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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURD
1958.
PRACTICAL
How Necessary
Is A Wife
The £35
(right with Paris)
To A Diplomat? wardrobe
HOW essential is a wife
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"You are a great race, but this ambassador? wand Commonwealth deplor
able. Empire is so much better." Victorian protocol demand. He was gilli- expanding............ the departed. After theme of Empire as ed that ho had one, meeting some of London's unmarried ambassadora
am inclined to disagree with Victorian protocol.
I
of
excellency My Arsi bachelor was Mr Assis Chateaubriand, Ambasador Extraordinary Brazil and also one of the world' richest mon, Short, powerfully built, with quick brown eyes and radiating vildilty. Wonderful he opened with: country,
Wonderful, Britain. wonderfull"
But not for long.
We sat down. Mr Chateau- brinad relaxed.
A prooemion of secrciaries carrying piles of mall descended
on the grey-and-white room, and a battery of telephorts began to ring.
HISTORY LESSON
I rang him up next day to mak him about barbelor ambassadors and discovered that he had de- parted for a flying visit to the house as the end of the Copa- cobana bunch.
RESIGNATION
JULIE ANDREWS MODELS IT SPECIALLY FOR WEEKEND ROUNDABOUT
Dresses
MASHION changes dras---not even in the Boy she exclaimed tically--and suddenly a Friend," woman finds she has to re dubiously. With a tiny bar. equip her wardrobe almost high across the vamp and a I tried the Tunisian Ambas completely if she is to keep needle slim very high heel
they sulted hor perfectly ador, Mr. Taleb Slim. He up with Paris, short wiry man with expressive
How much does the opera- hands and a look of pained retion cost? To find out how signation.
To pop under her coat. far sho could go on £35, "About bachelor ambassador Weekend Roundabout took for dashing around in the ..."I began.
Julle Andrews, star of My Spring a cracker-line dress Mr Slim made a gesture. Fair Lady, on West End In bar-lon jersey, immense- shall ask the questions," he said. | shopping trip.
ly wearable and startlingly "And answer them."
.
"Why am I a bachelor?”
.
"I am wholly devoted to my country and to the Nationalist movement. All my life I bave fought for our Independence. Is Excellency divided his at-
"But I ain very sorry 1 have tention 10 ways, "Hero" he rever married. Marriage is one
said, sorting letters and reaching of the world's greatest institu-
She was rather wary at now. It falls in folds from a first of the stark new shapes straight-across neckline to from Paris. "The American a taut cuff at the knees. In girls haven't been so scissor- alabaster jersey it is splash- happy in shortening their ed with a doodle priut in skirts as they have been in coffee. Britain," she said.
But with an ideal model
•
With it: a coffee-coloured figure and a leggy 5ft 7in polished straw with a swoop
cloche in “ head-hugging for lelephones. He was handing tions. Everyone should bo Julie is ideal for the stream- down to one side, a la Boy me a book on the history of married. England.
·
"Z admiro When things quietened down,
I tried again. "Your Excellency. I said. The telephone 12ng "This is hopeless"--an exures sive hand pointed somewhere beyond the room-"we'll go to the Dominican Embasз5,"
went on and probably expand
Hned clothes of today.
the coat of the moment, the day," all women he Straightaway she fell for Friend and absolutely "to-
Trapeze.
ing the idea went on to tell ine that Tunisia was one of the first Moslem countries to outlaw polygamy.
Was the ambassador, And to the Dominican Em- seeking a wife? bussy we went, in a Rolls like a
Mr Slim laughed
arki
then,
saki
Now the hat
and a elim little
purse,
,
For evening
"Don't make me wear a She plumped for a sack: hat-they never suit me." dress with a flattering valsa said Julie. She did auccumb, line. In polished white cot- moderate-sized yathi. The "The debutanies of England however, to a saucy Breton, tou with a sheen of satin it have been warned" And with natural to offset the was printed over with cerise anality. The audience was over, Trapeze coat, in salt-white and black roses.
Dominican Embassy, from the point of view of peace and quiet, proved to be on unicrtunate
choice. A reception of some sort was in progress and in 10 minutes found myself meeting
nine ambassadors.
Mr Chateaubriand made his expressiva gesture again and said: "This is hopeless; you'd better come to lunch tomorrow.”
Launch in the marbled magnif- cence of the Embassy residence proved more in Mount Street restful, but not much more pro- ducive of views on the bache- lor plate of ambassadors.
TAXI TO BRAZIL
Would you like to see my house in Rib?" he asked sud- denly.
I expected a photograph. In slead I found myscit heading again for the Rolls.
My God, I thought, now we're going to Brazil!
But no. His Excellency's Rio establishment, it transpired, was included in the current Cinerama programme.
In the cinema Mr Chateau- brland tell silent, I gathered he had seen the programme before Finally, "There it is, the one at the end of the Copacabana beach."
that he made a gesture of
Mr Slim, at his home in Bal-polished straw banded with newly short skirt. gravia, has created a little cor-mink-toned petersham. fer of his native land. There, host and quest find it quite nas fural to sit cross-legged on the floor.
MOTHER'S BISCUITS
He often works all through the night, nibbling home made bis- calts sent him from Tunisia by his mother,
For recreation he plays a reed pipe expertly.
If these two are representa
describe ilve, would not bachelor ambassadors, as exactly gay. But great charm, dignity and wit they both have. In both men, power and poilties take precedence over passion,^.
Di
Birgi With Mr Nurl Turkey, you can add porcelain to the power ami politics... love my Chinese perosis.in," says Mr Birgl. "It remains the Farne at night and in the morning. It keeps its beauty always. It remains silent and it grows more valuable,”
'Maybe there's a clue there for any girl who aspires to reduce
number ambassadors.
His Excellency then appeared the to go to sleep.
Later we were back in the Rolls and he was bifiding mo goodbye.
SHELL?
bachelor
By Pamala Hampshire' =={London Ezprawn duveice).
Shoes
It has a
. Her reaction to her new and Paris inspired ward- robe: "Whew, I'd never have
Julie slid into a really been so adventurous if I spiky-toed pair of blonde were shopping along leather courts. "I've never worn auch spiky toes before
–By JANE BACON
For daytime
Bon-loa jersey
dress with the crocker line.
For cocktail time Julie years her
rese-printed "sock.”
HOMECRAFT
JULIE IN HER TRAPEZE COAT.
PICTURES BY JOHN FRENCH,
WHERE THE MONEY GOES
Sackline cocktail dress Blonde court shoes White leather purse Shortie nylon gloves
Trapeze cont
White Breton
Beige purse
5
3 9 6
Boige anvelope bag
Ban-ion day dress
Coffee cloche
6
One pair “condla glow" stockings
11 0
#35 0 0
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Let's Eat
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Salad And Sandwiches For Good Sunday Supper
supper
Whipped
WHETHER Sunday when Acorn done with Sauerkraut
Baked Applesauce Ginger Cup Cakes Coffee Tea Milk All measurements are levels recipes proportioned to serve 4 to 8
Acorn Squash with Sader. krants Wash" and modifuzniech
- seora : aquash.
Scrape out seeds and stringy portions.
vidwing - television or whether it's a light meal at the table, salad and sandwiches are a per- fect main course. And now is good time to feature pears
"Pear-Baladı Wash and peo) 3 Bartlett or winter pears. Cut in halves; remove the cores,
Slice a small honeydew melon crosswise and remove the seeds und rind. Escallop the edge of the | melan slices if desired,
Arrango salad greens slightly off centre on a salad plate. On
green pepper; add the sauer- them, arrange a melon alice, Top · kraul. and spoon
Into the with a pear half, cut side up. Fill equash shells. Tap oach with the core cavity with partly do thep. grated cheese.
Drain 2 saucekraut,
Melt. 11⁄2 tbsp, butter or mar- garine in a frying pan; thit saute à tap cach calon and
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Ham and cream cheese sandwiches accompany a Sunday supper salad made with a slice of melon, a pour hair and raspberries,
frosted frozen berries of any kind or with poodless green grapes. Arrange accompanying sandwiches on the plate..
Foss sour cream dressing.
Sour Cream Fruit Salad Dreza- ing: Info 1 c. commercial sour cream beat 4 tbsp. lemon juice, 1 tbsp. honey and a few gralna BOIL.
"If the hostem prefors to serv at the table," observed the Chef, "I suggest a first course of hot soup, such as chicken bouillon or hemp bisque with Melba toast pear and sandwiches would follow and dessert might be a fine ciocolate ico cake, with coffee or tea."
Monday-Dianer ·
Cream of Green Pea Soup Celery
Radishes Broiled Pork Chops
Place In a baking pan. Four in water 14" deep. Bake 1 hr. in a moderate oven, 330. For und the squash shells aró.
ro Lock lender,"
The Chef Brolis Pork Chops
These should be thoroughly cooked.
Choose or & first quality pork chops sliced 14" thick, The meat should look white and clear. Trim off excess fat. Brush the chops with Trench dressing; dust with salt, pepper. and a little monosodium gluta.. mate.
Place in a pre-heated birdiler 4" from the heating unit; slow. brol about 12 min, or infl browned on one side. Then broll the other side.
Broj about 25 min, altogether or until all trace of pink Colour has disappeared when a cut is made next to the bone."
I Ask You: £5 A Term For The Fruit Juice!
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