. However, you have finite improvement. That is more great charm and no matter what you true of 'you of the fair sex,”. Don'T say--or how critica)=11- to, umakay “be = faultinder.. accepted in good spirit. Actually. and thoro your advice. excellent who follow it are likely to beneft greatly.
You have a gift for argument and debate. You know how to present facts fully and swing others over to your side of a, question. You would probably make' è fine public lecturer or court lawyer. Whatever alćo you were on would be very likely-to, win
You have good, judgment but are
▼ CARD Senses apt to be worne •You are
Q-The bidding has been: North Eart South
1 Heart Pam
1 Spade
ANT Pass
3 Hearts' Pan
West* Pass
3 Diamondu - Pass
? You, South, hold: Spades A-J- 10-6-3, Hearts 7-6, Diamonds A
J-4-2 Club 9. What do you do? A-Bid threa spades. You cannot with your afford to raise · hearis doubleton, especially sines North didn't think enough of the vult to `rabid 1), earlier. Your best det is to rebld the spades and await develop- menta.
TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding has been: North
Best Bouth
West Pass 3 Diamonds Pass
1 Kent Pa 1 Spsde .1 N.T.
Pass
4 Spades Pass
You,
Rupert and Simon-
23
Simon stands up stiffly and begins 'to dust himself, "Come on, I suppose, we'd better get on with carrying the logs.", ha sigha. - Hew", ing to answer he turns in time to a Rupert stoop and pick some thing up out of the powder and
ALL RIGHTS
inside a tin can, they
in the neighbourhood - really gazing Inlently at, some paper
getting elegant," Alfred told Kaare and pasted on it. The paper Wis
and gold and red. "AhI know squeezed through.
Hanid. "You must come
Knarf and Hanid decided
drop into Alfred's new
and pay.
•
On a Banch
him, a vlalt.
to doing.
house
splinters of the decayed trunk. The little bear tires at it. polishes it on his sleeve, stares at it again and then rushes across to Simon, Just look what I've found 1” he shoutE
Right Among the rubbish of that old hollow tree. It's a gold locker and a chain la ie yours?” AZSERVED
they all sat ...and then around eating and talking, --
"Now some of my friends see it sometime." So this be you'd notice my beautiful out- "Lovely. Alfred—It's lovely,"
a, bouse like Ing a day when they were side wallpaper, " * gnid Alfred Hanid said, standing up at wouldn't do near the weed-filled ditch, on noticing what Knarf was lost inside
the tin can and this." They prefer to dive in holes in the cellar. But I like looking around.
my own private house. Ini. Something's printed on 14.
Round Room
only, atraid of one thing.","
“asided said Knart, --
Knarf and Hanid They found the tIn
"Certainly," said Alfred. "It It really was very prottily Alfred what he was afriad of.
PEACHES. arranged. STEWED standing almost upright be- That's the name of my house, big sound room
There was Just ODE "I'm afrakt dhat the persON with a high has lost this can of STEWED Cute, Isn't it?!?!
ceiling, and curved, whining PSACHES is going to find It Knart and Honid both agreed walls. There were two tid one of those days and "fake St that STEWED PEACHES was a windows with curtains in away. That would be a terrible, very cute name: for a house. front of them and little flower thing for me I'd be home- And now you must come pot with tiny, moss flowers less, Where would I ever and
sald Alfred: There growing in, them standing on another house like this
Alfred, the ; mTRANY)
can
says
squeezed right: sy bed was ''round,
1
You have a sharp tongue and s esustle wit. You make Ertanda onally.. but are apt to lose a few because, of your qualek. tongue, and hight temper.
Ardent emailonally, you need thej affection and devotion of a mate
your! who thoroughly, understands rather mercurial, temperament". Unless you are careful, in your welgen. tion." there can be considerable marital disagreement.
To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, slect your birthday always crossing bridges before you stor and read the "gorresponding come to them. Learns not to do Ikla paragraph, Let your birthday star or you will waste a great, dral of be your daily · guide,
LEO (Jaly
- SATURDAY, AUGUST 4
14.ADE. *:23)-- "AQUARIUS (Jan; R1-Feb, ́19)~* Be careful of being, exploited by. Don't talk about your plans until al someone who is trying to impose the datalls are settled. Better for upon your generous, good nature, you to keep silent today.
VIRGO Aug
(Feb. 24-8ept. 23)
20-Mar. 20) Optimten should be today's keynote. Make sure that you are spending If you can anile, no matter what your hard-earned, "eath for komis „happens, all will turn. out well. -----thing-you-really-want-today.
LIDNA (Boyt 24-Oct 23).**.
PISCES
ARIES
A fine shopping day. You should be New, progremive ideas can infuence able to find exactly what you need. your future. Pay attention to ex Stock up on household supplies,
Scoario (Oct, 24-Nov. 22) elung plans. Put your best foot forward in an Interview. Show your talents to the world. It can get you what you
want now.
Be Spades A-J South, hold: Hearts 7-0. Diamonds A- Q-3-4-5, Club #. What do you do?
10-8-3
Apawer tomorrow.
DUMB-BELLS
IS. SHE THEIR
HOUSE QUEST
OF COURSE:
"THEY COULDN'T LET. HER.
·SLEER IN THE GARAGE
CHESS PROBLEM
1ÐƑ A°F. JANOVCIO Black, 8 pieces.
when:White; 8 places..
who a
a little door at the bottom, the sills, Everything--all the But, Khart and Hanid which someone
had
mado futuro and pictures, and when they opened the can shelves-We round. Even the assured Alfred the mouse that no one votald – ever tolong hils can,"botise, away. They you don't
against
the sides" "Alfred invited Kurt and didn't tell him that the da do sit down at the banhid been thrown 'bwny They're a Hilo Handi,
"Come, thing to can. He took a round: But they sind want to buri
Chiceso out of a round Clip, his fooling dat Beatle waskatt this point that board, bhought out a round "You can live in this house Knart and Hanid had to make. toat of clover seed bread and for years and years, ** Alfred Ahaanbely on
METALI Tinally, a round bail or buttercupe, dede i Himaa, told him. He w tiaving, drawn themselves
Join the cafe
out,” herbànd-table and have some and not lost me, he supposed.] White" to play: inata én iron”
ho
tharp, added
chuckle. squeeze through.
pies for Fujino, fen-gid"; into tUNDA SADE ME that,
86lution to be justerday
BAGITTARIUS“ (Nov. 13-Dec, 22)—
Careful
your valuables. Carelessness today could mean a erious los.. Uwe naution. Avold haste
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 26) Clear up detail work today." "Write those feltern you've been neglecting,
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TAURUS (APC, 21-MAY There will be. some extra work for you to do now. Be efficient and get it done quickly and on time.
GEMINI (May 27-June 21)- A good idea to got some fresh ale and exercise in the country, you can get away for the week-end.
"CANCER (June, 22-July 23 J This is a constructive day.” Maka 8. fresh start on some work you may have been planning for some time.
Check Your
Knowledge
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2. Name the capital Peru,
Who
composed
Tales of Hoffman?
4. When and by whom was the word vitamin coined
5. What mythological characterisatd to have been: the founder of the Olymples? 6. Give another name for
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INTELLIGENCE TEST AMNESIA
By T. OHARE
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