LADY
your
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1959.
WOMANSENSE
LUCK
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
VIRGO (August 22-Septem-
ber 22) Try to avoid being!
AQUARIUS January 21- February 191: A hold up on an important jób will give you a good opportunity to review the work up to date, PISCES (February 20.
March 20): Your capacity LIBRA for selfless devollen
thuse blessing to around you who
great
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need of comfort and human warmth.
ARIES (March 21-April 10): Do not get involved ton deeply with people born at the beginning of January; such associations
MAJ create unpleasant tensions.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Endowed with exceptional physical and moral strength, you Arc able to cope with most of life's difficulties, GEMINI (May 21-June 21): After having hesitated for
long time between two courses of aclion, take the bull by the horns and make an-Immediate decision. CANCER (June 22-July 21); excellent judgment in your choice of intimate friends and will Kather # very congenial group around you, LEO July 22-August 21:
When
it the company of friends it la best not to dis- свяч your financial affairs.
YOU are uning
owl or
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influenced too strongly by the opinion of others; you have enough sense to know what is best for you.
(September 23-Octo- 22: ber
You
n! Tяy that an account of long tess standing
not been settled. And you should go. through your papers more carefully. SCORPIO
October Navensber 1 By being
ready to accept resposibil Des you will and that you get much more satisfaction out of life,
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WOMAN!
Lolita goes back to the nursery, for girls are grown up again Feminascope
BY JILL BUTTERFIELD
BE READY for the return of an old favourite - WOMAN. The kind of Woman Renoir, Goya, and Rubens saw and left us memories of. Woman mature, developed, and voluptuous. You may remember her. Now with SAGITTARIUS (November a sweep of the scissors the couturiera 22-December 211: You may have killed the little, lost Lolita be tempted to THIS ON confidence; resist the urge children, the boy-girl delinquents and keep your promise not they've spent the last few years to divulge it to anybody at creating. "So this year's ideal is all- all. CAPRICORN (December 22- Woman. The girl who's really January 201: Avoid routine grown up — upwards of 30 years, jubs today and devote your outwards of 36 inches. She has the time to tasks which whole of Paris to pick from, for, startlingly, fashion is being geared to the female. And those clothes that looked crazy on anyone over the age of consent are back where they came from the nursery. For the
Juve been trying to get at for a long while. YOUR BIRTHDAY: If thin
JACOBY on
NORTH'S two-club bi
Was
Staymun and asked South to show П four-card major. When South replied with two spades North might well have jumped directly to game, bat chose the more Conservative raise to three.
With a maximum 17-paint no- trump, South was glad to go on Ju game.
Looking i the North and South bands you can see that there are problems for South. He must lose one trick each in. diamonds and clubs and maybe two in hearts.
South decided to try to work out an elimination piny to foren a heart lead from West. Failing
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East Bouth Pas 2
North
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Since West held the ace clubs and both the queen jack of diamonds. The elimina-
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What do you do?
Your
A--Bid two 'no-trump. two-club response was a weak bid and your partner is xiill try- ing for game. He has bid your wonkest sult and your principal strength auchsma li is, is in dia-
mands.
TODAY'S QUESTION Your partner continues with a bid of three clubs. What do you do now?..
Answer Tomorrow
three rounds of trumps and knocked out West's nce of clubs.
Wost led the club right back, but now all South had to do was to take his two high clubs and the ace and king of dio- monds and play third dla-
mund.
In the
This put West back lead with nothing but hearts, end he had to lend to South's king.
Why can't we have an electric blanket like
other people?
curse.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
A Trip To Switzerland
-Knari And Hanid See Many Wonderful New Sights—
:
By MAX TRELL
"NARF, the Shadow Boy with the Turned About Nome, was sitting on one of the book shelyes when he won sud- denly surprised to see something while falling all around him. He was eyet
curious to see for they wore what sort of country SWIT- ZERLAND was.
They both let out a shout of wonder and delight.
"Look at those mountains!" cried Knarf.
"They're as high as the tky!"*.
more surprized, cried Hanld. when he looked closer. to see All around them, Knart and that the things that were falling Hand Bow mountain peaks were snowflakes.
Now it isn't usual for snow- akes to start falling inside a bookcase.
the
Berass
Knart shouted room to his sister Hanid,
**It's snowing up here on the second shelf!" he called to her, Hand made herself small and climbed up.
mom late
There seemed to be hundreds of them,
Sun Shinos
મન માંથ
"It's knowing up here on the second shell!” Knari eniled.
Some of the mountains wire shumped the sugar loaves. Some of them were shaped like cowa Some were backs.
rounded as though someone had snapped like a ball. Some were pointed it off like an electric Ught. like a clown's hat. Some looked Iffee houses with chimneys,
The wind blow. The snow started falling. Kart's hai
All the mountains werd blow off, Hanid'a teeth chat-
And now, tored and she shivered. covered with snow. with sun shining down on them, they sparkled with a million diamonds.
Puff Of Snow
said, "Why," the
few It's all drop- You ping out of that big book on the
Far down in the valley, Kratt next shelf. Here comes a puit of it blowing out right nowri
600 Sure enough, it was just as and Hand could
green Hanld said The snow was grassy slopes where herds of blowing out of a tall, half- cows and goats were grazing. opened book, lying on the shelf
above.
Knert und Hanid both climbed
up to have a closer look at the
first time in years a curve isn't a You can't wear in-and-out evening dresses unless they have something to undulate over, need the help of a bosom, a curve of hip, a long length of thigh. For the first time in years maturity is an unmixed blessing. You can't go on being a tousled child-bride type in a strict suit. To get by with all that tweed and tailoring you need far more sophisticated sex appeal than ever came out of a jar or bottle of zard in there?" hormones. You need the poise that you get from living-get the picture of the ideal woman in ankle-length | chartreuse silk evening dress. For Hanld's skirts swirled around the first time in years you need a her knees. face that's been lived in. You need Hand, before the whole room your age. BE IT.
Photographer Norman Bates achieved this beguiling ofcel by developing his film in a graby developer then overprinting hia print and bleaching back-losing the lighter comes and accentuating the darker-in a bath of forṛi-byaride
book. It was marked SWIT- ZERLAND.
"Somebody teft it open!" said Knarf. "There's a whole bliz-.
Nose Turns Rad
Wind and snow came blowing out, Kṇurt's nose turnod red,
"We'd better gel it shut," sald
is covered with snow.
But all at once, the wind died down, the snow stopped falling. The wind stopped blowing. Λ shaft of sunlight came stream- ing out from inside the book.
The storm's all over," said Knarf,
The Khart and Hanid won! up close to the book and stuck their heads inside the COVETS,
And then, all of a sudden, tho sunlight disappeared once more
They both ran out of the book, They shut it tight.
Then they looked at each other and laughed.
"SWITZERLAND's a wonder- ful plece," Knurt said. "One minule the snow falls.
"And the next minute the sun shines," said Hanid.
Rupert and the Outlaws-35
Swerving to the irft the dog heads might up the hilbide behind the log cabin. "H, that mum be wrong," the woman declares. "My little boy doesn't generally play up there." "Oh please, let us go on." Rupert pleade The dog seems very sure of the
trail. If your boy fr up there, that would explain why you gor TO answer to your calls. You were all searching downhill instead of up. How fast that animal is going, hope I can keep it in sight," And he tries to find the easiest way up the steep boulders. ALL HIGHTS RESERVED
FASHION FOCUS FOR THE YOUNG
YOU would think that,
By BARBARA GRIGGS
with plenty of excel- lent, low-priced_ready- made clothes flooding into the shops, fewer and fewer
would maker. bother to make clothes for themselves.
women
would be wrong..
You
feel out of touch, for shops and stores who think they know and have got it wildly wrong, and designers who are still thinking in terms of Peter Pan collars and lots of nice blue velvet.
These are the women who Five years ago most will be deciding whether to fall women were reluctant to admit for the Paris line or not in five they made their clothes them- years* - time. They're worth selves.
Today, even fewer listening to. women would care to admli
What do they want? What they are dunces with n
Gathering impressive momen- peedie, tum this nulumn is an upward
THEY WANT their own de- partments in shops and stores where they can pick around and
boom in the home-dressmaking JEAN-AGE CLUB us without older women.
business.
Symptoms of the boom: the dramatic expansion of fabric departments all over London; the rush by all leading pattern people mud fabric arms to stage fashion shows,
breathing disapprovingly down this their necks and disparaging their
young taste.
What age-group' in
most spends country
on
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clothes, hair, make-up?
THEY WANT No prizes
more good, for the correct nnzwer: it is, of course, the simple tailored clothes
teenagers the girls just out of
some
Currently there are four or school or earning their first thing that, apparently, hardly five running in London to put three or four years of weekly exists in the Jean-age market-
Ideas in the home-dressmaker's pay-packets the carters who
head, including the super- don't yet have to worry about at their price, anyway, colossal Vogue-Jacamar show rent and telephone bills and the al Selfridges and Derry and price of fish, Toms as well As Jacqmar, and sending up pattern and fabric Enles like crazy.
more modest
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There's another show, put on by the makers Lanaknit Jersey at Dickins & Jones this week. The Inter Hational Wool Secretarial has yet another one running.
Surprise result of the boort: the wholesale houces no longer now have first pick of the ezeit- Ing new fabrics. In the shops now there is at least as much prett fabric selling by the yard as there is hanging ready-made
up on the rails.
To find out what these golden shoes. All of them agreed that THEY WANT up - to - dabe girls are after-aral to help
even branches of mulüple shoe- them got it-a leading store of shopo seem to think that five Bath has launched a brilliant milles outside Locion all de- scheme which deserves natlan mand for fashion comes to a wide Imitation,
dead end. Pointed toes andì thưa They have formed a Jean-age year's colours are a must. club (no membership fee) of a hundred or so teenage girls,
some of them still at school, COLOUR, STYLE others already old hands at clerical or factory world.
The club's coanell of 12 will relay' their suggestions, alii, clams and comments to the store's buyers and managers.
The store will act according-
Ty.
For the Leonia gers this will mean the end, they hope, of shuttling despondently between children's wear and the cheap end of the older fashion ralis.
THEY WANT * Chormous variety, plenty of colour and a zagy sense of style in separates the big teenage favourite. All of them wear tapered pretty trousera in, gay colours, will lease shirts or handsomely thick sweaters, for lounging around at home and they don't want to pay a lot for them. They would rather buy plenty, and cheap.
THEY ALL WANTED --' and Rose-printed wool-and-angora
they were firm yabout this ---- mixtures; thlek co-ordinated
For the store, whoso manag- more tight skirts, "The clothes jerseys (plain fabrics to team up ing director, James Colmer, they make for teenagers`ure with checked or patterned, ones thought up the idea, it's a golden much too loose; and baggy, und for a two-piece outnt) are avall way. to scoop the teenage good there aro far loo many full able in a width the home will of Bath. dressmaker has been praying for: 68 inches.
skirts altogether," commented 17-year-old Pornela Barton, Last week I went down to "We want more straight- Bath to meet a group of the skirted dresses. We like really There are quantities of the club'a
young members and full skirts sometimes, but the And a new beard an advance sample of the ones that are neither one nor
new printed wools. cheap rival, brushed rayon well-
ing at 6s, 11d. a yard in highly sort of comments they plan to the other are a waste of time,"
alert ring shortly. riaginative and beautifully
coloured designs. And more of
the cyathelle fabrics, Courtelle THEIR WANTS and Terylene, brushed nylon.. and much later on-Orion, aro on the way.
And since
THEY ALL WANTED—short #kirta. As far as that goes, „Dlar. Is the min for them every time. AND THEY ALL'AGREED teenagers them on the near-imposalhillty of find solved are far and away the ing pretty coats: 'cut straight But to me the most interest-greatest experts on teenage and streamlined in good, Bright fing part of it all is the rise in clothes, I print, it here for the colours-London Express. BREA
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