THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1959.
WOMANSENSE
WOMA WORI
THEY'RE ALL INVADING THE "STORK ROOM"
NEVER
By Hazel Meyrick
thought the ter dress or salt departments, many unenterprising day would come when where
buyers are clinging obstinately other women would envy to tightly-Rited sulls and shirt- the mother-to-be for the walters, choice of clothes she can find in the shops—and ac-
CHANEL DOES IT AGAIN tually go so far an to invade
AFTER
Yves St Laurent's
the maternity-wear depart- whenments of Coco Chanel. At a time Paris.
the stores in women were $101 wearing "Flen" collection hobble skirts and veiled hats, search of clothes with a brillant
wwn hair difference. in the Dior House Madernoiselle she chopped off her
that of her mannequins, Chanel, who revived the vugue and
starts, relegated for soft dressmaker styles when
salons she re-opened her 1054. showed her own 1959 ver- sion at it. It is more "Fle" than ever. Her munnrquin: floated around like disemballed Apirits velled En wisps of ectoplasm.
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shortened corsets
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Esta it has happened in to the rubbish bin, Lention, at any rate. The buyer make copies of her own real in charge of the "Sturk Room"
clients and
in one shop told me that many pearls for her
vogue for chokers of her customers are not ex- started the
pectant mothers at all, but and stud earrings.
woman who are attracted to the loser line of maternity-wear.
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She also created Jersey dresses skirts. Her and tampers and
TACC% appearances at the Auteuil and Longgelamps in man-styled gaberdine cont and shera- Jocks was treated as scandal in its time.
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The triumph of the natural silhouette and cond elegance In Paris ti pacon, which is unanimous. I truly a triumph for "Coco" Chanel, as she was known in her salad days when marie her revolutionary ideas
Chanel was not to be the traditionalists rhudder and shrapped o Her Hing was 1920's superb and at the psychological moment the touched off a spark
# was du start farhion era.-A.P.I.
set of the
Bol
the younger madly gay,
uften forgolten how which It is much modern woman owen
YOUR BIRTHDAY
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3
HORN textus, you are drtustesy pour own buri No one is going to shave you monyet against your wall And, once you have a fem TIENE of your own, that menas you're m coling to be oved You use con bitious "and are quite ezekre of your own espatultities. You're good: you know it; and you're not going la fet amore about star ekown. You Bre good at konstient jour own home, hut just my long lad son can pro-
JACOBY on BRIDGE
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TODAY'S hand is purely an
exercise in bidding. The problem is for North and South to bid 10 six no-trump with South as declarer 11 should be simple enough, but in practice the actual expert pair that held
reached six spades the cards with North as declarer and u heart lead promptly set the hand.
The correct bidding is shown North is too weak In the box for an opening two bid and
WEST
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They are cheap
Nan-expectant choppers have discovered another important thing about maternity clothes they age cheap. The designers have realised that mothers-to- be prefer to hity several bright than one ex- outfi, rather pensive one that will last for years. I have seen blazer suits selling for less than £4, and dienten for as little as thirty shillings.
no longer
an idea that has become To successful that one well-known akiri firm have incorporated them into
their standard off- the peg range for the benefit of people with extra-large or small waistlines.
Maternity skirts have complicated devices for When De Paris dealgners letting out the scans. They now abandoned the waistline at frature simple adjustablę zip-
the
at trapeze rad the fasteners The waistline- odored chemise, there was a time-lag before adaptatious of the now line appeared in the shop. So enterprising women who like be right up to date hit upon the idea of maternity-wear to
And they ked what the gap, they found so much that they
What is new in niaternity hove become regular customers clothes this year? The Empire of the sterk rooms."
Hug is, of Where else can one find cholce and a most effective dis- Chanel-type cardigan suits will lay, and can be found in any luose, boxy jackets, and limfabric from cool, pretty cotton skirts...ny trapeze dresses in prints, frirumed with wide velvet well-made streatner bows, to high-fashion By STELLA bright prints, and
pure silk chiffon for short even- Empire-line styles, all under oue reol Not necessarily in the bet ing dresses,
T
dure results, no one can say my Thin
You like tu phon things out a laste sale. You are fora of dramatheng, and everythurt you do it in the peaim of the riportseyler Since yine have a vivid peanuty, you will have a host of Joyal friends, but 1lan will be there who will t agese with you-and their diagree inet may be quite on welferius,
Anything novel of exelting catchen vour narration and you câu! counted on da samoport everything that is different. You wil porn ally punjeet your edire of new ident, too, as well as accepitng thug of ethen that looks at Your choule
You
ck well in acting, parution, al- wellising or bewspaper work. have Düent in several of tige ereas itive arts, but curly epeciálisitan will be neoversany of you are to make [any z he your Stelong ezreet.
An early marriage to weste Ix m under Geniinf. Libia de Capriozn would probably prove ecgental. A1. though you may aneve your downtelle your fetime, your nuny times in loyalty to your male is undisputed Wherever you go, you go together? Atrong thorne bom on This dite are: Sperver Fullerton Hard zilampine and nati
Horace Greeley. crusading edier Gulto Gatti- Lander wet; Alvar Aalto, Finnich Casazza, opera inipressirin: bidney
architect..
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To and what the stam hove ature for you tomorrow, relect your bartikley Mar and pred The cop sprauding paragraphs. I
sur birthday or be your daily guide.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)- A foc dựy for romance. The path ad vile Here should be plesortly Smooth just exw.
Smart for
Winter
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By GRACE THORNCLIFFE THE COLLAR is
oversize and significantly new in this
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course,
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In demand
Smocks have almost disap- peared. Their place has been taken by bright shirt toppers, which are excellent for wear on the beach after the event, and much in demand by the ordinary zhopper as well as the mother- to-be Blazers are also very popular, and are available in anything from drip-dry poolin to gold or silver lame for even- ing wear.
A Paris Hat
The latest hats have enormous brims, and JEAN PATOU shows how elegant they can be.-Agence France Presse.
PUT YOUR
BEST
FACE FORWARD
of
Hollywood. "better" side your face is probably
Suila are crisply tailored, There is sailcloth, cut, appro- THE priately enough, sailor-fashion with a deep wide collar
TH
Bay
make-up expert
Bud Westmore and photogra- pher James Wong Howe.
and striped gilet. This is an- the side you don't sleep on, other best-seller, particularly in navy and while. So is the classle Chanel-type cardigan suit in double jersey trimmed with contrast piping, which can be wom afterwards without any one suspecting its original pur- posc,
I
col-
right time. She is one
of the being
most clever persons at photographet.
"Some actresses just fall apart if you photograph their wrong side. to have a set bullt to fit her face so she can make her exists with good side facing the Danera," said Howe.
There's one star who as
her
Let's Eat
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Even A Working Wife Can Make This Coffee Cake
"EVE
66TAVEN # wife' with two mure and grated Parmesan, or jobs can turn out a with any homemade or canned Italian tree, and oven-heated hot bread for breakfast if until piping hot.
"For example, · regard this piping hot western fig coffee cake I have just mode. It would start off any day with a sintle. Or make it for dessert at dinner as a happy Anale
that's
she plans ahead," remarked Polenta can be a combination the Chef,
breakfast cercal-entree, just as tasty for dinneri
TOMORROW'S DINNER French Onion Soup Shrimp Polenta Broccoli Spanish Quartered Carrots Toinato-Lettuce Salad Lemon Cake Pudding
Teil Coffee
Mulk Shrimp Polrata: Corubine 1 a enriched yellow cornmeal, 1 tsp. salt and 1 c. cold water. Sur into 4 c, bolling water.
All measurements are level
rectory for 4 ta Fig Coffee Cake: The evening before: Rite 1 e. dried figa. Rimave sletns and chop the gs. Show-boll 10
Add 1 e, water, min.
Blind 1/3 e, sugar, 1 tbsp. cornstarch and M Isp. salt. Stir into fig. Cook-stir until
clear.
Remove from heat. Add 1 top, each prated lemon rind and lemon juice, Cool,
pon.
In the morning: Into 2% e. bircuit mix, stir 2/3 e, milk and iz trg, oll or multed shortening,
Spread hall the dough in buttered 9-in. square Spread over the g aling.
Spoon on the remaining dough by small spoonfuls, leav- ing a slightly rough 'top.
Brush with 2 tbsp. metted buffer and dist with 1 tbsp. sugar.
Bake 30 min. In a moderate oven, 375 F.
Cut into squares while warm. Serves 8.
DINNER Chilled Pineapple Juice Roast Lamb
Brown Gravy Panned Sweet Potatoes Cauliflower
Pickled Peaches
Fig Coffee Cake Coffer Ten MIE Polenta, one of the most Cornmeal tastes extra good as versatile of dishes. Basically t
Bolt 15 min.; stir often. Con- tinue to cook 20 min, over hot water.
Menntime, beat 2 tbsp. cook- ing oil, Add 14 16. sliced, washed fresh mushrooing, Cover, Simmer-cock 10 min.
Add 1 tsp salt, 1% tapi erum. bled oregano lénves, 14 tsp. powdered basil, 2 (5-oz.) pkgs. frozen shrimp or the rinsed con- tents 2 (61⁄2 oz) cang shrimp. Sur in 1 (0-oz.) can lomato paste. Heat 5 min.
Turn the polenta onto a deep platter. Spoon over the shrimp and sauce. Dust generously with grated cheese. Serves 4 or 6.
Broccoli Spanish: Cook 114 16s. trimmed broccoli until just tender,
In a heavy saucepan, hest 3 tbsp. Spanish olive oil, section garlic, crushed, 2 chopped on- chovy Bilets and c. chopped black or green ollyes,
Drain and add the broccoli, Turn over in the sauce; heat min.
Sprinkle with 1 tbsp. lemon Julce. Serve hot or cold, Serves
to 6.
FROM THE CHEF When making meat balls or
is a thick cornmeal mush, cooled loaves, ned any kind leftover in a deep pan, then sliced, cooked cereal instead of bread To determine the better side of covered with melted butter crumbs and a liquid. your face for photographs, Hove suggesti:
"Photogenically speaking, a person Ricfinitely has a good side and a bad side,” sold Westmore. "Generally, the bad side is the stido you sleep on. Most people "Look for the side that has the For warm-weather wear,
akcep about one-third of their best bone structure and the least award top marks to a very inex-
lives, co it's bound to leave an excesses. The full side always) pensive jumper-suit made from impression," a tropical-weight rayon
takes the light better. Actually, a Most people sleep on their woman's first choice after look- ton mixture with a woven over-right side, he acted. check.
It is made in mouth- watering pastel shades and the topper has a nent tailored collar and a concealed front fastening. Slanting hp pockets give a very effective silm look, and the skirt
ng in the mirror generally will "About 85 per cent of the ac- be the same as the photo- jers and actresses I have worked grapher's" with have a better side, most of the actresses a
and
A
The camera focused on the fore-
"Always keep your tooth side sonsitive about it," Westmore closer to the camera. Never have said. He described the good side picture taken straight on. Is particularly well designed, as "full" and the bad side as three-quarter shot is best, with
"shallow." Realising that A stit that clings too closely to the figure difference until you take a pic-
"You usually don't notice the head, and the head tilted down
a little." is disastrous on the mother-to-ture or make a test. Sometimes The only exception, said West-
bc, one enterprising designer
tweed Inside tueles from the
dres sierping has pushed the check has produced an at-
And birth bone a little higher. high waist yoke are released
tractive Empire-line underslip may have left inprintu. | into slight fulines. There are
mack from stifferend crackle vertical slit pockets on either nylon,
actresses he has made This is an idea that fitle of the centre clusing. Two could be copied very cheaply Liny verilen pockets UN the at home. Falling stiffened nylon, TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21-collar offer a novel detail. A a bonded plastic interlining of This could be the Ume la bay your Inpered look marks the silhou- the type used for skirts und "one sal only" the ring. A good day ette of this general-wear win- suits would make an excellent
subst/lute.
for buying precious studies.
ter coal.
GEMINI Tay zx-June Play the role of peacemaker. Staying
Both vulnerable
North East
Booth
completely on the fence could settle an ngoment
21)-
bela
West
10 Facs 20
Plong
24 Fass ON.T:
Pers
4 N.T. Pass 50
Pass Pds
CANCER (J 22-July 21) Take up important matters with tease in, mutaority today and yoti should be successful.
23)-
ON.T. Pass Foss
Opening lead-a 8
opens olle club-noi one spade, He wants to encourage some bid. by someone and while a club Eid 19 practically never passed all around, a spade bid may be.
.LEU (July 21-Aux. Керр Wat dental appalitment, Nothing in gatneil by paling at out. again.
Start a new project today and know VIRGO CAUF. 24-Sept. 23)- that you will be highly surceraful in what you do.
LIBILA
think
more, should be "if you the excesses of your face make your beauty unusual,"
Or
Howe didn't notice that Kim up Westmone said
Novak's belice side was her left "Linda Darnell and Ava "until we were well into shooting Gardner have chrost perfect the film 'Pichle! We hud to shoot faces.
several scenes over. Kim wasn't' "Marlene Dietrich knows ex- particular then, but now octly which aide of her face to aware that some photographers have in the right place at the en make her look better."
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Road Goes Round'n Round
-Christopher Cricket Tries To Explain Why--
(Sept. 24-Oct. 23)- This may be initiation night at your CHRISTOPHER Cricket had picture of a sunflower. Jodge. You should enjoy the cere
SCORPIO
enjoy your
big
"What did you, đỏ, Chziz?”
asked Hanid.
"What did I do?'ould Chris- topher, "I put down my guitar and went up to the top of the sunflower blossom to see what was going on."
"What did you find, Chris?"
By MAX TRELL
Hand was drawing il South's damond response and
"Good morning, Honid," said North's Jump to two spades are monies.
come out from behind the almost automalle and South's
loose brick in the fireplace Christopher. 24-Nov, where he was spending the
"I found a Caterpillar," said "Good morning, Chris," said Jump to three na-trump should can ingration by colet
"Round and round the Banid. "How do you like this Chri wil winter. be also. One South chose to some rekeinua re milritual kader.
edge of the sunflower it raise his partner to three spades,
JAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22)— After saying good morning to sunflower I'm drawing? If this is the hunting or disting rea- General Tin. the Tin Soldier Christopher Cricket. "It reminds saw me, the Caterpillar stopped "It's a lovely sunflower," said marching, tap, tap, tap. When he After South's jump to three our part of the country and Me Punch and Mary-Jane, no-trump North might simply
the fag Doll, and Teddy, the me of something that happened at once. Hap right to the slom; he might CAPRICORN (Dre. -Jan, 20)-Stufted Bear, Christopher at last summer," practically demand it by bliding
New cuntocts in your profession can himself down beside Hinnid, the
"I'd ke to hear about it," prove exceptionally helpful to your Shadow Giri.
sald Hanid. ive no-trump or he might ute
"It's about a Caterpillar," said the Blackwood four no-trump
Christopher. "About a sunflower "It's not a mad at all, I said to check for aces. I rather
too. It all started when I took to the Caterpilinr. favour the use of four no-trump provided the partnership is that is sure that this particular four no-trump will be read as Blacktwood and not a false in ho-trump.
V-CARD Senseas
Q-The bidding has been:
*South Vest North
T
-10 14
Enst
Pass
You, Bouth, hòldi 494 VILJ 10 QA12 JAJE70
What do you dot
AmBlo eno no-trump. Kou hayu a minimun hand with a lot
at your sirungih la hearte.
TODAY'S QUESTION
Your pariner bids two clubs, + Wint⋅ do you do ́now?
Anmeer. TomNET TOTE
future.
Rupert and the Secret Boat-22
Rupert and Gregory hold tight to each other as the mysterious little boat farges on and on, out of sight of land and scron bigger and biggee waves of the open sea. "Oh, why docan't the Professor (etch us back ?" etica Rupert, "He must know we've had
enough." But, there is no paụa. Daylight slowly fadea, and they get so tired with being tossed about that they fall into a deep alogu. Morning find the bost floating gently on calm water with its engine stopped, but they sheep on and know nothing about it, ALL MIQUITA MREFSTED
***Pardon me, sir, de you happen to know where this road ends? I've been walking down it all morning."
my guitar and sat myself down flower," under the shade of a sunflower to play myself a song or two and perhaps toke a ittle nap."
"What happened, Chris?" "Well," said Chris, "I had just finished playing one song and was just about to start playing
D second one when I heard volte overhead saying, 'Dear me, this road has no ending. It goes on and on and on
Sound Of Stops
It's a sun-
No End in Sight
int's right; te Sunflower Road. I know, because an ant lold ingebout it. She
I met
She's
12-26
Hand shows Christopher Crick- et her drawing of a Sunflower.
""Of course I'm sure, I catch. "The Caterpillar was thought- ful for a moment or two. it shook its head.
"How can you be sure when
Then
said it was very pleasant walk you've just come up here? N ing alone it and that when I better walk some more. The came to the end I was to let her end might be just a little way to further on P just iscep walk- know. But I can't m come to the end of it."
ing some more.
Round and round?' Caterpillar repeated,
the
"Of course not, I told Caterpillar. It has no end. It "Just then," Christophee went just goes zound and round and en, "I heard the sound of foot- round. steps. Tap-top-top,' they went -light, gentle fontaleps. They came from the top of the sun- Bower. And then I heard the voice mying, How much fur- ther moet i gol Where is the end of this rogd?'"
"Foor Caterpillar," sald Hankl to Christopher Cricket. "I hope he came to the end of the road." "No, I don't think he ever the did," said Christopher, "For all I know he's all walking around and that
I "couldn't sunflower, have make um understand that
thing that's round like a ball or à sunflower just hasn't any be- beghalng and ham't any end.”
"Things that go round round and round never any ends," I said,
"'Are you sure?' the Cater pillar raid.
TOP OFF A SIMPLE breakfast or an informal evening meal with oriep, sugary Western Fig Coffee Cake, served warIIL,
SIDE GLANCES
Top UA, POL DIT.
3
By Galbraith
quelmothy
12-20
“Are you sure you want to marry him, Jano? Ho doesn't seem to have much of a sense of humour!!"