THE CHINA. MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1959.
WOMANSENSE
WOMAN'S WORLD
Joy Matthews Gives London Shopping News
streamlined and
There is a boom in bath- rints of a bath, a basin, and a 100ms. This week 1 have seen favatory, all the prettiest towels yet-born reulptured. in Britain too.
They are lu a trellis design of tiny rusehuds on huge stripes of lemon yellow, blue, or pink on white,
My chalee Is the lemon yellow with pluk rosebuds and green leaves,
But the big bathroom news Is that the Margals of Queens berry professor of ceramica at the Royal College of Art has designed the snobbies bathroom su.le ever. It con-
Pretty, pricey pers made exclally for women, Slender and shimmering in white and enamel, silver. and old zkinestones. What more cnn you usk?
WOMEN OF CHINA
SEE my picture of the
woman policeman. That is not the exception among Chinese women of today, but typical. Most women work. Be- cause they have to, of course. Because the country has told them their labour in the gigan- tic reconstruction that is taking place is essential.
But how did China get her women to give up all pleasantries, all thought
all çlesire for in- taste and
Iden for 12 bridesmaid, of entertainment, danc- bride-or a girl with the king, fashions and of the door. There is a fabric purse ease to part the pen in their and a matching pouch to hold dividual the five cartralgos.
-London Express Serulce, beauty?
YOUR BIRTHDAY ·
THURSDAY, APRIL 2
It is not true to say that they have lest all their charm). They still win many friends and much
By STELLA sympathy through an astounding freshness, Intelligence and vital. ity, and even more by a nearly sportsmanlike comradeship everybody.
BORN today you are a tempeiods tuve a quick wit, which sometimes
Individual. You are ambitious
bang. There is little you mustine eurful Das. and then empay more than a battle of wits You follow through, difigently and edelerity.
Tarte may be a neties
of minor upsels, early in your life, but you can overcome these 1 nculties and forge aheart toward wider horizons and luger goals.
You have a gift for his writen was the spoken word. You
JACOBY
on BRIDGE
WALTER Malowan of New writes: "My Dove- spade hd was based on an old allergy of mine. I am allergie to being shui out,
"Borka Kuytchu, my partner, had opened one club only since he knew the bidding would not die there. Naturally he wan_in1- terested in seven and his four no-tranp bid was made with the intention of bidding the grand slam if I showed up with un nee,
coniven-
"East'a double of six spades 35as a perfect example of the Lightner slam double tion which calls for an unusual lead. He wan vold of clubs and since Boris had opected one club a load of that suit would be the most unusun lend at West's dis- posal,
"West knew that his partner was asking for a club lend init West was too smart for that. He
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Only, Fooking at them, cannot think of the usual com- aliments given to women,
bul rather you feel challenged by. their physical capacities and hit
Winneme who can give you p good Male. You have a wide fund if knowledge and a memory that betales infoganations for future sorts of working ambitions.
You have b Meme at The #fratuatie
Le fil the dragon b The lives of all about 1024 YOU STE & good Da live enlisted Tony for you know how to promote it and can ever popularize Kicthing' which
11 ol al popular.
Huner you are Basically 100 executive, you often leave delnil work to ottiers, taless you weteel your subordinates with the greatest of skill, you may find that jobs voy hve delegated are not done as well as you had hoped and pou lave to mil up by doing then yourself, Guard against a waste of fine and jehergy in This Testmidt.
The main feature I could And
in cuminon with a Chinese women of China is their bound- less, rather proud ambition to
Tuise country.
The standard of
their
National Ambition
De
This ambition, you may rurprised to hear, is not nt cl confined to personal prestige or advantage, it is clearly national and political in every vespect.
From this point of view you
more
The Policewoman
feminine they 110 a womanlike often I was far more dependent at on the favour of a woman to get what I wanted than I had been during the rest of my 16 months journey.
Among those hors on this date are; in Chistian Anderen, poet my teel that having given up Atel 31217;
William 15. Wilson, tiner and union leader; Dr Nicholas
most of their Mutiny
alms and activities, Butler, educator president of Columbia; Emile Zola.
longer care for bulhar; John Foster, historian and
appearance, but rather aim blographer.
Biting all posts given them as as any man could do it, which, In turn, gives them an ever in creasing political power and in- fluence.
To fuid what the stars tuve in ante for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corges- porting paragraph, tel your birth- day star be ying daily guide.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 3
ANIEN (Mar. 21-Apr.
An active, energetic day in which you should reach some important
oat. Work for it
TAURUR (Apr 21-May 2:)- Make up for any time just recently, This one of those days to catch up on your schedule,
1)-
GEMINI (May 72-2ṭine
New contracts, business projects
and future plans may come up for your final approval today
CANCEL (Jane uly
23 J collect any money owing to you, expecially on past work Becoin. plishedt. Make a good profit.
1.1X1 (July
24-A2. 23)- You can secure thorough coopera- Uon with everyone today pa gei ahead w nu Dipurtant job.
VIRGO TANK 24-Sepl. 21) By sleppbg up your production YTAL can make a good showing today. Gel the green light on a project.
LIBRA (Nept 24-UCL
21)-
A new opportunity fered. Take
their
cate Qu
For the
umbrella for the rainy season, winter a thick sult, and an even thicker top coat, lined with fur or coltun pad- ding, all this together for 40 yuan ($100).
But
on
Staying two months in China, passing through all the big cities,
what do they wear The circle goes on: wure of I never came across a girl or a
Sunday, at the theatre, al meet- their progress and prestige, they woman showing any
The same, effor, inke vanity in her clothes or airing at parties? strengthen
Without make-up. Most of the pride in carrying out the hard- styles.
women even refuse to have their work, bollsh their Enst est
hale curled. It is true to say traces of weakness and feminin-
they refuse, because I asked ity and again gain prestige.
lol who caslly could have I met more
in women
Xefforded a hairdresser,
sponsible jubs than men,
re-
and
On The Way Out
DLACK stockings possibly the stocant or all factions
In recent years-are happily on the way out.
But in circles where cutting a
a enden:lated risk gud necept it, for
dash counts for much and free it kan open new doors.
quently from these eireles corse SCORPIO
24-Nov, 22)— fashion leads & new, even more This is a day for personal advance-
ent. See that your own allattarling,mmick is making
(Des
ure taken cure of now.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 21-Hec. 22)-
A full-speed alseed day. You have
beadway.
The girls of the plush set are
the green hant on any project you beginning to wear white stock-
may relect.
CAPRICORN (Dee. 23-Jan. 23) Employment maiters are praising. PR a selling project. Advertist and promotions are abu favoured, AQUARIUS“ (Jan. Zi-Feb. 19
A day for achievement, so get a early, siart and keep going at 100
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How could East be vold? He only held two hearts. How could North be void of that suit?
"West decided that his part- ncr VDs Just doubling [1 general strength and opened the ten of hearts, Naturally enough, I had no trouble making all the tricks."
Walter faila to point out that North could not have been beaten. If he had been declarer at six spades but he is very charitable about West. East and West
were supposedly, food players and were playing arm double convention. should have trusted als partner.
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What do you do?
A-Did three no-trang. You have a good five-card spade mult but your hand là of such nature that 'you should make Juch as `many tricks at no-irmap, në ni
myandex.
TODAY'S QUESTION Again your partner has r9- sponded two no-trump to your opening spade bid. This time you huld:
MAQDEE, VI2 SEG AKING
What do you do?
Ansyur, Tomorrow
الفجيرة
PISCES (Feb.
up the week's work ad- vantageously. Your effurls should sewa te proli today.
SIDE GLANCES
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ings with handpainted patterns.
For the mument, anyway, the designs are relatively handless- flowers, butterflies and the like. But the avant garde feel that these are too fame
Let's pray that this whole silly idea dics death,
a rapid, silent
By Galbraith
"May we have a dictionary, rather than the phone book, to set Junior on? We're firm believeTS In early influmon!”
Like Blue Soldiers
One might say, without rggeration, they look like blue solalers, and they seem even trained like them.
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Wha! would you Imagine modern Chinese woman passe30- cd for her everyday needs?
A young tencher told me with n really encouraging and well- meaning smile:
In consequence, Industry pro- ducing these things more, or legs exists only for export. Beautiful brocades, shawls, embroideries ere scarcely won by the Chin- est themselves. They design them, make them with much skill and then do them bought, by foreigners only.
Does this embitter them? they envy us?
Do
To my greatest bewilderment I had to learn, that the modern Chinese women consider.our in- dulgenco
in make-up and farbions as utter backwardness,
It is obvious that education is designed to achieve this effect:
1
At a lower middle school I as giris of 15 and 10 construct ecmplete radio. In every steel factéry, In every sort of technical and constructive undertaking. women are not only equal,
often supervise men.
but
Very revealing seemed to me a film where young students from a technical college and to bulld factory, and the female students were the ones who did ali examining and inspecting work:
Further they are laught every minute, that government only is too glad and proud of its women freed of all household work, and
that all hopes are placed In
them.
So, for the first time in Chin- ese history educated, trained and respected in pubile positions, Chinese women answer with a high tide Di enthusiasm and initiative.
Women In Buses
On every occasion it was * woman who made room for me in the crowded train, a womani in director of Peking Inlourist, women are in the buses, in the streets as policemen .
The day of a Chinese woman seems hard, but 13 It really harder thus that of worklo women all over the world?
At dancing partics, hat music or jazz is avoided. Walls and folksongs in the Russian man- ner are the entertalsment.
THE AUTHOR
Pictured
against tha Great Wall of China' is Christine Walzenbacher, 23-year-old Austrian University student, who recently made a two- month tour of China. Christine wrote this article on the women of China after a tour which took her from Canton to Peking and Tientsin where the mot people from all walks of life. Christine is on a world tour, hitch-hiking orcund. from country to country and she has now been. away from homo almost 15 months. She arrived in Hongkong on January 9 to begin her trip to China, and she leaves on Saturday to continue her
four.
The average budget in A month may be between 60 and 90 yuan (HK$123 to $225), 15 main source of (HK$37.5) at least must be spent on food, the rest is saved for new furniture, radio, books ond the like.
Average Budget
There are, on the whole in- Hobbles of the Chinese feed, few things which could women? They are strange and templ a young woman in New astonishing as everything in China:
com-
no occasions to wear China: they want to become a any brautiful dresses, 'no time model worker, a leading for make-up, and no money to rade, a labour heroine. buy any other luxuries,
But that is China today.
Let's Eat
&
BY
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Some Smart Suggestions
For Chafing Dish Cook
WHETHER they were is
"If a creamed food or spaghetti
vance. Present it in the chang
There are, of course no more servants in the normal house- hold. From 6 to 7 every marn- ing the Chinese mother has to
In get up to sland the queue waiting for bread. Or she muy | 66%X7HETHER they are send one of her children.
The food shortage is very copper, brass or wrought dish, taste critically and then, great especially in Peking, iron with pottery inserts, with a great Bourlsh, add a trick Vegetable, fruit and fresh meat
eloting dishes denote seasoning, nro hard to get in winter time. So. for anything a mother parties and glamour," I was wants to cook she will have to saying. wait one or two hours, mostly outside the shop.
N
Quick-Cooking Food
"But if a quick-cooking food Welsh rabbit, cheese fondue or lobster Newburgh is
"The metal type, you will such as notice, consists of a lower part
need
lightly
hot
all the ingredients in advance and atrunge the on A tray. With electric cha@ng diah, the preparation will be fas$; but alcohol fuel w toke is own time."
Naturally, housework recis no pleasure, gladly she will for hot water, with a top that the dish, prepare and mensure give all children to nurseries,ts in like a double boiler and kindergartens and schools and that can also be used for sautee gu herself to work. She even 10. So for chating dish cooking. will visit spare-time schools to choose foods that can be either improve her position and avoid sauteed which means being looked upon as backward.fried-over direct heat or that
over *preparation "Can you give me any respon
The general drive is study, work, modesty and
patriotism.water." why I should dress up for my I asked sume hundreds of working hours?
only There is no escape. Isn't it
Watching the Host them, elecking them in all dif- unpractical?
Their reintion to men Is that in a
Besides, we have Yet, two occasions a year, when we of a
Rough, good comrade,
"You know, Madame," chuckled I saw men and the Chel, "most of the fun of always the can wear our best: May Day and good-natured, Two blue suits, at the National festival in October."
women laugh and talk together chating-dish cooking is watching price of about 14 yuon each Thus, it is plain, that very in a friendly and detached way the host show off." However, in HK$35), for the summer, one little money is spent on personal much more frequently than in be effective, the show must not pair of shoes, a handbag for luxuries, even the most incdest other countries I have visited. be too long. every occasion, and perhaps an ones.
This I took as an advantage.
the some:
answer was
"Here are some suggestions:
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Mr. Merlin's Luncheon
-An Unusual But Thoroughly Delightful Affair
By MAX TRELL
The sign
a neon sign lit up. read: "Some Righi In
"Then the "door swung
Sitting at around table that circled Mr Merlin were all the Juncheon guests.
Unusual Guests
Koarf and Hanid, lonkedAl open, "them in astonishment, for some of them were pigs and some of them were Lions and some of
E magic telephone Knarf and land walked right rung.
"Cone Up The Stairs," said Knart and Hanid, the Shadow Children with the Turned About another sign in the hallway. So Names, both ran behind the Knart and Hanid walked up.
They found themselves in Me
bookcase to answer il. Because
It was a magic telephone, both Merlin'a big dining hall.
of them could isteri and speait
at the same time.
:་
In the middle of the hell,
tall
them were gnomes and some of them were dwarfs and one of them was a giant and another of them was a dragon. And a whole crowd of them were daisles and buttercups and roses and lilies
that kept jumping around on the top of the round: table, waving their leaves.
At the other end of the tele there stood Mr Merlin, dressed phone was Mr Merlin, the in a while apron and a
And the tree that grew in the white chef's hat. He was sur- Magnificent Magician.
rounded by pots and pans and centre of the house was filled plates and knives and forks and with chattering birds. spoons and cups and Saucers. "Sk down, my dears. Sit But the most important thing down," said Mr Merlin, as he was a tall stove.
and Knarf and greeted Knert
Hanid. Hanid counted a dozen different "There's plenty to eat for every doors in this slovo.
"Won't you come and join me for lunch? Mr Merlin asked. “I'm having a lot of guests. Come down right away!"
Magic Telephone
"Thank you very much, Mr Meriin! We will" said Khart and Hanid into the magie tele- phone, both at the same time.
As poon as they had hung up the lelephone, Knarf and Hond combed their hair and washed their faces and brushed their shoes and made themselves, as neat as two pins.
Then they walked down to the end of Book-lovers-Boulevard andrang Mr Merlin's bell.
A
Neon Sign
It was a strange house. A tree wwew out through the middle of R. The branches could be seen sticking oût of the windows.
As soon as the bell was rung.
one?"
Rupert and the Blunderpuss-22
The Chinese Conjurer turna *So? Veily well, fistle bear may
speak. But briefly, briefly,” sayİ- impatiently when be realises that he is not alone and Tigerlily, mov the man. "Well, all I know is that ing forward timidly, bawa low. Uncle Bruno war frightened by a ***Oh, most honourable Daddy, ", quers black thing? says Rupert she says. Here in Rapery little nervously. “It's a - scira of cat bear. Please to heat him, for he with, winga. 1. can't catch it, and DAWI, velly -important.** I want to know what it li
·ALL KIQUTA RESERVED
Kart and Hanid made thom- selves neat as two pina,
Then Mr Merlin started open-
CHAFING DISH SUPPER
Finocchio
Olives
Scrambled Eggs tollan Sesame Seed Rolls
Trusted Brazil Mocha Squares
Coffice
All measurements are level; recipes proportioned to serve 4 to 0
Scrambled Egg= Italian: Fine-
3 chop medium-sized green peppers. Peel and chop 2 medium-sized tomatoes (or use 3. c. solid pack canned toma- toca).
Mince
pealed pection garlle and 1 peeled small.onion. In the chafing dish (or a fry- ing pin), melt thep, butter. Add 1⁄2 tbsp olive oil. Add the vegetables. Slow-Ley until tender.
mkdi
~~~~~Add-8-egg-bentert with
isp. salt, zp, pepper 2 tbsp. milk. Cook until the egga begin to set.
Then cheeruity scrumbio scrape up with a spoon, cook» Ing only until creamy through- out.
Serve on toast with or with out a garnish of sauteed salami, Frosted Brasil Mocha BquaPÈRI Sur 适 C.
creamy
shortening until with 1 t, gränslated sugar and c. molasson. Bont and add 2 eggs. Stir in 1 c. hot coffee.
Sift together 2 c aiready- gifted enriched four, 11⁄2 50 baking soda, 1 tsp. ground cinnamon, 1 tap, ground ginger,
trp. ground clove and 1⁄2 p salt. Beat into the fret mệx- ture.
Transfer to a 7" x 11" plin, ing tha doors of his wonderful
Bakc magic stovo.
35 min, in a moderate He took out soups and roosts oven, 310-378° F., or until and puddings and pics
and toothpick inserted in the cathe steaks and chops and hamburg- comes out clean.
ers and cutlets and fritters and When cold, cover with mociỄN' cookies and dozens of things icing and dust thickly withi that steamed and bubbled that toasted Brazil nulla. Krarf and Hanid couldn't even
name,
More And Mora
"Eat Eat! Eat!" Mr Merlin kept saying "There's lots more where all this came from."
And he opened more doors.
The ones who ate the most were the dwarfs. The ones who afe the least were the giant and the dragon. The neatest onca were the pigs. The fastest eaters were the birds.
The only thing the flowers ate was a drop of magie dow-soup. Only a magnifleent magtelan like Mr Maxila know how to mike.dew-soupi -
1
Mochs Loing: Cream 3 tbsp bulter with 4-thap, dry cocos). and 1 tsp..vahilla.
Add thap strong coffee bea verago alternating with 3 DA sifted confectioner's migar,
Best until smooth and creamy. Voo as directed.
TOMORROW'S DINNER, "
"Pintoplo Julco Stewed Dried Lima Beans Wit Ham or Crisp Bacon Sweet-Sour Kalo Frosted Brazil Mocha Squares Сода Tea BELI TRICK OF THE CHEF: When stewing dried limas, add {34% tap, oregEIN