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LADY
your
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1959.
WOMANSENSE
Life In
LUCK-
The
Ivory Tower
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
Chat
are
elently
obligations
defined. VIRGO (9) (August 22-Sep-
.I WATCHED
tember 22); Next year may And you in a new environ- ment and the change will THIS BOY
atimulating and
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31 (3) January AQUARIUS
21-February 19): If you have not achieved every- thing in 1959 hoped for, start 1960 full of confidence that it will be a better year for you, PISCES (89) (February 20- March 201: lly increasing your efforts next year you will have no difficulty in reaching the goal you have set for yourself.
ARIES (1) (March 21-April 19): One outstanding event of the past year wil remain R very happy memory to you for a long time to come.
TAURUS (6) April 20-May 20) Having an opportunity
practie Enke some
advice from an expert. head his words. You will find them very useful Inter in the year. GEMINI (2) May 21-June 21): Some money owing to you for a long time ought in be collected today, as The debtor seems to temporarily in funds, CANCER (10 June 22-July 21: Keep a close relative Crum mixing in your private affairs. I can only protracted
LEO (12)
be
· argu-
ments,
(July 22-August
21):
Be careful in dealing
with make
your landlord and
ware that all you
AQUARIUS
prove
bencficial to you. LIBRA (6) (September 23.
October 22): You will be pleased to receive New Year's
from greetings Homebody who passed you by at Christmas. SCORPIO (7) (October 23- November 21): Although
- night.
itor'
hesitate to
yon may have to combine business with pleasure to
show A high spirits as though the occasion purely social,
FROM DIOR
by Jill Butterfield
HOW TO GIVE A PARTY
Talk Shop That's How To Keep Your Guests Happy
by ANNE SCOTT-JAMES
IF you want to give a friendly dinner party, sit your guests at a round table. Half the hostesses in London Lady Hulton, Coristance Cum- mings, Lady Pamela Berry, Mrs Jack Hawkins, Mrs Michael Foot among them will tell you that this is the way to make the talk flow well.
But even if you are just married, and your table is a packing case with a cloth on top, you can still give a fizz of a dinner party, because this is the easiest sort of party in the world.
regrouping of guests
only
which
There is none of the difficult grouping and whose only make cocktail parties such an orden). THE boy
stage experience was designing dolls for his sis to make a dinner party
The important thing is NEVER else's husband if he can
If you are going a splash, you more see the top of your head.
can run the gaunt and a good ter's toy theatre looked so formal than your regular
wine merchant wilf advise you. Get in help, cer- The best sort of conversation, If you have to economise, then completely overwhelmed by dard of life. were
fainly, but don't be terrorised by in my opinion, is shop, so if the serve good martinis and sherry it all.
a hired butter who won't admire men start talking shop. don't BEFORE dinner and a cheop your Woolworth spoons,
head them off and make them wine WITH dinner rather than
the other way round.
Sandwiched
between
SAGITTARIUS (4) (Novem
ember 22-December 21): spear-carrying stage hands, An unexpected invitation limbering ballerinas, and for to-night's celebration what will give you a grand oven- ing full of fun Inughter. CAPRICORN
and
Wobbly chair
M-
miserable,
4
What could be more interest- 13g to writers than books, to actors than the theatre, to bust What excuse?
business? KNOW very, very few houses ness men than
And K where the old-fashioned, their wives and girl friends pre-
dinner party is sumably, thare their interests. stuffed-shirt
I
sounded like the noisier section of Mont- martre all on the stage of (11) (Decem- the Adelphi Theatre to ber 22-January 20); You gether, stood Yves St Lu- given except in will be grateful to be rent-pale, hunched,
Fome united to-day with dear enes from whom you were separated last year.
YOUR
LUCKY NUMBER: 14 Count the letters in your add the total to the number shown in brackets after your sign of the Zodine. This is your
number lucky
for week.
Grinne
FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1960
and!
the
St Laurent
50
What about the timing.
cm-
Of course, if you have invited an engineer, a port and your bank manager, you can't talk But then you have rather asked for it, haven't you?
*
the bassles. and even there the facade is cracking. I have dined at the Brazilian Embassy as the
shop. It was hard to see how guest of that delightful brigand, he came to be mixed up in M. Chateaubriand, and the
mad-house which made Chelsea envious.
would have made zoings-on the traditional champagne-
In nearly every house I know, soaked opening of the Dior
guests expect to hand dishes. After dinner-even if it is the by com- pour collections tame
the wine if the host is mort informal cook-and-scIVC- it was parison. But
and the carving,
on. They it-yourself sort, I am all for final rehearsal of Koland certainly do in mine. And leaving the men at the inble. Petit's £37,000
who provided they do not stay for ballet there's usually somebody
ever. This is an old English "Cyrano de Bergerac," and gets a wobbly chair.
the custom which foreigners deplore, hns designed!
but which I appreciate. the costumes-a "labour guests the food, the drink?
The women can tidy up a Chamanry 21 VIRGO August 22-Septem of love," he says,
When you invite people, tell Jelsurely way, and it the men February 19: A change ber 22): An important;
them at what time you expect hang on at the table til mid- family problem will come up That could mean
anything to sit down to dinner. Don't Just night, you must be a very plain today and you will have to from a man who can command say "come at eight," because
make
to upwards ct £300 for a dress and they don't known if eight is 10 of women or else very bad a short journey
listeners. discuss it with the proper who has the vast Dior empire when you dine, or merely when
Finally, the food. where the and a £5,000,000-a-year busi- the drinking starts.
possibilities are inginlie. LIRA (September 23-Octo-ness behind him.
ber 22): Now that the holiday season is over, you; will be ready to atart thei year's work with renewed energy and zout. SCORPIO October 23-No-d
in your
daily routine, starting today, will enable
you
tr
work
ciently this year.
201: view
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very have
B
PISCES (February 20-March An important inter- today will sto moothly, hnd may far-reaching, riferts your future, ARIES March 21-April 19: the te alert Re more things happening around you, and don't let anybody into an unwar- Jull you ranted sense of security. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Be careful wher signing a document today, making read sure that every detail of it before- hand.
you have
GEMINI (May 21-June 21); In order to avoid careless spending as in the your past, you ought to make up a budget and stick to it. CANCER (June 22-July 21): Make Bure to keep
made for today, us the other party counts on your complete reliabi- lity.
proncise
LEO July 22-August 21):
person.
BU
IT'S GOOD
new
ven-
But if you say "come about right for 8.39," they understand Crectly.
The number
QUT if I were a shareholder in those Dior-made millions
consider his ture just about the only really is ember 211: This year may good news I'd heard of the bring
reduced you
res- boy since that October day two ponsibility and you will not years ago when Christian Dior with
devote died in Northern Italy. mind being able to more time to the work you! enjoy doing.
For Dior himself was BR expert in a dozen felds-author (November corsetiere, men's wear designer, 22-December 213: A rather perfumier.
SAGITTARIUS
LIMO
THE IMPORTANT THING IS
-NEVER BE PRETENTIOUS.
MEN don't like weak cocktails, are plenty of but there pleasant wines to be bought for
a reasonable price.
So what exquse can you find for puiting off that dinner party? Not the money, not the lack of sia but sheer nerves.
Stop dithering. and your
date.
-(London Express Servics),
Put them at a round table... that will make the tolk flow.
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS
If hallday candles staža table part rubbing alcohol and two lien, gently scrape the hardened parts water." wax fron the surface with a dull knife.
•
The eponge the stain
Chill candies in the refrigeru- with cleaning fluid — away from any bopen flame. If the etin re for for 24 hours before using, mains, sponge the spot with a They will bum easily and won't cloth dipped in a mixture of one- drip.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Pieman's Mistake
-Instead Of The Pig, He Caught Simple Simon-
Mn the room, the place where
he had his
By MAX TRELL
them the story they had long meh's favourite spot since forgotten it.
So Mr Punch began: "One night I heard a squent- rocking chair and People will thoroughly enjoy a where he did all his resting, was ing. I heard a Boy shouting: weil-renst joint of lamb with red right next to the bookerse,
Come here! Come here at current jelly and good
Yew would sit for hours looking at once, you greedy Pigt tables, but they WON'T like the books and now and then he lieure a la reyale unless you can even looked inside one or two voice. do it properly.
of them.
Book People
He
recognised Simple Simon's
"I looked inside the Mother Goose Book," continued Mr Punch, "and sure enough, there
"I know all about the Book was Simple Simon chasing a
the
the books and
Pic up and down the rows in his mother's cucumber patch,
Tripped Over Stone
The Pir loved to eat cucumbers,
"Come along," Simon said to
FIGHT guests (including you) usually considered an ideal number, though personally
dinners My own I prefer six if they are people
ere always common Interests who three courses cold hot, cold it
he often told his want to talk rather than chatier. I am cocking myself or hot, hat, People."
trictxls Knart and Hanid, the cold If I have help.
Studow
with Children
the mixed bug, ! If they are a suggest ten, which means two My favourite dishes are Turned About names. "I watch
'I'll hold the bag and you groups of talk after dhuner. chicory rolled in thin ham and them coming and I watch them "All of a sudden I saw Simon man.
and fall on go chase the Pig in this direc- baked in a cheese
going. I hear then singing trip over a stone SAUCE, Allow a good half-hour for potted shrimps
I sometimes remember his for
лose, while
It won't be any trouble at the Pig tion. sheer fand abrupt critic may cpset Mut this is The first time drnks before sitting
Children-who-lived-in-the-scampered off to the other end all down, easiness; roast lamb or duck or a youn while, but you must since he became
And of the field and went on eating the gungling because most people arrive ired beef camerole with wine zabag-Shoe? hear them cry. of the your natural im-gurehead
"You help me, too!" restrain
House of and strung-up (if it is a week lone or a fruit flon. I always sometimes, late at night, I poke cucumbers,
Then sumon and Dior that St Laurent
bas day), and they want relaxing.
"Simple Simon suddenly no-
I spread pulse to reply in kind.
serve cheese and a salad at the my head inside
ticed me and said
out behind the Pig and started CAPRICORN December 29-shown any notable part at all
pudding for follow their adventures." same time as the hls in anything outside
Ai dinner, sit them at a round those who prefer it. Then coffee.
Knarf esked Mr Punch what "I can't understand that Pig. running with the Plg in front January 20); This may be
And look table i scented salon world.
you possibly can,
adventures he had followed All I want to do is put him back of us. the right moment to plan what's happened to Dior design-decorate it with a delicious cloth But below, I give the menua si jamong the Book People.
in his pen where he can't eat
Caught Him entertainment for the ing since then.
twenty mats and light it with two hostesses who are
"I may havo told you this these cucumbers and he won't "I've caught him!' the Ple- friends whom you feel you
candles.
times as akilled da i am. One before," said Mr Punch. "It's come.'
men suddenly shouted. He's in entertains with servants and in about Simple Simon who had *That's because he likes the bag That's the way to do have rather neglected
DON'T have large candic- past year,
was the dropped hemline when sticks or tall flowers, which will rury; the other cooks herself, quile an adventure catching a cucumbers,” I said.
and has to watch the budget. Pig in his mother's cucumber "Simon shook his head sadly. "I walked along with the Ple-
patch."
Mother's Cucumbers YOUR BIRTHDAY: If this all the women had been spend- cramp your style with
man as he carried the bag on I am not recommmending wines, ing every evening putting theirs fascinating man across the table
Knart and Hanid answered
But they aren't his cucum- his shoulder, you
IL'S no Se shooling under- as this depends entirely on what that if Mr Punch had ever told bers. They're my mother's, and "But where's Simon?' I end- standing glances at somebody you can afford.
she doesn't want them eaten up denly asked. He's disappeared!"
"Humph!"
said the Pleman.
to disappear "I gues
I just have to Just like Simon he walt until gels finished, after we've caught the Pig for though. I can't catch him.
him! I don't know why he goes Reached Figpon
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A problem which has seem. ed very complicated to you will be solved today in
quite a simple way.
ix
or
There was the tropeze which the
did not go with a swing; there
birthday, your should find life easier this up.
make year and begin to
soild plans for the
some
future.
JACOBY on BRIDGE
CUPPOSE that the man to your
opens
to
Jeft
опе no-trump and his pariner raises him three no-trump. It is impossible that you will hota hand strong enough in high cards to make a penalty double, However, it is possible that you hold a hand which with the right lead will beat the contract.
To illustrate, note today's East hand. Had North bid two clubs (Blayman) you of course, would have doubled for an eventuot club lead. However, as the bla- ding actually went, you fixed,
are
+CARD Sense♣♦
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Double Pass 34 Double Pass
7 You, South, hold: AQJ67532′ Wi 47% 4173
What do you do?
44
A-Pass. You have not shown any, high cards by your three spade bild and you do have three clube.
TODAY'S QUESTION Again your partner has dou- bled an opening club bid. This time you hold:
MASIT VK445, 4A74 822
What do you do]
WEST
J1004
Q1032 753
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NORTH AKQ9 ♥茹87 ♦ Q 1090
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EAST
4032
4654
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SOUTH-(D)
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South West North
Fast
7 N.T. PASS 3 N.T. Double Pass Puss Para
Opening lead—k ?
In his collection last July, be threw together all the glaiest Flammicks in the busluess-the puffed-up balloon, the pured- down sick, the empire dress, the chemise. the double her. anti a real woman couldn't move in the lot of thern.
NEW....
Now I'm
because he's
that
not saying
had al last to concentrate
that on clothes will move beautifully, that will keep their glamour across the footlights, that are designed for [a real purpose, his next fashion collection will be a sensational Bucose.
But I am saying that the swearing, sweating. euperbly alive cast of Cyrano must have been a new experience for a boy whose He has held all too few,
At 21 the mantle of a master fell on his bony shouldera.
Since then he has been guarded by his bosses us carefully as is the Koh-i-noor.
When I asked if he'd enjoyed his work with the ballet, ho beamed myopically behind his pebble spectacles.
Enthusiasm I saw there for the first time.
Dr John Fisher of Dallas hos come up with a lead-directing double to handle this situation.
The Fisher double in today's
"I've always wanted to do it sequence demands a club lead
and I've enjoyed it so much." Of course the opportunity for
But how would you feel if at double won't a Fisher more than once in a blue moon 21 you were placed like a pup- but it worth waiting for since pet in an Ivory tower where a otherwise you will have no way master had first set the strings? ever to direct the winning lead.
---(Londen Express Servson),
arise
that
What about the menu
menu?
TWO EXPERTS
(who really know)
ADD THEIR
VIEWS
MRS CHRIS CHATAWAY, young bride of the naw MP, says: “Wo have #dinner party once # fortnight... always six peoplo, as we only hava six- chairs. and three
Our courses. favourite guests are the Bannisters and the Brashers, and Robin Day in good, as ho never stops talking.
"I start with Honeydow Melon cut into round balls, soaked overnight in port, and returned to the skin; or with Coquille St Jacques, which is
very chaap. Then a rica dish like shnablik on a skewer, or Boeuf. Strogon ff, as most of our friends enjoy foreign' food.
"Then a syllabub, a mousse or apple crumble, which in cheap, and always popular,"
CONSTANCE
CUMMINGS
says:
"I always have a very light fint dish, like thin soup or grapefruit. Then solid roast, dither • joint or a bird, with several vegetables and
good sauce. And a very simple swaet "like fresh fruit salad.
Mad for tea
2
"I serve
wine
Main with the couman, but beer as well, as my hus- band and some men prefer it. "After- wards coffee and brandy, but not liqueurs.
"About 11 p.m. sarva scalding cups of tex. Everyone refuses until pour my own cup, when they go' mad
for it."
by a Pig.
"Just then Simon's friend the of the way he does!! Pieman came along. Simon told him about the Pig in the cucum- "Finally the Pieman and I reached the pigpen. The Pleman 'Shucks,' said the Pieman, emptied the bag and out zell 'catching a Pig is easy. You've Simonl
ber patch.
Just got to know how to do it. "I must have fallen in by I'll show you."
"With that,
mistake! Simmon said.
the Picman "The Fieman was very angry, reached under his little wagon He went oft saying he'd never and pulled out a bag.
help Simple Simon catch an-
"'All you have to do. Simon, other Pig ngain.
is get the Pig Inside the bag. "As for the Pig, I found him Then you carry him home as curled up under raspberry easy as a sack of potatoes." bush, picked him up and put **Let's catch hinj right away,' him in the pigmen. He was so
Full sald Simon eagerly.
of cucumbers *All right, egrend the Ple- couldn't even squeal,"
on
that
Rupert and the Snowball-5
Rupert and Algy: wait awhile homeward, not, noticing who is
t without seeing anything more of coming after him until he begins
the crow.
Then they give up. to tell. Mr. Bear how he Tom "Let's make us snowman, later the paper bag. Then he starts. saya Algy, "and I'll bring and points. Look. I do believe something to pur on it. that's the very bird that played
Right-o." Rupert agrees,
Now the trick on me {” by cries. "It 1′0 pa and ane my Mummy for must be hungry. Can you
more buna, He hurries ace it, Mummy?'
ALL RIGHTY BELENVED"
ho