CHILDREN'S CORNER
Where Did
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 23
WOMANSENSE
London
By ELIZABETH
DICKSON
Joe Go? Fake flowers knock
He Went Around The World In Flue Pipes-
By MAX TRELL
**TTELLO, Joe, what do you
know!" Knarf, the Shadow Boy with the Turned-About Name, said.
And Knart's sister, Hanid, said with the same kind of cheerfulness:
"Hello, Joe, where did you so?"
Settled himself
Meanwhile Joe settled him- self down comfortably between Knart and Honid, and put his arms around their shoulders,
"I feel fine being here with the two best friends I've got in the world." he said.
Joe was a strange kind of person, that is, if you could call him a person at all. He was made of smoke.
He had just come out of Father's pipe, looking more like He had a puff than a Man.
sailed around the ceiling of the room once or twice, then he had foated out through the open door, floated up the stairs, and drifted into the room where Knarf and Hanid were sitting.
Looked like a man
By the time he reached Knar! and Hanid he really looked like a Man. He had arms and legs and a head. Except that he kept getting bigger or smaller or thinner
fatter from Dr
minute to the next.
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And every now and then, as he sal between Knarf and Hanid, he would begin to float off again. That's the reason
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Joe sat between Knart and Hanld with arms around them,
why he kept his arms firmly around their shoulders.
"But where have you been?"
the barrow boys
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But rather surprisingly today, when the art of real flower arrangement is at its most prolific-whether it's Oriental get-togethers at the WI weekly or up the other end of the scale, where Lady Rose McLaren is weaving fresh roses for a weddingarch, the fake flower business has suddenly come into bloom.
First hints of this were reported a few weeks back at a very regal occasion-when wax roses sneaked in amongst the much-publicised real at the Covent Garden Opera House gala.
Girl in charge
Ann Child-Freeman, girl in charge of the sales of Floreeda's plastic flowers (the other half of the shop runs a hiring service to restaurants, offices and centrally heated homes where, under a yearly contract, you can have a change of flowers every four weeks) has her Mayfair shop spilling out on to the pave- ment with 300 varieties of flowers, and some, like the carnation, are even impregnated with
scent
She has all the blooms made up in Italy but the shop originated in London two years ago via an idea from New York-where she found all the Park Avenue executive offices, flower alled,
7HICH
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dowers need the watering? Hard though it may be to tell the
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But how will the fakes affect the fresh flower business?
Take-over
pot of take white Christmas WINDOW-BOX owners ob- roses in the bathroom or an W
serve! a new idea for those arrangement in a corner of the who leave home at the week- room which needs lighting is a end, or just about to leave on practical idea.
holiday or have not the stamina to build their own-a firm in Bond Street are now selling in- door, self-watering window boxes:
They just need to be sponged over when dusty. But the true lover will not be fobbed off with imitations, however much taste.
Hongkong
Harrods, who this week, are knocking themselves out with both the real flower display on the ground floor softly playing fountains, 20,000 pink and yel- low tulips specially flown in
Ideal for busy living, half a from Amsterdam and Ludwig
gallon of water emptied into the Koch bird noises off stage (they
Covent Garden barrow boys reservoir at the base of the con- have dropped the stuffed-bird reckon they have been knocked tainer will keep plants happy At the shop you can buy single long-stem rose or alter-branch idea since a similar sideways which is saying quite for 14 days. In plain white exhibition last spring) and something. And they put it all enamel finish or with wrought
the potted plants iron stands, CAREER GIRLS, PLEASE NOTE!atively go formal and order their brand new All-But-Real- down
yourself a wreath (as one Shop feel that there will be a made in Hongkong.
London Express Service). customer did) or A breath take-over
even amongst the takingly real bridal bouquet (as greatest real flower lovers. another customer did).
TIP
for the "business executive" woman anxious to
on white paper.
"Yellow is the colour to use." I was advised last week by my favourite psychiatrist favourite party company that is.
It seems yellow paper stimu- lates the brain by signalling through urgent demands that marks should be made upon it.
"You wit agree if you think Hanid asked Joe. "We haven't for a second that white is mega- seen you for weeks and weeks."tive, blank, and utterly unsug-
"Was it as long as
asked Joe.
Middle of winter
"It was the middle of
that?" gestive," he said. Then-"Tell
the
winter when you were here
ast," said Knarf to Joe, "and
me quickly, what colour paper would you choose?"
"Black," said I, "with white
chalk pencil."
He changed the subject so
now it's the beginning of the swiftly I tremble to think what spring. Where
that time?"
were you all dark depths I revealed.
Four girls and one man run her team of hired out arrange ments. Currently, they have the stands at the decked out
cos Horse Show and given
a
summer air to the London flat of Anton Dolin,
Lady Pulbrook (the matriarch of flower experis remember that other wedding earlier this year) whose Knightsbridge shop specialises in fresh flowers out of season, contests this view. For people with a big house
or, a small income, or both, a
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Or could it be that he does ‘sunshine double' you
Then Joe smiled smoklly and not take me seriously either?.
was allent for a little while. At
last he began speaking.
"I went around the world," ******
he said.
"Now, Joe," said Hanid,
that really true?"
As true as blue,"
"is
said Joe.
"And 1 did it all-went around the world, I mean-in-a-pipe.
Let me tell you about it."
Joe started floating off again
but Knart and Hanid held him
down. Then he began:
"Now the Man with the first pipe went on a steamship and I stayed in his pipe until crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
Second pipe
"Then I got into a pipe. And that Man went an aeroplane --and we flew India."
we
second on
to
"Didn't you go across any
oceans?" asked Knart,
"No," replied Jog, "but we
went acros3 a big sea.
It's
caffed the Mediterranean.
all
"And then I got into a third And that Man got into a railroad train and we rode across India; and got into an- other steamship and sailed to Japan, And I stayed with him the whole time."
"But how did you get back to America, Joe, dear?" Hanid asked.
Scandinavian glass at its : most elegant a tall, palo :
which aquamarine goblet would make 食 plossing centrepiece for dinner table or a pretty flower vase,
can ruṇ up at home
THE clothes the holidaymakers fall for just as soon as they reach those sun-kissed the FUN shores are the SUN-clothes. clothes... the chic, slick and utterly different clothes you will see the length and jam-packed breadth of the fashionable resorts.
Glistening like marrons glaces, the gorgeous ones lie girded in bang-up-to-date simplicity.
Now is the time to do something positive about your sun- shine wardrobe, Having you (and your holiday budgets) well in mind, I went straight to the pattern cutter who is respon- sible for some of the best-looking playtime clothes in Europe. Under tremendous pledges of anonymity ("Who's going to buy my clothes if they can MAKE them for next to nothing!") he collaborated
The result is a wrap-around dress and a good-looking two-piece swimsuit.
Leave the teeny-weeny bikinis for the one-in-a-million beauties.
This one is not only immense. ly wearable-It is so runningly cut and zipped that you can quite happily mom in It
The motivation experts on ladies nylons
NYLON manufacturing company, displaying laud-
Flow to Hawall "Why, I just got into a fourth pipe. And that Man look an other aeroplane and we flew all the way
the Paclic across
Apable curiofacturing peretores d Ocean to the state of Hawali, and then to the state of Cali- how their stockings get bought or not bought, has been fornia, and then I got into a fifth pipe, and that Man got getting the motivation experts to look into the whole into an automobile and drove question.
way across the country
all
So to the corner of this
The experts
after ferreting psychological solution.
The thick practical tops E. round for several weeks came "And how did you get here?" up with lots of lovely facts, and nylons are pretty boring anyway, asked Knari. "Did you walk?" one of particular interest: Ls, they pointed out. Why not do "Oh, no you know I never that to most bewoner buying away with them.. and replace walk!" said Joey was stand-lingerie was a delightful treat them with some of the frills and Ing on the corner when Father whereas buying a fresh supply feininity the pastel colouring came along, so I hopped right of nylons, was boxing chate and reckless charm ofalingerie
Why not indeed? It has been into his pipe and tim's how. I * Psychological⠀⠀⠀⠀
got here! 86 now you" kiów,“
And he let go his arms and some time the nylon firm's intrigue, by - Kayser Bondory went floating out of the room, backroom boys then came up have just gone into the shop aray old put of smoke, wild shout of triumph and the Tut tops are a wide lacy band
or
casual cottons into a yard two of pique and a few hours' sewing,
We made our outfit in black Jacqmier and white printed cotton pique.
The dress has a single button,
For the dress, the average opens flat for easy ironing and packs all the elegant simplicity size woman will need 3yds you ever demanded from your and for the blind, 11⁄2yd
Never before was so much of the cream from the gilded saucers of the luxury-loving few available to you for so lille,
IF
on
MEN! BEWARE OF TIE-CARESSING GIRLS
you want to spot a man who's well and truly loved,
concentrate on his tie. A tie is a love symbol- or so the Tie Manufacturers' Association has suggested.
A tie, when straightened or tied by a woman, pro- vides "a substitute act of caressing."
A tie reveals the mood of a man-pale blue means he just wants to hold hands, dark grey means he has more on his mind.
And, if that wasn't enough, a tie is accepted by men as a "love offering" in such the same way as flowers are welcomed by women,
Dug up
"I say, it's a bit loud, isn't it," "I thought everyone knew a| Leander tie when he saw one." "But I haven't got anything aubergine to wear with it."
"Will they change it?"
It seems a pity to point out to all those tie-makers that a tie is merely a bit of materiai men wrap round their necks becouse every other man does.
she's simply
And when a woman straightens her man's tle, she isn't indulg- ing in love-play, straightening it because she's #dusg-pot.
It seems that the psychologist's wife gave him three tiles for Christmas,
Well, he can make what he
These somewhat surprising Ukes of it. I think she was stuck facts were unearthed by a for a present. psychologist who
London Express Service), carried out depth research (a deep problng. into why people do things) on
14 women.
The Tie Manufacturers' Asso- ciation handed over the results recently. 'Some of this is very flattering indeed," they murmured modestly.
а
"We hadn't realised that when
LADY LUCK
your
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'MONDAY, MAY 23
AQUARIUS (January 21- February, 19): You will have an opportunity today to help a colleague without in any way sacrificing your own progress.
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ed.
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Your superior may be call ed away for a while, and you will be proud to be able to carry on without supervision.
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on "somebody else.
error
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JACOBY... BRIDG
ESTERDAY we Baw
en
woman buys a tle she is Y example of a "nothing play"
positively expressing her love."
Neither had the women, sir.by declarer. Neither had the women.
Today we
going to look at a similar play
It doesn't need depth research by a defender.
It doesn't need more than a
causes--
Ties are the cheapest present you can buy a man,
Ties are the simplest present to carry hoshe,
South ruffed the second dia- diffident question to reveal that mond lead and noted that his most women buy men ties be-only play for the doubled con
tract would be to hold his trumo lasers to one. That would be automatic is they were to break two-twa, but the bidding clearly mazked West with least three of them. South had one legitf- mate play against a three-one break which would be to find West with king-queen-three and Bust with the singleton teng
Ties will do when you can't think of anything else he needs but a Rolls-Bentley.....
A tie is not only NOT a love offering from a woman-it's not a love offering to a man, either.
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and Rupert
begin
rews up hit courage)
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his rebet ouf, they By
Therefore, South led the jack hopefully, West had been taught
V+CARD Senseķ♦ |
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North Kast South
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..... Opening lead--§ 5.
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do you d dot magdane East's queen and West's king
Amethis is a matter of part- together and the defence only nership underplanaing: 3 blay the managed to collect one trump
216-tremo se pothly
only 10 or 21 points so would sa 13. If you
on so game with my
・・・ play your reopening no-trung
guità strong you should
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Arain Westa opening spade
rick.
Why was West's play wrong? Because he had nothing to gain by covering It Bo
-the jack from—quem:
would have been able the Vanema afertione
BEA BEN BERE Valed around 14 make his ten-spot
you. This time you holdig lek "AQJILIWAX 1047 47 101
** What do you do?
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his pla Before
his mouth, Wert
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