WEEK-END
Archibald's News
---He Tells Clarence That Tadpoles Become Fragr
By MAX TRELL
❝ELLO. Archibald!"
"HELLO
Clarence, who was
Caterpillar.
said
"Hello, Clarence!" said Archi- bald, who was another Cater- pillar.
Met In park
Clarence and Archibald met in the middle of the park, half- way up the willow tree that hung over the lake,
"I just heard the strangest news," said Archibald to Char-
ence.
"You did?" Clarence asked Archibald, as he started nib- bling on a tender new willow leaf. "Please tell me about it."
"I certainly will," promised Archibald. But first let me have a little lunch."
Both nibbled And with that he joined Clas-
"I just heard the strangest
new," said Archibald.
tons. First they swim to
THE CHINA. MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 11
WOMANSENSE
SUMMER SUPERLATIVES
A sample of the best now making its way
THIS
By BARBARA GRIGGS
THIS is the time of year when we are all optimists about summer. June will be the loveliest month ever, when you are the best dressed within memory. The beaches will be as smooth as silk, and the evenings you planned for drinks will be the serenest, most golden in the year.
The world of fashion and beauty has its own superla- tives at this time: the silks and linens in the shop- windows are at their most ohel inviting, the feast of new
ideas at its most prolific. do
side of the lake, then they swien to the other. They all day long."
first morning, The one in the picture come ready-made, A bikini
ANIEST. IDEA for a cool night-time. Go to bed in a
bikini. Diminutive, ruffled sleep- wear bikinis, with no horrid bones in them to give you night-
ence in nibbling on the opposite nothing but have fun swimminson hasn't hit us too hard yet marea
dide of the leaf.
Finally. Clarence said to Archibald:
"Now, won't you tell me your hews, please?"
"Well," said Archibald as he stretched himself out comfort. ably on a twig in among all the tender new willow leaves, "just look down below, Clarence, and tell me what you see."
Made sure Clarence didn't have to look down below. He knew what was there even without looking. But he looked anyway, just to make sure,
"When I look down below," he said to Archibald, "I see the water of the lake in the middle of the park."
But what is your strange news, Archibald?" interrupted' Clarence.
Will be frogs
:
"My strange news is This, Clarence," said Archibald. just this morning learned tha
those Tadpoles aren't going to grow up u be big Tadpoles.. grown-up Tadpoles... Oh no!] They're going to grow up to be of this!-to be just think Frogs!"
"How stupid of them!" said Clarence. "You'd think they didn't like being Tadpoles!"
Won't change
"Well," said Archibald, "I'm "That's us right as right can glad of one thing! We're not be," said Archibald. "Now going to change into anything swimming around in the lake else when we grow up! We're are a lot of Tadpoles. Have you going to grow up to be big ever seen them, Clarence?" Caterpillars-grown-up Cater-
"I've seen them many times."-pillar:" replied Clarence, "They look
And Clarence and Archibald like buttons with tails."
smiled to one another as they
"Or like tails with buttons, stretched out on the twig of thei Clarence," said Archibald, "They
seem to have a great deal of
willow tree in the middle of the park and dozed while a butter-
fun whether they look like but- fly fultered by just over the tons with tails, or tails with but- lake.
Rupert and the Squire-6
Rupert and Bill gaze at the
mysterious stone hut. "Nobody And, look, the door swingi
can have used it for ages, says Bill. "You can't get round the back of it anywhere. But Rupert is purried, I don't know," he We managed to push ous way through it. A grown
mutter.
up could reach it more easily.
quietly. The hinges aren't rasted
at all" All at once there is a call from Podgy. “It's getting dark. We must go." And, push ing their way out, they scamper homeward.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The money-famine of the sea-
drives and the dinners for which and the parties, the dances, the
every woman would like to look her best are more crowded in the weeks ahead than any other month in the year.
A favourite.
tiny
pense with hairnet and ear- muffs and carry on a conversa tion with your neighbour, with- out the girls in the shop two doors away hearing every word.
PREAKFAST at leisure, the sun on the terrace, and the prettiest town: in starchy white organdle, enormous ruffled sleeves and shawl collar,
!
an abundant sash of pale pink satin. Designed by Angela Gore.
pants, more
The briefest fa mere bra and cover-up version camisole top edged with broderie anglaise, and both in pink or blue and white checked ringham, Nylon versions coming in later.
SILLIEST IDEA in feminine HERE, then, a sampling of the accessories: Humer
The pill timer; a Superlatives to
gilt box for pills, ringed tempt or
housecont amuse, warn or in- with rhinestones, its face a small clock with movable hands. form....
Idea is, when you've swallow- MOST USEFUL bag I've sten ed one pink and one small grey (and I liked it so I bought at 11 and know the next lot it); made of fake luxan-hide, should come up In four and a with a built-in purse in the top half hours time, you move the compartment as well as side hands on to indicate next zero pockets. hour.....
The top swings back to reveal NEWEST IDEA in belting; # Inks-up care in the rqUALS The belt that's a thin sash of botlam, Bred with spongtable ätted with round fine kid, with fringed ends, polythene,
them love
this polythene powder box, two Americans summer, matching them up to battles in this weather, you plala nen or cotton sheaths, might use one for perfumed knotting them loosely at the tollet-water, the other for an
eau-de-cologne refresher). sides.
PRETTIEST NEW IDEA IN LINGERIE: Broderie anglaise, the St Tropez favourite, de liciously cool, scandalously be- gulling, made into housecoats that are starched and ruffled, beribboned and flounced.
They give a week-end a beautiful start at Saturday breakfast, or put you into the holiday mood with the arrival of the first cafe complet the
MOST STARTLING trand in the brooch world: The blager the Bert-reller. Being snapped up fart: whoppers like the one in
the picture, a gill crons, studded with fake turquoise and pearlıt round brooches like » teay of gleaming stones edged with gold; glant medalilona.
last
Wonderful for keeping make- up and the rest of a bag's clutter tidily apart. The bag is sponge-
COOLEST GIRL I saw in week's heat burst was wearing a sleeveles dress in sugar-pink Jap slik-the fabric able. dressmakers use for linings that's butterfly-weight breeze-coal.
and A welcome
She picked a pale colour that didn't show up the creases: a
THE MOST in fabrics-by-the-
skirt-shapped ditto: folded into yard: For sheer value, the soft pleats.
American lingerie lawn just arrived, disarmingly pretty, SMALLEST HAT that still with, with non-insipid Bower savers you up for a wedding:
designed for women who are prints in pink, pale orange and For sheer elegance, the French unhappy hattet: a flat plilbox yellow, assorted blues. made of twisty straw flowers towelling by the yard they stock and lots of air, to perch painat Harrods mixed broads lessly on top of either a short stripes off coffee, black, white high-built coiffeur or long hair and red, or mixed yellow and looped up into a chignon.
A wonder!
orange, or pale pink, lime and while. Make it into A short beach button-through for cross- ing the front, or lunching at the BEST HAIRDRESSING news beach cafe after a swim.
I've heard yet; a hair-drier
no bigger than a large pudding-
MOST WELCOME 1960 new- bowl, completely transparent, comer to the beauty counters, idea la, everyone will be so which DOESN'T blow hot air all The American perfumed toilet diverted by the size of your over your heck and face (de- water called Intimate which broach they won't notice what #lightful in winter but no fun at smells warm, womanly, de boring little black dress you're all in a heat-wave) and DOES liciously expensive. wearing...
let you light a cigarette, dis-
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