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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1950.
PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
The Super-Bed
THE ELECTRONIC ROAD TO RITZY RELAXATION-
YOU GET IT ALL AT THE TOUCH OF A BUTTON...
and What Else?
Read
On...
INTRODUCING the bed - a
INTE
machine for living in. Tho bed that leaves all other beda looking like mere sleeping ap- paratus. The Cadillac of slum- berware.
This bed, which is almost an office and drawing room into the barghin, made its bow at the Furni ture Exhibition at Earls Court which opened on Wednesday. It costs
£2,500,
For that sum comfort is not stinted. Climb into this bed and you have at your service;--
Twin 3ft. mattresses which can be raised and adjusted to any post- tion by the touch of a button. They are also heated, with automatic temperature control,
• Coverlets of "champagne" mink full-length fur--tough to make a coat.
Bedside lments (one for him, one for her) complete with radios,
1. Casters allow beds to swing apart at foot for cleaning.
2.
S top drawer contains telepbone dial, electric shaver.
3. S bollam drawer holds tape recorder, for business dictation.
4. Loudspeaker for radio and Intercom system.
5. FER top drawer with push-button control panel, velvet-lined Jewel compart-
ment and electria massager,
G. HER bottom drawer holds automati; teamaker.
7. Radion (on each side).
8. Hand-controlled hydramatio base, unit illis fed at head and fool.
9. Television art ai foot of bed.
10. Bed-end sent with two lift-opt trays, '
bookshelves, and velvet-lined drawers for accessories.
TAPE ON TAP His include a telephone dial (no receiver, you just speak), an electric shaver, and a tape recorder (for business dictation).
Hers comprise an automalle tea- and silver tea service, maker, a
electric massage machine.
A television set a too's length away at the foot of the bed,
A press-button control panel which will:~
Open or close the bedroom cur- tains;
Control the bedroom lights; Switch the TV en;
Communicate with every room, in the house on an Inter-com system. ✪ Bulll-in bedtime music if you feel in need of a lullaby.
All this, plus the most luxurious construction and upholstery is pro- vided by the makers, Slumberland, for your £2,500.
And If all this palts, you can' always sleep on it.
How to make bedtime, getting up, or even plain insomnia an enjoyable luxury
•
Sailing CAN Be Fun
In
hard work from start to finish. I'm not writing of the plushy
a gentle shove We called back at night with few with hot and cold and a
a Force 5 wind behind us and double bed in every, cabin.
THE first time I crossed fro en hand from a nearby cleat
the Channel in a 30 ft. rd given me sailing boat I thought I'd die of fright.
Launched
Hamble
the right direction-thero wasn't room to swing a cat,
a huge stivery moon over the I'm writing of the hundreds port quarter.
of thousands who sail
waters were the coastal
cach summer.
I
The old salling chums asleep
below
ow and we were alone und Bliver a blue-black world.
1 fottered Lo and tro in a from
position out of the crouching
15 my looking
glass shot river on a couple of portable
I was merrily from one side of the
the other. my
without teeth
Hood stiff Cry Martinis,
to
ice busy stowing things, holding bunk things and letting things go can't clean Slowly said slc-o-wly leaking.
to take in any early details.
Suddenly,
1 was too tired to
I might add that i was hazy care.
with love for the man who ha
invited me to join him and a
couple of old sailing chun on
a long week-end trip to Cher- bourg.
C:-noc.
Or would 17
Never so good
It was unbelievable joy. The sea had claimed, in the happiest sense, another victim,
I married him.
Fashionable
Since then in the last few
I huddled int a blanket in year in fact mailing
har
gent, etc., of menz
around
of Britain
Pre-breakfast dictation for busy executives
YOUR BIRTHDAY
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31
PORN today, you have tremendous personal charm and great K
talent, especially in the creative arts. There may be a con- tinual conflict between the demands of your social life and the requirements imposed upon you to complete your serious work. Some of you may be able to combine the two satisfactorily. Unless you can, there is bound to be a certain amount of frustration in your life.
All the nicest men I know ga salling. A great many of them are in town for the Boat Show and I've listened all werk to endless boat talk.
Since you have a powerful personality, be sure to keep your But one thing puzzles me.
idents high, for you are bound to influence all those with whom Does sailing lead to chori,
you come in contact Many of you have what is called the "heal ligence, tolerance, and wit?
ing hand," being able to help people who are in pain. You would Or is it that sailing appeals
make fine physiclons and surgeons. You also have the ability to to the most charming Intelli-.aid those in search of practical advice and would do well in a position where you are called upon to help solve emotions! problems of others. You would make a teacher or preacher, and since there is something of the reformer and crusader in your makeup, you could become a powerful force for good in the world. Although you have a good, practicut business heat, you also show signs of having an artistic temperament, Sometimes these two characteristles are in conflict. You must learn to understand yourselt thoroughly before you can hope for others to do i Something of a fit, you will have more than one romance before you settle down to marriage: With you, to wed in haste is apt to be a matter of repenting at leisure. Take heed.
Don't ask me. I'm blased.
-(London Express Service).
MOUSE STEW ANYONE?
He'd only to snap his fingers my beautiful new pants, rolled become a fashionable sport. and I'd have departed for into my bunk and lay there crashing Darkest Africa with him in a latening to the waves
over my head. There
was, I reckoned, about Л two-inch thletes separating us. From time to time the old selling After one look at that 30ft. chum (female) brewst up some- boat I had clashed to telephone thing hot and carried Krest TUREE OF KANGEROO At the irst annu} meeting
Pheld
Among those born on this date are: Emil Strauss, German my broker and insured
myself
steaming mugs to the cockpit,
stew ...
author: William Seward Webb, railroad offcial; John Kunkel for the trip to the tune
from all over the world, to sit small, bolantat; Tallulah Bankhead, actress; Eddie Canton £10,000.
roasted Amazon monkey down in Madison Square Gar-comedian.
boa constrictor cutlets, den. The attendance at Inter Can anybody imagine meetings was even larger.
Club members took the Isuch items on a restaurant
sultant ribbing with Good menu?
huntour.
Di
My young man was singing sonit' about a smuggler's Goodness knows why, but the daughter BA [ passed into o
£10,000
thought of that forted me.
com. coma.
I felt nautical...
I had cis treated myself to a pair of navy blue slacks and an "old ralt's" sweater. I felt Icind of nautleal-which helped. The all tanks at Calshot Spit were passed in a cloud of veal and hamn ple and baked beans.
It was blowing a bit, but I muhagéð “tö wedge mystina
They say I slept like a log
But the next day every- thing as diferent. The sen
was then
In
that
learned about salling.
it my
thai
mouse
Yet, back in the early
famqua
more than 350 sportsmen came
To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your dally guide.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY - 1
AQUARIUB (Jan. 21-Feb. LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)....- 19)-Forget business matters on Your best day of the week. Be this day of real, Rest and restore relaxed and content to be with your energies.
your family at home..
ARIES
{
And tea and TV for idle evenings
London Express Bervica
By STELLA
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1
PORN today, you have a number of contrasting characteristics which make you a rather difficult person to understand. Since You are realist and something of a materialist, it also evolves that you are also an opportunist. You have charm and wif, and yout are inclined to use that charm where It will bring dividend. Most of the time you are quite aloof and cool, but if it is politic, you can be charmingly effervescent and sympathetic. You have many social qualities, but you prefer to entertain only these who will do you some good!
You are clever and have a quick mind. You cannot endure pedestrian Individuals and can become quite Impatient with those whose minds do not work as quickly be yours. You are good at large-scale planning but dislike petty detall. Since you have a great deal of energy, you are inclined to scatter it too widely over tod many areas of interest at one time. Lack of concentration to a single idea can be one of the reasons why your progress toward any one goal may be slower than you had hoped.
You women are eminently suited for a domestic life as wives of ambitious men. You know all the ins and outs of protocol and can be helpful in entertaining the right people in the correct fashion. You are the type who can make a corcer out of your home, your family and in furthering their interests.
Among those born on this date are: Clark Gable, actor; Langston Hughes, poet and author; Thomas Cole, landscape artist. Alexander Kipnis, operalte bakso: Victor Herliert, composer;
To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday clar and read the corresponding paragrogh. Let your birthday stay be your daily gulde.
קום
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2
was face and turquoise, the 1900's, they might be part
They had found out, so they
19)-Be
AQUARIUS (Jau. 21-Feb. LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-- sun shone eggs and bacon of the fare when the Cana-
that
your toes his Potpone any netion on a law many liad never tasked so good, it dian Camp sat down to claimed,
things
morning. Get an early start on sult, This not the time to of spurned by the general pubile I told them
This company
Jan important project. could be eaten with relish.
go into curl about anything! about the Insurance, and they dine.
FISCES was sportsmen
(Feb 20-Mar. 20)— Inurbed till they cried.
VIRGO (Aur. 24-8cpt. 23)— As long as interest in the club PISCES (Feb, 20-Mar, 20)--- VIRGO (Aug. 24-Nept. 23)- 1 working in the zelenees, you This is one of the days when, the strangest dining club on lasted, members scorned to vie Not a day for starting anything Don't worry about money mat may and come laboratory ex- to prove friendship, it may 40 week-end I 0710
for the honour of bringing in new. Keep closely to the tradi- ters today. You can't really doperiment works out exactly as necessary for you to keep a a great many things record.
stranger and stringer distics, i fional patterns.
anything about them now.
Įyou hail hoped.
cecret inviointe. Thanks to Prince Henry of
LIBRA (Soph 24-Oct. 23)-- ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)— LIBRA (Bopt. 24-O«%. 38)--- (Mar. 21-Apr. 201-- If planning to rent a house, you Confidential Information may All matters pertaining... fo.. 1 eurned-tho- knack-of-doing- comer and do justice to the my hair in the half-light with fire in northern Canada. As the ceros was served at the March, Avold-getting-into even a minor may find exactly what you want come into your handa which will technical studies are favoured,
"It all started" around a camp. Prussin, let of Borneo rhino-
morringe
today. Exomine it carefully. 11pm 1905, banquet. Then, in Novem-argument with your knees bent. I learned to
explain a problem easily.
Engineers have their day! meni, (Unnecessarliy
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 28)— wallow in cleansing cream and foramen smacked their
that her, 1007, Newfoundland seal partner. Compromise first. A turned out Inter.)
TAURUS (Apr. 41-May 21)—– SCORPIO (Oqt. 24-Nov, 28).** once uppers and tiger sterf were TAURUS (APT. 21-May 21)~ You may receive word of on un- Chemistry and all of its at- This is a good day to expériment Nowir it grow dark as the cologne and save water to get over the baked munkrat, off my pants decided to come together
Inherttaneo at this allated fields are in Home duties are paramount in expected
excellent with n now idea. chums wopped the blan! hairs
The perulfs old calling
It remained for an American your life. Spend to day hap time.
aupeet today.
should prove excliing. stories
elgutetion and with app brush; to wipe year in New York. There the devoured.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec, GEMINI (May 22-June 20)--- BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 21-Dgo. drinka passed freely.. thero £very, gosy pinte with a face rarest and, oddcat Makes which
In 1909, Theodore Roosevelt's "GEMINI (May 28-June 21)— 28)-Guard against a health All matters pertaining to an 29)—Your marriage partner and singing, tissue before washing it, and to hunters could colleol would be ex-President to top the record.pily at home with the family. urbler
before throwing the narred while the wind howled in the think
big game-hunting trip to Africe the budget is bothersome, upset today. Nervous tensions eslata should be worked out in could turn out to be just "plafta In A glance at their menus
ornory today. Bo patient. rigging, greki waves aloshed "gush" over the side.
CANCER (Juno 12-Jaly $3) --- CAFRIQUAN i also learned that sailing in the club's brief heyday holds led all the headings, artil he mil around up and I thought
(Des., 28-Jan CAPRICORN (140, ~CANCER (Junio 22-July 23)---
31-Jan. 11 perploxod over a mattor In- 80)Some experiment invaI- of the fun my beneficiaries mall bouts in unbelievably, ex-some, surprises: Mink soup, alet had huge slab of elephant meat don't try to straighten it out can prove an speeling force, your favour now.
personal Rifairs, in- ing metala unen which you haɖo would have with that hilarating. Gils one with a tre of cinnamon boar, arilled whale sent over post-hosts from the now. Not the day for it.
If attending Church, look your 203-Postpone starting of your volving skunk, fried gle of adventure, blubber, baked
pepects carefully been working, could cymu out. £30,000. Duwn below-when eventus good for the soul (the way retligsoake, of aligator By Vincent Edwards leak in you may meet someone proposed, trip until later in the vestigate nil
just-right today..... mont Today is not too good. - now. you-have not seen lately.. ly Bendishly porcuping, friod alligator. # ally soincont had prised my suffering s), and
Was
mendous Beruse
relax.