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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1960, 1)
WOMANSENSE
PICTURE BY MICHAEL BOYS
The White Collar Worker
THE job-switching season is on us again, and the white-collar worker is lured from all sides.
SHE'S WOOED by bosses from all points of the globe with the best-of-
With office-everything.
luncheon
vouchers, powder rooms, longer holidays. fatter bigger bonuses,
My secretary says she
shorter hours,
wage packets.
hasn't noticed it).
SHE'S MARRIED
by the man who finds her average weekly pay packet
in the top bracket a pretty healthy
inducement to the perilous business of matrimony.
My secretary says she hasn't noticed in
SHE'S DRESSED by manufacturers who know what she wants to wear, when she wants to wear it, and what she's prepared to pay. This year there's the best collection of around-the-clock, around-the-office clothes I've seen in many a working day.
LEFT: Boss-class dress in navy blue pure silk. White linen cuffs look super-
SPRING FESTIVAL OF REDEMPTION
- JEWISH PASSOVER
matzos for bread
THE aroma of good unleavened
and any baked goods contain-
cooking that wafts ing leavened flour, and the time from a Jewish kitchen of maize meal (the consistency and appearance of white corn quickens at Passover, men in bnking and cooking, the spring festival of re- Both meal and matzes-thin fat demption that is the oldest festival of this faith.
Or so it always seemed lo me as a child growing traditional Jewish
up on
dishes.
As in
wafers about 6-Inches xptare were a reminder of the exodus from Egypt, when the children
of Israel Red in such haste that they had to bake bread before the dough had time to rise.
The seder
meal Although matzos and are used att year, the unfeaven- many modern Jewish ed passover variety is prepared families, our your round diet specially for the pecaslon, contained foods other than And at our house, my ordinary those prepared under rabbinical scora of breukfust would vanish supervision
at the prospect of matzo brie, and endorsement, So special Passover dishes were matzos soaked in water, then a treat for me during the eight squeezial dry and scrumbled day holiday period that for this
with expe year began yesterday.
The most festive meal of the Even such Jamilar foods no holiday is the Seder, meaning chicken soun with Inuidinch the order of events making the (silver dollar-size dumplings of ritual of the evening. Orthodox matzo ment and eggs), chopped and Conservative Jewish fami- chicken liver, and kreptacles observe Seders on the Artit (mat-led noodle dough) in two nights of Passover; Reform soup or gravy tested extra good. Jews, only the first night.
The biggest Passover dietary Ours always had the air of a
by Jeanne Lesem
in New York
two or
families who celebrated together saw bae an- other almost daily,
three
Cooking was a co-operative effair, with my mother's genite fish (p-shaped fish balls, usually served cold in their own asple with a dish of horse- radisty a special favourite.
by JILL BUTTERFIELD
efficient. Super-practical too--they come
By Samba. off for laundering.
CENTRE: For the office where the boss likes "a bit of colour about the dress place," a tartan printed cotton Ibasic shades: blue, tan, or red) with a huge Puritan pique collar. By Bijou,
RIGHT: All-the-year-round dress in grey flannel, iced with a white choir-girl collar, easy with a full skirt. By Blanes.
LADY
your
But with typical childish diy- like of unusual flavours, By tastes ran more to pot roast or chicken, relishes and desserts. Particularly If mother'a aill plckles, chopped chicken liver or matzo meal macaroons were AQUARIUS
sponge and available. Both
cakes alko were walnut favourites, sometimes served with canned fruit,
"Feel" of food Reproducing such dishes to- day is not ensy, especially when you're guided by the appearance or "feel" of food instead of scientide measurements. My only alttempt at translating mother's genite ash recipe into measured terms was disastrous (the fish balls disintegrated in the stock).
change was the substitution of family reunion, although the How to prepare
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them,"
better defensive plays are made, I'll make
raid the unicity expert. "Hut It won't do me any goud.
My partner will be millify them."
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The unlucky expert bad every right to sound a trife bitter. He had opened the king of spades
and shifted to the queen of clubs, This club shift should have beuten the hand and was the only lead that could beat it, but the unlucky expert maid, his partner was there từ x him. South drew trumps and fried
the diamond finesse. It lost to
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CARD Senses
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What do you do? A-Pare or hid alx Bearis. The six heart bid is a gamble, but if you are slam minded this is no time for super-science,
TODAY'S QUESTION
East opens one spade. You, Boulli, hold:
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Answer Tomorrow
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East's king and then all East needed to do was to lead a low club to let his partner in, but East had no desire to play parte nership defence. He cashed his king of clubs and had no spado to lead. South got rid of his last three spades on dumany's dia- mondin,
I can't blame the unlucky ex- pert for being aggrieved. In shift to the queen of clubs ni trick two had been brilliant la- deed.
chicken livers
Chopped chicken liver is popular Passuver dish. Saute eup of finely chopped onion until softened but not brown in 2
rendered Lablespoons of chicken fat. Drain and reserve onton. Soute 1⁄2 pound of chicken livers in the fat until Well
done or use an equal amount of livers cooked in chicken broth, Chop Anely with
LUCK
CHINA MAIL
horoscope
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13
(January 21- February 19): A congenial atmosphere created with A few kind remarks will help you over an awkward situn- tion.
PISCES (February 20-March 20): If you feel that a re- cently made friend needs more time to understand you, make it a point to see him more frequently.
ARIES March 21-April 19): A person of the opposite sex may at first Boem very glamorous and desirable to you, but wait and see if you feel the same after t Bumber of meetings.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some extra work around the house ought to be done gradually And without endangering your health.
ontons and 2 hand-cooked SEES | GEMINI May 21-June 21);
or blend Rivers, eggs, and unions
прооп
in blender. Season with 3⁄4 tea- of salt and pepper lo
moisten with ndal tlonal chicken fat, to nchleva
thate and
spreading consistency,
Information which you asked for may not prove very
relinblo and you should get a second opinion before acting upon it,
Rupert and the Windies-53
Now Rupert really is in a panic. The little plane anawera no longer to any of the controls. It rushes alread thespite all he does to change it direction ne speed, and when it swoops down siteply through a thick equil.be shuts lila eyer and waits. Flies he opens them and
stares around him. The plane has glided to stop on the grass. Kear by in the Golliwog gelising * Wall, you've bad egy at him. your wish, says Golly, Did you enjoy it? Hehe, never mind. You needn't trouble to answer TTYE, Hupert." ALL MONTS RESERVED
CANCER (June 22-July 21):
Al
windfall unexpected Trill make you much hap- pler if you attempt to share it with one particular mem- ber of your family,
LEO (July 22-August 21): Not having shown exactly the best judgement in the choice of a friend, learn by your mistake and be more careful in future.
VIRGO (August 22-Septem- ber 22) A sudden problem. if approached quietly, and without undue excitement, will be easier to solve than you feared.
LIBRA (September 23. October 22): In your desire to please you may be in- clined to forget the extent of your financial obliga- | tions and spend more on a friend than you can afford,
SCORPIO (October 23- and November 21): Try avoid voicing your opinions too freely among people who Hire not sufficiently open- minded to be interested in another's point of view.
SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): Only by uning the utmost tact will you be able to convince an associate that his intended protest
to a superlor will de nobody any good.
CAPRICORN
(December 22- January 20): Peatpone the purchase of an article which you wanted, as you may And that you will have no moro uno for it.
YOUR LUCKY CARD: If today in your birthday, your lucky card, no matter what game you may be playing, ought to be the TEN of DIAMONDS.
CHILDREN'S CORNER A Call From Blinky
-EL: Wants To Know Whu Time It Is--
Everybody reached the tele- phone at the same time--all except Teddy, the Stuffed Beur, who tripped over bump in the carpet and tell fint on, his face. He reached the telephone
By MAX TRELL
THE
THE secret telephone behind the curtain started ringing. It was a remarkable telephone, After It had rung for a second about a minute later, or two It storied calling out.
"Answer met IL called,
"It's about ume you t Allower me" here," the telephone sand
Teddy.
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Remarkable thing
Kasrf and Hanid, the Shadows with the Tuned-About Nemes, both shouted:
"Here we come!"
"Hurry up!" said
The tele-
Now there was another re- markable thing about this magic telephone. Everyone
"I'm in my bedroom," sald Blinky over the telephone.
phone. "I'm not going to keep could answer it af the same "But that's the time it is.
on ringing all dayi"
time. It didn't matter how Blinky."
I was really a remarkable many people wanted to answer "Yes," said everybody else in telephone. There wasn't another it. there was com for them all! like it in the whole world.
Judy heard it
By this time everyone else in the room heard the tele- phone.
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Mr Punch, who was taking a nap in his rocking chair by the window, heard it.
the room, also looking at the clock, that's the time it is. Bibiky.'
Knari and Hand and Mr Punch and Judy and Miss Gloria and Mary-Jane ond Teddy, the all shouted: Stuffed Bear, and Hiawatha, time," said Toddy.
"Hello!" They just around the telephone talked.
"There len't y different
"Oh, yes. there {s." said stood Blinky.“
and
"Hello there!t" a voice answered back. The volee came "I'm coming!" he cried, jump out of the telchone. It sounded ing up.
loud and cicur.
is wife Judy, who was knit- ting by his side, also heard it.
Who Is it?" asked.
Hanld suddenly smiled.
Hanid knows
"Of course there is, Blinky dear. And I know exactly the everybody kind of time you mean."
The volee on the other end
"I'm coming. I'm coming!" she said, as she stulled the thing she was knitting into her of the telephone answered that
and ran toward it was Bilnky Male, sewing basket
the telephone.
Teddy, the came crawling the soft.
"Do you, dear child?" asked Blinky over the telephone.
"It's Wintertime," sild Honld, "That's what time it is!"
"Hello, Blinky." said every- Stuffed
"What do you want?" Bear, body,
"Thank you," said Blinky. "1 thought it might be Springtime. out from under "What I want to know is I'm down in my bedroom under
this,"
sold Blinky. "fell the roots of the apple tree. asleep.
I don't know what time can't
because ali see outside 1 is. I'd like to know the
my windows are covered. But time,"
I thought perhaps I had slept Knarf looked at the clock and Fo long that now it was Spring-
tline, stid!
"It's half-past ten o'clock."
All ran
"Here I come!" he shouted. Mary Jane, the Rag Doll, and Hiawatha, the Small-Sized Wooden Indian, and Miss Gloria, the beautiful China Doll, and || General Tin, the Tin Soldier,
arted:
"Here we come! Don't 120 Dway!"
They all ran from different parts of the room toward the telephone.
Not that time
"No, no, no," said Blinky over the telephone. "I mean, thank you very much, but that isn't the time I mean."
Kasrf looked puzzled,
"No," sold everybody. "It's stal half-post Wintertime.'
"I'm going back to sleep," Blinky said. "Good-bye.
And everybody, even the tele- phone, said:
"Good-bye, Blinky! Picasant dreams."
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