THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1959.
WOMANSENSE
YOUR BIRTHDAY.........By STELLA
Bo
FRIDAY, JULY 10
DORN today, you are a rather retiring for your own best goud. sterit disciplinarian with Kindly and affectionnte, loving others, as well as with yourself, and tender, you will make ne You set a high standard of per- molhors ned understanding par- formance and expect everyone
ents, You are neat and tidy in
You like clothes and enjoy house the centre
to conform. There is consider your personal appearance and able of the achoultencher In your tone will always be your make-up but you are "apple-pie" order. little too inclined to watch for beautiful the foults of commission-by making your
f of the social fe in your com- others rather than errors omission-perhaps mudle by munity. yourself! Cultivate more of ability to look on both sides of a question.
AL
Hollan
bont on
this
Among those date are: Glariu de Chirico, William Sir artis:; You have the ability to ac- Blackstone, Jurist and author on cumulate wealth. You are apt common law; Robert
to be something of a hoarder, Bigelow,
Payne zoologist: Marcel
And while you are generous with Proust, French auther. help and advice you are not
quite as generous with contr!- butions as you could afford to in store be,
You members of the fair sex are not as self-assertive as the mor folks and are often much
Tond what the stars have
for
tomorrow, you releet your birthday star rend
the corresponding part- raph. Let your birthday star be your ally guide.
SATURDAY, JULY 11
CAPRICORN
meet CANCER (June 22-July 231- excellent that you could
fine the "one and only." The middle day of three
(Dec. 23-Jan. oneB for all of you major efforts. Expect a plee of special 20)-If you are looking for a good fortune.
new job, there is just a chance you will make an important
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)- contact today. This can be your best Saturday
AQUARIUS (Jan, 21-Feb. 19)
of the entire mouth. Be pte-This can be your best day the pared to make spectacular pro- grese now,
VIRGO (Aur. 24-Sept. 23)- This should be a pleasant week end for travel, outlour sports, or visiting relatives nearby.
(Sept. 24-Oct. 23)- LIBRA Another day quod fortune. Utilise all opportunities to the best possible advantage now.
NOW.
SCORPIO (Oct, 24-Nov. 22)— Certum things can be done best
so plan to do on a Saturday, Sine of them
Fortune smiles.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. 22)--Klep an
out eye romance today, The chances ore
JACOBY
for
SOUTH was a sufferer from an
advanced case at The disease known N
Pass Allergy." He did not Bike to be shul out.
He had passed originally and In advanced cases of the disease. a men who has passed once never wants to pass again.
cure
week. 1 on vacation, anticipate
an especially exciting day.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) Cumbine business and pleasure
AN AXIOM FROM A COOK
M. Louis
gives me
a tip:
CLUBLAND CHEFS
BROOKS s
NEVER SETTLE FOR SECOND-BEST
***" by HELEN BURKE
old fashioned,
at Bronks's is still seasoning to taste and a little
some
Taustere hall of Brooker's served in silver plates, sonic butter and can it well.
in St James's Street gives no clue to its remarkable background.
But the food is more simple than it used to be. Members of Brooks's have to earn their liv. Like the Guarda, this and have little time to spend on eating. This is always sod club started 119
coffee for chefs, I house in 1764.
The book of rules, drawn up For i. 1712, is Interesting. exemple:
Dinner shall be served up Gl hall past four exactly brought up at seven."
This, because meals were gar- gantum. After the first part,
The old school
gently turn the For four servings, add 1oz. each of thinly sliced bolled ham and tongue cut into strips.
Add 2oz. thinly sliced mush- rooms, first gently cooked' in a little butter and mix in a little tomato puree.
now. Perhaps invite the boss to o'clock and the bill shall be SIEUR LOUIS REVEL, 119 original size. Dlp in beaten
your house during the weekond. ABIES (Mar, 21-Apr. 20)-- A day when you should strive
to get some essential things done | diners took a stroll to work up around the house.
an appetite for the second half. TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)—. "No gaming in the earing for There is romance for you it you ToOTH except fossing up are seeking it. If on vacation, reckoning, on penalty of pay- meet someone exelting.
ing whole bill of the members GEMINI ((May 22-June 21)—present." Could be a wedding day--yours
Later. Mr Brooks, founder of
or that of someme close to you the chib, Inld down rules for Enjoy the weekend troughly. Į gambling for each table,
If y
on the high-stakes table had to keep 50 guineas in front of them. I saw some chips for bets up to 100 gulncas.
on BRIDGE
Fortunately for North this was une time when he had the
his for
partner's disease. Four good trumps al- Ways come in handy whea your partner stals at a sult at the three level and bi spite of hir aceless holding, North raised his partner to Home.
There wasn't too mitch to the play of the hand. South trump-
CARD Sertsens
Q-The bidding has been: North East. Basth West 14
2. Double Таня Past
7 You, South, hold:
43% 475 4Q1087 MAK632
What do you do?
AllPass. You just can't find a milfactory bid.
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of passing your part- ner has bid two spades over West's two-heart bid. What do you do now!
Anwer TomOSTOW
SIDE GLANCES
WEST
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NORTH
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West North East
South
Pass
Pass 14
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Opening lead....♥ Q
et the second heart and since he did nut want to give
up
Among the wagers recorded In the betting book: "Mr Fux bet Mr Foley that Lord Temple will die before the Duke of Rutland." There used to be another rule At Brooks's that "ladies dogs" were not allowed.
One the
the chef des cuisiner, once of the famous Ciro's Club, be- longs to the old school of chefs, If they cannot the classicists. get certain essential Ingredients for a dish, they unit it allo- gether from their menus rather than use substitutes.
I asked him what, apart from the best of English dishes, he served when speels catering was called for.
of veal Ercalopes or cutlets with Milanaise garnish are another special dish, As they are very quickly and easily made, 1 asked M. Revel for his recipe. It is, of course, the classic one. The garnish
and First, prepare the garnish. Bot enough macaroni in salted Kaliani member of
water until it is barely cooked. Club objected 10 Indies Drain it well in a colander. bring classed
dogs Wash and dry the pan, and re- Add so, reluctantly, "Madies" were turn the macaron to it.
grated nutmeg, dropped. Dogs are still barred.
with
D pinch
of
A SCHOOL
Escalopes are bought already beaten out very thin, or use cut- lets where the bone is left ou and beat the meat out to twice egg, then in fine breadcrumbs and grated cheese, Fry on both sides in clatifled butter or but- ter and a little olive oil.
Anyone can attractive dish in under half an hour, and the work is negligible.
prepare
It's special
this
3
M. LOUIS, REVEL ...of the old school.
minutes in a
Turn into a buttered souffle dish and level off. Bake for 10 to 12 fairly hot oven 1400 degrees Fahr, or gas mark 6). That produces a-soll centre and golden top.
Star dish
Cheese Bouille.-Every ambi- tous cook "has a go" at
M. Rovel has n cheese souffle, special method.
Kedgeree. Twice a week, Away from the heat, egg M. Revel serves Kedgerce-truly
yolks, one for each person, are a star dish of Victorian days, yet well beaten into a thick white inexpensive. While I was in the sauce The mixlure is then re- kitchen, his sous chef was pre- turned to the heat to cook puring i-lovely large grains of Away Patna rice, cooked until no hard gently for 10 minutes,
was apparent when from the heat, add a mixture of kernel grated Parmesan and Gruyere groin was bitten. cheese or good dry Cheddar.
Whip the egg whites until stiff but noi cottonwool-like. Lightly mix the lukewarm cheese sauce into them, a little at a time.
BANS
TIGHT SKIRTS AND
HEAVY
MAKE-UP
0
Drain, wash and drain again the cooked rice thoroughly. Slowly melt as much butler us you feel you would like in thr washed and dried pan.
Add
Madame, Your Slip
May Show
ETTICOATS make news
PET
this week. First comes
a make-it-yourself
waist
slip made. from all things,
of foam plastle.
The plastic, which is halt an
inch thick, is sold by the yard,
the rice and an equal ready-pleated on to a hip-band amount of skinned and boned rayon jersey. You buy the cooked smuk haddock, flakestangunt needed to go round you, and seam it up some lucky Auto not-too-small pieces.
Warm through.
four girls need only buy one yard, For
They say it is Arat-rate for people, add three diced hard-
Bum- boiled eggs, Pile the mixture ing out the skirt of a
cheaper mer dress, and it and less likely to go limp than stiffened nyton,
on to a hot platter, dot. It with butter and, when it has melled Into the Kedgeree, serve It at
once,
Weini rarebit. Another Victorian favourite and one at Brooks's Club today. Here is the chef's recipe for four servings.
Petticont Number Two is a "aliy dress" designed by Suzanne Joly, a Parisienne de signer. It is made in heavy sli crepe de chine, is short enough to show the knees and has a high-waisted top with a squared neckline.
Grate oz. of Cheddar. Plage it in a double boller or pan standing in a larger one of hot : This slip shows, for Mme. water. Add ury English voly makes it for her cus mustard to taste. When the tomers to wear under their suits
of cheese has, melted, add one egg|Instead the conventional yolk and beat it in well.
blouse. The idea has caught on, and
manu now a wholesale Here is the chef's tip for a facturer plans to make slip nice Anish: Blend together dresses In all the colours of the teaspoon cornflour and one rainbow.
sup The third petticont is n dessertspoon milk. Stir them into the melted cheese. Remove and with a shape about it, the pro- turn into a basin, to be used duct of well-known founda- hours Inter. You can
addation drin. It has a built-in bra Mile old ale to the mixture but top and Inset panels to nip in It is not essential,
your waistline, and it is sold in Another
several bright colours, including chartreuse, "inidnight blue and rtrawberry pink lace-trimmed
ati,
flp: The mixture must become quite cold before It is spread on toast and browned under the grill.
Favourite
WHAT do you think is the favourite sweet all the your round? Of course! Individual deep apple ples made, when they Bramley are available, with Seedlings and the crust Just "what mother used to make a good shorti ono.
(London Express Service),
-(Lendor Express Service).
Household Hints
A little brandy will usually dissolve cut grass stains on silk or wool.
When trying foods which tend to splatter, place paper towels or plates, full or waxed paper over burners not in use.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
They Wouldn't Listen
-But Chris Played His Guitar Anyway-
By MAX TRELL
YOU'D think," said Christo-
about
you there, Mr Punch? And you, Mra Judy?"
"Sorry, said Mr Punch. I've
"YOU pher Cricket, ns he cane got to help Judy bake a cake.
over and sat down beside Knarf I haven't got time to listen to and Hanid, the Shadow Children music.'
"Nor said Judy. with the Turned-About Names,
THE Sooke School Board in northern Vancouver Island has fired what it predicts Tooke School Board by broadsides across North America against "improperly punch, mix and dough, pleaser
dressed school children." Tight-fitting skirts and sweaters, heavy make-up, elaborate jewellery, sideburns and leather jackets have been banned from the classroom.
has
been sent
them
trump control he promptly led the six and finessed dummy's jack. When that held South was able to make ve-odd.
Apart from the allergies dis- above it is Interesting cussed
trukt A leller If West to
to will not be permitted any make- nole that
to have up at all, and hair arrangements Tassed instead of bidding three parents telling Brarts North probably would their children properly dressed must be simple and neal.
also. Instead of for next term. have passed
in Dozens of school boards calking
nice game up a South would have had to strug-Canada and the U.S. have writ- ten to congratulate Sooke on the gle to make two clubs.
crackdown-and asked to hear the result of the experiment.
What constitutes a properly dressed North American school- child today?
By Galbraith
TRU
FILO
by MA Berries, Ink,
"You soon got used to shorts last summer, Roger. Besides, everybody's knees are socially noceptable at a cook-out!"
'MODEST MAKE-UP'
"Older girls in the senior high schools will be allowed only modest and 'simple make-up..
Who Are They?
lively music. I'm quite "And how about you, General Would you like to hear some good at playing my gullar." He Tin? pronounced it gy-torr. "But no. some good parade music?' they were all too busy working."
Too Busy "Sorry old chap,' said Gen- - Here Knorf and Hanid both eral Tin I've got my boots and explain buttons and spurs to polish. I asiced Christopher to who he meant by "they."
have to clean and all my muskel. "Thor?" asked Christopher, And I've got no time for your looking puzzled himself. "They music tonight." plain is then.
I'mean them is they,
"Boys will have to have con- ventional haircuts of fairly short fashion and equally convention- of trousers which may not be drapen und must not be either too low in the waist or tucked into the boots.
in
"Skirts must be of material and conservative
Leather motorcycle "No girl will be permitted to colour.
totally forbidden styles of Jackets are exaggerated weer "Giris in the clementary and doing. Blacks and shorts are under any circumstances." Junior high schools (up to 16) banned.
Teddy, with a big brush, was brushing down Whoa.
"How could they do that, Chris?" Hanid asked in sur- prise, "How can
you the
"It was the same with all of vacuum cleaner under water?" " he continued, getting Bustered. them," Christopher Cricket paid. Chris chuckled. "I mean-oh, shucks-I mean
"Mary-Jane the Rag Doll had the Toy People
an old dress to mend. Glorin Doll had her Doll House to clean
and dust. -London Emre Service).
SEASONAL STUPIDITIES
NEVER thought that Eva Bartok and I had
By
When they heard this, Knart and Hanid nodded. They under rstood very well that, by the Toy
People, Chris Cricket. meant Teddy, the Stuffed Bear,
Big Brush
Pushing Snails
£
They were pushing two snade around. The snalls were acting liko vacuum cleaners.
50 to
"Anyway, everybody was busy that nobody had time listen to me playing the vultum " "What a shame," said Koarf. "Nonsense," said Christopher.
General Tin, Mr Punch and his "Teddy the Stuffed Bear had wife Judy, Mary-Jane the Rag a big brush. He was brushing Doll, Miss Gloria the beautiful down Whoa the Hobby Hores, China Doll and Hiawatha the "As for Hiawatha the Small- Small-Sized Wooden Indian, Sized Wooden Indian, he was "I fooled them. I sat down on
Mrs Cuckoo And Whoo
busy making himself a set of the window-lil-and-got-bury, new arrows. Mrs Cuckoo was myself." much in common, but after meeting her I've KATE DALRYMPLE
Doing what?" Honid asked. They were sure he also meant using the vacuum cleaner in her found there is one thing we're agreed upon: Some-
Mrs Cuckoo, who lived inside Clock House. The two Goldfish "Playing music," Christopher
"I just made them, thing should be done about the stupid way in which
For day wear, my money goes the Clock and the Goldfah, who were using a vacuum cleaner in replied. listen." shops sell clothes out of step with the season. to the short-sleeved convertible lived inside the Aquarium, and their aquarium, 100."
dress with an overshirt, Jacket Whon, the Hobby Horse, who This week, Eva and I both The clothes you're already or cape to turn it into a sult. lived behind the curtain at the
back to the edge of the bookcase, wanted to buy some summer wearing, if you were lucky After six, we're
neek, or the wido "Yes." continued dresses. We set about it rather enough to buy them in time, scooped differently-sho asked a store to probably include at least one shoulder-line, and for gala war Cricket, "It was pretty late at und bare shoulders night. All the regular people In send some along to her Savoy variation on the shirtwaister, full skirts
house were in their beds Hotel sulle, I toured the London The designers took such a beat- take the floor. Straight-and-the shops on tool-bu; we both got ing from the supersonic rise- row evening gown are out, and fast asleep. But I was pretty the samo answer: Summer and-fall of the Empire line that and the strapless line is back sure that the Toy people would dresses are finished, there are they played for safety and stuck again, only winter clothes in stocic. to the classles thi
Out of sensor selling.came
summer.
There is surfeit of roses in
London at the moment, and about because stores were cons everyone looks like a walking cerned, above all, to be ahead of their competitors. But from flower-show, but the best rose The shopper's point of view, it is prints, alas, come from France. a bad practice.
Odd Thought
Chris
be awake. There weren't any fights in the house. But there was a full moon and the light of It led the Playroom."
"How did you get into the Playroom?" asked Knarf, "Wasn't the door closed?"
Through The Window
The clothes 2, you wil! be ISN'T it odd the way wo wearing this winter-If you dash pond pounds and pounds
"I don't bother with doors." I think it is high time we out and buy then now-wi
Jan cut glass- Orepiled Christopher Cricket. "I complained, and went on com- almost certainly include printed plaining, until the stores come wool or corduroy. The ubiquit antique pots, and. Grecian camo in through the window
when the women and stood on the inside slit. to their senses, After all, who ous rose turna up again, this sens,
"Ladies and Gentlemen," wants to thinks about cotton time against a
win the prizes for creamy back-who
sald, how would you all uke to dresses when there is cold rain ground of fine wool, so thin that
arranging flowers always bear some music? Dance music! in two sit, or, for that matter, you can almost see through it, uso an old toothbrush-sing music! March musiel Any: fur in the midis of a boat or printed in two tones of pink holder, or a bashed-up kettle, kind of music you want. How WAYS. +
on haircord.
1.
Rupert and Raggėty-
home," saya Repert. "Well, don't The Imps of Spring -asem in, a hurry to dive into a thick - cogan do it," says the Imp, "take the though on waits to answer Rupert, shortest possible, way over the "You'ank what we're doing here, common and hurry! Thara's” i (It's, our jult to storm coming such as you have crits, the Imp. work in the Spring. But whatˇic – never seen') you doing out on a day like this ? ” ibe Uttle changra direction
again. *I'm taking this longre path to my
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