THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1959.
WOMANSENSE
Page
Headed For Glamour IF ONLY WE COULD BURN ALL THOSE LAST.
YEAR'S DRESSES
BY ALICE ALDEN
FLATTERING and wear-jing bit of something, a glam. able are the new diaber hata orous model of black maline. The my toqua in crowned
created for happy holiday with a vivid pink silk and vel-, Evenings. Here is an entranc. vet rose.
YOUR BIRTHDAY
FRIDAY, APRIL 10 BORN today you have been given
exceptional natural powers arri have been marked for bufslending Mocess, provided that you make the Trost of your, talents. You have
pernendusių physiraj, zad energies, You inust be uclively (u- 1ng kornelling all the time L
I amething constructive,
and make ukion
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You have creal terest in the affairs of others and like to analyz even wit anked. You have the goft of literary expression and a kiwa kenna ni humour which al times can be quite deveriating. Io sta polished foes, it can be satire. Never loo to sarcasm. This weapo is quite unworthy of you'
You have a personal beliefs, and you are not eikfly pæmunded to chango your mlad, once it W made SATURDAY,
21-Apr. ARIES Pause before signing any on. portant papers,” ftead" all the fine
print carefully flexil
TAURUR (Apr 21-May
This can be a pleasant,
and friendly, day if your
toward fe'ls right.
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relaxing
#tulude
GEMINI May 23-Juns 251- There say be minor problema today, but with Wistite nive Lor!
you can solve them wally.
Stay
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CANCER (June 22-July Stealth is more important than we budne todas Postpone Dinning
new agreemerits until later.
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By VERONICA PAPWORTH
DITY the woman reeling--punch-drunk with fashion gossip towards spring.
Indecision corrugates her brow.
PITY
Whither her waistline this season- "up," "down," or almply "back"?
THEY SAY
A WOMAN should naver play second fiddlo to her clothes. It a man notices the dress bafora the wearer then she has choson # badly.- Balmain..
THE SECRET of being well drossed is to know your defects as well as
your good points,—— Chanol.
useful
THE MOST thing a girl with not much money can buy is a suit. But no-no, never in block. Blue is -much better----not royal, not navy, but the lightest midnight blue.
Cardin,
JACOBY on BRIDGE
Light Opener Aids Declarer
Whither each and every curve of her, for that matter? It's not that there's so little to choose from. There's so much of exciting EVERYTHING in the shops that it's hard to see the busts for the big collare,...the stressed waists for the relaxed jacket-line....the slim- fitted hips for the "densely-concentrated exuberance" of pleats.
The vexed question
Right now, many a bonfire is blazing in many &
woman's heart.
On to those imaginary flamea she cheerfully flings her entire wardrobe.
Oh, for the chance to greet the spring naked with a cheque book in hand.
But enough of that blissful day dreaming.....
You are going to buy something before long. The question to ask yourself is What?
"Mrs Chester-
If you have A perfectly good straight- jacketed 91112 left over from last year con- centrate on
Then you're tho CASUAL type.
Chanel is the star for you to follow.
⚫ OR ARE YOU "MINKY?" At your best in a fitted suit. a little black dress with on outrageous
clinging neckline, crepe seductively draped or huge-skirted ball gown foaming with tulle?
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Is your idea of the pericol plece of jeweller a diamond tara that breaks down into three parts-a pair of good clips, Bil "Important" brooch and
some really some sizzling earrings? No, I'm exciting not asking do you our one--I'm accensorles
simply getting your taster straight.
They CAR
make all the
difference,
A new high- crowned hat
soft
washoble kd Sunningdale" gloves, a bag,
naby and wool.
some
tiny heeled shoes. Pick
the lot to malch or tone in one
of the caramel or golden bronze colours.
AST"S opening club bid was Later you can buy a vivid
real cream put. He won
Julen shirt-waister to wear
By STELLA the opening club lead with the with them or maybe one of
up. Independent in thought as well khi action, you dislike being told what to do. As a child, you need firm rukkinc but must be
ulfered in way that provokes challenge. You are not one to obey An under. An appeal to your live or to your sympathy is the one and unly way.
Among thosas born on this date are: General Lew Wallace, eoidler mid this; Jeways Pulitzer, neWRA paper water, ont jilanthropist, Frhoors Nrking oriologist and US Secretary of labour:
Wilber LARLY
historian and ndikator: Berard F. Gimbel, mer- ciunt and philanthropist.
have in
Tu lind what the alum More for you tomorrow, select your birthday Bar and read the corres puding paragraph. Let your birth- day Har to your daily nude, APRIL 11
LAURA
(Sept 21-Ort. 331- Don't get into even a minor argy trandths maraing. It could defeiterate into a real quarrei.
SCORPIO
bet. 24-Nov. 23)-
Two days that need else'attention to detail to avoid an error in judge Rent, so slowly
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 3-Her. 22)- postpone anything of major portinee, at least unti next week. ites this week end.
CAPRICORN (er, 23-Jan, 203– Exhibit caution in partnerahl ettiger brasimea or domestle. Avoid dent's
—AQUARIUHL. (Janek,zavkem, (19) m you are content of your own
US: whatag Bake waste at den coulMin=||
everything and be right.
VIRGO
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24-Sep2 231-
Tensions are mating, su take tune out today to relax them. Change your pace of Being.
SIDE GLANCES
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Opening lead-7
those wonderfully packable,
washable, drip-dryable, almost indestructible "understated" dresses in a "infracle" synthetle,
STOP-read those' last (wo paragraphs again,
Has it ever occurred to you
that you are underaccessorised? ̧
Invested
Statistics show that the popu- Intion of Britain buy's just over two pairs of shoes per head per (Don't ask me how you year.
buy "Just over" two pairs of shoes. That's "stalisties" for you!)
Since Allela Morkova has 34 pairs and Besste Braddock has
Il pairs it looks as if somebody in't shoe con- sekus You?
Money spent on good quality shood, gloves and handbags
muRey inverted Indeed.
Rarely women planı a new outfit down to
the exact, shade of their stockings. STAYSswijk spend Almost
the mata "Cardin" type item dress, coat in creamy cont or suit
tweed and what's left over may buy them some sort of a hat and a cheap handbag.
203- East needed both the ace and all their money Cizard against an unexpected heatjack of diamonds for his open-
præteal well-being is all-
portant w
ing uld so South simply fed n diamond to dummy's queen. East won with the ace and was end- played: A club Icad would give declarer Rruff and dis- cord
while
diamond lead would be allowed to run around to dummy's ten spot.
By Galbraith
Tag. 14th Pat. DIR.
© by MA Therion, th
"But, Edná, if you'd only TRY shuffleboard I'm sure
It wouldn't bore you!"
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All right-we'll settle for 1
for rhinestones
preference French paste.
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Furs? So it's mink-with one eye on a full- Jength.
sable cont?
You're the FELINE type.
Let Batinain
be tour guide. Balmain, who designs for such "womAD- ly" women as Vivien Lelyh, Anne Lain- ton, and Joan Tiarks (she's Henrietta's mother).
One group of "Casual" aute shops is going
in jersey.
all cut with Banwinstyle clothes for a type of customer they identify as "Mrs Chester- Sunningdale, " She is fortyish, very, very feminine, cosily con toured and a leetle too big on the hips.
A DRESS YOU CAN WEAR ANYWHERE
One of the most beautiful basies of Allike shirt-waister in its simplest, chle-est, most wearable form. It is a "background” dress par excellence. The fabric is a gorgeously "scrunchy," I pure silk. It is a dress creamy, knitted to go anywhere, FOR RESORT WEAR with caramel-coloured shoes and a "sporting" handbag. FOR TOWN— with a scarlet straw sailor and pale kid accessories. FOR A FORMAL DATË
-with a large black hat and fine black suede gloves.
I was making arrangements for this picture when Kenneth Moro's wife B came in. Heavenly dress," she said, "the kind that goes on for years and years and every year 'you feel you should give it to the char but you can't bear to part with it.” agreed, (Dress by Susan Smali, price 22 guineas.)
PICTURE ST JOSH ADITIAAN
ARE YOU EXCITED BY ALL THAT IS EXTREME IN FASHION?
Do
you put impact before flattery
when choosing your clothes? Can you wear every vestige of hair
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luces, huge ear-rings? Are you at your, best in, vivid Is "your" fur the stratige, topcoats with brilliantly con- striped Uning (elvet' cat trasting accessories-slim skirts maybe?) 17
theatre with 6-inch deep belts, narrow coat? Japanese-type evening dresses,
salin
Alternatively might you-just
all that is chle, strange, and might consider white fox at consciously sophisticated?
night provided there was plenty
You're a cool, cool FASHION
Is your jewel box a shimmer. of it? ing treasure house of "Junk," 1opes of false pearls, mulli- CAT,
Cardin designs with you in mind.
Impossible
deep-collared coats or sulla in "tropical fruit" tones, semi- sheer shirt-walsters and, occa- sionally, white stockings."
CASUAL..... FELINE.... OR A FASHION CATT Remember his last season's wig hats, vast mushroom collars, type-casting?
You can't fit yourself into my short skirts and coloured legs?
You're Cardin's women this spring course. Ba will wear high erowned rough straw hole, broader shoulders,
ORIGINAL
Me too!
-(London Exprvaa Service).
STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Sky Trip With Mr. Merlin
---Knarf and Hanid Try Counting the Stars-
and
Joined his two small friends on the window seat.
By MAX TRELL Not long ago I met one of our Top Dressers looking as
was a clear, cpkt night. "One of the curious things ravishing as ever in chain-
Every star in the sky seemed about stars, my dears," he said South kidded East, about his store jersey dress worn with
to be sparkling.
to them, is that the longer you Kaari light opening bid but the last splendid crocodile belt and
Hanic, the look, the more of them you see." bag to match.
Shadows with the Turned About laugh was East's. The game was team of four and the allier East"Oh well, it's easy for HER, she
And just before you
Names, were sitting on the
Falling Stars player chose to pass his hand.
window seat with their faces West had to lead blind against let me add she has had both---
can afford to buy crocodile" | pressed against the glass. the four-spade
carefully tended and well-
contract and
selected the nine of diamonds polished-for six years.
This enabled
for his lead. South to picks up East's jack and eventually discard his seven of hearts on dummy's fourth din- mond. Thus, he made five-odd. without any real trouble.
♥CARD Sense♣♦
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cry
Fit's a new suit or coat or a dress you are after let's get
down to it.
How Many Stars?
added, "a #ttle stor does fall. People calla falling star. It' looks like a streak of light in the sky,"
"I wish we could go up into the sky," said "Knarf.
"Can't you please magic us clan eagerly. thoro?" Hanid asked the magi
asked Knart and Hanid to creep Mr Merlin simply smiled and under his moon-and-stars-and- coneta dressing gown,
Stora And Planets
"But what makes them siny up in the sky?" Knar asked.
The next minute, after Mr "Why don't they fall down?"
Merlin had mumbled. BOGO "Ah!" said Mr Merlin myste strange words, Knart and Hanlet "Now," said Knart to his sister, "how many siars did you riously, it would take a more peeked out from behind? the magnificent magician than even dreaming gown to see that they any you thought there were?"
"Well," cald Hanid "I don't I am to answer that question were now floating fa the dark really know, but I think there properly. Now and then," he sky. must be at least a thousand.'
when, from across the
Hardly had Hanid weld this
room, came another voice saying: "A Do you know what really suits thousand? There's a million" you? Do you never buy some- Knorf and Hanid looked thing that is not entirely around. It was their friend East "you"
Mr. Merlin, the Magnificent. PAI Or are you En "Impulse Magician. He had just stuck Pass buyer' = seeing yourself in us head out from behind the clothes that were designed for bookcase where he spent most a totally different character?
of his time. Ask yourself—"What is my. type?”
You, South, hold: 40865 VAS OE3AZ JAD
What do you do? A-Bid five no-trap: This fella pariner to go out, 'to's nam if he has anything more than the bascal minimum, two no-trump TERPOINT.
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding thros no | trump your partner has bli three - spades, : What do you do in this
Case.
Answer on Monday
Mr Marlin Comes Out
Mr Merlin now came out from behind the bookcase.
• ARE YOU THE EASY, OUTDOOR-LOVING WOMAN? Khorf and Hanid saw that he
Do you feel at your best in cash-was wearing a long, flowing mere pullovers, jersey suits, dark - dressing sweaters beamed with brilliant skirts, tailored slik shirts, velvet | panta and so on?
Do you fall for plain, heavy gold jewellery?
In "your" fur leopard on ocolet rather than mink?
KOWIL Curiously enough, the dressing gown was | embroidered with the moon und stars and comate. On him head, be wore a tall hat with a small elotto bulb flickering at the | very polit of th
Bir Merlins 'came over and
Rupert and the Blunderpuss-29
Rupert is more sure than ever another direction he follows them that he on' Use' 'right' track. and is just in time to see Algy, Puz. ***The 'conjurer:wants us to bring and Bill Badger dashing towards thxt, Blunderpums, back,” ba some cottage, though a third pal. . breather. "Everyone seems to be Edward Trak, is standing calmly... running away from it, but where a under a tree "Hi Bdward, whila ie? Why does everybody ste is going here?“ queries Rupert except me? Hearing voices in restlessly..
all 'nights KENERVED
They were surrounded by glittering stars,
of
The glittering stars wise not only over their heads but on all iddes and below them as well They were surrounded by staral ¦ "Yes, there are millions ant millions of them," Mr Merlin was saying. "Look, there's the " Dippert And look, there's the North Star! And, look, there's Mors and Venus and Juplies and all the other planots"
Knart and: Hanid count all the afans around them, But it was like trying to count the daisies in the faldg, or the Trees In the forest or the munda en a beach or the drugs of water in the oceani
• tried ta'
"Millions and millions of tham," nid, Mr. Morling the Magnificent Magician, as he an his two star-gazing friendl miled into the room ado, after their trip into the skra