THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1960.
WOMANSENSE
BY SALLY VINCENT
W
ceilings are going gay...
... WITH DOONS
DRAPED... JUST HOW
A FALSE
THE AMERICANS LIKE IT
TO LET THE LIGHT FILTER THROUGH
BORDERED
AND CURTAINS
Cell-
HAT goes on under your feet is rapidly becoming of secondary impor- tance. It's what happens above your head that matters now. ing consciousness is bringing a home revolution that is easy and economical.
Doing something spectacular with a floor has a habit of run- ning lato hundreds of pounds.
Giving the same interest to
celling Posts
a
e more
the the same paper are taken round
the top of the walks.
four ideas, says John These
ring and draped all round celling, as shown in the sketch. Fule cellings, the false eye-
alt do-it-yourself lashes, have become blatantly Siddeley, are
I suggest that if you artificial. They can be made, jobs,
or know you usually rue-it-your- simply, from plaster board, effectively from cut-out Perspex, self a simple papering job is a and hung from the original more practical start to celling ceiling by hooks and chains.
False
than a bold imagination and n talent for doing it yourself.
Interior decorator John Sid- deley arrived back fron Amerlen this week bringing with him nowa of a fanatical Transatlantic ceiling interest. in the States now, he reckons, people with plain white ceilings
as common as people about 1ft smaller than the top without television sets.
celling all round so that lights xed at the top of the room can alter round the edges.
aro
America's favourite celling treatment is draping. John Siddeley is already working on the Idea for Mrs Michael Wild- iram Loudon home. She ing's tends to have the ceiling of a Jong, narrow room draped with a flowered fabric. The 1-
is take terial
from picture rall wall level up to a central brass rod fixed along the length of the reiling.
Can
Alternatively.
be taken
The false eciling is usually
For a room with white. walls strip of printed and ceiling fabric can be used as a celling border and again as a trimming round the door and curtains.
Lastly.
Bica John Siddeley for a kitchen ceiling, using striped paper. The ceiling is divided into diagonal quarters
faken and the paper carefully material up lo the up to a central stripes
LADY
your
the centre point, with matched. Scallops of
LUCK
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24
AQUARIUS
21- (January
given, and try to learn February 191: A new ven valuable lesson for your
look ture may not
future conduct. 100 promising for a start, but if you stick to it and don't lose patience, you will make It a success. PISCES (February 20-March
20): Flattery from stranger should not prompt you to spend money which
sltull you know
be up- lied to a more useful pur- rose.
11
ARIES March 21-April 19):
You may be invited to large gathering over the weekend. Be prepared maintain your reputation sa
Lalkor. witty
lo
TAURUS LApril 20-May 20):
At
family reunion
bo
tolerant of a false step a
relative
made, if you are convinced that it will
happen again.
no
GEMINI (May 21-June 21):
Before definitely deciding
where to spend your sum-
mer
0
consciousness.
Here are two pieces of experts advice:-
First, never attempt the job alene, The most important part of ceiling papering is the first six inches.
Secondly, always start paper- ng from the window 10 other enti of the room.
the
TO MATCH
STRIPED ... AND THE WALLS TAKE SCALLOPID EDGES
Look
Up!
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Mr. Punch's Friend
-Raggety Was The Prince Of Scarecrows
By MAX TRELL 4R PUNCH," said Knurf,
whadow Bay with th Turned-About Nans, to s old friend, whem he found sitting at his desk writing a letter. "could you tell me something?"
"Of course, but please wait a moment while cross my "1" and dot my T's," replied Mr Punch with a pleasant smile.
Knarf waited patiently while Mr Punch crossed his "T" and dolled s "s",
He's ready
"Ah, now I'm ready for you. my Boy.
What is it you would like to know?" Mr Punch asked
Knari.
Mr Punch has pushed his SAGITTARIUS November
glasses back over his forehead. 22-December 21): It would He put his pen back in the be a mistake to spend allholder. The pleasant smile re- urrensonable amount ofmained on his face. money Bust to impress
"I'd like to know," said Knarf, neighbour.
"if there's such a thing as CAPRICORN (December 22-Scarecrow?"
January 20): A neigh-
Mr The pleasant smile on
face gave way to is Punch's
bour's visit may be
you, but since he
bore
seriously troubled you will expression of surprise,
help by just listening. YOUR LUCKY CARD:
this is your birthday, your Jucky card, no matter what game you may be playing, ought to be the KING of HEARTS.
JACOBY
EX
trow la something should know,
everyone
"Take a walk some day along a road in the country where there are cornfelds and you will meet n dozen Scarecrows. Why, I know 20 or 30 Scarecrows myself!"
"You do!" gasped Knari,
Talked to Raggoty
"When I was a Boy of your e." continued Mr Punch, "I used to sit for hours talking to Raggety out in the middle of my Grandfather's comfeld. Не was one of my very friends."
bes:
11-23
Could you tell me something?" Knart asked Mr. Panchi.
never anything but a proud old Trinos, guarding his cornfeld.
"I musi tell you that he "Was Riggely a Scarecrow. Mr Punch Knart asked, al- seemed to own the curalleld though he was quite sure, even more than my Grandfather did."
the "But did Raggety chose "Iagnety," answered Mr Crows away?" Knarf inquired Punch, was more then a Scare- of Mr Punch. "Did he keep crow. He was a Prince of Secre- them from eating the corn?"
before he asked, that he was,
Hore Mr Punch hesitated. Al length he shook his head.
crows. There wasn't a Scare- crow for miles around who was as well-dressed and a hand- some as Raggety. He was a real Prince of Scarecrows, yessirce!" "If he was so well-dressed," said Knarf, why was he called sald. 2451
Rogge:y?"
Never saw one?
"What!" he said. "Do you
mean to say you've never seen a Scarecrow?"
"No," said Knarf. "My Boy,"
Bald Mr Punch, "I feel sorry for you. A Scare.
on BRIDGE
holidays, make Burc WITH 15 points in high cards.
you will be able to afford to visit all the places you have in mind. CANCER June 22-July 21): You may soon be offered u position of increased au- thority and should be glad of the opportunity to show your ability,
LEO
South would open and no-
trump except for his worthless doublelon in heurts.
After North raises, South can revalue his hand to 17 points and hos Just enough to try for game. Its three-spade rubld Is eminently correct.
As for North he has a very
July 22-August 21): sound single raise for his part-
The decline of a friendship ner and to game,
delighted to go on
Which seems to have leat When each partner bids his hand to the hilt the chances are that careful play will be
Ala significance should not
be too deeply regretted. You Will soon meet somebody who will prove a worthy
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successor. VIRGO (August 22-Septem- bar 22) By concentrating on your particular subject and learning all you can about it, you will increase your confidence in dealing with any difculty may crop up. LIRA (September 23-Octo- ber 22): A friend's sugges- tion will help you to mako
a wise choice in a houBC-
hold purchase.
SCORPIO
(October 28-No. 21) Take Iriond's criticism in tho
vember
spirit in
11
which It was
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You, South, hold: AQZE VOL SA87 MAK743
What do you do?
A-Paiz. You don's often drop the bidding at the three level in this sequence but you have al- rendy bid this hand to the abwo- Buto 'maxim.
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bliding three spades your partner has bid thres hearts. What do you do now?
Answer TowerTOW
Both vulnerabic West North Fass 24 44
Opening lead-❤K
quired to
East Pass Past
make the game and this hand is no exception.
West starts off with three rounds of hearts, South Tuis the third Icad and draw3 trumps. Then he casher dum- mys ace of diamonds and lenda cond diamond toward his queeti Since East holds the nothing alamond king there he can do to defeat the contract. If he ducks South makes his queen right away and if he goes up South uses it later for a club discard.
How you wear them
"My
sald dear Boy," Punch, "It isn't how old or torn
Mr
way
"I'm afraid Ilaggety was muca 100 fine a Prince to let anyone go hungry," Mr Punch afraid he didn't chase the Crows away at all. No, he let them eat all they wanted."
Didn't like it
"I bet your Grandfather didn'! are, it's the your clothes
sald you wear them that makes you like that, Mr Punch,"
Knart. important.
"You're Punch,
"Ragecly
A WOMAN'S WORLD
THE 'fifties have been the
fain. More and more wives' have gone oul to work. More and more things to make life easier have been bought and -like refrigerators washing machines,
The Women's Decade was spotlighted recently by the Treasury, which published a 10-year survey of changing jobs in its "Bulletin for In- dustry."
The survey reveals that there were 1,500,000 more people at work in Great Britain last year than 10 years earlier.
And of these, 866,000 of the
• More wives are going out to work
to fill Britain's extra_jobs
• More gadgets are going in the home to make living easier
By TREVOR EVANS
to no
Washing machine soles have ing regional boundaries gone up by 50 per cent this year to new jobs.
DOMESTIC SERVICE hos compared with last year.
Refrigerator deliveries in the shrunk most of all in these 10 years. At the start of the 'flies Orst half of this year were near- ly double those in the first half there were 617,000 in private
domesite service. of 1958.
new workers wire women,
The number of
wemen at work increased by 12 per cent in the 10 years. Jobs for men went up by 5 per cent.
the have the women gone And Inevitably,
но оці out to work in greater numbers women
to work, the befor+? than ever
for inbuur- Another greater the need article in the Treasury's Bulletin saying gadgets at home.
lves a clue.
Sales of Cookers, electric and 313,000, gas, were two-thirds higher this year than last.
more
WHY
The reason Money spent on radios, tele vision sets, washing machines, refrigerators and cookers more thun doubled during years,
the 10-
At its crid
And the "Eving-In" domestic servants had been reduced by half-to 02,000.
Favor people wore, employed, too, in agriculture, Government Massive changes have taken Service, railways, textiles, coat- place in the pattern of jobs intres and shipbuilding. during the last 10 years, both in
But "on the up" were profes- the type of industry and in the dional services and shops, with regions.
Over border Scotland and Wales were the And the most spectacular rise "supplying areas" to some parts of all was shown by spin and of England, Although there tumbler driers,
were more people working in
IN 1956 home laundering Scotland in 1958 than in 1948 a net loss through mochinery was a new product, there was
37,000 men anzi In
that year
only £100,000 migration of
of these 7,000 women. And 18,000 men (HK$1,800,000 worth
and 12,000 women left Wales. driers was sold,
Most of them went to London
IN 1957 sales
shot up
Tu
£1,200,000 (HK$19,200,000), IN and the South-East, or to the Midlands. But even within the 1558 to £3,800,000.
was
THIS YEAR they will be prosperous regions there about £7,300,000 (HK$110,800,- massive migration-an army on 000) 73-fold increase in four the move, with an average of yearst
443,000 workers each year cross-
an
than
increase of more 1,000,000 workers. The metals, engineering and vehicles trades improved by 700,000. And the food, drink, and tobacco trades found joba for another 173,000.
Hash With Dash
Fash served adamc with brandy will make even leftovers taste like party fare, Warm. 4 ounces cognac in a Байсерам, ignite It with a match sad pour blazing over a heaping bowl- ful of hanh, The alcohol burns Away, leaving
delicious flavour.
YOU'LL FEEL FREE IN SARONGSTER
right," agrood Mr "Grandfather was very
THE
wore his clothes like a true Prince. He had a coat with only one sleeve, His disappointed. He liked Prince
trousers were
too.
as much as I torn at the top laggety almost
his corn, and his knees showed through. did. But he wanted
He didn't mind the Crows eating a bit here and there. He didn't like them eating all the
His hat was battered and faded. His shoes were both for the left foot. His cane had once teen the leg of a chair.
corn.
"Su
came
"But did any of this bother when he had to take my friend,
the day finally him?"
"Dld Knart asked Mr Prince Haggety, down. But just Punch,
before that happened I went to the cornfield and said goed-bye to Raggely and let him go.
"You see, a strong wind was blowing. Prince taggety just took off with the wind. The last I saw of him he was flying over "Whether it rained or it the hill. s proud and fine as stormed or the wind blow or ever. And even the Crows were the sun shone, Raggely was sad to see him gOY
Proud Prince
"Not at ell! He stood up proudly with head held high and a smile on his straw face.
Rupert and the Windies-11
Rupert turns to Pong Ping "They must be talking about that rocket of Bingo's," he says, "It's only pen it should fetch him to explain." "Oh no, you don't," cries a worried voice rust abave him, and 23 he starts to move Rupert feels himwell grabbed
behind the shoulders and awung off the ground. “There's no time to wake," continues the voice. "Our home and our work may You be destroyed by now. evidently know what happened. come, and put it You mus right! ALL RIGHTS RESERVOR
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