THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1960,
WOMANSENSE
LADY LUCK-
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
TUESDAY, AQUARIUS * (January · 21. February 19) Curb your impulse today to take a bold step which seems safe on the face of it, but to which you have' not" as "yet given 'sufficient thought. PISCES (February 20-March 20): If you are delegating part of your work to an- other person, make sure after giving him. the neces sary training to supervise his first moves. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don't squander time which ought to be spent on essential work by indulging in too much social activity. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don't make a rash promise today about a future meet- ing with a friend without being sure that you will want to keep it. GEMINI (May 21-June 21):
A constructive suggestion about the more efficient use of your working hours ought to be given a trial." CANCER (June. 22-July 21): If you are pleased about the happy outcome of a matter which has worried you, - don't be slow in letting those close to you share your relief.
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LÈO (July 22-August 2h): If you are in an irritable
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mood today, avoid contact with people who are quick to take offence. VIRGO August 22. September 22): You ought to have a chance this week to catch up with your cor- respondence as well as some of your social obligations. LIBRA (September
23- October 22): Don't neglect to show your appreciation for a great favour done you. by a friend recently. SCORPIO (October 23.
November 21): A romance started on your holiday may be worth following up if you both still feel the same way about each other.
SAGITTARIUS (November
22-December 21): A change in the management of your business ought to be the means of bringing you one step nearer the top. CAPRICORN (December 22. January 20) Even though it may mean an unusual strain on your purse, you owe yourself a holiday com- pletely free of worry and away from the daily grind. COLOUR: YOUR LUCKY
If today is your birthday look out for. CERISE. It ought to bring you luck.
A Dusty Ride
-Knarf Is Swept Through The Whole House-
By MAX TRELL
66TT was a mistake," said Knarf.
was a
Khart,
Turned-About Name; as he sat down beside his sister Hanid. **T*- shouldn't have done i Just look at me!"
Hanld, who had been reading a. book and hadn't been looking at her brother, now lifted her head and took a good look at him..
"You're covered with dus!" she exclaimed with a start,
Dusty sneeze
"I know it. I I'm....ch- chook!" went Knart, giving a dusty, sneeze,
"But Knari,” sald Hanid, "how did you get so dusly?"
“Ah-chook!" went Knart: "What did you do? Where did you go?" cried Hanid.
By this time Hanid had shut her book.
Knart wanted to take the broom out of the closet.
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*Giddap old Broom!' I said. giving it a small kick.
"But it didn't move,' "It didn't?" asked Hanid, "Of She took Knarf outside the door and shook him out...The course it didn't. Brooms can't dust flew from him as if he move unless
them."
were an old carpet. But it was only after she had done this that she got him to slop sneez- ing,
Ride on broom
"I had a ride on a broom," Kanri filly said.
"A ride on what?" asked Hanid, hardly able to belleve her cars.
"On a broom," Knart re- peated.
Hanid now made Knart tell her the whole story of his ed-
venture on a broom.
"comebody moves
Didn't move "That's what I discovered." said Knarf. "It didn't move. It just kept leaning against the side of the closet as it it was glued there. And just at that second-"
"Yes—just at that second go on, so on," urged Hanid,
"Just at that second Katy- belle came along and said:
"C'mon, broom! We're going to go for a sweep through the house!'
"So I held MGA
right on to the
"Well,” said Knari. “I reading a story in that same broom and away we went!" book that you were reading I first came in. It was when about a witch who rode around on a broom,"
Remembered story
Hanid nodded. She remem- bered the story very well.
Where to?
"Away?" asked Hanid in sur-
prise. "Away where?"
as snow!" "What
FASHION NEWS
FOCUS
by
Barbara
Griggs
CHINA MAIL SPECIAL
France guides the
Paris
fashion in flower arrangement
THE COUNTRY-STYLE BOUQUET IS POPULAR :
by Peggy Massin
QTYLES in flower arrangements change from year to year according to the French National Horticultural Society.
Winning bouquets in the annual exposition sponsored by this society in Paris last month sug- gested that light and airy "country style" arrange ments are popular now in contrast to the heavily massed and formal 18th century effects of last year. Like fashions, flower compositions can become out- dated. What appeared lovely last summer may today seem stiff and fussy.
like long-stemmet roses, wetis in almost any country garden.
sense of perspective is created by placing the flowers at dif- ferent heights and angles, and the golden rule is using an un-
even number of the same kind. zinnias may be combined with five or seven snap-dragons, but even numbers should be avoided.
of flowers. Thus three to five
Puft
THERE is a lot more to false
carding than merely drop- ping a high card on the table and retaining a low card in your hand. If you don't think so, look at this defensive gem played at New York's Cavendish Club by one of the many great players there.
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The play started out with dummy's ace of clubs winning the opening trick with East playing the nine spot. The deuce of clubs was promptly played and ruffed, with East producing the king. Dummy was entered with the nine of spades and a third club ruffed. This time East played the seven spot.
Declarer took his ace of hearts and proceeded to run off all his trumps. His first two dlacards
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...IT'S TOUGH
AND
PRETTY
FOR ANY GIRL who can't make up her mind be- tween the iced prettiness of broderie anglaise and the beachy toughness of denim: a Bermuda three-piece that puts the two together and gets the best out of both.
Boned sun-top, bull-fighter pants, and a jacket with big flouncy sleeves and one button are made of tan-coloured denim showing through a layer of white broderie anglaise; and the jacket can be. I worn denim-side out.
Alternative colours for the denim of jacket and top: lilac and cool green. But the pants are lined in brawn only: as the designer said: "No girl wants to have purple legs showing through
The Hitchcock way to
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treat calories
by IDA KAIN
AN.T. Pass
14 Pass Pass Far
Opening lead♣QUEN
from dummy were two diamonds and the third and last discard the one remaining club. West simply discarded hearts while East's last discard was the five of diamonds,
Declarer went into
a five minute huddle. Where were the eight and five of clubs? You can sea then in the East hand, but South couldn't. Finally, he de- vided that East had started with- four diamonds and that his dis card of the five of diamonds had been made because he was left with nothing except those four diamonds. South led a damond to dummy's ace and West made his queen?
Of course, South might here
gone wrong agalries ordinary discarding, but East's play had made his downfall almost cer- talo
V+CARD Senje♣♦ |
Q-The bidding has been:
Booth East 16:
the price to find North
upplies to calories... you spend
Bouquets which follow the with simple and inexpensive stark Japanese inspired school flowers, combined with leaves of decoration are less in favour and grasses that can be gathered
THE Hundred Pound Murder was one of the most without asking their commoting exotic Among orchids,
intriguing productions of Alfred Hitchcock, cut whether or not you could birds of paradise and lies are water lilies and other rare also less in demand. They are Bowers submitted in dinner the imaginative movie and TV director who always afford it? Well, the came rule 3 replaced by simple early summer table cateles, the winning bou- gets into the act. In this drama, Hitchcock played the calories where they will do blooms arranged casually like quet was a charmingly fresh wild flowers growing in a field, and modest creation in a blue the starring role and reduced 117 pounds. His the most good instead of squan- and while Delft bowl. Three story should give heavyweights new hope. Prior dering them on one rich dish." Fan-shaped small stalks of deep blue
delphinium appeared to grow to reducing, he weighed in at 297 pounds; went from a base of white sweet down to 180 pounds. peas, certated, with sprigs of blooming lavender.
The winning bouquet in this year's ecmpetition was an un- cluttered fan-shaped arrange ment in a tall sculptured urn
MAKE YOURSELF
COURTYARD.
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Hardy Amles has a nymph at the bottom of his London garden with white-painted clap-boarding, for privacy.
F
scason,
His chief difficulty was in assembling sufficient will Even if these flowers were power. "You find so many excuses not to do it," he says purchased at a florist's shop, the total expenditure at this ruefully. It took Hitchcock five years before he finally could not have been made up his mind to really get down to business and carry great, but the artistic compost-through. "With dieting there are no half measures. You tion and blending of colours either do it or you don't.”· took first prize over many more costly arrangements.
Madame Jules-Max prefers small classes in her school, held at the National Horticultural Society in the Rue de Grenelle, Eight puplis in each class create two or more bouquets during each session. *
Worthy
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Because of the growing interest in amateur flower ar ranging, professional Dorista in Parts are now more agreeable to splitting the usual bunches of a dozen blooma,
Madame Jules-Max · likes to
Social calories are the most This dieter believes strongly frustrating, he admits. The first that reducing fare should be at- test is the pre-dinner cocktail tractive and appealing. Melon that you do not take. You're is wonderful--it's mostly water. dining with a friend and he is One can always take off the having a martini, so you try hungry edge with consomme or sipping water as if it were a bouillon. A thick beautiful martin. The friend suggests a soup can be made with clear uttle Dubonnet. So you have broth and vegetables in a blend- one, resolving to be most career, he suggests. ful of what you eat. Alas, this leads to a hearty 1,500 calorie dinner!
Sound
Avoid
the
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For the main course, half broiled chicken is a favourite.. "Very good for dieters it looks "All through the house," said erange tiger lies, yellow
big." Fish, brolled and proper Knurf. "In one room and out dahlias and waxy white tuber- use leaves or small branches in Despite his amusing approach, 15 seasoned"Very tasty," another. Over the floors and roses mixed with various wild most arrangements, and due to his advice on diet is quite sound. Broiled lamb chops, lean pork her induence florists are stock-in spots. Here are a few of chops or steak/Don't take tos Wit was a fairy tale," she carpets. In the corners and grasses and willow-harb
different kinds of the director's recommendations: under the chairs. Up to the Madame Jules-Max, whose ing more
large portions," he warns. said to Knart. "And it was a celling where there were cob-grupils and graduates include foliage, Leaves mixed with
be avoided are "limp overcook- magic broom,"
flowers mean smaller, sales, but "At the end of a hard day's ed vegetables and that sort of "I thought it was an ordi. webs, and under the radiator | many leading society women in they also mean falthful clients work, the safest thing to do is thing." nary broom," said Knarf. That where the dust was so thick Paris, recently published
who return regularly for a to start your meal immediately hoot explaining her technique, modest purchase. was the mistake. I made.
All during PAS you get home and eliminate en-
reducing a ride it was! How "You see, Hand" he went on, the dust flew! It was so thick
She insists that the most effec- Madame Jules-Max, a gentle, Urely the cocktail hour. After period, he kept a strict account "I deckled. after I had read I couldn't see where I was achieved with the least costly principal
tive, arrangements are usually white-haired
woman whose dinner, you no longer desire a of his calories. "I looked upon that story, to take a ride on a
Interests are her cocktail"
the psychological calories as though they were broom myself. Beause I said going!"
"Why didn't you let go?" flowers often wild flowers or grand-children and her towers, hour has passed?
money I was spending. Would decorative vines and grasses is as gay as her favourite spring "Let go?" repeated Koart. gathered by the roadside on a posies. She implicitly belleves
that broom trip to the country.
that no home is worthy of the Then I'll ride over the roofs of would have swept me up as The true skill rests in the name without at least one pretty the houses. And tonight, when fast as & Des wegs his tail, presentation and learning to bouquet, and gladly gives the the moon comes out. I'll ride I'd have beat in the dustpan maku as good a display with a hints that have made her an over the moon!"
Anxious to know
In a second! Nobody would few humble disks or inexpon artist in this neid inndarnau Akhena o know ever have seen me again!
to myself if a witch can take
a ride on a broom, why can't I? asked Hamid.
I'll ride up and down the street. If I had let go,
"And?!! • asked Hanld, trying tomake Knarf tell his story
Didn't let goʻ
fast for she was' more and "No, I didn't let so until I more anxious to find out what was back in the broom closet had happened
fist milest
sive blooms 'an --with several One Important and well- dozen precious roses.. ti arranged bouquet, she contende, --- Field Bowers, literally stole the is far better than three or four show in every class and type of small vases crammed with mis- bouquet in this year's exhibi- cellaneous blooms.
and the broom Oh, that sly tion. Contestants furnished their · Before being” BIK
"And so," said Khatt, "I went old Broom was leaning own vase and provided the possible flowers" sboc
to the broom closet and opened against the side just as if it flowers of their choice with overnight in water
the door. And there stood the never knew what had happened bouquets classified according to recks This
broom, lesning against the side Just if it had been in that size in the larger centrepiece the
of the closet and looking I broom closet all day long and group or the category of smaller
wald 'to myself-es if it couldn't, had never swept through the dining table arrangements. hurt a Fly."El home at all."
"Andy" asked Hohld agad And HENK for a Simple vir even more impatiently than felt sorry for her dusty brother.
before
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Several competitors
Laughed and Loughed. Candelaborate creations with continued Knart, laughed
and costly bloom
small and math- "Ah-chook!”, sneezed Knert
from Paris's focieta
This three winning
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Pass
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You, South, hold:
West
4X4 (K387 4912.
What do you do?
A--Bid three no-trung. Your
partner can still go to four hacia
The essence of the whole if he wishes, With 19 full points, thing is to acquire an absolute | your hand warrants this further knowledge of calories, accord- | bit.
ing
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Dieter Hitchcock. "Learn calories by heart, for it Is the knowledge of how to tise them that is the real secret of ancerssful dieting,” he summed
up.
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TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding continues, with pass, pass, double. What do you da now?
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Answer Tomorrow
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